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S3 E75 Film Review: Patient Zero – A Half Life Short (Apr 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes April 26, 2023 Leave a reply

Recently, we’ve seen some really great HL2 shorts, and this week we have an excellent one for you – Patient Zero is by TheParryGod aka Richard Makk, released in Feb. This is so well done you can cut the atmosphere with a butter knife, the choreography between the actors is brilliant and there are even some gratuitous small animal shots to boot. Hear us discuss the details and check out the film following the links below.

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Patient Zero – A Half Life Short, by TheParryGod aka Richard Makk, released 22 Feb 2023 –

Link to TheParryGod’s Flickr account here.

S3 E74 Film Reviews: iClone Short & Machinima Final (Apr 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes April 22, 2023 Leave a reply

This week’s film selection comprises 2 shorts, both untitled but actually worlds apart in their development. Its not often we get to comment on a first ever machinima project as the framing for a creative idea but our first film is just that, by Sydney Walker and made in an environment we have never seen used for machinima before, Final Fantasy 14. Our second film is a psychological thriller, drawing us in from a the whole world of familiar cinematic language in a way that we struggled with in the Astartes Project. BUT, the title needs work because “iClone shorts” just doesn’t cut it for us… over to Just Art Animation Studios!

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MachinimaFinal by Sydney Walker, released 10 Feb 2023 –

iClone Short by Just Art Animation, released 25 Feb 2023 –

and BennyDee/Benjamin Dazhi YouTube channel here –

S3 E73 Film Review: TOP GUN Maverick Intro (April 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes April 12, 2023 Leave a reply

This week’s film is another remake of Top Gun Maverick’s introduction sequence, made in Second Life and with a rather unique twist to it that only SL can produce!

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Film by Godiva SL, released 26 Feb, here –

S3 E72 Film Review: Astartes Project (April 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes April 5, 2023 Leave a reply

This week’s review is of Syama Pedersen’s stunning Warhammer 40K masterpiece called Astartes Project. The film was first released two years ago and has been recommended to us by Orencloud. It is currently hosted on TheChach’s channel – we explain why.

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Link to the film on TheChach’s YouTube channel here –

and link to Syama Pedersen’s channel here.

Here’s a link to Astartes Project on the Warhammer community site.

This is an excellent explainer of Warhammer and the lore of the game by Thall, released on 3 Feb 2023, that is worth watching too –

Or you can go to the Rumble 40K Lore Master videos here.

S3 E71 Film Review: Heroes of Bronze: The Memory (March 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes March 30, 2023 Leave a reply

After we first talked about this project last April 2022, we were thrilled to see what a stunning job @MartinKlekner has made in the 21 Jan 2023 release of the first episode of Heroes of Bronze. We were not disappointed: the film and work stands up to AAA Assassin’s Creed Odyssey studio work, but with amazing detail of historical artefacts and storytelling, which is even evident in the way clothes move on characters. Damien couldn’t put our views better when he says this work inspires him to want to do better with iClone. We’re definitely looking forward to the next release – bring it on!

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