The making of machinima

Good read over at The Guardian by way of news from Machinima.com.

A new form of film-making mashes traditional storytelling with video game animation. Now it has hit Hollywood

...Machinima's rise has its precedents in other modern methods of independent digital storytelling: blockbuster surprises such as The Blair Witch Project. The success of films like this led to the release of thousands of low-budget, home-made flicks via internet distribution systems, and out of that emerged a new aesthetic of realistic, self-expressive film-making. Machinima is exactly this kind of garage culture, but from the point of view of animation.

Looks like the paper scooped some time with Hugh and Paul after the Edinburgh festival.