Machinima movie maker Short Fuze secured $1.9 million in its first round of funding, which the UK-based company plans to use further develop a new 3D application for its videos. The funding round was co-led by Create Partners and IQ Capital Partners, along with a consortium of private angels participating. The funding follows the company’s seed round of funding in October 2005.
Short Fuze’s Moviestorm application is a 3D movie-making tool that the company expects to unveil in June. The company claims that Moviestorm is the first movie-making application based on machinima and uses the same technology that powers modern computer games. Essentially, the application will allow users to create their own virtual reality without having to be constrained by the pathways and structure of a video game.
For the most part, Short Fuze wants to break machinima away from the entire video game association entirely, and aiming to make machinima an offshoot of animation and film-making.