machinima

Blend of machine +‎ cinema.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈʃɪnɪmə/

machinima (countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima)

1. (video games, film, countable, uncountable) The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 135:

     Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…

2. (video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.

• machinimist

• animation
• video games
• virtual reality

machinima m (plural machinimas)

1. machinima