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A Welcome to the Internet (Bo Burnham) Parody

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I decided to get onto the Welcome to the Internet Parody bandwagon with a rendition of another love of mine, Dungeon's & Dragons. If you haven't seen Bo Burnham's Inside on Netflix I highly recommend doing so. It's fantastic if a little dark.

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The entire process was created by me including the creation of the character, environment, and animation. The song itself (the parody of it anyway) was also written by me.

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I'm using the Caleb Widowgast character I made based on the Critical Role Mighty Nein campaign to lipsync the song, basically reproducing the original film clip as best I can, with a little magic flare.

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In this process I've learned more about utilising FaceIt addon in blender allowing a fast process between modelled face and lipsync using the Live Link app. I also learned more about using Rigify as well as the NLA Editor in Blender to speed up and simplify (kind of) the animation process.

I do enjoy writing lyrics for songs. I don't know why I don't do it more often. Either as parodies of other songs or my own. Another one of those things where if I just had more time, and skill, and... I think a large part of it, at least on the original content side of things, is I would have to make my own music too...and that is a bit of a leap for things to learn how to do.