Hollywood and Games Summit leaves Machinima on the Cutting Room Floor

There is a good review from the machinima perspective of the Hollywood & Games Summit over at Machinima Premiere.

Seamus Blackley of Creative Artists Agency, representing the Hollywood film side and moderator offered more response to the question of the effect of Machinima. Seamus said that, "Machinima is an exciting new form of media where we see a real reason to stay tuned and keep our sights on machinimators as they continue to bring their low cost stories with high entertainment to life inside this new media."

I've been thinking about machinima and how it's placed among industries a lot lately. Being a part of its day to day I sometimes have to look back to keep its growth in perspective. In its earliest days, many questioned why bother. Within a few short years a small percentage of people across industries knew of it but even less gave it a second thought. These days it seems like its a pretty known term but I think with it's increased use and generalization it's still a little fuzzy in the average person's mind what exactly it is. So the very fact that its acknowledged in conferences like this one is a great thing, and who knows, 10 years from now machinima may have conferences of its own that people from these industries come to, rather machinima coming to them.