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Machinima, real-time filmmaking, virtual production and VR. Four veteran machinimators share news, new films & filmmakers, and discuss the past, present and future of machinima.
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S6 E243 Frozen in Battle: TMC’s MechWarrior Dioramas as Digital Sculpture (Sept 2026) (opens the original)
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This week, Tracy and Damien explore TMC’s MechWarrior 5: Clans – Clan Mech Dioramas Director’s Cut , a striking collection of battle scenes that sits somewhere between machinima, virtual photography and digital sculpture. Tracy introduces TMC, the German filmmaking collective whose work evolved from in-game footage and fan-made Hired Steel films into sophisticated Unreal Engine virtual production. That journey ultimately brought the team to the attention of MechWarrior developer Piranha Games, w
S6 E242 Pirate Beats and Precision Editing: JT Music’s Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Rap (Sept 2026) (opens the original)
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This week, Tracy and Damien explore JT Music’s Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Rap —a bass-heavy fusion of pirate sea shanty, nerdcore rap and meticulously edited game cinematics. Damien explains how the video combines cinematic sequences with specially captured gameplay footage, transforming Black Flag’s naval battles, parkour and pirate action into a tightly choreographed musical performance. Tracy examines JT Music’s distinctive place between machinima, fan filmmaking and video-game musi
S6 E241 Machinima News Omnibus (Sept 2026) (opens the original)
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In this news episode, Tracy Harwood and Damien Valentine explore three very different developments shaping machinima and virtual storytelling. Tracy introduces DramaMancer , an experimental AI-powered storytelling platform developed through Midjourney’s Storytelling Lab. Rather than generating an entire story, DramaMancer combines an author’s characters, scenes and narrative framework with natural-language player input. Tracy considers whether this represents genuine player agency or merely a mo
S6 E240 Political Machinima, PTSD and America’s Army | Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Aug 2026) (opens the original)
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In this episode, Tracy Harwood, Ricky Grove and Damien Valentine discuss Paolo Pedercini’s 2009 machinima film Welcome to the Desert of the Real . Created using the US military recruitment game America’s Army , the film overturns the game’s heroic presentation of warfare to explore post-traumatic stress disorder and the psychological consequences of combat. We examine Pedercini’s use of the US military’s own PTSD checklist, fragmented desert imagery, shifting viewpoints and an unsettling soundsc
S6 E239 MUELEN: Horror Beyond Los Santos (Aug 2026) (opens the original)
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In this episode, we discuss MUELEN , a GTA V machinima written and directed by Troy Hamilton and created by Greenhouse Light Show. The film was runner-up in the Machinimay 2026 competition and stands out for its slow, atmospheric approach to horror. Rather than relying on action or spectacle, MUELEN tells a mysterious story about grief, trauma and a man struggling to understand what has happened around him. The film gradually blurs memory, reality and the supernatural, leaving the audience to de
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