the overcast #016b [51:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1642)

Part 2 of 2 of an extended conversation with Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram. We discuss MovieStorm, the challenge of defining the term “machinima,” the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), copyright challenges… and, of course, the fact that Linux people prefer Aerosmith. Featuring music from the BloodSpell motion picture soundtrack.

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This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):

• Music: “Foyer of the Demoncaller” by Overman
• Sound Clip: BloodSpell Episode 4
• MovieStorm
• Short Fuze: Matt Kelland, David Bailey, Dave Lloyd
• Tom Jantol / Cirque du Machinima
• The “What is machinima?” discussions
• Machinima Film Festival
• Wikipedia: Bill Hicks
• Softimage
• AnyMation
• Series: Afterworld
• Film: Inside the Machinima
• Film: Machinima! With Officer Dan
• Peter Rasmussen / Stolen Life / Nanoflix blog
• AMAS
• Wikipedia: EULA
• Copyright Law: Derivative Works, Fair Use, and The Copyfight
• Kevin Smith – Credit Cards to Finance Indie Films
• Music: “Rust” by Modo
• Book: Olympos by Dan Simmons
• Book: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Art and Gatekeepers
• Wikipedia: E-Book
• Book: Execution Channel by Ken Macleod
• Book: Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
• Book: Freakonomics
• Book: As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela by Mark Thomas
• Machinima Premiere
• Last.FM
• Overcast #014 (April Fools)
• Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
• Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas
• Scissor Sisters
• Green Day
• Jason Webley – Tour Schedule
• The Levellers
• Music: “Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead” by Flipron

 

 overcast #016a [53:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1657)

Part 1 of 2 of an extended conversation with Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram. We talk about Johnnie’s job interview to come work for Hugh, BloodSpell, WoW machinima, the book Machinima for Dummies (which they are cowriting)… and, of course, Furries and Gnomes. Featuring music from the BloodSpell motion picture soundtrack.

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This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):

• Music: Angel Conversations – “Crushed”
• Strange Company
• Ozymandias
• Building a House for Sentient Elephants
• BloodSpell
• Belleville Rendezvous (link?)
• The FairGame Project
• Edge of Remorse
• Music: D-Cent Jerks – Maldita Perdita
• Something Awful Second Life Safari (NSFW)
• Captain Dan’s Authentic Pirate Hip-Hop (NSFW)
• Machinima For Dummies
• Google Docs
• Johnnie’s favorite word: gotten
• One of Hugh’s journalistic influences: Hunter Thompson
• Furries, Furries, Furries
• Blender
• Music: Reiser – Rock Star

 

 overcast #015 [50:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1563)

This Jumbo Size episode covers some of the very latest happenings in the machinima / animation world… and the truth about overcast #014 is at last revealed.

WARNING: Contains adult language.

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This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):

• Hot Video Game Characters
• A Real Male Restroom Etiquette Horror
  
• Si habla …
• “Shadow Dancer” by OneJovialSim (download available there)
  
• SLURL: Magnatune in Second Life
• Stream Magnatune to your Land in Second Life
• Virtual Ants in Second Life (NWN / Shattered Keyboard / Boing-Boing)
• See the Virtual Ants on YouTube
• Blender
• The Machinima Premiere Wiki
• How to Write a Good Tutorial
• How to Create a Good Video Tutorial
• DivX Film Festival
• The Truth about Overcast #014
• Wikipedia: John Cage // 4′33″

 

 overcast #014 [26:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1762)

Two guys. One agonizing Skype call. And two stadiums full of tension.

Overman interviews… DigitalPhil. For better or for worse.

Except for that “better” part.

WARNING: Contains adult language.

This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):

• The Jerry Springer Show