March 2025 - Completely Machinima

S5 E175 The Golden Age of WOW (Mar 2025)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes March 27, 2025 Leave a reply

It’s lovely to hear a fellow machinima fan discuss their passion for the creative works that have inspired them. This week’s ep is a documentary by one such person, ⁨@Angelikatosh⁩, who reminisces about the ‘golden age’ of classic World of Warcraft films. We highlight a few films from our own and possibly slightly older archives that she’s not managed to cover too.

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Show Notes & Links

Golden Age of WOW Machinima by Angelikatosh released on 14 Feb 2025

Tristan Pope’s channel, link here

Olibith’s channel, link here

Our review: The Internet is For Porn

Our review: Little White Poney Inn by Olibith

Netflix trailer for The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

and a Hollywood Reporter review here

Machiniplex showcase page on Vimeo, link here

S5 E174 creativeAI: The Glurons (Mar 2025)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes March 20, 2025 Leave a reply

One of the most extraordinary picks we’ve made, probably ever, on the show! This week, we review an emergent absurdist talk show, focussing on the life of the Glurons – a post-human race of critters set in a future world, but most creatively uses generative AI tools. Its outstanding quality is, however, the writing. Check out our review and pick up the links mentioned on our show notes below.

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Show Notes & Links

Unanswered Oddities by Neural Viz released on 9 Dec 2024, made using MidJourney, Runway Act One and ElevenLabs and Premiere for editing

Fandom page here and here

Reddit comments on ‘the full story theory’ here

Reddit comments on The Cop Files crime series – also brilliant!

JWallyman51’s Reddit link here – just in case you want to connect and read up further!

S5 E173 Machinima News Omnibig (Mar 2025)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes March 13, 2025 Leave a reply

This is our regular monthly news update on things relevant to the world of machinima. Catch the episode on audio only or on YouTube – links below

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Show Notes & Links

Esoterica‘s dysUTOPIA –

Hamilton made in Animal Crossing by GK Animations –

Cinematic of No Man’s Sky by EvilDr.Porkchop –

Phil’s Chuck Norris vs 50K Cavemen made in Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 –

John Gaeta’s Escape.ai platform for emerging artists is now in beta.

At All Costs (by Studio Far Out Games) –

Second Life AI character designer tool –

Project Odyssey awards ceremony and links to the winners, worth checking out –

BBC Radiophonic Workshop release link here

Valve’s TF2 client and server game code released, link here to article

Dune: Awakening game release trailer –

Tetris on AppleTV, trailer –

Liberty City (GTA4) ported to GTA5 –

John Martin II (Reallusion/iClone) on using Kling AI for character animation –

https://www.facebook.com/Animize/videos/608758092044056/?rdid=kMPddm0tlBjC6h4o&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fv%2F1BepaNLxzD%2F

Nvidia Omniverse Launcher update, link here

S5 E172 GTA San Andreas: The Days After (Mar 2025)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes March 6, 2025 Leave a reply

This week we review a ‘golden age’ machinima, starring none other than Ricky Grove playing ‘Bogart’, and Ingrid Moon playing err, ‘Ingrid’, with Phil having created the score and Ricky having produced the sound design. Its a short by German-American creator, Andre Pesch aka ‪@albi84‬ called The Days After, made in GTA San Andreas. Its a story that pre-2020 probably we’d have all said, simply, yep that was great, without any real appreciation for what is actually being portrayed in this 2006 film. However, there’s a sense in which this now brings back memories of lockdowns and isolation, and the fear of an unknown viral menace devastating our lives. It perfectly illustrates the narrow grip many had on reality, as Ricky observes in this “… war, crime, patriotism – you can name those things but you can never fix them.”

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