The MIT OpenCourseWare site has a "Media Arts and Sciences" section with one relevent course to-date.
DI is a new media file format that is designed to allow users to manipulate audio. A London company, Digimpro, is releasing commercial tools this year.
Steve DiPaola is working on a python program that analyses multi-track MIDI to produce facial animation. Still very much a work in progress but worth tracking like his earlier efforts, such as The Sims FaceLift application.
The Two Towers review on Machinima.com
"Two Towers's gameplay is, as a whole, unambitious but fun. However, its selling point and the reason to rush out and buy this game now is its spectacular integration of gameplay, Machinima cinematics and footage from the films. Wachowski brothers, taken note: this is how you make a game of your film."