machinima

English

Etymology

Blend of machine +‎ cinema.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈʃɪnɪmə/

Noun

machinima (countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima)

1. (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…

2. (video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.

Derived terms

• machinimist

Translations

rendering of computer-generated imagery

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機造影片 / 机造影片 (jīzào yǐngpiàn), 引擎電影 / 引擎电影 (yǐnqíng diànyǐng), 機械電影 / 机械电影 (jīxiè diànyǐng)

• Finnish: machinima

genre of films

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機造影片 / 机造影片 (jīzào yǐngpiàn), 引擎電影 / 引擎电影 (yǐnqíng diànyǐng), 機械電影 / 机械电影 (jīxiè diànyǐng)

• Finnish: machinima

See also

• animation
• video games
• virtual reality

Spanish

Noun

machinima m (plural machinimas)

1. machinima