And Now For Something Completely Machinima

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

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/

CM Interview with Slavo Strangeovich

And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a long-form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies and virtual reality. This month (April 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (April 1), Machinima Films (April 8), Machinima Discussion (April 15), and a Special “Build a Machinima PC” podcast (April 22).

This episode was produced by Ricky Grovejoined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine.

Summary: Ricky interviews Slavo Strangeovich (formerly known as m dot strange) about his new game “Nightmare Puppeteer”, which is actually a great machinima-creation tool.

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

Fully detailed and link-infused notes for this episode are available at:
Address is coming

Slavo Interview

Imagination Rabbit Youtube channel

https://bit.ly/2QJkjpA

Nightmare Puppeteer on Steam-like

Nightmare Puppeteer on Steam (steampowered.com)

Nightmare Puppeteer website

Nightmare Puppeteer

1:31 Sets in Nightmare Puppeteer

3:35 Running Man set

5:35 Slavo corrects Ricky: He outsourced set creation like a good capitalist

6:48 Slavo on “Rando” characters and their use in Nightmare Puppeteer

8:28 Public response to Nightmare Puppeteer

9:28 Ricky can’t read his own handwriting but asks question anyway

10:17 Twitch Integration

12:53 Fast overview on how to create machinima in Nightmare Puppeteer

14:38 How to record video in Nightmare Puppeteer

15:31 Hidden features in Nightmare Puppeteer

17:48 How to bring in custom content

19:45 Ricky’s Strange Opera idea and how to remove singers voice from a recording

21:14 Aida with Caruso and music credits

link to Caruso recording at archive.org (public domain

https://bit.ly/39lvnj4

CM Special April 22, 2021, Show Notes

And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a long-form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality.

Summary: Phil Rice and Ricky Grove discuss building a PC specifically for Machinima production and post-production. They start with the GPU and work their way through an entire PC build adding tips and techniques for making a great Machinima workstation PC.
Be sure to visit Completelymachinima.com for a complete list of Phil and Ricky's PC builds and many links. Note that we are running a little behind on the links part, so stay tuned.

If you want to see the time links click the "chapters" button above. There's also a complete transcript of the episode under the "transcript" button.

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/