48 sleepless hours to make a movie? HOW? As you may know, Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is a new form of filmmaking using real-time, 3D virtual environments and gaming technologies. By using an avatar's point of view as the camera, the virtual world becomes a set and other avatars within view are the actors. This exciting new form of filmmaking is gaining in popularity and enabling artists with small budgets to create films that can mirror scenes from bigger budget filmmaking.   more »