And Now For Something Completely Machinima

Mar 06 2025 214 ep. 38 mins 85
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Machinima, real-time filmmaking, virtual production and VR. Four veteran machinimators share news, new films & filmmakers, and discuss the past, present and future of machinima.

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S5 E172 GTA San Andreas: The Days After (Mar 2025)

Mar 06 2025 46 mins  
This week we review a 'golden age' machinima, starring none other than Ricky Grove playing 'Bogart', and Ingrid Moon playing err, 'Ingrid', with Phil having created the score and Ricky having produced the sound design. Its a short by German-American creator, Andre Pesch, called The Days After, made in GTA San Andreas. Its a story that pre-2020 probably we'd have all said, simply, y

S5 E171 Documenting Historic Events: Elite Dangerous (Feb 2025)

Feb 27 2025 21 mins  
A once in a lifetime event in Elite Dangerous? Yup, that's what fascinated us all too. This week we review a series of machinimas that approach the destruction of a Thargoid ship attacking planet Earth in different ways - a strange and unusual phenomenon in a game world that we reflect on, only possible in open world sims. 1:30 Elite Dangerous: an historic event – Thargoids headi

S5 E170 Machinima News Omnibus (Feb 2025)

Feb 20 2025 54 mins  
A packed news episode, with Tracy's analysis of the AI art copyright ruling decision and a discussion with Damien about his hit fan series, Heir to the Empire - the Star Wars story that everyone always wanted to see made. Do comment on the discussion (on the YouTube channel or the Blog post). The links are available in the show notes.0:45 Tracy is the first woman on Mars!!!2:38 Run

S5 E196 Artery: Machinima - celebrating Hugh Hancock (Feb 2025)

Feb 13 2025 33 mins  
This ep, we take a walk down memory lane to the first major peak of #machinima with a documentary produced by @ProducerStuartBrown , released in 2003. The film is a fly on the wall documentary of the creative practice of the legendary Hugh Hancock (founder of #Machinima.com) and his @strangecompany 0:39 Introduction to the film; shock and awe: Hugh’s bravado, character, energy a

S5 E168 We Are Demo | Commodore 64 (Feb 2025)

Feb 06 2025 29 mins  
This week's pick is nostalgic for a time before machinima... its a rare look back at the demoscene era that informed and influenced the evolution of machinima all those years ago. The film selection is called We Are Demo, made in 2016 by Fairlight, Noice, Offence, and it was originally shared on X by the Commodore Computer Museum. Check out our review and thoughts, and do add your

S5 E167 Cyberpunk: V - Never Stop Fighting (Jan 2025)

Jan 30 2025 26 mins  
This week's pick is a machinima run through of the female V character in Cyberpunk 2077, by Charles Liu, edited to a Johnny Cash classic, Hurt. Sound design in this is everything, and we especially like how the fade is used to emphasise the game footage vs the words of the song at different points in the film. Check out our views -1:14 Intro to film, music video, a perfect compleme

S5 E166 Elitist: The Little Limpet (Jan 2025)

Jan 23 2025 22 mins  
The Little Limpet is an Elite Dangerous animation by CMDR Nickweb85, released in July 2024. It has shades of Disney X David Attenborough X Busby Barkley. You could say it has something for everyone then... well, assuming you enjoy a good space opera/ballet (which of course we do). Check out our comments -0:44 Intro to film, Elite Dangerous, Pixar-like, composited game footage using

S5 E165 What is it about those HL NPCs? Ridiculous Ties (Jan 2025)

Jan 16 2025 29 mins  
This week's #machinima short is ridiculous, yep Ridiculous Ties - a meme response to Eltorro64Rus' review of favorite and least favorite words used by the Scientist in Half Life, created by Finzlow. And did we say its ridiculous?! We love the well-crafted humor in this, in-jokes with some of the best timing and inspired editing we've seen for quite some time. Although its strictly

S5 E164 Machinima News Omnibus (Jan 2025)

Jan 09 2025 28 mins  
Whilst January's news begins with more of the same ole genAIs doing their thang, because they can, there's now evidence of more concerted effort to control the efforts of creators... because the corporates and policymakers can at least try to do that, right? Well, maybe, but all this has achieved in the past is even more creative energy invested in jumping through the hoops, clambe

S5 E163 20 Years on HL2: I'm Still Seeing Breen (Jan 2025)

Jan 02 2025 48 mins  
Kicking off 2025 with a review of a classic and iconic #machinima by one of the pioneers of the movement, Paul Marino aka ILLRobinson. I'm Still Seeing Breen, made in HL2, holds a special place in our memories from those early years - not only was it a perfect 'protest piece' as the feature machinima demonstrating its potential for a 2005 Sundance Film Festival panel discussion (al