Projects

Me and my friends have been 100% addicted to Lethal Company for a long time. I started clipping funny moments on my end and decided to put them all into a single video for the relaunch of my second channel! I had a lot of fun with this video since it was much different than anything I have tried before. I even had some of my friends help me make animations for the less visually interesting clips, taking direct inspiration from the "Yippee!" video I did a while back.

My first synced collab in years and it's a tribute to all synce collabs before it! This one actually started back in 2021 when Covid was still a thing we had to worry about, but I just couldn't find the motivation to work on it until late 2023. Once I had made it a public project, I couldn't stop working on it! It's nice to get back to sync every now and then, and I'm glad people really enjoy this one!

Ruin Sound is much more of a conversation piece than a single message. A lot of ideas are expressed in this song and my main goal with this song was to encourage discussion about people's taste in music, the direction the industry is headed, defining good and bad music, etc. It was never intended to be about a single thing. While it didn't really reach the number of people I hoped would see it, something really cool did come out of it. Shuriken255 is someone who I looked up to early in my years in the community. He's quit animation, but has stayed in touch with the Dojo. I've even had the pleasure of becoming a good friend of his which is... surreal to say the least haha. For Christmas of 2023 he joined a Discord call with me and a couple other friends and he played Ruin Sound on piano for me. He apparently really loves the song and put in so much time into learning the song on piano. It was a really heartwarming moment for me. Another interesting thing that cam out of it was a discussion with Alan Becker, creator of Animator vs Animation. My friend Lunsar found the tool used to create those AI cover videos and saw Alan's voice was actually one of the examples provided! I decided to use this tool for the AI lyric of Ruin Sound, but implement these AI lines in an intentionally creative way. You really can't even tell Alan's voice is there, but it is. I showed this to Alan during a team meeting and it sparked a really interesting discussion about the ethics and future of AI.

Lunsar told me he wanted to animate a soundline with the ending portion of AJR's "World's Smallest Violin" and so I decided to joint with him on it. I do regret making the sticks glow because now it just looks like they're smudged for the whole video... Whoops. I also forgot to animate one opponent's reaction. See if you can find it lol.

Around the time ChatGPT was starting to be discussed online in mass, I decided to try and make something silly out of it. Me and some of my friends wrote a story in 15 minute time periods per paragraph. The next writer would only get the last sentence to work off of. Once it was finished, I filtered the story through ChatGPT to fuck it up as much as I could (without completely destroying it). I then took inspiration from CallMeCarson's video on ElevenLabs to turn my voice into an AI text-to-speech language. We took the audio from ElevenLabs and animated it however we saw fit. The end result was absolutely hilarious.

The third installment of my largest collaboration series, Stuntman 3 is a 40+ minute adventure of creativity, violence, and a hidden story about a man and his camera! This was my biggest (and longest) collab yet, I'm super proud of everyone who helped make it all come together!