
This week, we cover a lot of things this month, as usual, but start with a tribute to a machinima pioneer who has sadly crossed the bridge into an unknown world – Tutsy NAvArAthnA. We then go through some more fascinating projects that we want to share, more about genAI and machinima, a bunch of new tools and techniques, some wise words from some great artists, latest games and relevant updates. All links below.
YouTube Version of This Episode
Show Notes & Links
Celebrating Tutsy NAvArAthAa / Basile Vignes’ Life
RIP Tutsy
Completely Machinima Interview with Tutsy Navarathna here https://completelymachinima.com/cm-interview-tutsy-navarathna/
Flowers of Evil filmed by Tutsy Navarathna, discussed on our episode here https://completelymachinima.com/s4-e121-cosmic-flowers-of-evil-mar-2024/
Glasz DeCuir’s tribute here –
and an interview with the man himself, recorded for the Machinima Expo –
Projects
A RDR2 inspired Minecraft animation made using Blender
An Egyptian Renaissance cinematic made in Unreal Engine –
A trailer for an upcoming movie which the creators are trying to fund and involve the original voice actors from Team Fortress 2 –
An intro to an updated game, Back to the Future 2025, made in Unreal Engine –
And a webcam test for metahuman, also in Unreal Engine –
genAI projects worth looking at –
Interesting Convos
Darren Aronofsky and Demis Hassabis on storytelling in the age of AI –
AIFF 2025, update here
Judge backs AI gen firm called Anthropic over use of copyrighted books, here
I turned down a [REDACTED] show –
New tools, techniques & how tos
Meta’s Worlds creator tool for VR, here
Eleven Labs – another update!
Creating a crowd of metahumans in Unreal –
Character Creator 5 update and connection to Unreal –
Fender Studio release for creating audio for 8 tracks, here
Martin Bell’s Unreal tutorial series –
How one detail completely changed a scene –
A LoRA for a Pierson’s Puppeteer –
NaturalVision Enhanced – release trailer –
Game Release
Dune Awakening –
Cyberpunk 2077 –
And finally…
Fortnite definition of machinima states: ‘the use of real-time computer graphics engines, like that used with Fortnite, to create a cinematic production. The word machinima is a portmanteau of the words machine and cinema.’
Take a look at the interview Tracy did with Epic’s Chief Tech Officer Kim Libreri in Pioneers in Machinima!
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