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I’LL BE IN MY TRAILER

The director of a new cartoon is grappling with a problem rarely encountered by animators—a cast of unruly actors endowed with artificial intelligence and minds of their own.

Texas-based Michael Burns makes “machinima” films, in which a video game’s 3D environment is used as a ready-made set (Â鶹´«Ã½, 25 October 2003, p 28). Burns already uses Halo, a traditional “shoot-’em-up” style 3D game, to create an internet satire called Red versus Blue, which follows the adventures of robotic soldiers. But his latest soap-opera show, The Strangerhood, which debuted two weeks ago, is…