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Exclusive Patreon First Look!  Password is "aliens".

What if there was a museum that contained every type of life form in the universe?  What strange things would we find within? This experience takes you on a tour through the possible forms alien life might take, from the eerily familiar to the utterly exotic, and from the shores of Earth to the most hostile corners of the universe. 

New research is upending our idea of life and where it could be hiding: not just on Earth-like planets, where beings could mimic what our planet has produced, but in far flung places like the hearts of dead stars and the rings of gas giant planets. Nowhere in the universe is off limits. 

Only when we know what else is out there will we truly know ourselves. This thought experiment will give us a glimpse into what could be out there, how we might find it, and just how far nature’s imagination might stretch. 

Once again, a massive heart-felt THANK YOU for supporting this creation directly!  It wouldn’t be possible without your help.  Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.  

Produced by melodysheep, aka John D. Boswell.  Narrated by Will Crowley. Additional visuals by Lynn Huberty, Tim Stupak, NASA, and Evolve. Stock footage provided by Artgrid. Featuring soundbites from: Nick Lane, Jonathan Losos, Caleb Scharf, Jack Cohen, Jill Tarter.  

Big thanks are also due to Protocol Labs for their continued support of this series: https://protocol.ai. 

Still to come: official soundtrack, unreleased music, wallpaper art, behind the scenes, and more.  Stay tuned!

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LIFE BEYOND II: The Museum of Alien Life (PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREMEIRE))

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Anonymous

Watching tonight!

Anonymous

Oh, I am...really enchanted by your fantastic talent of storytelling! THIS IS MUCH MORE THAN BRILLIANT! THIS IS JUST BEYOND! It blew my mind, and I just started...

Anonymous

УРА!!! FINALLYYY!

Anonymous

how i could use the password

Bradley Gallant

Just finished it and holy shit dude. I'm at a complete loss for words. There wasn't a single second where I wasn't in absolute awe. The narration was amazing, the music fit the feel of the video so well, and the graphics... the graphics were just... wow. I wish I could put into words how much I loved this. It was well worth the wait. Thanks for inspiring us all. Can't wait for what comes next :,)

Don Loristo

So grateful for your wonder, melodysheep. Once again, your vision brings me a child-like joy of exploring the mysteries of life and our universe. Bravo!!!

Anonymous

This is truly amazing!! You've impressed me so much I'm setting a goal to be on your $500 tier for your next video. You deserve it and more. FANTASTIC!!

Anonymous

This is simply amazing! You beat Cosmos that was my previous standard for documentary quality! Huge congratulations for that masterpiece! I'll continue supporting you with pleasure 👍

Chung Tran

Spectacular! Finally! Already upgraded to the next Tier!

Barry

Fantastic in so many ways! A massive topic to challenge the imagination. I particularly like the conclusion...so inspirational! Please, keep doing what you are doing.

Anonymous

WOW! I need to watch that again...

Anonymous

creativity level 100 not only are the visuals astonishing but you have to be soo imaginative since nothing actually exists (that we know of) to get reference from. well you lived up to the expectations which were extremely high. will wait for the music uploads on Tidal. you know it's fascinating how someone could produce top quality music with top quality visuals, with top quality concepts, there must be a sacrifice somewhere to do all that which I can't find (you can tell me the answer to that), thanks so much for that time and effort dedication. if you get a dollar for every goosebump you produced you'll have 100s of billions. you can calculate that for us :)

Jakub Krelik

hmm ... not my cup of tea. Still it's a quality content.

melodysheep

Thanks for the feedback - if you can, please share more specifically what you didn't like. This installment is definitely different and I'll be sharing my own lessons from making it, but it's good to get critical feedback from followers.

Anonymous

the captionist is here, i just want to help you add captions if this in Youtube video. It will be a large amount of strength to make it, i feel yr pain for make this video... John~ stay safe :)

Psychachu

There's nothing I can think of to say except that my mind is burning with the possibilities. Stunning, of course. It's always worth the wait for utter excellence. You certainly have a fanbase in England. :)

Anonymous

Blimey the tingles!!! Loving the soundtrack. Will it eventually be available on Spotify like the others? It certainly keeps work motivating. I absolutely loved that. well done sir!

Anonymous

This video is amazing and stunning. You've made another excellent work and surely I'll see it again many times! I'm happy to be a supporter and I'll continue to do, hoping that you'll give us other fantastic video in the future. Thank you for all this work.

Ignacio Benito Villar

How can I help with subtitles for youtube? Im a native spanish speaker, this video deserves to break language barriers

Eric Capuano

Incredible... entirely breathtaking at every scene.

Ed Thee Goose

Beautiful man...A sight and sound that is top notch. Keep it going. I understand perfection but this is great.

Anonymous

Amazing work as always! So much time must have been invested in all this. Loved the music btw :P

Anonymous

Absolutely incredible! Speculative biology is so much fun to contemplate, and this video was unlike anything I've ever seen before. Can't wait to share the link with friends once it's up on YouTube.

melodysheep

Thank you! Yes the soundtrack will hit bandcamp tomorrow and come to spotify in the next couple weeks.

melodysheep

I don't know much about doing subtitles unfortunately... and sadly, youtube doesn't do community submitted subs anymore, so not sure how to manage it going forward. but you can send me any subtitle files you happen to create and i'll get them added to the video file.

Dan Thomas

Blown away as always :) Lights off, volume pumped.. loved it!

Anonymous

Phenomenal video!! Well worth the wait!

Anonymous

Amazing work as always, love it!

Josh Stuart

FUCK YES!!! I haven't watched it yet, but I've very excited to watch it!

Bradley Gallant

Imagine what he could do if he took an entire year to make just 1 project. Obviously that'd kinda suck bc I can't get enough of these videos, but imagine how great it would be. Personally, I think he has found the sweet spot. about 2 videos a year. Great quality, great length, great information, great sound, great literally everything, twice a year. I can't stop rewatching it. And every time I watch it again, I'm able to focus on different things like the music, the visuals, or the information. Each time I find something new that I love. This rant doesn't really relate to your comment, but i just had to get it out lol.

Bradley Gallant

Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did. Looking forward to trying to guess what time it will come out next year with you :)

Anonymous

Congratulations Melodysheep! I can only imagine the sense of accomplishment and fulfillment (not to mention the rush) you must feel upon completion of each of these projects. Countless hours and devoted energy will once again pay off with this release. And then it's time to do it all again, lol. With all the praise coming to you, I still hope you are your own biggest fan, if that makes any sense! Be proud of what you've done here and keep that sense of wonder!

Anonymous

Everything on this is absolutely amazing, your dedication just pays off, i've watched this with my headphones and the mix of the music and visuals is so powerful. Congratulations!

Anonymous

countless hours. Attention to detail. So much artistry in every frame

Anonymous

Absolutely hyped to watch this. Feel like I’ve been counting down the days! Will there be a version without the narration Melodysheep? ✨

Ilja Kocken

Great work! I'm 6 minutes in and enjoying it a great deal! One comment though: I see some mouse cursors and cross-heirs on the more jittery parts, are they there intentionally or not? They did distract me a little bit from the otherwise awesome animations. EDIT: just to be more specific: the sequences at 2:54 and at 5:28. Oh and 26:10

Anonymous

Damn, son, you've done it again! In addition to the other praise in these comments, I really like the subtle musical cues that evoked your previous videos.

EclipseGamma

Breathtaking. I'm speechless.

Ilja Kocken

Just finished it. Amazing! I can't wait to listen to the album on repeat on spotify, and to share the video with family and friends once it gets uploaded to YT. <3

Anonymous

Hope, this finds you well, John. This is beyond amazing! I love it absolutely. I wish it were 4-6 hours long! The thing I love most was music, man the soundscape and feel they create, it's just meant to be experienced. I loved the visuals and cinematography especially from part where machine based life starts. It just blew my mind off. I love everything from start, it just felt ended it ended so quickly, was so smooth and immersing. Thank-you so much for this, thank-you for visuals, concept, music. Super super grateful to have experienced it. It's not perfect, but it's beyond great. Great learning and progress. May you be kind to yourself. Peace and love.

Rob Phillips

John, this is a stunning piece of art. I sat speechless at the end wondering how on earth you produce this yourself. Your content dwarfs works published by NatGeo, major television networks, etc. Please continue to contribute your genius to the world. Cheers!

Anonymous

This was beyond beautiful! You should be really proud and take a long well deserved break! (I will continue to keep my patreon contribution going) It’s mind blowing to imagine that maybe our purpose here was after all to create sentient machines :) I’m sure you learn so much in the process of making these videos. Must be wonderful! If you’re looking for suggestions for your next video may I suggest something along the lines of consciousness, quantum physics, observer/observed, meditation and psychedelics (all related in my opinion!) I would love to see your take on all of that. Much love and thanks!

Anonymous

I would say that Life Beyond II definitely has a different feel compared to your prior videos. Those were driven by the music, whereas this is driven by the narration. I do not think you could just remove the narration and it still be coherent on its own. With that being said, I do enjoy the voice of the narrator, and the use of narration certainly lends a more structured feel, more mainstream if you will. With it, Life Beyond II should be much more accessible to new viewers. Very much something you would see in a professional production like Cosmos. I would call it a success, but, honestly, was that ever in doubt?

Bradley Gallant

Life Beyond 2 has this different feeling to it. The enhanced graphics just make it feel 'new'. And the music is a little different from his usual stuff, which fits perfectly with the new feeling of the project. Everything just came together so perfectly. I can't stop watching it.

Anonymous

There are people that possess talent but lack vision and style. There are people that have the vision but no talent. You sir, have it all, plus the dedication to put forth such stunning work.

B.J. Tomiko

38 mins of chills. Such an amazing feeling of awe and wonder. The visuals and music were both out of this world. Loved it.

Moonkiller24

Truely a creation of art. This looks like documtary from a very big channel. Amazing!

Anonymous

What a beautiful video. As an astronomer at the seti institute, this video is exactly what I was looking for to show our work. Thanks for doing this.

Anonymous

Wow John.. SETI institute linked to your video on Facebook. You're turning heads! Well deserved, this is Incredible content.

Anonymous

Your videos just always blow my mind, I recommend you to everyone I ever speak to! :D Thank you for continuing with your eye-opening incredibly visionary work. I liked the voice over but I always love the stuff that's just with captions too, as your music is so beautiful and compliments the videos so well, so I hope I'll get a chance to see it without the voice over too. But either way, you rock. Love love love x

melodysheep

Nina, thanks for the kind words :) I know I promised you a version without the voiceover. But my schedule is so full I just haven't had the time to do it, and I have to prioritize income-generating projects before any other. But hopefully in the coming weeks I will find some time to get this to you.

Anonymous

Hey! That's no problem at all, man! There's certainly no rush for it ;) Stay safe x

Dan Thomas

Re-watching after watching the making of.... so much more appreciation for what goes into it! And I still can't help myself from turning it way up hehe..

Anonymous

Beautiful, I've watched it twice...

Anonymous

The Museum of Alien Life is more than amazing! Is there a way for supporters to download it in 4K?