Ancient (software) 

only a few people have mastered the art of "doing what ever they want" - this channel is a good example for someone who did

The only youtuber that will visit other planets to avoid using stock footage

Dude this is PHENOMENAL. Every scene looks absolutely fantastic

Posy's visuals are always great but man what really stands out is how beautifully he crafts the audio.

Props to you good sir for getting this footage of planets

This is beautiful work. I really love what you did with the more abstract renders

That's super impressive for early 2000s standards

These beautiful landscapes remind me of a program from the same time period called Bryce 3D that created gorgeous fractal landscapes. It had a slick little UI for 1998, and I used to love making desktop wallpaper with it.

You're a genius! each one of your videos are super creative and unique! they always come up with something new! (don't feel pressure, if you just feel like continuing to explore something we've already seen, we'll all stay here on the ship) We love you Dr Zaius!!!

Awesome! Also cool "dramatic music" using that shepard's tone type of effect.

Oh my god, Terragen! I have fond memories of rendering a little 10 second, 480p loop (as a series of JPEGs, no less) of an island flyby on the family computer that took all night back in the early 2000s. It almost made me late for school, but we did get an A on that project.

Always gotta applause the harmony of graphic and audio design of Posy. Got me feeling a certain calm.

I love the aesthetics of the uncanny valley version of landscapes. Familiar and Surreal.

Some of the shots here are truly magical. Great work, keep it up.

You make some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen on RU-vid. I’m so glad I found your channel :)

right now, you is my greatest human inspiration regarding work and creativity.

"babe wake up posy just posted"

I am glad to have discovered someone else still creating things with antiquated software. In 2004, LEGO released a program that let users build LEGO sets with bricks that they'd made. Quite a few colors to pick from and thousands of different types of bricks, and even decals on ones like tiles and minifigure heads. Quite some time after it had been released, I discovered it and spend many, many hours using it to build actual sets and my own creations alike. I redownloaded it after a long time a few weeks before writing this comment and went through all of the old files on my PC that I'd made with it the program. It was amazing. I introduced it to somebody I know since they wanted to do the same thing I'd did when I was younger, and they did what I did, except many years later. I don't know when LEGO stopped supporting the program, but it might have even been when I first used it. Perhaps I, too, used antiquated software to create.

For such an old software, it looks very nice, even has its own vibe to it that reminds you of a different era. Beautiful visualizations.

Oh wow, I remember how my uncle showed me Terragen back when I was maybe 11 or 12 years old... I recall the mesmerizing way in which Terragen renders the landscape, somehow following the terrain but yet always unpredictable. Damn that's now almost 20 years ago. Needless to say I didn't create such beautiful landscapes like yours!

Found your channel this morning and while playing your videos, I started dusting off and a CD/tape playerI found in the street some month ago. Then I started playing the few CDs I still have around and had a moment of nostalgia and reliving all the iconic scratches in my discs. Decided to grab something to eat and watched this video meanwhile eating. Now I'm installing Terragen Classic in a virtual machine to load up my old .tgw files from 2002! Thank you for providing such delightful content and big love!

Omg, I had completely forgotten about Terragen! As a kid I was very attached to my creations in the game Spore, and I got into all sorts of worldbuilding communities because I wanted to develop the story of my favourite creatures and their home planet. One of my (never completed) projects was a series of renders in Terragen 0.9

The landscapes you managed to pull here mesmerise me beyond words.

Holy shit. I remember playing around with terragen back in the early 2000's. What a blast!

Posy, you bring on LSD flashbacks. I'll remember to check your channel out next time I'm munted on a farm-stay in Nimbin. Great stuff mate, thanks for being you!

I really love your editing And your audio quality is very pleasing! Thank you for the enjoyable video!

Can’t believe I missed this video. What a great one! Brings me back to those days playing with Bryce 3d as well. Amazing results. Would make a great screensaver in fact! Thank you.

What a great video Posy! Exactly the sort of quality I expect from you.

Your videos tingle my brain in so many ways. Thanks!

Great content as always. I'd consider adding a link to the new channel in the description of this video as I was unable to find it

These renders are perfect desktop background material!

1:37 It could well be the introduction of a production company like Paramount, an ad of a new MacBook from Apple, or a quick start to Windows. I'm in love with this video. Good work.

Posy I love your videos so much. Old technology is so fascinating and I’m so happy to see people like you bringing it back to life!

You should really take a look at the software space engine I read somewere it generates planets like the way you did in the video Bedankt trouwens voor de geweldige videos, het zijn echt kunstwerken op zichzelf!

Oh my god, I've spent so much time on this software when I was young! I didn't even knew how to speak english but I managed to learn how to use the controls just by trial and error, it was always amazing when it worked

In the first minute I saw the landscapes and thought "this reminds me of TerraGen" turns out it was! Hell yeah

this has become my new favorite channel, presenting niche topics in an incredibly cinematic way makes every vid a treat, dankewel posy!

I just wanted to say that the sound design in this video is probably the best I've ever heard. Period. In songs, podcasts, movies, and videos. Posy is the absolute best when it comes to voice recordings pushing paper cones in and out. Next level, no words.

watching ur vids make me feel like a kid again. unreal how much inspiration i get from this

the cinematics in this video are absolutely beautiful! yet another great video! P.S. thanks for the video about the green flash, I was lucky enough to be able to capture it on camera a few weeks ago while I was on vacation in the warm, humid tropics.

This is really incredible. Such an awesome piece of art and such a cool premise to make a video about ancient software. Props to you.

These visuals are gorgeous. Glad to see another high-quality piece of content.

The new channel has been very interseting. Thanks for the contents

I love this!! Reminds me of a creator I follow called Screaming Brain Studios - they make public domain art assets exclusively using old abandonware and other types of ancient software. Gives it all a special look you almost can't find anymore

"dude wake up, the LCD video essay man uploaded"

Beautiful. Thanks for your whole channel!

I feel like a Drum and Bass soundtrack would go hand in hand with this video.

In 1997 these renders would be postal stamp sized and take a day to render. I remember using 3DS Max rendering all night just to wake up and see it was not what was intended. I bet running that software now renders the same image at thousands of FPS. How far has it come in just 25 years. Can't imagine the future.

Always a treat when the algorithm feeds me a fresh Posey upload.

I fucking love this channel, it's the perfect example of visual and auditory art! The videos follow the typical video essay format, but do it in such an artistic and unique way that literally any topic you talk about will be extremely intriguing. Literally you've talked about different types of LCD screens, to different cool/old tech that you own, to software marvels such as mouse cursors, and even math. Keep doing what you're doing, you genuinely are one of the coolest youtubers/artists out there, your videos are simply just awesome!!!

wasn't sure if this channel is my top favorite, then you uploaded a video about terrain generation. now I'm sure.

you make great content

This is a very nice new channel, great images backed up with great audio!!! Back in around 2005, I created a Powerpoint Presentation using half a dozen or so images, the gradually turned them from a frozen landscape (Mars) to a balmy wilderness, with blue skies, lakes and vegetation. First image was a part of a spaceship which I called 'The Mars Global Seeder' seen from above in orbit seeding the planet with something to attract the suns heat to warm it, then a second Seeder to create vegetation. I added commentary to each slide which took forever to do; but my young daughter at the time loved it! Animation would have been impossible with only 128mb's of memory. Now we are talking in gigabytes of memory hahahahaha

I think it's pretty clear that successful videos are one that focus on the interesting unknowns of everyday things (and have artsy, simple, colourful thumbnails). Not sure if you want to optimize your channel more, but if so that's the best

This video is a future classic.

this is so nostalgic! I remember playing around with terragen when I was in middle school. had no idea what I was doing

Way above my paygrade and dynamically beautful. Thank you

You Sir, Are a poet. I mean it.

This reminds me strongly of rendered scenes from Lexx I've just been inspired to buy the set, as my old VHS are a little worn out. Thank you, Mr. Posy

the sfx brings so much life to this video, whatever topic you choose for a vid, it's always amazing to see your perspective for it.

This RU-vid channel is art it seems so old but it’s so new it’s just amazing

What a piece of art, keep it up posy

Beautiful art, Mr. Posy. Amazing!

bless u amigo for this tuesday morning upload

posy this is so so so fkn good. i cant wait to see you creating with more and more freedom and muse everyday. muse over intention posy, muse over intention.

Editing 10, sound design 10, humor 10, terragen 10. keep m coming Posy

You're a unique voice on this website. I know I'll love this video

Love your videos!! They really help scratch that itch I have for learning about incredibly niche topics, and different ones all the time! Not many channels post this sort of thing

this is the best channel about totally random and wonderful things

That is... incredible. At least better than a sound system.

Oh, i have completly forgotten about Terragen! Thanks for the reminder! :)

Awesome video, I actually found your channel ~2 years back through your old blog site with the renders which in turn I found by looking through the relics of old Terragen forums; really cool to see what old software went behind the sort of "posters" of the 2000s web. Also gave me greater appreciation for the visual sense, which of course this channel is great with haha

That's wild. Bending the software to that degree is trippy.

The lighting and colors in this video are breathtaking

I love all the variety you have in your videos. I really enjoy coming back to find something fascinating to me that I've never thought about before, or never even knew existed. I enjoy the original music as well.

Ahhh I remember Terragen .. it was so cool to create and explore your own worlds.

Simply beautiful...

Thumbs up for using both beeps in the space intercom chatter.

I keep finding myself rewatching this video over and over. I've always loved terrain generators and renderers

The first time I used Terragen was in 1998. I used Pentium 166 to generate images with it. I was an assistant in a computer class of a children's education center. There was 10 computers in the lab and I could use all of them to make different landscapes when there were no classes. The second program I used to generate landscapes was WCS, or World Construction Set. It was in nearly the same time as I used Terragen. I still have some renderings saved on my PC now, but the earliest Terragen rendering I managed to keep till then is dated by 2002.

What a lovely way to start off the week. Thank you and happy new year. If that’s how you do new, years that is.

Thank you very much for these interesting videos, very beautiful in every aspect. Thank you, you lunatic.

I came across your channel, loved all the LCD colors its magical, subbed. Cool software!

I love every single last video of yours please keep going

90s DnB compilation visuals be like

That remix of "The Sun" is awesome!

This reminds me of Vista Pro on the Amiga back in the day

Ah, yes, the Zenith probe. My favourite planet.

I love the storytelling

I love your aesthetic, whether it's created in software or real life.

Never stop creating content. I love your art 🖤

Incredible video quality has always thx!

Amazing video and amazing channel! This video made me very interested and curious about terragen! Thanks for the great content

This is so beautiful -- sometimes older is better, even in software. Sometimes, indeed, creativity is inversely proportional to complexity of means.

As always such a quality of production I love how you make these sound and visual goes well together.

Awesome to see more videos from you, your channel is by far one of my favourites

I could see a short movie made with this concept in mind - visiting alien worlds as a galactic traveler. I would love to see something longer!

Had to stop and grab my headphones. Truly amazing footage and audio! Really love your content!

This reminds me of my time back in the day generating landscapes in Bryce 3D.

no stock footage used? damn, you put a lot of effort into this one. respect!!