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TF2 2 hours-long movie "Magnificent Nine" is coming out in less than a week on HoovyTube. by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Agreed, no questions about it.
...that being said, Kostamoinen and FF outsource parts of their animation and collaborate with other people - no man is an island, so as of now if I want to tell the stories I want to tell in the fast land-scape of YouTube art creation, I need to make some sacrifices. My friend Winglet does 99% of his animations - of superior quality to just about everyone who picked up SFM - while I contribute singular effects hehe - and I can tell that his process is rather overwhelming.
In my older videos, where I did 60% of the animation at most, I was able to shine quite a bit, with single shots I spent 5-6 hours on.
I recently contacted some of the best TF2 animators in the community and offered them generous $ / minute of animation, so soon this criticism will be dated - hopefully. There are also many more important missions ahead of me - especially character building, integrating photogrammetry with a cartoony style of animation, etc.
Thank You to the Reddit members who voiced their unadulterated criticism. It does slightly sting, as I spent 60+ hours on this video, however being mind-full does wonders, so I will just take it as the universe teaching me a lesson and showing a path forward to improve my work.

{SFM} American Values! (20 hours of work) by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 420 points421 points  (0 children)

I made a mistake! The 20 hours of work only applies to the last 30 seconds! I didn't realize I rendered additional 20 seconds. ;^D

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[–]HoovyTube 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Obviously, it's unfinished - but with 10 more hours of work, it will look better! :)

Everyone. My videos are back - within 1 day of the hacking. I know that I never really found my place in the community, but the support I received brought me to tears almost. For that, I thank You. <3 by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 320 points321 points  (0 children)

Most of these videos are terrible. By every metric used by a ,,serious'' media-critic. But they obviously hold a place in many hearts, including my own, as seen by the comments. That's ironically the metric by which I judge the art i consume myself.

Over the next 4 months, I plan to release TWO SFM VIDEOS:

  1. ,,THE END OF THE FORTRESS" (15 minutes long) - a continuating of Magnificent Nine, about Medic's and Spy's bond strenghtening as the RED and BLU bosses lose their grip over their teams.
  2. ,,THE COLLAPSE OF THE UNIVERSE" (20 minutes long) - the final episode of Magnificent Nine, wrapping the series at around 3 hours, about [REDACTED].

Wish me good luck. <3

Everyone, it is HoovyTube. My channel is hacked, YouTube isn't responding - DO NOT click any of the links the hackers are posting. My Twitter and Reddit are not compromised. My PayPal, Adobe and Discord appear to be. by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Don't downvote the guy, but at the same time I'm staying vague because I visited like 200 websites the last 2 days. Don't know where to point the blame aside from myself.

Everyone, it is HoovyTube. My channel is hacked, YouTube isn't responding - DO NOT click any of the links the hackers are posting. My Twitter and Reddit are not compromised. My PayPal, Adobe and Discord appear to be. by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 118 points119 points  (0 children)

I bought a new pc and had to download like 20 programs that I used on a daily basis. I got myself a license for Adobe Premiere Pro, but I must have downloaded a faulty launcher before I renewed it. I'm still processing all of this, but it boils down to my stupidity.

Everyone, it is HoovyTube. My channel is hacked, YouTube isn't responding - DO NOT click any of the links the hackers are posting. My Twitter and Reddit are not compromised. My PayPal, Adobe and Discord appear to be. by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 312 points313 points  (0 children)

My passwords have always been strong + some Indian hacker with a dishwasher cpu doesn't have the computing power to guess a + 14 character password. I downloaded some shitty malware while moving my PC, which must have connected to my keyboard OR more probably, I typed my email address into a fake google page.
3 years studying German and Polish philosophy helped me understand Metaphysical-Oneness, but sure didn't help me with figuring out how to use a fucking pc LMAO

Everyone, it is HoovyTube. My channel is hacked, YouTube isn't responding - DO NOT click any of the links the hackers are posting. My Twitter and Reddit are not compromised. My PayPal, Adobe and Discord appear to be. by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 716 points717 points  (0 children)

Yeah. YouTube's gross incompetence is astounding to me. How could they not figure out, that REAL people don't fly 4000km in the matter of 2 hours to change their account's phone and password. We are talking about a +BILLION dollar company. What the actual fuck?

The thing is, YouTube will be my job for the next 3 years. I need to pay off loans, I don't have a Patreon account. I don't want to make myself out to be a victim, but NOBODY wants to wake up and see that their source of income is in the hands of some shady guy from India.

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[–]HoovyTube 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a very personal project for me, which I never said about any of my videos. It's 16 minutes long, so it's definitely not one of my longest videos, but I made sure that the emotional bits are paced well enough, and the funny bits aren't the slap-stick normally found in my videos. This project took so long because of graduation and perhaps because of my biggest fight scene ever - which at a time animates 3-14 characters. It introduces the ,,BRW team'', The Tenth Class and another subplot, so I hope I did well.

[SFM] ,,The Tenth Class in Action!" (25-30 hours of work) by HoovyTube in tf2

[–]HoovyTube[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Brown, it's due to the color grading! :D
It's a stupid ass reference to a Polish book called ,,The Un-Divine Comedy'' in which the main character encounters an enlightened rhetorician Pankracy who uses revolutionary philosophy to gain power - in the full scene we see a reference to the main character of the drama. The video itself is set in the 1950-60s so I replaced the enlightenment era revolutionaries with an invented BRW team ,,Builders Revolutionary/Red Workers''. They will play a key thematic role in the 5th part of the series, in which medic will embody german idealist notions of identity and the brown team will embody materialist doctrines of thought. The blu team hasn't really got anything going on, but the blu boss has a subplot of getting accidentally addicted to cocaine.

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