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...
2019-04-08 22:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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 si...
2019-03-12 19:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 w...
2019-02-16 22:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2019-02-15 17:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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. 2019-02-14 09:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 hav...
2019-01-31 02:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 imp...
2019-01-18 20:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2019-01-02 07:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 excruci...
2018-12-24 06:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2018-12-11 22:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2018-11-14 23:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I posted the Blender song on SoundCloud, but exclusively for you guys, here's an instrumenta...
2018-11-09 16:53:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2018-11-08 00:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 pres...
2018-10-01 21:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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 video...
2018-09-26 17:16:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It's short... it's dense... it's a Quick D!
2018-09-02 05:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2018-08-27 21:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2018-08-20 23:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostJust 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...
2018-08-19 04:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
2018-08-18 01:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 realiz...
2018-07-30 14:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
2018-07-02 20:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2018-07-01 16:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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....
2018-06-28 21:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostFrom 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 agai...
2018-06-27 16:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
2018-06-26 22:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2018-06-26 16:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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....
2018-06-22 13:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2018-06-01 01:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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 u...
2018-05-28 19:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post