What Does the Inside of a Pokeball REALLY Look Like?

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00:00I'm working on a video about a Pokeball that can absorb anything and at one point while we travel inside the Pokeball

00:06But what does it look like when you're inside a Pokeball? Is it a big void? A digital simulation?

00:12Is it like a realm of inescapable nightmares?

00:18I'll just consult the Pokemon wiki let's find this out

00:24Yep no one knows

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00:46What do you think it's like on the inside of a Pokeball?

00:48I think the inside of Pokeball looks like like a CVS.

00:51The Pokemon just wanders up and down the aisles and can't find what he's looking for.

00:55And then eventually just gets called up for battle.

00:58I would like to think it's like their own little like studio apartments.

01:01The lore would have you believe it's like a little condo with like everything they need in there.

01:06I think that that is probably a lie.

01:09I feel like it's like a Matrix pod, man.

01:11They're put in a stasis. They're shoved in their medically induced coma.

01:15Think about every time you've seen one like open up, it's just blinding.

01:17I think they keep them in stun lock just in a bright environment.

01:21Constant flashbangs.

01:22Yeah, yeah, never-ending flashbang.

01:24And when they get out, they just want to fight anything.

01:27Right.

01:27You know what I mean?

01:28Keeps them ready.

01:29Imagine someone's throwing flashbangs at you for days.

01:33And then you finally get let out.

01:34And it's like, hey, as long as you're willing to fight, you can stay out of that environment.

01:37I will fight for you.

01:39Just don't, please don't flashbang me anymore, please.

01:42I can't take it.

01:43I don't know. I kind of subscribe to the idea that like it's stasis lock.

01:47It's kind of like the life of a photon.

01:49Photons don't experience time either.

01:51I mean, I guess they kind of turn into a bunch of photons.

01:53Oh, maybe that's why.

01:55You are turned into light.

01:57And so therefore, you're traveling at the speed of light and you never experience time.

02:01It's like you're getting sucked up one moment and the next moment you're getting sucked out.

02:08So I thought this was gonna be an easy video because it's like they show the inside of a Pokeball a million times.

02:13We'll just look up the episode where they show it and that's what we'll make it look like, right?

02:16Turns out I got Mandela affected and they do not show this at all in the show, which is super weird, right?

02:22What are they hiding from us?

02:24I feel like there's two paths forward here.

02:25The first is we can consult the game's lore and the creators have spoken about it a little bit.

02:30It's kind of inconsistent, but maybe we can piece something together there.

02:33If that doesn't work, well, I mean, this is a live-action video.

02:37Why not just use like hard science and figure out what it would look like for real using like physics or quantum mechanics?

02:43I'm sure that between these two paths, we can find a definitive answer of what it looks like inside a Pokeball.

02:49In the show, we see a creature.

02:51They turn into like white energy and then all the energy gets absorbed into the Pokeball.

02:56If you're going to convert a creature into pure energy, it's going to make an insane amount of energy.

03:02So insane that it makes us have to whip out the old E equals MC squared equation.

03:06For example, an average human weighs about 70 kilograms.

03:09And if you're going to convert that mass into pure energy, you're going to get about 6.29 quintillion joules.

03:17That's enough energy to power humanity for three to four months.

03:21Your neurons in your brain travel anywhere from 6 to 224 miles an hour.

03:26But once you turn into energy, they're going to start traveling at the speed of light,

03:30which is roughly 7 million times faster than that.

03:34If your neurons are traveling at the speed of light, that means your thoughts will be too.

03:37You'd be thinking so fast that time would appear to slow down for you, possibly to a standstill.

03:44Extreme time dilation would take over as you're absorbed into the Pokeball in what seems like an eternity.

03:51Okay, okay. So now that you're actually inside the ball, what does it look like?

03:54Well, in this instance, basically a black hole.

03:57And if you're stuck in there, well, you've got what will feel like an eternity to think about it before you're released.

04:03And I would imagine it would probably break your brain so hard,

04:06you'd come out only being able to say one word, like the name of your species.

04:11Pikachu. Bulbasaur. Hodor.

04:14Hodor! Hodor! Hodor!

04:18This doesn't seem right at all. This is downright frightening.

04:21I don't think nothing would look very good on camera either.

04:24So there's got to be a better option.

04:27Well, in this episode of the original series, we see a moment where Psyduck is in a hollow void.

04:32In the manga, Pokeballs have been shown to be translucent and have Pokemon just shrunken down inside them.

04:37In a way later episode of the anime, we have a potential peek into the interior of a luxury ball.

04:43But none of what we've seen has been very consistent over the years.

04:46So maybe there's someone higher up on the Pokemon team that can clear this up for us.

04:50We can draw knowledge from Junichi Masuda, one of the founders of Game Freak.

04:55He said,

05:00It's a very comfortable environment.

05:02Maybe the equivalent of a high-end suite room in a fancy hotel.

05:06And this makes sense, because if we dig a little more, we find this trophy entry from Super Smash Bros.

05:12that says,

05:17Okay, that's something at least, despite being a throwaway description for a collectible in a non-canon crossover game.

05:22But wait, but wait a second.

05:24Is it a hotel room or a hotel room-sized natural environment?

05:29If it's a hotel suite, then I guess I would be comfortable in it, and probably even like a little Charmander.

05:33But what about a Pokemon like Snorlax?

05:36He's huge.

05:36So maybe the inside of a Pokeball adapts to whatever is inside of it.

05:42So the Ritz-Carlton in downtown LA has a high-end suite that is about 1,200 square feet.

05:48So we can estimate that that's about maybe 12,000 cubic feet in volume.

05:52A person is about two and a half cubic feet of volume.

05:55That's a 4,800 cubic feet to one ratio for a high-end suite to a human.

06:01Let's apply that to Pokemon.

06:03So what about a Charizard?

06:04He's listed at five foot seven, but he's got a lot more gut and girth.

06:07So I would estimate he's got about eight and a half cubic feet of meat on him.

06:11Using our ratio, he would need 40,000 cubic feet of volume to stay in.

06:16That's not like suite status anymore.

06:18That's more like a starter mansion.

06:20And that's not even the largest Pokemon.

06:21That title belongs to a legendary Pokemon called Eternatus,

06:24which would need a suite that's actually the size of a Costco.

06:31Oh, look.

06:31These fans have been waiting in line all day to make some space for the big guy.

06:36That's so nice of them.

06:37The hotel suite theory kind of makes sense, but it starts to lead us in circles.

06:41Like, how did all this stuff get into here?

06:42Is this all made of matter, or is this like a hologram?

06:46Because if it's real matter, then these Pokeballs are going to weigh a ton.

06:49You know, you can't carry like a studio apartment on your belt.

06:52This actually leads us to the conclusion that this world in the Pokeball

06:57would have to be completely digital, like a virtual simulation inside these balls.

07:01That means to travel into them, the Pokeball is actually erasing your matter

07:06and then storing it in digital memory, effectively converting and storing

07:10your present state as an AI living in a simulated world.

07:15And when you're released, the new matter is recompiled at the same quantum state

07:19as when you entered.

07:20And this theory, it holds a lot of water, honestly.

07:22It allows the user to carry multiple balls since they don't have the density

07:25of a neutron star.

07:26It also allows the creature within to exist within a comfortable universe,

07:30tailored for their specific species and size.

07:33And it allows me to visualize the inside of a Pokeball any way I want.

07:38Wait, what?

07:40I was looking for a specific answer, and now I have to decide between everything?

07:46So, I guess I'm back to square one here.

07:49And, I mean, regardless whether or not I've got this visual figured out,

07:54I do need to start filming because we are on a deadline, so...

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09:09All right, let's go check up on Sam.

09:16So we had the honor of hosting,

09:18or I should say we have the honor of hosting a YouTube Udall

09:21coming out here, I think, in March.

09:22It's going to be a celebration of the visual effects community on YouTube,

09:26and we have this cool video that we got to star in that YouTube produced

09:30of us kind of introducing all these cool visual effects channels

09:32and talking about all the cool things happening in the community here.

09:35The crazy thing about it is that because we're hosting it,

09:36we're kind of the face of it right now,

09:38and, you know, they shot this really produced video, which is amazing,

09:42except we now need to make sure that we have a cool video

09:45coming out on our channel when the Udall drops

09:47because we want to make a good first impression.

09:49So when they come on over, we want to show them a cool short film.

09:52So Sam has taken it upon his shoulders to be the guy that does that.

09:57Yeah, you know, no pressure,

09:58but all the eyes of the public on YouTube will be turned towards us

10:01and we need to impress them.

10:10We're here at the park to film the beginning of the video.

10:13I don't know. It's about five or six setups,

10:15but they're long ones.

10:16You know, there's not this isn't a video about individual shots here.

10:19These are long takes about performance improv.

10:22So, you know, we're going to take our time.

10:23Check it out.

10:24I made the world's first portable optimizing kinetic endosphere

10:27and it's equipped with a biological acquisition lasso laser.

10:31It's pretty cool. Look at that.

10:33The biggest challenge I've had so far today was just memorizing that acronym

10:36that is pokeball,

10:38but it's actually portable optimizing kinetic endosphere

10:41with a biological acquisition lasso laser.

10:47It's hard to say, man.

10:48It's kind of sinister not to actually establish

10:50what happens in a pokeball for the show.

10:52Like if you they're injured in a battle,

10:53they can't be sitting in that ball going.

10:54Oh, my arms are broken like for you know,

10:57until you take him to the hospital kind of brings up that other question

10:59that you've heard before.

11:00Like if you teleport of all your atoms are disassembled

11:02and then reassembled another spot.

11:03Did you not just kill yourself and make a copy of yourself?

11:06So like every time Pokemon's coming out at pokeball are going into it.

11:08Are they dying?

11:09And the pokeball is just reassembling a copy of them.

11:12Is that why Pikachu doesn't like going to the pokeball

11:14because Pikachu is aware of all the souls that are being stacked up.

11:19That's it for the park.

11:20Now it's on to downtown to film the last two shots of the video.

11:24This is hot, this is heavy.

11:27I can feel the height.

11:28I haven't seen it, but I feels tall.

11:29And then tomorrow we have to film at our studio where we have a cop car

11:33and more importantly we have Brett reprising his role

11:35as the police officer 01.

11:38What's up Austin?

11:38What's up son, you're back reprising your role as a cop?

11:40I am back once again as a cop.

11:42You know, I have a blast being characters

11:44where I can kind of just show my face for a little bit

11:46and then just get death instantly.

11:53You know with these with these world's largest videos

11:54shooting on an iPhone makes it real simple.

11:56You don't got a lot of gear.

11:57You don't have a lot of extra stuff.

11:58The thing that I'm unsure about is the VFX.

12:01I don't know exactly what Sam's plan is for all these big pokeball

12:04inside the pokeball virtual world shots.

12:07So this pressure is on for Sam to get this thing done.

12:10Yeah.

12:12Is that a wrap?

12:14Is that a chicken salad wrap?

12:17Feel good.

12:18Very tiring.

12:19Will I be able to finish all the VFX in time?

12:24I have no idea.

12:25Even though we have like a lot of people at our studio.

12:28Everyone's really busy right now working on other stuff.

12:29So I might have to just kind of do a Sam special on this.

12:32We'll find out.

12:35Yeah, so basically I've been working on the more advanced

12:39effects in this video being people getting sucked into the

12:41balls people getting shot out of the balls that stuff is

12:44challenging and I thought you know what rather than like

12:47front load this experience with doing the easy shots.

12:52Let's let's start with hard ones because basically I was

12:55like, you know what I'm going to knock out these interior

12:57pokeball shots pretty quickly because I have a clear idea

13:00of how to do them.

13:00But the moment I started working on them.

13:02Yeah, I kind of threw up the whole plan.

13:05I've attempted to track all the shots.

13:07Some of them work.

13:08Some of them need additional tracking.

13:09I started to rotoscope and like mask off one shot to isolate

13:13them and it looks like total butt cheeks.

13:15And then also more than anything else.

13:17I started doing some tests here and I'm just like if these

13:20guys are getting trapped in like a white void, like I always

13:23imagined it was a white void, but I'm just not really feeling

13:26it yet because it's I don't know that effect just feels so

13:30minimalist to the point where it starts detracting from

13:34the shot and when it's too simple, it instead brings the

13:38attention now to the actual problems in the visual effects,

13:41which are just the bare bones tracking roto all that stuff.

13:44So I'm trying to find out something that's a little more

13:46visually interesting and that's pretty hard right now.

13:50This is based on like semi-realistic conceptual physics

13:55concepts.

13:56So it can't just be like a pixelated Minecraft Island in

13:58there. It has to be something that looks like it's messing

14:02with time and space a little bit.

14:04Technically.

14:04I have six days left.

14:07It's looking like I'm not going to hit that.

14:10So you do have Jordan helping for one shot though, right?

14:12He's helping on one shot.

14:13Yes.

14:14He's working on one of the hardest shots too.

14:16So that's it's huge.

14:19I'm sucking cities.

14:22So yeah, Sam came to me with a shot.

14:24It's the last shot in the entire Pokeball video.

14:26It means a lot to me that I do this.

14:28Well, we've got this big one-er where we're transitioning

14:31into the scene adding skyscrapers to the skyline.

14:34We've got cranes that are working to attach this Pokeball

14:38to the back of a space shuttle and then have all of that

14:41suck up as well.

14:42Basically turn into particles.

14:44So it's a lot going on but I do have a working system for

14:48sucking any building you want.

14:51You can suck non-stop the way that the system works is

14:56I'm using what's called the pyro source spread inside of

14:59Houdini where I can choose an ignition source of temperature

15:02and basically cover the entire building and fuel.

15:05This is like mass arson and I can light a certain section

15:09of it and that burn will spread over the entirety of the

15:12building.

15:13This is where the particles are going to emit from the sucking

15:16particles so to speak.

15:17So in this way, I can create a trail of sucking that only

15:20lasts a little bit of time, right?

15:21Because it's a trail of sucking.

15:23Yeah, you never been he creates a trail.

15:25I'll call it a trail of burning.

15:26Would that make you feel better feels better?

15:27But yeah point is we get this band of burning and then take

15:31the position of the pokeball in 3D space and put in a tractor

15:35in the middle of it and basically say hey any particles

15:37that exist in the scene come to me on top of that.

15:40I can take this same band and I can basically say hey, if

15:43you've already been burned, you shouldn't even exist anymore.

15:46It's a it's don't you say to real life.

15:50Yeah, it's why it's why I'm not a doctor.

15:52So it's actually eroding the building and it does give the

15:55illusion the building is actually being evaporated now

15:58that the system's been built.

15:59I can simply apply it to every single building and crane and

16:03the spaceship and the foreground ground and all the stuff

16:05in the scene to create that cohesive sucking effect that

16:08said I still need to do it now.

16:10There's a lot of simulations ahead and and we don't have

16:14much time.

16:14Thankfully.

16:15We have Casey in house.

16:16So Casey Ferris is actually a YouTuber in his own right.

16:18He does a lot of resolve and fusion tutorials and has a course

16:21and all that good stuff and him and his editor Dan have graced

16:24us with their presence for a month kind of like Markiplier

16:26did like just kind of getting a vibe and hanging out and

16:28helping where they can and he couldn't have come at a better

16:31time truly because I've already given him a task in this

16:34shot in particular to help rebuild some of the geometry that's

16:37missing.

16:37The thing about Sam is he's a one-man army.

16:40He's been working so hard on this all by himself.

16:42So it's nice that we're getting more people involved in hopefully

16:45a way that doesn't kill Sam.

16:47That's my goal.

16:48I want to kind of suck away some of the stress, you know, you

16:52know what I'm saying though, like no, no, no, hold on.

16:55I feel like maybe the way I said it was, please don't put this

16:57in the edit.

16:58I feel like we got off on the wrong foot.

17:01Well,

17:04This video is really hard to make.

17:05What does the inside of a pokeball look like?

17:07Well, I thought about this a lot to the point where maybe I

17:10think I'm overthinking things a little bit here.

17:12There's a lot of options and all kind of make a lot of sense.

17:15But at the end of the day, I've had to make a decision, which

17:18is simply just make it look cool.

17:21And in a funny way, I mean, it kind of takes a little bit from

17:26each idea and combines them.

17:28This is the inside of the pokeball.

17:30As I was writing this video with Niko, he said, ah, it would

17:33be funny if this was powered by a black hole.

17:35So inside the pokeball is none other than a black hole at the

17:39very bottom that is powering everything.

17:41But actually when we're inside of it, we're actually looking

17:45through what looks to be kind of like frosted glass.

17:48Even though the manga is preposterous, how would there just be

17:51like a little marble with a Bulbasaur in there? For the sake

17:54of this video, it does look pretty sweet. And then to kind of

17:57spice it up.

17:57I just, you know, like, hey, you know what, I'm a big fan of

18:00like Time Bandits and like that weird cosmic antiquity kind

18:05of situation.

18:05So on Kitbash, I was looking around on there for some stuff

18:09and they have an armillary.

18:11I was like, you know what, that's pretty sweet too.

18:13I don't know if the Time Bandits reference is landing.

18:15It also looks like the thing from Ant-Man Quantumania.

18:18Oh sweet.

18:18Well, there you go.

18:19That's more for the kids.

18:20That's more for the kids, for the zoomers out there.

18:22It's like Ant-Man.

18:24That's how this all combines.

18:25I mean, it's just the idea is like I want it to look cool and

18:27it needs to make sense for the story. And the best part, even

18:30though it's not perfectly accurate to lore or anything, it's

18:34still able to draw from it and also match what we're trying

18:37to accomplish at the same time.

18:38So I think that's really cool.

18:40So if you're watching this, that means the video is out and

18:42that's great because I actually have a lot more VFX to do

18:44that aren't interior pokeball shots that are also super sweet.

18:47So if you want to see them head on over to Corridor Digital,

18:49check it out.

18:50It's a sweet classic video.

18:52I secretly made this for my son.

18:55Oops, said that out loud.

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