This and that about machinima

Machinima is a new and still developing art form.
In it's simplest description, it's a new way of moviemaking which can be accessed by anyone from home allowing them to create either an epic story, a music video, a documentary, a comedy movie, etc.
Machinima works in a very simple way, every single game out there has it's own characters, it's own animations, it's own sound effects and it's own environments. It's what makes it a game.
With machinima, the artist extracts those animations and those characters, and can set them up freely, animate them or work with them.
Say that you want to take the animation of someone walking from a game.
You would take that animation and place it in front of your chosen background, whether it's green screen (as in real movies) or an actual setting, either from the game or from the real world.
The artist can control everything else as well, where the character moves, when he moves, the lighting around the room, the camera movements and the sound effects.
What makes machinima so truly special is that although everything you see in the ending product is from a game, the actual movie doesn't need to have anything to do with gaming at all!
There are also lots of ways for creating machinima; within the game, with a model-viewing program or with a full "animation-studio-esque" program such as Machinima Studio.
That is the first assumption people make, which is unfortunate, as machinima doesn't need to have anything to do with games. Which is what I tried to show in my personal project.
For my personal project, I created my own story lined machinima to show to people how fantastic this new art form really is. How anyone could simply sit behind their computer and create a movie on his own without putting much money into it (whereas most movies costs thousands to produce)
Here is the link for my machinima, The Last Storyteller. A machinima created with models, environments and sounds from the game "World of Warcraft"
Enjoy!