Paul Marino Explained

Paul Marino
Birth Date:March 10, 1980
Occupation:Film director, producer, animator, voice actor, author

Paul Marino (born March 10, 1980) 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'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. 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 since been hired by BioWare to work in the cutscenes for games such as Mass Effect and .[7] [8] 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.[9]

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
2005–2006; 2015 The Strangerhood Elder Sam (voice), visual effects
2006–2008 Red vs. Blue Visual effects

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marino. Paul. October 6, 2004. The Wonderful World of Machinima. G4 Media, Inc. June 25, 2006. January 30, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060130103255/http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/49874/The_Wonderful_World_of_Machinima.html. dead.
  2. Web site: "Workin'" named Best in SHO. Hollywood Reporter. February 9, 2001. June 25, 2006. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060513145923/http://www.illclan.com/hollywoodreporter.pdf. May 13, 2006. mdy-all.
  3. Web site: August 19, 2002. Machinima Film Festival 2002 – results. Machinima.com. Machinima, Inc. April 15, 2006. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060421083151/http://www.machinima.com/article.php?article=303. April 21, 2006. mdy-all.
  4. Web site: Machinima Theater. Austin Game Conference. https://web.archive.org/web/20060719023611/http://www.agc2005.com/machinima/. July 19, 2006. April 29, 2009.
  5. [Rooster Teeth Productions]
  6. Web site: November 13, 2005 . Mackie Winners Announced! . 2005 Machinima Film Festival . June 25, 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070215120446/http://festival.machinima.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 . February 15, 2007 .
  7. Web site: After 'Halo 3' Comes 'Mass Effect,' A Game With An Unusual Cinematic Touch . https://web.archive.org/web/20140921053840/http://www.mtv.com/news/1570741/after-halo-3-comes-mass-effect-a-game-with-an-unusual-cinematic-touch/. dead. September 21, 2014. MTV. Stephen. Totilo. September 27, 2007. June 25, 2016.
  8. Web site: SWTOR developer blog on cinematic design. Engadget. Larry. Everettdate=December 31, 2010. December 31, 2010 . June 25, 2016.
  9. Web site: Panelists/Presenters. Signal Noise 2k5: creative revolution?. Harvard Law School. June 25, 2006.