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And Now For Something Completely Machinima A podcast about machinima, real-time filmmaking and a pinch of VR.

monster sounds anyone? This week's Wonderful World of Sound w/ Ricky Grove is perfect for prepping you for those horri...
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...

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

Did you catch our season 5 finale eps? In 200a we reflect on the past year, discuss some of the fabulous content we've ...
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...

This week on the , we discuss a cutscene extravanza of Arthur's life story in , apparently endorsed by Roger Clark h...
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...

Who remembers The Naked Gun? (well, who could forget it)... this week on the we review a retro gamer-eye view of the...
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...

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 re...
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...

Any Spanish speakers here? Tracy Harwood and Benjamin L Grussi's book is now available in paperback: Pioneros en Machini...
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.

Not your average story, in this week's ep we discuss a short-ish film made in (Garry's Mod) called Fragile Harmony...
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...

Any anime lovers here? We reviewed two for this week's ep of the podcast, tapping into Ricky Grove's legendary knowled...
24/04/2025

Any anime lovers here? We reviewed two for this week's ep of the podcast, tapping into Ricky Grove's legendary knowledge of anime use in machinima generally. Both the films we discuss were made using Square Enix' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFr1mAJ3gQs&t

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This week we discuss a machinima form we've not really talked about before - anime. Whilst its one of Ricky's favourite creative forms, for the rest of us it...

Once a month, on the podcast, we do a news sweep on things we've spotted that we think are relevant for filmmakers, co...
17/04/2025

Once a month, on the podcast, we do a news sweep on things we've spotted that we think are relevant for filmmakers, content creators and machinimators alike - here's the ep for this month (all the links can be found on our blog post) >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBvrzMr9eUA



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In this week's episode, we discuss the month's news items we've found most interesting and relevant to making machinima, including more great projects to be ...

In our podcast review this week, we discuss a series made in Red Faction Guerilla called Optimism Bias plus, for a bon...
03/04/2025

In our podcast review this week, we discuss a series made in Red Faction Guerilla called Optimism Bias plus, for a bonus ep, Tracy caught up with its director, Andrew Good Knight. What a treat to hear about the series, some of the challenges they faced, including the fascinating way they actually filmed this, and Andrew's plans for future work.

Catch both eps on our YT channel, link to the review here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvdZGdgMt84&t and link to the interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp2j6Dcy6xk&t

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A viewer nominated series, this week's ep is another great example of brilliant writing. Optimism Bias was directed by and originally rele...

In this week's ep of the podcast, we review one of the most original uses of we've seen to date - its a talking head...
20/03/2025

In this week's ep of the podcast, we review one of the most original uses of we've seen to date - its a talking heads absurdist series focussing on a post-human race called the by . Our ep focusses on one particular episode reflecting on the role of exercise (p**n x-er-keys), described as the strange behaviour of 'hoomans trying to mystically transform their bodies through motion alchemy and strain worship'. Yes, well, that's obviously a truism! Link to our ep here >>>

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One of the most extraordinary picks we've made, probably ever, on the show! This week, we review an emergent absurdist talk show, focussing on the life of th...

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