The creators thinking about the age the penguins appear to be is so interesting because when I was a kid (8-11) I assumed all the penguins were older than me, even during the "toddler-like" phase. I never thought about age specifically but I just assumed the penguins in the catalogues, the established characters like Rockhopper and Aunt Arctic, and the secret agents were all teens or adults. I wonder if anyone else interpreted them this way? Perhaps I assumed because everyone was older than me at the time. But it's interesting how much thought they put into the art style and how they hoped it'd be interpreted and how some children playing it at the time actually interpreted it! Actually I don't even think I was thinking about age when I saw the art style changes I only thought "different but cute!"

My answer to "what do you want to be when you grow up" when I was a kid was "artist for club penguin". Although that dream fell through for obvious reasons, the outlet and inspiration drawing penguins provided to me as a small child was priceless.

i love the grilled cheese postcard

0:06 club penguin was a flash game

“American flavor” 🇺🇸

This is great content, man!

you should make a render breakdown on rayman origins artstyle cuz it's like one the most unique looking platformer i have ever played and i think it deserves more recognition

The artworks had always reminded me of graffiti too, don't know why!! ^^

i drew all those penguins. i remember it like it was yesterday, AMA

The reason why the old style is better is because it's not professional. And that's good because it's personal and has individual thought! Feels like something that is uniquely Club Penguin. That 2nd guy is a technically very knowledgeable artist and knows what makes a good drawing. BUT you lose the original styles charm and now it becomes just another generic product for kids. If he was able to direct the artists better on expanding each individual artists strengths then it would be the right evolution. However, I'm assuming Disney (or could just be him) had a mandate for competent and consistent styles throughout. Ah well, that's just the unfortunate realities of expanding too fast as a team.

Amazing video, the Slippy Toad one is so good

Him saying “hey there friends, how’s it going” immediately made me think of callmekevin

Awesome video! There's an upcoming game called Frog Paradise made by the community, you should take a look!

Really great video! I love how you've used this as an opportunity to analyse the style, replicate it and get to talk/get feedback from the creators! Amazing stuff you made considering flash is a new program to you!

hell yea

I never comment on videos, but I'll do it here. I'm a teenager totally self-taught with Adobe Illustrator, and now have 3 years of experience. Even after many awesome projects and experimentations, I have always search around for how to achieve the Club Penguin art style. It's amazing that with 5,000 views I got this recommended. Thank you very much for the video.

9:12 …Wait no one else knew that?

5:14 I’m dying💀

the modern era post card… it’s so good, it’s making me miss something that never happened i guess by 2015 they were aware that they didn’t have much time left so they stopped doing redesigns and most of the game was in this weird old and new combination (i feel like if club penguin continued like normal, the minigames, post cards etc everything would’ve been remade in the new art style)

Gary the Gadget Guy cosplay I see you ;)

“Ft. Former club penguin artists” I ALREADY KNOW WHO ONE OF THEM WOULD BE LMAO my boi Chris Hendricks screenhog

You did amazing with this! Keep up the good work and I really enjoyed the video! Waddle on!

i love the vector on the vector art line

Dude this has heavily influenced my art taste and I’m grateful for your analysis! Great video ❤

the art director is named Jen Zee 😭 gen z

30:00 they really went into professional mode when talking about your drawings, I love it! It gives us a glimpse into their work instead of just being “nice drawing “

HES DRESSED AS GARY THE GADGET GUY AHHH

erm actually, they're pixels because that's what screens are made of? cool video, dumb joke

2005-2008's artstyle will forever be in my heart and is objectively peak. 2008-2010 is still good and very much acceptable. But after that it fell off a cliff imo. Not to say that the artists were bad. but in the sense that it lost it's charm, the increase in "quality" didn't serve to benefit the feel of the game. Chris' style was so iconic, and it felt cozy; perhaps in large part due to nostalgia when I reminisce nowadays, but I really felt it was something special even at the time. If there's ever a metaverse, I think humanity can agree that it needs to be in Club Penguin. Get Chris back, make it first person; I wanna live there.

Great video! I've been toying around with the idea of trying to make a mini sprite sheet for one of my ocs so I was very excited when I saw this in my recommended, also I'm so sorry but as someone who's learning German that pronunciation of Klavier's name made my soul leave my body.

Puffels are the only thing i can draw 😭

This video is incredibly helpful to study this style!! Thank you very much for it!! I've studied the ~Hades style~ for some illustrations before, but I always felt something was missing - couldn't quite pinpoint what it was. Watching your video, though, made me notice lots of things I didn't on my own! Hahaha thanks again for making it and posting! It's very helpful!!

my life wasn't complete until I saw this

broo so good👌

you will be famous

too underrated

Can you do a breakdown of the guilty gear strives artstyle

Mmm

During school i happened to have class from one of the people who worked on the Cook & Becker artbook for Sonic, and he indeed referred to the SA style artwork as 'graffiti style'.

You don't know how helpful this was, I've been working on some Tears of the Kingdom art and trying to capture the style from the official artwork, but for the life of me, I couldn't find the right brush on my software or get a sense of which colors to use to create that beautiful shading, thank you so much for working on this and walking us through your process, I'm gonna get back to work on my piece soon , I'll be happy if it even turns out half as good as your's.

I think the orb thing on chao are called something like a emotion ball or something

I remember seeing this video on my feed with Fox in the thumbnail. I wanted to watch it but I was away at the time. I clicked on this not realizing it was the same video so I was pleasantly surprised to see Fox appear :] Great artwork!!

In the story I remember Tikal saying "Chao" a few times.

Apollo: NOOOOO I DON’T WANNA BE LOW RESOLUTION This guy:

10:38 as drawfee says: delete your art!

These videos have hundreds of thousands of hits, in my heart.