[00:00.000 -> 00:04.580]  One of the reasons that I started this channel is not only to create some awesome content for everyone,
[00:04.580 -> 00:08.580]  but also stretch my own abilities and see what cool and unique things that I can come up with.
[00:08.580 -> 00:12.160]  I've been a game developer in the industry for over 15 years,
[00:12.160 -> 00:15.620]  and it's always fun and exciting to see the new technologies that are coming out.
[00:15.620 -> 00:19.560]  I've also been thinking about the type of content that I want to do here on Hacky Things,
[00:19.560 -> 00:23.500]  and the different series and projects that I can do to keep it fun and fresh.
[00:23.500 -> 00:27.620]  And at the same time, I don't want every video to just be the same cookie cutter thing
[00:27.620 -> 00:32.300]  over and over. The last video we did a couple weeks ago, we dove down into a
[00:32.300 -> 00:36.920]  game called Starcatcher that we created using ChatGPT and MidJourney, which if
[00:36.920 -> 00:39.940]  you haven't watched it, I really hope that you do. But I wanted to see what
[00:39.940 -> 00:43.040]  else we could do in the same space, maybe something that was a bit more on the
[00:43.040 -> 00:48.880]  creative side rather than the technical side. So a couple weeks ago I woke up and had this idea for a new series here
[00:48.880 -> 00:54.720]  on Hacky Things called Deleted Scenes, where we're going to take famous characters from movies, film,
[00:54.720 -> 01:00.960]  tv, games, etc. and put them into unique and fun situations. I also wanted to use this series as
[01:00.960 -> 01:08.400]  the way to enhance my other skills outside of programming like script writing, storytelling, and video editing, which are all things that I need to practice
[01:08.400 -> 01:12.280]  with, especially with all this new fancy YouTube stuff that I'm doing.
[01:12.280 -> 01:15.920]  And even though this video is much more on the creative side of things, I still wanted
[01:15.920 -> 01:18.780]  to make sure that I introduced some cool and fun technologies.
[01:18.780 -> 01:22.360]  The one new tool that I used for this project that we didn't in the last video was something
[01:22.360 -> 01:27.400]  called Fake You, which allows you to create voices of famous characters from text prompts.
[01:27.400 -> 01:31.460]  For the first deleted scenes video, I wanted to make sure that I chose characters in a
[01:31.460 -> 01:35.760]  situation that would be familiar and people from all over the world would recognize, and
[01:35.760 -> 01:39.060]  who's easier to recognize than Darth Vader and Yoda.
[01:39.060 -> 01:43.720]  I imagined them being in a diner and wondered what sort of conversation would have unfolded
[01:43.720 -> 01:44.800]  between them.
[01:44.800 -> 01:48.760]  Could I write something that was funny, engaging, maybe a little bit emotional?
[01:48.760 -> 01:51.680]  And most importantly, could I make the story captivating?
[01:51.680 -> 01:54.920]  Also make sure you stay around to the end of the video so I can break down some of the
[01:54.920 -> 01:58.520]  tech that we used and some of the pitfalls that I had to overcome to make this thing
[01:58.520 -> 01:59.520]  possible.
[01:59.520 -> 02:04.080]  So here is the first video for deleted scenes here on Hacky Things called Darth Vader and
[02:04.080 -> 02:38.880]  Yoda at a Diner. What's up, player?
[02:39.200 -> 02:42.000]  You will never believe the day I had today.
[02:43.200 -> 02:47.000]  Seek with Yoda, you must. And about your day, tell me you shall.
[02:48.000 -> 02:53.000]  All the Stormtroopers are making fun of me. I don't like it.
[02:54.000 -> 02:58.000]  Tell the Emperor, did you, that other younglings were picking on you, hmm?
[02:59.000 -> 03:02.000]  They call me Pepperoni Face.
[03:03.000 -> 03:05.000]  To be fair, ugly you are.
[03:05.000 -> 03:07.000]  Accept this, you must.
[03:07.000 -> 03:09.000]  Why are you so mean?
[03:09.000 -> 03:11.000]  Such a dick, you are.
[03:11.000 -> 03:13.000]  Put you in your place, I must.
[03:13.000 -> 03:16.000]  All I wanted was some emotional support.
[03:16.000 -> 03:19.000]  Fine, you big baby. Tell me what happened.
[03:30.880 -> 03:38.520]  The day started off like any other. I had just finished my history exam and then went to my lightsaber defense class.
[03:38.520 -> 03:40.900]  And this is where Pepperoni faced?
[03:40.900 -> 03:41.900]  They called you?
[03:41.900 -> 03:48.480]  Would you let me tell Orro, oh my god what happened to your face mid
[03:48.480 -> 03:56.160]  journey what happened yours please continue I have just turned on my
[03:56.160 -> 04:05.000]  lightsaber when well they all started laughing at me because mine was smaller.
[04:05.000 -> 04:07.000]  Oh, you're what was smaller?
[04:07.000 -> 04:09.000]  Would you grew up?
[04:09.000 -> 04:11.000]  No.
[04:11.000 -> 04:14.000]  I erupted with rage.
[04:14.000 -> 04:18.000]  I got so angry that I ripped off one of their legs.
[04:18.000 -> 04:21.000]  Good God, what is wrong with you?
[04:21.000 -> 04:27.000]  Then, out of nowhere, one of them threw a ball at my head.
[04:27.000 -> 04:29.000]  My helmet was knocked off.
[04:29.000 -> 04:32.000]  And reveal your pepperoni face was.
[04:32.000 -> 04:38.000]  Yes, I was ashamed dead. I was humiliated.
[04:38.000 -> 04:59.000]  I ran and ran, as far away as I could.
[05:02.500 -> 05:04.500]  Well, have you considered getting plastic surgery? You really are an ass.
[05:04.500 -> 05:06.280]  I try my best
[05:06.280 -> 05:11.060]  hello patrons holy crap what nice weather we're having what can I get you
[05:11.060 -> 05:17.240]  to today a pepperoni pizza I will take and make sure you bring it from the kids
[05:17.240 -> 05:22.360]  menu one kids menu pepperoni pizza coming right up and also bring him a
[05:22.360 -> 05:28.240]  high chair you got it I'm so going to kick your ass i just
[05:28.240 -> 05:33.760]  wanted you to have the best seat in the house just get on with your boring story
[05:37.920 -> 05:44.880]  i managed to get away from them i was angry i wanted revenge
[05:50.400 -> 05:57.680]  them. I was angry. I wanted revenge. I hid around every corner I could find and ducked into every empty room that I saw. And then I finally made it to the lavatory and hid
[05:57.680 -> 05:58.680]  in a stall.
[05:58.680 -> 06:02.160]  Hmm, so you could relieve the dark side.
[06:02.160 -> 06:05.000]  At least I don't fall in when sitting on the potty.
[06:06.000 -> 06:08.000]  I told you to never bring that up again.
[06:10.000 -> 06:13.000]  It was there that I plotted my revenge.
[06:14.000 -> 06:16.000]  I knew what I had to do.
[06:17.000 -> 06:20.000]  My next class was against starfighter tactics.
[06:21.000 -> 06:24.000]  So I made my way to the Anger Bay
[06:24.000 -> 06:30.000]  and modified all the fighter guns to show paint instead of lasers.
[06:30.000 -> 06:34.000]  A Sith Lord, you are, and this the best idea you have.
[06:34.000 -> 06:38.000]  I climbed into my fighter and launched with the fleet.
[06:39.000 -> 06:41.000]  The battle began.
[06:41.000 -> 06:47.000]  A bridge of paint burst forth, covering every ship in the fleet.
[06:47.000 -> 06:50.000]  A master of finger painting you are.
[06:50.000 -> 06:56.000]  Paint was smeared across windows, making it impossible to see.
[06:56.000 -> 07:12.500]  My lesson in humility, for those who dared to mock me, was complete.
[07:17.000 -> 07:17.500]  With devious plans like these, no surprise. Losing the war you are.
[07:23.000 -> 07:23.500]  Well, a quarter of the fleet crashed and died on re-entry because they couldn't see.
[07:25.360 -> 07:29.120]  The Emperor must be so proud. Here you go, one very tiny kid's pepperoni pizza as ordered.
[07:29.120 -> 07:32.320]  Oh man, look how small it is.
[07:32.320 -> 07:35.920]  Is that what you said when you saw yourself naked in the mirror this morning?
[07:35.920 -> 07:37.600]  And here is your high chair.
[07:37.600 -> 07:45.000]  Oh god damn it. If I gotta do it, I'ma do the most Who's that paid to see a show? Got the south overflow, yeah
[07:45.000 -> 07:47.000]  If I gotta do it, I'ma do the most
[07:47.000 -> 07:48.500]  Watching me, they take notes
[07:48.500 -> 07:51.000]  Razors close to the goat, yeah
[07:51.000 -> 07:52.500]  Bobby D, Jippin' and Sandy
[07:52.500 -> 07:54.000]  Part of my nose without fancy
[07:54.000 -> 07:55.000]  Money on me, I got plenty
[07:55.000 -> 07:56.500]  Punished, diddies and twins
[07:56.500 -> 07:58.000]  Stay fat, like a lot of them
[07:58.000 -> 07:59.000]  Rack, rack, house, but a lake
[07:59.000 -> 08:01.000]  Bought that, I was the brakes, floor back
[08:01.000 -> 08:02.500]  Pedic on my wrist, I'ma hit em with a drip drip
[08:02.500 -> 08:04.000]  They gon' pay the VIP to get a pic with me
[08:04.000 -> 08:25.000]  I'm star, brand new keys to cars In the box, and they came down the bar Got me so high, so addicted Welcome back everybody.
[08:25.000 -> 08:28.000]  Thank you so much for taking time to watch that video.
[08:28.000 -> 08:31.900]  I really hope that you enjoyed watching it as much as I did creating it.
[08:31.900 -> 08:36.180]  It was an absolute blast opening up the editing software every single day and trying to bring
[08:36.180 -> 08:37.560]  that story to life.
[08:37.560 -> 08:41.600]  For this video, we actually dove into two primary generative AI technologies.
[08:41.600 -> 08:46.960]  The first one being Mid Journey, which I'm pretty sure most of you are familiar with at this point, and Fake You,
[08:46.960 -> 08:52.800]  which generated all of the voices that you heard for Yoda, Darth Vader, and the droid. I'm fairly certain in the video
[08:52.800 -> 08:58.840]  you noticed a lot of inconsistencies and derpiness with the images and dialogue, but honestly that was part of the fun.
[08:58.840 -> 09:00.960]  I didn't want this video to be flawless.
[09:00.960 -> 09:03.200]  I actually wanted it to be a little screwed up,
[09:03.200 -> 09:08.440]  and I knew it was going to look that way going in and I think it actually made the video even better. But
[09:08.440 -> 09:12.200]  there were lots of times that I had to go back and forth pretty heavily with Mid Journey
[09:12.200 -> 09:16.280]  to get the images that I wanted. At the start of the video, it didn't take a whole lot
[09:16.280 -> 09:20.840]  of effort for me to get Yoda to appear in a diner or to have Darth Vader walking through
[09:20.840 -> 09:28.340]  it. But as the story went on and we started adding more plot devices such as the pizza or it raining outside while sitting in the diner, it
[09:28.340 -> 09:33.160]  became increasingly difficult to get the images to produce correctly. Sometimes
[09:33.160 -> 09:36.800]  when I was trying to get the rain to appear outside the window for instance,
[09:36.800 -> 09:40.760]  it would appear inside the diner and you probably noticed that watching the video.
[09:40.760 -> 09:44.480]  The one technology that I did use that was new to me this time around was
[09:44.480 -> 09:48.360]  called FakeU and it's what generated all the voices that you heard. FakeU is an
[09:48.360 -> 09:53.960]  online service that allows users to train voices from raw footage or sound clips and
[09:53.960 -> 09:59.160]  upload them for other people to use. And as a customer, you can log into FakeU, use these
[09:59.160 -> 10:03.120]  voices and actually rate them on how good you think they are. Yoda's voice was actually
[10:03.120 -> 10:07.920]  pretty good. I didn't have to do a whole lot of work to get the exact sentence that I wanted
[10:07.920 -> 10:12.080]  from it. Darth Vader, though, however, proved to be a bit more challenging.
[10:12.080 -> 10:15.900]  While Fake You produced most of the sentences that I wanted correctly, there
[10:15.900 -> 10:19.000]  were a few words that became increasingly challenging for Darth Vader
[10:19.000 -> 10:23.200]  to say, especially when it came to words that were past tense. A lot of times I
[10:23.200 -> 10:26.220]  actually had to spell out the word phonetically instead of the proper
[10:26.220 -> 10:29.060]  way it was spelled just to get it to sound right.
[10:29.060 -> 10:33.260]  So if you heard Darth Vader talking a little weird during the conversation, that's probably
[10:33.260 -> 10:34.260]  why.
[10:34.260 -> 10:35.860]  I was ashamed, Dan.
[10:35.860 -> 10:37.940]  I was humiliated.
[10:37.940 -> 10:42.100]  One of the other major reasons that I wanted to do this project was to expand on my own
[10:42.100 -> 10:43.100]  skills.
[10:43.100 -> 10:49.920]  I wanted to be able to write scripts better, see how well I could make video editing software work for me, and improve on my sound design.
[10:49.920 -> 10:54.960]  The vast majority of the script was written by me, maybe with a few tweaks from ChatGPT to help
[10:54.960 -> 11:00.000]  write things with the way Yoda would say something or to come up with a joke, but the rest of it was
[11:00.000 -> 11:09.320]  all me. I used Artlist.io, which I have a subscription for, that allows me to use Royalty Free Music and Sounds, and that's where all the music came from, and the raindrops,
[11:09.320 -> 11:12.920]  and the kids laughing, and some of the other battling effects that you heard.
[11:12.920 -> 11:17.020]  Thank you so much for watching this video. It was a super blast to make. Make sure you
[11:17.020 -> 11:20.220]  check the description so you can find the links to all the different technologies that
[11:20.220 -> 11:23.560]  I used. Please make sure that you leave a comment and tell me what you thought of this
[11:23.560 -> 11:28.000]  video, and if you have ideas for future Delete at Scenes episodes and the characters I should use,
[11:28.000 -> 11:32.400]  then let me know that as well. Make sure that you subscribe and turn on those notifications,
[11:32.400 -> 11:38.400]  as well as follow us on Twitter at TackyThings. Also, I highly encourage you to take a moment and
[11:38.400 -> 11:52.160]  check out these technologies for yourself and seeing what you can create with them. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.