New Bonus Video: Remaking My Destroyed Set With The Magic of Open Source
Added 2023-01-12 19:24:17 +0000 UTCFancy seeing you here, friend. I hope Christmas treated you well. Mine went great, except I sat next to an Aunt who was getting over some kind of Flu (not covid thankfully!) and managed to get sick. I lost my voice and needed to wait a bit until I could re-record some of the voiceover for this here bonus video, so sorry for the delay. On the plus side, I missed both of the New Year's parties I was invited to, so I probably seem real cool and aloof - a much-needed social win for Harry.
Please find enclosed a video about how I 'built' the fake set you saw in the Oof video, using advanced 3D software and a lot of bumbling. It's also a sort-of tutorial, and a sort-of rant about the strangehold Adobe has over almost every creative professional.
Before I made The Tommy Discovery, back when the Oof video was supposed to be forty minutes max, I had recorded a section exploring how copyright works, along with Roblox's history of using other people's sound effects. When I suddenly needed to make room for ninety minutes of pure terror, I made the decision to cut that stuff for time since it no longer contributed to (what had become) the overall point. I’ll clean that up and get it posted sometime. Since I’m about to do the $10 patron poll for the next bonus video, I'll put that on there too in case that’s the interesting one.
There's a lot more cutting-room-floor stuff for the Oof video, more weird Tommy stories mostly, but I think I'll hold off on posting those in case they come in handy for a proper follow-up video.
My primary concern right now is getting organised. The last few videos (and my current projects, frankly) all spiraled into madness in unexpected ways, and made my scope, rate of output, and my general work-life balance into a complete mess. During the pandemic I enjoyed having the many distractions, but I want to get things under control and feel like I have a workable schedule, and life, again. Some stuff I want to do this year involves working with other people in a timely and responsible manner, which is regrettable, but it can't be helped, so I should try to make the most of it.
On that note, expect a proper update on how the rest of the year should look, as soon as I get it figured out myself. My new year's resolution is to put an end to jokes about 'the yearly hbomb video'.
Oh, you'll see.
You'll all see.
Love,
Harry
Comments
this video is realy cool, I am doing stuff with the godot and start to use linux so is aways cool seepeople talk about open software
Luken
2024-10-25 19:03:31 +0000 UTCHaving suffered as a rubbish freelance photographer and videographer before dropping it (for now?) for the sake of sanity, Adobe's stranglehold was infuriating back in uni, anything with a perpetual licence seems increasingly like gold dust, which makes me love the open source work all the more <3. Also, unironically, this video (even if half rant, always a good rant) actually helped me get into working on 3D modelling and editing for some game development work, I'm practicing scanning and taking photos of all my latest baking and testing the models out in Blender, it's become a weird, but really really satisfying and creative hobby and I'm so grateful for you actually introducing Meshroom to me!
WM
2023-12-15 13:42:14 +0000 UTCMe waiting to see 👁👄👁 For all of us to see 👁🫦👁
Payton Wilkes
2023-12-06 18:32:03 +0000 UTCI feel like I’ve just been told Father Christmas isn’t real, and I’m like, I knew it! And kudos to you for the clever trickery! Thank god Father Christmas is not really. He touched my ******** ****, and my ******* ***** ****** *******. Filthy bugger.
Catherine Stowell
2023-10-06 17:05:18 +0000 UTCI remember when I used to read books. DON’T LOOK AT ME!!!!!
Catherine Stowell
2023-09-26 00:40:44 +0000 UTC"How do you even look at yourself" pfft, like I haven't been discociating since 2017. I couldn't even tell you how many times I cut myself when I last shaved. Reading? What is that? furreal great line.
Draexian
2023-09-24 04:31:24 +0000 UTCImposter syndrome bit gave my imposter syndrome imposter syndrome...
Giorgi Niniashvili
2023-09-04 14:09:47 +0000 UTCUnironically, the process you went through for this is *really* insightful, I'm absolutely, mercilessly stealing this to do on some inevitable creative project at some indeterminate point in the future; much love for the work as always!!! <3
WM
2023-09-01 16:05:53 +0000 UTChold on, no, I'm not done. What, did you think you could play with fire? Did you think you could use Redshift for Blender? Have you learned nothing? Do you feel like learning a new node system that makes no sense and that there is NO documentation for. Ok no that's a lie, there is one single series of community-made YouTube videos that might help you get started. If you can get redshift to work. Because did I forget to mention that all of this is optimised like... I can't even think of a joke it's just not optimised. at all. Have fun pausing the one video that exists at the point where redshift is supposed to "think for a second" and wondering why your screen is grey. or black. or white. Redshift, like Cinema 4D has a personal vendetta against working properly, a second thing, and you. That being said, Maxon is still my baby girlypop girlfriend because for the low low price of only eating ramen, I can crash after effects with the comfort that the work I just lost was professional as shit.
Charli Harvey
2023-08-18 04:16:30 +0000 UTCthis is from like five months ago but no amount of time can stop me from taking an opportunity to hate on cinema 4d. I swear to god that program is DESIGNED to be a confusing mess of menus placed where you'd least expect them. it's like playing a point and click flash adventure game every time you want to change a single setting. The Redshift render engine, also owned by Maxon, is not only not the default, it's not built in either! so now there are a whole new set of menu adventures waiting for you the next time you need to change even a single parameter. Blender's "render" tab is replaced in C4D with, conservatively, five to six bazillion separate windows that are filled to the brim with buttons named like "new instance" with plus buttons beside it with a tooltip that just says "try it". The Blender options tabs change with context; in cinema 4d, you can change the settings of a redshift camera that doesn't exist! What's the difference between a normal camera and a redshift camera you ask, foolishly? I DON'T KNOW. I think it has different settings but I wouldn't know because I'm not willing to brave the Dead Sea of Azazel to find out. If anyone here ever gets their grimy, misguided hands on a copy of Cinema 4D as a mistake or punishment and thinks, as a child of sin might, that you've happened into professional software. You haven't. You've happened into the reason Maya is the industry standard. If, god forbid, you attempt to learn C4D, your hubris will lead you directly to the Maya install page. From there, you'll have to take a hard left and follow your wallet to blender, where you belong. C4D is truly the Sibelius of 3d software. The fourth dimension is PAIN.
Charli Harvey
2023-08-18 04:00:43 +0000 UTCAs someone is is trapped deep in the maw of Autodesk software, I can attest that blender is more fun than Maya. Nothing beats autocad tho
Kresimir
2023-06-21 16:23:16 +0000 UTCI now understand why your videos take so long to make.
Mirror Joel
2023-06-21 13:22:43 +0000 UTClol thats why I stan Procreate. its not Free, but it is like $12 to use it forever, and decidely not a subscription like every other fucking thing in the app store. like I see adobe trying to make a drawing app that takes off but they suck, and cant figure it out, because Procreate has a huge grip on digital art industries, my own experience with it being in the tattoo industry, where literally all 1 million tattooers use an ipad and procreate and have never opened an adobe app in their life, plus procreate benefits from the cottage industry if brushes/textures that springs up
Creamer
2023-06-08 22:23:19 +0000 UTCunrelated comment: i cant wait for the vampire masquerade bloodlines video. yeah i have no clue if or when it will come out, but he’s been teasing it for like 7 years and its a game i know nothing about at all or have heard of but apparently its good and idk why for years i’ve refused to google it just because i want hbomb to explain it
Creamer
2023-03-04 16:12:33 +0000 UTCThere's no real set in your Mum's garage anymore? 😭 I feel like a kind who's just been told Father Christmas isn't real.
Beth Thomas
2023-03-03 13:16:50 +0000 UTCThe Tommy Tallarico article in this 1997 magazine might be of interest if you haven't already seen it. He essentially admits that a large part of his career is down to lies and/or an exaggerated persona. https://archive.org/details/digital-diner-july-1997/page/62/mode/2up "Tallarico picked up a newspaper and used his charm to land a job selling music keyboards at Guitar Center: 'I told 'em I knew everything about everything, but I didn't know anything about anything.'" "'Me and George are all about portraying an image ... When I dress up in a gold jacket with 17 bodyguards around me, some people in the industry take it the wrong way. 'What, he thinks he's a superstar?' Absolutely not, it's a gag -- a publicity stunt. It gets people talking.'"
Critical Kate
2023-02-23 17:48:43 +0000 UTCWhat was the metadata for the replacement audio you had to use in the Oof! video like? Did Tommy Tallarico's name suddenly appear, claiming ownership for everything?
Harper Onions
2023-02-13 02:03:12 +0000 UTCIt's not super great yet imo!
Hbomb
2023-02-03 13:09:03 +0000 UTCThat is very clever and I refuse to do it
Hbomb
2023-02-03 13:08:45 +0000 UTCI wonder if baking a normal map out of the high-poly version might have had better results without needing that (maybe slightly janky) decimated mesh?
Novelyst
2023-02-03 11:55:27 +0000 UTCYou could use Blender as your video editing software, too, you know. https://i.imgur.com/soKnJFg.gif
Aletheos
2023-02-01 20:31:45 +0000 UTCI'm a vfx student, this makes me so happy since its exactly what we do except we use expensive software that literally requires a degree to know to make the same result, Im honestly really glad people have a fun time with blender and its free and accessible
Harry Is Cool
2023-02-01 20:11:39 +0000 UTCI'm looking forward to your video about creative tools. I'm fascinated by open source. It seems amazing that it can produce such useful tools. I'm a computational scientist and I rely heavily on open source stuff, even though some of it is maintained by private companies that make their money selling support. I have also found that open source software usually has all the functionality, but commercial software is often much easier to use and has much better documentation, simply because there is someone whose job is to write a good manual.
Adam Iaizzi
2023-01-19 16:26:31 +0000 UTCYeah! The burned parts of my coat are contributing to the edge looking weird
Hbomb
2023-01-18 18:33:06 +0000 UTCI thought I was one of the people that spotted the fake background and was rewarded by the reveal, however looking at some of the raw-ish footage in this video makes me question why I thought that initially. Because the lighting around the edges of your shirt's arms and your hands looked off in the oof vid and that's why I questioned it but it looked the same in the raw footage so maybe my eyes are just weird and seeing things that aren't really an issue.
Chelsea Monk
2023-01-17 11:10:19 +0000 UTCI’ve always been fascinated by how adobe such a specific form of gatekeeping and so much graphic design education even has to be “how to decipher this fucking thing”
Kat Lo
2023-01-15 10:39:16 +0000 UTCAs an animator who has several colleagues that are graphic designers, adobe is the absolute bane of our existence. Not even because they suck, are overly expensive, and crash all the time (though they do) but because any art related job requires you to use the awful software on some level. How many industries depend on it's workers using the worst tools available to them?
AJ The Bumblebee
2023-01-15 06:28:50 +0000 UTCMaybe I’m a bit of a pessimist but there’s something really sus about “Muse Group” who just acquired the existing open source projects they own. If a company has a really short cool domain name like “mu.se” I’m always a bit suspicious where (probably from the other proprietary music apps they own, the company was formed from UltimatwGuitar) they got the money to pay for it (domain names like that are MINIMUM 6 figures) and why they decided it was a good use of that money. Those projects existed before muse group. It’s really great they have blessed MuseScore in particular with paid full-time developers, designers, etc. so I guess I shouldn’t complain. But also after the (admittedly probably inconsequential) thing that happened with Audacity I’m a bit wary.
SeeBeyond
2023-01-14 19:58:44 +0000 UTCi was genuinely blown away by how much i enjoyed axiom's end (and truth of the divine). eventually you gotta read it bombyboy
willow H
2023-01-14 12:50:12 +0000 UTCI started doing Archviz with Cinema 4D about 10years ago, tried also 3Ds max and finally switched to Blender 3 years ago because my company didn’t have any software for it. No regrets, amazing solution. If I may give unprompted advice: for certain things, paid products are still superior in final result and it’s a good career move to know c4d and at least 1 of the dominant plugin options for your field, but knowing your way around Blender is definitely great long term and will be very rewarding too.
Mimosa
2023-01-14 10:17:43 +0000 UTCAs someone who uses Blender for Archviz almost daily, I am amazed. Honestly, Blender is SUCH a good software. Also I didn’t even notice despite watching the oof video multiple times! Great work!
Mimosa
2023-01-14 10:11:49 +0000 UTCBlender is AMAZING! It's taken a long time to get a good interface, but now that it has one it's just awesome.
Jeffrey Theobald
2023-01-14 05:41:31 +0000 UTCsuddenly hbomb is degrading me for my lack of reading books the way I used to in a way that usually only happens in my head!! wow!!! /lh
Kaz
2023-01-14 03:06:44 +0000 UTCThis is genuinely fascinating! I literally started a 3d design course (in Cinema 4d) this week (that I've been sitting on for two years) and now I'm wondering if I should just abandon ship and switch to Blender ... Also this is the first one of these bonus vids I've watched and I appreciate that even this has the sweet, sweet anti-capitalist nugget at the end. I'm a designer who needs Adobe software to work and make money and I just wanna say fuck Adobe.
Caroline Royce
2023-01-13 21:51:04 +0000 UTCLooking behind the scenes is really cool.
Or Light Shawat
2023-01-13 12:25:52 +0000 UTCIn your "[BONUS] - SET TOUR" video, you had a bit where you complain about other people having "well lit set, with shelves displaying their nerd tat" And now you have become what you hate.
Xelias
2023-01-13 12:09:05 +0000 UTCI really wish this one video was publically available, so I could show it to people online.
Alma
2023-01-13 11:14:49 +0000 UTCNice, now let's hope I cam order it! Do you still have a link or something?
Erik Olsson (TerrorBlades)
2023-01-13 07:51:37 +0000 UTCIt was just floating around on one of those print-on-demand websites, I think it came up while I was googling for a high-res version of the the media offline image and I impulse-bought it
Hbomb
2023-01-13 06:47:20 +0000 UTCyum yum yum
Hbomb
2023-01-13 06:46:19 +0000 UTCI considered doing this but it was decent enough as it was that I decided not to worry lol
Hbomb
2023-01-13 06:45:52 +0000 UTCThat was really rad, thank you for giving us a peek behind the curtain! Very cool that you did it with open source software, and also super impressive is the level of detail you were able to achieve. Can’t wait to hear more about the Brainmind Residency project too…been wondering about that.
peachycliodhna
2023-01-13 05:26:15 +0000 UTC"Remember when you used to read books?" Ouch, Harry
Parahelix
2023-01-13 04:57:02 +0000 UTCHoly shit! Where did you get the "Media Offline" note book?! I neeeeeed it! So many times its ruined me!
Erik Olsson (TerrorBlades)
2023-01-13 04:51:21 +0000 UTCwatching Harry get mercury poisoning from some old CFLs
Chris Hamlin
2023-01-13 03:03:24 +0000 UTC"The last few videos (and my current projects, frankly) all spiraled into madness in unexpected ways" Bro, I've been subscribed for a while. I'm here for the expected unexpected madness by now. Keep on keeping on.
Joost Ziff
2023-01-13 01:14:32 +0000 UTCI used Maya as a 3D animator, then later taught it for a few years, so I know it pretty well... but I use it very little now and it's hard to justify the cost. I've only kept up the licence in case I want to go back into a Maya job... Maybe I should give up and move to Blender.
Naomi Hatchman
2023-01-13 00:53:45 +0000 UTCThus, years after a groundbreaking cross-channel skit with PhilosophyTube, began the HBomb cinematic universe.
Wesley Jones
2023-01-13 00:28:13 +0000 UTCOhh does this go into them using our work for AI training? Opting people in automatically?
Hacklock
2023-01-12 23:12:56 +0000 UTCLoved the video, could tell it was a green screen cause of the dark gradient between your lab coat and the background. I think that can be reduced with more and more chroma keys (as explained by The Big D https://youtu.be/aO3JgPUJ6iQ?t=530), but I don't know if that would cause adobe to crash more
Rebecca
2023-01-12 22:05:26 +0000 UTCYou the fucking bomb, Hbomb! I'm proud to be your patron.
Steven Thomas
2023-01-12 21:36:42 +0000 UTCThanks for that, and thanks for enduring the hellsite for so very long.
Kyle Rudy
2023-01-12 21:28:20 +0000 UTCAre you a fan of Ian Hubert? I sometimes get that vibe from other people experimenting with Blender when they use real photographs. If not, check his old tutorials out - they're still great!
Sean Carter
2023-01-12 21:16:58 +0000 UTCready for the era of the biannual h bomb vid
Shelby Fawn
2023-01-12 21:06:40 +0000 UTCI look forward to the SECOND yearly Hbomb video.
Gareth Clarke
2023-01-12 20:57:52 +0000 UTCThis is my wildest dreams talking but I kinda hope those timely interactions this year are the interviews planned for the second RWBY video. I've been itching to learn how that tale unfolds. As for Blender, I'm not an animator and god knows I need to stop picking up new creative hobbies to smother the other ones, but any doubts I might have had about it were thoroughly crushed when I saw 'Captain Yajima'. Anyway, see you space cowboy
Sedric And Charlie
2023-01-12 20:50:36 +0000 UTCI did them last year! Wait
Hbomb
2023-01-12 20:43:18 +0000 UTCMy brain interpreted this as the opposite! I thought the set was real, and the green room was green screened in post. Thank you for this explanation, Hguy!
Landon Kerouac
2023-01-12 20:37:58 +0000 UTCGoes to show that I’m paying way more attention to your content then your artistic rendering of it. My apologies Master.
Lynn Short
2023-01-12 20:15:05 +0000 UTCThis actually makes me want to learn Blender now. I've wanted to make animated jack o lantern faces for my halloween pumpkins, but I was always worried about the learning curve (I remember how long it took to learn GIMP 15 years ago) but this makes me feel like it's maybe a bit easier to pick up to use for something comparatively simple that isn't 3-hour long video essays.
Oxnard Mantalvo
2023-01-12 20:06:10 +0000 UTCI am currently re-blasting through a Udemy course I'd highly recommend on Blender modeling from Gamedev.tv. (Just look for the polygonal dinosaur on the store page.) They also do a good tutorial on the Unity3D engine. (Fun extra note: not only are Unity3D and Blender both free, but Blender models import seamlessly into Unity like they were designed with eachother in mind.)
Cameron Shember
2023-01-12 20:01:33 +0000 UTC"you'll all see" *Morgan Freeman voice over* "they did in fact not see"
Keef Baker
2023-01-12 19:58:39 +0000 UTCFantastic video!
Sid
2023-01-12 19:58:06 +0000 UTCThis is just *so* cool! Putting yourself back in a space that no longer exists, but also with such ease, it's mindblowing how far we've come. And also I'm glad for the wallpaper being so uneven on the original wall, it gave it ~*~charm~*~. Kind fits with the characters you'd play, one can project how they'd place wallpapering on their pyramid of time needs. Oh man, adding that shadow in AE was so brilliant, it really sells the illusion! :D
Ro the Lion
2023-01-12 19:53:56 +0000 UTCobligatory reminder: Have you done your taxes yet Harry? :D
Charlotte
2023-01-12 19:53:54 +0000 UTCI was really hoping you'd talk more about how you achieved the effect, and I had absolutely no idea you put THIS much effort into it. Very impressive!
Mobius Scarf
2023-01-12 19:52:11 +0000 UTCi'll try
Hbomb
2023-01-12 19:46:53 +0000 UTCdear god
Hbomb
2023-01-12 19:46:34 +0000 UTCI'm gonna be honest, "A Measured Response To You Fuckers," was one of my favorites, and had me goddamn rolling. There's no capturing that sort of lightning in a bottle, but I mention this in the hope that you maintain methods for all of us to torment and infuriate you once twitter finally goes under. Just in case inspiration happens to strike, you know?
Kyle Rudy
2023-01-12 19:45:23 +0000 UTCThat's so sick wtf, I never even realised. I'm now excited to see what you can do on future videos :) also, Ian Hubert has a really good video related to green screens in blender and cool stuff you can do, such as casting a shadow. It's called 'Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender'.
Archie
2023-01-12 19:42:39 +0000 UTCI'm excited for what's next! also pumped for another full Tommy video, should it manifest, because that man is a wreckage.
Chai
2023-01-12 19:40:01 +0000 UTCHbomb going into - to quote Shaun - mad scientist mode.
FenianBolshie
2023-01-12 19:39:24 +0000 UTCRemembering what working with UVW mapping in 3dsmax was like in 2005 makes this video look like Star Trek technology.
James Rule
2023-01-12 19:37:32 +0000 UTCI can’t wait to showcase our Brainmind residents, they are so fun and unbelievably talented (we had around a thousand applicants!!).
Kat Lo
2023-01-12 19:32:55 +0000 UTC
