Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/Machinima work group/Sources

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This subpage of WikiProject Machinima is intended to serve as a guide to the reliability of various sources that may be used in machinima-related articles.

3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima[edit]

For info on the publisher, Paraglyph Press, see http://paraglyph.oreilly.com/.
Written by Paul Marino, recognized expert machinima producer
Cited extensively (see Google Scholar)

Blue's News[edit]

Originally self-published, then purchased by UGO in 1999.
Mentioned by reliable sources even before the sale.
News post cited by reliable book.

The Cineplex[edit]

Originally self-published, then hosted by GameSpy.
However, in his book 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima, Paul Marino lists this site as one of the major sites of the original Quake movie era.
As such, articles about notable machinima productions of the era should mention this site's review of those works. To fail to do so would breach requirement 1(b) of WP:FA?.

machinima.com[edit]

Has an editorial staff
Extensively mentioned and cited (see Google Scholar)
Note: Videos are liberally accepted, so presence on machinima.com does not by itself constitute non-trivial coverage for the purposes of determining notability.

Psyk's Popcorn Jungle[edit]

Self-published.
However, in his book 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima, Paul Marino lists this site as one of the major sites of the original Quake movie era.
As such, articles about notable machinima productions of the era should mention this site's review of those works. To fail to do so would breach requirement 1(b) of WP:FA?.

Quake Movie Library[edit]

Originally self-published, then hosted by machinima.com.
However, in his book 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima, Paul Marino lists this site as one of the major sites of the original Quake movie era.
As such, articles about notable machinima productions of the era should mention this site's review of those works. To fail to do so would breach requirement 1(b) of WP:FA?.