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Losing My Patients - MP3!

Okay so this song was a BLAST to make! I'd been talking with Bonecage for a long time about a collaboration but we'd never been able to settle on exactly what to make. He has this fantastic ability to craft some of the most wonderfully loony music out there and as soon as Bossa Studios dropped the first gameplay trailer for Surgeon Simulator 2, complete with a synth fuelled punk rock soundtrack, we knew we'd found the perfect candidate!
I was doing my best to channel my inner Weird Al on t...

Rest Employed - Wallpapers!

Better late than never! Here's a selection of wallpapers from 'Rest Employed'!
As always, 1080P versions up top in the gallery and full sets in 1080P/4K down below in downloadable zips!

'Losing My Patients' wallpapers to follow shortly!

Merch Poll Results! + I am an idiot!

Hello folks!

The results of the merch poll are in!

'The Fine Print' wins! The next Patreon Mug and Tee will look something like this:

HOWEVER!

I am a fool. A complete and irredeemable fool. I misread my calendar!
The next merch design is due to launch on the first of OCTOBER not September...

The Fine Print - Commentary!

The next in our series of BTS commentaries! This is the last we have currently recorded. What would you like to see next?

The September Merch Poll!

That time has come! September will bring with it a new merch design for the exclusive Patron mug and shirt! So you've got 24 hours to vote on what that might be!

Happy voting, folks!

New commentary on the way very soon!

~Stupes

Rest Employed - Commentary!

We're back with the third of our extended commentaries! Liz and I talk through the production of 'Rest Employed' and also through multiple technical hiccups! We get there in the end though!

Rest Employed - WAV & A Cappella!

And here it is in full quality WAV and A Cappella!

Rest Employed - MP3!

A game about spooky bureaucracy? Well you KNOW I'm gonna write a song about that.

This is a song I've had waiting in the sidelines for some time! This was actually the last song I wrote pre-lockdown. I had a big studio-based video planned for it, with the idea of building the office for real, painting it to look like it was drawn, adding outlines to everything, etc, then adding in the background items like bookshelves and the like digitally.

Alas, the wo...

Slide Into the Void - Commentary!

We're back with another extended commentary for you guys!
This is the second and final recording we made a couple of weeks ago but we are excited to make more! We hope to record another batch in the near future, so do let me know which other videos you might be interested in seeing covered this way.

Enjoy, folks!

Rogue's Gallery - Video commentary!

Hello all!

So we're trying something a bit new today! (My partner Liz gets full credit for the idea.)

We've recorded some commentary for a couple of videos! This is an extended discussion about Rogue's Gallery, talking about how we made it, some behind the scenes titbits, and some of the references you may have missed!

We recorded a couple of these so you can expect another one soon!

Do please let us know if this is something you enjoy and would like ...

Rogue's Gallery - Wallpapers!

A whole bunch of wallpapers from Rogue's Gallery! 1080P up top in the gallery but 4K versions available in the zips below!

Rogue's Gallery - Green Screen Cut!

Here's a comparison of the original animatic of Rogue's Gallery, the raw shoot footage and the final end product!

Rogue's Gallery - WAV and A Cappella!

Hey, cousin! I heard you were in the market for some high quality music? You came to the right place...

Rogue's Gallery - MP3!

Here it is! The third and final chapter in my somewhat unexpected Animal Crossing trilogy!

I had a blast making this song and video. When I first looked into Animal Crossing for a song there were three characters that intrigued me for the topics for songs. I settled on Tom Nook as the most 'iconic' of the three (plus Redd wasn't even in the game yet at that point!) but after that song did so astronomically well I decided it might be fun to break tradition a bit and do a few son...

'The House Always Wins' - Patreon Exclusive Merch!

Last month I gave you all the chance to vote on the next set of Patreon merch rewards!

'The House Always Wins' has always been a fan favourite video from the early days of the channel and it won by a heavily irradiated landslide! So now members of the Inconceivably Stupid  and Impossibly Supid tiers can be the owners of their very own nuclear-neon mug or tee respectively!

This marks the end of the run for the previous 'Nook, Line & Sinke...

THESE HALLOWED WINGS - Wallpapers!

Whoops! So I made these wallpapers for 'These Hallowed Wings' ready to upload after the video was released but in my excitement to get to work on 'Minecraft Vs Lego 'I completely forgot to upload them! Sorry!

As always, 1080P versions up above but a zip of 4K versions is available below!

Enjoy!

~Stupes

Minecraft Vs Lego - MP3!

Crikey, this one was a LONG time coming!

We filmed this video back in September but the origins of this song go back much, much further.

I was writing nerdy songs for fun for years before I was ever recording them. I've a backlog of (admittedly mostly terrible) old songs I wrote before Find the Keys that were just for fun, I never expected to do much with them. This song was among the first I ever wrote, some time around 6 or 7 years ago.

When I would write these s...

Exclusive Merch Poll!

Howdy folks!

It's almost time for me to rotate out the exclusive Patreon merch tiers with a new design! So if you are interested in upgrading a pledge for the current 'Nook Line and Sinker' design, now's your last chance! (Once you start pledging for a design you will get that design, even if a new design replaces it before you complete the 3 merch pledges!)

So I thought this time we should have a poll for what the new design should be...

These Hallowed Wings - Animation Breakdown!

A look at how the various scenes throughout 'These Hallowed Wings' were put together! This was quite fun to assemble, I hope you enjoy it!

These Hallowed Wings - WAV, Instrumental & A Cappella!

And there's the song again! In super shiny wavular format! And also the a cappella version and Oxygen's fantastic beat! It's SO GOOD. 

And what's more, you guys paid for it! Thank you!

These Hallowed Wings - MP3!

After 'Nook, Line & Sinker' did SO well I'd be a fool not to follow it up!

Oxygen Beats did some amazing work on this. I don't often spring for a fully custom commissioned beat but this one was well worth the investment! I'm really thrilled with the result!

Also... Want to know a secret...?

I'M AN IDIOT.

So it turns out somehow I exported the final music video on MONO. So now you can hear it in all it's stereo glory! I debated taking down the video and re-uploa...

New Patreon Exclusive Merch - Nook Line & Sinker!

Merch update!

I got a lot of flack from die-hard AC fans for making Timmy and Tommy into Raccoon Goons. But I like the art so much I'm putting it on a shirt!

As with the previous design, the new mug is now part of the $25 tier and the shirt is part of the $50 tier and are sent out after 3 consecutive pledges!

First of all, I want to apologise for the delay in posting this update! The new merch has actually been live for a little while so if you're already a part of a merch...

Rip & Tear (My Way to Your Heart) - Wallpapers!

Hot, fresh wallpapers! Come and get 'em! HD up in the gallery, 4K in the downloads below!

Rip and Tear - Behind the Scenes Cut!

Here's a look behind the scenes of 'Rip and Tear'!

Unlike previous behind the scenes cuts of videos I released, you'll notice some pretty big differences between the initial animatic and what I ended up making. Sadly, the Covid-19 situation around the world struck just as I was due to film this project and things had to be changed last minute to make things work!
Originally I had a big studio shoot planned for this project. Almost everything you see in the video that was added in po...

RIP AND TEAR (My Way to Your Heart) - WAV & A Cappella!

And here it is again in all its bewavulated and a cappellified glory!

RIP AND TEAR (My Way to Your Heart) - MP3!

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting to do a DOOM song. Not because I didn't want to, simply because I knew that DOOM demanded METAL. And if you're familiar enough with my work to be here on Patreon you can probably tell that METAL is not really within my wheelhouse.

So I put thoughts of doing a song for Eternal aside.

Until a couple of months ago, I was browsing beats and instrumentals for inspiration when I found this one. I instantly fell in love with the idea of doing something...

Nook, Line & Sinker - Character Art!

Here's a look at pretty much all of the character artwork I created for 'Nook, Line & Sinker'!
My original plan for the video only covered about 75% of these. As I was making the project I kept coming across moments where not enough was going on, when one puppet was lingering for too long and things got a bit boring. So I added a bunch more characters and poses on the fly.

I had a blast drawing these characters, you'll likely notice that the designs change a little throughout the...

Nook Line & Sinker - Wallpapers!

A selection of wallpapers from Nook, Line & Sinker! 1080P images in the gallery up top, 4K in the downloads below!

Nook, Line & Sinker - WAV & A Cappella!

Hm? Here's the song in WAV and A Cappella, yes, yes!

Nook, Line & Sinker - MP3!

Full confession time! I had no plans to do an Animal Crossing song. A cutesy little animal game? Not my wheelhouse, certainly not something I'd typically play.
But then Rustage told me it features an evil raccoon landlord (or at least one that could be interpreted as evil) and bingo! That little light came on.

This project was a bit of a life saver, a quick mini project I was able to make in a couple of weeks to fill the space that was going to be taken by my Doom Eternal song. If yo...