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This is a record of a twitter thread, originally posted in 2020

Thew
@AmazingThew

STOP MAKING VIDEOGAMES
START MAKING VIDEOTRAINS
#unity3d

Thew
@AmazingThew

Some context:
There's a region of youtube that's just 4-hour-long videos recorded from the cabs of trains

they are the chillest thing in the universe

there's also a rad period of early 3D games that tried to do photorealism via just actual photos (see: Virtual Hydlide)

Thew
@AmazingThew

both are wildly inspirational and I wanted to make weird fantasy videotrains

so what this is is a bunch of screenshots of train videos carved up into pieces via bad photoshop auto-masking and then janked up with content-aware fill

basically 3D photobashing

Thew
@AmazingThew

the source assets are intentionally rendered mostly unrecognizable; trying to stay closer to like music sampling than like straight-up copying people's videos lol

I dunno how far I'm gonna take this, but it's SUPER fun to work on. Feels like building worlds out of lego pieces