Since Double Exposure got revealed, I've had Max's diary on my mind a lot lately. I'm gonna spend some time screencapping & formatting the pages from the LIS1 Remaster and pretty much overhaul everything, eventually.
Wait a freaking minute...... you made this at first I thought it was something that came with the game like a limited edition version of the game or something this is freaking incredible that you made this by hand I'm a prop maker myself and I am completely fucking Blown Away you did amazingly props to you I tip my hat to you you just earned a new subscriber
I'm planning on it! I also just ordered the Vinyl Edition today, and if the artbook that comes with it is a mini replica of Chloe's in-game diary, it'll help get the references for the front & back cover (since the only in-game screenshot is hard to make out in detail besides the Hawt Dawg Man sticker). But with my final year of college starting, I'm rather busy so I haven't formatted/edited the pages of Chloe's diary and letters yet.
OMG I am crying right now cause life is strange is my favorite game of all time and I really adore max's diary/jourmal and I am thinking to make one myself like a DIY one so yeah I came up to search "DIY life is strange max's journal" here on youtube and then I click this video and the first 5 seconds of this video I am about to cry.... (you dont probably care at all but yeah I love this so much thank you for making this and making me tear up hehe) but yeah this a really long and cheesy comment but I mean it)
Pretty much spot on, actually. A lot of companies are rather strict with their copyrights. Whereas some don't really mind when it's a "made to order" piece. Some, don't like it at all such as Bethesda from past articles I've read. For now, I'm holding off on selling any, but I'll gladly provide the documents free of charge for someone to print it themselves.
For the text block, the pages (put into signatures) were kettle stitched together and secured with acid-free adhesive. The hardcover is made from chipboard (I got mine from hobby lobby) and was covered with black canvas paper using spray on adhesive. Once the text block spine was good and dry, cardstock front and back pages (that were kettle stitched to the text block beforehand) was adhered to the hardcover, and kept inside a book press until everything was fully dried. The book press is to prevent the glue from bowing the hardcover. I watched some of SeaLemon's videos here on RU-vid as my guide for the kettle stitching, and assembly. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9O4kFTOEh6k.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Av_rU-yOPd4.html
I can't believe!!! It's awesome!!! I'm crying!!! I want that Max Caulfield's diary in-game replica and love picture of a blue butterfly!!! I love it and I'm a huge fan of Life is Strange!! XD
O..M..G!!!!!!!!!!! I like soo much!!!! It's very amazing!! Congrats!!!! I want it!!!!!!!!! I'm also a fan of life is strange and I'm also doing my own collection as there is not much merchandising of this amazing game, I really love it💖💖
I made it. ^^ I've got a working Sun 600 Polaroid Instant camera, and I ordered the film from Impossible Project, made the butterfly out of paper, and set things up with a metal bucket and tiled floor, and took some shots with legit 600 film. It took a lot of trial and error with the lights (Max was right, film is expensive as hell!). At $22 dollars for just 8 shots per cartridge. I kept the best one for my collection, but gave the rest away at anime/cosplay conventions!
With the remaster being a thing, I've been wanting to revise & improve the print files. Especially since I've gotten more adept at photoshop n stuff lol
I've been thinking about doing some upgrading & editing to the Max diary files, actually. Gonna add in some pages like the characters page and some other things I left out first time around. Chloe's journal is still on my to do list. Just need to do a new playthrough since I traded in my PS4 towards a PS4 Pro, and haven't redownloaded it on steam yet. And I might try and do a tutorial video rather than just a show & tell. ^^
And two another questions: 1. What did you used for the hardcover? It's only a black paper on board or something else? 2. How did you make this pages? In game they are covered by interface and other things (at example - nightmare page In your diary is bigger than page In game). You edited it?
Absolutely! I went by Sea Lemon's tutorials on learning out to kettle stitch, make the text block, and hard cover. Stitching & Text block: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9O4kFTOEh6k.html Hard cover: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Av_rU-yOPd4.html The hard cover I made is made of chipboard & black canvas-like paper. I picked up both at Hobby Lobby, so any art supply or office store should have everything. As for the pages, I screencapped them, edited & photoshopped each page to get rid of the navigation/interface at the top. Cropped & moved things inward such as paragraphs and some images so they wouldn't be so close to the margins. I took some liberties in editing the Nightmare page so it would fit, redrew a couple places in photoshop, and slightly compressed it to fit into my template. Then arranged them into eight signatures of 5 pages each (printed on front and back) so they will be in the right order when printed. I got them laser printed onto regular paper since that's what I could afford at the time.
Thanks for answer. Your screenshots was in 1920x1080 resoluton? I want to make my own copy but with my choices and in Polish language but I have only PC and I want the best quality on my screenshots.
So sorry for the late reply! When it comes to resizing, 300dpi scales things up size wise, but the print quality will be better. And yes, the screenshots were 1920 x 1080, but give the dimensions it would looks more square when bound into a book just using those dimensions, so I had to edit/scale it to be more similar to a composition notebook (and more accurate to the game). Getting the right pages to be organized into the signatures gets a little confusing, but a quick paper mock up and writing (Page 1 left/Page 5 right) helped me, personally.
hi! planning to make this for a friends birthday. i was wondering how and where you got the decals of the cover of max’s journal? (The stickers, the nametag, etc..)
They were scans of the concept art book, sized & printed on sticker paper. I can include a link in the description on my bio to the google drive for the current zip files, if youtube even allows me to put links. I had it taken down for a while, but I've got it back up.
I screencapped all the pages (on my PS4 since it has higher resolution than my Steam copy), formatted & edited all the pages into proper spreads and grouped them into 8 signatures of 5 pages each. Bound them together into a text block, then finally made the hardcover. It's bit of a process binding a book from scratch, but there's plenty of tutorials floating around that I used as my guides.
I would like to have the link. I know it takes you much time to finish it, and finishing Max's dairy is not an easy work. It's very kind of you. Thank you very much!
Hi, I'm from Brazil, and I would really love to try to make one, could you please send me your files or teach me how you edited the photos on the photoshop, I tried but I don't know how to use it
The second you brought it into the frame I almost ----ed my pants! It's like seeing Adam Savage exhibiting his Blade Runner Blaster replica... Then I realised THIS I CAN DO! Thank you so much for ALL the info. I may well try to make one myself later.
Adam Savage has been my hero for so many years! Ironically, Deckard's blaster is on my future lists of props to build (though I'm not as hellbent on perfection as Adam lol).
What conventions do you go to, to give these to cosplayers? The ones that I usually go to are mostly C2E2 and Anime Midwest, which are in Chicago. I wish I knew how to make this on my own (you should make a tutorial video). What can I do to get a copy of Max's diary from you?
I'm limited to southeastern conventions due to monetary and crappy vehicle reasons, unfortunately. I do plan on going to MomoCon and AWA this year though! I'm giving out replica butterfly photos though since I'm crafting my own instead of using Polaroid 600 film (because that stuff if expensive!). But SeaLemon here on RU-vid is who I watched to learn bookbinding. The formatting of the pages, I had to figure out on my own, but everything in the link in the description is already formatted. Unfortunately, I'm not taking on commissions for any diaries since I'm busy with a full (Overwatch) cosplay and college endeavors. Sorry.
I can upload all of the images & files onto Dropbox or something so you can try printing them out! I'm a little hesitant on doing this as a commission since the print shop people kinda hate me now. >
I would like to get your files, but it must have been a lot of work to do, so I would understand if you think I don't deserve it ! ^^ That would be so nice of you though :p
Sure thing! I have them uploaded to Dropbox now. Now if I can figure out how to message things on RU-vid, I totally would. (this place sure has changed over the years lol)
I'm planning to. I had ordered the vinyl edition, but for some reason there's a fuck up on my order from the SE store and my order is in limbo right now, so it may be a while..
Yep! I'm planning on it! Just waiting for Episodes 2 & 3 to come out. I haven't gotten around to editing the pages in the game from Episode 1 yet due to the semester starting last week, being busy with schoolwork and all. But Chloe's diary is in a spiral notebook, so I'm looking around into making my own spiral notebook in the meantime.
I've since taken down my originals, but I do plan on doing some revisions to the files and reuploading them onto a google drive that's not under my main account (security reasons and whatnot).
It's roughly 7.5" wide and 10" in height (or 19cm x 25cm) it's been a long time since I checked the dimensions but it's about in that range. I based it off of a basic composition notebook if that helps give a sense of scale.
Where did you find the cover pictures or stickers? Im planning on making my own journal but i want to use Max's journal cover but i can not find them myself. Did you make them yourself or bought them?
