In this week's episode, we discuss the month's news items we've found most interesting and relevant to making machinima, including more great projects to be inspired by, genAIs we've spotted, Steam's rip off, inZOI's challenge to Sims and the phenomenon known as the 'Minecraft Movie'.  Check out our discussion and do add comments on our YT or blog posts.1:18 Projects: a zombie film in GTA5, Trillo’s Cuco, NeuralViz’ Tigg Talk – an alternative perspective on tariffs3:33 The speed of a creative and production process – efficiencies and pivoting to topical content a la South Park!6:25 Anomidae’s game explainer, Platinum WoW’s documentary about early days of World of Warcraft, GTA6 mAIchinima9:00 GenAI updates: Sesame, ElevenLabs Actor Mode, Runway’s gen 4, ChatGPT’s image generator, Studio Ghibli’s backlash, DSO physical generator, Recammaster tool, Phil’s examples of how the tools can be used, volumetric capture, vtubing WarpTuber, Animes and Facerig, 26:28 Reallusion and Apple Arts Studio’s Animation Shopee28:00 Steam’s share of revenue and algorithmic bias29:41 Nintendo’s Switch 231:09 Mocap studio at a comicon – who were they?32:45 John Robertson’s show The Dark Room35:40 InZOI release – more photorealistic than the Sims, and an intriguing looking engine – what will happen to Sims now?45:30 The Minecraft movie – a renewed interest in machinima (or not!) and the Rocky Horror Picture ShowCredits -Speakers: Damien Valentine, Phil Rice, Tracy HarwoodProducer: Damien ValentineEditor: Phil RiceMusic: Animo Domini Beats

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