The transparent surround makes it look more like an entertainment unit than a computer, and with the wireless mouse and keyboard, you could conceivably have it set up as your living room media centre.

Drama, quirky comedy and the fusion of the two are the order of the day for the discerning moviegoer this summer. It’s the northern hemisphere winter and all the vacuous puff piece movies have left cinemas while the studios and independents rolling out their hopefuls for Golden Globe and Oscar season.

Motion Theory is one of the new breed of companies to capitalise on the creative outsourcing of the digital effects era, comparable to the league Sydney’s Animal Logic launched itself into with the release of George Miller’s Happy Feet .