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The Final Days of Final Fantasy?
Square's Final Fantasy games have had a long and brilliant run, but things are starting to spiral down towards the end, with a rash of abortive, barely-successful experiments and apathetic sequels and spinoffs. Is it time to throw in the towel?

Animating for Video Games vs. Animating for Movies
Creating animations for video games is much different from creating animations for movies. The major difference is that a movie is meant simply to be [i]viewed[/i], while the purpose of a video game is to [i]interact[/i]. For this reason, animating for video games can be much more difficult than animating for video games; however, this reason is only a broad generalization of the differences between the two genres.

FMVs vs. Playable Models in Video Games
What, you may ask, is an FMV? It's short for "Full Motion Video", and is a term used to refer to the non-interactive, fully-detailed, fully-rendered movie sequences that are often spaced throughout gameplay in many video games, especially those of the roleplaying genre.