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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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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 E149 Special: Season Finale 2024

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes September 27, 2024 1 Comment

In this ep, we reflect on the key trends in #machinima we’ve observed during Season 4 of the Completely Machinima podcast. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the year too, so do add comments below.

During the past year, we have reviewed over 22 hours of content, and presented detailed analysis of over 50 films on this channel. As vets of the original community practices (that’s pre YouTube and the M.com/Inc days), one of the great pleasures we take in this podcast is that we get to look at machinima and virtual production across the breadth of genres and engines, by creators from anywhere in the world, and reflect on where its come from, how its evolved and is developing.

This year, we have seen amazing quality films made in popular games such as Half-Life, World of Warcraft, Elden Ring, Star Citizen, Warhammer 40K and Team Fortress 2; have had the pleasure of exploring work made in entirely new games, like BeamNG and Deep Rock Galactic; and others made using engines in their base form such as Unreal, iClone and Source. We’ve also started to see #genAIs become integrated into processes and works. What a year for creatives and creativity!

Our main observation is that we have noted a resurgence of interest in machinima as a terms for the creative form, and we feel creators are at long last focussing on creative practices rather than their channel return. Of course its great when these things collide but it was never what machinima was about originally: it was the passion for great storytelling, using novel processes to achieve a desired outcome and to share that with a community of equally passionate others. Other observations are why we are not seeing as many traditional short stories as we used to…

We hope you enjoy this ep as much as we have making it.

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Key trends observed –

The highest quality of machinima we’ve ever seen

Unreal, by comparison, doesn’t actually really compare!

Experimentation

Meme’s

Distribution channels

Generative AIs

Our reviews, mentioned during discussion in order –

Firefly, made in Unreal Engine https://completelymachinima.com/2024/05/22/s4-e130-music-maestro-please-may-2024/

FLITE, made in Unreal Engine https://completelymachinima.com/2024/03/28/s4-e122-m-f-toxic-relationships-vigilante-flite-mar-2024/

Lonely, made in iClone https://completelymachinima.com/2024/06/19/s4-e134-iclone-lonely-episode-2-the-package-thief-june-2024/

May the Force tribute, made in Unreal Engine https://completelymachinima.com/2024/05/02/s4-e127-may-the-force-a-tribute-may-2024/

Flowers of Evil, made in Second Life https://completelymachinima.com/2024/03/21/s4-e121-cosmic-flowers-of-evil-mar-2024/

Danser Encore, made in GTA5 https://completelymachinima.com/2024/02/14/s4-e116-gta5-danser-encore-escape-game-feb-2024/

Inner Migration, made in Cyberpunk 2077 with corporate video content https://completelymachinima.com/2024/07/17/s4-e138-cyberpunkfound-footage-inner-migration-july-2024/

Ricky’s ‘chainsaw massacre’ pick: This is One of the Craziest Videos I have ever Made, made in GTA5 https://completelymachinima.com/2024/07/31/s4-e140-this-is-one-of-the-craziest-videos-i-have-ever-made-gta5-aug-2024/

Star Citizen father/daughter film: Adrift part 1 – a Season 1 pick https://completelymachinima.com/2021/11/11/completely-machinima-s1-ep25-films/

Backrooms and the Backrooms response videos https://completelymachinima.com/2023/02/02/s3-e63-film-review-the-backrooms-reunion-feb-2023/ and https://completelymachinima.com/2023/09/27/s3-e96-unreal-engine-backrooms-medley-sept-2023/

Emesis Blue, made in Source Engine https://completelymachinima.com/2024/03/07/s4-e119-feature-length-emesis-blue-mar-2024/

Day of Dakrness II, made in EVE Online https://completelymachinima.com/2024/06/26/s4-e135-destruction-hope-day-of-darkness-ii-the-wanderer-june-2024/

Half Life: Overworld https://completelymachinima.com/2024/08/14/s4-e142-half-life-overworld-aug-2024/

Lobachevski, made in iClone and genAI https://completelymachinima.com/2024/01/25/s4-e113-legends-zelda-totk-shinto-ritual-iclone-ai-lobachevsky-jan-2023/

Children of Pain, anymation and genAI content https://completelymachinima.com/2024/05/22/s4-e130-music-maestro-please-may-2024/

And, check out the bonus episode of our very own RickyAI –

S4 E134 iClone: Lonely Episode 2: The Package Thief (June 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes June 19, 2024 Leave a reply

This week, we discuss the art of machinima filmmaking, emphasizing the importance of craftsmanship, freshness, and humor in exceptional storytelling, as evidenced in ‘Lonely Episode Two: The Package Thief’ by TheBizTheBiz. We analyze the efficiency and density used in delivering witty lines and twists in what is essentially a modern retelling of the Lone Ranger, using mariachi music, masks, and character development, clever use of language and a well-executed comedic setup.

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Lonely Episode 2: The Package Thief by thebizthebiz, released 10 May 2024

The opening scene from the TV series –

Monty Pythony’s constitutional peasants sketch –

S4 E130 Music Maestro Please! (May 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes May 22, 2024 1 Comment

This week, we discuss two stunning music videos: Children of Pain by @VincereSylph with video created by @TomJantol and @tanyasubaBg; and Firefly by Esterica in Unreal Engine. Children of Pain is a perfect example of Tom’s ‘anymation’ approach whilst Firefly demonstrates just how far Unreal Engine has come as a creative toolset in one year alone!

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Children of Pain (Official Single) by Vincere Sylph, released 6 April 2024

Tom Jantol’s video for WiL/William Mimnaugh called Lion’s Feet (in 2022) –

Tanya’s channel here

Firefly by Esoterica, released 21 March 2024

Luis Andrade, showreel here

Luis Andrade’s Mastering Cinematics channel here

There’s a how to video on Tiktok, link here –

@esoband
The music video for Firefly took just under a year to create, here’s a peek behind the scenes to see how it was done with the help of mastermind Luis F Andrade. #esoterica #firefly #unrealengine #moveai #behindthescene #bts #progmetal #metalcore
♬ Firefly – Esoterica

Jackson Wang, Cruel –

Paul Marino’s I’m Still Seeing Breen –

The Creator, trailer –

S4 E129 Cinematics: GTA5 (May 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes May 15, 2024 Leave a reply

Not for the first time do we discuss the gorgeous cinematic qualities of GTA5, and this week we share a beaut by @Salva.Padilla. This one has a distinct vibe to it, but it is its general ambiguity that we especially love about the machinima. We each see something a little different in it! What do you see in it?

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