'Machinima' Becoming Used for Social Criticism

An interesting read over at Backstage.com. It goes into the social ranges that not only machinima is crossing into but is enabling people to speak to. Nice to see the medium referenced in such a positive way. Now if we could just get more films demonstrating this social power.

Habib Zargarpour, a senior art director at Electronic Arts in Vancouver, observed that during the past six months there has been a convergence of more user-friendly tools -- in particular "The Movies" -- and more users becoming aware that they can quickly craft stories at home in animated 3-D environments.

"The video game narrative is defining its own genre partially because of its look but also because real-time graphics engines allow people to work faster and get ideas out," Zargarpour said. "That development really puts animated storytelling tools in the hands of almost anybody who has a computer, and that opens doors to thousands of new voices."

How can you change the world for the better through Machinima? Just tell your stories. Show people what the world looks like from your eyes. We all learn from each other.