Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hi everyone! This is by far the longest i've gone without a consistent upload, and i do apologize for that. The first half of the year was a little, all over the place, and I just couldn't find the energy to make anything beyond MEP/collab parts. Things are better now in that sense, even if editing inspiration/motivation has been up and down. I hope you have all been alright.
This is something that got finished back in early May, as this song felt especially special to me - and still is!
The idea for this originally came about after I shared a random idea with my girlfriend one day - that I would love to edit with a Brainstorm song sometime, bc i love the vibes they give off. I had found this particular song, and something about it really struck a chord with me. I was listening to it a ton, and i was fascinated by the duality in the lyrics and how the instrumental changes based on the vibe of the lyrics. The song continues from this point onwards and eventually the lyrics become ''I want to smile'', but the lyrics still retain the feeling that, you're forcing yourself to smile/tricking yourself into smiling, while engaging in all of these activities that are grandiose and a bit reckless, but still feeling empty from them. That's the feeling I get from this song, and i was very inspired to put this into video format; alongside mimicking the gradual climb and decline in the instrumental with effects.
As of recent months, from spontaneous bursts of inspiration, i've gotten back into Ratchet & Clank again. We love returning to the classics!
Combining these two forms of inspiration, I set nearly all of the clips in one night, and finished the next morning, along with the coloring. That was quite surprising, considering this video's length and that I hadn't felt like properly editing in a good while. But taking a MEP part hiatus has been helping me regain some of my genuine editing motivation again, it seems. I had a lot of fun setting the clips, and some moments of realization where i was excited and realized, ''YES, that scene would work great here!'' and then i went and added it ^^
The coloring was inspired by old sepia photographs, ones that you can essentially see inside of, see that they're full of life, but at the same time see the dust and debris floating around these old, distant memories. There's also some color symbolism in a sense here, which i'll return to.
I decided early on that I wanted to also add subtitles, so everyone can enjoy the song and lyrics ^^ I edited with subs disabled tho, bc they lagged the preview and also distracted me from the rest of the video. I hope the subs are helpful for you all!
Well, the color symbolism - the very start is a bit of red and then sepia, showing an entrance into these calm, melancholic thoughts and memories, wishes that this one person searches for. As the ''I want, I want, I want'' comes in, it becomes more energetic, more full of life and vigor, and that is represented by the sepia disappearing, allowing for a moment to speak, to express what it is that this person truly wants, but the sepia comes back when it's shown that through all of these ideas, they still want to cry. Black and white appears at points to symbolize the deep sadness that comes from these words and feelings as they are said/felt. If i would have edited up until the 2nd chorus, maybe the color would have fully returned again during the ''I want to smile'' part.
The effects are mostly blurs, gentle-ish slides, and made to either represent what the lyrics are talking about (i.e. a screen), or represent the instruments (like a bass shake from the bass guitar).
I used Photoshop for the curved text at the ''screen'' part, it was quite finicky to get that to look somewhat natural. I opted to animate it moving with pan/crop, which, didn't look smooth, so i added s_waves and s_warpfisheye to hide the fact that it's a bit janky.
I used After Effects for the audio visualizer, when the 2nd half of the chorus comes in. The result isn't quite what i had in mind, but i feel it's a bit more interesting than what i had in mind at first. I wanted the audio spikes to be on the outside, but had some trouble with the spikes harshly cutting off in AE; it kinda looks nicer on the inside tho, i think.
I tried to do some lipsyncing towards the end, which i think looks pretty nice ^^
Overall, i think this is different from what I usually do, but i'm happy with it nonetheless c:
I think that's mostly what i wanted to share.
I really hope you all enjoy this! ^^
I hope you all have a good day/night, please stay safe!
Until next time, y'all ^^
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Scene credits:
- @InfiniteValley
- @SolarisFox_svp
- RatchetGalaxy
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Song: Prāta Vētra/Brainstorm - Es gribu (shortened)
Media: Ratchet & Clank 1, 2, 3, Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack In Time commercial, All 4 One, Rift Apart, Secret Agent Clank
Programs: Vegas Pro 18, Photoshop CC 2020, After Effects CC 2021
Time taken: 5 days on and off
Hi everyone! This is by far the longest i've gone without a consistent upload, and i do apologize for that. The first half of the year was a little, all over the place, and I just couldn't find the energy to make anything beyond MEP/collab parts. Things are better now in that sense, even if editing inspiration/motivation has been up and down. I hope you have all been alright.
This is something that got finished back in early May, as this song felt especially special to me - and still is!
The idea for this originally came about after I shared a random idea with my girlfriend one day - that I would love to edit with a Brainstorm song sometime, bc i love the vibes they give off. I had found this particular song, and something about it really struck a chord with me. I was listening to it a ton, and i was fascinated by the duality in the lyrics and how the instrumental changes based on the vibe of the lyrics. The song continues from this point onwards and eventually the lyrics become ''I want to smile'', but the lyrics still retain the feeling that, you're forcing yourself to smile/tricking yourself into smiling, while engaging in all of these activities that are grandiose and a bit reckless, but still feeling empty from them. That's the feeling I get from this song, and i was very inspired to put this into video format; alongside mimicking the gradual climb and decline in the instrumental with effects.
As of recent months, from spontaneous bursts of inspiration, i've gotten back into Ratchet & Clank again. We love returning to the classics!
Combining these two forms of inspiration, I set nearly all of the clips in one night, and finished the next morning, along with the coloring. That was quite surprising, considering this video's length and that I hadn't felt like properly editing in a good while. But taking a MEP part hiatus has been helping me regain some of my genuine editing motivation again, it seems. I had a lot of fun setting the clips, and some moments of realization where i was excited and realized, ''YES, that scene would work great here!'' and then i went and added it ^^
The coloring was inspired by old sepia photographs, ones that you can essentially see inside of, see that they're full of life, but at the same time see the dust and debris floating around these old, distant memories. There's also some color symbolism in a sense here, which i'll return to.
I decided early on that I wanted to also add subtitles, so everyone can enjoy the song and lyrics ^^ I edited with subs disabled tho, bc they lagged the preview and also distracted me from the rest of the video. I hope the subs are helpful for you all!
Well, the color symbolism - the very start is a bit of red and then sepia, showing an entrance into these calm, melancholic thoughts and memories, wishes that this one person searches for. As the ''I want, I want, I want'' comes in, it becomes more energetic, more full of life and vigor, and that is represented by the sepia disappearing, allowing for a moment to speak, to express what it is that this person truly wants, but the sepia comes back when it's shown that through all of these ideas, they still want to cry. Black and white appears at points to symbolize the deep sadness that comes from these words and feelings as they are said/felt. If i would have edited up until the 2nd chorus, maybe the color would have fully returned again during the ''I want to smile'' part.
The effects are mostly blurs, gentle-ish slides, and made to either represent what the lyrics are talking about (i.e. a screen), or represent the instruments (like a bass shake from the bass guitar).
I used Photoshop for the curved text at the ''screen'' part, it was quite finicky to get that to look somewhat natural. I opted to animate it moving with pan/crop, which, didn't look smooth, so i added s_waves and s_warpfisheye to hide the fact that it's a bit janky.
I used After Effects for the audio visualizer, when the 2nd half of the chorus comes in. The result isn't quite what i had in mind, but i feel it's a bit more interesting than what i had in mind at first. I wanted the audio spikes to be on the outside, but had some trouble with the spikes harshly cutting off in AE; it kinda looks nicer on the inside tho, i think.
I tried to do some lipsyncing towards the end, which i think looks pretty nice ^^
Overall, i think this is different from what I usually do, but i'm happy with it nonetheless c:
I think that's mostly what i wanted to share.
I really hope you all enjoy this! ^^
I hope you all have a good day/night, please stay safe!
Until next time, y'all ^^
~
Scene credits:
- @InfiniteValley
- @SolarisFox_svp
- RatchetGalaxy
~
Song: Prāta Vētra/Brainstorm - Es gribu (shortened)
Media: Ratchet & Clank 1, 2, 3, Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack In Time commercial, All 4 One, Rift Apart, Secret Agent Clank
Programs: Vegas Pro 18, Photoshop CC 2020, After Effects CC 2021
Time taken: 5 days on and off
![Mission objective :: DESTROY [ MGS2 Raiden edit ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YlaVklSNs9o/mqdefault.jpg "Mission objective :: DESTROY [ MGS2 Raiden edit ]
I believe this idea came to me from a sudden spur of motivation to edit with MGS2, especially Raiden in that game! Aaaand this is my first AE edit in quiiitee a while!!
Currently playing MGS2 and its definitely one of my favorites right now!
I had decided on finding some edit audio that someone else has already made, to make it easier for myself. I found this one through a compilation on YouTube, and at one point it was between this song and an edited audio of Art Gang Money. I had decided on this one, as the latter felt a bit too badass, but this game feels like its more dark, mysterious, and has moments that feel like its hinting towards an identity crisis. This song is also very dark and sad, so it captured the vibe of what i imagine Raiden to be feeling at points, or maybe how i see the game at points.
I had thought about replacing this song with an instrumental version, but i realized that that would take some more effort on my part to sync it to what i already had and slow it down just enough. So i decided to keep editing with this audio.
I decided quite early on that i wanted to use AE for this one. I wanted to befriend the program again (even if 1-2 months ago i needed to use it on a daily basis, basically), and i wanted to muster up the patience to watch some glitch tutorials that felt helpful to me.
It took a bit of effort to start working with the program again, but i got the hang of it again quick enough. As i was listening to the song, i knew i wanted to work with melty transitions and fades to black, and shape transitions. So i followed my ideas but deviated when i saw fit, and actually, this result ended up being better/more interesting than what i had in mind.
I really got into it and it was fun trying to think of ways to make the shape transition work. Took me about one day (the same day that i started this project on) to finish setting the clips and finish the part from 0:09-0:13 and the overlay in the bg and zoom out at 0:14. The rest I did and finished the next morning.
I also wanted to add some slightly cryptic text, like something that could describe the mission that Raiden has been put on. And in general i wanted the clips and the idea of this to pull on the heartstrings just a little bit.
Ah, and i added one short bit/transcript of a codec call from the game in the intro.
And then when i looped the edit, i wanted to try out an effect called posterize time.
Ah and while making this, i learned about some tools/a plugin called EZ tools, and so i downloaded that one and tried to get the hang of using it, and it was rather useful for some areas~
Had one small issue after rendering twice. This was the first render that succeeded, however, during the loop, there is a section that glitches into one of the clips of Raiden (its just a static image of him entering the room) and that is not supposed to be there. This same image appears at the veeery end of this video too, which also isnt supposed to be there, but its rather amusing lol
i tried to render a higher quality version and wanted to see if that could fix it, but no, that made it worse. In that render, the beginning also had weird glitches like this with other clips, but i didnt want to make the render any worse than this and i didnt want to render again. So heres this slightly lower quality, but comparably less glitchy render.
The render time itself wasnt bad. From what i recall it could have been like 22 minutes.
Overall Im very happy with the result of this edit. Though i feel like the composition could have been better at points, it was really fun to make, so i think that, alone, is good enough too.
Oh oh right! and as for MGS2, waahh i really like this game! its the next game im playing after MGR, and its really interesting to see how Raiden once was. I find it very interesting to think to myself what exactly could have caused him to slowly develop into who he became in MGR. Well, one thing is that he hadnt lost his human body in this game yet, i think.
Im really enjoying my experience with the game, and while its hard to not get spoiled for it, this game iiisss 11 years old, so that is to be excepted.
Not too far into the game yet, but thats okay.
That is all i wanted to say! i really hope that yall enjoy this, and have a very good day/night! ^^
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Song: https://soundcloud.com/fyoaku/sudno-sudno (audio edit credit to fyoaku)
Program: Adobe After Effects CC 2021
Media: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Time taken: 1 day
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Cutscene credit:
- AdamSpencer87 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5OsA4fmRto)
- Gamers Little Playground (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbXmgvEtVPk)")
![[ Devil May Cry 4 : MIC DROP! ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YqwFRir0JsY/mqdefault.jpg "[ Devil May Cry 4 : MIC DROP! ]
Please watch in HD if you can! ^w^
Behold, the project that I dubbed the 30 fps project that looks its in 60 fps XD
Okay, but on a more serious note!
This began when I wanted to download some raw/hd footage of DMC4, buuut it ended up taking nearly an entire day to download. I needed to leave my laptop on for a night to let it finish asdkjas-
And then the next day, I figured that if it took that long, I should put the clips to use, and so, this happened. Its not like this idea was forced tho - I was looking through my playlist of songs/stuff I plan on editing with, and I found this. As I was listening, I thought it would be cool to make a DMC4 edit with this song.
My idea was a bit all over the place and nothing specific, but whatever I had in mind at first - the result turned out to be much better ^^
I didnt want to bother with 60 fps so I went with 30 fps ^^
Apparently I was also so excited that I ended up placing down nearly every new clip I saw in the cutscenes XD
And I was able to do like 93% of this video in one day, too! The only things I had to do today were finish up the effects on the clips from 0:08-0:11 ^^ (The text there was also done yesterday, and so was the outro ^^)
I also hope that the lyrics are correct bc I took them from a site with color coded lyrics, but on a color coded lyrics video here on YT, some words were different ^^ Although, it seemed that I could find more than one source with the lyrics and translation that I used here, which is good ^^
Another thing I would like to say is that this took 11 minutes and 11 seconds to render originally which is pretty amazing XD However, after watching the result a couple times, I decided to fix a tiny thing in this video, since it took such a short time to render. I decided to add Twixtor to the b&w clip of Nero that appears near the end, where the first Mic comes in. It moved a little too fast in the original clip, like it just sprang into existence, even if I tried to slow it down ^^ So thats where I took out AE, and after putting that little clip back into Vegas and copying the effects back onto it, I realized that the Twixtor was much needed! It looks so much smoother and better this way ^^ Also, fixing this made me realize that I made a little mistake in the outro - I left the word song unbolded while the rest of the words were bolded, so I fixed it, so that all four words there, at the beginning of the paragraphs, would be simply italic ^^
I also tried out some liiittle new things here and there in this edit, like brief new shakes, adding a glowing double shadow, more brief rotations, a new way of making muffled audio, and trying to tie the effects in more with the sound effects that I add ^^
I want to also say that towards the end of making this, I realized something about how I was editing. This kind of feeling began in my last two projects (one of which Im still yet to post) - I didnt feel worried about what I was making, or worrying about adding anything new or pretty - I was simply making whatever unconsciously came to me, and what felt right ^^ Thats when I realized that it could be best to keep it this way and try to not let insecurity get to me, bc I believe that it could be in the moments of unconsciousness that youre able to create something pretty anyways. A little poetic there, I suppose ^^
But that can depend from person to person, I suppose! This is personally just the case for me, it seems ^^
Suppose you can also call that getting into the zone of doing things
So yeah! All and all I wanna say that Im very happy with this edit and theres nothing I dislike about it!
Making this was very fun, and I really hope that yall enjoy this edit as much as I enjoyed making it :3
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Layers: 24
Time taken: 2 days")
![SUPERSONIC :: Reno [ Speed edit ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZoNSkcy38do/mqdefault.jpg "SUPERSONIC :: Reno [ Speed edit ]
Watch in HD, if you can!
Since this is a speed edit, the video of me editing this (sped up) is available here!: https://youtu.be/K5nw09AFTDo
This was made as a little challenge for myself!
When I first heard this song yesterday, I was pretty much smacked with ideas for an edit revolving around this song and Reno, but my ideas were quite chaotic and all over the place, and so, I decided, that while the ideas are still fresh in my mind, I could try doing a speed edit.
I set a time limit for myself for this edit, and that was 3 hours. I ended up finishing this entire thing in 2 hours and 24 minutes according to the recording I did, and Im glad I was able to do everything in time. Aaand rendering this took 20 minutes and 17 seconds.
I didnt try to put too much effort into making this look the way I wanted it to, and making it look the way I envision the music. This was supposed to be just a practice edit, after all.
At the start of making this, I did actually edit the way I usually would, where I would all my focus into perfecting a certain area before I move onto the next, but then I remembered my time limit, and eventually I started editing in the way where, in big leaps, I would add the general idea of what I wanted, and only after finishing the whole video would I return to those little parts to fix them up.
Another thing that I would like to mention is that I used a reference for the coloring from a gif that I found, bc I liked the paleness and the general look of it, but I still ended up tweaking it to how I like it and how it could fit into my style and whatnot.
So yeah, yall will be able to see how the editing process went down, in the video I provided, if you want to check it out.
Actually, I feel like this song fits Reno in some ways, bc it has a lot of attitude and has a party vibe, just like his entire character XD
Sooo then!
I hope that yall enjoy this thing, and that you all have a good day/night ^^
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Layers: 22
Time taken: 2 hours and 44 minutes")
![[MMD] Danganronpa | DNA { Testing MME }](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_XRCS3-X4cQ/mqdefault.jpg "[MMD] Danganronpa | DNA { Testing MME }
So I finally decided to try out MME yesterday and try loading stages within the accessories! And also moving around the stage and characters more :3
This isnt my first attempt at doing so, but I will provide a link to my first attempt down below ^^
The main reason why I remade my first attempt was bc, the character I used there, Sora, had white eyelashes, when adding the raycast effect, and I found that so disturbing, and in general I thought I could try something else. Although, I am happy with how the lighting turned out to look in that one ^^
However, even if I really wanted to, I couldnt add motion blur to this video, bc if I did, it reeeally messed up the stage, for some reason ^^ But I did add motion blur in my first attempt, so yall can check it out there :3
in general I really like this soft look, and I may or may not continue using it, until I find some effects that I could like better ^^
So yeah! I hope that you enjoy this little thing :3
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My first test video: https://youtu.be/CHlof8sfmjE
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Credits:
Models:
- Nagito: GoroP
- Hajime: みずごろー
- Kokichi: Mizugoro
Motion + Camera: ureshiiiiii
Stage: TwoSidedMMD
Song: BTS - DNA
Effects:
- dust2
- ray
- dust4
- ikDiffusion1
- ikLensGhost_Light
- ikLineParticle
- ikLensGhost
- ikSunshaft")
![[[ Yu-Gi-Oh! ~ Animation appreciation! ]]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b19V9HKC4Ac/mqdefault.jpg "[[ Yu-Gi-Oh! ~ Animation appreciation! ]]
This is definitely one of the edits I want to reupload from Vlare ^^
Though, again, I dont have the old description I had, I suppose I can still simply say that I feel very proud of this result. I dont remember too much of my thoughts while making it, but this will come hand-in-hand with the next video I reupload(ed) - the video showcasing my editing stages. It was fun to render out parts separately like this, and I believe this video was a lot of fun to make ^^ And I simply felt inspired to make a video of appreciation for the animation in this particular episode - its also one of my favorites in DM :3
I dont wanna drag this out so as to not tire myself, so, I hope that yall enjoy this, and have a very good day/night ^^ :3
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Song: Alina Baraz & Galimatias - Unfold
Program: Vegas Pro 14, After Effects CC 2019
Layers: 27
Media: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Time taken: dont remember
Originally made on: March 28th, 2020")
