Rust and Trenches: The Ram soldier
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- I hope you enjoy the video it took quite a while longer to make this one because I got stuck on the script, but I finished it.
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I think background music could work, but it would have to be either something that fades into the background - such as something with a simple beat/rhythm - or something thematically appropriate (some kind of dark ambient fantasy music). Alternatively, I think your voice/commentary is good on its own if you don't want to add anything.
i do wanna add music because it just feels a little empty. and yes like dark ambience would be good, im searching for music to put in and ill try some in the next video.
@@monlenz I find your voice very soothing, so I agree that any music would need to be unintrusive on that.
I feal like it’s better without music it feels like a good audiobook or podcast
@@monlenz i agree with the others, your voice is really charming and fascinating, so if you want to add some kind of music, i'd do something to accompany the lore.
@Monstergarden I know I'm late, but campfire and rain would work well.
Holy shit, I found your channel via the dwarf redesign. You are goddamn amazing at this stuff, fusion of ww1 tech with magic is such a cool concept and the fact that you designed the internals of the scroll grenade hybrids genuinely blew me away. them being full of mana makes them make so much more sense then just a piece of paper because of they are designed to be used by non magic users.
We all found him because of the dwarf
Yes.
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@@colethecollector6742 It's always the dwarves I tell you. (Aka, same here)
He went from a few hundred subs to nearly 100k lol
Their scroll system is real darn fascinating, part good ol’ alchemy it seems which matches the WW1 feel quite well! All stellar stuff
The sallet helmet is a medieval helmet, but I think the aesthetic could work, as a lot of the stuff used in WW1 was archaic or for nationalistic/traditional reasons, like the metal groget.
Maybe a german kettle, with the visor covering the upper face would also work?
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This reminds me of when I pissed of a bunch of D&D nerds by pointing out how, with amount of institutional magic in the setting, there should have been an industrial revolution long ago. Could not get them to understand that "science" isn't some counterpart to magic, it is a process of study. And if magic exists in a setting it can be studied scientifically. And once studied and understood, applied. And applied magic, is technology. (the "seeing stone" equivalent I'm typing this on runs on tamed lightening, how is that not magic.)
I love the fact this guy manages to mix a monotone and clear voice with just enough emotion to make him funny asf
with your comentary (really soothing voice btw) i would add simple ambient noice in the background nothing louder it would end up really cinematic (btw Bambo_pen here). Great work on them love the outcome.
thank you for the feed back and compliment. what kind of ambience do you recommend?
@@monlenz Depends if you want it to make it more like explanation of brutall world like warhamer then add ambience of batlle something like this ruclips.net/video/Ul9Da5c2UXw/видео.html . But in my opinion you are making explanation of fantasy world and something that would suit your voice i would choose something lighter like tawern sounds or maybe something like this ruclips.net/video/8DCvn484bXw/видео.html .
@@monlenz add dungeon synth
I would suggest light post rock music
Turtle's being an essential element for deployable shields is genius!
Everything shown here has a discernable function and I love it!
Your art is so beautiful! IF you want to put background music, I think just some dark fantasy ambiance would fit nicely; but to be honest your voice is quite pleasant and it's dope to listen to you talk about the back story of your art piece. I'm hella interested to hear about what grows from the roots! Also, I know people personally who fought in a war during a transition of rifles, and that is a nice touch that probably not a lost of people would think about. very well done!
The dwarf redesigned brought me here and I’m so hooked. You have such a brilliant mind. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I personally like not having the music. You have a nice somber voice that is nice to listen to while I’m at work on other things. Keep up the amazing work!!!
omg i could listen to you talk about the lore of this world all day!! it’s so cool and unique
agreed girlie
if there’s such thing as medieval jazz that would fit perfectly
I've just come across your page after watching loads of world building videos and I find yours much more interesting. It's pleasant to digest and I don't feel like I receive a barrage of information at simultaneously. Music in the background has become...cliche. Your videos are refreshing. You have a calming voice, which is great to listen to on it's own. It feels genuine.
Holy hell I love this aesthetic so much, My favorite genres are Diesel punk and fantasy, seeing this 2 concepts come together in the way you are making is absolutely crazy, keep it up!
I like it without music in the background. Anyone that needs it can add his own and everyone else can just listen in silence
I'm amazed at how professional and put together you are, while still claiming you don't know what you're doing! You wre leaps and bounds above many that have been doing this for years. You have an excellent voice, both verbally and in you artwork! As long as you keep posting, you can not do wrong !
I'm so glad that more and more people are taking inspiration from Rust and Humus. I love your take on WW1, which has underrated aesthetics of its own.
absolutely brilliant, I can’t wait to see you to gain the audience you deserve!!!!
I love this so much, I cannot really explain why. It's just very inspiring, and oddly wholesome.
Also, I know I am very late for this, but the lack of music has a sort of eerie charm.
besagews/besagues are the type of rondel near the armpits and tassets are the thigh armor you mentioned.
Just watching all your vids and this is awsome. Also congrats on growing really quick, hope it doesnt get too much with all the attention. Also also dont get stressed about trying to make everyone happy, just do what you like doing and dont worry about responding to every comment or idea, we will watch and enjoy no matter how to make them.
Your world is so interesting, and I'm learning a lot about character design from watching your process, since I want to design characters and make my own world as well. Thank you!
Dungeon synth can be dark, bright and is generally fantasy aligned.
Rusty armpits
yes
Found you with the Dwarf redesign and I'm absolutely loving your content, really enjoy the general vibe, the painting and commenting without too much fuss or music. Your worldbuilding is genuinely cool and I'm curious to know more about the world you're creating.
If I may be pedantic, there is one thing I noticed: the ogival rondel covering the right shoulder looks a bit out of place because it would mess with the soldier shouldering the musket, complicating recoil management and aim. It looks like the first thing the soldier would remove themselves. Alternatively, if the musket had a handgonne-styled stock that goes over the shoulder it would circumvent the problem.
This really gives off of a lot of mike franchina vibes and it’s great to see more of that aesthetic
yeah the first was great but this one is much better, as a writer, your creativity in the visual media is very inspiring
Incredible work. I hope you don't stress too much about presentation - your art and storytelling ability do a wonderful job of speaking for themselves!
No music is the best option. Everyone watching this has instant access to any music they could want and can play it over the video. But music can't be removed from the video while watching. Silence is underrated.
Slight 40k vibes, love this design. And the lore!
I found this channel by accident and I don't regret this at all.
When it comes to music in your videos I’d love to see something you can imagine being played in your world.
The thing that made you gain 7000 followers in the time it took me to watch like three of your backlogged videos is you are so perfectly earnest in your approach to this new wave of attention.
Something about how you left the eyes and face until last in the last piece gave me this impression for most of the draw that the importance was how this is just one lifeless soldier in a sea of many. Like he wasn't anyone special, if even a person. They just existed, like the many others in his position.
In terms of music, I think something with cello or other deep symphonic vibes would fit very well. I'm really intrigued about the roots too - the whole deal of "tool was designed for a specific purpose, used for a different purpose, and has unexpected long-term sure effects" feels extremely real to history.
I really like these short, to the point but interesting videos.
Loving these videos
This is one of my new favourite things to look forward on RUclips now man. Just some thoughts! What they wear(cloth not armour) should also depend on the seasons and weather, or where they’re located at. This could lead to more variety in the future, but you can keep the core elements of what makes ram soldier unique
This Project is amazing. The RAM-Soldier reminds me a lot of the "Sturmtruppen"-Stormtroopers of the first World War. They were heavily armored, and agressive breakthrough forces used by the German Kaiserreich.
As someone who's also been trying to work on a dark fantasy thing taking inspiration from classic fantasy and WW1, this is a fun reminder that nothing is original, and that everything you could ever imagine has likely been already imagined by somebody else.
Love your videos so far, even as nothing more than talking over a speedpaint. The worldbuilding is more interesting than music anyway. Wish I had a knack for drawing like you do.
Also also nice to see another picklehaube enjoyer. That helmet practically begs for this kind of stuff.
No Music or Music that's 3x quieter than your voice.
You have an excellent voice & way of speech which so fits your work.
You'd be a great documentary narrator.
awesome art style and design, and great lore
Music that could be apart of what you're showing us could immerse the viewer personally I like what you're doing no worrys friend
As you flesh out the world it’ll be really interesting to see the differences between the Officer and Enlisted ranks and different combat specialties.
Hey im a new fan from your literal brand new magic system video and i wanted to say that you mentioning the coins on the ram soldiers uniform and how its believed to be a good luck charm in Ram is amazing lore and world building and it reminds me alot of fromsoft soulsborne lore in that most little things have a reason to be there and not just to look nice. anyway I loved your magic system and hope i get to see more of it in future videos
I don't think you need any music, your voice is very calming and just hearing the lore while watching the drawing take shape is interesting
The scroll idea kinda reminds me of the Bartimeus trilogy
Also really cool can’t wait to learn more!
Aaaaaaaah I LOVE concept art and re-designs!!!! 😆😍😆
hey just wanted to say i love ur stuff is amazing,
please keep going 🤩
the way you drip feed information into each of these small videos is super intriguing. would love to be able to get a closer look at the drawing process, as its a bit hard for me to interpret what's going on with the current zoom. lovely work, looking forward to more!
What is really great about these speedpaints is that you show the zoomed out version of the thing you are drawing and not the quickly moving zoomed in screen recording often seen in speedpaint videos.
This is great, it really brings to mind Garth NIX’s border guard in Sabriel. A patrol who guard a wall between two worlds.
Bruh i love ur work, i dont know what area where u before starting (ocultism, arts in general, soldier maybe) but i think u have a great base in some of those areas. Im a occult practitioner and ive seen a lot of things on ur drawings that i might have seen on the field, sotospeak. Im sorry for my english, is a little bit rusty, but man u are great.
Just had the dwarf vid in my algorythm... This project is so very much my thing. Im on board
I think its interesting that you were so concerned with not hurting the quality of the armor by etching it or gilding it. neither harms the armor and some changes like bluing will make the armor more rust resitant. Or fluting which strengthens the armor.
Bro your voice is soothing it works you are good
Dude, amazing art! I really liked the red pattern you had on the armor for a second.
I’d love to see Ram soldiers and how rank changes their armor. Although you mentioned these soldiers are meant to be extremely versatile so maybe you are planning to make a completely different style of uniform for higher and more specialized units. Either way I can’t wait.
As hearing impared I love videos with no music at all.
I think that your voice is relaxing and has a good cadence to it, you don't need music if that's not your thing, but some calm quiet rhythmic music could work, and I think you already solved one of the things I wanted to mention in your later videos. It's hard to see detail on some of the art because of the orientation of it on the screen, so a wider view of possible would be great.
I also wanted to know if you're okay with people taking inspiration from your work. This has given me such a creative bug for a DND campaign I'm running but I don't want to just rip ideas if it's something the creator is wholely uncomfortable with.
Great job with the videos and I hope you keep it up while maintaining your joy for posting!
fantasy and trench warfare is such a good mix
Hey, I love your stuff, I found it through your magic system video and immediatly subscribed. One bit of critism: when using the rifle it would be pushed against the soldiers shoulder. Therefore, the armbit armor might come in the way. So maybe it would be better to have it on the non-dominant armbit only. Keep going, your art is amazing!
Always got a kick out of the whole "trench warfare" style in different universes. Death Korps of Krieg in warhammer 40k is generally my first thought
Amazing Work!!!
Love this.
- Voice good
- Voice better than music
- Last soldier is not holding rifle
- Rifle stuck into ground with metal rod
- Soldier only holding hand around rifle
- Soldier not supporting rifle weight
- Soldier other shoulder twisted unnaturally
- Soldier is posing for artist
aaaaah im loving this world so far already! im going to OBSESS over this. do you have a plan to release it as a ttrpg/computer game/book/webcomic/anything similar, or just a crazy cool universe? also, personally i dont think you need music. i like just listening to you talk about it while you draw.
This is awesome.
This needs to be a role playing game ...
Just a couple minor things. If you check WWII uniform setups, they always kept their gas mask in a canister or bag. This is because you don't want to drag it through the mud you're crawling in, then strap it to your face. The other thing is the thigh plates. Either they should be a bit loose and hang to the side, or they should hang in front and hinge the same direction your thigh does when you walk or run. In between they would resist normal leg movement and flap out to the side constantly. Hanging in front makes more sense if they are armor, hanging to the side makes more sense if they're storage.
I actually like the lore explanation thing better without music for some reason. It feels more chill and down to earth
It’s unlikely you will see this but the trenches of ww1 were partially because of the artillery and machine guns of the time making it suicidal to not have them. So it would be cool to see sort of puckle/Gatling gun hybrids so fill that role of making the trenches more necessary if not just magic.
Totally understand if you don't end up reading this, or if someone else has suggested
But Dungeon Synth would fit INCREDIBLY with your speedpaints, and I would recommend going through the Dungeon Synth Archives on youtube
world war 1 and medieval fantasy combined into one, well I'm interested
I have been working on a medieval meets ww1 world and just stumbled upon this clearly I'm not alone in my thoughts of what is cool. my world is a lot less dark however.
I think your voice is so hypnotizing, that background music would only interfere with immersion haha
A comment about the armor lore: first thing is that the soldiers getting refurbished uniforms fits nicely with the used uniforms you're likely to get in reality, although in an industrial society refurbishing uniforms carries much less value.
The second and more important point I have is about how the soldiers sometimes trade their uniforms, which doesn't really happen in real units. Gifting is much more prevelant, often times quite ceremoniously from the seniors to the juniors, and with seremonies differing from Corp, battalion, platoon etc. Your platoon is your family. You don't really do things foroyher people because of what you're gonna get in return, you do them because you go through so much shit with those people you're all bonded together.
Another part of showing the face (imo) is since they're using firearms they would still need to be able to aim... so the old version's *massive* pointed faceplate would make it either near or straight impossible to actually properly aim in a way which would be even *remotely* comfortable or natural for a soldier.
Which is a huge detail in designing equipment (in my opinion again), "Ergonomics" aka how comfortable and/or the equipment would be to use. Though looking at the design it looks fantastic to say the least! The only small possible thing would be the lack of gloves or hand protection, however due to them using flintlock firearms from the looks of it it's also understandable since reloading with gloves is *pain* when you have to do very precise things along with the gloves often getting caught on things.
🙋🏼♂️ I’ve noticed the audio is a liiiiiiil quiet, not that I mind it too much, just without headphones the background audio of my car / fan / music make it hard to hear you. Most likely totally a me problem, I have allll your videos at max audio to hear you and then the ads come on and are noticably louder. And your voice is so relaxing no cap, i wouldnt mind it being louder. love your sketches and lore building, i also suck at faces, they are the worssst.
I call them hip capes, also this is great!
I think with different designs you could probably differentiate different regiments or units like how an older unit might wear more medieval style equipment and newer ones are more world war 1 styled
In worldbuilding i like to focus on the material side of the society, more specifically their technology and economy in addition to societal structure.
For example i made a group of ratfolk called the skaliari (genetically engineered rat people) who are at a level of technology like that of 1870s-1900s europe, lots of steam, steel, primitive electricity, and heavy industry with almost all goods tranport being a mix of railed vehicles like urban freight trams or by bicycles using trailers.
Like rats, they're society is incredibly collectivist and social, most food is eaten in massive mess halls, sleeping quarters are cozy and dense, and the stories-tall factories are teeming with workers.
very very cool and creative
this is really awesome, give me a few minutes and i will watch all the videos, hold on
heres an idea thatll require you to triple the amount of designs, if youre unhappy with the mix of age of glory and the world war. remember that the technology of all the nations changed a LOT during the war, leave the early designs more decorative and colourful and the switch out the fancy coats and decorative hats for helmets, more protective clothing and more flexible pants. dont forget the officers and all the design choices that make them stand out to both the viewer and enemy sharpshooters
I think not having the music serves it well enough for these shorter videos. Not to mention your voice is rather mellow and soothing, which in my experience is just as good as having music in the first place.
Holy hell this is all cool!
you're employing really fun and interesting design elements, keep up the good work. I could only hope to be as creative. just as an aside, I couldn't help but visualize these soldiers with Japanese firearms-think type one nambu, type 92 or maybe even a duck's foot style gun.
Gregorian/orthodox chant/hymns in the background would work very well I think, considering the theme and other structures and symbolism you have characterised
Amazing Work!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I've wanted to design soldiers like this for so long but can't draw for shit. Man, thank you for realizing it here
Also, unless the muskets are designed to suit left-handedness in this world - the religious icon plate is on the wrong side, this positioning would make it difficult to shoulder the musket... unless it also has a utilitarian purpose as a shoulder rest/pad for a calibre that might be higher than what was tradionally used with muskets, in which case you would want it higher, more squared (likely smaller so as not to inhibit shoulder flexing and arm adduction motions) and curved inwards (concave) so as to have the butt of the weapon sit squarely in the shoulder without sliding around.
Courtesy, former rifleman from Australia
Awesome work!
I was thinking an interesting feature to their armour would be having a small cut-out section on the right side instead of the rondel armpit armour bit/shield so they could shoulder their rifles better. Similar to ww2 russian sapper chest plates
Also I dont mind the alck of music I like the commentary in the background giving more insight into the process!
Unless that breastplate is easily removable I'd put the trench coat over it. Adding buckles, snaps, or other mount points for the coat to attach to. For a more knightly feel you might consider changing the boots to a more sabaton look, and adding some armored bracers over the long sleeves.
Your work is amazing, and I am enjoying your world building very much.
this guy is modern bob ross
I’m a simple droid. I see trenches, I click.
This stuff is so awesome man, I cant wait to see more of this world. I always love technology and magic being fused in interesting ways.
Im somewhat curious about how the process of industrialization occured for this country Ram. You said before the war the equipment was made more artisinally, each piece unique. Wheras since beginning of the war clearly a large degree of industrialization must have occurred for them to have relatively modern (late 19th/ early 20th century) mass production methods in order to sustain the attrition of trench fighting. A lot of not just technology, but industrial expertise is required for this kind of stuff, and im thinking theres a lot of interesting ways magic could be involved in this apparent industrial revolution. A lot of potentially interesting things could go on there if done correctly. As an engineer I always am disappointed when people gloss over the details and implications this sort industrialization has on a world. Too often have i seen more modern tech mashed with a fantasy world poorly. But you seem to be on a fairly good track so far. Cant wait to see more.
As viewers we are getting to know you, and those that stick around do so because they like you. So if you feel like no music that's okay, but if you do feel like adding music make sure it's music you like listening to. In your case this could be what you like to listen to when creating, or it could be what you imagine fits well in the world you are building. In any case, it's probably worth paying one of those music licencing services like epidemic sounds and the likes to start experimenting without having to worry about copyright. That's my view on this, hope it's helpful! :)
An artist who sounds like a voice actor, you should do asmr or something, your voice is so calming
The only type of music I could possibly think might fit in the background is old dungeon/fantasy synth, but it might not be weird enough for your setting. Keep up the good work!