It was kinda a reverse jumpscare. The abyssal copepod was just minding his business until he saw my flashlight and got scared off by me. They can be surprisingly timid especially when juvenile. Look out for the adults though.
Look into texture coordinate tiling! It allows you to adjust how often a texture repeats in the x and y axis. And if that doesn’t work you can always re do the uv’s for a model to fit the texture you want but it might take a while. Good luck!
I was born after the 2007 accident, it’s sucks that I probably won’t ever get to see it unless they open it up again. It’s still cool seeing people’s footage of the pit though.
man this is the issue with 'adventurous' hikers those days they like going fleshwhacking in closed areas, got hurt or consumed by the walls and then made the rest of us look bad, most of us just loves looking at the flesh fauna i promise
Honestly I was a stupid 20 something back then and really wasn’t thinking about safety. Do I regret it? kinda, But i got to see some very interesting parts of the park and found some things not a lot of people know about.
The footage was recorded on Hi-8 film cassettes which are relatively fragile and susceptible to environmental damage so you can imagine them getting exposed to an unknown fluid would mess some things up. the camera was mostly fine as I had a protective cover on it but some of the fluid seeped into the cassette deck and into my backpack holding the other tapes and they got pretty damaged. when I pulled the tapes out significant portions of the tape had turned a subtle red and started melting away from a chemical reaction with the fluid. some of the magnetic data was also corrupted somehow as the footage was really messed up and glitchy. the film was basically unusable at the time, but thanks to some more modern tools, I've been able to go frame by frame in a computer after scanning in the footage and fix up what is still there. that's what took me so long to recover this one, and why my other tapes still haven't been posted yet.
bro i used to go there every year as a child! great memories. personally, i found that the mystery of it makes you more fascinated with the pit. this part of it was my favorite growing up as a kid. it really is a shame that it's closed off and in such a horrible condition. the tickets are quite expensive, but this is by far one of my most nostalgic memories. if anybody is thinking of going to the part i highly recommend it. worth every dollar
You should seriously keep going with this series man. It’s my favorite take on the Flesh Pit. You’re also the 🐐 for going so deep into your process. Very creative!
Thanks so much! it really means a lot that people are enjoying it, and yes I will definitely be making more the moment I graduate from College lol, which is only a few weeks away!
I'm confused about something. It goes from being nearly 10am to being 3am in the same day. It's 3am at the end after he falls, but is 10am and he's fine. So is he just...fine?
That sign was reminding me of something my Dad told me about: At a popular diving site, there was a cave. In front of the cave, there was a sign depicting a grim reaper, beckoning, with a bunch of skeletons in scuba gear lying at his feet. The sign read "342 divers have died exploring this cave. Nothing down here is worth your life." (Or something to that effect.) The number was changeable....
Yeah, there are signs like that in a lot of popular scuba places, it's really scary knowing that just a few feet in front of you, shrouded in the darkness, are the corpses of dozens of other divers who thought they'd be the one to swim through and tell the tale.
