No Award for Machinima at Ottawa Festival

As stated on the festival's site, the jury of this year's Ottawa animation festival was not rewarding a price to the machinima category. The machinima category was introduced this year and consisted of 3 movies and one series.
However, the creative director Chris Robinson stated that there will be another machinima category in next year's festival programme.

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MSUC movie entries

check out these Makesomethinunrealcontest participants for the NonInteractive movie category, thanks to Eric 'Starfury' Bakutis.
Most impressive how much development there is since Phase 2.

MSUC movies List

Ars Electronica Festival 04

Currently going on in Linz, Austria. Until Tuesday, you can see a selection of new media art and technology in the hands of artists. Among this years price winners is a piece from Feng-Mengbo who is modding the Quake3 engine to be playable with a dancepad.
On Tuesday, there's performances of METRAFORM, MODUL05 and Feng Mengbo at the Gamenight event. The performances include Visuals made by above mentioned artists using game engines.
Next machinimag wil include an article on the event as well as a production overview of how the teasers that link the different perfomances have been developed using unreal tournament 2004.