Definition of "machinima"

machinima

/məˈʃɪnɪmə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima
1. (video games, film, countable, uncountable) The 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.
  Quotations
  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. (video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.