A Pixelated Point of View

  !! NEW DATE: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2026 7.30 PM !! The Machinima Dev Streams are returning to Los Santos. After two successful iterations, a third stream is planned for this Tuesday, September 8th on the YouTube channel of A Pixelated Point of View; primarily revolving around the concepts of camera manipulation and composition.  Over the course of a few hours, many of the clips recorded during the previous streams in April will be manipulated live on stream in terms of shot-making, alongside a range of technical and creative insights. The original date for this stream was supposed to be on Sunday August 30th, but will be postponed to Tuesday September 8th due to a combination of technical difficulties and schedual changes.         Machinima Dev Stream #3 - Manipulation   Tuesday, September 8th, 2026   7.30PM - 10.30PM CEST // 1.30PM - 4.30PM EDT Live on https://www.youtube.com/@apixelatedpointofview GTAV, Machinima, Rockstar Editor, Camera Man...

Last week I found myself at an amusement park while supervising a school trip to celebrate the upcoming end of the current academic year. It had been about eight years since my last visit. Too long. I forgot how much fun they are.   Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra · Expert RAW · Edited in Snapseed    

  Good morning everyone, or as Jiyo would say: hi poggies ~ . Last week was mental. Code orange was officially declared by government  (no football pun intended, because if it were, code orange would last for at least a few more days). Code red didn't want to be left out and thought: 'that's cute, hold my beer', with the weather reaching temperatures almost 40 degrees and beyond. We've had two of the craziest thunderstorms coming over the city in years. Temperatures have luckily returned to much more digestible numbers. This blogpost is pretty much going to be another caffeine-fueled rambling madness (in luckily an air-conditioned teachers lounge). I love it.    Everything summarized, it's been quite an interesting period over the past few months. Ever since I dove into the rabbit hole that is known as VRChat somewhere last February, I've been spending quite a lot of time within its virtual realms (see previous blogpost). I still keep uncovering new things e...

Here goes another update, in true minimalist fashion : Regression 6 The offline edit has been locked. The film is currently clocking at around one hour and 3 minutes. As shots will probably still be toned down a bit in length during online post-production I am aiming for a runtime of approximately 55-60 minutes. Around 3 minutes worth of footage have been graded so far, but I will go ahead and re-grade everything as I am not completely satisfied with the results as they are right now.  I conducted a livestream last year during the production process of Regression 6. During the stream you will see me move around the map causing some shenanigans and manipulating the camera for shots that will be used for the actual film. Quick heads-up: the intro video consisting of GTA IV shots consists of actual Regression 6 footage! CHARADE Sessions I'm admitting it: I've spent too much time inside of VRChat recently. I came across some VRChat DJ's two months ago and was blown away by th...

A quick production update regarding Regression 6. Production has been completed between 60-65%. I still have to dig through approximately 300-400 demo's before I am able to move on towards post-production. A couple of weeks ago I conducted a live stream during which I did some live work on Regression 6 by capturing new shots. I guess it's somewhat of a rare behind-the-scenes look as I normally never have done this kind of thing before. Maybe it's of interest, maybe it's super lame and uninspiring as most of my creative process happens in my head. You'll see me move the camera around and say "yes, this looks good". Anyway, I dunno. You're to judge.      Please find some new stills underneath. These were directly taken from the footage and are unedited:     Psst. There's one more thing. You've probably seen moving images of raw Regression 6 footage at the start of the stream. Want to see them in full screen? You can find them underneath:    

Here is a quick summer update regarding Regression 6. These are raw shots directly from the Rockstar Editor. I have been able to make some decent progress over the past few weeks and hope to continue doing so over the next few weeks. In terms of shot creation, I think I have been through 20-25% of all the demo clips. Still a significant amount of demo's to dive through though, but, hints of the final film are slowly becoming visible. Later this year I will post another update regarding the current state of affairs. Have a great summer everyone!

There was another Neuro-Sama Karaoke Night tonight during which Neuro sang a new batch of songs, including a few duets with her sister Evil. They're also singing Japanese songs now, pretty much natively. It still blows my mind that AI can do this. Their voices have improved in general as well.

I can vividly remember myself actively wondering during a number of Hogwarts Legacy streams why there hasn't been a photo or video mode included with the game thus far. As the game took place somewhere in the late 1800's, the idea of including some kind of a magical 'lanterna magica' or 'pre-prototype photo camera' really appealed to me. Well, low and behold, I guess I wasn't the only one who really wanted this mode, as WB rolled out an update last night with a number of QoL improvements, free items, and of course: a fancy new photo mode! I had downloaded the update the night before but because of sleep deprivation did not check out the new game mode yet (something with watching youtube shorts all night, being braindrained and deciding it was a good idea to stream at 7am that same morning..) That is why I decided to do a stream tonight around 7.30PM and check out the new photo mode live! During the stream I check out all the different options the photo mode ...