1. Shattered Machinima Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joseph LaConte

2. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 2 Overview Machinima Introduction Evaluation Samples Sample Demo Shattered Hierarchy Ruby Ogre3D Shattered Ruby Project Demo

3. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 3 Introduction to Machinima Observation: “ Capturing live action, even if it takes place in a virtual world, is a kind of filmmaking.” Origin of Term: Machine + cinema: Coined in 1998 by Hugh Hancock and Anthony Bailey. http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=3834

4. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 4 Introduction to Machinima What is Machinima? Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies. In an expanded definition, it is the convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development. Machinima is real-world filmmaking techniques applied within an interactive virtual space where characters and events can be either controlled by humans, scripts or artificial intelligence. http://www.machinima.org/machinima-faq.html

5. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 5 Introduction to Machinima Interesting Fact “The Unreal engine was used by director George Lucas for pre-visualisation of Star Wars movies and by some other directors.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima

6. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 6 Evaluating Machinima Advantages Eliminates the rendering process Lower overhead Faster production time Capable of producing dynamic effects Provide resolution independent* Yield smaller distribution size* Allow easier film making *Dependant upon delivery method

7. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 7 Evaluating Machinima Disadvantages Limited capability Hardware requirements

8. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 8 Sample Machinima View machinima at: machinima.com Machinima of interest: Medival Weapon Airs on Spike TV Everquest II Engine Hurtaugh and Tiggs Red vs Blue Commercial DVD Halo Engine Four Seasons Blood Spell To Be Full Feature Neverwinter Nights Engine

9. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 9 Medieval Weapon Remember Lethal Weapon? Spin off on the good ole fashioned hijinx that we know and love! Medieval Weapon: Episode 1

10. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 10 Shattered Game Hierarchy

11. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 11 The Ruby Language Pure object oriented Dynamically typed Interpreted Has gained popularity because of Rails

12. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 12 Ogre 3d – An open 3d engine Free to use Heavily supported Active community Object Oriented OpenGL/Direct3d support Many many features.

13. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 13 Shattered Ruby Game creation framework Built with Ruby, and using Ogre Simplifies prototyping of games Follows agile principles Uses Model View Controller Paradigm http://www.ShatteredRuby.com

14. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 14 A Short Simple Shattered Sample class DirtyRubyView <... material :dirty_ruby_material, :template => :basic, :texture => "dirty_ruby.png" mesh "dirty_ruby" end class ObservationState <... actor :dirty_ruby camera :position => [-10,0,0], :looking_at => :dirty_ruby end

15. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 15 Conclusion Machinima Shattered Ruby Ogre3D

16. Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006 16 References Machinima http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?i d=3834 http://www.machinima.com/ http://www.machinima.org/machinima-faq.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima Shattered http://www.ShatteredRuby.com Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ Ogre3D http://www.ogre3d.org/