#DoomeyTunes - Afterwords.

 

 

#DoomeyTunes
Music | Louie Fibonacci (Sobrem) feat. ricono
Movie | Louie's friend (Sobrem)

 

 

( ※ 한국말로 쓴 버전은 여기입니다. )

 

Yeah, I was in the π/26 (aka mathematicians team) with Lidelle and BilliumMoto.

Did you have fun? Well, thank god if you did.

 

I've never really written down such things like afterwords before.

But since I had so much fun with this - both when I was making this, and during the event - I’m gonna do so before I forget everything.

 

Songwriting

 

Originally, the team concept was not related to math, but rather an orchestra crossover alias team or something.

But after Lidelle's song came out with lots of time signature changes, things suddenly changed.

I've always wanted to make a PTSB-style picopop. So this is the very cool first demo.

 

 

My teammates were like “Dude this 100% needs an anime vocal, let’s bring Nanahira or moimoi lmao”

So I decided to add vocals to the song someday, maybe AI Kiritan, that was the original plan.

 

 

After that, due to personal reasons, I temporarily had to stop working on the song, till September.

When the song was halfway done, I jokingly added the seinfeld bass and explosion ending to give my teammates a good chuckle.

But I didn't have time to actually design a more proper ending, so they survived till the full 2:20-length version.

 

Ending back then. The drum loop sample is bit different from now, and I’m amazed when Billy insta-knew where it came from.

 

 

It’s time to add the vocals!

Lidelle was like “Let’s ask riishu to write the japanese lyrics and choko(who sang 竹) to sing it lmao”

So I wrote the lyrics in English (temporarily, at the time) and recorded the guide track. Here’s a part of it.

 

 

 

After that, with the help of riishu, I was able to be introduced to ricono.

ricono, who readily agreed despite her busy schedule, is already a great vocalist, singing on iidx or popn.

Since the song’s development and time sig’s are a total mess, I prepared the guides and score thoroughly.

Now THAT’s an intense rest.

 

The delivered recording is of incredibly high quality, super cool and cute, with no wrong notes or missing beats.

Especially, the English-but-not-English pronunciation brought me the PTSB feel I wanted.

I loved it so much that I hugged my pillow and rolled around for 15 minutes, and I came to my senses and completed the song.

Charting stuffs

 

I've been working on my keysounds with bmhelper for a long while.

For this I tried Mid2bms for the first time because 1)BilliumMoto's recommendation 2)to troll the guessers. But

 

Keysound counts (01-ZZ) exceeded.

Duh.

 

Mid2bms has the ability to adjust the length and position of the notes to the grid in order to reduce the number of keysounds.

Since the song splits four beats into 16 and 15 equal steps, I couldn’t nudge the start of the notes to a single grid.

So I modified the program to organize the length yet keeping the starting position. Open-source is great

 

Since I was running out of time, I completed seven SP/DP charts in one day.

I charted DPs first, threw all the notes into 1P and named them SPs, hey it works!

There are some hidden keysounds after the song ends. Not a lot of sabuns 100% kept those :pensive:

 

BGA

 

As the songmaking’s halted till September, of course I couldn't ask anyone for making BGA.

That means, I had to make it myself again aaaaa

I downloaded blender to, maybe build a 3D tunnel. But it took me 3 days to make a single donut, so I gave up.

Instead, I considered making an animatic-like stuff that goes well with those lively vocal songs.

 

Hopefully I could do half (or a quarter) of this, at best.

 

 

However, I didn't know how to draw at all, so I bought a $25 drawing tablet and started my new career in July.

Lidelle handed me a 3-year amount of tips from their illustrator friend and they helped a ton. Thank you Lidelle.

 

 

Part of tracings/imitations/lazily-following-tutorials/gesture drawings i did.

 

The main character originally had a decadent mood, with bangs covering one eye, just like Zdrada from helltaker.

 

 

Yet there were too many details to quickly clean the line art, and Billy wasn’t sure if it was a boy or a gal.

 

 

 

 

The final design. More straight lines and exaggerated proportions (i.e. super thin ankle) are used to make her more attractive - like a cartoon.

 

I had no idea on how to draw the background, so I mainly 3D-ified old artworks. (Lots of them are related to math)

Some parodies of everyone's favorite bmses are added, and things were ready to go.

 

She's on 0:39.

 

 

 

Afterwords

Sorry for lying that I didn't make anything this year. (If it mattered lol)

 

First of all, I was really happy to be suspected a lot.

Happy because it means people didn’t forget Sobrem the bms producer and his style, so that’s number one.

It also means this work somehow got serious attention in this clout competition, there goes the two.

 

This is a grim story, but I always see artists who eagerly participate under pseudonyms, get disappointing results and end up losing interest in producing bms. So tbh, I prepare myself everytime.

Yet, It's some kinda miracle that there’re people who like my works although I do all sorts of dumb things.

 

 

Also some amazing things happened in front of my eyes, like:

 

those with 15+ years of bms producing career singing “pam pakapaam~” along,

people listing all the parodies in the bga and big names tagging theirs’ position on the youtube comment,

someone captured a parody from it, set it as their pfp and getting caught by the og producer (and the song too!),

character i designed getting a fanart, team getting noticed by composer of Steven Universe,

and tons of comments including "dumb as hell" "i’m fuckt" "hentai song" “how high were ya” “every element worths” etc.

 

I remember everything. I really really appreciate all of them.

 

 

A huge thank you to ricono- for your brilliant vocal works,

rissyu- for being super helpful and supportive despite the sudden request,

and my teammates- Lidelle, BillumMoto, Harkiadel, and Yaesachi, for all the funsies we had.

 

 

 

Ok, that wraps up the whole thing.

If you have any questions like why or how did I do this or that,

let me know via comment, twit reply, peing, or anywhere you want XD 

 

 

 

Seeya!