One of the most extraordinary picks we’ve made, probably ever, on the show! This week, we review an emergent absurdist talk show, focussing on the life of the Glurons – a post-human race of critters set in a future world, but most creatively uses generative AI tools. Its outstanding quality is, however, the writing. Check out our review and pick up the links mentioned on our show notes below.
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Unanswered Oddities by Neural Viz released on 9 Dec 2024, made using MidJourney, Runway Act One and ElevenLabs and Premiere for editing
Another packed episode of news items we found for machinima creators everywhere. We take a look at some games news including several that have released music albums recently and discuss why we think that is. We go through some of the latest AI matters, including Vimeo’s new AI content guidelines. We found one of the best Unreal master classes we ever seen, more like a work of art than a ‘how to’, but since its by the amazing Luis Andrade, we’d expect nothing less. We also found some partciularly juicy tidbits we think you’ll enjoy.
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Games, games, games…
PLEASE, if anyone has any great WoW machinima, share them with us!!! We are desperate to celebrate WoW achieving 20 years, but we just can’t find anything worth sharing…
Game destruction and consumer rights… what are the unintended consequences of Accursed Farms and others attempts to clear up this mess on machinima creators? See video discussion here –
Suno’s creator contest results, and the winner is… Maybe!
Congratulations to all 500 winners of Vol. 1 of the #SummerofSuno challenge, where we awarded a total of $100,000 from the $1 million prize pool we’ll be giving away this year!
Luis Andrade’s stunning ‘how to‘ video for the Firefly music video, a work of art as well as a tutorial –
Andy Davis released 5 sets of dynamic lenses now available on the Unreal Marketplace. No blueprints, only lens objects that apply to any CineCamera. When pulled from focusMin to INF, they distort dynamically. Sourced from VFX assets to work interactively within game engine, link here. This is an example of what they do, Vimeo link here
Tidbits
Lip sync tutorial for ComfUI –
Making the case for alternative content creator distribution channels, comments by Harmony Korine here
Video game actors are officially on strike (SAG AFTRA)… but those working on GTA6 are not permitted to, link here
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 –
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
This week’s podcast episode is our curated news omnibus for this month. We cover lots, and enjoy reflecting on the significance of the stories we highlight for the world of machinima and virtual production.
btw, the international internet pipes failed and microwaves fried our apps during this recording session, video corrupted and monsters ran loose among us, so enjoy the voice data we’ve managed to resurrect and video clips we’ve added – we’ll be back next week in full glory!
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Fan communities under pressure?
Valve’s Steam policy and recent take downs for Team Fortress 2 and Portal fan projects – article on Games Radar here
Half Life 3 aka Entropy Zero (and 2) projects – Fandom.com overview here and video –
New Moviemaking Toolsets
Blockbuster Inc, Prologue version now on Steam here
Demo by Orbital Potato here –
Replikant now in free beta on the Unreal Marketplace.
Replikant has a Youtube channel with plenty of tutorials on it already, and there’s a great demo of it which gives you a sense of the animation quality it produces –
And for those wanting a quick and dirty tutorial on UE5, check this out –
Steamboatin’ Along!
Minecraft Steamboat Willie which is a fun take on it, made by Red and Blue –
Fewture Studios’ trailer for The Return of Steamboat Willie, made in Unreal Engine –
Screams
The origins and impact of the Wilhelm Scream – BBC shorts here
Not strictly machinima, but something we’ve named mAIchinima! This week, we discuss two films using generative AI to create narrative works. In both cases, the techniques employed emphasize the sound – music or voice acting – but whilst one is intentional, the other is not. We share our thoughts on these works and discuss some of the current limitations and benefits observed, which leads us into a timely discussion about style in filmmaking. We also discuss some recent developments in AI for creatives, such as the role of Glaze masking and Nightshade corrupting tools.
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Show Notes & Links
Our films this week –
Nina | Denvery Pluto | Episode 2 by Dean Corrigan, released 13 Sept 2023
Prelude to Dust by Dark Machine Audio, released 5 Sept 2023
The generative AI tools we mention in our preliminary discussion are Glaze and Nightshade, information about both can be found here. You can also find out more about Glaze and how it works here –
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