October 2024 - Completely Machinima

S5 E154 Good advice! (Oct 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 30, 2024 Leave a reply

In this ep, we discuss The Nomad | Cyberpunk 2077, a Lifepath cinematic by Zero-Sum Story, and Ian Hubert’s Lazy Tutorials, which are not for the feinthearted yet somehow full of the very best machinima advice, such as “… just drag it to a place where you don’t think it looks stupid” and “… imagine doing all this and actually putting in some effort – its something to think about” – yep, it sure is. Enjoy the discussions.

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Ian Hubert’s Lazy Tutorials –

Check out our review of Dynamo Dream: Salad Mug –

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 16 Films (August 2021)

The Nomad | Cyberpunk 2077

S5 E153 Forbidden Planet – Children of the Krell (Oct 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 23, 2024 1 Comment

This week, we review a machinima that has taken its inspiration and cue from the original movie Forbidden Planet, released in 1956. This is the animated and stylized sequel we’ve all been waiting for, set immediately after the events reported in the film. It has been written and directed by Biggs Trek, aka Philip Browne, whose creative talent shines through in this.

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Forbidden Planet – Children of The Krell (Chapter One) by Biggs Trek aka Philip Browne, released 23 August 2024 –

The original voice is by Marvin Miller, see here

Reallusion interview article here

S5 E152 Kitbashing Away (Oct 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 16, 2024 Leave a reply

News update: interjecting our normal weekly service for a short special – Damien discusses the latest Kitbash contest.

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Link to the contest here

A nice video about the contest here –

S5 E151 Machinima News Omnibus (Oct 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 9, 2024 Leave a reply

This month, we have another packed episode, iClone 8 update, Balder’s Gate 3 modding tools, Starfield expansion, projects, projects, projects, Sketchfab, Backrooms, YouTube AI disclosure and more. Check out the ep and be sure to comment too.

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iClone 8 update

Baldur’s Gate 3 modding tools, news item here

Starfield expansion pack –

Documentary machinima: focus on TF2 –

Hollywood is broken: enter machinima? (Andreesson Horowitz seem to have had their eyes and ears closed for a few years!). Check out the article here

Game Sprout’s article about gameplay becoming performance –

Denuvo’s release of Unbotify –

YouTube app update discussion

Nice projects: Runway Gen3 Steampunk –

Metropius deiselpunk –

Mad Max memes –

Kane Pixel’s Backrooms, more ‘found footage’ fun –

Sketchfab and Epic’s Unreal Marketplace merge into FAB

YouTube AI disclosure rules, described here

Biggs Trek’s Forbidden Planet: Children of Krell (which we review in our ep next week) magazine article here

Shameless plug: Phil’s livestream show and Damien’s livestream show

S5 E150 Dead on Cue: Fake Science

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 4, 2024 Leave a reply

This week, we take a deep dive into a film from one of the original machinima creator studios, Dead on Cue. This comprised the duo Mike Holochwost and Brian Mayberry. The film, Fake Science, had a couple more iterations, including one that allowed it to be played in the game itself, which was Half Life. It was released some 3 years before YouTube, and is another great example of how games could be used to produce artworks. Its wide recognition led to careers in games dev and production for both Mike and Brian, the former working on RoosterTeeth’s RWBY series and the latter on cinematics for games like the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic and Defiance. Brian is still active in the games dev industry and is working on his first game, called Gone Camping. Check out the discussion and memories we share.

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