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And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi - Unreal Engine0:45 Unreal 1 Released – 22 May 1998 2:22 Unframed Productions formed, with James Hammer-Morton and Hugh MacDonald, and created Resident Evil themed content 3:13 Unreal Tournament 1 – 23 May 1999 and Reactor4’s Real Time Movie Studio mod 4:16 Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 which included the first edition of Matinee and further information round 12:00 5:04 Star Fury produces Sucker in 2003 5:58 2003, Epic Games launches the Make Something Unreal Contest with notable films awarded runners up by Friedrich Kirschner (The Tournament) and Unframed Productions’ Lucky Man, EG_Intro from Hongman Leung and The Showdown by Accelerate...
2022-08-1820 min
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi: Halo Machinima0:47 May 1999, Steve Jobs (Apple) and Macintosh presentation reveal for Halo 1:57 2000, Halo promo for NVIDIA Geforce2 GTS 3:16 15 November 2001 Halo for Xbox released 3:40 First machinima for Halo, released 6 June 2002, Warthog Jump by Randall Glass 5:04 Red vs Blue premieres, 1 April 2003, by Rooster Teeth Productions 7:04 Halo released for PC on 30 September 2003 7:31 Fire Team Charlie starts up in 2003 7:56 Halo PC Custom Edition released on 6 May 2004 and a recently made Halo PC Custom Edition Fan Documentary by Subpixel...
2022-06-2327 min
The Furious CuriousSummer PreviewHello Furious Curious listeners!
We will be returning with new episodes in June, including a two-part series of film phenomenons and what they are telling us about changes in culture. Part 1 will be first unpacking "The Return of Film Noir" with reoccurring guest Chase Domergue. Part 2 will be the "Rise of Comic Films and the Expanded Universe" with Courageous Comic writer Daniel Grussi.
Also to come, fellow writer Ben Santoriello and I will also be speaking to Sam Gosling about this book Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, as we unpack the dynamic between...
2022-05-1801 min
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi: Quake III MachinimaIn this episode of our Machinima history series, Ben reviews notable films from the archives created with Quake III, a version of id Software's Quake series that did not favour machinima.Time stamps1.11 Quad God by Tritin Films (Quake III), parts 1-4· Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4 5.52 In the Waiting Line by Zero 7 in collaboration with Fountainhead Entertainment (Quake III) 7.55 Anna by Fountainhead Entertainment’s Anna Kang (Quake III) Show notes and links here - https://completelymachinima.com/2022/04/28/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-quake-iii/
2022-04-2810 min
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi: Quake II MachinimaCompletely Machinima blog post, show notes and links here - https://completelymachinima.com/2022/03/17/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-quake-ii/Time Stamps0:36 Hardly Workin’ by The ILL Clan, released 22 August 2000 1:57 Eschaton: Nightfall by Strange Company, released 1 Sept 1999 4:27 Late Nite With Toxy and Essobie, Ep 1, released 24 August 1998 6:50 Rebel Versus Thug by Ken “3D Filmmaker” Thain, released 10 May 2006 8:10 Rick Jones 2 by Bryan “CrustaR” Henderson, released 25 Nov 1999 9:35 Father Frags Best by Phil Rice (ZS Overman), released 1999 13:09 Circus Life Part 1 & Part 2 by Andre “Donova...
2022-03-1720 min
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi: Quake I MachinimaBen reviews classic Quake 1 films from the machinima archives – 0.48 Diary of a Camper by The Rangers, released 26 October 1996 2.00 Torn Apart series by The Rangers, first released 6 November 1996 2.28 Apartment Huntin’ by The ILL Clan, released 17 May 1998 3.23 Escheton: Darkness Twilight by Strange Company, released 20 January 1998 (by Walking Wounded) 4.30 Blahbalicious by Avatar & Wendigo, released 9 December 1997 5.40 Devil’s Covenant by Clan Phantasm, released 2 August 1998 6.59 Operation Bayshield by Clan Undead, released 24 January 1997 8.02 Zerstorer by N...
2022-02-2411 min
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima S2 Ep 30 News & Discussion (February 2022)Time stamps:1:10 Nvidia’s special address at CES, points relevant for machinima creators eg., Omniverse, AI 12:55 RDR2 images in the news! 13:40 Austin Film Festival 14:24 Adobe Project Shasta for audio recording 14:56 Kerbal Space Programme 2 impending launch 16:25 Machinima growth observations 17:28 VR growth observations 19:46 NFTs observations 23:57 Philip Rosedale and the future of Second Life for creators 40:30 Halo Xbox 360 multiplayer servers close – the end of the story for...
2022-02-031h 06
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (January)Full Show notes with links here - https://completelymachinima.com/2022/01/27/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-january/
2022-01-2719 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (December)Show notes and links here - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/12/23/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-december/
2021-12-2318 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (November)Show notes and links - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/11/25/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-november/
2021-11-2515 min
And Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (October)Our resident Machinima historian covers the month of October in Machinima history. Full links and notes are available at https://completelymachinima.com/2021/10/30/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-october/Music: Salt Lake Swerve by Maarten Schellekenslink: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/maarten-schellekens/electronic-works/salt-lake-swerveThe music has not been altered from the original.
2021-10-3016 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (September)Ben Grussi, the official historian for Machinima, shares his record of what happened in September Machinima history. Full notes for the podcast are available at - https://completelymachinima.com/2021/09/30/cm-in-history-with-ben-grussi-sept/
2021-09-3025 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (August)This month Ben presents a bumper overview of machinima notables from the archives, including Quake releases, films, appearances, media coverage and the very first Machinima Film Festival that took place at Quakcon.Full notes for this episode are available at:https://completelymachinima.com/2021/08/21/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-august/
2021-08-2115 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (July)Ben Grussi, the And Now For Something Completely Machinima podcast’s resident historian talks to Tracy about some of the notable events that took place in July during the early years of machinima, including the release of A Few Good G-Men by Randall Glass, the Artery Machinima production, Speilberg’s use of Unreal’s Matinee tool on his film, A.I., machinima showcased at the Lincoln Centre in New York for the first time, a Matrix parody training video released by Strange Company and the first green screen machinima production.Full notes for this episode are available at:
2021-07-2714 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (June)Ben Grussi, machinima's historian, tells us about significant events in machinima's timeline that occurred during the month of June.Full notes available at:https://completelymachinima.com/2021/06/19/cm-history-with-ben-grussi-june/
2021-06-1908 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (April 2021)Machinima's historian, Ben Grussi, looks back over the past couple of decades and shares some significant machinima-related events which occurred in the month of April.LinksRed vs Blue: https://bit.ly/3gMlYprLenny and Larry on the Campaign Trail https://bit.ly/3vktbkrCommon Sense Cooking with Carl the Cook https://bit.ly/3xulfPlRed vs Blue on the Wall Street Journal https://bit.ly/3sRiR1DPaul Marino's Art of Machinima book https://amzn.to/2S72X6L
2021-04-2605 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima S1 Ep 3 News (April 2021)And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality. This month (April 2021) we are splitting our 3rd 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). Episode 3 was produced by Ricky Grove joined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy HarwoodandDamien Valentine.Summary: Machinima News features updates, recommendations for new games, Phil’s re-cam of the famous Quake 2 match (Thresh vs Billox), Tracy’s publication with Ben...
2021-04-0142 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (March 2021)Machinima's historian, Ben Grussi, looks back over the past couple decades and shares some significant machinima-related events which occurred in the month of March."Killer Robot" by Peter Rasmussen"Anna" by Fountainhead Entertainment"Fending Off Alien Robots, but Still Time to Flirt" (NY Times)"Inspired animation tools from an uninspired sitcom" (The Boston Globe)Wikipedia: Antics3D "Eschaton: Darkening Twilight" by Strange Company
2021-03-0503 minAnd Now For Something Completely MachinimaCompletely Machinima S1 Ep 2 (March 2021)And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a monthly, long form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies and virtual reality.Episode produced by Phil Rice, joined by hosts Ricky Grove, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine.Our second podcast features a discussion of recent news in the machinima and VR sphere, four very diverse short films, a cameo by Baby Yoda, an interview with SIGGRAPH Asia’s Ricard Gras, and much more!Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talkFully detailed and link-infused no...
2021-03-041h 55