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Captain Disillusion tries to adjust to the market.

This was a trailer for the DVD premiere at TAM9 in Las Vegas.

A detailed look at one of the visual effects in the previous episode.

A video a month! Plus, I've joined Patreon and I hope you'll support me in exchange for fun bonus content.

A meta video about the previous video.

A compilation of endings from each episode of Captain Disillusion (not counting "Quick D") published in 2015. The year went by so fast! Thanks to everyone who watches, subscribes and supports my work.

Thank you.

Self-proclaimed superhero Captain Disillusion reveals his cutting-edge techniques for analyzing viral video hoaxes and explaining them to viewers with tragically short attention spans. What visual effects tricks are commonly used by fakers? How can I make my own skeptical YouTube videos a little less terrible? Answers to these questions and more in the Captain’s award-pending talk.

...To illustrate some VFX techniques.

Bloopers and outtakes from my episode with the one... the only... the Beakman.

Captain Disillusion creator Alan Melikdjanian frantically lectures a skeptical audience on how to never make any mistakes as a YouTuber.

This video was originally a reward for my supporters on Patreon.

Recorded at De Balie in Amsterdam on October 25th, 2018. In this format-bending presentation, intergalactic VFX explainer Captain Disillusion recounts his journey from humble amateur superhero to best Blender artist of all time*. It's a case study in using Blender as a versatile production tool in a comedy web series and a love letter to the Blender community. At the very least, it's an entertaining way to spend the better part of an hour. *Allegedly.

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I'm stoked to be a guest on Vsauce3's 'Could You Survive the Movies'! But my raw power, skills and charisma proved too much for one episode and my segment was slightly edited down. So here is the full, uncensored Director's Cut version. Enjoy!

Filming the Pantry Ghost episode at the Isaac Asimov Library in the former quarters of the JREF in 2009.

A brief but thorough analysis of viewer comments on Captain Disillusion's most recent Shorts. By Alan. The intern. (Unpaid)

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