For all you wanna be filmmakers out there, there’s no longer the excuse of not having the money to make your own film. Lionhead Studios has release The Movies, a video games that gives you the tools to direct your own fims:

The Lionhead tool, “The Movies,” positions the player as a Hollywood studio owner. In addition to the business management aspect of the game, players can shoot their own movies–designing costumes, choosing sets, adding subtitles, and dubbing audio. The finished product can be uploaded to a community site run by Lionhead, sent to friends, or posted online.”
– Media Post

Basically The Movies, this game for creating no-budget film on your computer, is attempting to do what Apple’s Garageband has done for musicians. Though the idea for creating movies from video games and video game engines, know as Machinema (ma-chee-ne-ma, wiki: machinema), isn’t a new thing. People like George Lucas have used game engines to simulate scenes for Star Wars, and I’m willing to be the Fifty Cents‘ video My Buddy was also shot using Machinema techniques. Check out the video for 50 cent’s My Buddy (21mb.) The sound is a little bit low so crank it up.)

Now if we can find someone who is willing to sift through all the Machinema films on The Movie Community site, maybe we can currate a screening and publish an article about it on petitemort? Any takers?

Here are some from the website:

Gorrillas I’ve Mist by Corinithian.
Story of a Scientist and his admiration for one of his experimental subjects.

Capre Diem by Strondor.
Supernatural Chiller about a man who has the luxury of browsing the Library of Souls. “Life should be sherished, not browsed like a magazine.”

Confessions of a Supreme Being by Strondor.
It is what it is, confessions of a supreme being. Hey, isn’t this the same actor from Star Wars?

(read about The Movie from: we-make-money-not-art
who read it on Mit Adv Lab, who got it from…. it’s endless.

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