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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.

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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 29 Films (January 2022)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes January 13, 2022 Leave a reply

In this episode, Ricky, Phil, Tracy, and Damien discuss five very different recently released film selections, highlighting the importance of story-making in machinima. Alongside this, the team discusses some observations on the future scope of creativity, reflecting on comments made by Keanu Reeves on the release of the Matrix Awakens Experience made in Unreal 5.

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Show Notes and links

Gorak’s Guide to WoW Classic – A 3 Year Anniversary, released 14 September 2021

Gorak’s Guide to WoW Classic

Confined | Horror Film (GTA 5) by Ocramium, released 14 November 2021

Confined by Ocramium

Fallen Angel: A Star Wars Short (Unreal) by AlexS189, released 18 September 2021

Fallen Angel

Beating Minecraft the Way Mojang Intended It by MysteryOre, released 11 October 2020

Matrix Experience in Unreal Engine 5 discussion about future of creativity

Matrix Awakens Experience

Stomol by Huckleberry Hax, released 24 July 2020 (Second Life)

Stomol

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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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 22 Films (October 2021)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes October 21, 2021 2 Comments

In this episode, Ricky, Phil, Tracy and Damien discuss horror and Halloween themed films, with some older and more contemporary content in games including Half Life 2, GTA4, Unreal Engine, Half Life Alyx, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.



Show Notes & Links

Civil Protection: The Tunnel

Civil Protection: The Tunnel by Accursed Farms, released 19 March 2011

Burgeur Shotte

Burgeur Shotte by Zachariah Scott, released 11 January 2009

Irradiation

Irradiation by Sava Zivkovic, released 11 August 2021

Scout Vs Witch

Scout Vs Witch by Randall Glass, released 31 August 2012

Half Life Alyx, The Movie (Ep 2)

Half Life Alyx, The Movie (Ep 1) by Half Peeps, released 7 July 2021

Completely Machinima in History with Ben Grussi (September)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes September 30, 2021 Leave a reply

Ben gives us the rundown on notable highlights from the beginnings of machinima that happened during September between 1997 and 2006.



Show Notes & Links

Phil Rice’s Male Restroom Etiquette

Zerstorer (Quake Total Conversion with in-game cinematics) in-game trailer by Nihilism Unlimited https://archive.org/details/zerdem_202109 

Circus Life-Part 1 for Quake 2 by Donnovan http://www.archive.org/details/ciruslife202109/ 

Apartment Huntin’ by ILL Clan https://archive.org/details/apt_hunting/

Rendezvous released by Peter Rasmussen, Nanoflix https://vimeo.com/89817936/

Discreet’s Gmax free modeling package for games first edition release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dgCObbUr5s/

EA’s Battlefield 1942 release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0npQ6sdbqw/ – Foundation for creating No Licsense and other notables, Ours Again, Blabberfield 1999 series and Soldats San Merci, see Internet Archive Search: collection:”animationandcartoons” AND (mediatype:movies AND subject:”Battlefield 1942″) 

Fake Science by Dead On Que https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyUALJZoBQ/ 

Halo PC release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kdq7r3JcI/

Unreal Tournament 2003 release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjyPbtlIs04/

Red Vs Blue: PSA #4 Microsoft Professional Development Conference (PDC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMcuxW6QzBM/

Swiss Army Bot Part 1 by Nabih Saliba  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgxhZUrRQZ8/

Swiss Army Bot Part 2 by Nabih Saliba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzd_5WEJb0/

Unreal Technology Demo by Epic Games release (shown at Game Developers Conference https://youtu.be/gfGNClgwk8M/

Scourge Done Quick Toon Edition by QDQ https://archive.org/details/sd-stoon-web-smooth-div-x/

Halo Matrix “Film” (Halo re-enactment with sound from the movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_6oDYUpmM

First Doom 3 machinima cinematic released is ‘Last Ten’ created by ‘Oneofthe8devilz’ https://archive.org/details/last-ten-machinima-doom-3/ 

Artemis Software releases Nesmut via Machinima.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OUNJ8ZlnM  (official selection of the 2005 Machinima Film Festival) 

The second Doom3 ‘scripted” machinima, cinematic example for a scripting tutorial at Doom3World.org! by ‘indianajonesilm’  https://modwiki.dhewm3.org/doom3world/index.php?thread_id=6176/

P.A.N.I.C.S by Rooster Teeth Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAcF1s4Pr4

A Different Song by Britannica Dreams  https://archive.org/details/BritannicaDreamsProductions_21

Stolen Life trailer by Peter Rasmussen, Nanoflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umtuFToCzrI/

Interview with Frank Dellario and Matt Dominiani on This Spartan life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umtuFToCzrI

The Awakening Atlas Productions final episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2mR3-zbTQ/

MTV.com presents a feature about Rooster Teeth entitled “Machinima Pros Make a Living Playing Halo with their feet” https://www.mtv.com/news/1510551/machinima-pros-make-a-living-playing-halo-with-their-feet/

Male Restroom Etiquette by ZS Oveman aka Phil Rice https://archive.org/details/Male_Restroom_Etiquette/

Paul Marino interview with Steve Sullivan (ILM ZVis) for VFXWorld by Barbara Robertson https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/zviz-ilm-goes-interactive-previs/