Paul Marino

Paul Marino
BornMarch 10, 1980
Occupation(s)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.[4][5] 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 Star Wars: The Old Republic.[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]

  1. ^ Marino, Paul (October 6, 2004). "The Wonderful World of Machinima". G4 Media, Inc. Archived from the original on January 30, 2006. Retrieved June 25, 2006.
  2. ^ ""Workin'" named Best in SHO" (PDF). Hollywood Reporter. February 9, 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 13, 2006. Retrieved June 25, 2006.
  3. ^ "Machinima Film Festival 2002 – results". Machinima.com. Machinima, Inc. August 19, 2002. Archived from the original on April 21, 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2006.
  4. ^ a b "Machinima Theater". Austin Game Conference. Archived from the original on July 19, 2006. Retrieved April 29, 2009.
  5. ^ a b Rooster Teeth Productions (2006). The Strangerhood Season One (DVD). Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
  6. ^ "Mackie Winners Announced!". 2005 Machinima Film Festival. November 13, 2005. Archived from the original on February 15, 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2006.
  7. ^ Totilo, Stephen (September 27, 2007). "After 'Halo 3' Comes 'Mass Effect,' A Game With An Unusual Cinematic Touch". MTV. Archived from the original on September 21, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
  8. ^ Everettdate=December 31, 2010, Larry (December 31, 2010). "SWTOR developer blog on cinematic design". Engadget. Retrieved June 25, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Panelists/Presenters". Signal Noise 2k5: creative revolution?. Harvard Law School. Retrieved June 25, 2006.