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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.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
38 minutes
English
United States
298 episodes
since Jan. 31, 2021
episodic
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Tracy Harwood and Phil Rice review RUS-T, John Martin’s science fiction short about a robot abandoned on Mars. They discuss its expressive character design and story of care and disposability, then trace the production workflow through Reallusion AI Studio, Character Creator and Seedance 2.0. How m…
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An eight-year labour of love made in Garry’s Mod, Dan Shetter’s Avalon takes us into the world of Half-Life for a feature-length story of occupation, memory and survival. Damien, Phil and Tracy discuss its extraordinary cinematography, animation, sound and music, and why it works even for viewers w…
Phil brings us Lando’s video essay The Horror of Classic Fallout. What makes the original game unsettling: its grotesque creatures, its unforgiving countdown, or the institutions that promise safety while exercising control?
Ricky, Damien, Tracy and Phil discuss how the essay uses game footage, vis…
What happens when a space marine comes home from war and tries to settle into family life? In this episode, Ricky, Tracy and Damien revisit Phil Rice’s 1999 film Father Frags Best with its creator. Phil recalls turning Quake II into a sitcom set, directing fellow players through typed messages, and…
This week, Tracy and Damien explore TMC’s MechWarrior 5: Clans – Clan Mech Dioramas Director’s Cut, a striking collection of battle scenes that sits somewhere between machinima, virtual photography and digital sculpture.
Tracy introduces TMC, the German filmmaking collective whose work evolved from…
This week, Tracy and Damien explore JT Music’s Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Rap—a bass-heavy fusion of pirate sea shanty, nerdcore rap and meticulously edited game cinematics.
Damien explains how the video combines cinematic sequences with specially captured gameplay footage, transforming B…
In this news episode, Tracy Harwood and Damien Valentine explore three very different developments shaping machinima and virtual storytelling.
Tracy introduces DramaMancer, an experimental AI-powered storytelling platform developed through Midjourney’s Storytelling Lab. Rather than generating an en…
In this episode, Tracy Harwood, Ricky Grove and Damien Valentine discuss Paolo Pedercini’s 2009 machinima film Welcome to the Desert of the Real. Created using the US military recruitment game America’s Army, the film overturns the game’s heroic presentation of warfare to explore post-traumatic str…
In this episode, we discuss MUELEN, a GTA V machinima written and directed by Troy Hamilton and created by Greenhouse Light Show. The film was runner-up in the Machinimay 2026 competition and stands out for its slow, atmospheric approach to horror.
Rather than relying on action or spectacle, MUELEN…
This week we take a fascinating detour into the world of Star Wars fan filmmaking by looking at a project that recreates a deleted lightsaber duel between Anakin Skywalker and Count Dooku from Revenge of the Sith, reimagined entirely in the visual style of The Clone Wars. Although the completed ani…
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