Podcast Episodes

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.

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Completely Machinima S1 Ep 6 News (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 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

Completely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (April)

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Machinima’s historian, Ben Grussi, looks back over the past couple of decades and shares some significant machinima-related events which occurred in the month of April.

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Completely Machinima S1 Special: How to Build a Machinima PC

Ricky Grove Podcast Episodes April 23, 2021 1 Comment



Phil Rice and Ricky Grove discuss building a PC specifically for machinima production and post-production. They start with the GPU and work their way through an entire PC build adding tips and techniques for making a great machinima workstation PC.

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Phil’s PC Build

Budget: $2,000

Components

Note: Phil’s build is very much a multi-role machine… 1) machinima / animation creation, 3) live streaming to Twitch and YouTube, 3) video editing – sometimes 4K footage, and 4) DAW (digital audio workstation), so he had some extra storage needs that may be extreme for most setups. That’s also the reason for his insistence on 32GB of RAM.

Actual Price = $2,030 + tax

Ricky’s PC Build

Budget: $1,000-$1,200

Components

Actual Price = $1,530 (oops)

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