How People Pushed 3D Movie Maker To Its Limits

3D Movie Maker is part of the Microsoft Kids series of software from the mid-90s.

Despite being from 1995, this game is still being used to make movies today.

You won't believe what some people are capable of this with this children's game, pushing it to its absolute limits.

The community is still active, making tools and mods, and somebody has even been working on an open source remake for a few years.

And whilst I was working on this, the full source code for 3D Movie Maker was released.

Music is mostly from the 3dmm soundtrack:
https://archive.org/details/3dmm-comp...

Also featuring MiNdS oThEr by ICK FX:
https://ickfx.bandcamp.com/album/abho...

And Yes, You Can Pet The Cat by Richard Kerry:
https://doubleheadrecords.bandcamp.co...

Useful links:
3dmm forums:
https://3dmm.com/
3dmm Studio:
http://www.3dmmstudio.co.uk/
3D Movie Maker source code:
https://github.com/microsoft/Microsof...
PyQ:
https://github.com/foone/PyQ
Twitter links about the game going open source:
https://twitter.com/shanselman/status...
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The movies I found on an old hard disk:
Crap:
   • "Crap" - a 3D Movie Maker Movie  
Modified Rover Thing:
   • "Modified Rover Thing" - a 3D Movie Maker ...  

Chapters:
0:00 Intro/Memories
1:33 Movies I Made
3:55 3D Movie Maker and Alternatives
4:25 What 3DMM Can Do
6:06 3DMM Characters
7:29 Backstage
8:40 3DMM Community
9:39 Official Expansions
10:38 Unofficial Mods
11:07 3DMM Tools and Utilities
14:16 Open Source
15:58 The Movies Made with 3DMM
17:20 Outro