Line #24 VideoGame/ThreeDMovieMaker


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3	'''''3D Movie Maker''''' was a piece of software released in 1995 by Creator/MicrosoftStudios. It enables users to create 3D movies with easy-to-use tools and pre-created actors, props, and settings. It features a host by the name of [[CartoonCreature McZee]], who explains how everything works. An add-on featuring characters, props, and settings from ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' was released, [[NoExportForYou but only in Japan]]. In 1996, a SpinOff was released featuring elements from then-popular Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} (''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters''). Series/StickStickly hosted the program.
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5	Since you can make pretty much anything with it, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]], [[RomanceEnsues romance]], or [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome reality]] will ensue. But most people prefer [[RuleOfFunny hilarity]].
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7	Although the series hasn't been continued or rereleased for 25 years and counting, it still has a [[http://3dmm.com/ very active modding community]]. Although most of the mods require the v3DMM expansion, [[https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker Microsoft has released the game's source code on Github]] under the [[MediaNotes/FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware MIT license]].
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9	!!Works created using this software include:
10	* ''WebAnimation/TheBlueShellIncident''
11	* ''WebVideo/GrandTheftAutoEscanaba''
12	** ''WebVideo/GrandTheftAutoNickSeries''
13	* ''WebAnimation/PimpLando''
14	* ''WebVideo/RatMovieMysteryOfTheMayanTreasure''
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16	!!This series provides examples of:
17	* ActionFigureSpeech: The program was too primitive to move the lips of any of the characters, so more often than not they end up MilkingTheGiantCow just to talk. Only partially averted with characters from the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' expansion (the characters' mouths could move, though they weren't synced to any lines and they still gesticulated wildly).
18	* CartoonCreature: [=McZee=] is a blue... thing.
19	* CloudCuckooland: Imaginopolis, the main setting of the game.
20	* CloudCuckoolander: [=McZee=] is a mild case of this.
21	** You can make any actor one if you so choose.
22	* CollectionSidequest: Throughout the movie studios, you can click on random objects to retrieve lost pages of the talent book that [=McZee=] accidentally drops in the game's intro.
23	* CrossDressingVoices: [[invoked]] You can do this yourself by using female voice clips on male actors or vice versa.
24	* {{Crossover}}: Thanks to the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' pack, you can have anime characters going on adventures with random people.
25	** Someone also made an unofficial add-on that adds all the {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} stuff to the base game. Now [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy]] and Manga/{{Doraemon}} can finally square off in an all-out cat fight!
26	** There are various [[GameMod Game Mods]] that add characters and props from just about darn near everything, such as ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', and even things introduced years after the original game such as ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''VideoGame/AmongUs''.
27	* DolledUpInstallment: The {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} version is mostly the same as the original, only with Nicktoons stuff, different aesthetics, and less content.
28	* EmoteAnimation: Overacted ones, to be precise.
29	* EyePop: [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren]] have this action in the Nick version.
30	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: One of the actresses has their face reprinted on the backside of her head that is covered up by her hair.
31	* GameMod: Mods can be created by directors to add new textures/models/background using the v3DMM tool.
32	* LimitedWardrobe: Averted. Every human actor has four different costumes.
33	* MadScientist: Willy.
34	* MouthFlaps: Averted. None of the actors (save for the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' characters) have animations for moving their lips.
35	** Though you can at least change the expressions of the Nicktoon characters, including mouths, playing this straight.
36	* MilkingTheGiantCow: Most characters tend to gesticulate wildly in their animations.
37	* RandomizedTitleScreen: There's two different openings that are selected at random. There's also a sticky note next to the "Call for Stick" button on the title screen that always has a different message on it.
38	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Averted in the main game, but in the Nickelodeon version, [[WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Oblina Monster]] is the only female character available to work with.
39	* SpritePolygonMix: Bitmap backgrounds with a built in depth map are used so that you can place the 3D actors and objects anywhere in the scene and have them appear properly occluded by foreground objects.
40	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: When you're limited only by your imagination (and the stuff the original game and {{game mod}}s give you), even allowing you to record your own voice, you can make all kinds of vulgar, violent stuff. There's also no word blacklist, so you can write rude things with the 3D word tool. See ''WebVideo/GrandTheftAutoEscanaba'', ''WebVideo/GrandTheftAutoNickSeries'', and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJKeESLBpQ Grandpa Found the Car Keys]]'' for examples.

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