Future project. It's gonna be a slide-show type video like Hiking Trip, and it's also gonna have some Everywhere at the End of Time music in the background (hint-hint).

This is the project I'm working on right now. All you get to know it that its about some astronauts, and its probably going to be a little longer than the average leadedyogurt video. Yes, it will have some Tally Hall references.

This was a simple video I put together in about a day. I keyframed the width of the loading bars in Shotcut and all of the menu screens were made in GIMP. The scene in the white void was modeled in Blender 4.2, and the motion was based off of actual camera motion. To get good camera motion, I marked up my freezer using a black whiteboard marker. After I tracked all the dots, I set the top of the freezer as the floor, and the side that was facing me as the wall, with a few other touch-ups to make the camera motion useful, I then made sure that the the scene I recorded wouldn't render, and that I'd be left with only the camera moving through my completely artificial world. Oh, and to do that all you have to do is remove the background render layer in the menu, and remove the video clip in the compositing tab. Now, my dogshit computer is too stupid to run EEVEE rendering (it crashes Blender), so I have to use Cycles. My computer also happens to be using the only graphics card in the the AMD Vega series that does not support hardware acceleration. In other words, all my rending was extremely slow, as always. Because of this, I was only able to reasonably render about 10 seconds of the dream scene, so I while I was editing I had to reverse the clip and attach it to the end of the forward one. Nobody that I had proof watch noticed it, so it wasn't too jarring I guess. I think the project turned out great, and the realistic camera movement definitely sells being there really well.

I would also like to mention the thousands of hours I put into audio engineering. The hardrive sound that you hear during the ui scenes is my actual external hardive. It's a 20 year old disk drive I got form my Dad. It's got 20GB of storage, which was a fair bit for the time. I love the way it sounds, and I think I'm slowly becoming a retrotech enthusiast. I've been starting to obsess over old flash drives, speakers, and old circuit boards. Anyways, I amplified the sound during the loading scenes to give off the impression of the computer working harder. I always try to get the most out of my audio and use that to give off a feeling of stress. It works sometimes, I think, but you really only get the full effect with headphones. All of my sound effects are from Pixabay. I'll probably upload some stuff onto there, to give back. During the dream scene, I slowly ramped up to volume of the the wind effect so that the viewer feels like they might be getting pushed on and might blow off into the void.

This is about people caring more about fake entertainment than their real lives. The dream recorder stores dreams that people can then use for later entertainment. There may be a part 2 coming from this that might be slightly inspired by some concepts in Inception.

Thanks for listening to me yap. Leave me a note on the mainpage if you think my video-making advice is useful at all.

All footage was provided by my dear friend VoidFlux. I was talking bout video ideas with him on Discord one day, and even though he was most interested in one called Confessions that will never come to be (it was supposed to be about people that were testing a new drug that made people randomly spout out their deepest and darkest secrets), he still took interest in There's Nothing Outside Today and offered to film some stuff for it. Making there be nothing outside was very hard. I had to export every single frame that needed to be edited individually, draw a selection to cover with black and then save that. I did about 200 frames total for both of the required scenes while listening to Sam 'O Nella videos in the background. The whole thing took 4 hours, but I started feeling Zen, and its not like I could have used that time any better anyways.

I like making these sort-of surreal videos. The concept of opening the window only to see absolutely nothing at all is very appealing to me. How tiny Voidflux's room gives this really nice feeling of claustrophobia when combined with the non-existent world that usually makes out cramped living spaces bearable. I don't normally make my videos with any kind of theme in mind. I usually take the same approach that Tally Hall does with their songs, Good Day especially, that being writing with a general theme in mind and letting the listener create their own interpretation out of it. I think its really effective at speaking to people's subconscious and allowing them to reflect on their own thoughts about the world. Even when I try to make a video with a vague theme in mind, it always starts with the plot and the visuals. You really don't need to plan everything out, sometimes its just better to let something grow from a single starting off point. I've never really been one to plan anything at all. My life is finite and I only have time for reflection. Why waste time trying to make everything go smoothly, and having these finely calculated steps to go to some prestigious university or sumshit. Will getting a degree and a high paying job really make you happy? Will trying to avoid struggle really be good for you? We don't exist to get and education work a job for 60 years and then die. The real fun of life comes from things you don't expect to do. Your happiness is ultimately not attached to your physical state. It's all about the mind and the state that its in. Your carefully laid out plan will never come to fruition anyways. Life never works like that, so then you might as well just become good at adapting if you're going to have to anyways. Well that might have been deep or something, but the main topic I wanted to center the video around was not having free will. The character in the TNOT has been isolated in his own tiny reality until he decides to come out and receive 'Help' for his mental illness that is referenced in the part with the skull x-rays. Everything this guy has been though is just a disease to these unseen people, who think they have his best interests in mind, regardless of what the protagonist wants to do. He is able to keep his mental fortitude for while being locked up for 2 days but eventually concedes to the knocking on the door and receives his 'help.' I used the sound of dentist's drill to create a visceral reaction, as we all know how unpleasant those things are. But the our protagonist does not have a cavity. He's not getting his chompers fixed, he's getting a lobotomy. One painful operation later, he wakes up as a new man, ready to do whatever normal people do.

This was originally titled as 'Orb Spotted At School', but it turned into something completely different while I was working on it. This marks my very first use of Blender motion tracking. It was supposed to consist of two vfx scenes, the one being in the video, and the second one being me walking closer to the orb once it landed on the ground. The second shot was impossible to motion track, and thus the footage was discarded. I couldn't reshoot since it was now the weekend, and I also didn't want to wait for Monday to roll around, so I adapted. The second o r b . scene was supposed to end with me falling into it like you would to a black hole, and getting trapped in some sort of suspended animation for a few days, after which I would be ejected to my extreme confusion. This was also supposed to go with the mention of Logan being gone, implying that he also got trapped in a time vortex, but unfortunately for him, never got out. I took that concept end reworked to fit with my lack of footage, instead creating a sequence of the same events repeating over and over again, speeding up each time until it becomes a flurry of voices and moments passing by. The voices in the background and pretty much unintelligible in the final cut, but worry not, it's just me saying stuff like 'you're trapped in here with us, and 'we know what you did'. I layer that on top of itself with a generous offset, each successive track getting louder. If I had to put a theme to this one I'd say its about how no matter how much we enjoy our lives, repeating the same things over and over against makes everything miserable and monotonous.

This just isn't a good video. The o r b . was modeled in Blender, but the motion tracking was done in shotcut, which is terrible.

This is my best preforming video so far, and also happens to be the only one with coptright infringement. I think I should do more of that maybe. I kind of like the slidshow format, allows me to just flex my image editing muscles without constraint.