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/

 Ashley Ruhl has been designing memorable cinematic moments in games for over 10 years. She's a designer, writer, and director of story content for games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic, Tales From the Borderlands, Remnant: From the Ashes, Darksiders 3, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Defiance. I strive to tell a compelling interactive narrative that empowers the player to be the author of their own story.

Summary: Our Completely Machinima producer, Damien Valentine (a massive Star Wars fan and machinima filmmaker) spoke with Ashley about her background and beginning work as a cinematic designer and on her growth as an artist at Bioware in particular.

Music for this episode is frankum__electronic-music-track-x1 from Freesound.org

LINKS

• STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC

https://www.swtor.com/

• TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS

https://store.steampowered.com/app/330830/Tales_from_the_Borderlands/

• BIOWARE

https://www.bioware.com/

• TELLTALE GAMES

https://telltale.com/

• ASHLEY RUHL'S WEBSITE

Ashley Ruhl | Narrative Designer Portfolio

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.

Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

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.

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LINKS

• STAR CITIZEN

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

• SPACE ENGINE

http://spaceengine.org/

• STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY

https://store.steampowered.com/app/6020/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight__Jedi_Academy/

• STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY MODS

https://jkhub.org/

• STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR

https://store.steampowered.com/app/32470/STAR_WARS_Empire_at_War__Gold_Pack/

• STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR STEAM WORKSHOP

https://steamcommunity.com/app/32470/workshop/jk

• PETER RASMUSSEN's FILMS

https://vimeo.com/nanoflix

• LUMIERE BROS COLORIZED SNOWBALL FIGHT

https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/snowball-fight-the-1896-film-by-lumiere-brothers-gets-restored-in-captivating-color.html

• BLOODSPELL MYHERITAGE SCREENCAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJjb6jzZIA&t=1236s

• MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw

Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is known for his role in the Mass Effect trilogy, in which he stars as the voice of the male version of the player character, Commander Shepard. His voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp., notably the Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age series. Meer stars as the voice of the player character William Mackenzie in The Long Dark from Hinterland Studio, which also features his Mass Effect counterpart, Jennifer Hale.

Music for this episode is Andromeda Soundtrack by lena_orsa from Freesound.org

Links

• MARK MEER AT IMDB

Mark Meer - IMDb

• MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION

https://www.ea.com/games/mass-effect/mass-effect-legendary-edition

• THE LONG DARK

https://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/The_Long_Dark/

• STITCH OF FATE PODCAST

https://podbynight.libsyn.com/

• DUNGEONS & DRAGONS BLACK DICE SOCIETY

https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/events/black-dice-society

• CAMEO

https://www.cameo.com/markmeer

• BIOWARE

https://www.bioware.com/

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.

Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

Summary: The hosts share their monthly machinima film favorites. Tracy recommends The Mandalorian Rap by JT Music, Ricky chose citizen logs 0001 by geeks actively making entertainment, and Tracy shared her pick which was a Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures.  There is considerable discussion of the films and their merits (or flaws).

See the chapter markers for time stamps (above)

Links: 

• THE MANDALORIAN RAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl_9HwTOxRo

• CITIZEN LOG 0001: SEARCH AND RESCUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neeea7880sw

• SHADOW OF THE REPUBLIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbBjKnUoC4

• STAR CITIZEN

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

• STAR WARS: CLONE WARS

https://www.starwars.com/series/star-wars-the-clone-wars

Dane Johnston is the Director of Omniverse Connect at NVIDIA and a member of the recently released (May 4, 2021) Omniverse Machinima. We spoke with him just before the release and asked him about the Machinima app.

LINKS

• Omniverse Platform for Virtual Collaboration | NVIDIA
• Omniverse Machinima App | NVIDIA
• Overview — Omniverse Machinima documentation (nvidia.com)