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Nashville, TN – Tracking how your tax dollars are spent in our Fox 17 Waste Watch investigation.The federal government has given more than $695,000 dollars to find ways to teach college students a form of film making.
But tutorials for that same technique are available online for free.It’s called “machinima”– using computer graphics engines to make movies.
Researchers goal was to find more tools for the craft to eventually teach college students, amateurs and professionals.
The National Science Foundation awarded the grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation with the goal “to reduce the technological and skill barriers to complex, but rich forms of digital expression such as film making.”
It says there are a lot of people using this form of film making and a lot of skill is required.In its grant, the NSF states that this will increase “the creative productivity of amateur creators.
“But those trained from the information in this project may not be required to use the skill for public service or government use.
They’ll likely enter into the half-trillion-dollar film and gaming industry.
The NSF tells Fox 17 in a statement “NSF supports fundamental research across all areas of science and engineering that later can lead to tremendously valuable commercial applications.”
An NSF media representatives says “the award .. was deemed by its peers to be one of the most academically sound.
“Yet training in machinima can be found everywhere online– in discussion forums, online courses and in YouTube videos FOR FREE and the techniques continue to evolve.
The $695,000 dollar grant has been spent over four years from 2010 to 2014.
Six books and a journal entry have been published as a result of the research.
Source: fox17
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