Show Notes for S1 Ep 2

And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a monthly, long form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies and virtual reality.

This episode was produced by Phil Rice, joined by hosts Ricky Grove, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine. More detailed bios are available at our website.

Podcast Summary

Our second podcast features a discussion of recent news in the machinima and VR sphere, four very diverse short films, a cameo by Baby Yoda, an interview with SIGGRAPH Asia’s Ricard Gras, and much more! We’ve created time-stamps for each section and links for items referenced in the discussions are listed below.

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6m 55s – News

• Red Dead Online PC Connection Troubleshooting
• Valve: Steam Saw 1.7 Million New VR Users in 2020, 71% Increase in VR Game Revenue
  • Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High of 2.6 Million
  • Wikipedia: 360-degree video
  • Google article on VR 360 content creation
  • Video: 360 Video || Hello Neighbor VR Short Film
  • How to Create VR Content?
  • MultiBrush Is A Free Multiplayer Version Of Tilt Brush Out Now For Quest
  • MultiBrush Turns Tilt Brush Creativity Into A Social VR Experience
  • Link to MultiBrush tool: https://sidequestvr.com/app/2953/multibrush-by-rendever
  • How to shoot and film 360-degree virtual reality content
  • Paper: Directing Attention in 360-Degree Video
  • Wikipedia: 3D audio effect
• Gamemaker Rob Weaver on How ‘Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator’ Has Come to Life
  • Video: Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 (UEBS2) by Brilliant Game Studio
  • Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator on Steam
  • Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 on Steam
  • Brilliant Game Studios on YouTube
  • Video: 11,000 Penguins VS Santa Claus Army – Epic Battle Simulator(15,000 Characters)
  • Video: ULTIMATE EPIC BATTLE SIMULATOR 2 CONFIRMED – It Is MINDBLOWING
• A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator: high-fidelity digital humans made easy
  • Video: MetaHuman Creator for Unreal Engine ~ My First Test with Live Link Face iOS App by Solomon Jagwe
  • Video: MetaHuman Creator by Epic Games — Realistic Human Characters in Under An Hour… this is INSANE! by Gamefromscratch
  • Video: Using the MetaHuman Facial Rig in UE | Unreal Engine tutorial by Adam Walton
  • Reallusion’s Character Creator 3

34m 38s – Word from our Sponsor: Machinima P1mp Part 2 – The Fat Cat Conference

38m 01s – Films

Damien’s Pick

• Video: “The Hamilton Incident” by Vindicator Jones (rel 19 Mar 2017)
  • Made in Elite Dangerous
    
  • Paper: “Claiming Its Space: Machinima” by Michael Nitsche
  • Video: Orson Welles – War Of The Worlds – Radio Broadcast 1938 – Complete Broadcast
    

Tracy’s Picks

• Video: “A Tribute to Halo – UE4 (4.26) (Unreal Engine)” by William Faucher (rel 9 Feb 2021)
  • Made in Unreal Engine 4
• Video: “Baby Outlaw & Star Wars – Grogu, Mandalorian & Gangster Blurrg (Unreal Engine)” by Kite & Lightning (rel 17 Feb 2021)
  • Made in Unreal Engine 4
• Video: “Cassini Logs (Unreal Engine)” by Alex Popescu and Tim Ben Cole (rel 27 Jan 2021)
  • Made in Unreal Engine 4
  • Playlist: Unreal Engine Short Film Challenge Australia Finalists

Ricky’s Pick

• Video: “The Ship (Unreal Tournament 2004)” by Mednios(Egils Mednis) (rel 2009)
  • Made in Unreal Tournament 2004
  • CHUNK: THE SHIP – WINNER OF MACHINIMA FILMFEST
  • Machinima Filmfest Gives Out 2008 Best-Of Awards
  • “The Ship” at FILE Festival
  • Egil’s Behance channel
  • Egil’s YT channel
  • Video: “How I Was Drilling Weasels” by Mednios(Egils Mednis) (rel 4 Jul 2010)
    

Phil’s Pick

• Video: “I Built a 1000 Mile Long Hallway – The Sims 4” by GraystillPlays (rel 24 Aug 2019)
  • Made in The Sims 4
    
  • Video: !Warning: Very Violent! “beating the 0.00001% possible spike hoop challenge made me regret being me” by GraystillPlays
    • Made in Guts and Glory

1h 17m 47s – Interview: Ricard Gras

• Ricard Gras, Games Chair at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
• Video: “Silver Bells and Golden Spurs” by Ricard Gras
  • Made in Second Life
• The Machinima Reader by Henry Lowood and Michael Nitsche
• Naughty Dog (The Last of Us 2)
  
• Epic MegaGrants

1h 26m 56s – March Machinima History with Ben Grussi

• Video: “Killer Robot” by Peter Rasmussen
• Video: “Anna” by Fountainhead Entertainment
• “Fending Off Alien Robots, but Still Time to Flirt” (NY Times)
• “Inspired animation tools from an uninspired sitcom” (The Boston Globe)
• Wikipedia: Antics3D
• Video: “Eschaton: Darkening Twilight” by Strange Company

1h 30m 45s – Group Discussion

• Mobile Machinima?
  • Moviestorm App for iPad
    
• Why still use games?
  • “The French Democracy” by Alex Chan (rel 10 Mar 2006)
  • Video: Half-Life 2 – The woman at the gate scene (mentioned by Ricky)
  • Hugh Hancock, machinima pioneer

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Music Credits

• “In the Sun” by Crowander – License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• “Surreal II” by Crowander – License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• “Happy Guitar Intro 01” by TaigaSoundProd – https://filmmusic.io/song/7085-happy-guitar-intro-01 – License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
• “Digital Logo 03” by TaigaSoundProd – https://filmmusic.io/song/6801-digital-logo-03 – License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
• “Blues Sting” by Alexander Nakarada – https://filmmusic.io/song/4943-blues-sting – License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
• “Quirky Dog” by Kevin McLeod – https://filmmusic.io/song/4259-quirky-dog – License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
• “Easy Easy” by Crowander – License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• “Runs” by Wowa – License: https://www.unminus.com/license
• In sponsor skit, background:
  • “Strange” by EdQue – License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  • “Mobile Meth Lab” by Pizzle – License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/