Here is another still frame screen-capture from one of my current "for fun" projects. I even included a before and after comparison! xD These are actual screenshots from the video files. The top shows the original raw footage, and the bottom shows the same footage after all the post-processing.
Machinima is a film created using an in-game environment, or by using video game characters and worlds.
The first installment of the "Orcus" series (Odium), Is being made using a combination of World of the World of Warcraft engine, WoW Model Viewer, WoW Map Viewer, and Sony Vegas.
This part of this scene is only 7 seconds long. The camera zooms in to the "television" and blends into the next part of the scene.
a TON of masking, color correction, chroma keying and compositing went into this scene.. more than any other scene I've completed. To give you an idea about how much work went into this scene alone, the total render time for this 7 second scene took almost two hours. Yeah, 2 hours for only 7 seconds of footage. That is not including the time it took me to get the look I wanted and test renders.
With this machinima series, I hope to raise the bar for the machinima community.