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Machinima began to receive mainstream notice.

Roger Ebert discussed it in a June 2000 article and praised Strange Company's machinima setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet " Ozymandias ".

At Showtime Network's 2001 Alternative Media Festival, the ILL Clan's 2000 machinima film Hardly Workin ' won the Best Experimental and Best in SHO awards.

Steven Spielberg used Unreal Tournament to test special effects while working on his 2001 film Artificial Intelligence: A. I.

Eventually, interest spread to game developers.

In July 2001, Epic Games announced that its upcoming game Unreal Tournament 2003 would include Matinee, a machinima production software utility.

As involvement increased, filmmakers released fewer new productions to focus on quality.