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New Bonus Video: Remaking My Destroyed Set With The Magic of Open Source (Patreon)

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2023-01-12 19:24:17
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2023-01

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Fancy seeing you here, friend. I hope Christmas treated you well. Mine went great, except I sat next to an Aunt who was getting over some kind of Flu (not covid thankfully!) and managed to get sick. I lost my voice and needed to wait a bit until I could re-record some of the voiceover for this here bonus video, so sorry for the delay. On the plus side, I missed both of the New Year's parties I was invited to, so I probably seem real cool and aloof - a much-needed social win for Harry.

Please find enclosed a video about how I 'built' the fake set you saw in the Oof video, using advanced 3D software and a lot of bumbling. It's also a sort-of tutorial, and a sort-of rant about the strangehold Adobe has over almost every creative professional.

Before I made The Tommy Discovery, back when the Oof video was supposed to be forty minutes max, I had recorded a section exploring how copyright works, along with Roblox's history of using other people's sound effects. When I suddenly needed to make room for ninety minutes of pure terror, I made the decision to cut that stuff for time since it no longer contributed to (what had become) the overall point. I’ll clean that up and get it posted sometime. Since I’m about to do the $10 patron poll for the next bonus video, I'll put that on there too in case that’s the interesting one.

There's a lot more cutting-room-floor stuff for the Oof video, more weird Tommy stories mostly, but I think I'll hold off on posting those in case they come in handy for a proper follow-up video.

My primary concern right now is getting organised. The last few videos (and my current projects, frankly) all spiraled into madness in unexpected ways, and made my scope, rate of output, and my general work-life balance into a complete mess. During the pandemic I enjoyed having the many distractions, but I want to get things under control and feel like I have a workable schedule, and life, again. Some stuff I want to do this year involves working with other people in a timely and responsible manner, which is regrettable, but it can't be helped, so I should try to make the most of it.

On that note, expect a proper update on how the rest of the year should look, as soon as I get it figured out myself. My new year's resolution is to put an end to jokes about 'the yearly hbomb video'.

Oh, you'll see.

You'll all see.

Love,

Harry

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[BONUS] Remaking My Destroyed Set With The Magic of Open Source

Comments

Anonymous

I'm a vfx student, this makes me so happy since its exactly what we do except we use expensive software that literally requires a degree to know to make the same result, Im honestly really glad people have a fun time with blender and its free and accessible

Anonymous

You could use Blender as your video editing software, too, you know. https://i.imgur.com/soKnJFg.gif

Anonymous

I wonder if baking a normal map out of the high-poly version might have had better results without needing that (maybe slightly janky) decimated mesh?

Harper Onions

What was the metadata for the replacement audio you had to use in the Oof! video like? Did Tommy Tallarico's name suddenly appear, claiming ownership for everything?

Anonymous

The Tommy Tallarico article in this 1997 magazine might be of interest if you haven't already seen it. He essentially admits that a large part of his career is down to lies and/or an exaggerated persona. https://archive.org/details/digital-diner-july-1997/page/62/mode/2up "Tallarico picked up a newspaper and used his charm to land a job selling music keyboards at Guitar Center: 'I told 'em I knew everything about everything, but I didn't know anything about anything.'" "'Me and George are all about portraying an image ... When I dress up in a gold jacket with 17 bodyguards around me, some people in the industry take it the wrong way. 'What, he thinks he's a superstar?' Absolutely not, it's a gag -- a publicity stunt. It gets people talking.'"

Anonymous

There's no real set in your Mum's garage anymore? 😭 I feel like a kind who's just been told Father Christmas isn't real.

Creamer

unrelated comment: i cant wait for the vampire masquerade bloodlines video. yeah i have no clue if or when it will come out, but he’s been teasing it for like 7 years and its a game i know nothing about at all or have heard of but apparently its good and idk why for years i’ve refused to google it just because i want hbomb to explain it

Creamer

lol thats why I stan Procreate. its not Free, but it is like $12 to use it forever, and decidely not a subscription like every other fucking thing in the app store. like I see adobe trying to make a drawing app that takes off but they suck, and cant figure it out, because Procreate has a huge grip on digital art industries, my own experience with it being in the tattoo industry, where literally all 1 million tattooers use an ipad and procreate and have never opened an adobe app in their life, plus procreate benefits from the cottage industry if brushes/textures that springs up

Anonymous

I now understand why your videos take so long to make.

Anonymous

As someone is is trapped deep in the maw of Autodesk software, I can attest that blender is more fun than Maya. Nothing beats autocad tho

Anonymous

this is from like five months ago but no amount of time can stop me from taking an opportunity to hate on cinema 4d. I swear to god that program is DESIGNED to be a confusing mess of menus placed where you'd least expect them. it's like playing a point and click flash adventure game every time you want to change a single setting. The Redshift render engine, also owned by Maxon, is not only not the default, it's not built in either! so now there are a whole new set of menu adventures waiting for you the next time you need to change even a single parameter. Blender's "render" tab is replaced in C4D with, conservatively, five to six bazillion separate windows that are filled to the brim with buttons named like "new instance" with plus buttons beside it with a tooltip that just says "try it". The Blender options tabs change with context; in cinema 4d, you can change the settings of a redshift camera that doesn't exist! What's the difference between a normal camera and a redshift camera you ask, foolishly? I DON'T KNOW. I think it has different settings but I wouldn't know because I'm not willing to brave the Dead Sea of Azazel to find out. If anyone here ever gets their grimy, misguided hands on a copy of Cinema 4D as a mistake or punishment and thinks, as a child of sin might, that you've happened into professional software. You haven't. You've happened into the reason Maya is the industry standard. If, god forbid, you attempt to learn C4D, your hubris will lead you directly to the Maya install page. From there, you'll have to take a hard left and follow your wallet to blender, where you belong. C4D is truly the Sibelius of 3d software. The fourth dimension is PAIN.

Anonymous
>>115482336

hold on, no, I'm not done. What, did you think you could play with fire? Did you think you could use Redshift for Blender? Have you learned nothing? Do you feel like learning a new node system that makes no sense and that there is NO documentation for. Ok no that's a lie, there is one single series of community-made YouTube videos that might help you get started. If you can get redshift to work. Because did I forget to mention that all of this is optimised like... I can't even think of a joke it's just not optimised. at all. Have fun pausing the one video that exists at the point where redshift is supposed to "think for a second" and wondering why your screen is grey. or black. or white. Redshift, like Cinema 4D has a personal vendetta against working properly, a second thing, and you. That being said, Maxon is still my baby girlypop girlfriend because for the low low price of only eating ramen, I can crash after effects with the comfort that the work I just lost was professional as shit.

WM

Unironically, the process you went through for this is *really* insightful, I'm absolutely, mercilessly stealing this to do on some inevitable creative project at some indeterminate point in the future; much love for the work as always!!! <3

Anonymous

Imposter syndrome bit gave my imposter syndrome imposter syndrome...

Draexian

"How do you even look at yourself" pfft, like I haven't been discociating since 2017. I couldn't even tell you how many times I cut myself when I last shaved. Reading? What is that? furreal great line.

Anonymous

I remember when I used to read books. DON’T LOOK AT ME!!!!!

Payton Wilkes

Me waiting to see 👁👄👁 For all of us to see 👁🫦👁

WM

Having suffered as a rubbish freelance photographer and videographer before dropping it (for now?) for the sake of sanity, Adobe's stranglehold was infuriating back in uni, anything with a perpetual licence seems increasingly like gold dust, which makes me love the open source work all the more <3. Also, unironically, this video (even if half rant, always a good rant) actually helped me get into working on 3D modelling and editing for some game development work, I'm practicing scanning and taking photos of all my latest baking and testing the models out in Blender, it's become a weird, but really really satisfying and creative hobby and I'm so grateful for you actually introducing Meshroom to me!

AJ The Bumblebee

As an animator who has several colleagues that are graphic designers, adobe is the absolute bane of our existence. Not even because they suck, are overly expensive, and crash all the time (though they do) but because any art related job requires you to use the awful software on some level. How many industries depend on it's workers using the worst tools available to them?

Anonymous
>>99652633

I’ve always been fascinated by how adobe such a specific form of gatekeeping and so much graphic design education even has to be “how to decipher this fucking thing”

Chelsea Monk

I thought I was one of the people that spotted the fake background and was rewarded by the reveal, however looking at some of the raw-ish footage in this video makes me question why I thought that initially. Because the lighting around the edges of your shirt's arms and your hands looked off in the oof vid and that's why I questioned it but it looked the same in the raw footage so maybe my eyes are just weird and seeing things that aren't really an issue.

Hbomb
>>99798054

Yeah! The burned parts of my coat are contributing to the edge looking weird

Anonymous

I'm looking forward to your video about creative tools. I'm fascinated by open source. It seems amazing that it can produce such useful tools. I'm a computational scientist and I rely heavily on open source stuff, even though some of it is maintained by private companies that make their money selling support. I have also found that open source software usually has all the functionality, but commercial software is often much easier to use and has much better documentation, simply because there is someone whose job is to write a good manual.