Apparently Machinima Is Still Cool

And the fad just won't die. Two examples:

Waltz With Bashir used animation for most of the length of the documentary. Perhaps they should have done a mixed format like this machinima "The Rescue Of The Lost Battalion" which utilizes footage from the Go For Broke National Education Center along with machinima clips from The Movies.

Noted because the makers will be at this upcoming conference in LA.



The other is a combination of the Max Payne story and World of Warcraft into a 25 minute machinima made by Blackhand Pictures.

Prologue:


Max Payne - Noir Undercity Prologue from Varath on Vimeo.

Episode 1:


Max Payne - Noir Undercity Chapter 1: The Darkness Inside from Varath on Vimeo.

It's even got the self referential film noir clips playing on the TVs that were inside the game Max Payne! Great fun! I haven't seen the Max Payne movie, but this is probably much better.

I'm telling you, this thing has got legs.

What's Alex Chan Up To These Days

The creator of "The French Democracy" released a series called "World of Electors" last year during the French elections. Unfortunately I can not find an English version (spoken or subtitled).

According to this blog (franck perrier), he also made "Seeds of Terrorism" (there is a 10 minute interview with him on the perrier blog).

And now he appears to be working for the Capa TV Agency on some machinima projects (Yahoo News). Considering how much discussion there was last night in the machinima conference in Second Life on paying gigs for machinimists, this appears to be a growing worldwide phenomenon.