If you’ve seen the amusing Halo series, Red vs Blue, which uses in-game Halo footage to create a new story, with new sound effects, voice-overs and whatnot, then you’ll be familiar with the concept of machinima. Now it has been applied to the Terminator Salvation universe. Press release below.
“TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MACHINIMA SERIES” EXPLODES ONLINE AS THE FIRST LONG FORM DRAMATIC MACHINIMA PRODUCTION
Created by The Halcyon Company and Warner Premiere
The First Long Form Dramatic Machinima Series Produced By A Major Studio
Creators Use “Terminator Salvation” Videogame to Create Filmed Entertainment
An Original Series Starring Moon Bloodgood as “Blair Williams”
Produced and Overall Creative Direction Provided by The Halcyon Company and the Film’s Director McG
First Episode Now Available on iTunes and other Digital Distributors
Halcyon Games, a division of The Halcyon Company along with Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today announced the first full length Machinima series titled “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series.” Produced in association with McG, director of “Terminator Salvation,” and Machinima Inc., this six part series utilizes real time computer animation generated from the “Terminator Salvation” video game and is set against an original story written by Andy Shapiro and directed by Tor Helmstein. Fans follow “Blair Williams” (voiced by Moon Bloodgood) on an action-packed journey that reveals the genesis of Blair William’s involvement with John Connor’s resistance unit two and a half years before the movie begins.
“Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series” is now available on iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Xbox Live and the Sony PlayStation Network. The cost per episode is $2.99 for HD and $1.99 for SD (where available). Fans can also sign up for a season pass and automatically receive future episodes every week for $14.99 in HD or $9.99 in SD (where available).
“From a film maker’s point of view, Machinima provides an incredibly dynamic way to explore live worlds and tell compelling new stories,” said McG. “The process allows the writer and director to think cinematically, while at the same time executing certain things that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive or even impossible on a set.”
Machinima, a word derived from the combination of machine and cinema, describes computer-generated animation created in real-time by leveraging video game engines and environments. Revolutionizing the digital content creation process, Machinima.com is pioneering a cost effective way to produce high quality video content for multi-platform distribution. “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series” was entirely produced by leveraging Machinima techniques utilizing assets from “Terminator Salvation: the Videogame.”
“Working with The Halcyon Company’s motion picture development team and having produced a high-octane, story driven action shooter videogame using Grin AB’s cutting edge ‘Diesel’ engine, we had an incredible basis to further explore stories set in the Terminator universe,” said Cos Lazouras, president of Halcyon Games, creator of the “Terminator Salvation” videogame. “Re-purposing our game to produce the very first dramatic series in this medium is a fantastic innovation and will become the norm for game makers in the future.”
“Machinima is the next generation of storytelling,” said Diane Nelson, president of Warner Premiere. “After meeting with McG and Halcyon’s creative teams we could easily see the power and potential of this type of content. The combination of McG and the Game maker’s creative talent and the inherent essence of the man vs. machine concept made for a natural feature-length story.”
About “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series”
The year is 2016. It has been thirteen years since Judgment Day, when the machines rose under the order of a self-aware artificial intelligence called Skynet. The human race is on the brink as Terminators hunt and destroy all remaining life.
The Resistance is the last hope for survival. Commanded by the remnants of a decimated military system, resistance fighters battle the machines of Skynet day and night without quitting. Blair Williams is one of these fighters. Blair is in her early 30’s and is old enough to remember a normal life but vital enough to learn how to fight. She is highly skilled and superbly courageous – traits that often get her some of the hardest missions.
We meet Blair at the beginning of one of these missions. She has been sent into the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a known hot zone, to seek out and destroy something called “The Ghost” – a code name designated to a machine designed to interfere with Command’s communications. The resistance knows that Skynet is ever evolving and this must be just another tactic to bring down the leadership. Without the ability to talk to each other, the Resistance would simply fracture and collapse. It was already starting to happen.
May 20, 2009
Categories: New To Comics?, News . Tags: Terminator Salvation . Author: Kris Bather . Comments: Leave a comment
Top Cow’s gorgeously gruesome vampire chiller, Impaler continues its blood letting, with issue 3 out on May 28.
WHAT: GUILLERMO DEL TORO SIGNS THE STRAIN – THE NEW NOVEL BY GUILLERMO DEL TORO & CHUCK HOGAN
BOOM! Studios anthology, Zombie Tales, proved that there’s still some life left in the ever popular zombie stories hovering around pop culture like flies on a resurrected corpse. Writer Kim Krizan’s three short stories about a zombie infested future earth were often the highlight. They were both darkly funny and frightening at the same time. Now they’ve been collected into one volume, for release in July. Press release below.
This new series was previewed in Red 5’s recent Free Comic Book Day offering, but if you didn’t pick it up – fear not! It’s available 
Hero Initiative is very proud to announce the release of Hero Comics. The 32-page, no-ads comic, edited and produced by Scott Dunbier, special projects editor at IDW Publishing, will be released in late July with two covers, Eve by J. Scott Campbell, and Grendel by Matt Wagner. The fundraising book will contain great, all-new content including an original American Flagg! story by Howard Chaykin, and original stories by Gene Ha, Bill Willingham, David Lloyd, and Kaare Andrews.( See attachment for cover art)
The new 120 page anthology from Perth publisher 
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