Machinima

Check out Moviestorm.  You can make an animated movie (machinima) for free.  I love the idea but it's in beta and I tried to watch some of the resulting movies and had a lot of trouble with it.  I'm scared to download it in case it crashes my whole system, especially since my media computer has Vista which is not compatible with anything, I mean, with Moviestorm.  Sometimes, it's worth paying for a product after beta.  Also, this version seems to have just regular people in regular settings.  The great thing about something like this is to get into environments that would be too expensive to make in the real world:  science fiction, fantasy, historical, something with epic crowds.  I'm sure that's coming.  Until, then, I may find myself in a game world that supports machinima because I don't think I can resist playing around with it.  If you see a chick in WOW fending off monsters away from her cast and crew, that may be me... :-)  Say hi and help me slay that dragon so I can get on with my film!