S5 E178 Machinima News Omnibus (Apr 2025)

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 inspired by, genAIs we've spotted, Steam's rip off, inZOI's challenge to Sims and the phenomenon known as the 'Minecraft Movie'. Check out our discussion and do add comments on here or our blog post.

1:18 Projects: a zombie film in GTA5, Trillo’s Cuco, ‪@NeuralViz‬'s Tigg Talk – an alternative perspective on tariffs
3:33 The speed of a creative and production process – efficiencies and pivoting to topical content a la South Park!
6:25 ‪@Anomidae‬'s game explainer, ‪@PlatinumWoW‬’s documentary about early days of World of Warcraft, GTA6 mAIchinima
9:00 GenAI updates: Sesame, ‪@elevenlabsio‬Actor Mode, ‪@RunwayML‬’s gen 4, ChatGPT’s image generator, Studio Ghibli’s backlash, DSO physical generator, Recammaster tool, ‪@zsOverman‬ Phil’s examples of how the tools can be used, volumetric capture, vtubing WarpTuber, Animes and Facerig,
26:28 ‪@reallusion‬ and Apple Arts Studio’s Animation Shopee
28:00 ‪@Steam‬’s share of revenue and algorithmic bias
29:41 Nintendo’s Switch 2
31:09 Mocap studio at a comicon – who were they?
32:45 John Robertson’s show The Dark Room ‪@thedarkroom.official‬
35:40 inZOI release – more photorealistic than the Sims, and an intriguing looking engine – what will happen to Sims now?
45:30 The ‪@minecraft‬ movie – a renewed interest in machinima (or not!) and the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Show notes & links: https://completelymachinima.com/s5-e1...

Credits -
Speakers: Damien Valentine, Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood
Producer: Damien Valentine
Editor: Phil Rice
Music: Animo Domini Beats