Completely Machinima History with Ben Grussi (August)

This month Ben presents a bumper overview of machinima notables from the archives, including Quake releases, films, appearances, media coverage and the very first Machinima Film Festival that took place at Quakcon.

• Aug 2nd - 1998 - Devil’s Covenant Original Edition released

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwCSONpiqI

• Aug 27th 1998 - Quake 2: Late Night Episode 1 is released by Toxy & Essobie

  • https://archive.org/details/late-nite-with-toxy-episode-1

• Ozymandias (October/January 1999/2000)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLt4cD1Wh6k

• Aug 6th 2000 - The Seal of Nehahra mega movie (4 Hour prologue to Nehahra single player mod/map pack)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ecvQAzsNk

• Aug 27th 2000 - Hardly Workin' is released by ILL Clan

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tII1uW__zs

• Aug 3rd 2002 - Moppi Productions (Demo Group ) releases Halla (Little Match Girl)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsbEny9XBBQ

• Wasn't mentioned but still noteworthy - Aug 18th 2003 - A Brief clip of Mike Berry’s “Smart Gun” appears on AMD’s commercial (in movie theaters!) to promote their upcoming CPU – The Athlon64

  • https://youtu.be/UhoqhoVWYhg

• A Great & Majestic Empire [2003] Denis Cooney / United Kingdom

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_RLOW8Paw

• Anna [2003] Katherine Kang / Fountainhead Entertainment / USA

  • https://archive.org/details/anna_fountainhead

• Fake Science [2002] Michael Holochwost & Brian Mayberry / USA

  • https://archive.org/details/fake_science

• The Journey [2003] Friedrich Kirschner / Germany

  • https://vimeo.com/1110082

• Aug 27th 2005 - Britannica Dreams releases “The Highwayman”

  • https://archive.org/details/KheriMichelleTheHighwayman

• Aug 30th 2005 - Jake “Strider” Hughes release the 2-DVD set on Bittorrent of his Anachronox: The Movie that won awards at the 2002 Machinima Film Festival (link to full movie not DVDs)

  • https://archive.org/details/JakeHughesAnachronoxTheMovie