And Now For Something Completely Machinima

This month of Halloween, Ricky, Phil, Tracy and Damien discuss horror machinima – and is the genre of horror dead in machinima?  The team also reflect on feedback from last month’s discussion on long vs short-form machinima.  Finally, the team discuss the thought process for choosing a creative platform for making a new machinima.  As ever, feedback on our discussion topics is very welcome! Show n...

Ricky has been writing a series of articles on working with Nightmare Puppeteer, a game whose function is to allow you to create machinima movies. This is for renderositymagazine.com. As part of the series, he interviewed the developer and filmmaker, M dot Strange (a name he doesn't like, so we came up with Animan Puncture). We spoke with him about the game and his new film, M doll, which was orig...

Tracy catches up with Half Peeps to discuss the making of Half Life Alyx The Movie, Episode One, featured in our October 2021 Films review episode. Show notes and links -  https://completelymachinima.com/2021/10/23/cm-interview-half-peeps/

Show notes and links - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/10/21/completely-machinima-s1-ep22-films/

Show notes and links - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/10/14/completely-machinima-s1-ep21-news/

Links and show notes - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/10/07/completely-machinima-s1-ep20-phil-rices-film-obit/

Ben Grussi, the official historian for Machinima, shares his record of what happened in September Machinima history. Full notes for the podcast are available at - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/09/30/cm-in-history-with-ben-grussi-sept/

Links and show notes - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/09/23/cm-interview-hypatia-pickens-aka-sarah-higley/

Links and show notes - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/09/16/completely-machinima-s1-ep19-discussion/

This week we discuss our machinima film picks. Unfortunately, Phil isn't with us this month but he'll be back in October. Check the completely machinima website for full breakdown of all the films we've chosen plus links to each film. https://completelymachinima.com/2021/09/09/completely-machinima-s1-ep18-films/

Tracy, Ricky, and Damien are back (Phil is still out) with fun coverage of recent machinima and machinima-related news. From the Reallusion Lip-Sync contest to a bizarre indie game called "Heal Hitler", the three of us share news that is inspired and often quite weird. Episode show notes and links here: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/09/02/completely-machinima-s1-ep17-news/

This month Ben presents a bumper overview of machinima notables from the archives, including Quake releases, films, appearances, media coverage and the very first Machinima Film Festival that took place at Quakcon. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/08/21/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-august/

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, L...

In this episode, Ricky, Tracy and Damien are joined by an AI of Phil, who is surprisingly agreeable.  The hosts mark the passing of machinima stalwart, Ken White, creator of TMOA and TMUnderground community radio sites.  Then the team discuss iClone 7’s lip sync contest, Whanowa’s Grand Theft Auto tutorials, updates to Nightmare Puppeteer, puppeteering in Adobe’s Character Animator, the rise of ad...

Ricky talks to John Martin II, VP of Reallusion, about the development of iClone as a machinima tool in the early 2000s and its recent integration with Nvidia’s Omniverse platform, Character Creator, the original inspiration for iClone, and future plans for iClone 8 teased for release later in 2021. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/07/29/cm-intervi...

Ben Grussi, the And Now For Something Completely Machinima podcast’s resident historian talks to Tracy about some of the notable events that took place in July during the early years of machinima, including the release of A Few Good G-Men by Randall Glass, the Artery Machinima production, Speilberg’s use of Unreal’s Matinee tool on his film, A.I., machinima showcased at the Lincoln Centre in New Y...

Tracy,  Ricky,  Damien and Phil discuss key issues for making machinima in metaverse and open world games with themes including collaboration, why people left machinima for let's plays and meme-making, the role of memory making, and the future of machinima. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/07/15/completely-machinima-s1-ep14-discussion/

Tracy,  Ricky,  Damien and Phil review a diverse set of short films made in various metaverse and open world games including World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, Minecraft and Second Life. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/07/08/completely-machinima-s1-ep13-films/

Tracy,  Ricky,  Damien and Phil discuss metaverse and open world games, an episode inspired by Captain Grim's short machinima called Did Classic WOW Live Up to Expectations?  released on 15 May 2021. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/07/01/completely-machinima-s1-ep12-news/

The Completely Machinima podcast for July 2021 is all about the metaverse and where machinima fits into this widening online world. Tracy Harwood is our producer and director for this series. This short teaser gives you an idea of the ideas and fun we shared while recording the podcast. Note that the Completely Machinima Podcast comes out every Thursday of the week. Our first podcast in the July s...

Ricky, Phil, Tracy and Damien discuss engine-independent collaboration tools, as well as methods and concerns for earning revenue with machinima on today's Internet. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/06/24/completely-machinima-s1-ep11-discussion/

Ben Grussi, machinima's historian, tells us about significant events in machinima's timeline that occurred during the month of June. Full notes available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/06/19/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-june/

Tracy Harwood conducts a fascinating interview of veteran machinima / Anymation filmmaker, Tom Jantol. Full notes available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/06/17/cm-interview-tom-jantol/

Tracy, Ricky, Damien and Phil review a super-diverse set of short films made in Unreal Engine, Animal Crossing, Flight Simulator X, GTA V, and Garry's Mod. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/06/10/completely-machinima-s1-ep10-films/

In this episode we discuss some new releases by some machinima veterans, NVIDIA's Machinima Omniverse tool, a new sandbox game reliant on the world of NFTs, the recent FantaSci Short Film Festival, and making machinima in Red Dead Redemption 2. Full notes for this episode are available at: https://completelymachinima.com/2021/06/03/completely-machinima-s1-ep9-news/