Spook Eater

Created: 8 December 2015

Here we go! The longest gap between creation and upload by far.

Back in December of 2015, I wanted to make Snake Eater mashups. To do this, I had to retime the shortened acapella version of Snake Eater (from the ladder section) to actually follow the timing of the original song (which it doesn’t for whatever reason). So I ended up with a corrected acapella and an instrumental. From these two tracks, Spook Eater was birthed in anguish.

I experimented with the vocals first, and ended up with the weird ghostly up-and-down pitching. Then I just went crazy with the instrumental, adding every spooky audio effect I could find. Once I knew what I was going for, I mixed in a couple Halloween sfx (linked below), and a hint of Resident Evil Basement Theme. Then I rendered it and let it sit in hiding on my desktop for 11 months.

The video was unexpected. Upon digging up the Spook Eater mp3 on 25 Oct 2016, to get it ready be posted on the 31st, I realized that I could do something akin to Son of Kong. It took some fudging, but I somehow managed to make the famous MGS3 Graveyard scene look like it had Snake Eater from the very beginning. It’s a masterpiece.

All the ghosts depicted at the end are from the Metal Gear Solid series of course. I have only Kojima to thank for making my job so easy.

source: http://www.emuparadise.me/soundtracks/highquality/download/MGS3_-_‘Snake_Eater’_Song/FLAC/04_Snake_Eater_(Instrumental)/2494

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA2AypzB3BE


source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQtJaV54bs

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kcF7E69C6Q

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0fHenD3iE

Huey Lewis and the Snake Eaters

Created: 14 February 2016

Snake Eater is baaad for mashups. Did you know?

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.

Heart Eater (Christmas Snakes)

Created: 21 December 2015

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!