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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Re:Its new, its shiny, it smells like a truck stop

[RobPiano]

Artists invest their whole life, not a week/month/year, to often make things that are much more harshly criticized than I do to Machinima.

I do appreciate the person's comment who said "Its a new form of art like improvised theater". Notice, I never said that it wasn't art, just that there hadn't been anything that was particularly well done throughout. There is potential for there to be great art there, but as an artist would tell you, the potential for art exists in all things.

Also notice I don't tell other people how to think (or how to mod), I just offer an opinion.

Here's an example of flamebait:

Were you moded up because you said something insightful or something predictable.