Live at NAB Show 2026: The True Scale of True Scale presented by Wren Weichman

What does it actually take to make a video that helps millions of people feel the size of the universe? In this session filmed live at the Puget Systems booth on Sunday at NAB 2026, Corridor Digital's Wren Weichman pulls back the curtain on the origin, evolution, and creative philosophy behind the True Scale series — one of the most visually ambitious and widely shared science education franchises on YouTube. The True Scale series grew out of a simple instinct: numbers don't land, but visuals do. When Wren made "True Scale of the Universe" it became one of Corridor Digital's most successful videos of all time. That result taught him a lesson he's been building his creative philosophy around ever since: there is zero correlation between how much work you put into a YouTube video and how many views it gets. What matters is whether the idea is good, and whether it makes someone feel something worth sharing. For Wren, that emotion is curiosity; not fear, not outrage, but genuine wonder at things we technically know but can't actually picture. This session is part origin story, part creative masterclass. Wren traces the series from its early days, short 5–6 minute videos done entirely in After Effects, to the longer, more technically ambitious productions that followed, including collaborations with creator Daniel on videos like "True Scale of Ants" (20 quadrillion of them, if you're wondering). He walks through how the tools evolved alongside the ambition: After Effects with Element 3D to Cinema 4D and Octane Render, each upgrade unlocking new ways to make the impossible feel tangible. He also gets into the nuts and bolts of what he's learned about making a YouTube video work: why the first 10–30 seconds are everything, what makes an opening shot kinetic enough to hold attention, how he approaches shot design (visual first, story fills in), and why distributing your effort across a video matters more than pouring everything into one perfect sequence. It's an honest, candid conversation about what it's like to make videos that aim to be genuinely mind-expanding and what that costs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT WREN WEICHMAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Wren Weichman is a Director at Corridor Digital, the YouTube-native studio and production company behind VFX Artists React, Corridor Crew, and some of the most technically inventive short-form video on the internet. He is the creator and driving force behind the True Scale series. 🔗 Corridor Digital YouTube:    / @corridorcrew   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT PUGET SYSTEMS NAB 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This session was recorded live at the Puget Systems booth at NAB 2026. All week, we hosted creators, filmmakers, and industry experts for conversations about the tools, workflows, and technology shaping the future of content production. 🔗 Learn more about Puget Systems workstations: pugetsystems.com