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S6 E202 Promoting Star Citizens… (Nov 2025)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes November 20, 2025 Leave a reply

In this episode of Completely Machinima, hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine review two creative Star Citizen machinima commercials — Dumper’s Depot Commercial and Big Benny’s Grab Eat — both made for a Star Citizen video contest.

They explore how these 45-second in-game ads show off community creativity, storytelling, and production skills. Tracy breaks down what made Dumper’s Depot more sophisticated in design and sound, while Big Benny’s… Grab Eat took home the win with its humor and clever use of Star Citizen lore.

💬 In This Episode:

Star Citizen machinima film analysis: Dumper’s Depot vs Big Benny’s… Grab Eat

How short-form machinima builds game lore and community engagement

The potential for fan contests to uncover new creative talent Ideas for a future Completely Machinima short film contest

🎮 Whether you’re a Star Citizen fan, machinima creator, or just love game-based filmmaking, this episode dives into how fan films bring virtual worlds to life.

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Show Notes & Links

Films –

Dumper’s Depot Commercial by @Hasgaha⁩

Big Benny’s… Grab Eat by ⁨@quantumcafe⁩

Arts and Crafts inspiration here

#StarCitizen #Machinima #CompletelyMachinima #FanFilm #GameFilm #DumpersDepot #BigBennys #StarCitizenMachinima #GameContest #ShortFilm #podcast

S5 E185 Starfield: Dark Side of Luna (June 2025)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes June 4, 2025 Leave a reply

Yup, there’s nothing to do in Starfield, except this kind of thing! Seriously, we love how this teases a potential mod by the creator, Starfield Cinematic, and we reflect on the portrayal of the characters, the juxtaposition of the narrator voices and the pacing in what is essentially just a teaser. One thing we all agree on is just how stunning this game world is.

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Show Notes & Links

Starfield: Dark Side of Luna – Unofficial Teaser by Starfield Cinematic, released 1 Sept 2024

Barely Not Monkey’s Adrift Part 1 (Star Citizen), just as a reminder –

S5 E158 To the stars & beyond (Nov 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes November 28, 2024 Leave a reply

This week’s film review is a Star Citizen cinematic #machinima by @VirtualityMedia called Dangerous Love, beautifully made and with a well chosen music accompaniment. Its a tale that has a tragic twist for its lead character. The layers of emotion and depth to the storytelling are inspirational. Check out our review and do add your own comments on our youtube channel.

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Dangerous Love | Star Citizen Cinematic Film by Virtuality Media, released 3 Jan 2023

S5 E156 Machinima News Omnibus (Nov 2024)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes November 14, 2024 Leave a reply

A packed ep this month, key tools, what’s happening roundup and some fascinating projects.

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BBC Sound Archive, link here

Info about it here

Blender Procedural auto painter AI –

Google’s video search tool, info here

Gerry Anderson’s tribute to David Graham –

MOUSE: P.I. For hire | official console announcement trailer –

Kamala Harris’ campaign in WOW, information here

Pigeon Bringer of Doom and Destroyer of Humanity, by Solofilms, made using Runway and Midjourney

horrific!

The Flower that Never Dies by NewGates Entertainment –

Terminator and Cyberpunk 2077 by eli_handle_b.wav –

Warhammer, JT Music –

Ian Hubert’s Dynamo Dream Part 2 –

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 16 Films (August 2021)

Star Citizen Con updates SC1.0 –

Squadron 42 gameplay reveal update –

Hubnet machinima, Overclock and EE Studios

Luminaria Kitbash 3D contest still open – more here

GTA Hamlet documentary trailer –

Reallusion 3D character contest results – stunning work!

Movies Tycoon out of early access – Steam link here

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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