“Courage is not the absence of fear, it is acting in spite of it.” Yep, never a truer few words than said in jest. This week, we discuss a cutscene extravanza of Arthur’s life story in the game, apparently endorsed by Roger Clark himself. Its a story told in three acts, supported by some great musical choices, even if we don’t completely agree on that. What we do agree on is that Charles Liu has done a superb job of selecting just the right shots to portray the character. Check out our review, watch the film and do add your own thoughts.
Another packed month of updates – lots of projects, a few games releases, the usual genAI avalanche and Predator, the world’s first BIG BUDGET machinima! Click the links, check out our comments and do add your own.
I Modded Fast Traffic Into RDR2. Now It’s a Horror Game by Blurbs –
Cyberpunk 2077: POV Hyper-Realistic Motorbike Ride on RTX 5090 with DreamPunk 3.1.1 Graphics in 8K by NextGen Dreams –
Haruki made in UE5 by Bad Decisions Studio –
IMicky Mouse by Mickey Mouse, made by J C Thornton –
Not machinima
Solstice 5: Forgotten archives by Paul Chadeisson –
generative AI projects
Corporation War by Solo Films –
Purely artistic using an aesthetic of origami by Kelly Boesch AI Art –
Where’s Alice by Aaron Sims Creative –
On genAI developments
Eleven Labs launched v3, check out the video update –
v3: 70+ languages from 33 with coverage from 60% to 90% of the world’s population; Dialogue Mode: Handles natural interruptions, tone shifts, and emotional flow across multiple speakers; Audio tags: Guide delivery with tags like [whispers], [angry], [laughs], or [door creaks]—controlling performance in fine detail. Its impressive stuff!
The Elden Ring Nightreign DLC came out in the last month and was downloaded a record 3.5M times in 5 days… I wonder how many of those were Ricky? And, what’s the verdict on it?
Whilst January’s news begins with more of the same ole genAIs doing their thang, because they can, there’s now evidence of more concerted effort to control the efforts of creators… because the corporates and policymakers can at least try to do that, right? Well, maybe, but all this has achieved in the past is even more creative energy invested in jumping through the hoops, clambering over the walls and crashing through the hedges – so Happy New Year, we’re looking forward to seeing what the amazing machinima creative communities of all engine persuasions around the World can achieve in 2025! Plus, we discuss iClone’s new update, a couple of interesting creative projects celebrating content creators in their own ways, as well as interesting milestones.
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SORA‘s launch trailer (although the AI is still not available in EU apparently) –
Runway’s Act One is as good as SORA, here’s the promo –
Face Depth Frame Mancer is similar to Act One – a $20 plug-in for UE5 – here’s the trailer and here’s the link to the download –
Riot Games issuing penalties for ‘off platform’ conduct violations – here’s the notice
Epic’s Fortnite hits a new milestone of 14M concurrent players participating in Snoop Dogg/Eminem’s concert (er, well, its slightly less than the last milestone but apparently more if you add in some other metrics too…) –
RDR2‘s how to involving its horses and mocap – what could be more fun than this?!
JT Music‘s tribute to Halo, includes a nice mention of RVB, as anything that celebrates the achievements of Halo should –
Bullet Time Agent – a new VRchat combat/puzzler game by Lakuza has released. Here’s the trailer –
Reallusion‘s iClone update, overview here –
Whatever happened to Syama Pedersen, the creator of that stunning Warhammer 40K film, Astartes? Find out in this episode! And here’s the Secret Level trailer for a quick overview –
Not an actual comparison but a review of two shorts: The Internet is for Porn by Evilhoof & Flayed, originally released way back in 2005 and The Marstons Celebrate Christmas, But Things Get Out of Hand, by Paradise385 released 22 Dec 2023. Lots of lampoonery in both our reviews, but we especially hope you enjoy watching them. Happy Christmas from the crew here at Completely Machinima.
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Internet is for Porn by Evilhoof & Flayed, originally released in 2005, available on Jobbejoe’s channel –
Who doesn’t love a good olde Western? This week we delve into a great short by avidredeadenjoyer, released 21 Sept 2024, called The Loss. It has been made in the only engine a Western machinima can be, RDR2. We all especially liked one particular shot, which really goes to the heart of why machinima has added so much to movie-making. This week, we also talk about a second pick, a Frontier: Elite 2 short by The Mystic Mushroom accompanied by the Blue Danube: The second best space sim ever made… Enjoy!
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The Loss – A Red Dead Redemption 2 Machinima by avidredeadenjoyer, released 21 Sept 2024
The second best space sim ever made… Frontier: Elite 2, by The Mystic Mushroom – accompanied by Strauss’s the Blue Danube
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