sketchandjam

A strange race of aliens has made a 1,000 year trek to a planet with just the right radiation for them to worship on their pilgrimage. As they bask in the strange radiation light their brains evolve to a higher consciousness which will help them figure out how to cut their pilgrimage travel time to 10 years. They also end up going to a different planet to live as they now have new skills to test in a new environment. Video was created in 3ds Max and Vray with Mixamo animations. Audio was created in MPC via my Akai midi keyboard with a bit of extra effects via Guitar Rig 7. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

A yogi master is trying to transcend their ego. Try as they can the ego fights back with multiple forms of personalities to stay alive. As the yogi gets closer to enlightenments all sorts of distractions flood into place. Various portals are opened and closed only to reveal more distraction before transcendence can finally be achieved. Finally after years and years of practice the yogi reaches enlightenment and becomes one with the architect of the universe. Video was created in 3ds Max and Vray with the music created in MPC and Cakewalk with a bit of Guitar Rig 7 effects. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

A group of friends has a member who is in a bad mood. They try to console him but it gets worse and worse. Now everyone is worried and they do their best to get him out of this foul mood. Unfortunately it spirals out of control and absorbs them all and the whole group crumbles into nothing. Perhaps it is because they were trapped in a concrete room with a bright light... Or maybe they realized they were all just retro fashion mannequins with no new outfits to display as all the malls are moving to giant baggy clothes that won't fit them anymore. Video was created in 3ds Max and Vray. Audio was made via my Akai MPK Mini in MPC on my commute into work. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

Aliens have figured out how to catch clouds. With their newfound skills they start jumping all over them and being reckless. Eventually the clouds fight back and end up as a fog that covers everything causing mayhem in the alien world. Finally the clouds and the aliens reach a truce and stay in their contained areas. As it turns out the clouds are composed of trillions of tiny sentient organisms. Video was created in Vray, 3dsmax with Mixamo character animations. Audio was created in MPC with Guitar Rig 7 on the lead. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

The general population has been trained to argue relentlessly for no reason. Perhaps a frequency has been beamed out by nefarious characters. Now everyone just assembles and argues the same point without listening to each other. As the argument carries on it gets out of hand and spins out of control creating a wormhole that everyone is sucked into. Now the nefarious characters can rule the earth by themselves... Until they get into an argument with each other... Video was created in 3ds Max and Vray with character animations by Mixamo. Audio was composed on my commute into work via MPC and my tiny Akai MPK keyboard. Thanks for listening :-) Avoid large groups of arguing people...

Strange cells are dividing and floating around in the air. They are sort of a hybrid of pollen and viral cells. They are quite toxic and giving everyone a bunch of allergies. The only way to stop them is to chop the weeds that are releasing them before they can spread their pollen around. Unfortunately the cells are evolving and beginning to pollinate through the hosts that they infect. Beware the floating microscopic cells... Video was created in Vray and Tyflow. Audio was made in MPC via my Akai MPK III Thanks for listening :-)

A strange particle has been released from an atom smasher. It has changed the composition of all humans into various colored sponges. As people wake up to realize they are now a sponge, they freak out and begin running. The running seems to take their mind off of the terrible existence of being an absorbing material... They will run until it rains. Video was created in 3ds max and vray using vray fog to create the sponge material. Audio was created in MPC via my Akai MPK III. Thanks for listening :-) #synthwave #vray

This poor robot has been programmed to escape any enclosure. Unfortunately the code has glitched in its brain and now it can only walk around in circles forever. Just when it thinks it can climb through the grid opening a 0 becomes a 1 and it continues walking around. Perhaps the strange colored mist inside the enclosure has glitched out the processor... Fortunately the robot can generate its own power source by walking and it will eventually outlast the cage itself and possibly break free once the code glitches again in its favor. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

Here is a synthwave instrumental I composed in the hotel room while working on a project in LA. I started the drums on the plane via my akai mini mpk 3 and my laptop. Then it was off to work for a good 15 hours. Unfortuantely I couldn't fall asleep because California is two hours off from Chicago so I stayed up finishing the composition. In the meantime I setup the Insta 360 to take a timelapse video outside the window overlooking the USC campus. The streets on the campus were a bit empty because it was spring break but the air had quite a bit of activity with planes flying nonstop into LAX. Overall it came together well, I'll have to keep this tradition of composing late night music in the hotel room on business trips lol. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

A panel has been removed from an underground prison. Now the ray of light is revealing the strange prisoners below. It is impossible to determine how large this space is, or how many inmates are underground. Most of them have been there so long that they are blind and don't even know the ray of light is there. Perhaps one of them will get lucky and will escape to the surface and scare the heck out of the people on the surface. Music was composed in MPC and visuals were created in 3ds Max and Vray with Mixamo animations. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

Here is another original synthwave mix I made in MPC for #midimonday. I found myself super bored in a hotel room in San Antonio so I decided to setup a timelapse using my insta360 camera while I composed midi. The timelapse for these things is pretty slow so I had to let it run a good 2 hours before the battery ran out. Then I swapped out the battery and let it run out again basically doing a full night of timelapse. As it turned out there was a really huge thunderstorm all night, sadly since it was a timelapse only a few flickers were captured instead of some awesome bolts of lightning. That's all for now, thanks for watching :-)

Clones are floating out of the sky appearing out of seemingly nowhere. They are landing everywhere on earth and taking up space menacingly. If anyone tries to move them out of the way they get testy and start forming a mass that bounces any threat out of the way. The military tried conventional munitions on the clones but it had no effect. Still the clones remain untouched. A gaming nerd has emerged from his parent's basement and didn't even know the clones took over. He went over to one and tried asking her out on a date. This instantly caused the clone to start breaking apart. This is the first girl the poor nerd has asked out and her head exploded, now he is fainting. The secret weapon to the clones has finally been found. Video was created in 3ds Max, Vray and Tyflow. Audio was composed on my MPK mini in MPC 2. Thanks for watching :-)

An army of clones has been created only to be experimented upon. Various items ranging from a trash can to an angry boss are inflicted upon the clones. Fortunately they are not damageable, though all they can do is fall down. Eventually they will grow tired of the experiments and will rise up against their masters to replicate innumerably on the world. Once they have won they will be able to assemble into neat rows and just stand there forever. Music was created in MPC via my Akai MPK Mini. Video was created in 3ds Max, Vray and Tyflow. Thanks for watching :-)

I decided to test out an insta360 camera by mounting it on my backpack during my commute to work in Chicago. As it turns out I pass by some really cool overhead views of the skyscrapers above. I'll have to keep testing this thing out for its strange new perspectives. Soundtrack is an original I made in MPC via my Akai MPK Mini. That's all for now, thanks for watching :-)

An invisible force is attracting all sorts of squirming writhing materials. The force binds them together and changes their composition before letting them go again. Who knows what sort of incremental changes were made to the matter and what it will end up becoming. Perhaps invisible firmware has been delivered to inert matter and now it will become sentient. Video was created in 3ds Max, Tyflow and Vray. Audio was tapped out on an Akai MPK Mini in MPC during my commute in to work on my laptop. Thanks for listening :-)

A biker dude has been hexed into a world of hexagons. He tries breaking out of the hexed realm with his bike, guitar, head, hands and feet. Nothing seems to work. He must now accept the reality of being stuck inside a realm full of hexagons with no escape. The video was created in 3ds max and vray using tyflow particles that interact with geometry to create the extrusion effect. Music was created on my train commute into work via my laptop, an Akai Mpk Mini and MPC 2. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-) #synthwave

Here's an original synthwave soundtrack to another #tyflow test with particles and voronai fractures. I managed to set geometry to be fractured as particles then pushed the particles around within the geometry. After that I layered in a few more effects to round out the fractured particles to create some interesting bubble and veiny effects. Rendering was done in vray and overall composition was created in after effects. The music was created in mpc during my commute into work on my Akai mpk mini and later remixed in cakewalk. Thanks for watching :-)

Lucifer is considered to be the embodiment of pride. But as they say pride cometh before the fall and the forest he inhabits looks to be turning to fall colors. Best not to hang around this guy as you will get burned. Leviathan is the demon associated with envy, characterized by resentment towards others for their possessions or successes. This guy is turning green with envy and keep an eye on your wallet and anything you value. Mammon is the demon associated with greed, a sin that is characterized by an insatiable desire for wealth and material possessions. Keep your crypto wallets hidden around this guy, material possessions are old hat for this guy. Asmodeus is the demon of lust, characterized by an intense desire for sexual gratification. Keep away from this guy god knows what kind of ancient STDs it has. Amaymon, is the demon associated with wrath, characterized by anger, rage, and a desire for revenge. Best not to get on this guy's bad side, actually I think all sides of this guy are bad so better just keep away from him altogether.

Scientists have finally isolated a single particle of red matter. They are running tests bombarding it with different sound frequencies to see what happens. As it turns out the red matter is sentient and hates certain sound frequencies. It begins to act up and distort into many different forms. Eventually it became too much for the red matter to handle and it exploded decimating everything in the area. Now it can go back to its inert state undisturbed. It will take another millenia until a sentient being is able to evolve to study the red matter once again. Video was created in 3ds Max, Vray and After Effects. Audio was composed in MPC 2 via my Akai MPK Mini III. Thanks for watching :-)

Here is another #synthwave instrumental. For this concept I used a hand, heart, brain, woman and skull model to kind of represent the idea of collecting riches. As you compile your wealth over time entropy takes effect and destroys everything you've worked for. If your whole life is geared towards collecting wealth you will forget about all the things that really matter in life, and in the end it all gets vaporized by entropy. I started out with a few 3d models and experimented with particle systems in 3ds Max using the Tyflow plugin. As far as I know the Tyflow plugin basically just reorganizes existing 3ds Max tools in a much more useable format. Now it is much easier to actually use particle systems and do interesting things with them. Later I compiled all the renderings in After Effects and added the music. I composed the song in MPC via my Akai MPK Mini on my train commute to and from work. Most of the sounds are from the Kontakt 7 library with some ethnic drums like bongos and other hand drums. All the rest of the instruments are various synths and electronic drums. For the mood I wanted to convey a drudgery of the rat race and all the hard work it takes to collect resources to survive. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

Alien headhunters are preserving their trophies with various types of materials. They are looking to sell these as trinkets on their home planet and they have to be preserved in just the right wrapping to endure hypersleep. Skulls were rendered in 3ds max and vray using tyflow to simulate the cloth material binding to the skulls. Music was composed on my Akai mpk mini 3 in mpc using Kontakt 7 and some free Kontact libraries (i.e. the coral voices). That's all for now, thanks for listening and watching

A solitary soul finds itself walking alone at night in a dark chasm. A mixup has occurred in the multiverse. This lone soul was supposed to go to the heaven simulation but there was a glitch in the network and it ended up in an unfinished universe instead. Now all they can do is wait a few eons until the creator decides to finish it. What will this lone soul do with all the time? Rendering was created in 3ds max and vray using Cosmos assets. Audio was created on my mpk mini III and MPC 2 during my commute to work. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-) #synthwave #3dsmax #vray #cosmos

Here is an original composition on my Egyptian oud. It started out as a improvisation on the oud then I added five drum tracks via my Roland Handsonic. Three of the tracks are a sample of an udu drum and the other two are a hand pan. Overall the song has a feel of an ancient international trader traveling on their route. I added video footage by caelan on pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/caelan-1280... Thanks for listening :-)

The insomniac tosses and turns all night trying to fall asleep. Different pillows are tried and different bedding textures are tested to see if they will help him fall asleep. None of it works and just when he was starting to doze off the neighbors started having a rave dance party upstairs. Now all he can do is twist and turn getting no sleep until the morning when its time to go to work. Video was created in 3ds max and vray using a cool vray mesh feature that lets you wrap geometry on top of geometry. Music was composed in MPC 2 via my akai mpk mini 3. Thanks for watching and listening :-) #synthwave

Three friends uncover a book of ancient rituals. They decide to try the séance that summons a giant from another dimension. They mumbled the words and threw the dice and it actually worked. The only problem is now they are trapped in a time loop forever reliving the moment the giant poked his hand into this dimension. The only way out of the loop is for another three people to do the exact same thing to take their place. Odd are slim this will ever happen again... Music was created on my commuite into work in MPC via my Akai MPK Mini. 3d visuals were created in 3ds max and vray. Thanks for watching :-) #synthwave #seance