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FreePixel looks at video games as part of the moving image culture. Games are not movies. But games use moving image tradition in their presentation. That is why FreePixel offers a critical look at games and their expressive qualities that grow from the use of the moving image.

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Michael Nitsche
Running the Digital World and Image Group and member of the Experimental Game Lab at Georgia Tech. He is interested in game worlds and their forms of presentation.
Erik Champion

Works as Associate Professor and Research and Postgraduate Studies Director at the Auckland School of Design.
Friedrich Kirschner

Machinima Pioneer, AMAS member, and author of MovieSandbox. Currently wrapping up his time as fellow at Eyebeam New York.

[December 7th, 2008]

Existential Balloon Fight Machinima

Posted by Michael

Via Kotaku – and from Resigned Gamer: a surprising ‘Existential Journey’-8-bit-music-video-machinima. While there are a ton of “serious” machinima films out there, I like to bump into the basic blocky graphics of yesteryear. It is a bit like the I am 8 bit stuff and some of the new games that play with that presentation, like Passage. While I am not a real retro fan, I have to admit that there is a very typical and distinct beauty in the graphics.

This is a style that reproduces a past digital time and world and it can use this references artistically. Nobody expects lip sync in these productions – which can be quite liberating.

Hm, anyone up of a 8bit style mini-machinima festival?

Posted: December 7th, 2008 under site News.
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