S1 Ep 5 Machinima Discussion & Show Notes

And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a long-form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality. This month (April 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (April 1), Machinima Films (April 8), Machinima Discussion (April 15), and a Special “Build a Machinima PC” podcast (April 22).

This episode was produced by Ricky Grove joined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine.

Summary: After Ricky’s Milan Machinima Festival report he brings up a question that was put to one of the Festival jurors (Henry Lowood – “…has machinima dissolved into the larger culture of streaming and game videos“) and then asks the other hosts their opinion. The next topic for discussion is the status and quality of the “Let’s Play” machinima in 2021. Phil has particularly good insights. Finally, the gang takes on a contemporary topic that might impact machinima creators in “What the Hell is NFT?“. As usual, Tracy has the best insights on this topic.

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Timecode for this Episode

00:00:38
Damien’s newest Episode of his machinima series, “Star Wars: Heir to the Empire” is out

00:02:32
Ricky’s Report on the Milan Machinima Festival

00:07:15
Ricky’s fav Milan Festival film “Fire Underground” by NIck Crockett

00:09:50
First discussion question, “..has machinima dissolved into the larger culture of streaming and game videos?“

00:10:36
Tracy’s answer

00:16:22
Phil’s take

00:23:17
Damien’s response

00:25:26
Ricky’s answer

00:32:14
Second question, “Is Let’s Play just game-play, or is it a more significant type of machinima?”

00:40:09
Ricky on a Let’s Play machinima at the Milan Machinima Festival

00:47:23
Phil on shooting “Father Frags Best”

00:52:44
Third question, “What the hell is NFT?”

01:06:50
Tracy nails the NFT question

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