Would you like Machinima with that?

"To me the great hope is that now these little video recorders are around and people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them. And suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camcorder and for once, the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed, forever, and it will really become an art form."

That is a early 90's quote by Francis Ford Coppola which is used in reference to a great blog entry at babayaga, by machinima filmmaker R.M.Bray. It addresses a recent CBC Radio show, "The Current", segment on machinima. It includes a segment with Paul Marino then follows up with filmmaker Stuart Samuels....and well, Ms. Bray says it best. It's a very insightful read.

theCollectiveUs has released Episode 1 of their Vodcast. I was a little surprised at the content which seems to be just machinima shorts in serial with some graphic inserts between them. The overall graphic inserts were good in a TV program kind of way but the vodcast is definitely for sharing actual machinima rather than anything about the medium itself.

There's a good article over at CGSociety with Blur Studios, which along with the article has a link to their latest amazolicious CG game trailer Rise of Nations.

Big Huge Games commissioned Blur Studio to animate and produce the cinematic, with the same power as was generated with the popular ‘WarHammer’ promotion. CGSociety caught up with Dave Wilson and the crew at Blur and asked them about the production workflow.