Hi, r3venger here
You said you want it, so there you have it:
At first I want to advertise my Twitter profile,
where you can keep up with updates on new videos,
suggest me some ideas and generally
contact me easily, so remember: @r3vengerosu
Also I want to warn you guys that
English is not my native language,
I'm Polish so that's why my accent and
grammar is not really good, but I hope
you will be able to understand what I'm saying.
I would like to start with an
actual making of and at the end of this
video I'll try to answer to some major
complainments you wrote in the comments section.
Just like everything,
8-bit history of osu! started with an idea.
How did I find it?
My goal is to create something original, something that has not been done before (at least in osu! community).
After osu!2016 success
(I strongly recommend you to watch it if you haven't done it yet)
I decided ("had" is wrong lol) to make more creative, original content like that.
So I ended up all of my previous polish series: osu!news and tips&tricks, because
designing really gives me more satisfaction and joy plus I brush up my motion design skills
because i'm still an amateur after all.
But let's jump right into the main topic.
The idea came out probably during a boring lesson at school, pretty randomly.
History of osu! has never been presented is such a visual, eye-pleasing way,
that's why I thought it was just perfect.
So I had the idea. The first thing I had to do,
was finding a nice song to fit the mood.
I found Journey (Part 2) on Spotify Release Radar playlist and started wondering:
Okay, it's pretty cool but a little bit 8-bitish?
Why not make my animation in retro 8-bit style then?
I started my work with making a lost of of the most important events in my opinion.
Honestly, it was pretty hard, because not everything is written on osu! wiki, so I had to use other sources, like
reddit threads or osu! forum for some knowledge, for example PP record plays.
Personally, for me projects are not so important because most of my ideas come out on the go,
while working in graphic software.
However I still made some or
maybe they are not real projects, just
random ideas for scenes, I don't know.
Anyway, these are the only sheets of
paper about history of us I could
recover, other have been already thrown away, I'm sorry.
The really interesting and important
aspect of design is inspiration.
Let me quote one of my favorite quotes said by Steve Jobs.
I get strongly inspired by a lot of art I find on the Internet.
One of my favorite YouTube channels with flat design animations (that's my style too) is
Kurzgesagt, you can check it out if you like.
Also I'm absolutely in love with aesthetic/vaporwave style,
as you could see in one part of The 8-bit History.
Now a practical part of behind the scenes.
Unfortunately i cannot record my screen in 1080p resolution because my PC is pretty bad,
so you have to pardon me.
I also understand this part might be
pretty boring for people who are not
friendly with Adobe programs, so I'll try
to show you only the most interesting things.
Okay, so here we are in Adobe After Effects.
I was actually working on
two programs: Adobe After Effects and Adobe Illustrator.
Okay, so in Adobe
After Effects (that's my main project)
Actually I can tell you why some titles are hard to read.
You see, on this frame it's quite easy to read, right?
But when I put a quality to full, it's way harder
My PC is pretty bad and it takes a lot
of time to render preview, like you can see.
It's still loading, so... oh it's
actually it's a it's actually frozen
Nice, okay but i prefer to go with third quality.
It makes the whole picture way more blurry (antialiasing) but it renders faster.
Okay, and the same
goes with motion preview, ram... it's
called actually RAM preview.
It renders way faster then if I would go with full quality.
Okay but as you can see this
composition is called "mainer lol".
My titles of compositions and projects are
kinda retarded, so I'm sorry for that.
But yeah this is a composition I
actually finally rendered.
This is outro, called YouTube something template,
because I wanted to use some YouTube
feature on my outro, it's called ending
screen and I can put some videos and my
logo in there, so that's why I used template I found on the Internet.
Okay and that's the main main composition
As you can see there are still many compositions there.
Maybe I will zoom it, okay. So it looks like that.
All these symbols are different
compositions with different layers, different objects.
So, yeah, there are a
lot of transitions between these
different compositions and I can show
you maybe... Okay, this is the intro part.
Okay...
So it was a planet.
It goes right here.
So it zooms and bam, part one is a composition with a red background,
So yeah, this background and planet are actually the same color.
Also I used some transition presets like as you can see,
here I used some kind of a block dissolve
But a lot of you guys asked me how did I
do this whole 8-bit effect.
The answer is kind of simple and pretty disappointing for a lot of people probably.
Probably this is the reason behind most of thumbs down.
Okat, let's jump into part three.
Into this vaporwave kind of part.
As you can see I used three effe
if I turn it off, maybe turn up to full...
it looks pretty normal.
It's frozen, my PC just can't handle
recording and After Effects, I'm sorry.
Okay, so it looks completely normal, but
when I turn it up it looks pixelated and
all these things. So Mosaic is mostly behind these pixels.
Actually I have some control, for example I can increase
horizontal blocks to... I don't know...
One thousand and here's also one thousand and it looks completely different (I meant from 8-bit)
But when I put for example 100, it's like a 100 by 100 resolution,
so it's completely unreadable.
But, yeah, 300 per 300.
If I wanted some text to be
easier to read, I was just increasing
it and when I wanted some part to be
more pixelated, I just decreased it.
Posterize Time is an effect, which scales down my framerate to like 15 FPS.
It made some animations less fluent.
And Magic Bullet Looks, it's a pretty pretty popular plugin for color grading.
It has its different interface.
So as you can see, I added chromatic aberration.
It's an effect which causes R, G and B color channels to split,
mostly on the corners.
You can see the difference here.
don't save :^
Okay, so that's the secret behind whole 8-bitness.
I know it's not a real 8-bit, but I will try to explain it all for you later.
OK, soooo... maybe let's jump into some
more interesting parts, where you can
see how I worked with Adobe Illustrator.
[too many "soo" and "okay", damn] Soo.. okay, I think maybe the part
Part 1 would be good.
Oh, this is an interesting effect, how I made this
calendar page flying down.
Okay, so it's here.
I used Bezier Warp.
When I click "u", I can see all the keyframes.
So basically it (Bezier Warp) allows you to bend an
object if I for example put it right
here, it changes somehow.
Okay, so it looked like that before and well I
changed a lot of this points, which caused
such an effect like it was bending
naturally with air. Pretty cool, i must say. say I'm pretty proud of myself when it
I'm proud of myself, when it comes to this part, as I have never done something like this before.
Okay, soooo
I think this Japanese geisha woman is my
most advanced vector in Illustrator I
made for purpose of this video.
Basically these trees, flowers and mountains
were all made by myself.
Okay, so let me show you. This is my folder with almost all of source footage.
Basically non-pixelated she looks like that.
I was recreating this picture.
If I turn it all off, you can see this picture
and if I turn it all on,
she looks like that that.
This is a pretty minimalist style, as you can see.
And I can also maybe show you mountains...
I have no idea how I called them, ummm...
Well, I don't remember, but I can show you for example...
the world map I used for a globe part.
It looks like that.
My reference image was a world map, oh, it's right here.
This one.
And also I love the design of these
clouds which are like circular, so that's why I used it.
I also made a simple moon
and a rocket.
I love design of this rocket, it's great for me personally.
And... oh, I know a pretty advanced design I made.
That's the part I really like.
So basically it is called peppy headquarters.
There are some books,
which are... these titles are unable
to read, you cannot read them when they are so pixelated.
But yeah, here is the ppy logo I recreated and laptop...
These are animated actually, I used an effect in After Effects.
Probably Bezier Warp, the same I used with a calendar (but it's not) sheet.
Okay.
These red parts are actually supposed to be replaced
with something - I put some mountains, some
some sunset in here and here it was a
Visual Basic-like something design and
this part was pretty exhausting, because
I recreated most of the mods icons.
And the most important thing -
A cookie.
This is my reference picture, a Minecraft cookie,
I'm so sorry
But, yeah, pretty simple, minimalist.
So let's get back to After Effects.
Oh crap.
This part is actually pretty smart,
because I'm a pretty lazy person, I had only
recreated this Visual Studio Code with
some titles in it already, so basically
this part... is it called programming?
Yeah. So okay, it looks like that there
There are some titles like dfghdfghdgsf
I had to put some shape on it to
mask it, so you can't see it.
But still I had to scale it up, so there was a problem
and I had to use some motion blur to
hide it, because when I use motion blur, all these frames get easily blured and
it's pretty fast, so you cannot see it.
But you actually would be able to see it if I hadn't turned a motion blur on.
And maybe let's jump to some later parts.
I'm kinda proud of this moment, I really like it.
As you can see, if I turn it off the whole screen is completely visible,
but actually there is something in After Effects like matte and that makes me able to somehow crop it.
I don't know how to really explain it
and, well, if I turn the alpha matte, you can
see this background layer solid color
color layer is just cropped.
But when I turn alpha inverted matte, it's actually inverted, so you can see only this part is visible
is visible and the rest is this solid color layer.
And my background here,
it was made using one of my favorite
plugins called Plexus. It allows me to
change for example text into a
sequence of points, lines and triangles
or many many different kind of things.
And I animated a noise to make it infinitely change.
Okay, I think that's it, guys. I know I didn't cover everything,
but still I hope I haven't bored you to death yet.
Now my defence time.
Why is there no Taiko/CtB/Mania?
I know these mods are important part of osu!, but
well... actually osu! in this title may
refer to both game and game mode, because
I think that "standard" is just a community given name.
Also, let's be honest, I know nothing about different
game modes and I have no one to ask about them.
People really nitpick at 0.3 PP.
Can you believe how many mistakes would I make, if I tried adding
other modes without any knowledge?
Here comes the first argument - song length.
I simply couldn't fit everything I
initially wanted in songs timespan.
So, I know some of you might feel a little bit
sad about that, but maybe I'll try to compensate is for you in the future.
Why is this not a real 8-bit and it looks crappy/hard to read etc.
It's all about the definition of 8-bit.
For some people, less into old games, like me, 8-bit
basically means everything which has
pixels, lower resolution, you know what I'm talking about.
For geeks this term is way more narrowed and is obviously way more right.
My video is nothing more than
normal animation with mosaic filter.
That's just the way I've done it and I'm
really sorry for my ignorance in this topic.
I won't change the title of course
you can see it as some kind of clickbait.
I pointed it out that it's not
a real 8-bit in description though.
And just as I said at the very beginning the
motive behind the 8-bit theme was
mostly the song. I also explained earlier why are some titles hard to read.
Thank you for your understanding.
Also, some people were surprised about the
title in their native language.
That's because I used a YouTube feature
allowing community to translate not only
subtitles, but also title and description of a video.
Thanks for everyone who took
their time to translate The 8-bit History of osu!, I really appreciate your work!
Also, let me know if you would like
to see some livestreams, maybe from osu!, maybe from Touhou or some games,
which require lower performance than for
example GTA 5 or so on.
Maybe it would bea great way for me and you to know each other better.
We are coming to the end,
I would like to thank you so much for all
both critical and extremely nice comments.
I didn't expect such a success behind this...
Okay, I did I, really did
But thanks for watching and see you in some time
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