This week, we discuss a 2013 episode of @Draxtor ‘s interviews series with artists filmed in Second Life series, this episode with Australian artist @lynettewallworth270.
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P109 Machinima Episode #3: Lynette Wallworth, interview by Draxtor Dupres, available on YouTube on the BAVC Media channel, link here –
Ricky’s link to the Machinima Archive can be found here.
and a link to Lynette Wallworth’s artist website can be found here (source of feature image).
This is not genSLOP… or is it?! This week’s discussion focusses on a recent genAI meme, vlogging from the Fall of the Empire as a Stormtrooper tourist. The series we take a look at is by Galactic Archives, which has garnered a phenomenal number of views in just a couple of weeks. Its quite different to The Glurons we discussed a couple of months back by NeuralViz, which remains a standout for us. There are some excellent learning points from the way this short / series has been created as a narrative arc though, despite the creative process and generative tools leaving something a little unsavoury in the reactor core.
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We Vlogged the Fall of the Empire | Complete Season 1 Storylines by Galactic Archives, released 17 June 2025
Star Wars Fans Are Loving The AI Generated Stormtrooper Videos, And They Prove The Franchise Needs More Comedy, Game Rant.com, 13 June 2025, link to article here
AI-Generated Stormtrooper Vlogs Are a Hit With Star Wars Fans by Matt Growcoot, PetaPixel.com, 16 June 2025, link to article here
The Best Star Wars Movie In Years Is Made With AI by Charlie Fink, Forbes, 12 Feb 2025, link to article here
TED, 2 May 2025, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Chief Creative Officer Rob Bredow, showcased a two-minute short “Star Wars: Field Guide” including a ‘menagerie of weird alien hybrids’ created using imagery of Earth animals and AI –
We love AFK! This week’s ep covers another of AFK’s ambitious world building attempts to round out the Star Wars universe… and of course it works. What do you imagine the worst jobs to be for the most hapless Stormtroopers? These totally make sense to us! Check out our comments, our overview of AFK’s background and other projects, and what we really think of this short.
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Worst Jobs in Star Wars – A ‘For the Empire’ minisode created in Unreal 5.6 by AFK, released 19 June 2025
This week’s pick is the complete contrast to the Happy Wheels gag-fest, Ep 191: the film is called They Were Once Here by Werlias and it has everything you would expect from a Project Zomboid machinima, plus some things you wouldn’t. Its a dark and sad tale, beautifully told, and delivers a real emotional punch. It makes excellent use of Zach Beever’s classic composition for the game, and harnesses a bunch of mods to achieve the outcome. Catch our review and reflections on this one. For those of you into zombie fests, we’re sure you’ll enjoy it.
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Project Zomboid | They Were Once Here by Werlias, released 29 Jan 2023
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