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Should we get an RV?

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFsWYhrx3jUOkay, hear me out...This past week we've figured out a lot of our future plans. We're embracing the world of remote interviews by starting a new strategy of focusing on new games and games the patron wishlist - but having them be smaller 20 minute videos that we can spend more time polishing, and less time assembling. We're currently working on five projects that we hope to talk to you about really soon.But what starte...

Jeremy on his Prey Edit | Noclip Edit Club

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6wZMSDN2gHey Patrons!Exciting news for Edit Club veterans - this month Jeremy Jayne stood up to the plate to host his first episode of the show. Appropriately he is covering his work on the Prey documentary, a project he produced by himself before handing it off to me for some slight structural additions at the end. As such he is going to cover the final build of the doc he did and explain his ethos when it comes to building out a doc with...

[New Doc] How Arkane Studios Designed Prey

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXLxaKrcFZ0Hey Patrons,After a long 18 months we finally wrap on all our post-production from the Arkane trips. This one was a long time coming so we threw a lot of production behind it to make sure we kept it long and informative. This documentary covers a lot including the use of the name Prey, the design of Talos 1, creating elements like the mimics and gloo gun, the creating of Mooncrash and loads more.A massive thanks to Jeremy for a terrific ed...

[Early Access Cut] Prey Documentary

EARLY ACCESS LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k75N64Uxy1YHey Early Access Patrons!The long awaited documentary on Arkane's 2017 immersive-sim Prey is almost here so how about some Early Access look.This version of the doc is 98% complete - there are some old looking lower thirds in the first few minutes I missed, no credits in yet and probably some small bugs. I'll be giving it a final pass tomorrow but this is basically the final cut. Enjoy your early access before we set this live...

The Big End of Year 5 Update - Noclip Archive, Filming in Covid, RV?

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czQrM39sl64HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRONS!!!This one covers a lot so I'm gonna keep the text part brief.Noclip turns 5 tomorrow (September 12th) and enters a brand new era. One that we are still trying to figure out. But we also have some exciting ideas to talk about. So sit back, relax, and let me update you on everything that's going on at Noclip, the docs on the way, and the big answers to year six's difficult questions.Thank you all ...

Patron Sneak Peek: Prey Documentary Clip

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1tjNEFG3ZAHey Patrons,I'm back after three weeks in Ireland - just in time to celebrate Noclip's 5th Birthday on September 12th. As a result we'll have a bunch of updates and announcements over the coming days about new projects and initiatives.In the meantime I wanted to share a clip from the Prey documentary that will be landing next week. Massive thanks to Jeremy and Frank for all the awesome work on this one while I was away...

Danny Reminisces About 5 Years of Noclip - Noclip Mixtape #06

Hey Patrons,Something a little bit different in your Mixtape this month. As I post this I'm in Ireland visiting my Irish family with my American family for the first time in two years and hopefully refreshing my brain when it comes to work. Because Noclip has a 5th birthday coming up in September and with it a bunch of changes and new initiatives I'm excited to work on.So seen as it's likely the final episode of Mixtape for our first half-century I decided to devote it to looking bac...

Greatest Hits - Episode #03 Poll (VOTE NOW!)

Hello Production Team Friends!We are two episode into Greatest Hits and it's already one of my favorite things we do here at Noclip. That said for this episode we are making two changes. First of all we're only focusing on console games to make sure we mix up the type of games the show covers. And secondly, we'll be taking three months to produce this doc as I'm away for a lot of this month and we've a lot planned for September.I've kept this poll neat and tidy. These gam...

Thief: The Dark Project - Noclip Greatest Hits

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmcbShMFNYHere it is Patrons!After three months of production we can finally share our documentary on the legacy of Thief and Looking Glass Studios. Featuring interviews with Ken Levine, Warren Spector, Tim Stellmach, Terri Brosius and many more - we explore the design of the original Thief, it's sequels and the culture of the studios that made them.This was a massive effort from the entire team featuring some great ideas and insight from our Co...

Greatest Hits Episode #03 - Suggestions Now Open!

Hello Production Tier & Credits Patrons!The Thief episode of Greatest Hits lands tomorrow but I'm flying to Ireland on Wednesday so I wanted to get the ball rolling on this so we can vote tomorrow. But I just wanted to say two things before we enter this vote!1) Given the fact that we've come off two classic PC games, I encourage people to suggest some console games. Think PlayStation / SNES / Mega Drive. I'll likely use my wildcard pick to highlight one and maybe add one myself base...

[EARLY ACCESS] Thief: The Dark Project - Greatest Hits

EARLY ACCESS CUT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ3LdzvQq_c4K Playback Available95% Complete - Some Clean up / audio mastering left to do.Hey Patrons,Wow. This one was big. And it's almost done.This is basically the final edit of the doc but I'm taking a break over the weekend because I'm totally wiped. I'm gonna do a little clean-up and perhaps add/modify some voice over on Monday and we'll get this public on Tuesday all going well. Megan is currently working on captions t...

Patron Sneak Peek: Thief Retrospective Clip

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/JDLtzworjiw(4k Version Still Processing on YouTube at time of posting)Hey Patrons!After three months of work our giant retrospective on Thief: The Dark Project and the legacy of Looking Glass Studios is almost here.Ahead of it's public release next week - and early access this week - we wanted to share a sneak peek for all of our community as it is part of your $5 patronage! After a brief introduction from myself there is a six minute segment where Lea...

Let's Talk About Noclip's Future

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/5n5L7Wg5k3UHey Patrons,August 2021 is the final month of our fifth year. On September 12th Noclip will turn five years old and you know I like to mix it up around big anniversaries.Six months ago we had a big funding push and made some large changes to the way we work. I would argue it's resulted in some of our best videos yet with us starting a brand new show about older games, updating our workflow to 4k and spending more time in post-production than...

[VOD ] Greatest Hits #02 (Thief) - Production Meeting #2

DATE: Friday July 30th (Tomorrow)TIME: Noon Pacific / 3PM Eastern / 8PM BST (Available as a VOD afterwards)YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/qSeWRBTzfV4Hey Patrons!Man, this one has been a long time coming. Even with the added "Production Blog" on this episode of Greatest Hits I feel like you folks have been out of the loop on this project.The reason is clear - the game that won the vote was a big ask. Thief is an important game with a magnetic field around it that attracts so much of PC ga...

Preying with Friends & Planning the Next 5 Years - Noclip Mixtape #05

Hey Patrons!In July's episode of our patron-exclusive podcastwe talk about finishing the Prey documentary, and have a big chat about some of our big future plans for Noclip ahead of our 5th birthday in September. Oh and we sneak in a little bit of chat about playing Death's Door.If you want to subscribe to the feed on your podcast app of choice, this FAQ has details on how to do it on your browser, or (via a link in the menu on the side) your phone.We hope you enjoy it the show. If you h...

Demon's Souls: Getting the Most out of Gameplay | Noclip Edit Club

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/FrN4xJVmIbcHey Patrons,In this month's Edit Club I take a look at how myself and Jeremy used gameplay in the Demon's Souls documentary. In the first half I talk about the structure of the documentaries opening and how we tried to use all the ingredients at our disposal to create variety. While the second half concerns itself with trying to create comfortable pacing by playing around with gameplay and game audio.This project was a lot of fun to work...

Demon's Souls: Remaking a PlayStation Classic

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBJ2fiiUXkHey Patrons!After months of work from the entire team we have finished our documentary on the PlayStation 5 remake of Demon's Souls. For years we've been asked my our patrons to cover the work of FROM Software and while that door has never opened when the opportunity to talk to the incredibly talented people at Bluepoint Games appeared I jumped at it.This documentary covers dozens of aspects of the (re)design of this game. From art...

[EARLY ACCESS] Remaking Demon's Souls

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73XSYbZm1oPATRONS! WE DID IT! HERE IT IS!After months of work from the entire team we have a 99.5% final cut of our documentary on the PlayStation 5 remake of Demon's Souls. For years we've been asked my our patrons to cover the work of FROM Software and while that door has never opened when the opportunity to talk to the incredibly talented people at Bluepoint Games appeared I jumped at it.This documentary covers dozens of aspects ...

Patron Sneak Peek: Demon's Souls Documentary Clip

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1dIlJAUlFE (4k Playback Available)Hello Dear Patrons,We are in full edit mode here at Noclip and looking forward to releasing some terrific docs over the coming weeks and months. And as part of that you're going to be getting early sneak peek's at a bunch of cool stuff.Our first sneak peek of the summer season is a 5 minute excerpt from our upcoming Demon's Souls (2020) documentary. The clip here dives into the redesign of the f...

Our Four Big Docs Coming Soon | Patron Update July 2021

UNLISTED YOUTUBE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rEi8QnFCwHello Patrons!Allow myself to emerge from this edit-hole to explain to you what is coming in July & August to both the public channel and here on Patreon. Because it is a lot. The final two months of our fifth year are set to be the busiest we've ever had.In the video above I talk about the four projects the team has been working on; Demon's Souls, Prey (2017), Thief: The Dark Project and (Big Secret Project #04). We'...

Summer Madness - Noclip Mixtape #04

Hey Patrons!In June's episode of our patron-exclusive podcast we talk about the exciting list of names we got for our Thief documentary, give updates on Demon's Souls and Prey, chat about summer vacations and tease a new project coming in August.If you want to subscribe to the feed on your podcast app of choice, this FAQ has details on how to do it on your browser, or (via a link in the menu on the side) your phone.We hope you enjoy it the show. If you have any questions stick them in th...

Demons Souls Assembly & Loop Hero Subs | Noclip Edit Club

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_BSLMTD_AQHey Patrons!This month we're doing a bumper edition of Noclip Edit Club where I look at not one, but two projects we've been working on.In the first half of this video I take a look at our Demon's Souls project and break down everything from my interview prep, to logging the assembly, to how myself and Jeremy break down the edits, and our tricks for not getting swallowed up by large projects. I also explore my concept ...

Thief Production Team Update! +Submit Your Photo

Hello Greatest Hits Producers!Last month we had some feedback on the creative process and one thing that came out of those conversations was a desire for more incremental updates between production meetings. So in this post I'm going to give you an update on everything that's been going on with the project, who we have interviewed, who is left to interview, and how the story is coming together.WHO HAVE WE TALKED TO?Right now we have several interviews recorded a bunch more to get done. A...

Patron Q&A (e3 Season) - Call for Questions

Hey Patrons!It's e3 Season and a little while since we've done a proper Patron Q&A video and with so much announced, and so much being planned I thought this would be a good time to put one together. Do you u have questions about Demon's Souls, Thief or Prey? Feedback on your patron experience? Criticisms? Requests? Dream projects you want us to hunt down in the second half of the year? Questions about Giant Bomb? Wanna hear my thoughts on E3? Whatever! There are no wrong questions.S...

Hot Doc Summer | Patron Update June 2021

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA6ylwGPEtMHey Patrons!Hot Doc Summer has begun! Right off the release of our Loop Hero documentary I'm here to give you an update on all the projects you can expect from Noclip during the summer months. From our retrospective of Thief, to our big Demon's Souls project, to the long-awaited full doc of Prey, and our plans beyond.I also cover our general plans for the rest of the year as it pertains to big studio docs (we are in talks ...

Teaser Trailer: Remaking Demon's Souls

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5FiTe75PtEGreat to finally be able to talk about this one publicly given the months of work the team has been putting into it. Our documentary uncovers the work required to bring the game that started a revolution to modern consoles.Some info on the doc. It's currently over an hour long and likely to get a bit longer once I'm done with VO and stand-ups. Jeremy did an incredible job building the story with a huge edit made from interviews I f...

[NEW DOC!] Loop Hero Developers Reveal the Design Origins of their Breakthrough Hit

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeVzpYQFf8Hey Patrons,I'm very excited to get this out in the world as it's been a lot of fun shepherding the project these past few months. When Loop Hero took the world by storm earlier this year we were inundated with requests to cover the game. Given that the developers are Russian this required a little bit of planning and a lot of translation work which is why it's taken a bit of time to get it out.But one of the most exciting thin...

[EARLY ACCESS] The Making of Loop Hero

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj7j24G4H1k(don't forget to turn on captions)Hey Patrons!This was a fun one to produce. Our documentary on the design of Loop Hero has gone through several production loops of its own. The interviews were conducted by myself (Danny), but through a Russian interpreter. Then the edit was passed to Jeremy who also filmed his first stand-ups and recorded his own voice-over. Then we had a few feedback loops before I reconnected with our inter...

Demons, Thieves and E3 Dreams - Noclip Mixtape #03

Hello Patrons,On this month's episode of our patron-exclusive podcast Mixtape we talk about our work on the upcoming Demon's Souls Remake documentary, the reaction to our Dishonored doc, the work that goes into subtitling our Loop Hero video, our dreams for E3, plans for Thief and much more.If you want to subscribe to the feed on your podcast app of choice, this FAQ has details on how to do it on your browser, or (via a link in the menu on the side) your phone.We hope you enjoy it the sh...

The Making of Dishonored | Noclip Documentary

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsQiKKfKxugHey Patrons,I hope this was worth the wait. A full year after our Arkane documentary we finally get our full hour-long dive into the creation of Dishonored 1 & 2.This documentary features insight into gameplay, level design, story, voice-acting, and technology, alongside bunch of never-before-seen footage.We hope you enjoy it, let us know what you think!Danny