Should someone make the witcher into a machinima!

[blakafrika]

Should someone make the witcher into a machinima!

I just finished the normal version of the game and am about to start the V1.3 extra game and the thought occured to me, should the witcher be made into a machinima. I am a huge fan or Red vs Blue and if possible would like to see a machinima do for the witcher what Red vs blue did for Halo. I would like it to rather stick to the books rather than some completely random thing like RvB. Mainly because I don't understand Polish and as I haven't heard word of the books being translated to english perhaps an animated version could be made. What are your thoughts of it?

 

[Gamewidow]

The Last Wish was translated into english last year and this september the first of the novels appears in english (The Blood of the Elves)fyi ...

 

[blakafrika]

Really that's great thanks for the update. Be great to read these books even if it means buying them online.

 

[Gamewidow]

If you scour the Sapkowski thread there are links somewhere (??) to 2 australian book sellers who sell them

 

[blakafrika]

Okay thanks I guess I'll keep the thread open for both interest and comedy sake. Take it easy.

 

[username_2075709]

what's machinima?

Machinima (or /məˈʃɪnəmə/), a portmanteau of machine cinema, is a collection of associated production techniques whereby computer-generated imagery (CGI) is rendered using real-time, interactive 3-D engines, such as those of games, instead of professional 3D animation software. Engines from first-person shooter and role-playing simulation video games are typically used. Consequently, the rendering can be done in real-time using PCs (either using the computer of the creator or the viewer), rather than with complex 3D engines using huge render farms. Usually, machinima productions are produced using the tools (demo recording, camera angle, level editor, script editor, etc.) and resources (backgrounds, levels, characters, skins, etc.) available in a game.Machinima is an example of emergent gameplay, a process of putting game tools to unexpected ends, and of artistic computer game modification. The real-time nature of machinima means that established techniques from traditional film-making can be reapplied in a virtual environment. As a result, production tends to be cheaper and more rapid than in keyframed CGI animation. It can also produce more professional appearing production than is possible with traditional at-home techniques of live video tape, or stop action using live actors, hand drawn animation or toy props.As machinima begins to break out of the underground community of gamers and becomes more widely recognized by mainstream audiences, tools are being developed to allow for faster and easier creation of machinima productions. A number of upcoming machinima products are expected to provide machinimators with original assets, as well as advanced features such as a timeline, gesture and sound creation, and precise camera tools.Although most often used to produce recordings that are later edited as in conventional film, machinima techniques have also occasionally been used for theatre. A New York improvisational comedy group called the ILL Clan voice and puppet their characters before a virtual camera to produce machinima displayed on a screen to a live audience.

 

[petra_silie]

Some developers event offer Machinima contest like Blizzard http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/05/14/wwi08-machinima-contest/ ... The Blizz Worldwide Invitational takes place at the end of this month in Paris... [ot]maybe they announce Diablo 3 [/ot]

 

[blakafrika]

That would be interesting to see what will be made into one. I've seen part of the WOW machinima and it's pretty impressive. Can't wait to here more from this! ;D