Submarine ChannelWhy spend a lot of money on a film crew making a reconstruction if you can use machinima? That’s what the people at Next Media, a Hong Kong-based company with newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan thought. So they started to animate reports of a man attacking his grandmother, a guy who steals an ambulance and hijacks a taxi to get to the hospital after he cut himself, and they even produced a computer-generated “news report” of the Tiger Woods S.U.V. crash — complete with a robotic-looking simulation of Mr. Woods’ wife chasing him with a golf club. Will this be a new form of journalism? Read about it in The New York Times.
