Backrooms - Level 122 “Mall” (found footage)

[@jmfs3497]

I am pushing 50 and this is all new to me. I have worked in radio, music studios, live sound, video production, graphic design, and 2D animation. A year ago I was absorbed by a department at my company that does VR, AR, 3D, etc. I lot of it has still been multimedia support, but I've been picking up photogrammetry, projection mapping, UAV videography on the job, and working through Blender, Python, and now Unreal in my off hours. It is so cool to see these Backrooms explorations and designs. I'm working in very small models and animations right now, but I see how much room there is to explore. Amazing.

[@visitante-pc5zc]

I hope you eventually design backrooms too.

[@Kazami101]

awesome to hear your perspective on these animations.

[@gyranos716]

Dude, that thing where he turns around and suddenly there's a subway station instead of the mall, you captured EXACTLY what it is like inside my dreams. Really awesome video

[@humanity_moment.]

Unstable topography and space-time at its finest.

[@gold-g3zYT]

I agree

[@ScorpionFTW]

Hahaha BROOOO that's awesome I use to dream like that..

[@bernierose1114]

Really, have you dreamed of the backrooms before? I have and just wondering if anyone else has

[@gyranos716]

@@bernierose1114 not necessarily the backrooms itself i'd say, like you can find them on the Internet. But more of a very very similiar thing to them, just as empty and strange, let's say you'd make a video about your dream location and called it a backroom level, no one would see the problem and believe you. Maybe our dreams have their own backrooms as your very own "personalized hell"

[@Aereisyt]

I love the fact that unlike many backrooms found footage videos, this one actually has a relatively unknown level with the metro too.

[@prosto_potomuwto]

how relative?

[@Dan-di9jd]

@@prosto_potomuwto it’s irrelevant

[@NotDandyYew]

The metro does not look like this entirely. There are plenty of "dead zones" which are war torn and filled with bones. This is and example of a underground that survived

[@nicholasdefilippis6186]

​@@NotDandyYew What do you mean war torn and filled with bones? Besides the various Fun Wars, what happened?

[@NotDandyYew]

@@nicholasdefilippis6186 at somepoint there were survivors fighting together against the entities. But the sheer number of them vs humans was to much. The entities proved to be more blood thirsty then thought so they slaughtered survivors in hundreds on one attack. Most bodies you find are the few that either tried to run or stood and fought to no avail

[@deoproximo1572]

It's always a good idea to go into the dark spooky areas like this guy did.

[@emirlsanchos6302]

And shout "HEY!" to a faceless figure riding the subway train.

[@wikwayer]

Well if you were tried and starving maybe you start to take bad decisions

[@curtisgordon7379]

@@emirlsanchos6302 well maybe when your in the state your in now you would have enough common sense not to do that but trust me when you have spent possibly months being isolated constantly running from monsters and barley having any sleep or food or human contact, after a while it would get to you and you would become desperate. and when your desperate you don’t always make the best of decisions. so if you saw a guy inside a subway train and its been the first person you saw in months, common sense would go out the window due to you being desperate for any kind of human contact which is the reason he did that.

[@webgoor]

@@curtisgordon7379 you're*

[@curtisgordon7379]

@@webgoor wdym

[@youknowho4439]

Definitely one of the top three most realistic looking animations I've come across of the Backrooms other than Kane. One thing Blender and the Backrooms have in common? They are overwhelming...

[@Cametendo]

Agreed

[@zumagallerte4669]

Finally a Neon Mall!! With palm trees! The epitome of nostalgic liminality. I've been waiting so long for this.

[@AustinRoberts88]

You should check out "lost in the hyperverse" he has a truly incredible neon mall level

[@bobgart5470]

dude this is insanely good my fav back rooms creator! love the atmosphere you get it like no other

[@guest1336]

BACKROOMS NOT BACK ROOMS

[@libtardiacitizen]

​@@guest1336 *F*CKROOMS

[@marvindowns1071]

@@Binge-Minge he didnt make "the backrooms" it was there WAY before he made it

[@visitante-pc5zc]

Oh. I thought it was Bathrooms

[@visitante-pc5zc]

False. This video proves it all

[@WhenToastersAttack]

Top tier quality! Almost no one uses Facelings in their Backrooms videos, happy to see you show one. Far as I can tell it’s lore accurate, never actually acting hostile and instead just the camera operator freaking out! Also, absolutely love the look of the infinite strip mall!

[@christophclear1438]

This is a shopping mall, not a strip mall...

[@Ars_Sither]

@@christophclear1438 💀 man im dead

[@mortysmith2521]

@@Ars_Sitherim coming to revive you

[@marsfuture]

Awesome visual (and audio!) quality here, everything looks lush and realistic and there were a couple great shiver moments here. Also, the horror transition to that subway station and the realisation how fast that insane train were moving were great!

[@ZeaLitY]

Masterpiece. So many amazing touches. Faking us out by having the subway guy look like an Async researcher from a distance was an incredible touch. And then a second no-clip...

[@alvarhanso5351]

This was so surreal and had me on the edge of my seat. Your sound mixing is so good along with your color aesthetics👌👌

[@K.114.]

I just want to say that I really appreciate the static you used. It's the perfect type. Not too loud or too much...just perfect.

[@TwoonyHorned]

Nobody would have imagined that the architecture of the 80s would produce such feelings.

[@HeisenbergTheFirst]

This is probably one of the best backrooms videos ive ever seen (and i have seen alot) the cross between Kane's universe's monsters with yours was blended beautifully. Keep up the amazing work!

[@SuperstarStudiosAnimations]

7:00 that moment when you realize there’s no escape and you just surrender yourself.

[@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews]

I think this guy makes the most photo realistic backrooms videos that exist, and that includes kane pixels. These environments are extremely detailed and complex, to the point the average person wouldn't realize it's cgi if you didn't tell them.

[@lilgamer2246]

Because I definitely didn’t. I’m sitting here on the comments looking for where this place is at and realize it’s a whole series of lifelike animations!

[@mortysmith2521]

Yeah its insanely detailed and realistic. But its easier to do that with the effects from the ˋˋfilming´´ and the resolution is also lower. But still very good work

[@Slashy.]

I like the contrast between the colourful and almost "heavenly" type of mall and the dead metro, good work! :D

[@MASSKA]

3:37 bro, nobody can enter in such restroom, everybody will run away

[@BdR76]

Excellent video, it's like high quality nightmare fuel. Could have shown the man in the subway a little longer though. I like the attention to detail, the scuffed up floors, light, subway carts, everything looks very realistic yet also uncanny. How did you model it all so life-like?

[@skywares]

This is so fucking good!!! Holy shit, everything is completely wiki compliant down to the neon lighting colors indicating no entities and the train cars being identical for a few cars then slowly warping and the possibility of a faceling spawning in them! Incredible, fantastic work my friend 👏 and the bathroom scene got me 😂 why do they always go in when it's clearly out of order 💀

[@stevelucky7579]

I’d say everything up to 7:00 was great for what I like the backrooms to be. Never knowing where your going or where you’ll end up. Location’s constantly preventing you from going backwards. Having the one entity on the train looking like a fellow passenger was a nice touch because it lures you into hope and then dashes it. Falling off the train into another location was good, but I felt like the second entity was too many monsters for me. I like to play with the idea that “am I going crazy, or are these things real. Even if they are real, would I rather die by their hands then wander forever in isolation… maybe just maybe this thing is nice…” or the rare moment you find one other person in the backrooms and you cling to each other for dear life and you continue on your journey practically stuck like glue, only to be forced away from each other with the whaling of grief filling the air because even though the other person isn’t dead, you may never see them in this labyrinth again. You know, really battle of the mind and loneliness/ paranoia shtick. The monsters should almost 80% of the time be your delusions with 20% being actual real threats (i believe). Enough to present a danger and keep you on your toes, but your own fears and paranoia are doing the heavy lifting against you. But I digress.

[@f9ea]

The video is 7:06 lol

[@stevelucky7579]

@@f9ea did you even read my Christmas list!

[@creatorguy5738]

By far my personal favourite backrooms content creator, Keep it up !

[@JeffTheDev_lite]

I love these vids bro its triggering anemoia!

[@sebastianfranz7189]

Your Backrooms Videos have the best quality, audio and story ❤ I LOVE IT

[@Grand-Massive]

Watching at 2 AM: so easy Watching at 2AM with the lights off: I'm certainly about to die any second.

[@richardhandcock]

Absolutely top notch animation and sound design.

[@kreatywnosc]

Im so glad youre back, i love your vids! You really are so talented to make a perfect liminal space atmosphere!

[@artisticbuilding6852]

this is better than a hollywood movie. incredibly realistic visuals, sounds AND movements. well paced. creepy environment. i'm not big on entities though these two were well done. just emaculate work waw!

[@backrooms-datalog7630]

I cannot emphasise how INCREDIBLE this Found Footage was. Terrifying and horrifying in everyway. A nightmare come true, while being teased with beautiful sights of that incredible looking mall, while before that, exiting an unknown lift, to enter a terrifyingly dark region and then to enter a long elevator, while welcoming lights signal the direction of the Wanderer. The entrance to the restrooms was very dangerous, and then to escape from an unknown source, to exit and find the whole of the beautiful mall changed to a subway station was incredibly well done! And I believe that is the first time I've seen a Faceling in a Found Footage! That was horrifying! Loved the movement and speed of the train! So realistic! And that ending....WOW! A nightmare for that poor Wanderer! 10/10 for your insanely incredible work!

[@nex7245]

amazing work, this might be one of the best ones so far.

[@loorfy]

i really like this dreamcore videos, thank you for continuing making backroom videos, when almost every youtuber stopped making stugg on this theme

[@pirhala]

This is for sure the best one I’ve watched so far! These backrooms videos are quite new to me but I’ve watched a ton of them and this one captured some actual fear and anxiety by the way you used the sounds and landscape. Bravo, my friend! Can’t wait to see more from you!

[@TheTexasViking]

Whenever I watch these, I feel like these are the areas The Langoliers have not eaten yet!

[@luislopezsoler3310]

You're back, dude! I'm so glad you return!

[@rangerCG]

If I could make one suggestion, the camera animation shake generator you're using is a bit too uniform and smooth. I don't know if it's possible with what you're using - maybe use 2 or 3 or 4 iterations of it, for periodic jerkiness, one that handle shorter term animations and one that handles longer term, etc. Great work.

[@FullThrottleReviewsRoblox]

THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST EXCITING BACKROOMS VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN... THE 80S MALL AND THE TRAIN LEVEL.. its just so perfect, it shows how much of a hell the backrooms actually are, this was insane

[@mdillon334]

This was super good. I really liked the mall section 😅 felt nostalgic but very anxiety inducing...

[@nathanstafford8412]

Never thought I'd see an actually functional subway train in the backrooms. Well, except for the one in that water park video...

[@denverdubois5835]

This is the best short horror film I've seen in a long time. Love the way you built the atmosphere of dread, and the transition from the mall to the subway station via the bathroom of doom. I will say though that the creature is almost anticlimactic in a way....the zombie dude in the spacesuit made me jump out of my seat though. I guess I just prefer that image? Reminded me of something, perhaps Kubrick's "Space Odyssey" (the Backrooms in general is a pretty Kubrick type idea! His movies are full of liminal spaces.) Either way, this is an incredible piece. I especially liked the tropical decor and swirly neon lighting in the mall. As a refugee from the '70s and '80s, the design was spot on! I miss those places, actually...they were fun before they became a creepy meme LOL

[@teamofone1219]

Yes it's always a good idea to follow a strange black line on the ground.

[@lilnewt9198]

The sound design is insane 🤯👌

[@Takomaru562]

Awesome vid :3 For the mall part i try to imagine what it be like with 80's music playing in the background but stuck on a loop on and has a old record player sound to it that stops half way before repeating like a broken record do :3

[@n0hvn]

this is such a step forward from your older material, keep it up dude this shit’s top tier

[@atanon]

always nice seeing your vids pop up after a while, I remember these being among some of the best backrooms interpretations that I have seen

[@Waffles4903]

This community is full of talent!

[@darkyelox]

Wow the quality of your rendering is impressive, great ambiance and sound design, you are part of the bastion that keeps the backrooms alive but innovating at the same time

[@NewStarConstellation]

Well said.

[@lIu_u1]

crazy how you went from some of the goofiest backrooms videos to genuinely amazing content, really though this is awesome lol

[@twasbrillig33]

The camera work (shake) on the subway is outstanding and incredibly realistic! Is that a filter you can apply in Blender or is that motion captured by you? how did you do that? Amazing work.

[@StyleshStorm]

I see tropical palm or coconut trees in the thumbnail. 🌴 Finally. Hawaii Liminal Space Backrooms hybrid!

[@CoolDudeClem]

OMG this mall (or at least the first half) is LITERALLY like a place I saw in a dream about a year ago, it's uncanny!

[@die.3695]

That ending chase scene was absolutely chilling, gave me goosebumps!

[@sklew]

Ruster makes the highest quality backrooms videos

[@makingmoves6816]

What a great video! The atmosphere, sounds, the nuances...ooh! Nicely done!

[@GoGoGoRunRunRun]

The atmosphere is really cool, great sound design, too!

[@Tyrell_Corp2019]

As someone who grew up in a city, there's a distinct comfort while walking the bustling streets and changing landscape. Conversely, when visiting outer suburbs and those malls? I feel this deep sense of dread and emptiness. The feeling of being told that: "I'm happy to be shopping". But I'm not. Malls repulse my inner being. The footage here only confirms that. lol. Thanks for posting!

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Love the neon mall. You made that?

[@astrofotoperu]

Random scenes and sudden changes, really represent what a nightmare is like.

[@afrayedsoul8773]

Is this part 2 of Level 11’s recording? Btw this is really amazing! You’re really talented, I enjoy your Backrooms vids. :D

[@agreeneyedfella]

My lucid dreams just came to life. Completely freaked me out. Especially when the entity caught him. Fracking hair stood on ends. Kudos, big kudos.

[@vedantsridhar8378]

Damn, you got the best lucid dreams ever

[@altonkatie3453]

The person went into the dark room with a sinister tv after staying in a peaceful mall. When the room the person entered was a dark room with a static cursed tv, you know that he shouldn't have entered that room and that something was going to go wrong.

[@criticallard2090]

That was a subway train? It was moving so fast! Not to mention that it was super shaky! Oh, and the first 1:40 gave me the creeps. Awesome vid! Why didn't he just sit down in the train? That's what would do. He screwed up and was got by a bacteria, the least frightening of all the monsters.

[@backroomsbot]

damn that train footage looks really good bro, stay safe in these backrooms

[@Razumen]

Very nice, and I like that it's not 40 mins of him looking over his shoulder every 2 seconds, like another certain series of videos...

[@Zziplockbag]

This is Well done Great! Edit : the Quality looks so Real THIS IS A MASTERPIECE 10/10

[@ebriadhlaceratus6609]

You, good fellow, have earned a subscriber! One of the best I have seen so far!

[@ripluigi]

THIS WAS SO WELL DONE OMG. I'm so impressed I loved it

[@philgreen815]

I love the backrooms idea, so dark and mysterious.

[@mikeshrike6325]

Bro flipped the crocs into sports mode😂 6:21

[@Justafanofwebarebears]

Thank God You're Still alive and okay i was so worried😢

[@joaneugenio9158]

the whole concept of backrooms is very much giving existentialism and tragedy where the consequence of living is really just to die or get hurt somehow in an endless loop

[@DarthTalon66]

Incredibly underrated, keep it up bro🙏🏽

[@godblesstheinternet]

That was a good one! And one of the few scary ones. Nicely done!

[@neonss2]

Heck yeah! Love that you did my favorite level in the backrooms!

[@maxyboi6362]

This is horrifying, i think i need the sound of the bacteria at the end

[@TheAlexKhvorov]

Oh boy, that personal slice of hell, absolutely well done, bravo👏

[@MiljanBojovic]

STOP MAKING THESE FOUND FOOTAGE VIDEOS ABOUT BACKROOMS! IT'S ANNOYING... ....I'm joking. This is amazing! Make more, bruh! :D Also I want these Environments in VR D:

[@depedi5373]

Great video as always. Top quality work sir.👍👍👍👍👍

[@od1401]

This is super well done, awesome job man

[@GroundPunch2]

Ruster, you haven’t editing this render for a while! You got a break for like 1 month, and also, good work!

[@azardes2960]

I love the backrooms stuff, it gives artists like Ruster or Kane Pixels complete freedom to be creative. 👍👍👍

[@Mokloko2019]

Whats cool is i already read this level in the backrooms wikidot so it looks really amazing how you recreated the picture of the mall perfectly keep up the good work👍

[@ICEenjoyer327]

I love Levels that look like this. just a nice retro mall, not some abandoned office or maintenance tunnel. This is my new Favorite level

[@HittokiriBattousai17]

That is just astonishing!!!!!! It looked like an actual movie!, unbelievingly realistic, and the transitions were flawless! Is this whole thing CGI??? I can't believe it.

[@HeartGrinder7]

Ok! This was really good, and I don’t say that often of these videos. I love the metro and vapor wave locations for their originality, the parking garage for it’s extremely well done creepiness, and the freakiness of the bathroom and the unhooded hazmat suit guy. I only wish that 1. You spent more time in the mall, that could have been milked successfully, and 2. Drop the wire frame creature for something more original. So tired of that thing.

[@SuperTrollTV]

This one is amazingly done. I would love to see this lvl of detail as a standard and maybe even more community inventivity in the future.

[@die.3695]

Finally a backrooms (found footage) video that doesn’t start off with the camera on the floor of level 0.

[@Roughneck7712]

Best Backrooms video to date. This was a solid step toward capturing how unnerving a Backrooms situation would feel

[@InVinoVeratas]

Seeing graffiti tags and layups in the backrooms is a bit weird, makes me think now theres a bunch of taggers tagging up the backrooms.

[@normarodriguez6335]

That train is going fast as hell. . .

[@PoweredChowder]

This is awesome I love watching these! One with an empty indoor stadium would be so creepy

[@POULEPIANO]

The end got me so tense Amazing work !

[@toddinfl]

Great work and the manequin was epic.

[@InterstitialistRecords]

Tbh, public restrooms can be a terrifying place to begin with especially on BOGO chili dog nights at the baseball stadium.

[@LancerMyMan]

I like this. The perfect thing to watch late at night in my dark and quiet house. Thank you.

[@henryglenn534]

W render and excellent post-processing effects

[@theerepenterakatheecomfort277]

Subbed I see your another good animator

[@AlanWunderlin]

Bro that was creepy. A scary lucid dream on video. Well done

[@mojamonk494]

I hope you keep making more, these are so good!

[@angelolocascio5865]

It is truly amazing how real this looks.. The lighting, camera jumping around like it looks so legit..

[@ちゃんゆか-p3g]

If it were made more scary and added with strange animals from outer space in the form of black legs like roots and organs all over the room, it would definitely be scarier. I really like the scariest things