Just Some DinosaurA little tribute video to the Jurassic Park franchise as well as the continual advancements related to prehistory ranging from genetic reverse engineering and AI driven gene resequencing. With technology continuing to propel forward, it is only inevitable to recognize that a Jurassic Future is very much on our horizon.
I'll admit that I have many, many misgivings with Jurassic World Evolution 1 and especially 2. But I have to concede that it is an absolutely GORGEOUS game.
After listening to a lot of ambient-related work over the past year, I finally felt compelled to explore Evolution 2's capture mode and just record some interesting shots. The result is the video, which has tons of mistakes admittedly, but I think at least a few little scenes are enjoyable and were well worth the patience.
All of this is done by hand (with the exception of one scene) with an Xbox One Controller, a few mods and patience. I had one major safari for several species to explore on their own in Isla Nublar, and the rest of the shots primarily comes from setting up specific scenarios and then running through them over and over until the dinosaurs mostly behaved in a fashion that worked well with the camera panning I was going for.
THIS IS ALL IN GAME, IN ENGINE. None of this was done in a modelling program or animated. With the exception of the use of basic fade in-out transitions, there are no added effects to this video.
Finally, the video's native resolution is 1080p, 60 fps with a massive data rate. It has been upscaled in post to 1440p to bypass youtube's awful 1080p compression algorithm, which would have reduced the data rate and quality tremendously. I preemptively apologize to all of the people that might watch this thinking it is native 1440p. It is not.
Anywho. Hope you all enjoy. Feel free to ask any questions related to this vid in the comments.
Jurassic Future On Our Horizon (1440p option recommended)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-01 | A little tribute video to the Jurassic Park franchise as well as the continual advancements related to prehistory ranging from genetic reverse engineering and AI driven gene resequencing. With technology continuing to propel forward, it is only inevitable to recognize that a Jurassic Future is very much on our horizon.
I'll admit that I have many, many misgivings with Jurassic World Evolution 1 and especially 2. But I have to concede that it is an absolutely GORGEOUS game.
After listening to a lot of ambient-related work over the past year, I finally felt compelled to explore Evolution 2's capture mode and just record some interesting shots. The result is the video, which has tons of mistakes admittedly, but I think at least a few little scenes are enjoyable and were well worth the patience.
All of this is done by hand (with the exception of one scene) with an Xbox One Controller, a few mods and patience. I had one major safari for several species to explore on their own in Isla Nublar, and the rest of the shots primarily comes from setting up specific scenarios and then running through them over and over until the dinosaurs mostly behaved in a fashion that worked well with the camera panning I was going for.
THIS IS ALL IN GAME, IN ENGINE. None of this was done in a modelling program or animated. With the exception of the use of basic fade in-out transitions, there are no added effects to this video.
Finally, the video's native resolution is 1080p, 60 fps with a massive data rate. It has been upscaled in post to 1440p to bypass youtube's awful 1080p compression algorithm, which would have reduced the data rate and quality tremendously. I preemptively apologize to all of the people that might watch this thinking it is native 1440p. It is not.
Anywho. Hope you all enjoy. Feel free to ask any questions related to this vid in the comments.
Mod - Halo Brutality Evolved on Steam Workshop.Le Mans (1971) Race start and Opening Laps fine tune renderJust Some Dinosaur2023-01-06 | This is a fine tune upscale render of the scene from the movie with the film grain removed.
Sorry the youtube encoding is such shit that it reintroduces compression artefacting. I recommend using a third party downloader to retrieve the source file (should be approx. 2.06 GB) and watch it natively on your PC. The quality is just stellar.Jurassic World Evolution OST File 88Just Some Dinosaur2022-08-19 | That mysterious blue depth.
Music is: Jurassic World Evolution OST File 88.ogg (Unnamed as far as I am aware)
The music exists in both games and can be found by datamining the first.
Footage is just some JWE2 gameplay of me wandering through a lagoon in capture mode to match the ambience of the track.Hex Pentimento Generator Repair Speed (Patch 6.1.0)Just Some Dinosaur2022-07-27 | Just a little showing of how much slowdown matters in DBD.
To calculate slow or action speed penalty perks, you need to take the base speed and divide it by the charge per second after the penalty is incurred.
So in the case of gen speeds for patch 6.1.0, it would be:
90 seconds / (1 c/s - 0.3)
90 / 0.7 = 128.6 -- rounded up, actual time is 128.571428... where "571428" is a repeating sequence.
There ya go. That's all there is to it.
Alternatively, you can calculate it this way by shifting the divisor and multiplying by the base:
90 seconds * (1 / (1 - 0.3))
90 * (1 / 0.7)
90 * 1.42857 = 128.6 -- rounded upRainbow Six Extraction Liberty Island Critical SoloJust Some Dinosaur2022-02-03 | So far R6 Extraction is a pretty fun game. Critical difficulty can definitely be a run for your money, but is still doable on solo. Full squad critical mode is so much more difficult though, by a huge margin hahaSniper Elite 3 - Enemy Headbanging #shortsJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-19 | I guess he just wants to 360 me or something. I dunno #shorts
This is an old, old clip.THERE ARE TWO BOOGEYMEN?!?! #shortsJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-14 | Nope. Nope. Sorry. Nope. #shorts
Boogeyman 1.0 Halloween night. This clip is from some time back in 2019.How Jurassic World SHOULD feel... (full video on channel & in description) #shortsJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-14 | #shorts #jwe2 #jurassicworldevo2
Youtube algorithm kinda japed it, so I wanted to find a way to get it out there and figured a short sample might help with that.
Hope you all enjoy. I might make more of these or another, more polished project of this type. Lemme know how you all feel about it.Alien Isolation - Heart Attack simulator #shortsJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-14 | This is a reupload #shorts version of an old video clip of mine.
This moment genuinely startled me. No way around that. 10/10, would die of a heart attack again.
#Alien #AlienIsolation #jumpscareFar Cry 3 Leopard jumps into water(Normal Resolution)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-14 | Same as the shorts version, but normal resolution size.
I think I am going to make a habit of uploading these normal resolution size videos first. THEN making a cut down shorts version for the youtube algorithm. I know I did it backwards this time, but I will make sure for the future that the normal sized version comes first.
Movie playing in the background is Dragonheart 4: Battle for the Hearthfire. It was really bad.Far Cry 3 Leopard jumps into water #shortsJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-14 | Title says it all.
I have lots of little clips like this. Kinda want to upload them in normal resolution, but #shorts doesn't work that way. Oh well.
Movie playing in the background is Dragonheart 4: Battle for the Hearthfire. It was really bad.
Full-sized resolution version can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=NBZE4kjxfzEInsurgency in a nutshell (mostly clean version)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-13 | Just a bunch of hooligans constantly shouting and abusing radio filter effect. At least these guys weren't quite shouting obscenities...yet...
Oh well. At least they were having fun.Forza 7 Over The Years... (2018-2020 compilation)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-11 | In honor of my Forza ban and its being over, I decided to go ahead and compile the vast majority of clips I recorded over the years on and off into one compilation. Mainly of other people's awful ramming behavior. But also some other good moments from when I first started. I don't really have many recordings because I would play very seldomly. Only seriously started playing towards the end of 2021, which I left out of this video.
Kinda glad I can delete all of these from my drive now. It was fun reminiscing though.
Music used: Foisey - 8MahanDr. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Main theme
You are going to hear a lot of other youtube videos in the background ranging from saberspark to MoistCr1tikal to SuperGT, so on and so forth. That is how most of my older recordings are. Going forward, I am going to try and avoid that from now. Hopefully by setting up a proper OBS studio recording setup. So far no luck there... There is a really bad tendency for the recording to skip frames and stutter... Anyone know any solutions for that?
Anyways, enjoy. Yes, I know the ending is a little rude towards Turn10...but multiplayer problems have been a thing since Motorsport 4... They really need to buckle down and do better for Motorsport 8.Second Extinction First Time Gameplay (10/18/2020)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-10 | Gameplay from the early access version of the game.
I decided to play completely solo my first time around. I wasn't really sure what I was doing, but ended up winning after like half an hour of mostly back and side skipping to dodge the constant onslaught.
It was fun at the time. But I got jack shit in terms of EXP. Then the next mission froze completely and it really put me off from wanting to play more. Oh well.Space Beast Terror Fright (Epilepsy Warning)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-09 | Game is fun, but man oh man there were too many blackouts and at the time of this video you couldn't turn off any of the effects...which ended up giving me severe headaches...Primal Carnage in a nutshellJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-07 | Just as bunch of goobers roleplaying the whole time, including me.
Oh hey, golden guns.Monstrum Modded Playthrough (No Commentary)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-06 | Modded playthrough of the original Monstrum game on steam. There are included modifications to the game such as Dark ship mode (entire ship starts off with no lights on or power, all 3 monsters roaming the ship at the same time, increased inventory (to compensate for dark ship mode) and 3 lives to compensate for the 3 active monsters.
This was very difficult and stressful to play through. I might consider playing through again, but this time with commentary on my part. I generally don't do commentary though because I am a socially awkward, quiet goober who doesn't have much reactions to video games, even horror ones. At the very least, I have to be in the right mood and comfortable with whoever is around me.Oakwood (Dino Horror Game) Full PlaythroughJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-05 | Pretty short, but overall is pretty fun to play now and then. Unfortunately I haven't found all totems yet, so I am not sure what the bonus segment is.
I probably won't be doing a lot of full playthroughs like this in the future. But I wanted to for this one considering how short the game is.
Most future stuff will likely be in segments/parts....wut?Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-05 | Modded Halo CE is weird...
Also this clip is about 3 years old now.My first Forza BanJust Some Dinosaur2022-01-04 | Man, these don't make any sense. In my whole time of playing Forza it has been nothing but other people punting me off track, ramming me, shoving me out of the way constant while I try my best to give them space while fighting with the car since I don't use assists, and yet I have never seen any of them get banned lmao
Huge bruh moment, Turn10
Also forgot to mention plenty of other stuff in the video. There are instances of cars that were clearly trying to use me to make their hairpin turns for them by ramming into me so they could come to a sudden stop -_- Lucky that I knew they were going to try for and didn't bother turning in at all.
Good lord, what has Forza become.Jurassic World VR Blue Oculus Quest 2 playthrough (No voice commentary)Just Some Dinosaur2022-01-03 | No voice commentary. Just pure, headbobbing gameplay.
Sorry, I didn't play this sitting down, so my head bobs quite a bit. I wasn't and am still not used to the Oculus Quest 2, especially when it had a huge cable to keep it connected to my PC. I played this roughly half a year ago now I think...man time flies...
Anywho, hope you all enjoy. The chapters are pretty short, but it was neat. Essentially a 3D movie experience.
Also sorry about the frame counter in the upper left hand corner. My gameshare is weird like that.343 - Please stop being humanJust Some Dinosaur2021-12-29 | Okay, you got it.
Original Halo Custom Edition for PC. Not MCC version.Grunt buddy, NO-oh wait...hmmJust Some Dinosaur2021-12-28 | A heartwarming tale of one gravity defying breathy boy.
Game is the original PC version of Halo 2, not the MCC oneWe flippin boysJust Some Dinosaur2021-12-28 | Yeah. Was kinda funny at the time, I guess.Far Cry 2 OpeningJust Some Dinosaur2021-12-28 | Just a normal PC beginning of Far Cry 2. Yeah.
I dunno, I don't have a master's in physics.TENET Unreleased OST Detritus of a coming warJust Some Dinosaur2021-09-01 | Just a neat little track from the movie shortly after the discussion with the scientist. Nobody else has posted this one as far as I have seen, so here ya go.Aliens Fireteam First Intense Mission with PosterityJust Some Dinosaur2021-08-24 | I dunno, I just felt like uploading my first time playing Intense difficulty. Was pretty fun. I know I kinda cheesed it using the stumble card, but my combat rating being well below the recommended level plus the combat synths being kinda bad, I felt more comfortable using that one time card haha
Song is the movie version of "Posterity" from TENET, with some pieces chopped out here and there to better match the length of the gameplay.Chronoraptor but with TENET musicJust Some Dinosaur2021-03-09 | Title.
Really fun little free game out on steam. It is not quite time travel in the sense that TENET operated on since it is just the ability to rewind time while past images of yourself continue their intended path prior to the rewind, but it was a fun concept to play around with and reminded me of TENET, so whateves. Good stuff.
Music - TENET OST: Turnstile by Ludwig GoranssonLast Episode of Kobayashis Dragon Maid in a nutshell (sorta, probably)Just Some Dinosaur2020-11-12 | Why did this take nearly 11 hours to make...?
Major thank you to just a pancake for the inspiration with all of his nutshell videos.
Major Thank you to Kyoto Animation for all of your hard work. I hope that the studio one day recovers from that horrible event of tragedy...
Also, yes I am taking the piss out of the anime because the last episode was really cheesy and didn't feel like it went anywhere. Still an enjoyable anime though.This is cancerJust Some Dinosaur2020-11-10 | ...Never Gonna Give You Up but its vocals with Piano (Read Desc.)Just Some Dinosaur2020-11-10 | I dunno, I just thought they sounded beautiful together.
Edited with Sony Vegas. Tried my best to cut up the vocals and edit them to better match the pacing of the piano portion. It is nowhere near great, sorry guys. I am not so good at this stuff haha
Lots of love to you man for that piano rendition man. It is beautiful and I can't stop listening to it.
Wallpaper is from a free wallpaper site.
Much love to Rick Astley as well. Such an amazing guy :)Alien Isolation JumpscareJust Some Dinosaur2020-05-07 | This isn't supposed to happenSomething something Dedicated Servers...Just Some Dinosaur2020-03-16 | ...I am SORRY BillyJust Some Dinosaur2020-03-01 | I need to start recording entire chases, I swear.This Gen Spawn is ASSJust Some Dinosaur2020-02-26 | Just, title.This will never get oldJust Some Dinosaur2020-01-04 | Yep, poor shocky boiTotem Spawns are WackJust Some Dinosaur2019-10-01 | Purdy good job so far. Seriously, these spots need to change already.Vanish OST Insanity 4Just Some Dinosaur2019-08-13 | OST from the free horror game VanishVanish OST Insanity 3Just Some Dinosaur2019-08-13 | OST from the free horror game VanishHow to Beat NurseJust Some Dinosaur2019-06-25 | Just use lockers 4headJust kill me already BillyJust Some Dinosaur2019-05-10 | ...DC by DaylightJust Some Dinosaur2019-05-07 | Pretty good job so far.Missed by a hair and a hitboxJust Some Dinosaur2019-05-04 | That was way too close for comfort. Thank god for Spine Chill.Stranded Deep Raft CatapultJust Some Dinosaur2019-05-04 | Fantastic stuff here lmao. I would definitely cartwheel this shit to the moon anyday!He was obviously on the first floor.Just Some Dinosaur2019-03-15 | Duh.Ghost Recon Wildlands NonsenseJust Some Dinosaur2019-02-27 | Yep, random and ridiculousCondemned Criminal Origins NonsenseJust Some Dinosaur2019-01-03 | Old games never cease to impress me with all of the crazy shit that happens in them haha.