Awesome Machinima

Source Filmmaker specialist Ferhod summarizes not only Skyrim but many other video game and tabletop RPGs with this short machinima, featuring the Heavy as a Dragonborn. Based on Elisa Scaldaferri’s comic strip.

(NSFW: Language) Commandoflauge imagines a comedy set in Los Santos about two idiots who think being a criminal is as easy as it looks on TV. Actually, scratch that imagine part. It’s being spun off into a web series.

The RED team rallies to stop BLU team’s bomb-filled train from reaching their town. Well, everyone except for the Heavy, because the Medic thought he’d just get in the way. James McVinnie’s Team Fortress 2 film is top notch.

The RED and BLU Scouts compete in a marathon sponsored by Saxton Hale himself. Rivalry Rush won the Action category in the 2014 Saxxy Awards. Top notch animation and voice acting. Steam should have a Source Filmmaker channel.

Deviant Pictures Films’ entry to the 2014 Saxxy Awards is a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive machinima. It’s based on a fan-made mod where the counter-terrorists have to defuse a bomb that’s strapped to a chicken.

YouTuber Segmentation Fault presents a music video for Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills, made using EA Sports’ Madden Giferator. Made by pkfan2004, the series of gifs serve as a silly but legitimate jab at the NFL.

YouTubers 8-BIT BASTARD and Branberry Muffin used Grand Theft Auto V to recreate scenes from popular music videos. The results are hilariously crude yet still recognizable. Check out part two here.

(NSFW: Language) Whos Chaos and his friend try to hit one of their buddies with an RPG from increasingly long distances in GTA Online. Yes the last shot is impossible, but hating on that is like watching An Idiot Abroad for the scenery.

While we miss Satriale’s, Pizzaland and 97 cent gasoline, we have to say that 8-Bit Bastard’s machinima recreation of the opening of the HBO classic The Sopranos using Grand Theft Auto V is still pretty solid. Comparison video here.

YouTuber STBlackST managed to cram a lot of jokes and inside references in this all too brief mashup of Watch_Dogs and Team Fortress 2. Both the Blu and the Red Spy should mind what they post online.

John Chapman put together this faithful shot-by-shot remake of the classic truck/motorcycle chase sequence from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, using nothing but Grand Theft Auto V. It’s too bad there’s no T-1000 character in the game.

The Spy puts on his best Solid Snake impression in The Mystery Zone’s sublime mashup of Team Fortress 2 and the PlayStation classic Metal Gear Solid. They even used low resolution models and graphics.

Brass Ballas and a group of Redditors used GTA V to recreate the epic train fight sequence from Skyfall. While you can’t get the same cars or characters in the game’s engine, it’s still an impressive effort. But where’s the excavator?

OBEY THE BEARD. YouTuber nonamesleft used Source Filmmaker to make a short music video for Obey the Beard by the comical heavy metal band Psychostick. Screw portable chargers, let’s all just grow beards.

(NSFW: Language) Filmmaker Stuart Neaverson used Grand Theft Auto V to make this short silent film about a routine robbery gone wrong. You should’ve listened to the man, miss. Plus the bags were empty.

What starts out as a cinematic drama turns out to be a silly piece of metafiction and an amusing animation within an animation. Disruption is YouTuber FineLeatherJackets’ entry for the 2013 Saxxy Awards.

The Pyro is asked to guard a crucial turret. Itching to go back to battle, s/he uses a toy for a proxy. One half of the Cremator’s Conscience stars in this cute Source Filmmaker machinima. Vote for it on the Saxxy Awards here.

End of the Line is an upcoming 8-minute-long TF2 machinima. The trailer hints at a lot of action, but its creators promise that the film will have lots of humor as well. The track is based on The Glitch Mob’s Seven Nation Army remix.

Phantom Films created this cinematic using gameplay footage from BattleField 3’s Frostbite 2 graphical engine, setting a tension-filled battle against the backdrop of the Alborz mountains from the Armored Kill expansion pack.

A ton of musical turrets overwhelm GLaDOS in Zachariah Scott’s latest Source Filmmaker machinima. We love the king turret and his minions. The song was composed by Lars Erik Fjøsne.

The Seven Wonders of Crysis 3 is a machinima mini-series that uses the in-game engine to present the events preceding Crysis 3 itself, while showcasing the graphics and gameplay.

BioWare cinematic designer James McVinnie used the Source Filmmaker (and two Kinects for motion capture) to create this slapstick Team Fortress 2 short about a war between two Engineers.

A Russian Rambo decimates a battalion of soldiers to get to an American dead shot who has done the same to his comrades in this action-packed Battlefield 3 machinima by Robert Stoneman.