I love how you sometimes stay in puppet character even in a blooper

The consumer doesn't realize how hard it is to make something look easy. Either it's hours/days/weeks of retakes or it's years/decades of training to do it live/real-time. Without that insight, we collectively devalue hard work and dedication and brush it all away whenever there may be a minor flaw. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Best wishes for the future -- you're not even close to your potential.

I never would've noticed the other doll if Barnaby hadn't mentioned it. During the wet footprint scene, there's a two-frame shot of the drowned woman in the second lightning flash.

Fantastic "behind the scenes", Barnaby. Always cool seeing your process. That "flat" 3-D printed image was extremely clever ! And the music & your voice & singing, stellar as always!

I love your vids frfr. I used to watch them when i was younger and now watching it again....this is just amazing

I love it how the little orange guy flies behind the door😂

Pro tip, for the S sounds most engineers have a Desser, which is a compressor that is just listening to the higher frequencies where those S sounds sit. it will basically give you an automated version of manually lowering those sections

*Summary* - 0:07 Recording difficulties and the necessity to reset after each take - 0:12 Aim to get the recording right on the first or near-first try - 0:22 Smoke effects used in recording - 0:30 Multiple recording attempts due to issues like balance and props - 1:05 Discussion of a Halloween story called "The Grand other" released a few weeks prior - 1:13 Mention of a script written in 2021 for a film that got delayed - 1:25 Behind the scenes footage shot during the making of the story - 1:38 Received a 3D printer from Phrozen, a company in Taiwan - 1:48 The 3D printer greatly simplified the print process and helped with the project - 2:11 Process of creating music for the story, including a six-string banjo tune with lyrics - 2:26 Writing lyrics in a Google Document, refining over a few weeks - 2:39 Restarted the project in September 2023, recording music to set the pace for the story - 3:02 Kept instrumentation simple to avoid detracting from the story: banjo, small guitar, improvised percussion - 4:14 Recorded vocals with multiple microphones for mixing options - 4:52 Found props on eBay: grandmother doll, other elusive character, and a VW bug - 5:18 Created some props like Granny's knife, glasses out of epoxy, and cabin doors from popsicle sticks - 5:37 Challenges of filming alone, using compositing to show multiple puppets interacting - 5:50 Using black backgrounds for compositing instead of green screen - 6:12 Techniques to have puppets interact using careful masking and closeups - 6:45 Perspective trick to make a small table appear larger on screen - 7:21 Shooting 30 seconds of footage a day to finish by Halloween - 7:34 Created a distinct Shadow story sequence with a flipped stool and textured material - 7:57 Designed 2D characters and props for the shadow sequence, printed with 3D printer - 8:38 Edited the film while shooting, found audio mastering issues after uploading - 9:02 Adjusted vocal treble frequencies for clarity, manual reduction of harsh 's' and 't' sounds - 9:37 Learned a lot about audio mixing for future projects - 9:49 Recorded Foley for sound effects, used creative sounds to fit the Appalachian setting - 10:26 Thanked patrons for their support, mentioned upcoming behind-the-scenes content on Patreon - 10:50 Thanked Phrozen for the 3D printer, teased future use in dab chick rebuild videos - 10:54 Concluded with a mention of the isolated backing track available on Patreon

I know you fought with some mixing issues, but man you really killed it with an amazing performance of the song. Now I know why I'm so untalented, the universe gave you the majority of it's supply of talent lol

0:38 bro got so angry because the door wouldn’t open, right 😂

Its always amazing to see you work. Thank you for sharing your behind the scenes Barnaby

This motherfather always gets me! Amazing how creative this dude is!

Your work and dedication is incredible. It's so inspiring to see how one person's vision can be expressed so beautifully!

I’m so glad to see behind the scenes! I’ve been super interested in the effects and camera work!!

Sound processing software often comes with a standard, or importable, "de-esser" which automates exactly what you've been doing manually. It's a pretty simple frequency-specific compressor, that lowers the volume when it detects excessive "S / T / F" etc sounds. Once it's set up, it does the work for you and you don't have to touch it again.

Appreciate all the work you do, alone, for your films.

I was totally going to start copying all of your videos and your format. I was ecstatic when I saw you were giving away all your secrets. Forget it, way too much work. And apparently you need talent too. Thanks for the behind the scenes. Really enjoy your stuff, take your time, I think I speak for everyone when I say your videos are a treat and we appreciate the work you put in.

Awesome. I especially liked the blooper ish shots at the start. Really cool to see the whole process and I hope you make more of this kind of videos in the future

I noticed the feedback ringing out when watching the movie. I thought... this guy is really putting some thought into the production. :D great job on everything. thank you for this!

Behind the scenes make me so giddy! Thanks for showing your process and mistakes, and can't wait for next year's spooky song!

I'd like to see more of these funny little mitten style guys. The silent character is underrated.

It's very impressive that he can change his voice so much. You can clearly tell it's him if you've heard all of his other puppets speak, but they all have their own voice and their own way of speaking.

It was great watching how you put this together. It was a beautiful story and video and to see all the detail (and happy accidents) you put into it is truly inspiring! thanks!

I love behind the scenes as much as the films it self!

I absolutely loved this. We really get to appreciate all the lovely work you put in dude, keep it up!

it'd be awesome to release this one on Spotify, I'd sure as hell listen to it constantly

Really enjoying these bts videos! I love seeing how things come together

The little video screen to show your mouth singing always gives me strong "Mouth of Sauron" vibes (LotR Return of the King). Thank you very much for the efforts you put into all this!

Your work is amazing! Your an inspiration!

It feels surreal seeing you sing irl. So used to the mouth character. You've really and truly brought your craft to life. ❤

That was really cool. I can't help but think that, with a small team behind ti share the workload, you could make a great anthology series of short stories, or something like that. It's criminal that you still haven't been offered a show. Specially, after your Dark Crystal collaboration.

You are a creative genus. I love your stuff❤

A piece of art. Recently subscribed, can’t be more happy of the finding. You’re awesome 👏🏻

Yay! Thanks Phrozen 🎉🎉🎉 The sound recording blew my mind. I’ve known sound engineers have to copy and paste a half note to correct a tiny mis-sing at the end of a long day’s recording but changing the sibilance of every dodgy phoneme was above and beyond. (Does recording software have sound searchability like text documents have find and replace and/or reformat options? Off to watch the Grand-other again to marvel anew. So happy about the new 3D printing setup. What a great resolution in every way.

Behind the Scenes for Barnaby's videos are really interesting, especially because his puppets, music, and stories have so much life it's hard to believe they are really being controlled by another lively human being

I love your spooky videos! You're so brilliant!

you inspire and teach me ...much respect...and i already was an animator so your teaching the old guy new trix

Honestly, if you released this video, or this type of video before the finished product, it would hype us up to see the video!!

You are beyond creative! Love it.

Thanks for making this

0:53 OH YEAH!

so much work. thanks for sharing!

Love your puppets especially dab chic! Hope to get an update on him soon

I really love these kind of videos

I have always loved those story telling episodes 😅❤

I need the little red and blue characters. They are so cute

Isn't the second doll the object that appears behind the boy when he's down in the basement? Anyway, the story was great and the behind the scenes video makes it even better, for it mekes us realize how difficult these are to make. Keep up the good work :)

What you do is amazing man

Love your work,very inspiring , keep it up!

Bravo Barnaby.

More making ofs!! Wonderful content!

Huge fan of your music, ik you said the backing track to Grand other is on patron but are access to your other music too? Id love to be able to listen to it in the car and not have to pull up KZfaq haha

I've been waiting for this

Omg you did a "she fell funny " reference

Re: vocal sibilance , you need to investigate dynamic EQ

i LOVE LOVE LOVE this!

The hidden character is grampas body that broke the red guys fall when he got pushed down the stairs

I’d love to see a tutorial of how to make that crochet puppet

Yeah, I learned years ago that I had to manually reduce the amplification on all my poppy consonants (S, P, T). What a pain. I don't understand why this isn't something that can easily be done by AI now, though.

I would like to know how you make your puppets they look amazing

Lovely!

i am very much obsessed with your work and somehow want to make a cover of a song (million sub song)

so that's why my comment kept getting deleted it was because you kept re-uploading the video thank you for clearing that out 😁

Wow

im gonna need to know what happens next with dabchick

I really want one so bad😭

Ah, so THERE'S the other doll... Thanks for the nightmares!

What types of puppets do you usually use?

Why bring everything down by hand and not a compressor or pseudo noise gate?

niceeeee

GGwp my dude

❤ How to you make this walking fox?

I love the vids

What DAW software do you use?

How many hours does it take to film the 30 seconds/day? 🙂🇨🇦

Ist's cool🎉

Sir Barnaby if love to part my knowledge on mixing audio with you. Please get in touch

Grandpa is in the basement

TADC

Can you make more dabchick videos

The grandfather at the bottom of the basement?

The other doll is grandpas corpse obviously

Did dinosaurs make favorite character why don't you use him anymore😢😢😢😢😢

Language!

Hey dabchick when r u gonna take down ur video on trans kids 😊😊

Why do you have to curse and get so angry? It makes me cringe in fear!

You really do need a haircut