The Little Limpet is an Elite Dangerous animation by CMDR Nickweb85, released in July 2024. It has shades of Disney X David Attenborough X Busby Barkley. You could say it has something for everyone then... well, assuming you enjoy a good space opera/ballet (which of course we do). Check out our comments -

0:44 Intro to film, Elite Dangerous, Pixar-like, composited game footage using Blender

4:17 Story, Tom Cook’s music and anthropomorphic animations

6:45 Experimental work, testing emotional representations

7:59 Ep 1 vs Ep 2, a Busby Barkley space ballet

10:16 Criticism: why split the episodes where they have been?

13:37 The importance of machinima telling the stories about the side kick in an MMO

16:19 Tom Cook’s dedication to making music for ED machinimas, IP and music performance

Credits -
Speakers: Damien Valentine, Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood
Producer: Damien Valentine
Editor: Phil Rice
Music: Animo Domini Beats

This week's #machinima short is ridiculous, yep Ridiculous Ties - a meme response to Eltorro64Rus' review of favorite and least favorite words used by the Scientist in Half Life, created by Finzlow. And did we say its ridiculous?! We love the well-crafted humor in this, in-jokes with some of the best timing and inspired editing we've seen for quite some time. Although its strictly not machinima, it is definitely from a machinima stable, so it counts for us at least. Our review -

1:01 Intro to the film, models and the stylistic choices Finzlow has made, Marx Bros comedy

5:27 Old Man Murray

8:06 What’s the process for creating this?

9:57 HL2 vs HL1

11:40 Subversion, remix and moxie

14:34 Timing is everything

17:17 What’s the best line? “I never thought I would see a highly training professional, let alone create one”

18:34 Italian slapstick: lazzi

26:09 Ricky’s complaint

28:37 @ILLRobinson – what do you think about this film?!

Credits -
Speakers: Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, Damien Valentine, Tracy Harwood
Producer: Damien Valentine
Editor: Phil Rice
Music: Animo Domini Beats

Whilst January's news begins with more of the same ole genAIs doing their thang, because they can, there's now evidence of more concerted effort to control the efforts of creators... because the corporates and policymakers can at least try to do that, right? Well, maybe, but all this has achieved in the past is even more creative energy invested in jumping through the hoops, clambering over the walls and crashing through the hedges - so Happy New Year, we're looking forward to seeing what the amazing machinima creative communities of all engine persuasions around the World can achieve in 2025! Plus, we discuss iClone's new update, a couple of interesting creative projects celebrating content creators in their own ways, as well as interesting milestones.

1:15 SORA-not SORA

6:51 Runway’s Act One

7:39 Face Depth Frame Mancer

9:00 Riot Games dishing the riot act

11:06 Fortnite’s achievements

12:53 Why was Andy Serkis not playing the horse?

14:00 JT Music’s Halo tribute

14:42 Bullet Time Agent

17:14 Reallusion’s iClone update

18:51 After Astartes: this is what happened to Syama Pedersen

Credits -
Speakers: Phil Rice, Damien Valentine, Tracy Harwood
Producer: Damien Valentine
Editor: Phil Rice
Music: Animo Domini Beats