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New Series Early Access
Hello friends,Thank you for your patience. Here it is! A new thing! I call it "CD /" ... Like file paths in my brain to particular technical concepts that I try to explain in the fastest and simplest way possible.It's a slight change of vibe. Not as zany. But I wanted to try my hand at t...
New Sub-series
I've been thinking about how to produce stuff more efficiently without overworking and missing deadlines. So I'm trying a new thing. It's a companion series where Captain D focuses on explaining simple video/filmmaking tech concepts, while hopefully still being entertaining.I'm impos...
Music & Sound Effects Track - Laminar Flow Disambiguation
Haven't done one of these in a while. In my videos I try to keep the audio side as rich as the visuals, so there's a dense soundscape of music and sound effects throughout. But there's a limit to what you can hear with the talking over it. So here's the episode with the dialogue trac...
Balloon Stab Outtakes
It's made to look easy in the episode, but it actually took us a few attempts to get the punctured balloon to produce a nice, steady, laminar stream that lasts. Each take was separated by a cleanup and resetting process - a bit tedious for the last shot of a long day!
New Video Early Access: Laminar Flow DISAMBIGUATION
Hi friends,What can I say? I've been a little traumatized by the arduousness of creating this video. But I think it turned out ok. I hope it's entertaining. I hope I didn't misspell stuff.Please enjoy!Meanwhile, I'll try to reacquaint myself with the concept of sleep.
Cursed Delays
Guys, I was so keen to start the year off right and not be late with the new video. I wrote it quickly and we filmed it early enough in the month. But then I filled it with a bunch of effects I haven't tried before and THEN Destin from Smarter Every Day happened to come out with a video about th...
New Set Build (progress pics)
For the upcoming video I wanted an alternate location where I can physically demonstrate some stuff. I figured it could be set up around the kitchen entrance of our new "soundstage" and started improvising with insulation sheets and gaffer's tape.Strips of mounting tape + sandbags and ot...
Patreon Exclusive - Zomblogalypse Intro
Happy New Year, everyone!I did something a bit unusual for December and I hope you'll roll with it. It's a collab of sorts with old friends of mine who make Zomblogalypse, a British comedy/horror web series. It's very low-budget and very funny.They're finishing post-production on an ...
Behind the Scenes: "Artificial Intelligence" Shot Breakdown
Hey guys,Here's a detailed making-of about one of the animated shots in the last episode. With free, slightly dry commentary!What do you think about this format? It wasn't too excruciating to make, so I could do more if you like it.Hope everyone has a pleasant holiday!
Early Access: 'Mr. Flare Explains: The Virgin Mary'
Hello!Well, once again I took a long time to make a short thing, but I gave it my best. Somehow I always think Mr. Flare episodes are easy because I don't have to film anything. I forget that what would normally be filmed is replaced by animation... That's harder! What's wrong with me?An...
ThinkerCon
Living a jet-setter lifestyle lately. Having just come back from Amsterdam, I'm headed off to and even more glamorous place: Huntsville, Alabama for ThinkerCon, a meet-up of educational YouTubers that Destin from SmarterEveryDay was kind enough to invite me to.I'm still not convinced I'm...
'Blender Reality' Instrumental Track
Yesterday I posted the Blender song on SoundCloud, but exclusively for you guys, here's an instrumental version for, you know, singing loudly in the privacy of your own home.Production NotesThe original tune had been collecting dust in my musical ideas folder for years. It was initially going to...
New Video Early Access: World's Greatest Blenderer
Boooooy.Fixing up the recording of my talk ended up a bigger job than I expected. The original livestream was okay, but there were quite a few technical issues, including some important visuals not being shown at the right time.I color-corrected the entire video, remixed the sound and edited some of...
Next Mission
Hi, human friends!I don't know if it showed, but my last video (the collab with Mark) was actually produced at breakneck speed while I was already gearing up for my upcoming Blender Conference presentation. I mean "gearing up" literally - I had to gather some equipment for all the weird ...
New Video Early Access - Quick D: Mobile Drone
Guys!I did a collab with educational YouTube megastar Mark Rober! Unfortunately the schedule was such that I couldn't time posting this a day early. (He and I both need to post our respective videos at the same time.)But for what it's worth, here it is just a few minutes early. Please enjoy!...
New Video Early Access: Wall Walking
It's short... it's dense... it's a Quick D!
Quickest D Ever?
As a personal challenge, I'm trying to knock out another video before the end of the month. We filmed the day before yesterday and a rough cut is coming together nicely.It will be a (very) Quick D about an old-timey visual effect trope in movies, with "advice" on different methods of ach...
Creating the Babylon 5 Parody Sequence
I'm full of impractical ideas. My latest was to take a simple section of the script, summarizing the Escherian Stairwell thesis paper, and present it as an elaborate spoof of the 90s sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 intro.Why? Well, I happened to be binge re-watching the show. The endearing earnestnes...
Tweaks!
Just a heads-up. I made minor adjustments to a couple of edits in the new video, so I had to re-upload it. The early access post has been updated with the new link, but I'm afraid any comments you may have left directly on YouTube are now gone.Try to remember exactly what you said and repost all...
NEW VIDEO EARLY ACCESS: Escherian Stairwell Deconstruction
Guys... I can't believe I'm finally done.This was one of the most all-around demanding videos I've ever worked on. I'm happy with how it came out and I hope you enjoy it!
An Exciting Non-update!
I don't want to reveal its topic, but the upcoming video is one that I have been attempting to make since the beginning of the year. A month would start and I'd embark on producing it. Then I'd realize it's too massive to finish in time, put it aside and do something simpler instead....
New Tutorial - Easy Procedural Spacescapes
Star Wars, Star Trek, Starsky & Hutch. What do all of these shows have in common (except for the last one)? That's right, tons of scenes that feature outer space visuals.In this After Effects tutorial I demonstrate my take on a common method for creating star fields and nebulas without using sto...
Production Art - Holly Receives Pin
I guess "mixed media" is part of the Captain Disillusion video style. Sometimes I'll throw in traditionally animated shots for no reason. In the case of this quick animation toward the end of the last video, I just couldn't think of any other visual to accompany that part of the voic...
Behind the Scenes Photos
We were pretty busy trying to get everything shot, but I do have a few pics from the set. Most of our the time, as usual, was spent trying to learn the lines (above).But first there was the makeup. I'm not used to having to share a mirror.The setups were pretty simple, but we did do a few moves....
Directorial Tweaks
From the moment of this post for about 10 minutes the link to the early access video will be down because I'm replacing it with an updated version. But please check back in a bit and it will work again.Everything was basically fine, but a couple of technical moments kept bugging me. Here's w...
New Video Early Access - Marble Sorting Machine DEBUNK
Well, after that much time editing it, my brain has no frame of reference left to say anything about the video other than... it is a new video.Please enjoy!
Sound - Perfectionized
Yay, the audio mix is done!Quite a different view of the Pro Tools session with all the edits, sound effects and music. But note how there's not a single clip in the "ADR" tracks...I managed to clean up every problematic line of dialogue without re-recording anything! Sigh, small victori...
Sound Time
Ohhh man. This was quite an editing/VFX period. There's nothing super unusual occurring in this episode, but it somehow ended up being extremely challenging. Just the sheer volume of shots, I suppose.But I'm finally done with the visuals and have started on the sound mix!As mentioned, there ...
UPDATE!
Friends,You may have received too many email notifications today or you may be wondering where the new video is. Or you may be wondering BOTH of those things.Well, here I am, explaining all about it in video form. Over to you, me!
Guess Who's Baaack
Lauren was in town and we shot over 2 hours of footage for an interesting Holly episode. I'm in the process of editing it now.The bad news? Our microphones had some issues so I'm going to have to use all of the world's most expensive software and audio engineering knowledge to try to mak...
