And Now For Something Completely Machinima

02/01/2025

New year, starting our podcasts with a celebratory milestone - 20 years since I'm Still Seeing Breen was first exposed to the world! Here's our review of Paul Marino's classic music vid - enjoy the memories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJe7px2oT0

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Kicking off 2025 with a review of a classic and iconic by one of the pioneers of the movement, Paul Marino aka - and its almost 20 ye...

24/10/2024

Who remembers Forbidden Planet? I guess you need to be a certain age or a fan of old scifis, but what's great is that machinima has been used to create the next episode of the 1956 original film. Its actually made with Reallusion's iClone and has an almost Anderson marionette style to it - wonderful stuff! Check out our review and discussion about the technical aspects here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlYj318erR0 - and then go watch the original. Chapt 2 is also on its way, by

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05/10/2024

Blast from the past, check out this week's ep, Fake Science, by the amazing Dead on Cue folks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFCXu3-nP8

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This week, we take a deep dive into a film from one of the original machinima creator studios, Dead on Cue. This comprised the duo Mike Holochwost and Brian ...

30/09/2024

Wrapping Season 4 of the podcast, we released our year in review of all things over the w/e, alongside a skit Ricky did for us on generativeAI that we incorporated into a couple of eps during the year. You can check out the eps here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92vwmt2_yA&t
and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hijbpoIiEI

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26/09/2024

This week's film reviews on the Completely Machinima podcast are eclectic to say the least... one is a music video demonstrating the impact of game-based compositions, with visuals created in a new game called Deep Rock Galactic. The other is an interpretation of an actor-narrated game publication, Helsreach (Black Library), made in Warhammer 40K, with a post-production treatment we've rarely seen used. Check the ep out here, with links to show notes and the films -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3csXwsOBE&t

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This week we review two films and again attempt to work with a rather impressive AI genie who covers things we just could not... The first film selected is a...

19/09/2024

In this week's ep of the podcast we discuss a controversial film, made with a new driving sim game BeamNG in which the filmmaker has recreated realistic car crashes which we see through its inbuilt recamming tool. Whilst we can see an educational value to this type of content and game, we can also see a more disturbing side to it. Tracy certainly felt this has gone too far. Check out our discussion here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XVZOb8winw

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In this ep, we discuss a film by , which uses the game to simulate realistic freeway crashes. The game features advanced physics and...

29/08/2024

This week's film review is out, made using Team Fortress 2 assets, and it highlights a classic dilemma for talented creators when making series... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ik2sj71wE&t

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This week we take a look at another stunning Team Fortress 2 short called Assault on 2Fort by JP Stevens aka , a recommendation made to us by Dominzk...

23/08/2024

Invoking Chesley Bonestall and Carl Sagan with this , reimagining Erik Wernquist's cinematic with Star Citizen. Check out our review of this short, by Mr. Hasgaha here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9w9Z_N2nSs&t

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Star Citizen
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A Star Citizen extravaganza: this week, we discuss a brilliant re-creation of 's epic short, Wanderers, released by one of the ma...

16/08/2024

We had a lot of fun reviewing this week's cinematic short, called HL: Overworld, by a creator called Unknown Dino. Its about the future Valve's Half Life... check out the review here - https://youtu.be/MlpFGIyIhPY

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This week's selection is a stunning cinematic imaginary by , focussing on the next version of Half Life (soon to be released... er, well, possibl...

08/08/2024

This week's news ep of the podcast is out: we talk about the albums of games music recently released and discuss why we think more publishers are going this route. We go through some of the latest AI updates, including Vimeo's new AI content guidelines. We talk about consumer rights and dead games, Microsoft Flight Sim's stunning city updates and the latest SAG AFTRA strike... as it relates to machinima and content creators.

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Another packed episode of news items we found for machinima creators everywhere. We take a look at some games news including several that have released music...

01/08/2024

Ep 140 of the is out now! This week, we discuss a machinima slasher/horror music vid w/ a unique aesthetic to **SE & BRING ME THE HORIZON Code Mistake by Toaster2210. The quality of its production/editing is noteworthy

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Rockstar Games

Crazy, it is certainly that - and more. If you enjoy slasher horror, we think you'll love this - and its definitely not for U18s! The film is by ...

29/07/2024

We recorded our weekly And Now For Something Completely Machinima podcast last night with the invisible men Phil Rice and Ricky Grove making their best points yet! Fab discussions w/ Damien Valentine, and this week's film pick is one of the craziest I've ever seen. Ep 140 out this Thurs - here's a taster, we're just so good with this tech...!

Catch up with previous eps on our YT channel www.youtube.com/

13/06/2024

This week's episode of is our monthly news omnibus. We extend our thanks to NVIDIA for their support of , highlight some fantastic projects by Dark Machine Studios, J.P. Ferré, Anomidae, JT Music and others, and discuss latest generative AIs and their use in machinima and virtual production. We reveal where the images originally came from, courtesy of internet sleuths, and speculate the next big project for this highly influential . Plus, we reflect on the legacy of The Movies game evidenced in the new generation of games just releasing and how is also its own best solution to the creator problem. And, we also introduce which maybe will task us all to rethink the usefulness of generative AI. We'd love your views on the discussion too! Here's the link to our video with show notes on our website -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMXTRi-jqY

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This week we celebrate Nvidia's investment in machinima, discuss latest AIs and give you the heads up on some great projects we want to highlight - there are...

09/05/2024

Phil Rice, Damien Valentine ( ) and Tracy Harwood get on a roll in this week's And Now For Something Completely Machinima about generative AIs, the new/upcoming games and tools that seem perfect for and storytelling, and some interesting projects (plus a couple of dos/don'ts). This one is our monthly news discussion ep, link here (with link to notes in description) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq6DBq4IYzM&t

Our May update on machinima and virtual production related news highlights some of the latest generative AI tools, warts and all, and brings to attention sev...

02/05/2024

A couple of days early but its May, and the force is strong with this one... this week's podcast ep is a fabulous short about those 'nature-creature' AT-ATs, created by Jeremy Cummins using Unreal Engine - check out our review here, including link to the film >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfpvns0d_k

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This week we celebrate Star Wars with a fabulous short portraying the infamous AT-AT death walkers as 'nature-creatures' in their natural habitat - this is a...

26/04/2024

This week's episode of reviews three music videos demonstrating different genres: a re-imagined Simon and Garfunkel classic, a pop-tacular and a rap. These are some of the best we've seen in recent times, although a couple are not newly released, and certainly one of games they present is not new at all (one using too). The other is the perfect intro to a new game , which is so evidently inspired by that retro political satire Starship Troopers... should one be needed!

Link to our ep here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJyyi-wUXpw&t

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18/04/2024

This week on the podcast, we discuss an astonishing science faction presentation about blackholes by Toby Lockerbie aka Epic Spaceman - its a perfect example of visual storytelling and the most outstanding use of Blender we've seen (why is not part of the showcase?) This is a film you are definitely going to want to see!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCwgyqLNX3o&t



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This week, we discuss one of the most outstanding presentations of space science, by , called I put 4M Suns in a Blackhole. Made in Blender, we...