Talk:Digital puppetry

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I have removed "Virtual Movie Makers" from the section on types of digital puppetry, because it is not an established term that is widely recognized. Also, it appears to be referring to a type of software which although it could be classified as "Machinima" is not really digital puppetry in the sense that it relies on scripting and does not give a puppeteer permit complete real-time control over a digital character, which is the common definition of puppetry. The removed paragraph is below:

Virtual Movie Makers - Similar to Machinima, but applications designed for producing virtual movies, stageplays and TV shows. These are not additional movie recording sections of existing games, but specifically designed tools. These usually offer a range of sets, costumes, actors, lighting and camera technology to make your own movies, usually allowing voice recording with lip-sync or text-to-speech engines, online communities and output to standard video formats. The Movies Game does this, but also Microsoft 3D Movie Maker (1994), Immersive Education MediaStage (2004), Alice 3D (current freeware) and Mission Maker (2005).

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