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S5 E151 Machinima News Omnibus (Oct 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 9, 2024 Leave a reply

This month, we have another packed episode, iClone 8 update, Balder’s Gate 3 modding tools, Starfield expansion, projects, projects, projects, Sketchfab, Backrooms, YouTube AI disclosure and more. Check out the ep and be sure to comment too.

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Show Notes & Links

iClone 8 update

Baldur’s Gate 3 modding tools, news item here

Starfield expansion pack –

Documentary machinima: focus on TF2 –

Hollywood is broken: enter machinima? (Andreesson Horowitz seem to have had their eyes and ears closed for a few years!). Check out the article here

Game Sprout’s article about gameplay becoming performance –

Denuvo’s release of Unbotify –

YouTube app update discussion

Nice projects: Runway Gen3 Steampunk –

Metropius deiselpunk –

Mad Max memes –

Kane Pixel’s Backrooms, more ‘found footage’ fun –

Sketchfab and Epic’s Unreal Marketplace merge into FAB

YouTube AI disclosure rules, described here

Biggs Trek’s Forbidden Planet: Children of Krell (which we review in our ep next week) magazine article here

Shameless plug: Phil’s livestream show and Damien’s livestream show

S4 E133 Machinima News Omnibus (Jun 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes June 12, 2024 Leave a reply

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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Show Notes & Links

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 –