Thu July 27th, 2023
I tried this for fun as an experiment recently, and was very amused by how in-depth YouTube’s real-time metrics are.
Edit: I also did end up compiling the footage for this page into a small timelapse process video, which you can peruse here on YouTube!
I forgot how fun video editing is! I briefly used to make painting process/timelapse videos years back, and haven’t for a long time. I’ve been trying new painting software this year, though, and the one I’m using now has a built-in recording function (Krita). It exports the timelapse as an image sequence, which makes it very convenient for video editing.
For the past week or two, I’ve been trying new video software and remembering how to edit again. While editing a longer video (a process video for a rough painting), I had the video 99% finished, but I wanted another week or so to make some final refinements to the painting itself. In the meantime, I tried out making a shorter preview using clips from the full video. I was surprised that making smaller, shorter clips is actually very fun when you’re the one editing them.
It’s a bit pretentious, but I had a lot of disdain for short-form content before understanding how fun it is for the creator to create. I tend to favor longer-form content in general (both when I’m the consumer, but also when I’m the creator), and I wasn’t a huge fan of how shorter-form content might encourage even more distracted attention spans.
But at the same time, now I understand how when making shorter-form works, there’s much less pressure. It makes it feel light and fun while you’re putting it together. Which makes me think, maybe I was being too harsh before. And viewing it through a more serious lens than it deserved. Well, in either case, it was a nice surprise to discover something new I didn’t think I’d enjoy making! I ended up having a lot of fun drafting several editing projects, both short and longer ones (though by “long,” I only have enough for between 2-5 minutes each).
This is the reason I have not had a buffer for last week’s and this week’s comics! I should have a more consistent schedule now, though. I’ve been sketching down several comic ideas in the meantime, and I should be able to complete those quicker because the overall ideas are drafted already.
If you’re curious to see these timelapses, I’ve been posting previews and full timelapses of smaller sketches to my YouTube channel here: YouTube.com/@Landylachs
My channel has technically been around for a while, but seeing how the last time I posted anything on it was eight YEARS(!) ago, in my mind it’s a new channel now, haha.
There isn’t anything Duskbirds related up yet, but I might post timelapse processes of Duskbirds pages if they end up being interesting (I recorded the current page above, but haven’t checked the footage yet to see if it’s boring or not).
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