There is an Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. How's that for validation? There isn't much for me to copy and paste here, but at the very least here's the link to the website. If you don't know much about Machinima, check out the FAQ page, and educate yourself.
Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences
Remember kids, knowledge is power!
This is also noteworthy. An entire internet archive of machinima! How much better could it get?
Archive.org: Machinima
And last but not least, an entire blog dedicated to Machinima. I think I need to find its RSS feed, if it has one...
The Machinima Blog
Here is a short article about the Machinima Film Festival, as well as a link to the website so you can see the nominees.
2006 Machinima Film Festival: Nominees
See all of the 2006 Machinima Film Festival nominees in one place!
2006-10-12
From the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences:
"After a grueling screening process, which was spent scrutinizing an exceptionally strong field of entries, the 2006 Mackie nominations have been selected.
We want to thank all of you who entered this year's competition. It was an extremely tough process and only a matter of fractions in some of the entry scoring--further proving that talent not only exists in the Machinima community, but thrives. It's no doubt that Machinima is quickly becoming the showcase for a next generation of artists.
Below is the full list of the Mackie Award categories and this year's nominees. Links to the online works will be posted within the next few days."
Machinima Film Awards
Note that Red Vs. Blue is nominated for best voice acting, best writing, and best series. Good luck to them!
Machinima
Machinima (pronounced [mə.ˈʃiː.nə.mə] or [mə.ˈʃɪ.nə.mə]), a portmanteau of machine cinema or machine animation, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre (film created by such production techniques). As a production technique, the term concerns the rendering of computer-generated imagery (CGI) using real-time, interactive (game) 3D engines, as opposed to high-end and complex 3D animation software used by professionals. 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. As a film genre, the term refers to movies created by the techniques described above.
Usually, machinimas 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. Sometimes television commercials may be made with machinima, such as a recent Coca Cola commercial. Although the topics are often based on male-oriented shooter scenarios, others have been made with romantic or dramatic topics as well.
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.
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.
Wikipedia.org: Machinima
A good place to see machinima in action is Red Vs. Blue. Simply head to the video archieve, and you can download the low resolution versions of the episodes. Each one is only about six minutes long. Below you'll find some screenshots of the recent episodes of Red Vs. Blue, which will give you an idea of what it looks like. All the images are copywrite 2006 RoosterTeeth Productions.
Characters Church and Sheila
Grif and Simmons, facing down Sheila's cannon barrel
Doc (or Doc/O'Mally) and Grif
Caboose. Just because.
Wikipedia Entry on the Production of the series: The Production of RvB
Answers.com article on Rooster Teeth Productions: Rooster Teeth
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