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Completely Machinima S2 Ep 31 Films (February 2022)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes February 10, 2022 Leave a reply

Ricky, Tracy, Phil and Damien present a mixed bag of machinima delights made in GTA5, Matrix Awakens Experience, Knights of the Old Republic and using Reallusion’s Character Creator, Unreal 5 and, surprisingly, Real Life!  The episode poses an important question to listeners: what do YOU think about adaptations using film audio? Get in touch and let the team know! 



YouTube Version of Episode

Show Notes & Links

Time stamps and film links here –

1:17 Shino and the Witch | Animal Crossing Short Film by Evil Imp, released 24 Dec 2021

10:32 GTA5 vs The Matrix Awakens (RAGE vs Unreal Engine 5) by ENXGMA, released 16 Dec 2021

16:31 Malak: An Old Republic Story | Star Wars Short Film by Unreal Cinema, released 24 Dec 2021

23:28 First Day – A Star Wars short film made with Unreal Engine 5 by AFK – The Webseries, released 16 Dec 2021

33:24 Realistic Environments | RealityCapture + Unreal Engine 4 (Dimension Studio) by Capturing Reality, released 19 May 2020

45:39 Terminator 2 (GTA 5 film) 2022 part 1 by Kramers Media, released 13 Jan 2022

57:51 Ricky’s question to audience: What do you think about adaptations using film audio soundtracks?

58:22 Red Dead Redemption 2 Supercut by Viva La Dirt League, released 6 Mar 2020

Credits:
Producer/Editor: Ricky Grove
Music: Octopussy by Juanitos. Creative Commons. Freemusicarchive.org

Completely Machinima Interview: AlexS189, machinima director

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes January 20, 2022 Leave a reply

Damien discusses the creative process used by AlexS189 and his production team in the recent 2021 Cinematic Captures ‘Animated Film’ competition-winning film, Fallen Angel: A Star Wars Short (Unreal). The film is reviewed in our January 2022 episode.

video version of the podcast

Interview with AlexS189

show notes with links

Fallen Angel – A Star Wars Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_cwkApKOt8

Cinematic Captures Star Wars Fanfilm Contest
https://www.cinematiccaptures.com/

Jedi: Fallen Order
https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/jedi-fallen-order

Maya
https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Alex’s Unreal Lighting Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH8Af7yL61I

Mocap Suit
https://www.rokoko.com/

Unreal
https://www.unrealengine.com/

William Faucher’s Unreal Tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/c/williamfaucher

Letters from Vega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRvyW9o4sp0

DaVinci Resolve 17
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Completely Machinima S2 Ep 28 News (January 2022)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes January 6, 2022 Leave a reply

In this episode, Ricky leads the discussion with Damien, Phil, and Tracy on the latest news items, covering Nvidia’s Canvas text to image AI, Blender 3.0 release, the best space games of 2022, open-world games for machinima including Star Wars Eclipse (Quantic Games), the Video Game Awards 2021 and The Matrix Experience in Unreal Engine 5.

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Completely Machininima Podcast video version

show notes and links

Nvidia Canvas text to image AI and PCGamer article about it

Nvidia Canvas

Blender 3.0 release

Blender Guru tutorial (donut)

Blender Guru

Reallusion’s iClone 8 and Character Creator 4 – new and upgrade info

Best space games of 2022

Star Wars Eclipse branching narrative open world environment by Quantic Dream games

Star Wars Eclipse

Video Game Awards 2021

Matrix Experience in Unreal Engine 5

Matrix Experience

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 27 Films (December 2021)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes December 16, 2021 Leave a reply

The hosts have fun with the Christmas theme in this episode – Tracy starts with a suicide machinima, Ricky gets all Russian, Damien takes us on a very long journey to galaxies far too far away and then trolls us with caroling Jawas and Phil drops an orange into the sock.  Happy Christmas everyone.



Show Notes & Links

The Loneliest Road Short Machinima by King Kaden (Halo), rel 15 October 2021

Novikov 2: Repercussion by GoodGames (Star Citizen), rel 27 February 2021

Star Wars Jedi Academy Re-Edited BEYOND-Christmas Special by EagleStriker (SWJA), rel some time around 2003 – available on Lopop55901’s YouTube channel, posted 26 August 2010

Part Two | Greater Terran Union | Stellaris Invicta by The Templin Institute (Stellaris), rel 25 August 2018

GTA History by Mors Mutual Insurance (mixed media, GTA), rel 31 October 2021

Playing an RPG for the First Time by Joel Haver (live action, rotoscope), rel 20 November 2020

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 26 News (December 2021)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes December 2, 2021 Leave a reply

This week the hosts discuss updates from the GTC event by Nvidia, with focus on Omniverse and Reallusion’s iClone 8 and Character Creator 4, the Book of Boba Fett trailer, Dune, A Sound Effect podcast, understanding NFTs (well, who does?), Nightmare Puppeteer, Blender 3.0, a natural successor to Garry’s Mod called SNBox, Promethian AI (creative process for VR) and our upcoming LIVE event on 9 December, celebrating our year in machinima.



Show Notes & Links

Book of Boba Fett trailer

Batman trailer

GTA Trilogy Remaster release update here and comparison here

A Sound Effect podcast

Article: Understanding NFTs and blockchain

Linking Reallusion to Omniverse

Nightmare Puppeteer on Steam

S&Box overview

Aidan Kelly’s YouTube channel

Promethian AI overview

ANFSCM Live in Leicester, 9 December 2021 6-7.30 – Eventbrite booking here