Marques Brownlee: “I shrunk down into an M5 chip” – Produced in Blender

Marques Brownlee and Epic Spaceman collaborated on a super interesting video that gives you a real sense of the scale and complexity of modern CPUs.

Marques has a huge YouTube Channel where he typically reviews new devices, cars and other technology. This video is a bit atypical for him – not only is it more scientific, but it’s also entirely produced in Blender! This production is a collaboration with Epic Spaceman who has already created a bunch of, well, Epic videos about space and the universe.  If you want to learn more about Epic Spaceman (or Toby), check out this interview.

I found this video super interesting to watch – especially once I knew it was made in Blender so I started thinking about how it was done. You can see a fair bit of 3D scanning/photogrammetry artefacts, but for me that only added to the ‘super tiny’ sense of these videos. In one scene Marques was walking around in marble-sized ‘atoms’, while surrounding objects were super crisp and neat – that actually broke the illusion a bit. In addition, there’s a fair bit of motion capture going on, which nicely conserved Marques’ usual communication style with lots of hand gestures. All in all, I found this a super neat production, well worth watching. Enjoy!

I shrunk down into an M5 chip – Marques Brownlee

I flew inside my phone – Epic Spaceman

This is the twin video of the one above, continuing to explore the insane complexity of CPUs.