u/Salvadoreo

I debated posting this, as I was afraid if it was too tangential for this subreddit, hah.

Found this old file from 2020, and thought it was worth sharing here, hah!
[Apologies for the bad cover-up of my old watermark at the bottom-right, I sorta rushed that job.]

I've tried a technique where I put a lens-blur on top of the unaltered element, and put a blending mode- it being "Lighter Color- to make it look glowing, but I'm not very keen with how it looks, and am wondering if there'd be another way to do it?

I was listening to Touch on repeat the other day, and it has been stuck in my head since - specifically that arpeggio that plays in the last sequence of the track - and I thought that I'd practice my mixing/sampling.

When I managed to achieve the arpeggio, I decided to do the chords, and when I managed to achieve the chords, I decided to do the bass, and when I had managed to achieve all that, I decided to turn it into something more visually stimulating, and when I had managed to do that, I decided to think about turning this into it's own fully fleshed-out thing.

[I deleted the original post, as I formatted my screenshots wrong, heh!]

[This was also made over 2 years ago; so please forgive the fact that I did not know how to re-create that impaling effect, like in the original episode back then. ;3]

This music video is dedicated to the person who has created purpose and meaning in my life - for my interests in creating, humour and, expanding my determination upon being an artistic person.

This project has taken me the better part of 700+ hours to do, and has been in production since July of 2025- on and off-, and has by far been the most challenging thing I have ever done, creative-wise - working on this for 5-12 hours a day at times, having my laptop broken and tampered with, losing a majority of the downloads and assets for this - but I do very much hope that it is enough to satisfy any of you here, alongside the man himself- hopefully.

This video has taken a lot out of me, mentally - and I have not touched this project since around February of 2026, but I do plan to finish it someday - whether that is in the next few days, or the next few months, I feel that it is appropriate to share the hard work I have done for this project as of now, even if it is in a partially unfinished state.

I hope all of you watching and reading this have a great day, and I hope that Thomas has an amazing 36th birthday alongside this!

I sort of tried to look around to see how others would do it, but it seems that my example is a bit too specific for anybody to give advice on, heh.

In all fairness though, Tom was very lovely and determined at MCM- and as he was suffering a migraine whilst we were talking, it was additionally impressive for him to commit to this idea for this photo that I've wanted to do for a very long time now.

I also managed to show him my music video that I made for him- which I've briefly mentioned in this subreddit before-, that I've spent the past 10 months on- on and off- on my laptop, and he seemed very pleased and even said that it was 'one of the craziest things someone's done for him at a convention'.

Safe to say, I'm a very satisfied fella at the moment! ^ ^

I've sorta spent the past 9 months/600+ hours working on this attributed music video for him and his work, to then show it to him at his booth at MCM May, and I've yet to see any announcement by MCM's official Instagram or Twitter regarding him coming, or not. Though it's not the end of the world if he's not attending, it would still be very nice to show him the video, in person, as it's sort of the only possibility of physically showing this to him hah.