Breaking Down The Minecraft Movie's Art Style

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The A Minecraft Movie trailer sure was. But what exactly about the CGI gave people such a visceral reaction? (Probably more than just what I talked about in this video so comment your thoughts)
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[@mossyairplanes]

your skin corner of the internet

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

imagine if the minecraft movie was just a no commentary playthrough of hit video game _minecraft story mode_ (2015-2016)

[@crystalalumina]

I mean, if I remember right, Minecraft story mode was available on Netflix

[@tomcaniff6437]

@@crystalalumina oh god your right, but you could only play it if netflix detected an xbox connected to your system.

[@Executable_file_404X]

​@@tomcaniff6437wait but i played it and i dont have an xbox

[@thedoglovinggamer5825]

Minecraft Story Mode is currently getting a remake and has a trailer!

[@kaikiwwi]

@@thedoglovinggamer5825Really?!!

[@maravreloaded]

The biggest problem are the human characters in a Minecraft world. Why though? There's absolutely NO REASON to have real life actors in a pure CGI environment.

[@skandto]

would you prefer them to digitally alter the actors to be a blocky body horror mess? didn't think so

[@WeGottaGrowUp]

@@skandto we would rather the environment to be just more realistic or everything be animated obviously

[@supermariohack3218]

Because i guess isekai stories are the easiest choice when it comes to writing video game movies. Hell, even the Mario and the Sonic movies did this.

[@CorpusGreed]

​@@supermariohack3218Yeah, but the difference is that both Sonic' and Mario's worlds don't look that different from a real one. They are just unrendered, pixilated rocks, trees, grass and characters. Why can we imagine real world sonic? Because we HAVE that detailed sonic already. Yes, it's like 16 pixels, but, with how shapes are structured, you can easily imagine what it would loik like irl. But MINECRAFT, on the other hand, has a completely different artstyle. Everything is blocks. Not very detailed, messy blocks. Steve is pretty much just 6 blocks smashed together: head, body, 2 legs, 2 arms. 16 px or 4K px, Steve will still have the same shape, made out of 6 blocks. Smae goes to zombie, skeleton, sheep and so on. If you try to give Steve realistic arms, and legs - that won't be Steve anymore. That'll be a guy named Steve that looks like a famous blocky game character.

[@samable7724]

In the pseudo-lore the player is not native to the overworld right?

[@donovansshoes7462]

"I was reincarnated in another world with my friends but everything is a block and there's this guy named steve" would be the japanese light novel title.

[@jkbmcminer]

Funny enough there was an actual minecraft isekai manga/light novel. It wasn't actually minecraft but it was a lot like it.

[@biyurica]

​@@jkbmcminer source?

[@jkbmcminer]

@@biyurica cube arts

[@erwan6227]

damn, Jack black was in Jumanji as a side character, now he's gonna be the main character of a jumanji-like movie, that's progression

[@The_SSSlopper]

It’s the other way round.

[@tedtalk9999]

I’m not sure if he’s the main character or who the main characters in the movie probably the boy

[@The_SSSlopper]

@@tedtalk9999 there can be multiple main characters. In this film it seems the main characters are the four people who have been sucked into the game

[@lunarhexagon8108]

@@The_SSSlopper usually even among main characters you got one that is more main than others, like Jumanji itself, four kids sucked in game were main characters but one seemed more main than others, didnt it?

[@skandto]

it looks like he's going to be a side character in this movie for some reason

[@riv3r_mango705]

I understand how translating Minecraft into a blockbuster movie is definitely a hard feat and that it would be unreasonable to expect it to look like Minecraft SMP with RTX on, but I still kinda wish they pulled more of a Lego Movie approach to Minecraft (they’re both childhood games centered around creating anyways), with the main characters being from and centered a Minecraft society and the style being more of a stylized version of the Minecraft style with a higher level of detail (instead of being a generic “what if real life people entered video game world and have to find their way back home!1!1!!” and having this weird clash with hyperrealism and blocks). Some part of me hopes that the Minecraft movie in the the trailer was just a joke but the first stage of grief is denial.

[@strangeaelurus]

Yeah, like before this thing actually became realized, I always imagined the theoretical Minecraft movie to look like the style Mojang uses in those animations.

[@mybrickhead]

@@strangeaelurus a minecraft movie should look like a minecraft machinima ez. people have made careers off of it on youtube for 10-15 years but do they hire them to do the official feature film? noooo

[@gibbyjibby0]

I was literally going to also comment about how the Lego movie was done.

[@thejuiceking2219]

hehe, blockbuster

[@summerlee2023]

Basically story mode, it's almost just that. But maybe more accurate storywise.

[@simply_curri1410]

This movie has the same problem that a lot of imagination movies have. As in, the characters and the world are designed in the style of 2D animation, but they're rendered as someone'd render standard marvel-like CGI. Take the sheep for example. They are designed as a more "stylized" take on the standard Minecraft sheep, but they are rendered as someone'd render the model of an ACTUAL REAL-LIFE SHEEP. I think this is where a lot of the uncanniness comes from. Melding MC's unique style with Real Life almost never goes well, unless some HUGE liberties are taken with the characters and environments.

[@InfinitySevens]

Yeah and it's basically just those "this will be graphics in 2013" memes done unironically.

[@TiredMoonRabbit]

Minecraft earth wants to talk.

[@simply_curri1410]

MC Earth is less about "Melding" MC's Style with real life and more about putting MC's style as IS into real life. u​@@TiredMoonRabbit

[@TiredMoonRabbit]

@@simply_curri1410 I'm aware, my point was that it works, look at pictures of real people inside of their build templates, it looks perfectly fine.

[@vintack-g8069]

I think proprtions is the main Problem here, just look at that Big Head and Big eyes and their tiny Legs, then they tried to give it a Crazy Farm Animals vibe, basically they tried to give it more protagonism than they really have, if only they had shown us the same design, more proportioned and simply doing Farm Animal things, they would have gone unnoticed.

[@kingbash6466]

I think the creeper is like the only thing so far that really made the transition into live-action flawlessly. The design is pretty much the same, but the added moss texture gives it more dimension without going completely into the uncanny valley like with the sheep or the llama.

[@Narko_Marko]

I just don't like the body that is so much thinner than its head. They've been doing that with lego as well but if you look at a creeper in game you'll see that from the front it looks like a solid rectangle, i think that makes it more menacing.

[@skyriotAndKadeGaming]

And the bee

[@Chikenuget]

I think the heads a bit tall and would prefer more colour variation but compared to everything else, I can’t complain

[@syweb2]

It helps that it doesn't have realistically-identifiable facial features, as its mouth and eyes are just black voids.

[@pichitosmalltown3239]

it could use better textures and proportions. blender youtubers have given their take on the creeper and its leagues better than what we have

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

The animals look like if you gave an image AI the prompt of "a photo realistic picture of a Minecraft llama"

[@CaseyShontz]

It all looks AI generated. Like the giant cubes in the landscape. Minecraft doesn’t have those unless the terrain generation glitched out somehow. It looks like someone put “Minecraft landscape” into some image generator. Or maybe some exec who has never played Minecraft asked for it to look “more blocky.”

[@FilmShiz]

"It looks like AI" - how original!

[@layan1533]

⁠@@FilmShiz almost like people can have similar thoughts

[@FilmShiz]

@@layan1533 Or, just like how techbros have latched into AI, another equally annoying group have latched onto AI as a cringe blanket term for anything they don’t like

[@soupcat4143]

that or an off-putting photo manip in an old youtube thumbnail

[@DaroTheDragon]

It doesn’t even make sense for the piglins to be in the overworld and raiding the village. It shouldve been pillagers

[@ineophobe]

true it's weird that they didn't use the illagers

[@Redosus1010]

I 100% agree with you, why would piglins raid the world if they have WHOLE Nether for that? And also, why didn't they zombify into pigmen if they are already in the overworld 💀

[@ineophobe]

@@Redosus1010 it's so cool how this movie is trying to be minecraft but they forget about or butcher most of the mechanics with no explanation

[@omeletttte]

I mean, while I agree, it is literally the plot of minecraft legends so it's not like it was made up, not even that they can do

[@TheLastApostle]

Its from minecraft legends. The piglins are in the overworld in that game

[@hiyariva]

skin corners

[@NickDroid_]

Flesh cube

[@JuhoSprite]

6:40 I also had that opinion. And im glad ur making that point. But after a while I do understand the outrage, the sheep can look realistic and derpy, but they not only did that, they also made it look absolutely horrendous, it looks like a juiced up sheep full of steroids screaming in pain, the skin is so pale he looks like a walking cadaver. They can make it look derpy, but they should make it look cute at least. the ingame mobs also look derpy, but still somewhat cute. I think the piglins are perfect, those look absolutely horrifying and I love it. But they should not go the same route with the cute animals from the Minecraft world.

[@PlansalagaDon]

Honestly this. I feel like he didn't do a good job breaking down the design of the mobs. Felt like he just looked at the minecraft sheep, saw it had derpy eyes, and went "Oh it's fine!", without looking at the rest of the features of the sheep. The sheep literally looks imperfect and weirdly meshed, especially for something made out of perfect cubes. Which is a shame, cuz this guy was supposed to look at the entire trailer with an Artistic lens, but ended up just generalizing most things imo.

[@maxTheTimeSlasher]

Dude, i swear Hollywood isn't still over with that screaming goat meme

[@sarinabina5487]

@@PlansalagaDon agree

[@jacobrutzke691]

​@PlansalagaDon yeah but seriously what features does a minecraft sheep have that the weird realistic version doesn't

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

esp since i feel like nowadays a big part of minecrafts appeal is to be calm and relaxed while playing, and the sort of dumb placidity of the animal mobs adds to that sensation. making them look kind of terrifying absolutely breaks that appeal.

[@logandulken163]

I don’t think the designs of the mobs themselves are the worst things. But the fact that it’s just real life human characters instead of also having cgi textured square men as our protagonist

[@VoxAstra-qk4jz]

Surely that would have been easier than compositing Jack Black into every single shot.

[@koblestone1250]

In my opinion THEY COULD JUST MAKE IT A FANTASY MOVIE, a group of in universe heroes and not live action ones, within like a dungeon & dragons type world, they go on a mission in search of something Like how you would be during your first time playing minecraft, going on an adventure, getting stronger, discovering new weird things to gwt creative with, all to defeat the Ender Dragon

[@glonx639]

What we need, but not deserve

[@alphabros5226]

I think the more pressing issue that you lightly brought up at the beginning is that their is a level of uncertainty in how commited they are to a unique personal tone that fits minecraft, rather than by the numbers kid movie slop.

[@theusual8701]

What if that's the genius move they have up their sleeve? What if WB already made a proper trailer, but they took a page out of Sonic's book and released that abomination to make people talk about it. And when we're done screaming at, well, this - they whip out the actual trailer, suddenly becoming the good guys again.

[@PastelLePanda]

God I really hope so but then again denial is a river

[@CriispyWaffle]

Youre giving them way too much credit

[@FoxesAreGods660]

Stage one: Denial

[@AlexDown1]

There were leaked style guides that WB actively tried to censor, by your theory, style guides wouldn't be made, but if they were, they'd be made to give publicity, yet they were censored, actually very well, relatively. Also on the topic of the Sonic movie, it worked well for them in the end, by a miracle, really. They actually had merch of the old design ready, in production even, they wouldn't make that mistake if it was a whole marketing thing

[@LenaPeter-fl3eu]

I can't wait for the sequel: B Minecraft Movie

[@frenchfriesfan2005]

It's just a remake of Bee Movie with the first minecraft movie's artstyle

[@GingaGirl2000]

but it's not just that they transferred the minecraft aesthetic into something realistic, it's not even. like the sheep. they gave it teeth like that, but sheep don't have upper teeth at all in the real world, and we don't see the teeth on minecraft sheep at all. and the proportions on nearly all the mobs are so. why are they so out of place? same with the world itself, you see the big stony arch in there and it's made of blocks, yes, but not in the way minecraft worlds are. minecraft is made up of a bunch of equally sized blocks that pretty naturally create kind of curves and more natural transitions, as pixels should, but in the big stone arch there arw a bunch of weird inconsistently sized big blocks for no reason. and they're not even squares, they're kinda stretched out. i think the reason the bee looks good is because they changed its proportions the least, and the creeper isn't that different either, though i personally think the color and texture on it is a bit too uniform and looks more like a bunch of the grass you get after mowing your lawn, real grass and moss have much more texture. or the wolf we saw; why does it have like a gap between the front of its body and the back? the minecraft model doesn't? it's not that they just unsuccessfully interpreted the minecraft models, it seems more as though they didn't even look at them for longer than a glance and just did whatever the hell came to mind. it feels kinda insulting if you like the game, disrespectful that they didn't even try. like any bad adaptation i guess. well, anyway

[@TheLastApostle]

Its because the style and plot is taken directly from minecraft legends. Everything in rhis movie can be traced directly back to that game except steve

[@XxSolarTheHedgehogxX]

5:30 bro really went back in time to 2013 when "what does the fox say" came out edit: also the 3 seconds of silence after that really got me

[@TimSlee1]

But we still don't know what it says.

[@smugwolff6828]

i always thought steve was just a castaway from a sunken ship or something and he washed up in a foreign land cuz back in 1.2.5 i almost always spawned in on a beach and the default skin does look like he has wet arms and an unkept beard thats why he looks different to the villagers and cant understand what they are saying too so he can only trade physical goods at inconsistent rates the villager arms being stuck together was never a meat loop to me and always just felt like some sort of cultural habit since when they become zombies the arms come apart sunken ships and alex getting added to the game later just feels like confirmation for it since all the shipwrecks are a completely different style to villager construction and theres now a second person who looks like steve though i almost exclusively play back on 1.7 so i dont know how much has been added that can further reenforce or falsify(?) my opinion i know bedrock has abunch of characters that seem like they are all part of a civilised community but i dont play bedrock and they feel more like just sample skins for people so i dont consider bedrock exclusive content to be true to the world maybe the minecraft movie is just the windows store edition world lol

[@Awkci_gaming]

The game survivalcraft, which is very similar to minecraft,, starts with a pirate ship sailing away from you as you stand on a beach. This made me think of that.

[@IceFireofVoid]

I think everything here still fits really well even with updates over time fleshing out the world and history more. There's different factions out and about like the pillagers and the piglin, and some hints of an ancient builder civilization, but the player character is something different and definitely out of place compared to it all. The castaway theory is a pretty good one.

[@ariannasv22]

I always thought the villagers just had big sleeves like in some Asian cultures, and did the thing where you tuck both your hands into the sleeves.

[@oceanisaprettyprincess]

​@@Awkci_gaming I thought of that too

[@BurningApple]

@@ariannasv22 All the iilagers use the same "arms in their sleeves" pose, and the unused illusioner has an animation where he waves his arms. This lends credence to the idea they are _not_ flesh loops.

[@mintykiwi]

6:30 does anyone remember the minecraft theory about creepers being peat moss and that's why they exploded? that was what immediately jumped to my mind when i heard you describe the texture as mossy

[@TheLastApostle]

Notch said theyre made of dry grass and leaves and moss.

[@mintykiwi]

@@TheLastApostle i guess it's not just a theory anymore then

[@TheLastApostle]

@mintykiwi think he said it way bsck ehen creepers were first put into the game

[@Copperkaiju]

I assume Creepers are made of iron and covered in moss and vines/leaves. I use that to explain why they have bits of white in certain spots and why the Minecraft book shows them with TNT inside of them.

[@Spraypaintsz]

Lol. The whole thing either should have looked like real life (NO BLOCKS OR GAME LOOKING STUFF) or the thing should have been completely animated!.

[@Narko_Marko]

I want this movie to flop, it would be disrespectful to more traditional and stylized forms of animation which are still seen as "childish" if the movie succeeded.

[@Madamoizillion]

Everyone's going to take their 10-year-old kids to it anyway and it's going to make a billion dollars no matter what they do because it's got big ol' MINECRAFT all over it. Studios don't feel like they need to make good movies, especially when it's intended for kids, because they know they'll still get paid. All they have to do is focus on a vaguely kid-friendly animation style. Kids are easy to exploit, and while personally I think kids deserve to have good art regardless, Hollywood has figured out what I said before.

[@Sly-Moose]

8:30 That looks more like Steve than Jack Black ever could ngl- Steve is suppose to be tan with a short beard and short hair

[@elpsykoongro5379]

And he's tan because he actually works and those stuff and isn't fat

[@Sly-Moose]

@@elpsykoongro5379 Technically, with Steve's canon weight and height, Steve actually is a pretty chonky boi 😂 It makes sense why his limbs are so thicc compared to the rest of him XD Tho all of that could also be muscle. How else he gonna carry all that gold?! XD

[@VoxAstra-qk4jz]

Have you seen the image of Jason Mamoa as steve? Can't forget that this Steve can punch out a tree.

[@samalass466]

I honestly would’ve rather paid to see a feature length let’s play on the big screen.

[@PaveltheBugFan]

You can get so many of those on KZbin

[@nateroo1486]

I think people are less concerned with why the Minecraft Movie isn't realistic enough and more why wasn't it just animated. It's a stylized world with a very iconic look so applying real life textures and anatomy to these blocky freaks just looks off. It's uncanny and weird looking, its never going to look good especially next to real people. Going for something more along the lines of the Lego movie or even something like Fantastic Mr Fox would be better to either keep its unique stylization or to be cohesive in a psuedo realistic look respectively.

[@TheLastApostle]

The world acrually looks exactly like the world of minecraft legends. Like, one to one.

[@JorakinHost]

@@TheLastApostle And everyone knows how much people care about the Minecraft spinoffs. Minecraft gimmick was building and crafting, when you take that away you might as well be playing something else.

[@TheLastApostle]

@@JorakinHost i agree. And they should market this movie with the legends brand in some way so people dont get the wrong idea. But they wont do that because they know original minecraft is the only popular minecraft game

[@rolay7730]

Did they swear in the trailer? I thought this was a movie for toddlers. I am going to treat it WAY harsher now.

[@TheLastApostle]

Toddlers? You have never played minecraft i guess. Eho would market a blockbuster movie directly to toddlers? Smh

[@rolay7730]

​@@TheLastApostle "Eho would market a blockbuster movie directly to toddlers?" Hollywood does that exact thing. I play Minecraft, but I also know how Hollywood works. The trailer they presented doesn't look like a family movie; it looks like a pure kids' movie. There is a difference, and pretending they wouldn't spend millions of dollars on a movie like that is insane. They spend millions on horrible projects all the time. They dumbed down Borderlands from a hard R/M to a 13-movie. I doubt the people in charge know anything more about Minecraft than they did Borderlands. Also, calling it a blockbuster seems WAY too far.

[@InvaderIceStrike]

6:05 that weird green portal… is looking pretty blue to me.

[@vforval]

Green? Blue? Looks red to me

[@jamesoniris2647]

My main problem is that they made the Minecraft world into a world and not a game- like- the reason why the shapes are cubic is because it’s supposed to mimic a retro esthetic- that’s why the textures are pixels and not hyper realistic. If they made the world more game like and less realistic- it would make so much more sense. But they wanted the world to be a second dimension for some reason.

[@TheLastApostle]

Its styled directly from minecraft legends dude

[@diollinebranderson6553]

I mean if they were able topulloff the Lego movie, then they have no excuse

[@SandwichGamesHeavy]

0:29 I did not even realized that this was supposed to be funny lol

[@nick4754]

12:20 i for some reason don't think the creators were going for '90s cgi' level of uncanny graphics

[@vylore]

the mobs’ designs remind me of those “minecraft mobs in real life” youtube videos from 10 years ago

[@user-eo1qe7ob3y]

Steve (Black)

[@Acid195]

I just realised, this is basically Jumanji

[@mjbakermd414]

yes

[@MekongMonster]

Best "cluster" thing is Steve's smile/beard. The original idea was a beard, but people interpreted it as a smile.

[@DDArtsArts]

I don't think ghasts are supposed to be made from skin

[@iceprism367]

Yeah, shouldn't they be kinda like ghosts? I'm not sure what the exact lore is for the ghasts existing, but I'd imagine they're more like ghosts, not flesh pillows. 🤢

[@DDArtsArts]

@@iceprism367 Yeah. They for some reason stuck with the binary of furry or leathery, when things like ghasts could have been quite a sight to behold, I imagine them translucent like jellyfish (or ghosts, of course!)

[@kobewan9028]

I don’t understand why it has to be hyper realistic Like maybe just tune it down a lot lol

[@AxisCorpsRep]

i really want to be wrong, i really, really wish this doesnt happen, but with the quality of humor in this trailer i just think its entirely possible that they're gonna reveal the villager in the same style of the sheep and llama, the quirky squad of misfits are going to go "oh boy he sure looks weird, do we try to talk to him?", the villager is going to turn around and its just Chris Pratt

[@conejitorosada2326]

I feel like a lot of the issues that is related to the Minecraft movie is that it's not animated. Minecraft had been feeding us so many animated shorts, videos, and promotions that we CANNOT imagine a minecraft movie that is live-action as not only does it break the consistency that they're trying to have with their brand but also unreasonably curves the lamp-shade higher. We all know that these blocks won't be realistic, they just won't, yet we can AT LEAST suspend our beliefs for a bit for enjoyment, but going realistic is not the way to fit that in-between. We have games like Mineacraft: Legends, Minecraft: Dungeons, or even Minecraft: Story mode!! STORY MODE!! They could've gone with the style and Minecraft story mode and it would've been BETTER! It allows us to suspend our beliefs and not think about too many of the logistics of whatever they're doing while at the same time staying true to the game to a degree.

[@vergilcold1167]

Minecraft always felt sad to me when i play, the opposite of comedy

[@crispymax]

I only feel this way when playing by myself, everything does feel much more desolate and survivalist...

[@Donut-im9lk]

Imo they should've done what the Sonic movie did. Have Steve enter the real world rather than the humans entering the Minecraft world. They can still keep Steve's characteristic blocky artstyle, so then that way it won't be as uncanny.

[@pineapplesauce2718]

But Steve is just meant to be a stand-in for you, the player. The world is the focus, so a story like that just can't work.

[@Donut-im9lk]

@@pineapplesauce2718 You have a point. It's hard to think of how this movie could've gone in a better direction while still keeping the same familiar Minecraft feel.

[@pineapplesauce2718]

@Donut-im9lk yeah, tbh the only idea I can think of was to focus on the experience when you create your first world, with Steve helping the main cast out as a mentor. No evil villain, no twist villain, just no villains, the only "antagonists" being each other. Like learning to work together to make something beautiful, despite hardships they face.

[@liquidminds]

steve just does not have any unique features that would ahve worked in the real world. Might be an interesting movie to see how a supersonic hedgehog might work in the real world, but Steve has nothing to offer... The one thing he is famous for is 100% tied to the physics and rules of the minecraft world. It would remove all iconic features of minecraft, including the landscape and the mobs, for the sake of introducing a feature less, bland character into a world that we already know. The reverse, introducing real people into minecraft, is the more natural approach and emulates the game much closer, where you as the player, a real human, are introduced to the world by living in it. It is a fantasy world that you are thrown into to explore. It picks the viewer up where they are, the real world, to move them into the game. People just had that "uncanny"-reaction and doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the first emotion they had, trying to explain how that emotion is the only truth they care about.

[@xemiii]

I don't think that would work. Sonic has a history with human characters, and even if you take Sonic out of the context of his world and friends he still has a strong personality. Steve is a joke name for an avatar. I like Steve, but most players don't even see him since they use custom skins. He is iconic, but unlike Sonic there's nothing that defines him as a character. Sure he mines and crafts, but he doesn't have emotions or motivation. Minecraft Story Mode had the right idea of having distinct characters in the Minecraft world (even if it didn't do an amazing job). Fan content has done a good job too, with Fallen Kingdom being a great example of telling a simple story in the world of Minecraft. By just existing in the game's world (and not being live action people from the real world) the characters just passively embody Minecraft better. TLDR Minecraft is defined by the ingame world, so putting it in the real world takes away the little character there is.

[@Caffin8tor]

My biggest gripe with this movie is not the cringe dialogue or the fact that it's a Jumanji remake in the Minecraft world or even the nightmare fuel mobs. My biggest problem with this movie is the fact that it really would have worked better as a fully animated film, something like the Lego Movie.

[@serperiorandtheanimator9216]

I would like to say I agree with the idea that it is on brand with some of the charming official minecraft animations. They’re brighter colored, and the humor seems to be pretty similar.

[@TheLastApostle]

The movie is entirely based off minecraft legends. The world design and the entire plot

[@LenaPeter-fl3eu]

10:35 If you look very closely to the right you can actually see the villagers

[@Damon_Blue]

I hadn't actually considered a big part of Minecraft's identity being pixel art before. I mean, I knew that was part of Minecraft's look, but I just thought it went back to things being blocky. Essentially, what I'm trying to say is thanks for pointing that out for me, as I've never considered it before.

[@mgj8649]

It's funny how you said that the creeper is supposed to be moss, not fur, because Notch himself actually found it interesting how the creeper in the trailer was "furry" when he originally imagined it like a leafy texture. So even Notch himself thinks the creeper is furry.

[@alex.g7317]

Yeah I was hoping the creeper would look more like those walking cactuses from Rango

[@TheLastApostle]

Its not furry tho. Its mossy. Like clearly lol

[@mgj8649]

@@TheLastApostle My point was what Notch thought it was. But it does kind of look a bit like a mix of furry and mossy to me, not just one or the other; maybe I'm wrong though. The dark setting in the trailer alone though does make it look just furry, so if that's all Notch looked at before he made that conclusion, it would make sense for that to be what he believes.

[@august8679]

Judging realistic Minecraft❌ Realizing that's what Minecraft would look like in real life✔

[@EnderPlayerTV]

They could've just made the MC look like Minecraft Update Trailers

[@drasticdaniel4906]

The environment looks stunning, but then the actual CGI mobs threw me out of it. I wish there was a better way to design them

[@fadillangston9797]

0:19 You're being awfully generous describing anything in this trailer as "funny"

[@veryalive2563]

Talking about these games as brands is the reason why we are in such shit.

[@mallowskycotl]

5:33 that pause 🤣i wonder if kids even get that joke now lol

[@HoldenBarton-f3n]

Wow, a realistic minecrafy mpvie critique that's not just somebody saying how inaccurate and terrible the movie is. Like the mobs do originally look like that just pixelated and I'ma be honest, I like the mob designs.

[@SapkaliAkif]

1:28 I miss the times where Sam Raimi could say "Yeah, web shooters are unnecessary. We are doing web shooting powers." for Spider-man

[@SapkaliAkif]

Also, they should've made the teeth of the animals one set of bone. Drawing teeth one by one makes characters creepy (or sometimes trashy).

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

with minecraft being such a major IP there is just no way an executive would have allowed anything other than a hyper literal interpretation of the minecraft characters. can i just nitpick that they remembered llamas dont have an upper set of front teeth but forgot that sheep also dont which i think adds to the creepiness.

[@DanielLovesArt]

Fantastic video that shows such a clear understanding of what would've gone into making this movie and what boundaries would've been put onto the artists, a level of critical thinking the wider internet had neglected to apply to the discussion. Excellent!

[@fertileplanet7756]

0:35 the fact that this was probably the funniest moment in the entire trailer (probably the whole movie) really says something. It may also be because that joke is exactly how the community reacted to the sheep.

[@v1x4570]

Thank you for actually breaking it down 👍

[@ReddBoi64]

As much as I love Jack Black, I have a mental image in my head of what Steve, as a real human person, would look like. He’s a 6 foot tall bearded beast whose so jacked his arms are as thick as his torso so… not Jack Black

[@f5tornado831]

The sheeps back left leg is either horribly deformed or nonexistent.

[@Chance_Rice]

Leaves≠moss, creeper should not be mossy

[@awesley1725]

It looks like a green screen with cgi on top and people edited in. Minecraft should have been a dnd quest that happens to happen in a cube world

[@galacgacwatson3102]

Finally a game that perfectly encapsulates the body horror in my nightmares! I will never forget the cantaur with a meat slab for front legs

[@the-NITRON]

so now that we've complained about how inaccurate movie adaptations were like with 2007's Bayformers, we now have movie adaptations that stay true to the source material, no matter HOW MUCH it wouldn't translate well when it's coming from something that is made of blocks and pixel art? -also what even ID their excuse for making that sheep so, freakishly off? i mean, in-game their heads weren't THAT grotesquely big, hell you've shown the in-game sheep multiple times! no way they looked at them both and said "ah yes, the same" it was a deliberate choice to make that sheep's head weirdly shaped.

[@maxTheTimeSlasher]

All they needed was to make textures pixelated but instead we got RTX on mod pack. They don't even stick to the Minecraft geometry. You can see round flowers, real life water and fire in some shots. Also, I hated how they didn't just make Steve a Minecraft character. We all know Jack Black is good at voice acting as we saw him as Bowser. Instead we just got Jack Black in a teal shirt.

[@ArtAngelMouse]

I wouldn't like the realistic art versions of them either. This is a nice middle ground, I kinda like it, just not the human characters. Steve not being blocky is weird. We get plenty of Minecraft animations online using the more Minecraft look with less retro looking, so I guess this makes it more distinguishable from any sort of Minecraft animatics.

[@ZoofyZoof]

I actually really really like them and I hope people become more accepting of the realistic minecraft creatures

[@lhumyaki]

basically their mistake was trying to make it "live action" (*not actual live action because everything is cgi)

[@thed4nimator]

if element animation acually voiced villagers, that might save the movie (spoiler, it wont)

[@Caffin8tor]

5:34 did you just make a "what does the fox say?" reference in 2024?? Absolute legend! ❤

[@The_Blunicorn]

Goated video length

[@im_quinn]

honestly I think they tried too hard to have the realism AND the blocky aesthetic when those things really just don't mix well

[@iamnot9541]

The whole big eye-pocking problem with everything media is the need to make things realistic. For some reason everything has to be live-action or adjacent, like that's the pinnacle of human creativity and creation

[@itsjustthemo]

I can't find any other word for the style of the mobs than just disgusting. It's like a creepypasta. "I went into the Mincraft world but the sheep had hyper-realistic eyes and teeth"

[@lorenmax2.013]

My conclusion was: Imagine if instead of making the lego movie with lego characters, they just put real people with fused fingers to have a live action but keep the "Trademark" of the minifigures design

[@pyroonbusinesschannel118]

for the smash one, maybe it was difficult to make steve feel like minecraft while being more ''real'' so maybe they just said screw it and just made him be like in the game cuz its easier

[@Wie_Is_Deze_Gast]

I have no problem with the animation style itself but I just can't get behind the choice to add real life human characters.

[@borko8325]

the update trailers WERE RIGHT THERE!!!

[@TheRandom1212Channel]

i don't care if it is action or comedy, animation or live action it doesn't matter to me

[@MNYQaa]

honestly, could have gone with a DnD route where its not like they show the fact that its a DnD game, but its shown in the outcomes of rolls, like failing miserably on a mundane action

[@Xenomorphfan-zx1zz]

creepers are covered in grass. game theory was right, creepers are indeed plants

[@kingghidorah102]

I wish we got the lego movie treatment instead

[@playlikepig0550]

While this video is a great explanation for why adapting the Minecraft world into a realistic environment is inherently problematic, I feel like this doesn't address the main critique I've heard about the movie's artstyle at all: Nobody I've talked to or heard talk about this has said they did a bad job at making Minecraft's mobs and world realistic, the problem is that they shouldn't have tried making Minecraft realistic in the first place. Adapting Pokémon into a realistic movie is easy. Look at any of the games, especially the newer ones. They're all representations of what a real world might look like if it had Pokémon in it. It takes minimal effort to put elements from the Pokémon games and extended property into a realistic environment, because the games themselves are already trying to be realistic. Same with Sonic, to name the other example you talked about. This doesn't work with Minecraft. Minecraft is and was never trying to be realistic. The physics are not realistic, the gameplay is not realistic, the artstyle is not realistic. Of course Minecraft is largely inspired by the real world, in many of its animals, block types, biomes, et cetera, but largely it is trying to be unique instead of being realistic. Mobs aren't designed to look realistic, because they don't need to be. Most blocks aren't affected by gravity, because realism wouldn't really add anything to the game. Minecraft isn't trying to create the most realistic environment, just one with immense creative potential. Minecraft is inherently unrealistic, which is why the Minecraft Movie had to jump through so many hurdles to force its elements into a realistic environment. Minecraft's defining characteristics do not work in a realistic world, because they weren't designed with realism in mind, and should therefore not be adapted into one. Making the Minecraft Movie into a live action one was a fundamentally terrible idea. The Minecraft Movie should by all means have been an animated movie, upholding and refining Minecraft's artstyle and world, rather than replacing it and forcing its elements into a world they don't belong to.

[@smileyp4535]

Speaking of conspiracies, I have a friend who's in a little too deep, he thinks the president is already decided and voting doesn't matter because both the parties are the same but he doesn't know who will win or why they do different things and have different plans. He thinks kamala had Bluetooth earings even though he couldn't explain what they would even be telling her to say and also doesn't have an explanation why she would have said something false if she was being fed answers. It's kind of sad actually because I ask questions and he then locks onto something and gets all offended or is like "well ok I guess you're just right 100% of the time and just listen to the government" And also he's black and when I showed him the hatian thing wasn't true and they weren't eating cats he said "you cant prove they weren't doing it, maybe the news is covering it up? Lol" Bro wtf?? The news would EXPLODE if there was EVEN 1 example of MAYBE that happening and you would be ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED IT WAS TRUE. And then he gets all butt hurt because I say "no it's not real you just want it to be real" it's sad really

[@the_wolfofmen]

Jake black has been playing Minecraft to make he not going in blind

[@GHR662]

The ghasts don’t have corners it’s a chain

[@tvb5509]

I haven't heard many complaints regarding the Nether mobs. In fact, I've heard many say they're the highlight of the art style, animated and all. Also, Kitty White is not a cat, nor human. She actually has a pet cat of her own.

[@OnimoIndustries]

This is the type of shit you saw on KZbin in 2015 titled “Minecraft mobs in real life”

[@glonx639]

Even if they animated everything in a proper stylistic Minecraft style, the isekai Minecraft plot is not what ANYONE wanted. We wanted the Minecraft movie to be about Minecraft, not about real people going to and reacting to Minecraft.

[@morganfinlayson619]

i think it could’ve been really cool if they animated it like they animate the update trailers, that’s my opinion but idk maybe it would be too difficult to make a full length movie out of

[@jjcoolblair858]

2010s fox joke…noice

[@LandonEmma]

Yep that’s true for the Creeper

[@artycassy]

Nah I completely believe that Matt Berry will voice the villagers. I think that will be the best part of the whole movie. Aside from me practically growing up with Minecraft as a kid and wanting to see the film out of sheer loyalty and curiosity, Matt Berry voicing in this film is the main reason why I want to see it. 😅 (if he’s not the villagers, and Jennifer Coolidge isn’t the ghasts then I have no clue who they’ll be)

[@TheRandom1212Channel]

3:37 they're probally changing the cgi later in the film, i guess they was still making it but it didn't had time to fix to make an trailer, probally because it was already rendered and edited

[@JuhoSprite]

5:34 Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

The idea that minecraft should make a movie is wrong. Its just like story mode, why the fuck are you making an offical story out of a god damn sandbox game?

[@martyreph7987]

I think the only reason story mode somewhat worked was because it took creative liberties but didn't strip the game of its skin or art style. Of course, the game was a bit derpy in some places because it was meant for kids but its studio has shown itself to be competent in making games like The Walking Dead. While the game was derpy it was at least pleasant to look at. I don't know how true this comparison is but it's like striping a game of its style or in comparison its skin, all that's left is an ugly and unpleasant carcass with no life except for the flies around it.

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

@@martyreph7987 ehh, the studio and how they make story games is not something I approve of.

[@jacobgonzalez1386]

​@@Gr3nadgr3gorynot liking the style and the studio is different than Storymode being a bad game.

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

@jacobgonzalez1386 I believe the style of the game is terrible. It's practically an interactive movie. I don't understand why people like anything made like that.

[@leolikestodraw969]

Imo the idea isn't even the problem, but the execution is complicated

[@u12bdragon]

You say that it needs blocks, but I would love a super realistic version, with "Minecraft" not even mentioned in the title. Think about it: people would go to it and enjoy the movie without even knowing it is minecraft, unless they are familiar with the game. The movie would be enjoyed separately from its IP. It would appeal to a wider audience.

[@LuigiDOTexe]

What gets me is that real life sheep don't have top front teeth; that's one of the reasons why the sheep looks so OFF. But here's the thing: the *llama* has no top front teeth, which is anatomically accurate, *but they messed up the sheep.* They can't even be consistently borked in their OWN MOVIE. That inconsistency just screams laziness.

[@_alikasta_1300]

yeah, i think the mobs feel uncanny because that's just not how i'm used to seeing them in my head, so they just look wrong to me. but there's obviously no way to make them look like all interpretations of them at the same time, as you've said, so idk what to do with the mobs if they're just different, personal things to everybody