A compelling and powerful story of one man’s quest to remain sane on an isolated planet. This is a very effective story by LensNation, given its only 60 seconds long – its probably not just this one creator’s worst nightmare in a game, but several of us. Check out our review and don’t forget to give us some feedback on your thoughts too.
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Star Citizen – 60 Seconds of Horror Contest 2953 by LensNation, released 27 Oct 2023
This week, we review a pretender for a new Disney show called Forlorn, by @projectforlorn (aka Alex St Pierre). Well, it may well be at some point in the near future! Starting life as a tech demo, this short has an interesting back story and has evolved into something even more interesting. Check out our review and add your own thoughts!
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Forlorn | Unreal Engine Short Film by Project Forlorn, released 3 Jan 2024 –
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) –
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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Film, Cinematic Experience GTA V Machinima by Salva Padilla, released 15 April 2024
About Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, 1927 –
Nina Simone estate interview excerpt, To Be Free, released 16 Feb 2013 –
Our May update on machinima and virtual production related news highlights some of the latest generative AI tools, warts and all, and brings to attention several of the latest machinima potential games, including Jaws, Jurassic World Evolution, 1943: Rise of the Hydra and Harold Halibut. We discuss the challenges filmmakers face when developing games from their IP, why Kickstarter isn’t a good strategy for raising funding for smaller studios, the [almost] final instalment of the RoosterTeeth saga and Second Life’s latest film festival, Fantasy Faire. All with our usual discursive aplomb (despite Ricky being mia, reportedly on a skinny dipping retreat) and a few non machinima related asides!
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AI Genies
Art of the Problem about the history of development of generative AI – it’s a documentary including interviews with some of the scientists attributed with developing the building blocks for the techs. Link here.
Google Deepmind has created a new AI model Genie that can create playable worlds in the style of 2D platforms, using an image as a prompt, or a sketch or text description. A twitter thread link here.
Stability AI has introduced its Stable Audio 2.0 model, that enables high quality, full tracks with musical structure up to 3 minutes long from a single text prompt –
According to some, however, its not quite as good as Suno –
Musk has announced that Grok 1.5 Vision which aims to connect the digital and physical worlds with a multi-modal model will be released imminently – here’s link to the website about it https://x.ai/blog/grok-1.5v
Here’s the original style transfer post using Joker –
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