machinima
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
machinima (countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima)
- (video games, film, countable, uncountable) The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 135:
- Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…
- (video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.
Derived terms
Translations
rendering of computer-generated imagery
genre of films
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Spanish
Noun
machinima m (plural machinimas)