World of Warcraft at Ten Ton Hammer

Ever dreamed of making movies or filming your guild's raid in World of Warcraft? Well now you can. David "Xerin" Piner comes in to give the very basics on the art of movie making in virtual worlds like World of Warcraft. So get your beret on and your creativity set to record some virtual footage.

Machinima is often made using a rendering engine (World of Warcraft in our instance), some screencasting software, and some editing software. The first we already have or should have. You're probably also going to need some friends to help out as well, but those aren't included in this guide. You are going to need some friends if you're recording a raid, unless of course, you're a bad enough person to take on Kel'Thuzad by yourself. For screencasting (recording things on your monitor) you could just take a camcorder and point it at your monitor but that's not going to work really well. You are probably going to want to invest into Fraps which costs $39 dollars and comes with a free trial version. If you're on a budget you can look into Taksi which is an opensource alternative.

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