This is the 5th video of my weekly video series. If you watched the last video though you know that this instead took a month. It was supposed to be an easy video idea that i came up with while filming my last video. A video that was going to take 2 or 3 days so that i could have a week and a half to finish building this lamp. But it turned out that I underestimated how involved it would be. A classic blunder.
Had a lot of fun and learnt a lot.
Learnt mostly in mistakes and YouTube tutorials.
What not to dos.
You should watch the video if you havent already before scrolling down futher:
There were a few distinguishable parts of this video for me that each had its own adventure:
- The Script: This took about 4 days. 3 days longer than i wanted it to. But the more i thought about what i wanted to talk about, and what i wanted to say, the longer it got. This should have been the first warning to dial back my timely expectations. But it wasnt. I also didnt really end up using the script in the way that i expected to. Ive never read to camera and i didnt think that i would have had to memorize it. But i would have had to if i wanted it to come out how i initially thought it would. The whole nicely worded script got turned into fancy bullet points / idea board
- The filming: All the filming for this video happened in about 3 days. 3 days. One month of looking and fixing and fenagalling with footage that got got in 3 days. The entire time i kept thinking, what would it be like if i spent even double the time filming? It ended on sunday and by this point I still thought i could have released the video by monday. It was the start of my room exploding with objects caught in the cross fire.
- The Editing: When i started putting everything together i realized how painfully often i say; um uh, , but, and like. Getting rid of the accidental filler and trying to make something cohesive took the better part of a week. I also realized at this point that i had completely screwed up most of the audio. But it felt wrong (a slippery slope) to film main chunks past a week. So i didn't.
- 3d Scanning: A fun and frustrating part (a reoccurring theme). When i came with this idea i thought that i wanted to just showcase the objects spinning around in between talking about them. As i wrote the script though i got carried away with the different ways i could transition from one scene to the next with these 3d objects. I funnily only got a phone with lidar after i finished the video completely so all of the 3d files are made with photogrammetry/3d gausian splatting:
Right Doc:
Printed Casio:
Land Cruiser:
Trek 1420:
REI Backpacking Tent:
District Vision Takeyoshi Altitude Master Silver Sunglasses:
Moleskines and Lamy:
Briefcase:
Desk:
Dickies:
Macbook:
Guitar:
Carhartt Jacket:
Ring:
Leica:
Room:
- 3d animation: The part of this video that took the most time. Something that i thought would be easy just based off of me being able to navigate a computer well. Well. It didn't transfer. Just getting the files into software was incredibly difficult for me. Started in Unreal Engine with Quentin and I heard the fans of my laptop come on for the first time. it was beautiful and took maybe 30 minutes to figure out how to get the texture of our object onto the object.
I tried for a while to play with unreal only to realize that blender might be the way to go for what i wanted to do. Reddit told me so.
And so I downloaded another bit of 3D wizardry and went through the whole ordeal of uploading things into it; learning how to navigate a piece of software thats UI was a virtual world. The following are the things I documented along the way.
A collage of texture images that i found to be really awesome:
- Music: The fastest and funnest part of this whole thing. day and a half. Speedy because I had hung out with Colm before any 3d modeling and i asked him to help me figure out which chords go with which objects. We got about half the objects that day. it was really sweet and felt like some sort of brain expanding activity. I took videos of what we did and tried to recreate the ones we came up with. The tent one i stole directly from the video i took of him playing:
And thats it. Put all of that together over the course of a month and you have that video. It was a good month. the first week was stressful and so was every weekend. filled with the same high school dread of turning or not turning in a late assignment. I pushed back a lot of important housekeeping items during past 30 days in service to completing this movie. This is the closest i could get in 30 days to you seeing the vision of an idea that i had. I still wish you could see what was in my head though. the final product that i strived for and didnt hit. (classically). Anyway. here are some bonuses:
My attempt at immortalizing my objects into video and 3d and text and other people. Thank you for being a part of that.