Bloodborne Cutscene Free Cam - Off Camera Secrets - Every Cinematic Unseen Detail Explored

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Well this was a big one, but finally getting full control of the developer debug camera during Bloodborne's cutscenes and cinematics was something I really had to show! So many strange things and odd effects used to create the scenes we see in the final game, lots of unseen little details throughout. I hope you find something interesting amongst it all!

[@DebugMenu]

So with this done, obviously I can also use this free camera to explore any of the main areas of the game as well. Any suggestions what I should check out next? It would be cool to do a bit of a compilation of weird stuff that can't be seen by normal means.

[@ash-e-ly9865]

Please on the fishing hamlet would be nice

[@charlesherbrechter268]

Could you see what happens when Ludwig leaps into the air for a few seconds? I'm interested if he just disappears or actually clings to the ceiling.

[@NegaSyrus5000]

Yeah, check...everything. I cannot get enough of this stuff, thanks so much for doing it.

[@GixerEntertainment]

Thanks for another great footage!! It’s possible to use this free camera at the alpha version? I’d like to see how much content they’ve include in there, and if there’s any difference at the Gascoign cinematic. Thanks again for this amazing work you do for us! Umbasa!

[@marieingrid4504]

I would love to see the astral clock tower and lumenwood garden from outside. The flying buttress and overall gothic design of this place really thrills me:)

[@punisher00109]

Don't ever Show me Micolash's face up close again

[@dung-_-pie4455]

Guard Passer 😂

[@Nobody-bp5wh]

I went back to see why you thought it was so bad. Regret. REGRET!

[@micolashhostofthenightmare5097]

=(

[@chelleolsen969]

HORRIFYING

[@CommanderStarscream]

GOT DAMN

[@Coypop]

Doll holding Good Hunter at the end was 10/10

[@NeroMystyra]

I've seen enough hentai to know where that was going

[@Alexander-xr8tr]

She got that 🍆

[@TheoCynical]

Its ironic, she was made by humans, the Good Hunter became a god and now could be the doll's plaything.

[@HeatherHolt]

Mikolash’s face is so funny every time I see him I can’t help but giggle.

[@D1sc0rd-]

Ayy look at the micolash I made, the video I’m talking about is pretty obvious, its there you want to take a looksie and have a good choke-on-your-spit-laugh

[@Cainfoe]

Oh good hunter... you're a kid now, you're a squid now, you're a kid, you're a squid now.

[@1r0zz]

Bloodborne is the prequel to splatoon confirmed

[@Piratadoidao]

Why is it so funny you repeating, "youre a kid, youre a squid"

[@1r0zz]

@@Piratadoidao Because it's so fresh!

[@smoochsplh6179]

Nooo...

[@smoochsplh6179]

@@Piratadoidao I take it you don't play Splatoon?

[@Seekeroftruth806]

I love how the hunter most of the time is just standing there like “huh neat”

[@DebugMenu]

3:30 pendant YEET

[@tailesque]

[x-files theme]

[@goodlilboys]

I didn’t even noticed that

[@PikachuParty]

Oh no.

[@muaythaihellbows]

Sir can you check out the Nightmare Frontier's distance Ship Masts from the Fishing Hamlet, and the Nightmare of Mensis's castle, and vice versa from those respective areas? As well as looking at Old Yharnam and the Church of the Good Chalice from Great Bridge, and Vice Versa? Also Hemwick to Cainhurst and Vice Versa, and Forbidden Woods house with the Snakeheads and Plow Wielding Large Huntsman to Byrgenwerth and Vice Versa? The map and architecture of Bloodborne is amazing.

[@VaatiVidya]

This is some juicy insight

[@vermincrusher852]

Vaati getting that source material

[@joeseyeuh3786]

We are born of the blood

[@sergiokaminotanjo]

yeah...too bad about the spoilers though

[@renkarem2738]

What are the lore implications though?

[@godnaruto1000]

I was going to mention you @vaati :)

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

Nice to know that Gehrman teleports around in cutscenes as much as he does in the fight. Makes sense, really.

[@nowhereman6019]

5:06 Idk his eyes seem to be pretty open to me.

[@yishaipol5154]

LMAO underrated comment!!!

[@D1sc0rd-]

Nowhere Man he looks stoned as fuck

[@1128nesecret]

Check out the upper areas of yahargul, specifically the room with the three hunters. There are some assets of a queen that are seemingly only used there and I'd like a better look , I think they are leftovers from an earlier alpha build as stuff like it can be seen in early screenshots and project beast stuff

[@shaddykack]

Bump this shit up

[@KouKagerou]

Younger me in college would have gone bonkers crafting a perfectly animated shot for filming scenes. I'm so glad to see that shortcuts can in fact be used to make awesome 3D animated pieces and not everything has to be perfect.

[@sergiokaminotanjo]

lol what you mean by perfect?

[@KouKagerou]

@@sergiokaminotanjo exactly.

[@sergiokaminotanjo]

@@KouKagerou ok...

[@anthonyfergerson3444]

Efficiency is just clever laziness. Never forget that

[@sergiokaminotanjo]

@@anthonyfergerson3444 ok lm out this thread...

[@JonathanGiovannacci]

Would have liked to see the brain of mensis falling cutscene. Can't wait to find out more

[@DebugMenu]

To be perfectly honest, I totally forgot that one! Although it probably didn't hold too many secrets. Will be more interesting to see the brain up-close in-game I think,

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

Yeah, it would be interesting to examine the brain in all 3 states (hanging, cutscene, and fallen), since it's very dark where it falls to, very bright (and deadly) when hanging, and generally moving in the cutscene.

[@Vengeful_Attacker]

Also the scene when you go to Yahar'gul by being killed by a kidnapper.

[@igornaimoli7321]

@@Vengeful_Attacker oh yeah that one could be reappy interesting

[@edwardnygma8533]

@@DebugMenu I'd be most interested in seeing if the brain actually falls all the way from its tower down into its resting location, or if they just warp it.

[@abnormal_walrus]

I find it really interesting that they used Micolash’s model for Laurence. It makes sense as they’re both scholars, but also... Micolash at one point had the same voice actor as Laurence, and you can hear this in his cut dialogue.

[@philipbreadman1524]

Destroyed much of the magic? You just showed how funny the magic happens. After seeing all the cutscenes about 20 times it's great to see how it is done.

[@Piratadoidao]

Kyal Jones for me, the most surprising thing is how the scenes are constructed with so many imperfect pieces and yet, become perfectly fine in the actual game when combined and using some tricks of camera. My anxious one inside gets a little bit less anxious. ( Is that sentence correct? The words I used etc? )

[@igor-ld8qm]

Watching Gehrman teleport all over the place for the best cinematic possible sure was something lol

[@masbansuban5441]

For beginners animator, this will be nice trick

[@Gobloing]

This pleases my Kosm.

[@vanjabulajic1573]

But ofkos it does.

[@zSTALKn]

Ah yes, the Host of Bad Boss Design

[@hunterphillips2124]

Honestly you didn't show what I really wanted to know. There is a cutscene of you getting into the Ghost Carriage, where it cuts to the grass, and it looks like something is watching you, that is the only cutscene where I really wanted to what was going on.

[@Battleguild]

Being stuck in a chair doesn't hurt my 99 Arcane character. NG+ would've been hilarious if all the walking/running animations were replaced by speeding around in a wheelchair.

[@NannersBobo]

I would not say you "ruined" the magic of the game. Quite the opposite. In deconstructing the how the manipulation of the camera and the scenes occur, you're showing us how the art of cinematography works and how it can greatly improve a scene and bring a feeling of dread or awe to the player. This really encapsulates the hard work and effort put into just one aspect of the game's development.

[@Gakusangi]

I never realized we were missing a leg in that ending.

[@noice__]

Amelia ain't looking too well.

[@yishaipol5154]

Maybe she should try blood healing!

[@theprodigalson4003]

5:05 ha his little smile. Helloooo

[@MrNasexD]

7:45 me when the alarm goes off at 6 am

[@Lucifer-hq5pe]

Same.

[@HekateMGO]

Amelia’s hands: Top Waifu Material Amelia’s face: Top Nightmare Fuel

[@hazee4112]

Thats some really awesome work, man, keep it up!

[@equalibrium_]

I might be wrong, but I think you missed/forgot the scene where the Hunter gets "captured" in one of the snatchers bags.

[@turdbergler657]

and brain of mensis

[@punisher00109]

I like to imagine that Great ones have this total control of the camera

[@shaddykack]

I think Logarius is way scarier with a stationary camera because of all the blinking between poses his model does

[@CrocellReeden]

I wish he showed him for a little bit longer. I always wanted to clearly see his transition from shambling walk into straight and powerful movements.

[@MoonyVoid]

6:51 where did they get those Skyrim horses?

[@shaunakdeshpande3837]

Will it be possible to give us a tour of the entire world of bloodborne from a bird's eye point of view? That would be amazing. Also, great video! (p.s. you missed the hypogean gaol cutscene but I doubt it reveals anything new)

[@BragoTHEgraviyKING]

That would require disabling the auto de-rendering that happens when you go too far/look away from areas and a beefy enough computer to rendering everything at the same time with all the enimies loaded (unless he somehow figures out how to remove them/stop them from loading

[@joeseyeuh3786]

Thanks for sharing! I love Bloodborne. I will never stop playing.

[@crestfallenwarrior5719]

Are you still playing?

[@cutthatcoconut9018]

Are you still playing

[@AE37512]

@ 5:07 he needs to lay off the drugs lmao

[@1r0zz]

micolash "cage" is like that normally...

[@pee-bot]

PTSD intensives

[@fredericbaldwin6732]

Drugs/blood/insight/beast blood pellets/numbing mist

[@giuliodurante2572]

6:03 flat earth confirmed.

[@apa123APA]

19:36 I knew it. I knew it. I knew the doll was evil all along.

[@MitchP1983_]

apa123APA Ah, a fellow Zeus fan I see. ; )

[@Bloody_xCrow]

Awesome video! Although you missed a couple of cutscenes. The 2 Amygdala ones (DLC and the Tonsil stone one jus outside Yahar'Gul), the brain falling, entering hunters dream after 1st death/lantern. They probably don't have that much special but would be cool to see.

[@karimm.elsayad9539]

Also Evil santa bagging you to Yahargul.

[@benzur3503]

3:27 holy shit it’s Plato’s allegory of the cave!

[@Normonaut]

This might be the coolest Bloodborne video on youtube.

[@ChrisWTFern]

I've always suspected this, but I feel like this video confirms it. At 13:55 it's really obvious that the viscera trailing the Orphan is the body of another creature entirely. You can see arms, a spine, and a long tail. It actually looks a lot more like Kos than the Orphan does. Maybe that was Kos' actual offspring, and the Orphan we fight is either a surrogate or some kind of parasite. Or perhaps it went through some kind of metamorphosis in the womb and we are seeing remnants of what it used to look like. You saw it from every angle, Lance. What are your thoughts?

[@wasdwasd4995]

Yeah in kos parasite description it states that tiny parasites took kos body and corrupted her orphan. This thing we're fighting is just the parasite who feed of kos and her baby's corpses. This leads to an even deeper question: the parasite have human looks, could the humans be the parasite? Are the humans parasites made by the great ones to destroy the pthumerians?

[@dalehantala1115]

I always took It that the hunters who found her were the "parasites", that's why you fight it's In the old hunter's dream.

[@user-cn5wb6nr4n]

My original thought when I first saw that scene was that those were Kos' bones/viscera being displaced by the Orphan being far too big for her to safely give birth to. Since we fight the Orphan in the Nightmare, which changes creatures' physical forms, I assume that's not what it actually looked like (I think its nightmare form is based on Gehrman, who murdered it IRL) and its new distorted form is so big it eviscerates its mother as it is 'born' - a metaphor for the Orphan's original violent removal from Kos.

[@finchwaddledog5026]

Knowing the Japanese. Humans are the parasite and metaphorically, that doesn't go as deep as they did in Kos apparently.

[@Wveth]

I don't know why people are even considering that it isn't Kos' offspring. It's literally called "Orphan of Kos." The strange crying it does that replicates an infant and then an old man is to show us the orphan's sorrow, which is CENTRAL to the DLC. They wouldn't just make us fight an unrelated creature, while doing everything they could to trick us into thinking it's the most important figure in the story. That would be really, really silly. Its human form could be the result of it seeing so many humans and being in this nightmare with them for so long... after all, it's an infant, so I don't think it knows what it's "supposed" to look like, and things changing shape happens all the time in this setting. Or maybe it's just a visual representation of its sorrow - it's an infant, but they're trying to communicate that it's been around forever and has the weariness of a sad old man. Or maybe a bit of both. I think both of those things are way more likely than From just having terrible writers and completely ballsing up the climax of the DLC. It could be that Kos had multiple children, though, and this one is the only one who survived.

[@1128nesecret]

This is the safest video for advertisers I've ever seen. Good job!

[@yoshismokey42]

In old yarnahm when you immediately enter, there's an unknown asset floating in the sky. I figure its a misplaced statue but it would be nice to know what it is specifically. More of a blooper than secret insight. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@E.Humperdinck]

10:17 Mikolash crip walks through the stair geometry.

[@mcdonaldsfreewifi7262]

This is more of a cripple walk, than a crip walk my dude.

[@onizuka]

Madness they make those ingame scenes using that raw footage.

[@Crosshill]

one thing im noticing from watching the hunters dream from various angles is how ridiculously photogenic it is, its very well composed

[@Michela]

I love seeing how all this works. Bravo to you for restoring the free cam and showing us these revelations!

[@sihnofshulva4936]

Wow, just wow, this is truly amazing. The amount of work you put into this is remarkable, thank you for this.

[@feenickstv4209]

I was NOT expecting Amelia's face to look like that.

[@WeeStevieB]

This is great. It's nice to see things from a different visual perspective. I have seen a video where it shows what areas look like by clipping through scenery to show what lies behind certain doors, enemy locations etc but i never imagined cut scenes could be sampled from other angles. Well done sir :)

[@jimmyramosf7]

DUDE! This specific tool can help to achieve some SICK Bloodborne Screenshots. Another great video! Thank you! It really makes you think how much craft and art takes to give shape and style to these scenes.

[@derekcampbell4209]

You’re amazing Lance. I really appreciate the work you do with this game.

[@spiridiums]

This is so cool! Knowing how the devs created these iconic cutscenes might take away the magic a little, but it only increases my respect for the game makers because they had to do some really creative problem-solving to get the end result. As for the use of the camera, it would make for some amazing drawing references--being able to see the Hunter interacting with different monsters from different angles would be incredible.

[@brandonwestbrook6003]

Once again, well done, man. Always enjoy your analogies. Interesting stuff. Ya know a game is a masterpiece when people sit n watch things like this

[@WafflesASAP]

This is SUCH a cool video. Thank you for putting together this amazing look at the behind-the-scenes work that the FS devs put into the gorgeous cinematics in this game!

[@guillemjovecastane8164]

Man, this is really amazing! Keep on with this great work!

[@schwarzwaldbrot8487]

10:50 MoonLIT Greatsword

[@GaiusJuliusCaesarMasterOfRome]

Wow this is so damn cool!

[@autumnavalanche1097]

i haven't been commenting much sorry but I've been binging all your bloodborne videos and these are so cool!!! thank you for the inside looks :]

[@stryder414]

This upload didn’t appear in my subs but I ended up finding it in suggested videos. Anyway, more great work man. Well done.

[@1128nesecret]

Also the far off distance models of old yharnam in addition show off the version of bloodstarved cathedral from the great bridge leading to gascoigne

[@adventuresingamedevelopmen5708]

And the far off mountains and stuff, also getting a huge perspective of the forbidden forest and central yharnum would be sick

[@Yin_yue_]

This is a really interesting look into one of my favorite games. Wonderfully done~

[@CoalFire]

Dude, this cut content is amazing. Love this series! If you do another one of these, cutting together a side by side of the in-game camera and the free camera side by side would be so cool to see.

[@arborwin]

This was just amazing. Thank you so much, Lance.

[@elcatrinc1996]

20:20 using the freeze camera like these could work as a tool to create fanarts

[@quinn9334]

This is super cool! The final scene with the doll holding the hunter is so sweet when seen up close

[@taylormason1026]

Great video! Thank you for this Lance

[@seahuck888]

You always have great content man, always excited to see your name as a notification. Now i need to figure out how to do some of this stuff myself lol.

[@meeplum8575]

Oh, I know very well. How the secret beckon so sweetly.

[@dotdotdot1000]

Can't believe I'm just seeing this. thanks Lance!!!

[@nataliasilenska4661]

You are amazing! Thank you for the video, it brightened up my day :)

[@arcadius2569]

Awesome work! Camera tricks are always cool to see.

[@mr.izanami1796]

I love love love those videos my man! Keep them coming :)

[@NapnCat]

You’ve earned yourself another sub. This is fantastic!

[@antonioriojas8299]

This is great! I would love to see who’s watching the hunter when he’s boarding the carriage to Cainhurst.

[@WolfWalrus]

I'm amazed that all of these cutscenes are done in-engine with real time post-processing effects. I could have sworn some of them looked pre-rendered.

[@thiagofguedes86]

Amazing! Thank you so much to be THAT guy who show us all this little and amaxinh details! The bloodborne comunity salutes you!

[@shaddykack]

Great great work, I’m very interested in seeing how some of the story chalice bosses look from hidden angles

[@hrududery]

Love these videos!!! Thank you for your hard work!

[@kurdtcoben]

Amazing insights! I really enjoy your work! Could you maybe do a video showing the technical side of things? How you got that stuff working, what kind of API/IDE/etc you use? In short, I want to see the "boring" stuff too! :P

[@HooDude]

Lance, this was brilliant.

[@chrisn4798]

Superb work! Fascinating stuff.

[@SazLowify]

This is awesome! Thanks for making this.

[@WynonaCosplay]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing!

[@catzilla1616]

Thank you! Great stuff as always.

[@keskes1338]

Great job, once again! Thanks so much.

[@anderstaylor6694]

Amazing video as always!

[@Arbiterrevan]

Great work! Really interesting stuff.

[@Cloperella]

4:05 Consider how Amelia looked before, I'd say the transformation was actually a trade-up.

[@Kanista17]

wow great stuff. would love to see a side by side comparison of all the cutscenes with another camera angle

[@MrKyleis18]

loved this video. The only thing I wish you did different was have the original cut scene play in a small corner at the same time as the free camera scene. Either way, great video.

[@royalewithcheese77]

Amazing Video! Thanks for showing us how magic is made.

[@bizmonkey007]

Great work, man👍

[@newworldblues7245]

i like how the real world is one level over the dream world

[@Tatsululu]

Pretty cool to see how much movement there is to these cutscenes!

[@tshobe23_68]

Great video man

[@marieingrid4504]

Awesome as usual. Way to go!

[@papaoso8340]

What about the apareance of the cleric beast from another angle?

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

imagine it jumping upward from the abyss(under the map)

[@Takeh07]

This is amazing !

[@alexanderjones5109]

this is SO interesting, i love seeing developers' processes

[@bobofastora]

Lance you absolute madman! I love seeing this game being unraveled

[@montymanmontyman9832]

Ge wiz you are a absolute beast sir thank you for what you do it amazes me

[@dgmsstuff]

amazing work, I'm speechless