In this episode, Ricky, Tracy and Damien discuss some of the more interesting machinima and real-time things they’ve trawled the internet for during the last month.  Tracy gives her take on the GTA Online performance of Hamlet by Sam Crane, some interesting uses of Unreal Engine, tech tools and a fun way to simulate gravity. Damien brings Godot to the table and highlights some worrisome news about Unity, before waxing lyrical on Star Trek’s Strange New World’s use of Unreal. Ricky finds an interesting Unreal Engine Field Guide and discusses the latest updates to Nightmare Puppeteer.  

 

1:30 Feedback and comments from Mike Clements, 3D Chick, EE Studios, JSFilmz, TMC, Lord Krit and Chris Newell 

 

4:04 The Snow Witch, by Britannica Productions, reviewed on CM podcast Season 1, Episode 18

 

16:20 Sam Crane’s GTA Online performance of Hamlet, an interesting audience experience (live 4 July 2022)

 

22:41 Digital replica of co-op live music venue strikes the right chord, Unreal Engine, 23 June 2022

 

23:22 Christopher Nolan: How to make a good no-budget film | Christopher Nolan on Following, by Cinedome, published 28 June 2022

 

23:51 50 Greatest Fictional deaths, Slate.com, by Dan Kois, 20 July 2022

 

24:31 AI dubbing service by Papercup

 

25:00 Markerless hand tracking in DeepMotion Animate 3D

 

25:50 Rotate you monitor to simulate gravity in Unreal Engine 5 using Android orientation data, by Ayoub Attache, 12 July 2022

 

27:14 Godot 4 engine can now make movies – explainer, by Gamefromscratch, released 29 June 2022

 

29:08 Behind the scenes of Netflix’s ‘In Valuted Halls Entombed’ | Spotlight | Unreal Engine, by Unreal Engine, released 27 June 2022

 

32:29 Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds – a better use of Unreal than Mando?! Review in American Cinematographer, by Noah Kadner, 23 June 2022

 

42:04 Should we be concerned?  Unity is merging with a company who made a malware installer, by Jody Macgregor, 16 July 2022

 

43:48 Unreal Engine Field Guide, free download book

 

44:57 Updates to Nightmare Puppeteer, available on Steam

Further details on the podcast website, https://completelymachinima.com/2022/08/04/cm-s2ep42-news-august-2022/

Credits:
Speakers: Ricky Grove, Tracy Harwood, Damien Valentine
Editor/Producer: Ricky Grove
Music: Where We Wanna Go by Patrick  Patrikios
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