And Now For Something Completely Machinima

08/12/2025

Latest ep of our podcast - who remembers the meme on which this is based: 'All Your History Belong To Us'? We do a deep dive into this and take a look at Ashby de la Zouche-based 's achievements through an outstanding series written by Nicholas Werner. Check out our review here >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-IEyr3uqVk&t

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On this episode of And Now For Something Completely Machinima, Damien, Tracy and Ricky dive into one of Machinima.com’s most unexpected gems: the documentary...

27/11/2025

On the podcast this week, we took a look at one of the early and most interesting applications of creativeAI using to test some operatic ideas - the film was made, primarily, by Chantal Harvey, the AI generated aria was sung by Maya Ackerman, and the development work by a team of folks led by James Morgan of San Jose State Uni's CADRE Lab for New Media. Check out our review, and watch the film, linked in the description! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56e9oc-4ruQ

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Activision Blizzard World of Warcraft

In this episode of Completely Machinima, hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine explore the stunning AI-powered operatic machinima “Arido Taura...

20/11/2025

This week's ep just dropped... and alongside two excellent Star Citizen shorts, we're discussing an interesting proposal - what do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzcb28IvPAk

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In this episode of Completely Machinima, hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine review two creative Star Citizen machinima commercials — Dumper...

13/11/2025

Kicking off Season 6 of our podcast today with a fabulous short by Landons Animation Wheelhouse - Back to the Future: Unhinged. Outstanding storytelling: want to know what really caused the pandemic, Titanic to sink, the Independence Day catastrophe? Its crazy, and so well done! Check out our review here, with links to the film and our show notes in the description >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogUF0QilQ&t

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30/10/2025

monster sounds anyone? This week's Wonderful World of Sound w/ Ricky Grove is perfect for prepping you for those horrific seasonal movies!



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🎃 Halloween Special | Ricky’s Wonderful World of Sounds: MONSTERS! 👹This Halloween, step into the dark side of Ricky’s Wonderful World of Sounds — where we...

20/10/2025

Season 6 begins in November but if you're a creator, then our interstitial Maker Series is for you! We focus on SOUND DESIGN for machinima creators.

Ricky Grove and Phil Rice talk us through some key considerations for adding layers of depth and interest to your production.

Check out the eps here >>>
Ricky's Wonderful World of Sound: Ambience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wZTyz4hqo
Ricky's Wonderful World of Sound: Frequency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tWbg1eJzt8&t

Forthcoming, Ricky and Phil give us some horror treatments -
Phil's Musical Notes: [Horror] Intervals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW3YFx76AwE
Ricky's Wonderful World of Sound: Monsters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr6vw9xn_-0

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How do you make virtual worlds sound real? 🎧 In this episode of Ricky’s Wonderful World of Sound, Ricky Grove reveals the secrets of ambient sound—the subtl...

20/10/2025

Did you catch our season 5 finale eps? In 200a we reflect on the past year, discuss some of the fabulous content we've reviewed and examined some of the key trends we've observed in the creative processes folks have employed AND in 200b we discuss our expectations for Season 6! Check out the eps here >>>
200a Season 5 Reflections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZ3t4j88eM&t
200b Season 6 Expectations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IXTwREF0wg&t

This week, we continue our discussion, reflecting on Season 5 and our predictions for 2026.... yep, sure is a lot going on in the world of ! Do ad...

10/07/2025

This week on the , we discuss a cutscene extravanza of Arthur's life story in , apparently endorsed by Roger Clark himself. Its a story told in three acts, supported by some great musical choices, even if we don't completely agree on that. What we do agree on is that Charles Liu has done a superb job of selecting just the right shots to portray the character. You can hear us go through the film and find the links here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSBxKIBoU8

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Rockstar Games

"Courage is not the absence of fear, it is acting in spite of it." Yep, never a truer few words than said in jest. This week, we discuss a cutscene extravanz...

03/07/2025

Who remembers The Naked Gun? (well, who could forget it)... this week on the we review a retro gamer-eye view of the opening scene of the infamous TV series, courtesy of the talented Hat-Loving Gamer. Enjoy the discussion here > https://youtu.be/wKcZ2R3HJXs

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This brings back so many memories for us, the 1980s and 90s, Frank Drebin's utter incompetence and Leslie Neilsen's brilliance. Hat Loving Gamer has excelled...

19/06/2025

Latest ep of our podcast, with a fab new intro by Phil Rice with a bit of assistance from su-know-who. This week, we reflect on a classic WoW machinima from 2007, I'm So Sick by Baron Soosdon - a music vid to that amazing song by Flyleaf (once heard, who can ever forget Lacey Sturm's primal scream). We also touch on WoW's epic in-game metal heavies, . Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN92SAzYMgI

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Activision Blizzard

Our latest deep dive into machinima history, and this month we focus on , a Finnish creator whose work is legendary among us. The film pick, I'm...

19/05/2025

Any Spanish speakers here? Tracy Harwood and Benjamin L Grussi's book is now available in paperback: Pioneros en Machinima: Las Raíces de la Producción Virtual

https://vernonpress.com/book/2061

To mark the availability of the paperback edition the publisher is offering a limited-time 30% discount for orders placed through its website. To obtain the discount please enter the following coupon code at checkout: UZGB30

Descubre 'Pioneros en Machinima' y la evolución de la producción virtual desde sus raíces hasta convertirse en género principal en la obra parte de BLS.

01/05/2025

Not your average story, in this week's ep we discuss a short-ish film made in (Garry's Mod) called Fragile Harmony, reminiscent of Philip K Dick. Check out the review here, incls link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnddqPqaOtI

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Valve

This week's ep focusses on the 2024 Machinima Mayhem contest winner: Fragile Harmony, made in Garry's Mod by and re...