In this episode, Ricky, Tracy and Damien discuss a selection of films with the AI known as Phil, whilst the real Phil is off on holiday in sunny New York with his real family. The selection this month covers the full scale of quality with some raw and experimental machinima work and some incredibly polished machinima, with much in between. Games the machinima works draw on includes RDR2, GTA5, Little Nightmares 2, Xcom, Mech Warrior, Skyrim, Max Payne and Roblox with a bit of Blender thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month.
This episode was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, and Tracy Harwood.
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The complete transcript of the episode is available at our Buzzsprout podcast page for this episode here.
Summary: Two questions for the group – one, why has science fiction been such a popular genre for machinima, and two, what are some of the game platforms that are available for scifi machinima creation. Also, Ricky shares a list of great scifi machinima.
Timestamps
00:00:38 Ricky on SciFi in Machinima
00:05:35 Tracy on Scifi in Machinima
00:06:12 Phil on SciFi in Machinima
00:14:37 Phil on BioShock
00:17:00 Damien on Babylon 5 series same gender love
00:21:38 Tracy on Peter Rasmussen
00:24:54 Ricky’s List of great scifi machinima
00:28:43 Damien on good games for scifi machinima
00:33:33 Tracy on AI based restoration of video. Should we restore old machinima films?
00:37:52 Phil on old games and restoration
00:44:46 Ricky on Microsoft 3D filmmaker and the Gman actor
LINKS
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/6020/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight__Jedi_Academy/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32470/STAR_WARS_Empire_at_War__Gold_Pack/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/32470/workshop/jk
Alongside our films and discussion, this month Damien also had the chance to speak to Mark Meer, aka the voice of Commander Shepherd in the Mass Effect game. Here’s the interview.
And, Damien spoke with the cinematic designer at Bioware, Ashley Ruhl. Here’s the interview.
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a long-form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality. This month (April 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (April 1), Machinima Films (April 8), Machinima Discussion (April 15), and a Special “Build a Machinima PC” podcast (April 22).
This episode was produced by Ricky Grove joined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine.
Summary: After Ricky’s Milan Machinima Festival report he brings up a question that was put to one of the Festival jurors (Henry Lowood – “…has machinima dissolved into the larger culture of streaming and game videos“) and then asks the other hosts their opinion. The next topic for discussion is the status and quality of the “Let’s Play” machinima in 2021. Phil has particularly good insights. Finally, the gang takes on a contemporary topic that might impact machinima creators in “What the Hell is NFT?“. As usual, Tracy has the best insights on this topic.
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00:00:38
Damien’s newest Episode of his machinima series, “Star Wars: Heir to the Empire” is out
00:02:32
Ricky’s Report on the Milan Machinima Festival
00:07:15
Ricky’s fav Milan Festival film “Fire Underground” by NIck Crockett
00:09:50
First discussion question, “..has machinima dissolved into the larger culture of streaming and game videos?“
00:10:36
Tracy’s answer
00:16:22
Phil’s take
00:23:17
Damien’s response
00:25:26
Ricky’s answer
00:32:14
Second question, “Is Let’s Play just game-play, or is it a more significant type of machinima?”
00:40:09
Ricky on a Let’s Play machinima at the Milan Machinima Festival
00:47:23
Phil on shooting “Father Frags Best”
00:52:44
Third question, “What the hell is NFT?”
01:06:50
Tracy nails the NFT question
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And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality. This month (April 2021) we are splitting our 3rd podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (April 1), Machinima Films (April 8), Machinima Discussion (April 15), and a Special “Build a Machinima PC” podcast (April 22).
Episode 3 was produced by Ricky Grove joined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood and Damien Valentine.
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Machinima News features updates, recommendations for new games, Phil’s re-cam of the famous Quake 2 match (Thresh vs Billox), Tracy’s publication with Ben Grussi called Pioneers in Machinima, information about Stanford’s machinima archive, comments we have received from our blog posts and a recording from one of our callers.
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3:41 All Half-Life 2 Game Sounds and Music https://bit.ly/3csDgUM
4:18 Fivars VR Festival FIVARS | Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories
4:35 Cine Guru Cut Scene Cinematic Asset for Game Guru
Cine Guru – Game Creator Store (tgcstore.net)
5:20 Microsoft Mesh Introducing Microsoft Mesh | Here can be anywhere
6:10 Milan Machinima Festival 2021 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL
6:39 Houdini Engine Free for Unity and Unreal
Houdini – 3D modeling, animation, VFX, look development, lighting and rendering | SideFX
On Houdini Nodes Nodes Sidefx.com
11:22 Start of Recommended New Games
11:50 Medium for PC
On Green Man Gaming, or on Steam
Nexus mods
https://www.nexusmods.com/themedium
12:18 Indie Game Round-UP (YouTube)
12:30 Death Trash PC Game
12:51 Sable for PC on Steam
13:09 City of Ghosts Netflix Animated series
Article: Neighborhood Spirits: Elizabeth Ito Shares the Inspiration Behind ‘City of Ghosts’
15:12 Cyberpunk 2077 Modding Introduction
Nexus Mods https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077
15:58 Phil’s recam of famous Quake 2 match “Thresh vs Billox”
19:20 Tracy Harwood’s new book “Pioneers in Machinima”
Book: Pioneers in Machinima: The Grassroots of Virtual Production [Paperback]
Vid: Rooster Teeth’s Red Vs Blue (Ep1)
Vid: Diary of a Camper
Vid: The French Democracy
Vid: Stolen Life
32:19 Archive.org’s Machinima Collection
Machinima: Free Movies: Free Download, Borrow and Streaming: Internet Archive
34:41 Phil Rice on “Listener Feedback” and the poignant message from Tampon Insertion Gallery, a podcast listener bot.
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