Since Double Exposure got revealed, I've had Max's diary on my mind a lot lately. I'm gonna spend some time screencapping & formatting the pages from the LIS1 Remaster and pretty much overhaul everything, eventually.
Wait a freaking minute...... you made this at first I thought it was something that came with the game like a limited edition version of the game or something this is freaking incredible that you made this by hand I'm a prop maker myself and I am completely fucking Blown Away you did amazingly props to you I tip my hat to you you just earned a new subscriber
I'm planning on it! I also just ordered the Vinyl Edition today, and if the artbook that comes with it is a mini replica of Chloe's in-game diary, it'll help get the references for the front & back cover (since the only in-game screenshot is hard to make out in detail besides the Hawt Dawg Man sticker). But with my final year of college starting, I'm rather busy so I haven't formatted/edited the pages of Chloe's diary and letters yet.
OMG I am crying right now cause life is strange is my favorite game of all time and I really adore max's diary/jourmal and I am thinking to make one myself like a DIY one so yeah I came up to search "DIY life is strange max's journal" here on youtube and then I click this video and the first 5 seconds of this video I am about to cry.... (you dont probably care at all but yeah I love this so much thank you for making this and making me tear up hehe) but yeah this a really long and cheesy comment but I mean it)
I can't believe!!! It's awesome!!! I'm crying!!! I want that Max Caulfield's diary in-game replica and love picture of a blue butterfly!!! I love it and I'm a huge fan of Life is Strange!! XD
Pretty much spot on, actually. A lot of companies are rather strict with their copyrights. Whereas some don't really mind when it's a "made to order" piece. Some, don't like it at all such as Bethesda from past articles I've read. For now, I'm holding off on selling any, but I'll gladly provide the documents free of charge for someone to print it themselves.
For the text block, the pages (put into signatures) were kettle stitched together and secured with acid-free adhesive. The hardcover is made from chipboard (I got mine from hobby lobby) and was covered with black canvas paper using spray on adhesive. Once the text block spine was good and dry, cardstock front and back pages (that were kettle stitched to the text block beforehand) was adhered to the hardcover, and kept inside a book press until everything was fully dried. The book press is to prevent the glue from bowing the hardcover. I watched some of SeaLemon's videos here on TH-cam as my guide for the kettle stitching, and assembly. th-cam.com/video/9O4kFTOEh6k/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Av_rU-yOPd4/w-d-xo.html
O..M..G!!!!!!!!!!! I like soo much!!!! It's very amazing!! Congrats!!!! I want it!!!!!!!!! I'm also a fan of life is strange and I'm also doing my own collection as there is not much merchandising of this amazing game, I really love it💖💖
I've been thinking about doing some upgrading & editing to the Max diary files, actually. Gonna add in some pages like the characters page and some other things I left out first time around. Chloe's journal is still on my to do list. Just need to do a new playthrough since I traded in my PS4 towards a PS4 Pro, and haven't redownloaded it on steam yet. And I might try and do a tutorial video rather than just a show & tell. ^^
I made it. ^^ I've got a working Sun 600 Polaroid Instant camera, and I ordered the film from Impossible Project, made the butterfly out of paper, and set things up with a metal bucket and tiled floor, and took some shots with legit 600 film. It took a lot of trial and error with the lights (Max was right, film is expensive as hell!). At $22 dollars for just 8 shots per cartridge. I kept the best one for my collection, but gave the rest away at anime/cosplay conventions!
With the remaster being a thing, I've been wanting to revise & improve the print files. Especially since I've gotten more adept at photoshop n stuff lol
The second you brought it into the frame I almost ----ed my pants! It's like seeing Adam Savage exhibiting his Blade Runner Blaster replica... Then I realised THIS I CAN DO! Thank you so much for ALL the info. I may well try to make one myself later.
Adam Savage has been my hero for so many years! Ironically, Deckard's blaster is on my future lists of props to build (though I'm not as hellbent on perfection as Adam lol).
I would like to have the link. I know it takes you much time to finish it, and finishing Max's dairy is not an easy work. It's very kind of you. Thank you very much!
And two another questions: 1. What did you used for the hardcover? It's only a black paper on board or something else? 2. How did you make this pages? In game they are covered by interface and other things (at example - nightmare page In your diary is bigger than page In game). You edited it?
Absolutely! I went by Sea Lemon's tutorials on learning out to kettle stitch, make the text block, and hard cover. Stitching & Text block: th-cam.com/video/9O4kFTOEh6k/w-d-xo.html Hard cover: th-cam.com/video/Av_rU-yOPd4/w-d-xo.html The hard cover I made is made of chipboard & black canvas-like paper. I picked up both at Hobby Lobby, so any art supply or office store should have everything. As for the pages, I screencapped them, edited & photoshopped each page to get rid of the navigation/interface at the top. Cropped & moved things inward such as paragraphs and some images so they wouldn't be so close to the margins. I took some liberties in editing the Nightmare page so it would fit, redrew a couple places in photoshop, and slightly compressed it to fit into my template. Then arranged them into eight signatures of 5 pages each (printed on front and back) so they will be in the right order when printed. I got them laser printed onto regular paper since that's what I could afford at the time.
Thanks for answer. Your screenshots was in 1920x1080 resoluton? I want to make my own copy but with my choices and in Polish language but I have only PC and I want the best quality on my screenshots.
So sorry for the late reply! When it comes to resizing, 300dpi scales things up size wise, but the print quality will be better. And yes, the screenshots were 1920 x 1080, but give the dimensions it would looks more square when bound into a book just using those dimensions, so I had to edit/scale it to be more similar to a composition notebook (and more accurate to the game). Getting the right pages to be organized into the signatures gets a little confusing, but a quick paper mock up and writing (Page 1 left/Page 5 right) helped me, personally.
hi! planning to make this for a friends birthday. i was wondering how and where you got the decals of the cover of max’s journal? (The stickers, the nametag, etc..)
They were scans of the concept art book, sized & printed on sticker paper. I can include a link in the description on my bio to the google drive for the current zip files, if youtube even allows me to put links. I had it taken down for a while, but I've got it back up.
I can upload all of the images & files onto Dropbox or something so you can try printing them out! I'm a little hesitant on doing this as a commission since the print shop people kinda hate me now. >
I would like to get your files, but it must have been a lot of work to do, so I would understand if you think I don't deserve it ! ^^ That would be so nice of you though :p
Sure thing! I have them uploaded to Dropbox now. Now if I can figure out how to message things on TH-cam, I totally would. (this place sure has changed over the years lol)
I screencapped all the pages (on my PS4 since it has higher resolution than my Steam copy), formatted & edited all the pages into proper spreads and grouped them into 8 signatures of 5 pages each. Bound them together into a text block, then finally made the hardcover. It's bit of a process binding a book from scratch, but there's plenty of tutorials floating around that I used as my guides.
Hi, I'm from Brazil, and I would really love to try to make one, could you please send me your files or teach me how you edited the photos on the photoshop, I tried but I don't know how to use it
I'm planning to. I had ordered the vinyl edition, but for some reason there's a fuck up on my order from the SE store and my order is in limbo right now, so it may be a while..
What conventions do you go to, to give these to cosplayers? The ones that I usually go to are mostly C2E2 and Anime Midwest, which are in Chicago. I wish I knew how to make this on my own (you should make a tutorial video). What can I do to get a copy of Max's diary from you?
I'm limited to southeastern conventions due to monetary and crappy vehicle reasons, unfortunately. I do plan on going to MomoCon and AWA this year though! I'm giving out replica butterfly photos though since I'm crafting my own instead of using Polaroid 600 film (because that stuff if expensive!). But SeaLemon here on TH-cam is who I watched to learn bookbinding. The formatting of the pages, I had to figure out on my own, but everything in the link in the description is already formatted. Unfortunately, I'm not taking on commissions for any diaries since I'm busy with a full (Overwatch) cosplay and college endeavors. Sorry.
Yep! I'm planning on it! Just waiting for Episodes 2 & 3 to come out. I haven't gotten around to editing the pages in the game from Episode 1 yet due to the semester starting last week, being busy with schoolwork and all. But Chloe's diary is in a spiral notebook, so I'm looking around into making my own spiral notebook in the meantime.
Where did you find the cover pictures or stickers? Im planning on making my own journal but i want to use Max's journal cover but i can not find them myself. Did you make them yourself or bought them?
It's roughly 7.5" wide and 10" in height (or 19cm x 25cm) it's been a long time since I checked the dimensions but it's about in that range. I based it off of a basic composition notebook if that helps give a sense of scale.
Both my first and second (the one in the video) are printed on regular copy paper since it was in my budget. Ideally, I wanted to print on a thicker paper like Mohawk but it would have costed upwards over $100 dollars, so that was out of the question. Places like OfficeMax and Staples are decent, but I live close to a local print shop in my town and they were much more patient with me than Staples.
daaaamn I would pay hella cash for this
Callie-Rose King Amazon 30£
Bailey621 JSRF if you buy the limited edition pack it comes with a CD with the full game soundtrack
hella? who says that
@@vixqwrt it's a cali thing
@@bailey850 link me if it's available
Since Double Exposure got revealed, I've had Max's diary on my mind a lot lately. I'm gonna spend some time screencapping & formatting the pages from the LIS1 Remaster and pretty much overhaul everything, eventually.
Wait a freaking minute...... you made this at first I thought it was something that came with the game like a limited edition version of the game or something this is freaking incredible that you made this by hand I'm a prop maker myself and I am completely fucking Blown Away you did amazingly props to you I tip my hat to you you just earned a new subscriber
I would pay for it lol
Beyoncé MasterClass same
Me, too!
Same here
the music hits so many feels sniff*
this is incredible
Hello. I am a Japanese and like "Life is strange". It's a pretty good work. I am very glad that these things were seen. Great!
Do you think you'd be able to do a replica of Chloe's diary too? You're the only one I've seen that's done a replica of the character's journals!
I'm planning on it! I also just ordered the Vinyl Edition today, and if the artbook that comes with it is a mini replica of Chloe's in-game diary, it'll help get the references for the front & back cover (since the only in-game screenshot is hard to make out in detail besides the Hawt Dawg Man sticker). But with my final year of college starting, I'm rather busy so I haven't formatted/edited the pages of Chloe's diary and letters yet.
OMG I am crying right now cause life is strange is my favorite game of all time and I really adore max's diary/jourmal and I am thinking to make one myself like a DIY one so yeah I came up to search "DIY life is strange max's journal" here on youtube and then I click this video and the first 5 seconds of this video I am about to cry....
(you dont probably care at all but yeah I love this so much thank you for making this and making me tear up hehe)
but yeah this a really long and cheesy comment but I mean it)
We care!
This made me cry for some reason i still can’t get over it but i’m excited for ep3 LISBTS
4:11 WOAH!!!
OH MY GOD, I really want one of this now
this is one wonderful story that max wrote!
Your effort deserves more praise than you are receiving
No freaking way! This looks amazing! Great Job!
I really love Page 24 at 1:41 my Pricefield heart!
I can't believe!!! It's awesome!!! I'm crying!!! I want that Max Caulfield's diary in-game replica and love picture of a blue butterfly!!! I love it and I'm a huge fan of Life is Strange!! XD
2:08 that drawing of Kate on the roof is so haunting and beautiful
Would you at all be willing to make another one to sell? I'm sure you could get quite a few buyers. Me included.
Make one yourself..?
They probably cant sell them cuz it's not their own original work. They would be making money off of something that technically doesnt belong to them.
Pretty much spot on, actually. A lot of companies are rather strict with their copyrights. Whereas some don't really mind when it's a "made to order" piece. Some, don't like it at all such as Bethesda from past articles I've read. For now, I'm holding off on selling any, but I'll gladly provide the documents free of charge for someone to print it themselves.
Hi I really want to make this. What did you use for the actual book it self? Like to hold all the pages together?
For the text block, the pages (put into signatures) were kettle stitched together and secured with acid-free adhesive. The hardcover is made from chipboard (I got mine from hobby lobby) and was covered with black canvas paper using spray on adhesive. Once the text block spine was good and dry, cardstock front and back pages (that were kettle stitched to the text block beforehand) was adhered to the hardcover, and kept inside a book press until everything was fully dried. The book press is to prevent the glue from bowing the hardcover.
I watched some of SeaLemon's videos here on TH-cam as my guide for the kettle stitching, and assembly.
th-cam.com/video/9O4kFTOEh6k/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Av_rU-yOPd4/w-d-xo.html
Discovered your channel now from your Grimoire Weiss replica. These replicas are just so well made.
This is brilliant, I want one! And I bet loads of other fans would too. You've gone to a lot of effort to get it just right, very well done..
Very nice, thanks again for your hard work.
this is amazing you inspired me to make one for my own I love this game so much
absolutely incredible. i love this so much
This looks hella good. 😍 This is game series is very near and dear to my heart, and that looks stellar.
omg :(( I came here so lateeee, it was out of stock long ago :((( btw, great work!!!
O..M..G!!!!!!!!!!! I like soo much!!!! It's very amazing!! Congrats!!!! I want it!!!!!!!!! I'm also a fan of life is strange and I'm also doing my own collection as there is not much merchandising of this amazing game, I really love it💖💖
this is really cool, wish i could create something like this :-) good stuff!
Can you make a tutorial? I really want to have this 😍 I would be so glad if u show me how to do it.
"How to buy it"
You could just print it out and stick it in a journal with mod podge. It appears to be what is done here, but its still really cool
I want this so bad :(
I just see this video.. Thank you so much for making this and also giving link to Max diary page. I hope you will make chloe diary in the future ♡♡♡
I've been thinking about doing some upgrading & editing to the Max diary files, actually. Gonna add in some pages like the characters page and some other things I left out first time around.
Chloe's journal is still on my to do list. Just need to do a new playthrough since I traded in my PS4 towards a PS4 Pro, and haven't redownloaded it on steam yet. And I might try and do a tutorial video rather than just a show & tell.
^^
I see, goodluck and have fun with Max Diary!! I definitely will wait for the update owo)9
Also don't forget to rest and stay hydrated ヾ(＾-＾)ノ
thank u so much mate, totally doing it now, btw super wowser!
That's so cool man.
Amazing reproduction
Great job! looks amazing
Wowser, you brought Max's diary to life.
Wow It's great that I want a book like that
This is amazing. I love it
Great job !!
This is so cool. I like like is strange one and two
Where did you get the butterfly photo? 😭💕💕💕
I made it. ^^
I've got a working Sun 600 Polaroid Instant camera, and I ordered the film from Impossible Project, made the butterfly out of paper, and set things up with a metal bucket and tiled floor, and took some shots with legit 600 film. It took a lot of trial and error with the lights (Max was right, film is expensive as hell!). At $22 dollars for just 8 shots per cartridge. I kept the best one for my collection, but gave the rest away at anime/cosplay conventions!
thats amazing yo
Amazing work ! I love it !
At what time ?
@@aldantler wow.
this is excellent! thank you so much!
La verdad me encantan las ilustraciones ❤️😘
Onde você comprou? Tem versão em português? 🥺
AAAAAAAA EU QUERO UM EM PT BR
So well done! You need to make a tutorial on how to make it!
Thank you
This is hella cool
I would DIE for one of these
With the remaster being a thing, I've been wanting to revise & improve the print files. Especially since I've gotten more adept at photoshop n stuff lol
Fantastic
Well done
Wow! This looks awesome! I thought the Limited Edition of the game was gonna come with the diary :(
AMAZING
The second you brought it into the frame I almost ----ed my pants! It's like seeing Adam Savage exhibiting his Blade Runner Blaster replica... Then I realised THIS I CAN DO!
Thank you so much for ALL the info. I may well try to make one myself later.
Adam Savage has been my hero for so many years!
Ironically, Deckard's blaster is on my future lists of props to build (though I'm not as hellbent on perfection as Adam lol).
That's awesome to know! Good luck with your future projects! ^ ^
woah awesome
Bro my school diary I just used to plot down due dates and what subjects we had on those days
God this game really changed my life. Sounds ridiculous but true
wowser, this is hella cool.
Amazing
it's pretty cool!!!!! i want to make it by myself, too
I've got the files uploaded to Dropbox now. I'm not sure if/how private messaging works on TH-cam now, but I can send you the link if you want.
I would like to have the link. I know it takes you much time to finish it, and finishing Max's dairy is not an easy work. It's very kind of you. Thank you very much!
Finally got it uploaded to Google Drive. link is up in the description.
@@aldantler do you still have the files?
Thats freakin' awesome... I just want to try my luck with the Chloe diary, would love to see how you try to get things done... ;-)
dang I wish I had this
i neeeeed this
3:40 i just knew it.....he's a maniac!!
I need this
Потрясающе 🥺🥺
How much money did you spend on this project ? (Google Translate)
It's on Amazon search life is strange merchandise
Oh man, are you cereal? ♥
Were can I buy them? 💕💕🙏🙏
i want it :c
How exactly did you bound everything together and how did You made the hardcover. Can you send me the links to the tutorials you used?
And two another questions:
1. What did you used for the hardcover? It's only a black paper on board or something else?
2. How did you make this pages? In game they are covered by interface and other things (at example - nightmare page In your diary is bigger than page In game). You edited it?
Absolutely!
I went by Sea Lemon's tutorials on learning out to kettle stitch, make the text block, and hard cover.
Stitching & Text block: th-cam.com/video/9O4kFTOEh6k/w-d-xo.html
Hard cover: th-cam.com/video/Av_rU-yOPd4/w-d-xo.html
The hard cover I made is made of chipboard & black canvas-like paper. I picked up both at Hobby Lobby, so any art supply or office store should have everything.
As for the pages, I screencapped them, edited & photoshopped each page to get rid of the navigation/interface at the top. Cropped & moved things inward such as paragraphs and some images so they wouldn't be so close to the margins. I took some liberties in editing the Nightmare page so it would fit, redrew a couple places in photoshop, and slightly compressed it to fit into my template. Then arranged them into eight signatures of 5 pages each (printed on front and back) so they will be in the right order when printed. I got them laser printed onto regular paper since that's what I could afford at the time.
Thanks for answer. Your screenshots was in 1920x1080 resoluton? I want to make my own copy but with my choices and in Polish language but I have only PC and I want the best quality on my screenshots.
I only want to know how you get 4950x2925 resolution. And how big paper you used? (8.5x11"?)
So sorry for the late reply!
When it comes to resizing, 300dpi scales things up size wise, but the print quality will be better. And yes, the screenshots were 1920 x 1080, but give the dimensions it would looks more square when bound into a book just using those dimensions, so I had to edit/scale it to be more similar to a composition notebook (and more accurate to the game). Getting the right pages to be organized into the signatures gets a little confusing, but a quick paper mock up and writing (Page 1 left/Page 5 right) helped me, personally.
I felt like u r max, with that music 💔
Oh shit that's hella* cool
Please make tutorial How To Make Max's diary :( PLEASEE
What are the materials needed to make that? I really wanna do it
I have to buy a diary.
hi! planning to make this for a friends birthday. i was wondering how and where you got the decals of the cover of max’s journal? (The stickers, the nametag, etc..)
They were scans of the concept art book, sized & printed on sticker paper. I can include a link in the description on my bio to the google drive for the current zip files, if youtube even allows me to put links.
I had it taken down for a while, but I've got it back up.
@@aldantlerplease please please 🥹
Share the Drive, please
I want it :^(
i really want to have them
I can upload all of the images & files onto Dropbox or something so you can try printing them out! I'm a little hesitant on doing this as a commission since the print shop people kinda hate me now.
>
I would like to get your files, but it must have been a lot of work to do, so I would understand if you think I don't deserve it ! ^^
That would be so nice of you though :p
Sure thing! I have them uploaded to Dropbox now.
Now if I can figure out how to message things on TH-cam, I totally would.
(this place sure has changed over the years lol)
or maybe can you upload to google drive?
But anyway i'm really appreciate your kind
Finally got it uploaded to Google Drive. link is up in the description.
This is awesome! How did you make this?
I screencapped all the pages (on my PS4 since it has higher resolution than my Steam copy), formatted & edited all the pages into proper spreads and grouped them into 8 signatures of 5 pages each. Bound them together into a text block, then finally made the hardcover. It's bit of a process binding a book from scratch, but there's plenty of tutorials floating around that I used as my guides.
I buy it. Please sell it, make more replicas please
Hi, I'm from Brazil, and I would really love to try to make one, could you please send me your files or teach me how you edited the photos on the photoshop, I tried but I don't know how to use it
are you going to make chloe's book too? from life is strange before the storm?????
I'm planning to. I had ordered the vinyl edition, but for some reason there's a fuck up on my order from the SE store and my order is in limbo right now, so it may be a while..
u didn't play BTS?
Im jealous
What conventions do you go to, to give these to cosplayers? The ones that I usually go to are mostly C2E2 and Anime Midwest, which are in Chicago. I wish I knew how to make this on my own (you should make a tutorial video). What can I do to get a copy of Max's diary from you?
I'm limited to southeastern conventions due to monetary and crappy vehicle reasons, unfortunately. I do plan on going to MomoCon and AWA this year though! I'm giving out replica butterfly photos though since I'm crafting my own instead of using Polaroid 600 film (because that stuff if expensive!). But SeaLemon here on TH-cam is who I watched to learn bookbinding. The formatting of the pages, I had to figure out on my own, but everything in the link in the description is already formatted. Unfortunately, I'm not taking on commissions for any diaries since I'm busy with a full (Overwatch) cosplay and college endeavors. Sorry.
the big book (the in-game one) is it for the public to buy?
PLESSE PLEASE PLEASE WHERE CAN I BUY THIS????
Hey can you let me know the dimensions of the page in the second book ?
Sure thing!
16.5" wide and 9.75" tall.
(or 41.91cm by 24.77cm)
Printed at 300dpi.
@@aldantler Thank you soo much. Amazing video
can you provide documents for this?
Will you do the same for before the storm ?
Yep! I'm planning on it! Just waiting for Episodes 2 & 3 to come out. I haven't gotten around to editing the pages in the game from Episode 1 yet due to the semester starting last week, being busy with schoolwork and all. But Chloe's diary is in a spiral notebook, so I'm looking around into making my own spiral notebook in the meantime.
Aldantler Props Great. It would be nice if you make a video to show it when it's finished
Aldantler did you finish it? Or you are still working on it?
Where did you find the cover pictures or stickers? Im planning on making my own journal but i want to use Max's journal cover but i can not find them myself. Did you make them yourself or bought them?
omg where do i buy this!!!!!!! pls pls tell me
where can i buy this
I have a diary too but mine sucks ;_; I guess Max has a gift, she has stickers for all opportunities ;_;🙇
Could you make a copy to me? price?
Where can I buy that?
whats the size of that?
It's roughly 7.5" wide and 10" in height (or 19cm x 25cm) it's been a long time since I checked the dimensions but it's about in that range. I based it off of a basic composition notebook if that helps give a sense of scale.
@@aldantler thank you!! its so nice by the way
Where did u get the in game replica from
I made it.
With the remasters coming in 2022, I want to make a new/updated one with more pages and adjustments.
WHERE DO I BUY IT!!!!!!!!
How did you get the book printed on that kind of paper? Is there a site I can use?
Both my first and second (the one in the video) are printed on regular copy paper since it was in my budget. Ideally, I wanted to print on a thicker paper like Mohawk but it would have costed upwards over $100 dollars, so that was out of the question. Places like OfficeMax and Staples are decent, but I live close to a local print shop in my town and they were much more patient with me than Staples.