Press Coverage

2009

John Brown's Blog Review
The Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo
Apr. 7, 2009

Boingboing
Teaching Journalism with Virtual Worlds
Apr. 6, 2009

MediaRights
What is Machinima?
Mar. 16, 2009

Locos Pocos
Great News for Tiny Nation
Feb. 10, 2009

DIP's Dispatches from the Imagination Age
ILL Clan Nominated for Cleveland Film Festival
Feb. 10, 2009

Fav.or.it
ILL Clan Nominated for Cleveland Film Festival
Feb. 10, 2009

Tish's Posterous
Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds in Second Life
Jan. 31, 2009

The Click Heard Round the World
Second Lifers Gather to View Obama Inauguration
Jan. 21, 2009

2008

Architecture +
Tiny Nation Wins Jury Award and Machinima Expo 2008
Nov. 16, 2008

OwenKelly.net
Tiny Nation & Other Machinima
Nov. 13, 2008

Snapzilla
The ILL Clan Accepts the MachinExpo 2008 Jury Award in Second Life
Nov. 9, 2008

Table Salt Games
Machinima Filmfest 2008
Nov. 9, 2008

DiVAS
International Machinima Expo 2008
Nov. 7, 2008

Reading Radar
And Now For Something Completely Tiny
Nov. 7, 2008

Janus Syndicate
Big 2008 Machinima Film Festival Recap
Nov. 4, 2008

Educational Gaming Commons
Machinima and Tiny Nation
Oct. 15, 2008

New World Notes
"Tiny Nation": Second Life As 3DAnimation Platform
Oct. 15, 2008

The Electric Sheep Company Blog
Illclan Premeires Tiny Nation Machinima
Oct. 2, 2008

The Click Heard Round the World
ILL Clan's Latest Machinima: Tiny Nation
Sep. 30, 2008

New World Notes
Rik Riel Reports from SLCC 2008
Sep. 08, 2008

The Age
Avatar Crimes
Apr. 10, 2008

Buddy TV
CSI: NY Returns
Apr. 2, 2008

2007

Machinima Film Festival Europe
Awards Announced For Europe's First Machinima Festival
Oct. 17, 2007

New York Times
Fictional Characters Get Virtual Lives, Too
Oct. 4, 2007

TV Guide
CSI to Fight Crime in Second Life
Jul. 23, 2007

CBS's The Showbuzz
CBS Show Featured In A Machinima
The Electric Sheep Company Creates Super Bowl Promo For Hit Comedy
Feb. 8, 2007

The Daily Graze
Live Long and Prosper: Star Trek Themed Machinima Created for CBS Prez Keynote at CES
Jan. 11, 2007

2006

Gamasutra
Meet the Machinimakers
Nov. 21, 2006

Jonathan Coulton
Video from ILL Clan Event
Aug. 3, 2006

Machinima.org
Propping Up Some Successes
Jun. 21, 2006

VFXWorld
TurboSquid & ILL Clan Forge Machinima Cartoon Series Partnership
Jun. 6, 2006

Animation Magazine
ILL Clan Spoofs Nintendo's Wii
Apr. 28, 2006

How They Got Game
ILL Clan in The Movies
Mar. 6, 2006

2005

Celebrating Machinima
Review/ ILL Clan
Dec 2005

Gamespot
Machinima Surfaces on Campus
Dec 2005

Henrik Bennetsen.com
Impressions from Machinima @ Stanford
Dec 2005

Gamasutra
ILL Clan On MTV
Oct 2005

CNN Money
One Word for You Hollywood: Machinima
Aug 2005

The New York Times Magazine
The Xbox Autuers
Aug 2005

2004

Res
Political Machinima
May 2004

PCZone
Reinventing the Reel
April 2004

Animation World Magazine
Machinima: Gaming Meets Hollywood Cinema
Mar 24, 2004

Digital producer
Animated Hosts for Florida Film Festival Award Gala
Feb 2004

Polygon
Machinima Attacks!!!
February 4, 2004

Machinima.com
Interview: The ILL Clan
Jan 21, 2004

2003

Frictionless Insight
2003 Machinima Film Festival
October 25, 2003

NY1
Machinima Merges Machines And Cinema
Sept 29, 2003

Chicago Tribune
Underground Machinima is Making Waves
August 9, 2003

3D World Magazine
The Art of Machinima
June 2003

Computer Graphics World
Films of the Future
April 7, 2003

Discovery Channel
Coverage of Our Live Performance at the Florida Film Festival
March 24, 2003

Yesand.com
Spotlight on the ILL Clan
Feb 2003

2002

American Museum of the Moving Image
DigitalMedia Exhibit at AMMI
William A. Fox Gallery
Nov 2002

Walker Art Center
Quake! Doom! Sims!: Transforming Play: Family Albums and Monster Movies
October 19, 2002

TechTV
Gamers Create Next-Gen Computer Animation
Oct 2, 2002

Hollywood Reporter
Film Festival Nods Honor Virtual Virtuosity
Sept 1, 2002

G4 TV
Interview of the ILL Clan
Aug 28, 2002

Wired News
Machinima: Games Act Like Films
Jul. 23, 2002

The New York Times
Computer Games as the Tools for Digital Filmmakers
July 22, 2002

Triten Films
Interview with The ILL Clan
July 12, 2002

CNN
Interview with Paul Marino
April 5, 2002

Quake3Stuff
Interview with Paul Marino
Jan 2002

2001

NPR's Studio 360
Kurt Anderson interview with The ILL Clan
Nov 2001
Audio Clip (RealAudio stream)

Film&Video Magazine
Crossover Effects: CGI Artists Find New Creative Opportunities in Video Games
July 2001

Entertainment Weekly
Reshoot-'Em-Ups: A new way to make movies on your PC... And it's as easy as playing videogames--really!
June, 2001

Time Out NY Article
Shoot 'em up: Machinima animators use Quake and other first-person shooters to make real movies
May 2001, Issue #293

Hollywood Reporter
Workin' Named Best in SHO
Feb 2001 (top left, page 3)

Film & Video Magazine Online
alt.SHO.com Announces Winners of the First Annual Alternative Media Festival
Feb. 09, 2001

2000

RES Magazine
Filmmaking with Quake
April 2000, Vol. 3 No. 2

Wired News
Making Animation Child's Play
Mar. 11, 2000

Discreet
Man or Machinima
Mar. 2000
Article about The ILL Clan, Hardly Workin' and our use of Discreet's 3D Studio Max program

1999

Wired News: Animation Express
Features viewable download of Apartment Huntin' with short interview
Sept. 16 1999

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Press Releases

Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds Project
Feb. 9, 2009

ILL Clan Joins the Electric Sheep Company
Feb. 13, 2007

ILL Clan to Show Tra5h Ta1k at NY Comic Con
Feb. 21, 2006

MTV2's Video Mods Taps 3D Game Animation Pioneers
Oct 4, 2005

ILL Clan Live Animated Performance One Of Over 100 Events
to Coincide with the Republican Convention
Aug 8, 2004

Computer Game Developers Satirize American Politics
June 8, 2004

3D Characters to Co-host Awards Gala before Live Audience
at Florida Film Festival
December 1, 2003

Real-Time 3D Animation Technique Goes from Games to TV
Animated Machinima Category Intros to Air Dec 4 on Spike TV's VGA's
December 1, 2003

Improvised Cartoon To Be Both Animated and Performed Live for Festival Audience
March 4, 2003

The ILL Clan's Machinima short, Hardly Workin', receives Best Experimental Short and Best of SHO awards in Showtime Networks' Alternative Media Festival
February 12, 2001

Press Release from Showtime Networks
February 8, 2001