Even if the Arbiter had yet to make it’s first on-screen appearance, these three Machinima comedy shorts from John Graham are just as hilarious (or even more!) as the more recent episodes.
Master Chief likes to spend all day playing video games (very badly), going online to lolcats.com and watch pr0n. He is also an action figure based on the famous character from the Halo series. His daily routine is disturbed by the unexpected delivery of The Arbiter, another action figure with more common sense, courtesy and spelling skills than his grammatically-challenged and homophobic roommate. Through these unexpectedly endearing characters, the author spoofs typical abusive and stupid gamer behavior and offers insightful critiques of popular video games.
I recently finished watching the excellent Extended edition of the Lord of the Ring trilogy on DVD. What better way to honor this masterpiece than by watching this memorable excerpt from the 2003 MTV awards where Gollum himself picks up the award for Best Virtual Performance and "thanks" MTV, Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson and his team for his miserable experience shooting the movie by hurling angry, obscene abuse to all of them.
More Machinima excellence from Zachariah Scott of Lit Fuse Films. This gorgeous music video clip set in the world of Half Life II is a wistful, poetic vision of the life under military occupation where privacy and hope are things long forgotten.
This quirky video from the Lit Fuse Films team is reminiscent of the famous iPod TV ads. It features Half Life II character silhouettes over vividly colored flat backgrounds and a techno-industrial musical score made of sound effects from the game such as firearm bursts of various calibers.
A masterpiece of machinima animation, Ignis Solus (Latin for “Burn Alone”) uses the colorful and cartoony Team Fortress 2 game engine to weave a stirring tale of solitude and of the peculiar connection with strangers one can experience within the context of a multiplayer action game.
More machinima madness as Watch officer Bundles and Lieutenant Tibbles, proud members of the Combine’s Civil Protection overwatch, display various levels of competence in the line of duty.
Civil protection is a series of machinima animated shorts using the Half-Life 2 game engine and setting to tell the tale of two Civil Protection officers fighting boredom as they do their rounds in City 17.
“You suck at Photoshop” is a demented series of web-based Photoshop mock-tutorials (or mockutorials) that chronicles the fictional mental breakdown of a graphic designer over his failed marriage.
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