This was easily one of the best self-contained jokes on my first mashup album, and I figured it deserved it’s own brief video. There isn’t much about it’s production to describe.
I took old character art of Diddy Kong from the 90s, and colorized them in Photoshop to look like the even older photographs. I think the combination of the crappy early CG work and the coloration is a real nice effect:
The glorious full pic.
Then I just masked them into the Jack and Diane music video frame by frame, recalling many of the techniques I learned in making JoJo’s Bebop Adventure. Simple, a little time-consuming, and always worth it.
I realized I’d be wise to sit on it until my second album was prep’d (which it finally is). Please look forward!
I discovered there’s a handful of small Youtube channels working to give the Mouth Mashups their own music videos. Going through them, some videos were quite impressive, and inspired me to take a shot. Annoyed Grunt was my favorite mashup from Mouth Moods, and I’d been listening to it periodically, so I checked to see if a video already existed, and couldn’t find one. Thus I set to work…
…And didn’t stop working for about 10 hours. It came out great! This was probably the largest amount of disparate elements I’ve had to track down and edit together for a single project, but I’m satisfied with the way everything flows in spite of that. I hope Neil sees it to be honest.
Interest notes:
At 0:39 it looks like Tim is the one making the grunt noises, ha.
I noticed the majority of these music videos were horribly low-fi, and I decided to roll with that aesthetic.
I tried to make the entire thing 4:3 at first, which immediately started to look stupid once I introduced 16:9 clips. In the end I just had to accept that there would be wildly varying aspect ratios throughout, and that no one would probably care.
This was a continuation of my plan to set up for Spook Eater, and nothing more! I made it in less than an hour, the same day I posted it. Ha. I’m a genius.
I always feel tempted to start off these posts with, “here’s a weird one,” because all my projects are weird. This all started with the desire to create Snake Eater mashups. Obviously. But to do that, I had to put a lot of work into making my own assets (which I will go into in the Spook Eater post)
Anyway, I had those assets made, and I wanted to do something with them, so I thought of a genius plan. I would take out several birds with one stone: Making holiday content. Making use of those Snake Eater assets. And setting up for Spook Eater to come out next year (I was honestly thinking that far ahead).
I made the Heart Eater mashup in probably an hour. The image in the video was supposed to be the Soundcloud album art
–I just slapped the same santa hat png I use for my avatar every December onto Snake– but the mashup got blocked on Soundcloud! So I just recycled it into an mp4, uploaded it to Youtube for the heck of it, and found it wasn’t blocked. Cool!
Now, that creation date might be a bit surprising. I started working on this video 2 months before it fell into it’s final form (or rather, I started working on the mashup for this video). Back in August, I thought it would be funny to combine the DK Rap with Son of Man from the Tarzan OST. But it didn’t work at all, and I couldn’t figure out why. I tried some other alternate tracks, like the Thomas the Tank Engine Theme and even We Didn’t Start The Fire, but I couldn’t get anything to work with Son of Man.
So I gave up… Until, in late October, I listened to Mouth Sounds by Neil Cicierega. Blew my mind. I didn’t know mashups could be anything besides Space Jam memes! I explored Soundcloud further, and found this masterful Undertale mashup, back when it only had a couple thousand plays.
I started to understand what I’d been doing wrong. You need isolated vocals, and song stems! I had been
using this, when I should have been using this. It was a revelation! I knew what I had to do. I downloaded a coupletracks, and made Tem Eastwood, quick and dirty. Look at how simple it was to make:
With that practice, I felt confident enough to give my previous idea another shot. The night of 29 October quickly bled into the 30th.
Because there was no instrumental version of Son of Man, I had to manually loop a part of the song to use throughout the mashup. Then I had to respace the vocals of the DK Rap to fit in time to the music. It was an order of magnitude more complex, and I ended up pulling an all-nighter:
Pictured: Track 1 (Blue) = Son of Man. Track 2 (Purple) = DK Rap. Track 3 (Red) = He- He- Here we go!
And once that was finished. I decided I needed to put this on my Youtube channel too! WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO THE ACTUAL VIDEO.
I freakin’ nailed it huh? I’m honestly not the biggest fan of the mashup at this point, despite how much work it took. But who cares, the end result was this video, and this video is perfect. All the footage is from the actual scene in Tarzan that uses Son of Man, with NO footage left over. It all just fit into place.
So in the end, this idea survived 2 months of development, led up to this whole ordeal, and ended up launching my lucrative mashup career. By which I mean only Tem Eastwood was lucrative.
WOW. Well, I whipped this up to further support Triple-Q’s sick YouTube crusade. But wouldn’t you know it, the YouTube Content ID system blocked it for the footage and not the song. Figures! (thx Anno I hate u)
But better to put it out here on Tumblr with the weird compression problems than to let it sit, hopeless, on my desktop. After all, YouTube can’t keep us down. Nothing can!
In honor of @triple-q ‘s channel getting personally DDOS’ed by Kanye West himself, I decided to resurrect this… Now, no one’s ever seen this before, so let’s be clear:
Kanye West’s legal team has turned extraordinarily sour recently. I tried to upload this to Youtube back on December 4, 2015. It wasn’t watched by a single soul. Claimed immediately and declared 100% unwatchable. I don’t even monetize my videos. It just got completely blocked.
So in the meantime, and by that I mean within days of each other bothTriple-Q and BotanicSage have taken hits for mashups using POWER.
So, I realized. If Youtube’s gonna be the intermediary dick here and block this, maybe I should go somewhere else! At least it is physically possible to allow people to view it here.
