August 2021 - Completely Machinima

Let’s Play – Tracy in Second Life

Ricky Grove Blog August 29, 2021 Leave a reply

This video was created for the August 2021 episode of the Completely Machinima podcast series. Podcast co-host Tracy Harwood is joined by guest host Chantal Harvey to meet machinima creators at the Machinima Mondays meetup group in Second Life at the Jewell Theatre, part of the Simandiriel sim (created and owned by Fake Jewell & Dorian Cao). Machinima Mondays is organized and hosted by Chantal and is one of the oldest groups in Second Life, meeting weekly to discuss all things machinima.

This week, the group discuss the outcome of a workshop where they created a 60-second film, among other things.

Credits: Tracy Harwood, Co-Host, Completely Machinima (w/ Ricky Grove, Phil Rice & Damien Valentine) Chantal Harvey, Guest Co-Host, Completely Machinima & Organizer, Machinima Mondays Ricky Grove, Co-Host, Completely Machinima & Editor Spring Fields by Godmode (music)

With thanks to participants:

Fake Jewell
Amardon Wonder
Shelwyn Corrigan
Ataro Asbrink

and audience members:

Dorian Cao
NicoleX Moonwall
Haveit Neox/12th Night
Pryda Parx
TomSTomson

Filmed on location at:

The Jewell Theatre, Simandiriel sim, Second Life

Films discussed:

Chantal Harvey, Sex Talk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy4Q_…

Ataro Asbrink, Circles – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB2Ha…

Amardon Wonder, Mouse Hunter – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19kSa…

Fake Jewell, Two Paws – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd2BL…

Haveit Neox, The Catch – https://vimeo.com/575091723

Machinima Mondays Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Machi…

Let’s Play – Shooting a scene in Nightmare Puppeteer

Ricky Grove Blog August 26, 2021 Leave a reply

All four of us at Completely Machinima decided to each to a short Let’s Play video. My choice was to shoot a scene in M dot Strange’s game Nightmare Puppeteer (on Steam at $4.99). After creating a puppet in Adobe Character Animator (another program I like very much), I use that character to narrate my Let’s Play inside of Nightmare Puppeteer. If you are interested in either of the programs just click the highlights and you can find out more.

If you are having trouble seeing the video, try this link: https://youtu.be/8qZonW7xyNo

Let’s Play – Custom level for id Software’s best game yet!

Phil Rice Blog August 23, 2021 Leave a reply

Completely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (August)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes August 21, 2021 Leave a reply

This month Ben presents a bumper overview of machinima notables from the archives, including Quake releases, films, appearances, media coverage and the very first Machinima Film Festival that took place at Quakcon.

Aug 2nd – 1998 – Devil’s Covenant Original Edition released
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwCSONpiqI
Aug 27th 1998 – Quake 2: Late Night Episode 1 is released by Toxy & Essobie
- https://archive.org/details/late-nite-with-toxy-episode-1
Ozymandias (October/January 1999/2000)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLt4cD1Wh6k
Aug 6th 2000 – The Seal of Nehahra mega movie (4 Hour prologue to Nehahra single player mod/map pack)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ecvQAzsNk
Aug 27th 2000 – Hardly Workin’ is released by ILL Clan
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tII1uW__zs
Aug 3rd 2002 – Moppi Productions (Demo Group ) releases Halla (Little Match Girl)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsbEny9XBBQ
Wasn’t mentioned but still noteworthy – Aug 18th 2003 – A Brief clip of Mike Berry’s “Smart Gun” appears on AMD’s commercial (in movie theaters!) to promote their upcoming CPU – The Athlon64
- https://youtu.be/UhoqhoVWYhg
A Great & Majestic Empire [2003] Denis Cooney / United Kingdom
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_RLOW8Paw
Anna [2003] Katherine Kang / Fountainhead Entertainment / USA
- https://archive.org/details/anna_fountainhead
Fake Science [2002] Michael Holochwost & Brian Mayberry / USA
- https://archive.org/details/fake_science
The Journey [2003] Friedrich Kirschner / Germany
- https://vimeo.com/1110082
Aug 27th 2005 – Britannica Dreams releases “The Highwayman”
- https://archive.org/details/KheriMichelleTheHighwayman
Aug 30th 2005 – Jake “Strider” Hughes release the 2-DVD set on Bittorrent of his Anachronox: The Movie that won awards at the 2002 Machinima Film Festival (link to full movie not DVDs)
- https://archive.org/details/JakeHughesAnachronoxTheMovie

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Making a Scene

Damien Valentine Blog August 19, 2021 Leave a reply

This month, each of us put together a ‘Let’s Play’ video covering a different aspect of Machinima. For mine, I chose to do a behind the scenes video for Heir to the Empire. Watch as I put together a scene from Chapter 14 using iClone. From animating the characters, fixing some clipping issues to lip sync and facial expressions.