Sims 2 Machinima?yea

Question

I want to do Machinima Movie but I don't exactly know what Machinima is...if you can give a sight to better explain it and some sites to download Machinima thingys!thanks!

Answer 1

In laymen's terms

Two-dimensional (2D) animation, like Disney's Tarzan or a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoon, is drawn, inked & painted by hand and then shot frame-by-frame for the final animation. This is obviously labor and time intensive. A half hour cartoon could take six to nine months to draw and is usually done overseas to minimize labor cost. A feature could take two to four years to complete.

3D Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) animation, was pioneered in the 80's and put on the map by Pixar's Toy Story. Instead of each frame being drawn by hand, a computer "renders" all of the characters and backgrounds.

But a team of computer animators have to animate each character model individually for each scene. Once done, a "compositing" bank of computers, renders all of the characters models and objects into the 3D background, making your complete shot. But because of the large amount of 3D model, lighting and animated information in each frame, it can take a very fast bank of computers hours, if not days, to render each frame. Some frames of Pixar's Monsters Inc took over 90 hours to process using over 400 computers ganged together in parallel. With 24 frames per second of footage, you can image how long this process can get. Subsequently, Monsters, Inc. took four years to produce.

Naturally, because of Machinima's real-time aspect, the production approach takes significantly less time.

Here is a link to download

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