Oh, right — I suppose suggestions should be happening, too.

I nominate this format: [ b ][ color=skyblue ]Week :: # :: Name :: Movie [ /color ][ /b ]

Week 002 :: 1 :: Teague :: "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"

I bought fuckyeahmakestuff.com a few days ago.

For what it's worth.

Back on topic, though! We must listen and opine! The man has fuck-yeah-made-stuffed!

In my intro-to-the-series video I mention him specifically. Great guy, great teacher.

You might want to change your UV type to some other projection. (Dividing it into individual polygons is pretty psychotic. You're right to be scared, nobody would paint UVs onto a map like the one you've posted.) You can clump polys together in various ways, called "projections," which you should look into. Spherical, cylindrical, atlas, etc..

EDIT: Also, just so you've heard someone say it — there are times when you should use UV texturing, but unless I am absolutely forced to use UVs, by the circumstances or whatever, I never will. I hate UVs. There are other methods of putting an image onto an object.

Excellent.

LPT: Item of interest, one of the big-ass tricks to making something look "real" (which, that shit comes later, you're in design mode right now) is to artificially add details that visually explain how it's holding itself together. For instance, plates / hinges / bolt panels at the intersection of the fuselage and stabilizers, etc.. The "one magically flat polygon intersecting another magically flat polygon at magically perfect angle" thing, happening at edges — both concave and convex — that's the first thing to start whittling away at once you've gotten your big shapes the way you like 'em. In the case of convex edges, maybe build "intentional" metallic hemwork or "unintentional" dents. In the case of concave edges, perhaps build "intentional" structural details or "unintentional" accumulated gunk.

Hey, you. Yes, you. Do a thing for this.

Even if you don't play an instrument or sing. Get a video of yourself dancing or slapping your knee or drumming on a pillow with a ladle or sumthin.'

So cool.

Aural: Not really much of a DAW involved at this point — I'm recording into Audition, which isn't doing anything at all in the YouTube video, and I only used for the MP3 to rub a sonic one-light onto the hour. Light excitation, light widening, light normalizing, export.

Paulou: Well, I hope Neil Young will remember that a Southern Man don't ... actually, you know what, the joke is not worth the association with the joke, I'm good.

FUCK YEAH MAKE STUFF

Anyway, for what it's worth, my current setup is as follows:

"Main Mic" — static SM-58 and pop filter, used for vocals and sometimes micing the acoustic guitar
"Hobo Mic" — portable SM-58 on a gooseneck, used for micing whatever the hell I want to in the moment
"Little Synth"— Alesis Micron (which also has an SM-58, allowing for vocoder-ness)
"Piano" — Casio Privia, which I can also use for e-piano and string sounds
"My Tablet" — I love the app Nanoloop, for creating background loops from a tone sequencer
"Electric Guitar" — Schecter Blackjack signal from a lil' Peavey practice amp

all output to:

"Red Mixer" — the instruments are all fed into the old FIYH mixer board, which is a Behringer somethin'-somethin'

outputs to:

"Akai Head-Rush E2" — bought it for its looperness, I use it now mostly as an echo/delay pedal

outputs to:

"Ditto Looper X2" — my main loop pedal

outputs to:

"Silver Mixer" — the old-old FIYH mixer. This mixer devotes one input to the "final" pedaled output from the Ditto looper, one (safety) input to the fresh signal out of the Red Mixer, and one input to the headphone signal coming out of the Mac. All of these signals are combined and

output to:

1. the Mac, which is the main audio-recording computer
2. the PC, which is the main video-recording computer, by way of an M-Track USB audio interface
and
3. my local soundsystem, speakers or headphones, for live-monitoring in the room

The long and short of this is that — by simply moving my "all the time" laptop over to the music area and plugging in the webcams and M-Track — I have the ability to pick an instrument, adjust the sound I'm making with the instrument, adjust the specifics of the delay-pedal effect I apply to the instrument, and then record that instrument into loop. The way the Ditto works, I have the ability to "undo-redo" the most recently recorded instrument. Between the ability to tweak the instrument sound, the delay effect sound, and then do a re-do take if necessary, I can improvise everything on the fly and (theoretically) not get trapped into keeping something crappy in the loop.

In case I happen to use this set-up for building out a real song instead of a live-loop performance, the Mac — the computer I'd be doing that editing on — is sending its headphone signal into the actual Silver Mixer. As in, the Mac's microphone and headphone jacks are both being fed into the same mixer. (This doesn't present a feedback problem because my software setup on said Mac does not include live play-through.) This whole rigamarole is to benefit the "audience" of the video recording — any sound editing I'd be doing on the Mac is also being fed into the Silver Mixer, which means that the PC will always hear whatever the fuck I'm doing, whether it's live-loopin' or editing audio. If you were to play a YouTube video on the Mac, the webcam audience would hear it, in other words.

This has been a long, evolving process. We're only one or two versions into builds that have actually worked.

*curtsey*

Oh, no — I didn't realize the WeTransfer link was gonna go dead. :-/ Sorry.

To be clear to everyone, I have not downloaded your stuff yet. (One exception: Boter.) I'm holding off on that until the end of the recording period.

In related news, WE MUST STEAL ESSENCE FROM MOAR PEOPLE. SO MANY MOAR PEOPLE.

NOPE, I SUDDENLY BETRAY ZARBAN.