"Stolen Life" The Trailer

Actually, this film is pretty good. The machinima and commercial arguments aside, the point of this film is to convey a story (which would have been commercially impossible without the real time engine). SO much work went into it.

I personally liked the story. The animation isn't on par with other movies out there, but I think it does it's job enough to convey what is going on. You'd need to be a hard sci-fi fan or gadget lover to 'really' get into this though.

It's an awesome effort.

this really sucks.

This looks like utter crap, the only plus is the decent quality voice acting. They should have spent more than 10mins designing the look of the robots, their personalities have no connection with their crappy appearance. The sets are worse than the intro to something like half life 1, the music sounds like they got someone's dads to play some clarinet and the titles look like they've been done by a five year old.

I was intrigued by Claudia's interview and had the dvd sent over from Australia. Excellent! Fascinating, original, touching at times. Worth every penny!

Am I missing something here? I thought this was bland and boring. To me it felt like I might as well have been watching a bunch of cubes rolling around a nondescript room randomly talking and not doing much else. The voices are good enough, but they don't really connect with the animation, through no fault of the voice actors, but because the animation has nothing to attach the voices to the characters on the screen.

The definition evolved years ago. When it was conceived, there were no other viable options for real-time rendering other than video games.

I was there too.

By the way, this was made in 3d Game Studio - a platform on which video games are made. So it qualifies even under the obsolete definition; it's just using a game no one has played but the filmmakers.