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ILL Clan Productions is a collective of 3D artists, filmmakers and improvisational comedians focusing on creating animated episodic shows and works for hire using the machinima process and 3D CGI. Please view our

movies page to see examples of our work.

Press Resources
ILL Clan Fact Sheet

Images
The ILL Clan Logo
Hardly Workin'-Larry & Lenny Lumberjack
Hardly Workin'-Cook Carl w/Larry and Lenny
Carl The Cook
Larry & Lenny Lumberjack
Shots from "On the Campaign Trail with Lenny & Larry" (zip)


Press Releases
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



Press Coverage

Broadcast

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

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

G4 TV
Interview of the ILL Clan
Aug 28, 2002

CNN
Interview with Paul Marino
April 5, 2002

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



Print

New York Times Magazine
The Xbox Autuers
Aug 2005

Res
Political Machinima
May 2004

PCZone
Reinventing the Reel
April 2004

Polygon
Machinima Attacks!!!
February 4 2004

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

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

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

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)

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



Online Press

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

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

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

Frictionless Insight
2003 Machinima Film Festival
October 25, 2003

NY1
Machinima Merges Machines And Cinema
Sept 29, 2003

Yesand.com
Spotlight on the ILL Clan
Feb, 2003

The Center for Art and Media - Karlsruhe
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film
Nov 16, 2002
Note: In German

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

Malmoe on the web
Deus ex Machinima
Oct 2002
Note: In German

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

Triten Films
Interview with The ILL Clan
July 12, 2002

Quake3Stuff
Interview with Paul Marino
Jan 2002

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

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

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

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