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S5 E178 Machinima News Omnibus (Apr 2025)

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This week is yet another packed episode of updates and things we think you’ll find relevant to creating great machinima content, including more great projects to be inspired by, genAIs we’ve spotted, Steam’s rip off, inZOI’s challenge to Sims and the phenomenon known as the ‘Minecraft Movie’. Check out our discussion and do add comments.

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Projects

A GTA5 Zombie Movie, called Survive by Gabrian Films –

Cuco – A Love Letter to LA by Paul Trillo, created in 2D and AI –

Neural Viz released episode 485: Pog Corto of Tigg Talk – all about tariffs –

Anomidae on making a game, an explainer –

Another WoW documentary, thanks to Ben Grussi for sending this over to us –

A GTA6 mAIchinima, made with Cursor and Claude Sonnet 3.7, released on X, link here.

genAI updates

A conversational AI voice synthesiser by Sesame.com worth looking at.

ElevenLabs launched its Actor Mode, here’s the show & tell video –

Runway released Gen 4 which enables you to precisely generate consistent characters, locations and objects across scenes –

chatGPTs 4.o image generator launched and immediately took backlash from a Studio Ghibli meme – here’s the post that seemed to start it all off. Link here.

A method for aligning 3D generators with simulation feedback for physical soundness – generates 3D assets that are stable under gravity and faithful to the conditioning images, meaning they don’t fall over so easily, and can also be used for 3D print models. Link here.

A recamming tool called Recammaster, which takes a video file as input and then generates a breadth of different perspectives on it. Link to Github here.

An AI assisted VTubing tool, called AIWarper/WarpTuber, which allows you to animate portraits or character images by mapping your facial expressions and movements to them in real-time. It supports both static images and video animations, making it perfect for virtual avatars, content creation, and streaming. Link here. YouTube tutorial here –

And in Other News

How Steam works – a review of the algorithmic problems that Steam perpetuates –

Apple Arts Studios, nothing to do with Apple Inc. has launched Animation Shopee – an intriguing competitor to Reallusion’s character animations. Link here.

Nintendo Switch 2 launched, link here.

John Robertson’s gamer show called The Dark Room, link here and promo here –

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti releases on 15 Apr, link here.

InZOI game, a competitor for Sims(?), out now on Steam. Link here and trailer here –

The Minecraft Movie, trailer here –

and article questioning its success in The Guardian here!

S4 E133 Machinima News Omnibus (Jun 2024)

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This week we celebrate Nvidia’s investment in machinima, discuss latest AIs and give you the heads up on some great projects we want to highlight – there are just too many for us to fully review everything we’re seeing that we want to share with you these days! Do check them out, we’d love to hear your thoughts too – links and notes below.

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Homage to Nvidia’s Omniverse Machinima app by Pekka Varis, released 14 April 2024 –

Here’s a link to Omniverse USD Composer

Projects Worth Catching Up On

Endgame by Peaches Chrenko and Dark Machine Audio, sound track –

JP Ferre’s DCS: Spitfires – Cinematic, a real tribute to those brave souls in WWII –

TheDavedood (Scratby Films) animation for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon 50 years celebration – this one is for the single, Time –

Anomidae’s latest episode of the Half Life supernatural series Interloper –

Fallout inspired videos: JT Music’s Fallout rap, All in With the Fallout –

and Fallout – Dream on (tribute) by Couch Patrol –

Fables of the Foolish by Dreeko –

AI is Genie-us Init?

ElevenLabs has released a dubbing toolset tutorial, making different languages for videos even more accessible – link here

Google DeepMind has announced a new video generation model called Veo, which produces 1080p res videos for over a minute length in a whole range of different cinematic styles – link here

Stability AI has launched Stable Artisan to a wider user group on Discord – ats a tool for media generation and editing – link here

Showrunner by The Simulation, text to episode generator – link here

Winner of the 2nd AI Film Festival at Runway is by Daniel Antebi, called Get Me Out –

Luc Shurgers’ Skibidi Sam, video only on LinkedIn, created using Replikant – link here

Sony backs out of AI training with its catalogue – article here

Cor Blimey!

The real Backrooms discovered – check it out here

Another movies game, yes really! This one is called Movies Tycoon, link here

We are living in the Matrix, Black Mirror style – check out the episode Joan is Awful –

Projects Update 1 (Apr 2023)

Tracy Harwood Blog April 17, 2023 Leave a reply

This week, we highlight more creative talent than we can ever hope to include in our weekly film review discussions.

Interloper Ep 4 LIVE

You may recall we reviewed the Interloper series a couple of months ago, convincing Phil that this was ‘for real’! Well, maybe it is, as in this episode, which was streamed live on 22 March in a very interesting approach to storytelling on a ‘grand scale’, Anomidae continues the saga. We certainly concur with comments on the video that suggest this transcends into the paranormal. I’m sure it will enthrall just as much as the first episodes did –

Hired Steel Ep 3

The Hired Steel team are producing some outstanding work, and this is another episode from the TMC team that we first reviewed back in July last year, released on 10 Feb. These guys are going from strength to strength and what’s really great viewing is the way that character empathy is built through the storytelling. Nice work, do check it out –

Little Nightmares Rap Song

JT Music (formerly JT Machinima) released a video to ‘Hungry for Another One’ in SFM, working with Harry101UK, released on 21 Jan. This is a real treat both aurally and visually. These guys are top of the pops for machinima music vids. Enjoy –

Death Train [S2FM]

A great short by Vladislav Zharkov released on 27 May last year, this is actually a scaled back version of a project for which the creator originally had a much bigger vision. Its a great concept and one we would definitely encourage the creator to continue to develop. In the meantime, he’s focussing on the music –

SL The Tragedy

Finally this week, we present a wild west story not from the world of Red Dead Redemption but from Second Life. In this film/music video set to Lady Gaga’s 911, Godiva SL has created a fun and fast-paced story, released on 24 Jan (its also the feature image for this blog post). Its well edited, the horse and hounds even gallop to the beat of the music, and takes you on a real journey –

S3 E61 Film Review: INTERLOPER: Half Life 2’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery (Jan 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes January 19, 2023 1 Comment

This week, Phil has selected a couple of films by @Anomidae, INTERLOPER: Half Life 2’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery (released 25 Oct 2022) and Interloper 2 The Source Engine’s Deepening Mystery (released 20 Nov 2022). These are astonishingly well done conspiracy documentaries, examining the strange phenomenon of the periodic appearance of alien-like grafitti in a little explored area of Half Life 2. The documentaries are so well done that even after we discussed them at length, Phil remains unconvinced its a hoax! What do you think?

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