overcast #034 [103:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (726)

Ricky and Phil kick off this massive show with some machinima news and current events, before launching into an in-depth discussion of Bioware’s epic video game, Mass Effect. SPOILER ALERT: Some of what is discussed in this show is directly related to the game’s storyline, so if you’re concerned about preserving a sense of surprise before you experience the game, please be advised.

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• Music Credits for this show:
  • Opening music is the main theme from Bioware’s Mass Effect, by composer Jack Wall.
• The Vimeo issue
  • Vimeo’s Announcement
  • Shattered Keyboard: “Ban On Game Only Clips”
  • Machinima For Dummies: “Vimeo inspires creativity by banning gaming videos
  • Eric Rice: “Vimeo’s Ban on Game Videos Strikes a Nerve”
  • Overman’s Blog: “Vimeo Alternatives”
• Mitch Featherston: “New Seamless Texture Set”
• iClone Daily: “iClone 3.0 – 08-08-08
• Antics Blog: “Antics V4 in action – realtime shadows video!”
• Wikipedia: Antics 3D
• Moviestorm
• Phil a guest on The Awful Show, Friday August 1st 2008
• M dot Strange working on new “mysterious doll film”
• See also: We Are The Strange
• OneJovialSim’s first live action film, Nocturnal Emissions
• Also re: OneJovialSim: Jabberwocky in Second Life
• International Machinima Expo (site coming very soon) at Festival Arcadia – 2nd weekend in November, Montreal Quebec
• Topic: MASS EFFECT by BIOWARE
• Zero Punctuation on Mass Effect
• ZS Forum Discussion on Securom
• Boing Boing: “Bill Gates’ 2003 flame email about Moviemaker”
• Wikipedia: Mass Effect 2
• Mass Effect Downloadable Add-on Content
• Bioware Forums
• Overman’s “So I Ran Over a Monkey”
• Overman’s Blog: “To Game or Not To Game”
• Mass Effect Console Commands
• Ricky’s Wonderful World of Sound – Episode 2: Frequency
  • Download the sound effects (5.66 MB .zip file)

 

 overcast #033 [62:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (978)

Phil and Ricky kick off the show with some personal updates, and then cover some current events and trends in machinima. This is our most “conversational” show to-date, and has a very free and comfortable feel.

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

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• Music Credits for this show:
  • Opening music is by Nine Inch Nails, from the album Ghosts, the track title is “26 Ghosts III,” from the third CD in that 4-disc set.
  • This musical selection is used under the Creative Commons license graciously chosen by the artist. Please consider supporting them with a music purchase if you enjoy what you hear.
• Ricky writing for Renderosity.com
• Attending SIGGRAPH 2008
• RGrove.com – Ricky’s personal website
• Wordpress blogging platform
• Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg
• Ricky’s IMDB Entry
• Phil’s YouTube channel – New release every Friday for a year
• Sam Goldwater’s Monad
• Lit Fuse Films’ Jill’s Song
• Z-Studios’ Apology
• Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain
• Moviestorm
• Phil inspired by Frank Fox’s Morning Run Amok
• Leo Lucien-Bay’s Beast
• 3D World Magazine (June 2008, Issue #104, “Machinima Grows Up”)
• The “Krad Smash” rant thread
• Final Fantasy Meets Nine Inch Nails as an example of “happy accidents”
• Machinima Film Festival 2008 in New York (Eyebeam) – 1st Weekend in November
• International Machinima Expo at Arcadia Festival in Montreal (website coming soon, watch Overman’s Blog) – 2nd Weekend in November
• NVISION 08 by NVidia (Machinima.com involved) in San Jose, CA – August 2008
• Next Generation Machinima Contest