I’m excited to share with you a project I’ve been working on for over a year! Back in 2015, Jellybean Green ASMR and I began work on a video collaboration. JB had an idea for a scifi roleplay, and I wanted to give something back to the ASMR community. Even though we were thousands of miles apart, the idea was simple; She recorded her green screen footage and audio, and I added in the visuals and most of the sounds.
I used Blender for almost all the 3D work. World Machine was used to generate the landscape environment. The scifi environments were built by Stonemason and Polish. You can find their work on Daz3d. I adjusted the materials and shaders for every object in the film (there were hundreds). CynicatPro’s PBR videos were a big help in setting up the nodes. All the scenes are lit with Blender Guru’s Pro-Lighting: Skies or Greg Zaal’s “The Sky is on Fire” HDRI. Gleb Alexandrov’s and Aidy Burrow’s Space VFX was helpful in creating the planet in the sky. Gleb also gave me valuable critique while I was working. As you can see, people from all over the Blender community contributed to the video in various ways!
I am proud of the work JB and I have made together. I’ve never seen an ASMR video do what we’ve attempted to do here, so I believe it is the first of its kind on YouTube. There was so much to do on this project, and a lot of firsts for me. I’ve learned a lot, and am looking forward to applying it to many more (much shorter!) videos over the next year.
Headphones or a good speaker system are highly recommended.
And one more thing- This is an ASMR video!! It’s intended to help you relax, and possibly give you a tingly feeling. But it’s not intended to be viewed the same way you watch most videos. If you watch it for the storyline… you will probably get bored before the end.
If you’ve never watched an ASMR video before, I recommend playing it while you’re laying down to relax, or in bed before you go to sleep. I hope you enjoy it!
Hi James, fantastic work. I can only imagine how much work you put into this! :eek:
I do love the opening scene and the quality of these. It is captivating and it works great as an establishing shot for the whole scene setting. Absolutely cinematic. I dig the shading and lighting of the models. Especially, the very first scene when the camera travels through the corridor, is so brilliant! All these subtle reflections and lights. Black and white for the first shots works also great and also does the sound.
I can’t really comment on the ASMR part, because I’m not qualified to say anything about it beyond personal taste.
I feel that the transition from the opening sequences to the appearance of the actress is a bit sudden. Maybe a scene in which she walks into the room could have made this more smooth. Would be difficult green screen work, though.
I feel the same for the visitor. This is also kind of sudden. We don’t learn how the visitor has gotten in there. But I think this is intended, because it could break the intended identification of the viewer with the visitor if the visitor was shown.
Thank you for the kind words, minoribus! The opening scene is my favorite, too. I really wanted it to both look and sound cinematic, and I knew I wanted to establish to the viewer immediately that this wasn’t their typical ASMR video.
I had the same thoughts as you about the introduction and exit of characters. It would have been nice to be able to transition a little more softly into them, perhaps even build up to revealing their face. But unfortunately, my collaborator (Jellybean Green ASMR) lives thousands of miles away, and our work had to be done independently of each other. If I had been there in person during filming, it’s possible we could have gotten some extra shots like that. But since she was filming by herself, I felt it was best to keep it as simple as possible. Although if I had the right outfit, perhaps I could have filmed some shots myself! Haha.
Again, I’m very glad you enjoyed it! Now that this is over, I’ll be resuming work on videos for my own channel. I hope to average one new video a month!
Thank you, Pawel! That is my favorite part, too. I wanted to create an introduction that was slow and, as you said, gradually builds up to reveal what is going on. And hopefully looked cool, too!
By the way, your work is good, I know I have seen your ArtStation page before!
