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2 [[caption-width-right:350:Set in a fantasy world about all the towns and villages became distorted into blank environment, leaving everyone else disappeared without a trace.]]
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4''Distortion'' is a 2023 experimental {{machinima}} based in the {{UsefulNotes/Philippines}}, developed by amateur game developer and filmmaker [[Creator/{{FrederickChavezBorromeo}} Frederick C. Borromeo]] and distributed by Studio Moonchalk.
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6Produced in RPG Maker MV engine as well as using editing software and several RMMV plugins to incorporate camera movements and editing, especially the latter's [[PicturePerfectPresentation cross-fading dissolution and minimalistic scenery]]. Despite its short length with a minimum of fourty minutes, it still marked as the first feature-length (and non-narrative) film or machinima to produce with the UsefulNotes/RPGMaker engine.
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8The first installment of Borromeo's proposed trilogy named "Environment", with next two films are unknowingly in development. The machinima was released on January 22, 2023, and is available streaming exclusively on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yr1VrCWrRw&t=774s YouTube]].
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11!!This film provides examples of:
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13* BoringButPractical: It's highly possible to getting bored to watch it whole, but it innovates editing and some elements used throughout the machinima to make it more cinematic.
14* {{Dissolve}}: All scenes of ''Distortion'' suggested that the original settings gradually fade into [[{{Minimalism}} canva-like blank environments]], resulting in [[{{RetGone}} everyone else disappeared without a trace]].
15* GhostTown: In extreme cases, the people in all towns and villages were nowhere to be seen or likely disappeared without a single trace, leaving it abandoned entirely.
16* LeFilmArtistique: The machinima features both original and minimalistic designs through tilesets, altogether by cross-fade each other scenes.
17* LimitedAnimation: ''Distortion'' is considered a limited animation (like waters were moving frame-by-frame) through a single computer, using a game engine with camera core plugin in order to incorporates slow-pacing movement in each scene.
18* NoEnding: There are no good and bad endings what've you seen.
19* NoPlotNoProblem: ''Distortion'', however, entirely doesn't have a plot or story due to lack of creative differences and script difficulties, as well as no story and dialogues, nearly similar to {{Creator/Andy Warhol}}'s art film {{Film/Empire 1964}}.
20* UsefulNotes/RPGMaker: Produced only in RPG Maker MV.
21* SilenceIsGolden: No background music and sound.
22* SilentCredits: The entire credits of the machinima.

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