Completely Machinima S1 Ep 1 (February 2021)

Show Notes for Podcast 1
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a monthly, hour-long podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality.

Machinima News 

• Ricky shares his discovery of a new Epic/Unreal Engine course for machinima filmmakers: Independent Filmmaking in the Unreal Engine. 
• Phil updates us on the NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima feature which was announced in October 2020, but has yet to appear. 
• Tracy tells us about the sale of Second Life and Disney's incredible virtual production Tomorrowland: Around the World and the supporting After Movie machinima. 
• And finally, Damien shares his research into film festivals around the world that accept machinima films like FantaSci Short Film Festival and the New Media Film Festival

Machinima Films of the Month

• Damien tells us about the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer remade in World of Warcraft called "World of Cyberpunk Trailer"
• Tracy goes retro with her choice of an amazing machinima film "Beast" by Leo Lucien-Bey. 
• Phil chooses a very contemporary film, "Sugar" by Evan Ryan shot in the brand-new machinima/animation tool "Nightmare Puppeteer" created by M dot Strange.
• Ricky shares his love of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" trailer by David Vann which was shot in Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2. 

Machinima Filmmaker Interview - David Vann

• Ricky contacted the director of the "Town That Dreaded Sundown" trailer (David Vann) by phone and spoke with him about his background as a filmmaker and how he created his film in RDR2. David also spoke about his stop-motion Lego films which are hilarious and satirical. 

Machinima Group Discussion

• Ricky posed two questions to his other three hosts 1, What is the difference between the terms "machinima", "real-time animation" and "virtual cinema?" and 2, What is the status of machinima in 2021? Is machinima in decline or are we advancing?  The answers ranged through machinima films/filmmakers past and present.

Uncut version of our Machinima News is available here