[May 6th, 2008]
Live blogging from fMX ‘08
Posted by Michael
fMX is an international conference/ festival on “animation, effects, games and digital media” currently under way at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart, GER. A look at this description makes it clear that someone interested in machinima should have a look … and so I did.

There are some talks on Machinima on the festival (e.g. one by Claus Dieter-Schulz which I will have to miss) but so far the most interesting – if somewhat unfinished – idea I heard here was that of a machinima driven daily soap. Unlike some of the discussions regarding such a project in the usual machinima circles, this time, the presentation was done by a writer of the Grundy/Ufa TV production group, which is ultimately owned by the Bertelsmann concern – a behemoth of European media production. So this was a glimpse into the plans of the money making industry and their use of game engines in a TV production pipeline. I am sure there are a number of these projects under way at the moment but I have not seen many presentations about them apart from a not really conclusive idea sketch at GDC I mentioned earlier. That’s why I will mainly talk about this session.
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