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I think the "bike route" sign is really out of place though, he should've used something that would actually exist in the US.

@@jm56585 have you been to the US?

@@TaGF_Tomcat I was born and raised in the US, will probably live here my whole life... And junmuta5153's joke is accurate. lmfao

@@jm56585 vehicular manslaughter simulation lane

​@@bronsoncarder2491bike lanes that are in the middle of traffic without any grade divisions are super American though

It’s always a good century when Captain Disillusion uploads

I have his last video on stone tablet.

See you guys in 2025!

@@ChaswellQuint I was still evolving from a fish when I first saw Captain's videos

​@@ChaswellQuintbrutal.

Comrade

considering how Womble has described his editing style...yaknow, sitting around masturbating half the time, is that really a compliment? yeah, I'd say so

Womble at this time early?

This video posted 3 minutes ago, how did you comment this 21 hours ago

@@iloveuraniumdo people still not understand unlisted videos?

there are 3 months between this and his last upload

Ian hubert

@@flavour842 3 months to take a break, write the entire script, gets clips, get into costume and record everything, go outside and record everything in costume, and complete several examples of all 3 types of VFX tracking and paint outs. So yeah, 3 months is pretty impressive. And that's not including editing the entire thing and re-shooting scenes.

VFX speedrun contests need to be a thing, the winner gets to make the next blockbuster movie

Doesn't corridor digital do something like that?

feels pretty weird watching that video for the first time actually from 2023, thanks

WOAH I FORGOT HOLY SHIT CORE MEMORY RETURNED

It's amazing that he remembered to finish the gag 15 years later, but it's even more amazing that you caught it. Thanks, I never would have caught it by myself.

The "elite" fooled you all for centuries to enslave you, this is the story of your enslavement 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@@grimaffiliations3671 I just watched that other video, and there was a guy in the comments who put it in his calender to remind himself.

Yes! It's great

alexibexi 😳😱🔥🔥

What about the hour details?

🎉

ha, immer schön Lieblingsyoutuber miteinander interagieren zu sehen!

I see you have good taste in content

Is there a possibility for a cooperation of Captain D and Medlife Crisis in one video? Together? 😁

😊 That's so nice

I always wondered if maybe he didn’t have the elaborate face paint he’d post more often but who knows maybe that’s his favorite part and there’s zero relation

And yet his Patreon contributions are smaller than some react channels. A shame.

He knows how to vfx any years he gains away!

It'll be a sad day when he stops making videos. Time is scary. Tom Scott isn't gonna be around much longer.

Silver paint does wonders to your skin

​@@RadenWAWhat paint? The only paint on his face is the one that makes him look human

@@boranates1320 that explains the no aging part

It's like he somehow compressed the 10 minute video and jammed it into 5 😅

holy cow, i had to double check that it was only 5 minutes.

cool videos yes but his makeup is shit

Little known fact but he actually produces about 2-4 videos a day, with a few vacation breaks in the year. The reason he only releases one every few months is because he plans to keep the channel going until the sun goes nova.

Agreed! He really does go above and beyond.

I second that

agree

This! ☝️

I am infertile from eating scented candles

@@lpc9929 do you smell good at least

its absolutely insane i want to learn how to do this but i feel like it'd take so long

His super cool presentations are too few and too far between, but that makes them savory. This level of video work boggles my mind, I think I understand about 35% of it.

4D track paintouts will take at least twice as long. Probably...

I’ve been addicted to captain disillusion ever since you mentioned seeing his logo in the architecture of sonic. It only took one video to see how much effort he pours into each video.

@@jomama7210 It would take longer to Blenders UI, you could get a rough one done in a weekend depending on how much previous experience you have. There's tutorials for everything. The key is find the right ones.

Yeah, many times people forget the "game" part of an alternate reality, sometimes being used as synonym for webserie. But the whole point of an ARG is a puzzle used to reveal a story

@@thefanfinfulo stuff without the "game" element is better categorized as unfiction - a new name for a rather old genre, that goes back atleast to Dracula (presented as a collection of 'real' journal entries, letters, and newspaper articles that the author collected on the subject)

​@@caoilfhionndunbarThe big difference with stuff like Dracula and to a lesser extent stuff like Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein, is that no one acts like you're "ruining the fun" if you label them what they actually are, fiction. However with much of modern day "unfiction", acknowledging their fictitious nature is seen as taboo, and their creators will assert their realness, and it becomes impossible to tell if fans actually believe it, or are just pretending to believe it as part of the experience or whatever. If these things exist on their own website or forum like SCP for example then I don't see an issue, but when they are uploaded on TikTok or RU-vid where anyone can stumble across it and be tricked into believing it, as shown in this video, it becomes problematic IMO.

Penis and Balls?? Penis and balls.

@@knaughta.masso-kist5944 It sounds a lot like wrestling back in the 80s. Yes, Star Trek isn't real either but at least Star Trek doesn't lie to you and claim it's actually real. Unlike wrestling and ARGs. Frankly if all the people doing ARGs just made an actual interactive game, some sort of video-media game, a video game if you will, instead of pretending that it's real and presented via social media and stuff, I think you'd get a lot more people interested in them.

I am no VFX artist, but I've seen enough to recognise attention to detail and hundreds of hours of work. Massive Massive respect.

​@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing

I am a great fan of you sir. I started learning blender from you at the first place.

i understand that it takes many hours for some of this stuff, but he says in the video "what if you need these cars off the bridge 10 minutes before showing the president of the world", or something similar, was he being facetious or was that legitimate?

@@003SOK pretty sure theyre talking about the different techniques, you could do the planar tracking paintout in a few minutes but doing the 3D tracking version and recreating the entire scene in a 3D modeling program and then painting out is going to take much, much longer.

He's a special boy.

I look up to him. I try at least

nah, Capt. D just throw everything to the human interns. He sometimes gets shown in the show, like the one with atarashi gakko.

Yeah this guy's skill and expertise in VFX is crazy. You know someone is good at something when they can explain a complex method simply

captain comes when he's needed most, drops the most impressive feat of editing ever like it's nothing, disappears for the next 3-9 months and refuses to elaborate further. truly a vfx gigachad.

Proofread. ...please?

One of them who claimed to be from the future, he was sponsored by the country tourism department or a tv production team and he was actually the actual location but with the help of the organization to make it possible. He was to promote scenary and attraction sites.

@@Bhatt_Hole ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x36boO6hWjM.html

Its also surprisingly easy to pull off if you go early in the day in summer when the sun comes up super early. looks convicing enough to be daytime without any of the people because its 5-6am

​@@bensmith8723and easier to paint out the few folks that do appear

That's 95% of Captains edits tho. It's there, just because he can.

There's a reason we only get a video like once a year xD@@AcolyteofRlyeh

Yup. I watch these and think "Oh that sounds simple." then realise how long it probably took in reality. I get he's had plenty of practice and can probably do them much quicker than someone who was just learning could but I guess they still take a fairly long time even for what appears to be simple shots.

The whole thing took an incredible amount of time. That much should be obvious. That's why it's so impressive.

I am thinking that in the last shot some or all of the cars are fake... i don't know why, or if he just made me overly suspicious, but something doesn't seem right about the motion blur and the shadows 😅

To be fair, you don't know that he isn't...

he could have been The Demon's Head, but instead chose to be batman.

@@mallninja9805 He's been a supervillain this whole time, but he has been carefully editing his presence out of all forms of media.

@@mallninja9805a guy who says “love with your heart, use your brain for everything else” would never do that. He’s on par with Carl Sagan in awesomeness of human essence.

The "elite" fooled you all for centuries to enslave you, this is the story of your enslavement 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

No, he's working 24/7 on the next video. They're incredibly difficult to make.

@@56independent42 agreed. No lies here 🙂

@@56independent42yeah people really underestimate the overwhelming amount of work these videos take, especially without a studio size team onboard!

the craziest thing is the consistency, they've been God-level since the very first 360pixel video he released in the early days of RU-vid.

*visual effects

Its him and his team

I wish people would stop calling everything "editing".

He has put tons of years into them

I felt this one for my kids.

*inspiring

That one was a bit too real.

was it though?@@IceX92

Clearly no generation has ever faced any challenges ever besides Gen z

I love that he keeps little hints in his videos to show what work he has done. Like the bathroom scene. He didn't painted out his shadow on the right wall, besides already painting himself out

@@Craftlngo I see the camera shadow, but not his own.

@@sergeant5848 you are right it seems he created a faux shadow of the phone.

The last transition from a studio to "IRL" footage filmed outside

Good thing I have the memory of a goldfish. I'll probably go and watch them all again anyways. :)

Yes

When I slam the back of my head enough times, I'm able to watch his old videos for the first time again

@@JBuchmann while I might consider this is unlucky, for this special occasion, you're incredibly lucky.

@@JBuchmann I hear ya there. I'm terminally ill and can sometimes forget what I watched yesterday..🤣

This. It's an art form.

the cool little term we like to use now is "unfiction", popularized by Night Mind

the arg hate at the start of the video really put me off :( it's like saying you hate all cartoons because "they're for kids"

I was lucky enough to get to play in The Beast and Perplex City and this just made me sad.

@@paulinet68 same

A lot of people are missing out. He is underrated.

@@Random_YT-Username The algo doesn't like his videos because he doesn't have any content that the algorithm finds appealing to the widest audiences. These types of videos need to be pushed to wider audiences, but they won't becasue google wants it's adsense money they get from garbage-tier videos, bots, and children that use this platform (90% of it's userbase).

Truly amazing work

_Hey.. Allan? ALLAN! Allan, AL, Allan!_ ...

👏 👏 👏

Fantastic explanation, thanks for taking the time to write it out

I was so confused because every ARG I ever actually took notice of (and didn't even try to solve) didn't do the Unfiction thing, it was just... puzzles, presented as such, or maybe with the intro obscured a bit. Like, there'd be a story, but nobody involved would insist it's real if you asked them about it, they'd either say it's part of the work the intro was found in or that it was an ARG they were trying to solve.

A good example of an *actual* ARG would be the Potato Sack by Valve :)

arg = lame geek

Watched a video about old photographs recently. Apparently the first photograph of a person was because he stood in place long enough to show up in the exposure (while getting his shoes shined).

i was thinking the same thing. I think he is ACTUALLY alone and the cars are CG, which would be his kind of joke.

@@pengwin_ big brain. That didn't even occur to me

@@pengwin_ I don't think he's even outside. I think it's a still image, and all of the moving pieces are added, including him. Because that would be the most work, and he seems to very much enjoy challenging himself with the hardest task.

@@pengwin_ No there is cars, as I said in my comment, you can see a car not completely erased at 5:08 in the top left corner of the shot.

@@bid0u12345well spotted!

Yeah, the humor is perfectly spaced in between the informative parts of the video. It’s not only creative, it’s often part of the narrative and it gives a hint that he really worked hard on it, and is very passionate about it. I’ve just about had it with youtube channels that think swear words are the only type of humor that people appreciate.

CD can point at this channel as his CV/resumé, so maybe he gets a lot of work all the time. And these videos must take ages to make.

What am I supposed to see?

@@ayviondenar3461 I suppose is about a small shadow on the pavement, that gets slowly erased as the camera moves upward. Can't see anything else.

@@ayviondenar3461 You see a bit of a car not completely painted out.

I just commented on this. Great eyes!

Yeah, the cars don’t look real

maybe the traffic is real but it's the street that's not

Wouldn't put it past him to edit out the real cars then add back in CG ones

That was my first thought haha

The cars are real. There's a slight error and one car is briefly visible for a few frames before the cars are supposed to appear.

I think that's the lines on his jacket?

​​​@@ErinEllaNathan you right, in rewatching it looks like he transitions from the green screen scene before to the shot of the street where he is actually there. I thought it was alpha channel business as discussed in a previous video ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XobSAXZaKJ8.html ), but in rewatching I agree it looks like it's the jacket. Also the scattered light through the palm tree onto him, light on his arm and shadow of it visible on the street, and reflections of light onto him from nearby support that he is actually there. Misguided RU-vid commenter DEBUNK

@@scubacell When he walks off in the end, you see him step off the pavement onto the road. Except he doesn't? I feel like I'm being paranoid now, but it looks off. After the stepping-off motion, the black of his feet is still on top of the pavement.

@@dykam Not sure, that's tough and I see what you mean. Just a few frames to work with but based on the sidewalk opposite where he is, and where he steps off from it looks like there probably is a little bit of a dip, and not sure what you mean about the shoe but maybe it's the front of it?

Just watching without paying much attention, it looked like he wasn't there, but maybe it was the camera movement or something.

It is the year 2037 after all.

I've spent about 20 minutes on this video now 😂

You can probably even do that with a median value per pixel over time. Like a really slow temporal noise filter.

only works for static camera or camera mounted on a robotic dolly that can reproduce the same exact camera movements multiple times.

@@danilooliveira6580 wow! good point! can't believe they didn't think of that before posting their comment. :|

@@jacksonsmith2955 I know. What an idiot! If _I_ were typing the OP comment, I would definitely lead with the fact it works with a static mounted camera. I'd probably even put it in the first sentence idfk

@@danilooliveira6580 Once you have the image, project it on 3d height map and add a camera wobble from a fixed point as long as it does not move to far in any direction. There are lots of ways to get the effect.

The guy just said "i just can't STAND people suspending their dispelief!" He could have just said that he does not like ARG except for this exception: But instead he gave a nothing burger explanation for his opinion. I would have liked to hear his opinion, but it was just the most general think he could have said! (I hope i used the word general correctly.)

@@blankface9363 captain D is a fictional character who is jaded and obnoxious on purpose

@@indyjon3s Ah fuck... Could put that in the channel description.

@@indyjon3s thanks.

@@indyjon3s Oh, it's supposed to be some kind of meta joke? It looks like a lot of people didn't get it, but that explanation makes sense.

This may be true but having never heard of either of these terms ARG is clearly more descriptive and easier to understand. The whole bit is that it's fiction, to call it "Unfiction" obfuscates the meaning. Besides, the creators are relying upon their audience to protect the illusion, a sort of, you might say, game. I don't claim to be an expert but I can understand why ARG seems more descriptive of what's actually happening (after all, these creators would *not* be doing these videos if people didn't like playing along with the premise).

@@x--. i haven’t fallowed many ARGs but that main part that make an ARG a ARG is people/commenter participating in the game like asking something directed to the person in the fictional world and then that person replies to that comment in world so this doesn’t seem like an ARG to me (PS sorry for any bad spelling I suck at typing)

@@lilykittygaming684 I see your point but it seems like ARG could still apply to this because the viewers 'play the game' -- they play along with the fiction. The creators clearly intend to create a fictional reality based on normally busy places being empty. So... eh... whatever it is, it's pretend.

@@x--. tldr at the end. Unfiction means a series of videos where the point is to act as if they are real. ARG, as the name implies, are games. They can be RU-vid channels or twitter profiles or even websites but the point of an ARG is there being an actual game to play, there being actual interaction between the community and the creator in more than just the viewers acting as if it’s real. That could be polls made that actually alter how the story could go, little codes left in videos that need to be solved, whole websites that need to be found and accessed as the series goes ahead. Unfiction is things like IamMaryMary or MypetDaisy, short series of videos where community involvement changes nothing. ARG’s are like EveryManHybrid that had actual ‘challenges’ that some viewers would need to record and send for the story to continue as it was, or TheSunVanished which was based entirely on Twitter and had multiple accounts involved in the story and polls that, according to the creator, actually did change how to story would go from beginning to ending, or even Welcome Home which is only a website with hidden messages and pages in it where the community works together to try and figure out the secrets hidden. TLDR; Unfiction is content with a possibility of interacting with the audience but never in a way that would change the story, while ARG’s are based on how the community acts for the story to ‘expand’ in different ways.

@@deadstriker4415 thank you so much for saying this way better then I did! I feel like my explanation didn’t explain what I was trying to say well enough and you did way better then I ever could

Meanwhile, I was thinking of Augmented Reality games like Pokemon Go and that one AR Mario Kart game.

Yeah I don't know what what's he talking about is really called, but an ARG it is not.

@@flatterkatz I heard people use the term “unfiction”

@@flatterkatzi feel like it kind of is if they interact with their viewers and like, take requests on where to go. My mind went to the args they sometimes do for game or album releases where there’s a fake, progressing story that people find clues about, and this is kind of like that on easy mode where all you do is watch and comment

I miss Unfiction.

You still can, nothing is stopping you other than the will to go to school or teach yourself and learn. Plenty of VFX artists start very late in their general education.

just start now

@@evolicious I have been doing it as a hobby for years, I get to put it to use for my streams, which is a lot of fun. I'm also happy with my current career. I could just see me going in that direction. :)

I dunno. I'm from a future where there is a ghost in my house and based on my future world's history of ARGs, his take seems pretty legit.

Yeah, a more precise explanation for an ARG is where someone on the internet dumps a bunch of cryptic information about something, often across multiple mediums, and it's more up to the audience to figure out what story is being outlined with the given information. I would, however, say that even this scenario of "ayo bruh where the people go" seems to be presented as actual unfiction and not as an ARG, as there seems to be little opportunity for audiences themselves to come to a conclusion about what happened (compare this to something like that whole "the sun vanished" thing.) So I'd say that the term ARG doesn't really apply to any of this very well.

Exactly my point. @@G-Cole-01

I have no idea what an MCT/CD crossover would look like, but now I'm curious.

He did said “2023” in his 2011 video, so this might very well be a real thing. (Tag me if you’re watching in 2037, I’ll probably have forgotten I’ve posted this by now).

Wouldn't that only work if you knew exactly where the person was looking at you from?

@@geli95us mostly yes, correct. although it could subdivide the effect by predominant viewing angle, so the front gets a different image than the back, the sides, etc. That would distort the effect around the edges some but otherwise wrap it around the user. Also I suspect you could get away with a rough approximation of the viewers position, if it's far enough away.