How To Make Better Backrooms Videos

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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Physically Based Rendering Textures
2:20 - Realistic Lighting Colors
3:12 - IES Profiles
4:20 - Non-Euclidian Rooms
5:33 - Rendering/Color Correcting
6:21 - Sound Design
6:58 - Real VHS Tape Conversion
Music List:
Stevia Sphere - ししおどし: • Stevia Sphere - ししおどし ...
SteviaDX - Diskette 1: Virtual Rooftop: • SteviaDX - Diskette 1:...
EVA - The End: • EVA - The End [Synthwa...
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[@Xavierrex3]

Dude this is amazing, it's incredible to me just how much attention to detail is put into making these dream/nightmare like empty spaces to an actual visual representation

[@maximilianharoldsiegfried5875]

The pipe at 6:38 sent me reeling. Good job.

[@Edbrad]

6:57 tip for sound is to put your sounds in space with a reverb so they sound like they’re in the same place, and position them so they the appropriate distance from “you”. That may be difficult depending on what you’re using and doing, especially if they’re changing distances. There’s a lot that can be done with sound, makes a big difference. I suggest creators lol at how they do foley and sound mixing in films to see how it’s done

[@k0rean_rand0m]

Think about recording all series (when you’ll finish the project) on VHS as merch. It might be a really cool geek collectible and I’m sure a lot of people will support you buying them. I’ll be happy to have a full tape on my shelf 🙂

[@maz_wuzB4]

NO FRICKING WAY 35K DOLLARS? OR IS THAT ANOTHER CURRENCY DAYUM BRO RESPECT 🫡

[@user-bx8qo4tc6v]

@@maz_wuzB4 35000 IDR = 2 dollars 😢

[@norowwa]

I appreciate your awesome works, you're my most favorite backrooms footage creator, they remind me so much about my limited space dreams.

[@Micolash_is_behind_you]

mine too!

[@Stingpie]

Since the backrooms use fluorescent lights, you might want to do some research on their emission spectrum. Unlike incandescent bulbs, fluorescent lights have huge gaps in their spectrum which can massively affect how things look on camera. A poorly designed CCD sensor can have a narrow range of colors it can pick up, and in some cases, this will coincide with the spectral gap of the fluorescent light. In addition, there are some materials which mainly reflect light in the spectral gap, which can make them appear dimmer even to the best camera out there.

[@deeep_blue]

Seriously, your are currently by far the best Backrooms creator out there. Absolutely looking forward to your upcoming videos. Keep it up!

[@gbl08ma]

As someone who has quickly whipped up a handful of short animations in Blender (mostly for shitposting), I'm annoyed that no guide or resource I ever saw before ever mentioned IES profiles, and my eyes never landed on the relevant UI section either! I never really aim for photorealism, but they look like a powerful way to add more expressiveness to light sources even when aiming for an "obviously CGI" look. So thank you for that!

[@AlijahSimon]

The End by Josh Lis has been stuck in my head for literally this entire week since watching this video lol. Such a bop; like I’m floating through the clouds during a cotton candy sunset

[@paxxiv_music]

I really like how compared to your first video about making backrooms videos, this one is more in-depth of designing and how it has little tutorials to follow to get a good vhs filter look. Keep up the good work!

[@mnine_9]

Man, your backrooms is something, I like it so much cause they are not so common as others. Goodluck! ❤

[@speedy24793]

I love these videos

[@MarcoCapelli74]

This is the first time i see non-Euclidean rooms in Blender. Very interesting. Good job!

[@JordyShortRibs]

Damn must be so special to have your project on a VHS. Great video dude, learnt some really cool tricks. Very keen to try out the lighting technique.

[@bensaret]

Thank you so much for sharing videos like this, I used to model in 3D pretty frequently but that was over a decade ago and the software options are just exponentially better nowadays (not to mention FREE like Blender!). Tutorials made by folks such as yourself make it so easy for me to get back into the swing of modeling and animating, and are very inspirational for creating a backrooms vid of my own :).

[@ziloj-perezivat]

Wtf I have literally never seen anything like it. I had an epiphany that Backrooms is analogous to the "architecture" of our subconscious. Quite stunning

[@HyperMario64]

I had no idea there were VCRs out there with digital output! The result looks awesome!

[@markeev1ch]

No shot that you really went through exporting it on vhs just for the touch. Insane, no cap.

[@alfador.]

HANDS DOWN the best backroom videos. Just everything, the feeling like it's a real place, and a place that makes no sense. So uncanny and I love it.

[@michaelmartin9022]

I remember when people used Blender for cartoon-shaded blobs and some dude did a mecha animation where the lights were just semitransparent yellow cones, that program's come insanely far!

[@kleptotrichy]

A very well documented process! almost makes me want to dabble into backrooms found footage sort of videomaking i love the vhs step process, the authentic results speak for themselves!

[@derschimpansenhonk1866]

I am speechless how good your video quality is and especially how precisely you have explained everything.

[@bananakin1805]

The amount of effort that goes into these videos is amazing. Super inspiring stuff man!

[@GonzalezSix67]

Very informative! You do great work! I hope others can find this useful and try it for themselves. I love all these kinds of backrooms videos lol. Thanks for helping others that need this kind of info!

[@jacobcherchio4471]

This was insanely useful! I'm a 3D student learning Maya with experience with Adobe and such. The IES profiles for lights is something I never would've thought of! I always love messing with lighting while rendering. The VHS conversion was insanely impressive. It makes me wonder how successful recording the rendered footage on a CRT using a DSLR camera in a black box would be. I might try it in the future.

[@marconavato6735]

Your animations are just amazing man. You know what's even more amazing? Watch your videos on a CRT TV :). I found an old one a few days ago and I'm going to plug my PC in it with the adapter seen at 7:19... I can only imagine how cool it could look like!

[@chloeficsor7935]

these breakdown videos are really interesting. keep up the good work!!

[@isychia4947]

Your videos are insane!!! I’m so glad I stumbled upon them! I love Kane Pixels and A-Synch Research but their videos are very drawn out and are repetitive. Your videos are very realistic, not dramatic, let’s us see more of the backrooms and how it behaves and is overall… better 😂 Keep going please! ❤️ I hope your channel continues to grow and you get a bunch of opportunities to grow your expertise in world building etc and make awesome connections through your work!!!

[@mojoro24]

Dude... You're the best. Need more backrooms videos, please.

[@wamblytester]

i love andy's work. way better than I could do.

[@NotTheDarkLord_]

From Blender to editing, what an awesome video! Gave me inspiration to start some footage on my channel. Gonna post my first found footage soon. Thank you so much for this!

[@ryuklight19]

Andy my man, eagerly waiting for your next backrooms installment, please continue the outpost story, it was a treat to my eyes and the whole concept was pleasantly original.

[@Dorpeztt]

my favorite backrooms artist. i actually hope u blow up bro bc ur stuff is better than everyone elses ive seen

[@zomatic7279]

I've been making backrooms videos for a while to experiment with blender and it is so much fun. Your videos really have helped me a LOT.

[@mu11668B]

I really feel like your renders deserve much more recognition than those low-effort slides videos. Only a few creators making backroom contents produce videos with quality close to Kane's, and you are definitely one of the hidden jewels.

[@lululegende]

the current view to like ratio really shows the quality of your content, awesome awesome stuff!

[@its_paul158]

This channel needs way more attention! Thanks for the great content.

[@artys4n]

6:37 caught me so off guard

[@CosmicVRS]

Great video dude, I used most of these steps in my Pool rooms video I made for Uni, except real VHS conversion, that seriously next level

[@pyalot]

I love the vhs effect 💙, it looks mint, best I have ever seen in any backrooms video. So happy my suggestions worked that well 😀. I would try to degrade the tape a bit, accelerated aging by controlled heat, weak magnetic fields, copy from tape to tape or re-record the output, that sort of things.

[@longfish5174]

I’m starting out on back rooms stuff and this video is really useful

[@KoneZonetoo]

Yes I like your videos. This nice for people who want to make backrooms video

[@nttainGG]

amazing!!! inspired me so much to make backrooms video and i already made my first animation using all tips, tho the real vhs tip was kinda unnecessary since most people aint gonna do it

[@Swytchlanes]

Straight to the point, informative and easy to understand Thank you so much 🙏🙏

[@nxinyourface]

Legit great tutorials mate! I make Backrooms and other content in Unreal Engine as I work fulltime in the gamedev so it hits closer home for me, but damn Blender is sooo strong :').

[@arcticbarbarian]

You are good at this!

[@johneeeeeeee]

next level man!

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

Mapping has gotten so advanced since I was modeling

[@kevinfisher5492]

Great job, this was very informative.

[@jasonpbass]

capturing vhs content was such a pain in the a$$ in the 90s. had to have special video cards and eventually had to use firewire and minidv. it was all real time capturing, too. it's a wonder any of us stayed in the industry!

[@Asterarchive89]

He returned . Yes!

[@LiminalUniverse9806]

✨Phenomenal✨

[@jonahlp134]

NO WAY THIS DUDE MADE A PART 2!

[@ka-uy8yh]

Nice Dolly zoom at 8:09 ;)

[@seymoorepoone9512]

You post cool videos.

[@asherspira]

Absolutely amazing breakdown and will be adopting all these points🙏haven't owned a VCR for 15 years but now eyeing them at the local TV repair shop. Never knew I'd ever own one again but here we go.... 😎

[@tentativeentertainment3363]

you know that thing old cameras do where they shift exposure massively to compensate for sudden changes in lighting? that would look cool lol

[@kennethiofi3839]

Thank you for your hard work!

[@Firestrands]

Underrated af!

[@maskedboy3839]

Yooooo, THIS IS COOL MAN

[@budgieenthusiasts5899]

Beautiful

[@scootafan]

Not gonna lie at 6:36 I was heavily invested and hyper focused on what you were explaining but then the metal bar sound knocked me out of my concentration and all I could think was "fuck you how dare you make me laugh while I try to learn 🤣🤣🤣" my train of though has been derailed momentarily but it is now back on the tracks. Please make more of these videos and add more metal bars to the backrooms thnx 👍

[@hamix0137]

great work

[@finasarteschristiandaniel8178]

Awesome, this content deserves much more support, likes… 👌👏💯

[@CZghost]

I think I might be able to pull something similar out. I saw some brand new blank VHS tapes in hypermarket store few months ago, they've been actually fairly cheap. All I need in addition is the capture cards and the VCR then. That's the expensive part of this investment. But reliving the past like that is priceless.

[@Woogy84]

can't be any better quality. next step would be reallife footage from the backrooms. can't wait for a tutorial for that! :D

[@kenychanmusic]

good job!

[@user-rd3rf3ft8e]

Dude Any chance of more outpost vids? You are brilliant

[@Helawutz]

Great work again and again! Question or Idea for the non-euclidian rooms. You can tell where the the holdout is because of the reflection and light at the wall. (5:25 on the left) Wouldnt it make sense to place the holdout in an 45° angle or from corner to corner (similar to the Pepper’s ghost effect ), so the "cut" with the reflection and light is in the corner? And the reflection is "covered" by that?

[@themarswarrior]

You have to make fnaf backrooms type videos bro… not only are you way too good at it.. it. Would . Blow. Uppppp

[@MozTS]

You should include a rack leader in your video outputs so its easier to sync (the countdown thing you see in old time video stuff that “beeps” right before the first frame) Adobe can generate them automatically but dunno about resolve

[@wafflymations1634]

This is amazing just one thing the walls of the rooms should have a bit less motifs like it's plain yellow

[@autistic_rat1234]

My day is 50 million times better.

[@Octahedran]

A little trick that i leaned myself is that if you can't do a VHS effect instead place your footage in the early 2000s and use MiniDV (Like DV - NTSC) formats so that way you don't need any extra hardware.

[@thechildhoodruiner15]

When it comes to recording to a VHS tape, one thing I would check out is Generation Loss for future videos.

[@tyx823]

your vcrs svideo input is for the dvd recorder thats built in

[@AstralWaters]

This is pretty incredible... but what I have been waiting for is for 2 lost explorers to run into each other. It's bound to happen eventually...

[@monkercize7708]

11:21 Back then they sold svhs to vhs tape converters where youd put a svhs into a fake vhs tape tricking the vcr into thinking its just another vhs. Don't know if this would effect the quality tho

[@clownworldhouse]

KZbin algorithm is ruthlessly giving me hints

[@domtwYT]

nice

[@der.Schtefan]

Amazing! Btw, I find it funny that this video needs to explain VCR recording and playback to a crowd that probably never has touched magnetic tape. I am sooo oooold :( Everything hurts!

[@pudding1823lol]

criminally small amount of views

[@DasEtwas]

it's Physically Based Rendering, referring to the kind of textures included for a material

[@gzey1337]

love

[@NOKTALE]

can you make a poolrooms video? please please, this is amazing!!!

[@tvpg3d]

definitely better

[@DiegoKeaneMusic]

i want to have all the music from this video and from your other making-of video burned onto a cd so i can listen to it 24/7

[@EekusOldVideos]

I can’t teaching using you ‘cause I literally right now download blender bruh💀

[@MikeN-cs8qe]

Proofread that…..🤔

[@minkomaniac4684]

ong@@MikeN-cs8qe

[@DogsRNice]

The only issue with this process is the final videos aren't in 4:3 so they end up letterboxed on all sides It looks like the Windows camera application is responsible, you could probably use obs to get the proper aspect ratio

[@kristofkolesar383]

at the end, you said vhs sound quality is bad, but that's not ture. VHS sound quality is actually suprisingly excellent, with so low noise, that you cant hear it.

[@JakiloR]

good

[@56independent42]

Beautiful. I relly need to teach myself more, but my latest render has been going on for days and i'm only 125/2000 frames done.

[@larisdalley7383]

Backroom videos are great becasue almost every beginner can render them you need to optimize your scene

[@56independent42]

@@larisdalley7383 Yeah, the walls almost look like they're mirrors with how shiny they are. I have a lot of learning to do

[@asdfjkl361]

you could try a render farm but it shouldn't be taking that long

[@56independent42]

@@asdfjkl361Would the fact that i have no sense of scale and probably have hallways 15 metres wide be contributing?

[@daydariftwalker]

If your renders take that long to finish, you might want to either look up a video to optimize cycles and bring down the render times, or switch to eevee for lighting. My computer took 40 minutes to render 1 still image in cycles but when I switched to eevee the time went down to a couple seconds. You can also look up some tutorials to get a really good look in eevee

[@SteveMacSticky]

Hello Andy R. Please can you tell me the specs of the computer you use for animations.

[@longfish5174]

I hid a backrooms animation on a vhs tape in my attic I’m waiting for my family to go through the tapes and find it

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Mad ❤ Don't stop now the entire genre has finally lost all the Sqeaukers and only good Vids are now coming out

[@whiteboardstudos0135]

Bro i said when is next video, and he upload!!

[@manToastercreativeshenangans]

Someone tell this guy to make photorealistic video of the Mystery Flesh Pit

[@Black-qj7iq]

Should i use emission or light spots? Because i think light spots add 2 shadows like real life

[@blakexe]

So what about using the camcorder to get the VHS effect? Wouldn’t it be easier to do it that way?

[@Turbo99w]

is there more like backrooms? similar or different series with story