After 4 years of watching your videos I actually think this is one of my new favourite videos of yours. It just feels like authentic, classic Scott, all the aspects I enjoy about your content, exploring a technique, not being afraid to show failures, goofy dumb humour and brilliant skill. 10/10
he is not alone, I'm even shorter now at 5.5 or something like that. But again, I'm a small channel, so maybe I will grow taller as my channel grows *finger crossed*
Definately the core of what a miniac should be. 'Hi I'm Scott, I'm learning a thing. Doesn't matter what it is, but these are the contents of my brain while I'm learning X'
Don't take this wrong, but it's actually really nice to see people who are much better painters than me have serious struggles with their projects. Watching 20 minutes videos where everything looks awesome, and then struggling for days on my own, much more humble projects, can get discouraging sometimes. It's reassuring to see you struggle and get frustrated sometimes.
Scott is basically a more amusing version of the Technomancer! I truly think that hearing the rational while watching Scott experiment is some of the best painting content.
This is just a masterpiece. I could tell the technique by the thumbnail, but every shot just screams OSL. I love this. Congrats Scott. Another one of the park.
I can't pinpoint why, but this was the most satisfying hobby painting video I have watched in ages. Absolutely everything about this was captivating and enjoyable, and the final mini looks absolutely amazing. I loved everything about it, great work!
It is so awesome to see a pro painter trying new stuff. The hard part of any skill is not the sequence of steps that gets you to the finished product. It's how you fix the inevitable missteps. Awesome video!
Love seeing a new video every Monday. And every other Monday we get a new TUP. It gives me a lot to look forward to on Mondays and now it’s not the worst day of the week. It’s a nice pace to keep up with and I will be coming back each week to engage with your channel. Keep it up!
This was a great update to you and your relationship with OSL. When i was a beginner painter, i liked your original OSL video, even though it wasn't really that great from a techinical POV. This is a really good introduction, while making the quality of your final product better. Always happy to see a new video from you. You reignited my love for mini painting.
This is one of the nicest mini painting video I've seen in a while, there are tons and tons of tutorials to do different stuff already, but seeing someone share their path to trying new stuff, their reasoning, the mistakes made along the way etc.. it is very inspirational and makes me want to keep trying new stuff even if I have no idea of what I'm doing. Also I'm jealous of that brush control I gotta keep working on it!
I really like seeing the entire process including the “screw ups” and redos. It makes it feel a lot more approachable at home knowing at even the pros don’t get it perfect every time!
Hey Scott just wanted to thank you I’ve been really depressed lately but your videos have been what’s keeping me going I’m even started to paint again after so nearly a year away. Just know your more than a RUclips guy to some your a life saver and I wanted to thank you
I'm really enjoying you new format and approach to convey information. Also your voiceovers are sounding super clear these days! Keep up the good work!
I think this whole weekly posting thing is helping a lot. Your videos are feeling more authentic again and you actually look like you are having fun; the great thing about a deadline is that you have to get out of your own head and just get it done! I'm very excited to see where you take the channel!
Great work! I think the face turned out awesome. Since skin has a satin sheen, I think it's okay that you made it reflect a little more light. The only party that didn't sell for me was the muzzle flash. Even actual fire doesn't have much red in it, and it needed more white. I'd have stuck to yellow, white, and a tiny bit of orange, essentially brighter so that the brightness of the light source matches the intensity of the light it casts. Additional reference photos may help with this.
That looks fn sweet. As someone who has only been painting miniatures for a few months am struggling with simple shading and highlighting this is goals!
Long time listener, first time commenter.. As a computer graphics guy who loves lighting, i can relate to the struggle. I think the biggest tip i can give you is to witness how lights are affected by exposure.. bright lights often require a fast exposure.. so everything else becomes really dark with strong shadowing. If you expose to keep the dark areas lit, then the 'OSL' would be over exposed and crazy bright (often glowing and flaring on the sensor/film). In short as you cant paint brighter than pigment white, you need to darken everything to create the contrast from exposure and create the illusion of something bright. Light falls off in a very particular way so try think of it in two different parts, brightness (light and darks) and colour.. Love your work! I think OSL is one of the harderst parts of model painting. Im excited to see you conquer it!
Im loving this! I remember seeing osl lighting on the player characters that Sorastro painted for Zombicide. It was the first time I saw it on minis and it blew my mind hole.
I hope you liked this video yourself, Miniac. I really enjoy when you take me on a problem solving journey, no matter if you solve it 100% in that video or not. It is always really inspiring and helpful for me to hear your thoughts, you sprig young thing 😂 (46 here, and haven't been exercising for a few months. The body's revenge is BRUTAL. I'm glad you're getting a new chair 😅)
Loving the energy in the video. Also, I was just about to work on a project that i was going to start the long process of learning this technique/method, so the timing of this video was perfect.
Every day with a Miniac video is a great day. Love the model and the idea of the diorama. As someone who has a huge pile of AVP Hunt miniatures, looking forward to what I assume will be some Xenomorphs in this, and seeing how you approach their weird, wet, glossy carapace.
Awesome vid man! Something that gets my goat with a lot of mini painters is overly saturated and orange/pink skin tones. You'd be surprised how grey and muted traditional portrait painters worked apart from a few hints of higher saturation that tricks you into thinking its way more saturated than it really is. Mini painting in general is plagued with saturation addiction and I see it a lot with junior artists in video games too. Just like value, temperature and chroma, saturation plays a massive role in structure and giving the eye areas of rest. You should look into Anders Zorn and the Zorn palette... Painting portraits with Red, Yellow Ochre, black and white (and nothing else) is a good wat to experiment with saturation control.
Another sick video bro. Here's a tip, grab an LED (I use a fake candle one), put it at the point of your light source, snap a pic for reference, replicate.
Great video, Scott! I enjoyed the process, and am looking forward to more. An idea I had while watching was that you might enjoy using blender to create lighting mock ups as a preplanning step. If you're using STLs you can import them into blender and use scale light sources with intensity and falloff controls to do true to scale mock up of the OSL light source. Similar to holding a light to a model but with minute detail control. Although it would only work with models you have an STL of.
Of course I have been looking at doing some OSL on a bust and want to get better at the technique and Scott posts a video then next day that just motivates me more to give my idea a go.
Amazing job as always. I love your explorative approach and narration to everything. 16:20 It's kind of not ridiculous, really. Muzzle flashes are unexpectedly big. The people at corridor digital have a special kind of pet peeve about teeny tiny muzzle flashes in vfx for movies 😅
Great Video as always! For more tactical knowledge tuck the elbow in for a more stable shot and smaller profile. Dont want that wing dinger to get shot!
I listen to TUP and I know for a fact you watched the Masterclass for your own model "The Witch", so there's no excuse for not knowing all the technical OSL stuff! lol You're still leagues above me in painting prowess but I recently challenged myself to get good at OSL. I set a challenge for myself to have every single model I paint to have some sort of OSL or multi-light setting going on and in only 3 or 4 models I've improved so dramatically It doesn't even look like the same person painted them. One thing, I learned from this video that honestly I haven't though of that much is how light effects whatever color is underneath, and I've mostly been doing my OSL strongly influenced off Ben Kantor's Terminator diorama, where the green OSL is not strongly influenced by the red armor of the terminators. This has made my introduction to OSL a lot easier. Maybe next I'll try something more what you did in this video.
I love OSL, I find it super fun to paint even though I’m not great at it. Even though you’re flying by the seat of your pants I’ve learnt quite a bit from this. Looking forward to the next one 🤘🏻
I’m blown away! This is me offering unsolicited advice, but to bring more focus to her face you can desaturate the muzzle flash a little. Adding light grey to the outer edges pulls the focus into the middle of the flash like you did with the white in the middle but taking away some of the saturation on the edges could help to frame that element. I figured this out on a rocket plume, you did something similar on the Drukhari jet on the rocket exhaust. Also, a secondary light source in the diorama that lets you give her face the accent lighting you want is totally a good solution here. Awesome work Scott, loving the videos, super cool that you’re keeping to the weekly uploads.
By the way, I find it for OSL that it works best if I push the contrast to extremes. I watched how Elminiaturista does it a bunch of times and I do a similat method. I highlight to pure white, apply the ink. Then highlight again with white, and apply a different colour. Yellow for red OSL for example. I have a really hard time with purple and magenta OSL though. But works very very well for red, orange, blue and green. For the light cast around the source I usually only apply the ink without previous highlights. It tends to create a lot of contrast with the light source and the material it is cast on. If the lit object is behind the light source (like a sword in the hands of a mini) it creates a "glow" area for the OSL from the moneyshot angle which helps sell the effect more.
Killer video, Scott! I too have avoided (and may continue to avoid) OSL. That and NMM have always seemed to be out of reach of my talent level. The result you achieved here looks ace - it will be fun to follow along with this project!
I think the reason is how you show up at the table. Most tables are rather high for mini painters to get a more pleasant positure. In this video I saw it a few times that the table is around your chest. This suggests to the viewer that you are small :D It reminds me of how my son sits at the dining table :D
Scott, people think you are short because you are at best between 1 to 3 inches tall on a phone. Taller on tablet.
Wait... what? He's not 1.5" tall and looks like he's in 480p.. well F*** me runnin'.
On the Tv he’s an easy two foot six
After 4 years of watching your videos I actually think this is one of my new favourite videos of yours. It just feels like authentic, classic Scott, all the aspects I enjoy about your content, exploring a technique, not being afraid to show failures, goofy dumb humour and brilliant skill. 10/10
All hobby RUclipsrs are secretly tall. Except Jon.
Yes
he is not alone, I'm even shorter now at 5.5 or something like that. But again, I'm a small channel, so maybe I will grow taller as my channel grows *finger crossed*
Roman and Jeremy are exceptionally tall 😅
It looks amazing.
EOB Jay has been real quite since this dropped.
Definately the core of what a miniac should be. 'Hi I'm Scott, I'm learning a thing. Doesn't matter what it is, but these are the contents of my brain while I'm learning X'
its the year 2042, and Miniac releases a video called "The Complete OSL - Greek Fire on an Ancient Trireme"
The script quality has improved noticeably in the last few videos! good job Scott!!!
Dude, this video was awesome. The channel feels like it's been reawakened
That looks really good! Alien Romulus was surprisingly good too. Every shot was gorgeous
Im 33, that "hostorical war games" dig hurt so much.
Bolt action is good damnit
Don't take this wrong, but it's actually really nice to see people who are much better painters than me have serious struggles with their projects. Watching 20 minutes videos where everything looks awesome, and then struggling for days on my own, much more humble projects, can get discouraging sometimes. It's reassuring to see you struggle and get frustrated sometimes.
Scott is basically a more amusing version of the Technomancer! I truly think that hearing the rational while watching Scott experiment is some of the best painting content.
This is just a masterpiece. I could tell the technique by the thumbnail, but every shot just screams OSL. I love this. Congrats Scott. Another one of the park.
I can't pinpoint why, but this was the most satisfying hobby painting video I have watched in ages. Absolutely everything about this was captivating and enjoyable, and the final mini looks absolutely amazing. I loved everything about it, great work!
Way more fun and intersting than another OSL tutorial
That OSL text intro with the lamp was great. It has made me pause the video to explicitly communicate to you how much I enjoyed it.
A RUclipsr always feels relatable when they show their mistakes and reworks. I appreciated that you didn't just edit that out!
Very cool! Looking forward to see this evolve 🎉❤
Best video you've done in awhile. Excellent work man.
Don’t matter what video I’m in the middle of when i see the notification, best BELIEVE I’m swapping over for some mini mania 🙏
I feel like your last few videos have been showing a lot more of your ambitions in the hobby. They are definitely your best. Thank you!
It is so awesome to see a pro painter trying new stuff. The hard part of any skill is not the sequence of steps that gets you to the finished product. It's how you fix the inevitable missteps. Awesome video!
Really nice pacing on the video, Scott! It was really fun to watch, and I loved the explanation of the technique.
I love the way you paint. Your videos are always so educational and entertaining. Thank you!
I am particularly happy how you addressed the challenge of OSL colors that contrast a surface: orange light across a blue cloth
Love seeing a new video every Monday. And every other Monday we get a new TUP. It gives me a lot to look forward to on Mondays and now it’s not the worst day of the week. It’s a nice pace to keep up with and I will be coming back each week to engage with your channel. Keep it up!
This is a really great video. Great job, Scott!
2:35 😂😂😂 Dude that phrasing and the self drepicating chuckle at the end is killing me. Im here with you!
This was a great update to you and your relationship with OSL. When i was a beginner painter, i liked your original OSL video, even though it wasn't really that great from a techinical POV. This is a really good introduction, while making the quality of your final product better. Always happy to see a new video from you. You reignited my love for mini painting.
This is one of the nicest mini painting video I've seen in a while, there are tons and tons of tutorials to do different stuff already, but seeing someone share their path to trying new stuff, their reasoning, the mistakes made along the way etc.. it is very inspirational and makes me want to keep trying new stuff even if I have no idea of what I'm doing. Also I'm jealous of that brush control I gotta keep working on it!
I really like seeing the entire process including the “screw ups” and redos. It makes it feel a lot more approachable at home knowing at even the pros don’t get it perfect every time!
really enjoy the presentation style in this vid. The variety of shots and all the light tests of you in the shirt are great
seeing footage of you repainting the entire left leg was really helpful, the magic of editing can be a beast sometimes.
so awesome, this feels like a classic miniac video, a return to form, great paintjob
It's so good to have more regular videos from you.
Hey Scott just wanted to thank you I’ve been really depressed lately but your videos have been what’s keeping me going I’m even started to paint again after so nearly a year away. Just know your more than a RUclips guy to some your a life saver and I wanted to thank you
I'm really enjoying you new format and approach to convey information. Also your voiceovers are sounding super clear these days! Keep up the good work!
I think this whole weekly posting thing is helping a lot. Your videos are feeling more authentic again and you actually look like you are having fun; the great thing about a deadline is that you have to get out of your own head and just get it done! I'm very excited to see where you take the channel!
Great work! I think the face turned out awesome. Since skin has a satin sheen, I think it's okay that you made it reflect a little more light. The only party that didn't sell for me was the muzzle flash. Even actual fire doesn't have much red in it, and it needed more white. I'd have stuck to yellow, white, and a tiny bit of orange, essentially brighter so that the brightness of the light source matches the intensity of the light it casts. Additional reference photos may help with this.
2:22 best joke you've ever put in a video
😂
That looks fn sweet. As someone who has only been painting miniatures for a few months am struggling with simple shading and highlighting this is goals!
Very nice! This will be helpful, much appreciated!
That's a sick model and the muzzle flash lighting is insane. Nice work.
Super excited to see this project develop, always happy to help Scott!
Long time listener, first time commenter..
As a computer graphics guy who loves lighting, i can relate to the struggle. I think the biggest tip i can give you is to witness how lights are affected by exposure.. bright lights often require a fast exposure.. so everything else becomes really dark with strong shadowing. If you expose to keep the dark areas lit, then the 'OSL' would be over exposed and crazy bright (often glowing and flaring on the sensor/film).
In short as you cant paint brighter than pigment white, you need to darken everything to create the contrast from exposure and create the illusion of something bright. Light falls off in a very particular way so try think of it in two different parts, brightness (light and darks) and colour.. Love your work! I think OSL is one of the harderst parts of model painting. Im excited to see you conquer it!
That white pulse rifle from A:Romulus was one of the most beautiful sci-fi weapons ever in my opinion
Looking forward to seeing the full diorama!
Looking fresh so far! Also, my cutting mat just showed up and it's amazing. New videos have been awesome so keep it up
Im loving this! I remember seeing osl lighting on the player characters that Sorastro painted for Zombicide. It was the first time I saw it on minis and it blew my mind hole.
Looks great Scott! I am excited to see how the diorama shapes up.
Scottyboy is back... warts and all.. Love this. Been watching since I started to paint minis 6 years ago.... keep the faith 🤟
Great result! Can't wait to see the finished diorama, it was such a cool scene in the film.
I hope you liked this video yourself, Miniac. I really enjoy when you take me on a problem solving journey, no matter if you solve it 100% in that video or not. It is always really inspiring and helpful for me to hear your thoughts, you sprig young thing 😂 (46 here, and haven't been exercising for a few months. The body's revenge is BRUTAL. I'm glad you're getting a new chair 😅)
Loving the energy in the video.
Also, I was just about to work on a project that i was going to start the long process of learning this technique/method, so the timing of this video was perfect.
Looking good Scott! Super awesome and encouraging to see a guru in the hobby working on something to be better at it! Makes me excited to paint!
Finally! Since Scott mentioned this in Trapped Under Plástic, I am waiting to see his input on OSL
Really appreciate and enjoy the uptick in content! Keep it up!!!
Every day with a Miniac video is a great day. Love the model and the idea of the diorama. As someone who has a huge pile of AVP Hunt miniatures, looking forward to what I assume will be some Xenomorphs in this, and seeing how you approach their weird, wet, glossy carapace.
I am living the more videos. Thanks for what you do!
Uuuuu look how the eyes reflect the specular light perfectly! amazing
Great work showcasing the different effects of lightning in real life, it truly helps to visualize the concept.
The burning Witch returns! What a series that was. Awesome result ❤🔥
Awesome vid man! Something that gets my goat with a lot of mini painters is overly saturated and orange/pink skin tones. You'd be surprised how grey and muted traditional portrait painters worked apart from a few hints of higher saturation that tricks you into thinking its way more saturated than it really is.
Mini painting in general is plagued with saturation addiction and I see it a lot with junior artists in video games too. Just like value, temperature and chroma, saturation plays a massive role in structure and giving the eye areas of rest.
You should look into Anders Zorn and the Zorn palette... Painting portraits with Red, Yellow Ochre, black and white (and nothing else) is a good wat to experiment with saturation control.
Another sick video bro. Here's a tip, grab an LED (I use a fake candle one), put it at the point of your light source, snap a pic for reference, replicate.
Great video, Scott! I enjoyed the process, and am looking forward to more.
An idea I had while watching was that you might enjoy using blender to create lighting mock ups as a preplanning step. If you're using STLs you can import them into blender and use scale light sources with intensity and falloff controls to do true to scale mock up of the OSL light source. Similar to holding a light to a model but with minute detail control. Although it would only work with models you have an STL of.
Had the same vibe. Immense joy viewing experienced.
An incredibly instructive video, thank you for putting this together! I'm very much looking forward to the full diorama.
This is Great! I love seeing your silly side. Having fun and trying new things is what it's all about.
Of course I have been looking at doing some OSL on a bust and want to get better at the technique and Scott posts a video then next day that just motivates me more to give my idea a go.
Amazing job as always. I love your explorative approach and narration to everything. 16:20 It's kind of not ridiculous, really. Muzzle flashes are unexpectedly big. The people at corridor digital have a special kind of pet peeve about teeny tiny muzzle flashes in vfx for movies 😅
Love me some Niko and Sam
Great Video as always! For more tactical knowledge tuck the elbow in for a more stable shot and smaller profile. Dont want that wing dinger to get shot!
Love seeing you doing something different, and look forward to the diorama videos.
Great format, editing, and topic. Thanks for putting it together
I listen to TUP and I know for a fact you watched the Masterclass for your own model "The Witch", so there's no excuse for not knowing all the technical OSL stuff! lol You're still leagues above me in painting prowess but I recently challenged myself to get good at OSL. I set a challenge for myself to have every single model I paint to have some sort of OSL or multi-light setting going on and in only 3 or 4 models I've improved so dramatically It doesn't even look like the same person painted them.
One thing, I learned from this video that honestly I haven't though of that much is how light effects whatever color is underneath, and I've mostly been doing my OSL strongly influenced off Ben Kantor's Terminator diorama, where the green OSL is not strongly influenced by the red armor of the terminators. This has made my introduction to OSL a lot easier. Maybe next I'll try something more what you did in this video.
I love OSL, I find it super fun to paint even though I’m not great at it. Even though you’re flying by the seat of your pants I’ve learnt quite a bit from this. Looking forward to the next one 🤘🏻
1:25 Scott the Operator is in business
Hey man, this was a great video. I really loved that style of intro. It feels like it really suits you
Really enjoy the topic of this video! It is fun every once in a while to deep dive into techniques
I’m blown away! This is me offering unsolicited advice, but to bring more focus to her face you can desaturate the muzzle flash a little. Adding light grey to the outer edges pulls the focus into the middle of the flash like you did with the white in the middle but taking away some of the saturation on the edges could help to frame that element. I figured this out on a rocket plume, you did something similar on the Drukhari jet on the rocket exhaust. Also, a secondary light source in the diorama that lets you give her face the accent lighting you want is totally a good solution here. Awesome work Scott, loving the videos, super cool that you’re keeping to the weekly uploads.
Really love your new schedule. I hope, you have fun and we'll see again next week. =)
The hair and the line delivery made me LOL @2:20
A diorama series based on some OSL? Heck yeah!
Great job! Hope to see the rest of this soon!
By the way, I find it for OSL that it works best if I push the contrast to extremes. I watched how Elminiaturista does it a bunch of times and I do a similat method. I highlight to pure white, apply the ink. Then highlight again with white, and apply a different colour. Yellow for red OSL for example. I have a really hard time with purple and magenta OSL though. But works very very well for red, orange, blue and green.
For the light cast around the source I usually only apply the ink without previous highlights. It tends to create a lot of contrast with the light source and the material it is cast on. If the lit object is behind the light source (like a sword in the hands of a mini) it creates a "glow" area for the OSL from the moneyshot angle which helps sell the effect more.
Fantastic subject choice
Look forward to seeing the full dioromulus!
THANK YOU!!!!
"don't let the magic of editing fool you. there was a lot of back and forth here..."
can't wait for the full diorama 😍
Great timing on this, I'm about to start painting my kingdom death survivors and was abit wary of doing osl with their lanterns
One of my 2025 goal is to learn OSL, having your thoughts on the topic will help me for sure ! Great stuff :D
Killer video, Scott! I too have avoided (and may continue to avoid) OSL. That and NMM have always seemed to be out of reach of my talent level.
The result you achieved here looks ace - it will be fun to follow along with this project!
Why'd you stop making content?
Great video love Romulus. 🎉
Love the process, love the result.
love the video!! good job scott!!
It wi fun to watch your process!
Great video, Scott. Love it!
Hot damn that came together with that muzzle flash! Can't wait to see more of the diorama
Great video plus you reminded me to add that film to my to buy list 😅😅 thanks.
Awesome vid, man!
I think the reason is how you show up at the table. Most tables are rather high for mini painters to get a more pleasant positure. In this video I saw it a few times that the table is around your chest. This suggests to the viewer that you are small :D It reminds me of how my son sits at the dining table :D
At 2 minutes in, I finally know what Scott's idle animations look like.