Posted October 31, 20231 yr Happy Halloween everyone! This is Desolation, one of my most experimental shows yet. The experimental industrial soundscapes give it that isolation and anxiety feeling, as I made this to express my daily and nightly anxiety I go through because of my Autism. Plus it's also Halloween so scariness is abound in this show. Special thanks to: Ben, N7, Jaron, Wolfpaw, EPP, Fyre Teknix, Palapakan, and especially Ace Husky for all the effects and Lasers! MRT Sound for the soundtrack: https://mrtsound.bandcamp.com/album/fiftn Set and Synchronization by yours truly!
October 31, 20231 yr THANK YOU for releasing something spooky and eerie on the eve of Halloween 👻 The music you used here is SUPER similar to your Donnie Darko tribute show a few months back - sounds like they share some of the same SFX. It was fun to see you use the FCR more this outing! As you build more shows, I would love to see you play with the depth of the set more. Launch ground effects from the foreground, perhaps even on the water's surface from little barges built out of the steel framework that surround the smoke stacks. You can also raise a row of mortars up so you can launch your aerial effects from higher positions and not have them blow up through your set 😅 Keep creating, Kriscendo! You're helping keep the MixMaster alive, and we love to see it. Something, sometime, eventually...
October 31, 20231 yr Author Thanks Kablary! By the way, about your suggestions, would you or any of you show builders like to show me your mortar set positions in your showsso I can have a clear idea for future show building? Again thanks! Edited October 31, 20231 yr by Kriscendo
October 31, 20231 yr 48 minutes ago, Kriscendo said: Thanks Kablary! By the way, about your suggestions, would you or any of you show builders like to show me your mortar set positions in your showsso I can have a clear idea for future show building? Again thanks! No problem! So as not to totally derail your thread, the video below is in a spoiler tag. Spoiler That's my set from Bite O' Bark. I used TONS of mortars, and almost certainly not all of them get used throughout the show, it's just nice to have them all over. The cool thing about Utregfan's mortars is they have a VERY low draw distance, so they will be invisible until the camera gets close enough. Makes setting those stick structures on fire very easy! So I could easily identify one mortar for lasers from another for pyro, I colored the laser ones red, unless they weren't recolorable. There are a lot of duplicate mortars (especially floating mid-air) because I wanted the option to base-aim in a certain direction, but still have another vertical mortar in that same spot to fire from. Some folks will tell you "less is more," but I like "more is more" for launch points 😆 Something, sometime, eventually...
October 31, 20231 yr Author Woah! Didn't know you had flying mortars! I do sort of think realistically when it comes to show building like mortars gotta have some platform or ground holding it you know? I will keep the elevation ideas in mind!
October 31, 20231 yr 42 minutes ago, Kriscendo said: I do sort of think realistically when it comes to show building like mortars gotta have some platform or ground holding it you know? Absolutely agree there! But I knew those mortars weren't going to be seen anyway, and they allowed my larger aerial shells to explode without muddying up the sky's other activity and without sending (too much) pyro through parts of the set. Sometimes I choose to consider the finished visual product versus what should be right from a physics/realism standpoint. Something, sometime, eventually...
October 31, 20231 yr Finally watched it and, why this does gave me some Donnie Darko vibes tho? "You have this one life. Choose well." ~Aurora
October 31, 20231 yr The avant-garde master makes another show! Another weird yet mesmerizing show in the books from you, your experimental show style still is unmatched! I agree with the mortar placements but to add onto that I think you need larger sets to work with! Having a bigger set horizontally is really going to help you do lots more with placement and choreography styles, that way everything isn't so clumped up in the middle. Your syncing is pretty on point, especially for an experimental song like this so the only other advice I can give is to try and work on some colors more. These shows are obviously not your traditional show with a story, so no need to really follow that color scheme rule here but I think your shows could really benefit from being very monotone in colors, similar to how you did with your Donnie Darko show with mostly everything being white. You want to make your audience feel uncomfortable, so do the opposite of what is expected in a pyro show! Great job on another show, I'm looking forward to what you do next! there's this illusion of the reality, but it's not really really real, like it's beside and inside and inside and beside, but never on top.. nevermind, just kidding but not really
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