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Completely Machinima S1 Ep 8 Discussion (May 2021)

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And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month. 

This episode was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky GrovePhil Riceand Tracy Harwood.

Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

The complete transcript of the episode is available at our Buzzsprout podcast page for this episode here.


Summary: 
Two questions for the group – one, why has science fiction been such a popular genre for machinima, and two, what are some of the game platforms that are available for scifi machinima creation. Also, Ricky shares a list of great scifi machinima.

Timestamps

00:00:38 Ricky on SciFi in Machinima

00:05:35 Tracy on Scifi in Machinima

00:06:12 Phil on SciFi in Machinima

00:14:37 Phil on BioShock

00:17:00 Damien on Babylon 5 series same gender love

00:21:38 Tracy on Peter Rasmussen

00:24:54 Ricky’s List of great scifi machinima

00:28:43 Damien on good games for scifi machinima

 00:33:33 Tracy on AI based restoration of video. Should we restore old machinima films?

00:37:52 Phil on old games and restoration

00:44:46 Ricky on Microsoft 3D filmmaker and the Gman actor

LINKS

  • STAR CITIZEN

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

  • SPACE ENGINE

http://spaceengine.org/

  • STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY

https://store.steampowered.com/app/6020/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight__Jedi_Academy/

  • STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY MODS

https://jkhub.org/

  • STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR

https://store.steampowered.com/app/32470/STAR_WARS_Empire_at_War__Gold_Pack/

  • STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR STEAM WORKSHOP

https://steamcommunity.com/app/32470/workshop/jk

  • PETER RASMUSSEN’s FILMS

https://vimeo.com/nanoflix

  • LUMIERE BROS COLORIZED SNOWBALL FIGHT

  • BLOODSPELL MYHERITAGE SCREENCAP

  • MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE

Alongside our films and discussion, this month Damien also had the chance to speak to Mark Meer, aka the voice of Commander Shepherd in the Mass Effect game. Here’s the interview.



And, Damien spoke with the cinematic designer at Bioware, Ashley Ruhl. Here’s the interview.