Tag: Compilation

L.A. Noire: Cold Cases and Car Races

Created: 8 Jan 2018

WHAT’S THAT? YOU GAMERS COULDN’T GO ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT THIS EXACT VIDEO IN YOUR LIFE? Only so happy to be of service.

Yeah, so my friend @vigilantefridge (AKA PoppyJR, the ARMS EVO world champion himself) and I had been planning to do a playthrough of L.A. Noire for years. I believe the original reason was “because John Noble is in it.”

So when we finally got a chance this past January, I set up a Blue Snowball mic and recorded it. However, I deleted that footage when trying to migrate hard drives. Then, the mic wasn’t recording. Then yeah everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.

We waited a week, then continued the playthrough, with no choice but to accept that we were going to be missing the footage for the entire first 1/5th of the game. But we persevered!!!

We managed to beat the game at 6AM the night before I had to work an 8-hour shift of lifeguarding, and he had to pack to leave for EVO Japan. We both survived without sleep, don’t worry.

The very next night I stayed up compiling the footage and scanning for moments that were highlight-worthy, and slapped this video together in one sitting, while everything was still fresh in my mind.

Then PoppyJR suggested we commission someone to make a little intro for it (in the style of Two Best Friends Play) and I thought “Who better than my artist girlfriend?” Her art is at @CupidDissolvi on twitter, please check her out and give her some love. She was the perfect pick for the job, and I insisted she not give me a bf discount because her prices are just that fair.

Interesting notes:

  • We actually recorded ourselves playing the RE7 DLCs before we ever touched L.A. Noire
  • The loss of that footage is a greater tragedy than any other in the troubled production history of this video

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared – The Movie

Created: 7 July 2016

Edited entirely on my Grandpa’s computer in Oregon, while on Summer vacation.

As soon as Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 6 came out on June 19th, I knew someone had to stick them all together. And of course there were [1-6 COMPILATION HD] videos uploaded immediately, but I wanted to take it a step further.

Of course someone beat me to the punch, but I didn’t see so until I was 60% done. It’s actually quite interesting to look at the different approaches we took to the task. We had a lot of similar ideas, like the use of TV static in reference to DHMIS being a children’s show. He actually cut off the top and bottom of the video to make it cinematic.

I actually went through all credits of all the episodes to make the big credit at the end there. Took ages. But then!!! My file corrupted! The .veg file for this project no longer exists, so I can’t show you any of the details. All I was left with is this poor quality render that makes the credits look atrocious!

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Anyway, the thumbnail was also a challenge because my Grandpa didn’t have Photoshop. So I had to combine this promo image from the Kickstarter with this promo poster, in Sony Vegas. Even though they’re colorized differently. I ended up with this weird Frankenstein poster.

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But luckily, thanks to some careful cropping, you’d never know that the difference in colorization wasn’t my intention unless you read this Tumblr post.

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Interesting notes:

  • A lot of the audio effects I used to spruce up the transitions were learned from making Spook Eater.
  • This final frame was a real, unintentional video glitch (further proving how terrible this render was). But it is thematically appropriate and makes me happy.
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source: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpqW6963t3Iil4xdtTsUx4hYKsQ0V_99