When people like me switch to game engines?

The d00ds at this awesome art/clothing shop in SF gave me a bag of free stuff when I saw them at youtube live... one was an art book by Alex Pardee... I was looking at the book last night and decided to look the guy up and found this trailer to an animated series he was developing using the Unreal 3 Engine...

Then I remembered someone sent that to me like last year... anyway when I saw it then I didn't know it was Machinima... but looking at it now and thinking that machinima is looking pretty great...

I know some of you like my pal Ricky out there in LA are deep into Machinima... i don't know much about it myself but I have a feeling it won't be long before I'm using similar tools to make my films... If its easily customizable and already has the physics and environmental stuff built in why wouldn't you want to use it?

Hmmm I'm thinking that in the future I will always make "handmade" 3d films like I am now BUT I could be doing quick machinima series and other random stuff on the side...hmmmmm

So whats the deal with the Unreal 3 engine? Anybody know?Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.