Machinima, post-photography and post-animation: a comparative disciplinary study

This research proposes a convergence between the field of machinima, post-photography and post-animation, which are distant disciplines but related through factors and key points since they were developed in the context of the internet. Based on the intermediary role between disciplines played by machinima, and drawing on the qualitative methodology for case studies from theoretical triangulation, we suggest a comparative study whose hypothesis proposes a sequence formed by post-photography, machinima and post-animation until it reaches real-time animation. Having established the key principles on authorship, automatization and appropriation (where mediation and self-reference are determining factors) in “Por un manifiesto post-fotográfico”, we will extract a series of “post” key factors to guide us in the analysis of these disciplines in order to generate a cross taxonomy. This taxonomy will aim to highlight the importance of machinima in relation to the most advanced animation and connect it with real-time animation. All of this has the objective of reflecting on the consideration of real-time animation as post-animation, which primarily involves pointing out the parallels between these disciplines as established in audiovisual creation, and then presupposing a convergence between media fostered by a possible “post” condition. The result is a series of “post” key factors A and B; a cross taxonomy with which we try to understand how the implementation of hybrid languages creates interdisciplinary correspondence.