Mark D sent this in, but I'm a bit late on it: starting tomorrow is the Cambridge Film Festival, and it looks like machinima might be this year's secret glee thing, as there are 6 items on the schedule with machinima in their title:
Machinima: Zero Budget, Big Audience UK, 2008
Making a Machinima movie on zero budget doesn’t mean that you can’t reach as many people as a TV channel. Come and see the most successful Machinima movies ever made, and listen to leading...
Machinima: Synthetic Cinema UK, 2008
Machinima, borne out of games, has started a love affair with film. Although lacking the detail, dynamic range and sumptuousness of film stock, “machinimators” have made up for this with...
Wow, synthetic cinema. That's pretty fancy. I wonder if we'll be seeing some (more) indie machinima films in the near future?
(Thanks Mark!)
I'm told that this year's Machinima Film Festival has entries in double figures for their "long-form" (more than 30 minutes) category...
Posted by: Hugh "Nomad" Hancock | September 17, 2008 at 11:19