Machinima - Spielbergs with a Joystick

securitas writes "The Toronto Star's Murray Whyte writes about the growing popularity of machinima as the birth of a new type of filmmaking and artform. The article largely focuses on Red vs. Blue but also discusses Jim Munroe's My Trip To Liberty City, in which 'Munroe adopts the genteel perspective of a Canadian tourist while meandering the seamy, violent streets of the game Grand Theft Auto.' The most interesting comment comes from the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences' Paul Marino who compares machinima to garage bands."

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It isn't that new

[Neko-kun]

Well, it just so happens that one of my friends goes to the California Institute of the Arts where there's a professor by the name of Eddo Stern who has been doing this since the early 90's...he then cofounded C-Level in 2001.

(oh, and here's the link to the page with the date of his latest lecture at CalArts, just search for his name...)