Machinima Festival Discussed, Picks Announced

Thanks to HomeLan Fed for their interview with Machinima Academy director Paul Marino about the nominees for the 2003 Machinima Awards, honoring "filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment." Those up for awards include the ever-popular Red Vs. Blue, and more than one title from the commercial machinima company Fountainhead Entertainment, and Marino makes the interesting claim that "the holy grail of rendering systems is real-time rendering - and after that point, the creative language shifts and becomes more like filmmaking where shots are recorded in real-time."

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That was quite an adventure

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I followed the link and watched every episode of Red & Blue. I must say, that was a refreshing and new experience. Quite cool.

This could be a really profitable segment for some game company to enter. Take a good 3D engine and make it possible to import all sorts of models, provide hooks for motion capture and whatnot and tools for cinematic capture and edits...