A packed news episode, with Tracy’s analysis of the AI art copyright ruling decision and a discussion with Damien about his hit fan series, Heir to the Empire – the Star Wars story that everyone always wanted to see made. Do comment on the discussion (on the YouTube channel or the Blog post).

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Show Notes & Links

RunwayML’s third annual AI Film Festival is now open to submissions until 31^st March

Second Life has been testing browser based streaming

Linden Labs has spent $1.3B building the world and paid $1.1B back to its creators

Animator’s Survival Kit, part of a Bloomsbury video series, and it has been created by Richard Williams

Gladiator II has all the kind of hallmarks you can achieve in Unreal Engine, with enough time and energy –

The Freeman Chronicles made by Ian James Duncan –

There’s also a fascinating website which documents how the film was made worth taking a look at too.

Tom Cook (aka ToCoSo) original fan song made for Elite Dangerous called ‘Mining on my Own’ by Ghost Giraffe –

A Mandalorian Cinematic Trailer made in Unreal Engine, made by Geoffrey Grandseign, it’s a showcase of his work as well as a fan film –

A Godot engine project, created in the 4.3 engine version by Jan Fidler –

The US Copyright Office’s ruling on AI art generated with text prompts.

Others asking questions about the implications of this ruling.

Announcement of a merger between Getty Images and Shutterstock

NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 family graphics cards announed here

HL3 teaser? Check this out!

Hollywood Animal trailer –

Astartes II – Official Teaser Trailer | Warhammer –

The Sims 1 & 2 re-releases – news item link here

Rooster Teeth is back?! Another news item link

Director’s comments: Heir to the Empire, Damien reflects on the series to date –

the full movies here –