Yearly Archives: 2021

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 9 News (June 2021)

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In this episode we discuss some new releases by some machinima veterans, NVIDIA’s Machinima Omniverse tool, a new sandbox game reliant on the world of NFTs, the recent FantaSci Short Film Festival, and making machinima in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 8 Discussion (May 2021)

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And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month. 

This episode was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky GrovePhil Riceand Tracy Harwood.

Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

The complete transcript of the episode is available at our Buzzsprout podcast page for this episode here.


Summary: 
Two questions for the group – one, why has science fiction been such a popular genre for machinima, and two, what are some of the game platforms that are available for scifi machinima creation. Also, Ricky shares a list of great scifi machinima.

Timestamps

00:00:38 Ricky on SciFi in Machinima

00:05:35 Tracy on Scifi in Machinima

00:06:12 Phil on SciFi in Machinima

00:14:37 Phil on BioShock

00:17:00 Damien on Babylon 5 series same gender love

00:21:38 Tracy on Peter Rasmussen

00:24:54 Ricky’s List of great scifi machinima

00:28:43 Damien on good games for scifi machinima

 00:33:33 Tracy on AI based restoration of video. Should we restore old machinima films?

00:37:52 Phil on old games and restoration

00:44:46 Ricky on Microsoft 3D filmmaker and the Gman actor

LINKS

  • STAR CITIZEN

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

  • SPACE ENGINE

http://spaceengine.org/

  • STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY

https://store.steampowered.com/app/6020/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight__Jedi_Academy/

  • STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY MODS

https://jkhub.org/

  • STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR

https://store.steampowered.com/app/32470/STAR_WARS_Empire_at_War__Gold_Pack/

  • STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR STEAM WORKSHOP

https://steamcommunity.com/app/32470/workshop/jk

  • PETER RASMUSSEN’s FILMS

https://vimeo.com/nanoflix

  • LUMIERE BROS COLORIZED SNOWBALL FIGHT

  • BLOODSPELL MYHERITAGE SCREENCAP

  • MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE

Alongside our films and discussion, this month Damien also had the chance to speak to Mark Meer, aka the voice of Commander Shepherd in the Mass Effect game. Here’s the interview.



And, Damien spoke with the cinematic designer at Bioware, Ashley Ruhl. Here’s the interview.



Completely Machinima S1 Ep 7 Films (May 2021)

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And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our 4th podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month. 

Episode 4 was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky GrovePhil Riceand Tracy Harwood.

Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

Summary: The hosts share their monthly machinima film favorites. Tracy recommends The Mandalorian Rap by JT Music, Ricky chose citizen logs 0001 by geeks actively making entertainment, and Tracy shared her pick which was a Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures.  There is considerable discussion of the films and their merits (or flaws).

Time Stamps:

00:28 Tracy’s Pick: Mandalorian Rap

05:41 Ricky on Still Seeing Breen machinima

06:59 Ricky’s Pick Citizen Log 0001

 11:03 Damien on Star Citizen history

 14:06 Phil’s comments on facial expressions in film

20:44 Damien’s Pick: Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures

 27:50 Tracy on the sound in the film

 29:33 Phil on Star Wars music and Chewbacca’s lack of variety in speech sounds

35:41 Phil on why he didn’t choose a movie this month

Links: 

  • THE MANDALORIAN RAP

  • CITIZEN LOG 0001: SEARCH AND RESCUE

  • SHADOW OF THE REPUBLIC

  • STAR CITIZEN PC Game

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

  • STAR WARS: CLONE WARS

https://www.starwars.com/series/star-wars-the-clone-wars

Completely Machinima Interview: Dane Johnston, Nvidia Omniverse Machinima

Ricky Grove Podcast Episodes May 8, 2021 1 Comment



Dane Johnston is the Director of Omniverse Connect at NVIDIA and a member of the recently released (May 4, 2021) Omniverse Machinima. We spoke with him just before the release and asked him about the Machinima app. Note: the Omniverse Machinima app was released on May 5, 2021. There is no direct download. You have to go inside of the Omniverse app and select “Machinima” to install internally. Be sure to read the documentation as the requirements are essential for the program to work.

LINKS

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 6 News (May 2021)

Ricky Grove Podcast Episodes May 6, 2021 Leave a reply



And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month. 

This episode was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky GrovePhil Rice, and Tracy Harwood.

Contact and Feedback for this show:
https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

Summary: Damien and the gang share Star Wars memories, Ricky sharesiClone 7.9 update includes Acculips, ExPlus, and Advanced MoCap. Tracy talks about the winners announced for the first virtual storytellers challenge. Phil shares a new year-long VR course. In addition, we cover Mass Effect remastered launches this month, Star Trek adopting the same virtual set technology as the Mandalorian and the Milan Film Festival now accepting submissions

Links

-STAR WARS    https://www.starwars.com/
-iCLONE ACCULIPS UPDATE   
https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/lipsync-animation.html
-VIRTUAL PRODUCTION FOR STORYTELLERS WINNERS   
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/winners-announced-for-first-virtual-production-for-storytellers-challenge?
-FIRST PLACE – untitled short by Ben Coello – 
https://vimeo.com/511463265
-SECOND PLACE – Birds of a Feather by Emanuele Lomello –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=905GlMN7zRwTHIRD PLACE – Ghost Town by Ryan Paterson – https://vimeo.com/511255904
-UNREAL VIRTUAL PRODUCTION PRIMER
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/virtual-production-primer
-GET ALL $2 TRUEBONES ITEMS FREE!   
https://gumroad.com/truebones
-360° VR Filmmaking Masterclass
https://completelymachinima.com/2021/04/10/360-vr-filmmaking-masterclass/
-Star Citizen   
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
-Planetfall   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall
-MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION
https://www.ea.com/games/mass-effect/mass-effect-legendary-edition
-STAR TREK USING VIRTUAL SETS
https://intl.startrek.com/videos/how-star-trek-uses-virtual-sets
-STAR TREK DISCOVERY SEASON 4 TRAILER
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a36030260/star-trek-discovery-se