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Workshop 1

Machinima - Games as Tools

Making Machinima is making movies in 3D games. Machinima makers use games as tools to film their own scenario's. Machinima keeps evolving, the practice is spreading widely beyond the gaming community. Subgenres like in-game dance movies and political Machinima are gaining recognition. In the hands of some of the most experienced Machinima makers in the world, the participants find out what Machinima can do. They learn how to make Machinima, they get to see a lot of great Machinima, and make their own Machinima movies.

Workshop approach

In this 4-day workshop participants make their own machinima movies or game based projects, guided by experienced machinimamakers and animators.

The workshop provides you with the skills and knowledge you need to create your own Machinima, or to further improve your skills if you already tried your hand at it.

Besides technical instructions on set design, character creation, re-camming and post production, we will focus on cinematic and artistic possibilites of shooting film in 3d engines.

Trainers & speakers

Participants will be guided through machinima production process by Friedrich Kirschner, Jonas Hielscher and Ricard Gras, 3 experts from the fields of game/interaction design and 3D animation.

Friedrich Kirschner prize winning machinima maker, initiator of Machinimag, the german online magazine on all things machinima.
Also, he is teammember of the Ars Electronica Center and the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences.

Jonas Hielscher founded z25.org, an organization that supports young new media artists, and has built a range of interactive performance and gaming installations.

Ricard Gras from the London based LA-INTERACTIVA.
They engage with videogames and film/TV production companies, artists, and educationalists in order to develop new ways of developing content, often by engaging audiences in the process. They are currently working on their own private island in Second Life that they use for their projects.

Target group

This workshop is intended for filmmakers, animators and gamers, who are interested in each others arts. Some experience with playing video games or film editing is helpful, but not essential.

Information and registration

The price for this workshop is reduced to EUR 250 incl. VAT !!
You can register via our online registration form
For more information about our Machinima workshop, mail to workshops@mediamatic.nl or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.
To keep on top of the news about this workshop and other Mediamatic activities, you can subscribe to our mailinglist here.

Reader

In preparation for this workshop a collection of books, articles and media has been put together in the Machinima Reader.

More information about this workshop you can find at:
www.mediamatic.net

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