machinima

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of machine +‎ cinema.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • (UK) IPA(key): /məˈʃɪnɪmə/

Noun

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machinima (countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima)

  1. (video games, film, countable, uncountable) The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.
    • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 135:
      Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…
  2. (video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.

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Spanish

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Noun

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machinima m (plural machinimas)

  1. machinima