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Machinima (/məˈʃiːnɨmə/ or /məˈʃɪnɨmə/) (n.) is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often video games are used to generate the computer animation.

A place to discuss all things machinima. Machinima discussion may include anything from actual machinimas, recruiting for machinimas, or if you are a voice actor, sharing your voice with us. (etc. etc. etc.) All machinimators know that voice actors are the hardest part of the entire machinima, so please don't hesitate to post your voice.

Allowed Submissions

• Machinimas

• Requests for Actors and Crew Members

• Well-thought out and well-written discussion posts strictly about machinima-related topics

• Questions likely to generate discussion

• News and gaming articles related to machinima

• Only meaningful montages that could have a story behind it

Disallowed Submissions

• Commentaries, Game play videos, talent montages, and Let's Plays

• M.com spam or hate - We are not affiliated with M.com nor do we support them

• Memes, funny screenshots, or comics

• Promotion of crowd-funding projects (except if it has 48 hours left)

• Referral/Affiliate Links

• Unlabeled NSFW Submissions

Disallowed Comments

• Enabling or linking to piracy

• Low-effort comments or ones that don't contribute to discussion

• Top-level answers to questions with no justification or explanation

• Unlabeled NSFW links

• Hate speech or racist slurs

• Inappropriate criticism (such as vulgar bashing of artist)

Subreddit Rules

• When commenting on someone's machinima, please provide constructive feedback.

• When posting your machinima, please try to make it a good one.

• Talking about canonical events in machinimas are allowed, but please indicate in the headline of your post that it may contain spoilers.

• Please no hating on a specific series of machinima. You don't like Arby & The Chief? Cool story, bro.

• Machinima.com maybe posting up commentaries, but commentaries are not machinimas. That means don't post them; Montages are ok as long as they have some story to them.

• If your machinima is "naughty" (like a game could ever be), please make it [NSFW] or the mods will do it for you and warn you after.

• Voice actors: Please don't show off any voices that tend to make people's ears bleed or anything that would make them go balls to the walls insane.

• If you make a flair to impersonate as a moderator, you WILL be banned.

• Remember, Wil Wheaton's law is strictly enforced here. Violations will be met with a swift ban at the discretion of the moderators.
  We're here to have some fun, so let's go out there and kick some red team ass!

Schedule

This is just a tentative schedule to tell explain what should be posted every day. It is something new we want to try with the sub, so bear with us. If you have a suggestion to add to make the schedule more interesting, then just send the mod team a PM with your suggestion and we will talk it over.

• Monday: User-submitted machinimas

• Tuesday: User-submitted machinimas

• Wednesday: User-submitted machinimas

• Thursday: User-submitted machinimas

• Friday: Top 3 Best Machinimas of the Week (Starting TBD), Machinima discussion (Text posts only)

• Saturday: Machinima discussion (Text posts only)

• Sunday: Machinima discussion (Text posts only)

Machinima-Friendly Sites

• Machinination - Machinima community

• MachinimaUnion - Machinima community

• CinemaCentral - Machinima community

• Gorilla Gong - Video hosting and Machinima community

• Voice Acting Subreddit - Voice Acting community

• Voice acting club - Voice Acting community

• Voice acting alliance - Voice Acting community