overcast #003
Welcome back! This week’s show has no over-arching theme, just general happenings related to machinima, some new tools, and male body spray. Two recent machinima films are reviewed. Please leave me a comment and tell me what you think of the show!
This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):
- Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
- Gaming News w/ Lady Mainframe (vol. 7)
- Elder Scrolls: Morrowind speed run
- Speed Demos Archive
- Ten Video Sharing Services Compared
- YouTube: WoW Dupe Hack
- Clip of the Week: Dr. Nemesis Interview on FM Radio
- WarCraftMovies.com
- The Axe Fan Film Fest
- FastCap Game Video Capture Utility
- Machinima.com How-To Article on FastCap
- Magnatune.com
- Music: iNTROSPEKT – iDEOLOGY
- Music: Pain Factor – 8 Seconds
- Review #1: Girls Named Jane by PostModernChuck
- Review #2: The Fixer, Episode 1 by todnyc28
- Nathan Moller on “Directors’ Touches”
- Honorable Mention: To Heaven by Jamie98s
- CMS Vulnerabilities
- DivX 6.2 Update Now Available
- Acid Pro 6 Now Available
- Free Sony Classes at NAB Tradeshow
- Clerks II Trailer on YouTube
- An Evening with Kevin Smith
Comment by gToon — April 19, 2006 at 2:34 am
A good show packed with content, Ov. Enjoyed the machinima reviews in particular. I sure know what you mean about a film or filmmaker spoiling cinema for you. Fincher is a guy who does that to a lot of people. Guy Maddin and Wong Kar Wai are directors who do it for me. Thank God, we get over it. “Body Spray” WTF? And I deliberately stopped playing Elder Scrolls: Oblivion because I could feel it start to snake it’s deadly tendrils into my brain. Poor Mu, he’s lost, man. hahaha. The visuals are amazing even on a mid level machine. And the game play is almost completely free-form. Walking through the space you can see all kinds of machinima possibilities. This game is a real masterwork. No wonder everyone is addicted (except me).
Just got the new DivX and it’s excellent. Will be encoding a bunch of stuff soon. Thanks for the tip on the Acid upgrade. I’ll look in to that.
Sure enjoy the show, Overman. Thank you!
Comment by xolly — April 26, 2006 at 1:03 am
As for the “The Fixer”, I agree it had style, but referring to women as “bitches” was about as pleasant as hearing African-Americans called “niggers”. If the anti-hero was supposed to be a detached sociopath, he should not have used such an emotionally charged word. The story betrayed itself. Better dialogue would have had the anti-hero genuinely disconnected from the other characters, perhaps perplexed at their actions the hero could not understand due to said detachment. You have a great blog, but I saw “The Fixer” as something that could have been great, but was ironically ruined by the author’s own sociopathic tendencies.