Hey Chalksters!
We all hope that you liked our latest release "It's a Gamer's Christmas"!
Now we post one of the early demos of this song :3
Have fun!
2020-12-22 14:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Chalksters!
Wanna share the instrumental version of the song with you!
Enjoy ^^
2020-12-17 16:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostF#(add9)
Finally it's Christmas
G#m7
A very special time of year
B/C# C# &nbs...
2020-12-15 14:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chalkeaters present:
featuring beloved Natalia Natchan!
Hey Chalksters! Alios here. We promised a small gift for you this Christmas — and here it goes! Hope this song is gonna keep you warm this Holiday season. The public release goes live on YouTube, Spotify and other platforms December 14 (at least we hope so haha), so you have 5 whole days to listen to this song before the rest of the world.
Pl...
2020-12-09 06:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey Chalksters,
Here's a small instrumental sneak peek of the upcoming song. This is gonna be a Christmas gift to all of you, and we're not gonna charge you for that one! It's scheduled for release in mid-December, and you guys will have an early access as usual.
It's a small, but really cute song to keep you entertained while you're still waiting for the epic "Handsome Man" release (it's a working title) that we've been working on for the past half year. Hope you...
2020-12-06 10:53:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Now this feels unreal. Thanks for all the love! Even though we didn’t manage to finish new things yet, you never stopped supporting us. We really appreciate it and promise something huge next year! Though we aren’t done with 2020 yet ;) #2020ArtistWrapped
Hey Chalksters!
Take a look at one of the early demos for "Lock Me Up"! Isn't that cute? ^^
Initially the song was in 130 bmp, but during the production it was remade into 125 bmp. So the voice sounds a little bit... streched and weird :D
It's always funny to listen to some early stuff :)
2020-11-28 09:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey Chalksters!
Hope you enjoyed the wip teaser we posted earlier. We're gonna post the short wip video for the Chaksters Kings and Tzars soon ^^
For now, here are some more facts about this project:
1. There'll be several vocalists in the song and the name of one you all know for sure ;) We are very excited to work with this super-professional singer!
2. The video is gonna be in "It just works" style with the puppet animation.
3.
2020-11-21 14:14:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Chalksters!
Despite we haven't posted for a while, we're still alive and doing some stuff.
To prove it, we wanna show you the background teaser from the biggest of the upcoming music videos. We deleted some spoilery details from it to keep the mystery. Can't wait to show you all of that! :)
2020-11-17 11:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Chalksters, Alios here!
I got something special for you today. If you... happen to be in a jazz big band, it might come in handy: a brass sheet music for the Todd Howard’s song! Which we found due to request from one of our subscribers, and I thought that I’d share it with you guys as well.
Would you guys like to see more content like this? What other forms of guides to play our music or particular songs would you like to see? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
... 2020-10-06 11:04:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Chalksters!
You asked for an original demo of Doom Crossing; and I'm sorry it took so long to post it, but I've got some more materials along with the demo for you: the concepts we were making during the creation of the video!
This time we didn't really have a full animatic like while we were working on Breathtaking, because the whole video making process was a bit more chaotic, which affected the video itself in a good way :D
Hope you enjoy it!
~ Alios
LOCK ME UP (QUARANTINE SONG)
VERSE 1:
Bbm
Last week I heard clicking sounds from the nearby alley
Db
Now the whole world's on lockdown
Ab
Wonde...
2020-06-05 06:20:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Here they are, finally! Yeah, there's a huuuuge mess with the tunings. Originally, the song was in the key of F major but halfway through production we had to lower it to E♭ major. Because ukulele isn't very flexible in terms of transposing I just tuned it a whole-step down. However, guitars are flexible, and they were lowered only by a half-step in order to reach that low E♭ for the riff. Already a headache but that's not it yet! In the outro I needed an E♭ on ukulele so I...
2020-06-03 21:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!~ One day while recording the Doom Crossing stuff I got really bored so instead of proper work I switched to doing this for an hour, lol. I just like fooling around too much~ :D
2020-05-29 14:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Chalksters, Alios here.
As usual, sharing the original demo of "Quarantine Song" with you: the very first one, which I recorded right after I finished writing the whole song. Along with a very first sketch of the artwork by Pondis (:
2020-05-21 15:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Here comes the official™ list of references from the quarantine song "Lock Me Up"! References in the artwork are presented on the image below, and here are references in the lyrics:
References in the lyrics:
“Clicking sounds from the nearby alley”, “Soldiers blocked my district”:
The guy clearly lives in The Last of Us world, surrounded by horrible clickers, zombie-like creatures who used to be humans before they got infected by the cordyceps fungus. Or at least he...
2020-05-17 16:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post
While we're on a small hiatus, our motion designer Lenich is working on optimising process for creating the next "It Just Works"-style animation. With the scripts he wrote for After Effects we'll be able to do much more beautiful stuff with much less pain :D
The assets used in this demo are completely random and are not related to our future videos ~
2020-05-17 11:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostSorry it took so long to post it ^^"
Have fun! ~
2020-05-16 09:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostAlios here.
The band's currently on a small hiatus: Ergy and me are making a small personal project, and Yumi and Pondis are studying for their exams. We'll be back in a couple of weeks, planning to start cooking up fundamentals for the next big thing that we're planning to do.
In fact, Lenich is already writing some weird but awesome after effects plugins to make work easier for Yumi and himself. I don't understand any of this technical stuff so I just sit and watch :D Next week ...
2020-05-16 09:08:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Patron-only server is up and running, although not much is happening there for now :D
To get in there, make sure to enable Discord app integration in the Patreon settings!
2020-05-09 09:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Chalksters,
Here you go: the lossless version of "Lock Me Up" and as a bonus for our beloved Patrons, along with the full image from the background of "Lock Me Up" video!
This pic in its full size is available only here on Patreon! ;)
2020-05-08 20:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A simple song to help our gamer pals get through all this mess. Being in a lockdown is not something even hardcore gamers are used to, but we have to make it through for our love ones and ourselves. And we will. Just take care and #stayhome, alright?
Lossless and Instrumental — soon!
2020-05-04 21:56:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chalkeaters feat. Idrise:
In case you don't understand terms used in the song, I'm attaching the lyrics to the post so you can google them :D
The song will be released on the next week, please don't leak it! Thank you!
2020-05-01 19:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
So this happened. Just wow. Todd's no longer king of our sweet hill, all hail the new overlords Doom Slayer and Isabelle.
We didn't expect this song to go that viral. Thank you all so much!
Another song's on its way to the stores right now, our early access patrons will get it tomorrow! And yeah, tomorrow we're also opening the Patrons-only Discord server, where you'll be able to chat with the members of our team and receive all the recent news directly from The Chalk...
2020-04-30 09:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, it's Alios ~
I used to do song drafts mostly in my notebooks: I liked the messy look of my handwriting and the ability to doodle while thinking and to cross everything out with big fat strokes. But I find myself writing lyrics in my notes app on an iPad much more frequently now, so those handwritten drafts, which I loved so much to come back to years after the song is released, are starting to fade away.
Still, I mostly use a notebook to start working on a new song: for some r...
2020-04-24 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the most sacred things for every songwriter are the initial demos of their songs. How they sounded like before any edits, professional mixes and performances — just pure idea in form of a really rough recording. I always keep stuff like that, who knows, maybe it'll become valuable for future generations somehow :D
Anyway, remember a demo used in the animatic? Well, this one's even older, I recorded i...
2020-04-21 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You wanted Metal K.K. Slider to rock it out on your desktop? Here you go!
ALL the "Doom Crossing" wallpapers in one shareable folder: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XopphQMjdZSuBYCv6
2020-04-21 11:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreon, it's Ergy.
Well, this is basically how I recorded guitars for the song. Rly.
P.S. Not supported by L̶a̶ Isabelle Strings
2020-04-20 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post'Sup Chalksters!
I just noticed that I actually never shared a "Breathtaking" instrumental with you, I'm really sorry for that ~ guess it's time to make up for it, huh!
Here you go, two instrumentals at once: now you can praise our lord and saviour Keanu yourself and right after that imagine that you're a cute shih tsu going on an adventure with the Doom Slayer.
Lyrics for both songs can be found on our B...
2020-04-19 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelp
I never could've guessed that Doom Crossing song will blow up as fast as it did, and I want to say huge thank you to each and every one of you Chalksters! You really help us to build something new here, a project that we've been dreaming to build for a pretty long time. With your help we can really make each song and video as unique and good looking as we want it to be, no compromises and passable releases.
We've been promising to create a Discord chat for ou...
2020-04-18 21:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post