Paul Marino
Paul Marino is a film director, producer, animator, voice actor, and author currently focused on machinima, the art of using engines from video games to create films. He is a co-founder and the executive director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), a non-profit organization formed in 2002 to promote and organize the growth of machinima.[1] Marino also co-founded the ILL Clan, a machinima production group, and, working under the pseudonym ILL Robinson, helped to create a number of the group's machinima pieces. In particular, he directed Hardly Workin', an August 2000 comedy video that won a Best in SHO award in Showtime's alt.SHO.com Alternative Media Festival, held on February 8, 2001,[2] and an award for Best Acting at the AMAS's 2002 Machinima Film Festival.[3]
Independently of the ILL Clan, Marino has worked on other machinima projects. Using Valve Corporation's first-person shooter Half-Life 2, he created I'm Still Seeing Breen, a 2005 music video set to Breaking Benjamin's song "So Cold". The video aired on MTV2's television program Video Mods.[4] He has worked with Rooster Teeth Productions on their Sims 2 machinima series, The Strangerhood, as both a voice actor and a visual effects designer.[5] Working with Rooster Teeth, he also helped to develop Strangerhood Studios, a short spin-off series commissioned in 2005 by the Independent Film Channel.[4][5] Strangerhood Studios was the first machinima series to be commissioned for broadcast, and won an award for Best Editing at the 2005 Machinima Film Festival.[6]
Marino has also written the first book about machinima, 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima. Prior to his work in machinima, Marino was an animator who won an Emmy Award for his work with Turner Broadcasting System.[7]
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[edit] Machinima filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Apartment Huntin' | Animator, assistant director, editor |
| 2000 | Quad God | Strollick (voice) |
| 2000 | Hardly Workin' | Director, producer |
| 2003 | Common Sense Cooking with Carl the Cook | Technical director |
| 2004 | Larry & Lenny on the Campaign Trail | 3D characters, animation |
| 2005 | I'm Still Seeing Breen | Director, editor |
| 2005 | Strangerhood Studios | Visual effects |
| 2006 | Red vs. Blue Season Four | Visual effects |
| 2006 | The Strangerhood Season One | Elder Sam (voice), visual effects |
| 2008 | Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction | Visual effects |
[edit] References
- ^ Marino, Paul (October 6, 2004). "The Wonderful World of Machinima". G4 Media, Inc. http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/49874/The_Wonderful_World_of_Machinima.html. Retrieved 2006-06-25.
- ^ ""Workin'" named Best in SHO" (PDF). Hollywood Reporter. February 9, 2001. http://www.illclan.com/hollywoodreporter.pdf. Retrieved 2006-06-25.
- ^ "Machinima Film Festival 2002 - results". Machinima.com. Machinima, Inc. August 19, 2002. http://www.machinima.com/article.php?article=303. Retrieved 2006-04-15.
- ^ a b "Machinima Theater". Austin Game Conference. Archived from the original on 2006-07-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20060719023611/http://www.agc2005.com/machinima/. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ^ a b Rooster Teeth Productions (2006). The Strangerhood Season One (DVD). Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
- ^ "Mackie Winners Announced!". 2005 Machinima Film Festival. November 13, 2005. http://festival.machinima.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14. Retrieved 2006-06-25.[dead link]
- ^ ""Panelists/Presenters". Signal Noise 2k5: creative revolution?. Harvard Law School. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sn/speakers. Retrieved 2006-06-25.
[edit] Further reading
- Long, Geoffrey (2009). "Interview with Paul Marino". Transformative Works and Cultures 2. doi:10.3983/twc.2009.0111.
