Machinimafest '08

WPRA Auditorium (OSH Building)
April 23rd 3:30pm

Machinimafest was a display of students work that combined both film and computer animations, it really was different than anything I'd seen before. Some were defiantly more entertaining than others but most of them were really well made. Some had some serious audio problems but maybe that was due to last minute editing or something.

The Passion of McCain was about John McCain and Hilary Clinton's love affair as they tried to hide it, the best part was the voices were not mimicked, the people who made the film used real clips of their voices and cut them into pieces. It made the film even funnier knowing that every word was something they had actually said at one point just not with the words in this order.

Higher Than Noon was a spoof on typical westerns, it was really funny and often the whole auditorium seemed to be laughing.

My personal favorite was Villains Anonymous, it was essentially an alcoholics anonymous meeting but for villains with problems. It was a really funny mix of characters from Darth Vader to the monster from Doom. Some of the films defiantly seemed to drag on for me but even though this was one of the longest I was a little sad when it was over.

Personally the films like The Nameless Traveler and other more serious films did not hold my interest as well as the spoofs or funny ones did.

It was really impressive knowing that they made all of these using the Half Life 2 engine, I honestly had no idea things like that were possible.