machinima

plural machinimas

1. countableuncountablebroadcastingThe rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.

   Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…

   2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 135

2. uncountablebroadcastingThe genre of films created by such techniques.