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Machinima For Dummies

Author : Hugh Hancock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470195835
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Machinima For Dummies written by Hugh Hancock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this book to learn how you can, at little or no expense, make virtually any movie using Machinima. The authors guide you from making your first Machinima movie to a grounding in both conventional filmmaking and Machinima technology that will let you tackle very complex film projects. The book focuses on the following Machinima platforms: The Sims 2: Arguably the most popular Machinima platform of all time, The Sims 2 allows you to tell stories ranging from romance to noir action. World Of Warcraft: Tell your own tales of heroism in the world of Azeroth, following in the footsteps of award-winning Machinima creators and even the makers of South Park. Medieval 2: Total War - This astonishing new game allows you to create Lord of the Rings-scale medieval battle films using just a home computer! MovieStorm: For the first time, unleash the power of Machinima as a professional user using a fully-featured, fully-licensed commercial Machinima platform. You'll be introduced to all aspects of Machinima production, from live filming in a game through the creation of sets, props and characters, as well as the basics of cinematography, storytelling and sound design.

Machinima

Author : Phylis Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488387
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Machinima written by Phylis Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike traditional animation techniques that use specialized 3D animation software, machinima--a term derived from the words "machine" and "cinema"--records the action in real-time interactive 3D environments, such as those found in video games, to create a cinematic production. No longer solely the province of hard-core gamers, machinima has become central to the convergence between animation, television, and film, but retains its own identity as a unique media format. It has evolved quickly within massive multi-player gaming and virtual platforms such as Second Life, The Sims, World of Warcraft, and virtual worlds under development. These interviews, essays, and discussions with leading machinima producers, reviewers, performers, and advocates discuss scripting basics, character development, and set design, as well as tips on crafting machinima through creative use of sound, lighting, and post-production.

Pioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Production

Author : Tracy G. Harwood
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648892140
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Pioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Production written by Tracy G. Harwood and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new work focuses on the pioneers in machinima, considered to be the grassroots and beginnings of virtual production. Machinima’s impacts are identified by the community, supplemented by Harwood and Grussi’s research and experience over a period of 25 years – from game, film and filmmaking to digital arts practice, creative technologies developments and related research and theory. Machinima is the first digital cultural practice to have emerged from the internet into a mainstream creative genre. Its latest transformation is evident through the increasing convergence of games and film where real-time virtual production as a professional creative practice is resulting in new forms of machine-generated interactive experiences. Using the most culturally significant machinima works (machine-cinema) as lenses to trace its history and impacts, ‘Pioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Production’ provides in-depth testimony by filmmakers and others involved in its emergence. The extensive reference to source materials and interviews bring the story of its impacts up to date through the critical reflections of the early pioneers. This book will be of interest to machinima researchers and practitioners, including game culture, media theorists, students of film studies and game studies, digital artists and those interested in how creative technologies have influenced communities of practice over time.

New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds

Author : Doyle, Denise
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466683856
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds written by Doyle, Denise and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although virtual worlds continue to grow in popularity, a substantial amount of research is needed to determine best practices in virtual spaces. The artistic community is one field where virtual worlds can be utilized to the greatest effect. New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds provides a coherent account of artistic practices in virtual worlds and considers the contribution the Second Life platform has made in a historical, theoretical, and critical context within the fields of art and technology. This volume is intended for both artists and scholars in the areas of digital art, art and technology, media arts history, virtual worlds, and games studies, as well as a broader academic audience who are interested in the philosophical implications of virtual spaces.

Understanding Machinima

Author : Jenna Ng
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441149627
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Machinima written by Jenna Ng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection, Dr. Jenna Ng brings together academics and award-winning artists and machinima makers to explore the fascinating combination of cinema, animation and games in machinima (the use of computer game engines to produce animated films in cost- and time-efficient ways). Book-ended by a preface by Henry Lowood (curator for history of science and technology collections at Stanford University) and an interview with Isabelle Arvers (machinima artist, trainer, critic, and curator), the collection features wide-ranging discussions addressing machinima not only from diverse theoretical perspectives, but also in its many dimensions as game art, First Nations media art, documentary, and pedagogical tool. Making use of interactive multimedia to enhance the text, each chapter features a QR code which leads to a mobile website cross-referencing with its print text, integrating digital and print content while also taking into account the portability of digital devices in resonance with machinima's mobile digital forms. Exploring the many dimensions of machinima production and reception, Understanding Machinima extends machinima's critical scholarship and debate, underscoring the exciting potential of this emerging media form.

The Machinima Reader

Author : Henry Lowood
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262015331
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Machinima Reader written by Henry Lowood and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical overview of an emerging field, with contributions from both scholars and artist-practitioners.

Career Building Through Machinima

Author : Holly Cefrey
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435847709
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Career Building Through Machinima written by Holly Cefrey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machinima, meaning machine cinema, is the technology of using computers to create cinematic features. This book teaches readers, who may be hobbyists in the art, how to use their talents to produce lifelong careers from what they love.

Neverwinter Nights

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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V01CE

Author : Norie Neumark
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549875
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book V01CE written by Norie Neumark and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry. Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness of an individual voice and the social and cultural forces that shape it. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these topics from history, philosophy, cultural theory, film, dance, poetry, media arts, and computer games. Many chapters demonstrate Lewis Mumford's idea of the “cultural preparation” that precedes technological innovation—that socially important new technologies are foreshadowed in philosophy, the arts, and everyday pastimes. Chapters cover such technologies as voice mail, podcasting, and digital approximations of the human voice. A number of authors explore the performance, performativity, and authenticity [(or 'authenticity effect') of voice in dance, poetry, film, and media arts]; while others examine more immaterial concerns—the voice's often-invoked magical powers, the ghostliness of disembodied voices, and posthuman vocalization. [The chapters evoke an often paradoxical reassertion of the human in the use of voice in mainstream media including recorded music, films, and computer games. Contributors Mark Amerika, Isabelle Arvers, Giselle Beiguelman, Philip Brophy, Ross Gibson, Brandon LaBelle, Thomas Levin, Helen Macallan, Virginia Madsen, Meredith Morse, Norie Neumark, Andrew Plain, John Potts, Theresa M. Senft, Nermin Saybasili, Amanda Stewart, Axel Stockburger, Michael Taussig, Martin Thomas, Theo van Leeuwen, Mark Wood

Ready Reader One

Author : Megan Amber Condis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080718229X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ready Reader One written by Megan Amber Condis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Videogames are a powerful storytelling medium-but what are the stories we tell about videogames, with videogames, around videogames? What can we learn from novels that describe the struggles of young people trapped in virtual reality, from fanfiction that explores the private life of a popular Nintendo character, or from a poem that compares Pac-Man to Saint Augustine? An extensive body of scholarship explores the ways videogames create worlds, construct characters, and tell emotionally compelling narratives. But very little research has focused on representation of videogames, videogame players, and videogame culture in literary texts, whether traditional genres like novels, short stories, memoirs, and poems, or non-traditional and emergent forms like fanfiction, how-to-guides, hip-hop lyrics, or young-adult fiction. Ready Reader One is designed to fill that gap. The texts that this book's contributors engage are interesting in their own right. Thomas Pynchon's deployment of the tropes of retrogaming in Bleeding Edge evinces a fascinating inflection of his "paranoid style." Hanna Faith Notess's integration of videogame mechanics into her poetry enables a fascinating and poignant relationship of melancholy, memory objects, and the lyric form. The exploration of videogame addiction in memoirs challenges stereotypes and suggests different ways to understand the entanglement of desire and pleasure in the twenty-first century. The stories of virtual reality in the novels of Ernest Cline, Lauren Beuke, and Liu Cixin map the ways videogames are transforming our bodies, families, and friendships. Beyond their intrinsic value as works of literature, videogame literature provides meaningful perspectives on what videogames are and what they might be. Contributors to this collection demonstrate that videogame literature sheds light on how space, time, and identity are being reshaped by videogames; helps us detect emergent forms of play, media, algorithmic systems, surveillance culture, and social media; and increases our understanding of the larger stories that surround videogames and those who play them"--

Noise Channels

Author : Peter Krapp
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452933197
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Noise Channels written by Peter Krapp and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to light the critical role of noise and error in the creative potential of digital culture

A Dictionary of Film Studies

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191034657
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Film Studies written by Annette Kuhn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts in the field, this dictionary covers all aspects of film studies, including terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, film industry organizations and practices, and key technical terms and concepts in 500 detailed entries. Most entries also feature recommendations for further reading and a large number also have web links. The web links are listed and regularly updated on a companion website that complements the printed book. The dictionary is international in its approach, covering national cinemas, genres, and film movements from around the world such as the Nouvelle Vague, Latin American cinema, the Latsploitation film, Bollywood, Yiddish cinema, the spaghetti western, and World cinema. The most up-to-date dictionary of its kind available, this is a must-have for all students of film studies and ancillary subjects, as well as an informative read for cinephiles and for anyone with an interest in films and film criticism.

DIY Media

Author : Michele Knobel
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433106354
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book DIY Media written by Michele Knobel and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools remain notorious for co-opting digital technologies to «business as usual» approaches to teaching new literacies. DIY Media addresses this issue head-on, and describes expansive and creative practices of digital literacy that are increasingly influential and popular in contexts beyond the school, and whose educational potential is not yet being tapped to any significant degree in classrooms. This book is very much concerned with engaging students in do-it-yourself digitally mediated meaning-making practices. As such, it is organized around three broad areas of digital media: moving media, still media, and audio media. Specific DIY media practices addressed in the chapters include machinima, anime music videos, digital photography, podcasting, and music remixing. Each chapter opens with an overview of a specific DIY media practice, includes a practical how-to tutorial section, and closes with suggested applications for classroom settings. This collection will appeal not only to educators, but to anyone invested in better understanding - and perhaps participating in - the significant shift towards everyday people producing their own digital media.

Computer Games and New Media Cultures

Author : Johannes Fromme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400727771
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Computer Games and New Media Cultures written by Johannes Fromme and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research backwater until the turn of the millennium. Even today, as tens of millions of young people spend their waking hours manipulating avatars and gaming characters on computer screens, the subject is still treated with scepticism in some academic circles. This handbook aims to reflect the relevance and value of studying digital games, now the subject of a growing number of studies, surveys, conferences and publications. As an overview of the current state of research into digital gaming, the 42 papers included in this handbook focus on the social and cultural relevance of gaming. In doing so, they provide an alternative perspective to one-dimensional studies of gaming, whose agendas do not include cultural factors. The contributions, which range from theoretical approaches to empirical studies, cover various topics including analyses of games themselves, the player-game interaction, and the social context of gaming. In addition, the educational aspects of games and gaming are treated in a discrete section. With material on non-commercial gaming trends such as ‘modding’, and a multinational group of authors from eleven nations, the handbook is a vital publication demonstrating that new media cultures are far more complex and diverse than commonly assumed in a debate dominated by concerns over violent content.

Conference proceedings. ICT for language learning

Author : Pixel
Publisher : libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8862924232
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Conference proceedings. ICT for language learning written by Pixel and published by libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni. This book was released on 2013 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies

Author : Michael Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000172422
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies written by Michael Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom. The volume builds on existing literature on project-based language learning by extending the focus on the affordances of machinima, digital video created by teachers and learners to capture experience in 3D immersive games or virtual worlds. Drawing on data from a large-scale research project featuring case studies that examine different facets of CALL teacher education, the book calls attention to language learning and teaching strategies that encourage both learners and teachers to develop innovative approaches in the language classroom and how such approaches promote the integration of lifelong learning skills alongside traditional linguistic competencies. Offering a dynamic contribution to the growing literature on the interface of language learning and teaching and technology, this book will appeal to students and researchers in applied linguistics and language and education, as well as those interested in the latest developments in CALL.

CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016

Author : Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous
Publisher : Research-publishing.net
ISBN 13 : 1908416432
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016 written by Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous and published by Research-publishing.net. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 23rd EUROCALL conference was organised by the Cyprus University of Technology Language Centre. The theme of the conference was “CALL communities and Culture”. Between the 24th and 27th August 2016, over 135 presentations were delivered and 27 posters were presented; 84 of these presentations appear in this volume of selected peer-reviewed short papers.