Paul Marino

Paul Marino is an award-winning film director, producer, animator, voice actor, and author currently focused on machinima, the art of using engines from computer and 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.cite web|last=Marino|first=Paul|date=October 6, 2004|url=http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/49874/The_Wonderful_World_of_Machinima.html|title=The Wonderful World of Machinima|publisher=G4 Media, Inc|accessdate=2006-06-25] 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,cite web|url=http://www.illclan.com/hollywoodreporter.pdf|title="Workin'" named Best in SHO|work=Hollywood Reporter|date=February 9, 2001|format=PDF|accessdate=2006-06-25] and an award for Best Acting at the AMAS's 2002 Machinima Film Festival.cite web|date=August 19, 2002|url=http://www.machinima.com/article.php?article=303|title=Machinima Film Festival 2002 - results|work=Machinima.com|publisher=Machinima, Inc|accessdate=2006-04-15]

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".cite web|url=http://www.agc2005.com/machinima/|title=Machinima Theater|work=Austin Game Conference|accessdate=2006-06-25] 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.Rooster Teeth Productions (2006). "The Strangerhood Season One" (DVD). Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.] Working with Rooster Teeth, he also helped to develop "Strangerhood Studios", a short spin-off series commissioned in 2005 by the Independent Film Channel. "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.cite web|date=November 13, 2005|url=http://festival.machinima.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14|title=Mackie Winners Announced!|work=2005 Machinima Film Festival|accessdate=2006-06-25]

Marino has also written the first book about machinima, entitled "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.cite web|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sn/speakers|title="Panelists/Presenters|work=Signal Noise 2k5: creative revolution?|publisher=Harvard Law School|accessdate=2006-06-25]

Machinima filmography

References

External links

* [http://www.machinima.org/ The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences website]
* [http://blog.machinima.org/ "Thinking Machinima", Paul Marino's blog on machinima]
* [http://www.illclan.com/ The ILL Clan official website]

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