The Straad Players

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/

Lip Sync tool. http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/

http://wegame.com/

A free tool for grabbing screen action and a website (YouTube like) for publishing vids. http://wegame.com/ – can store to hard drive for making machinima or upload directly. Great for quick screen grabs but uncertain at present about making machinima.

To write

To write

http://www.antics3d.com/index.php

A non game, game engine type editor/creator for machinima. Basic version is free.

http://www.antics3d.com/index.php

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk

Currently in Beta A non game, game engine type editor/creator for machinima. Free Download. Expansion packs may need to be purchased.

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk

http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/

A non game, game engine type editor/creator for machinima.

http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/

A great open source audio editor free to download here

A Machinima Series. Visually very simple but the dialogue is hilarious. CLICK HERE [ F word warning]

As yet untested by the Straads but it is a free download and looks really promising. Check it out here

Here’s what they say:

Celtx is the world’s first fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned ‘paper, pen & binder’ media creation with a digital approach to writing and organizing that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.