Cringing at my Old Mons (100K Special)

[@twistedmyth5860]

It's always fun to watch people go from "I'm not an artist" to "Wait, when did I become an artist???" It's just an inevitable when you do art that you become an artist. Also, it's very fun to watch people change and iterate on the designs they've made.

[@zettarin]

I honestly don’t do art enough. I commission a lot but I also want to make more designs

[@Ririxpj]

I’m not an artist, I only doodle every now and then in a school setting (I don’t even know how I could get the most out of the only app I’ll be using for art…)

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

nah i consider myself only an artist at heart, not because im at all good at making art lol

[@RedParagonG]

"Designs are meant to be iterated. If the design caused a grievous misunderstanding? Change it! If you don't like how it looks? Change it!" "Communication is done through art. Whether it's spoken art, written art, or visual art. Often that art is ignored. Thought to be ancillary in straight of reporting numbers. But that's what makes them seem unapproachable. Gatekeeping it behind terminology." "Effective communication is an art. Using various media to effectively relay a point across the students, other educators, neighbors, and even officials. If you think art is just about pretty drawings from a cobbled collection of references? That's frankly a very shallow and shamefully incorrect view of a whole facet of being a social organism. There's more to you than your parts!" These are some powerful lessons I've picked up on in this video. And dang, it has helped you across your artistic journey! Congratulations on 100K subs, n0Rt!

[@monkaeyes3417]

god you are so right about the communication parts of science reports. As someone with ADHD, I really struggle to read texts written in the passive voice. Its so boring it makes it so insanely difficult for me to focus or just simply comprehend words that i've read. As a student, being someone who has to take about 30 minutes to read just the abstract of a report, doing work is way more difficult for me than it should be. If papers were written in a way that was meant to be readable, id be much more functional.

[@kitsofthekats7040]

wait is that why I'm having trouble reading stuff

[@monkaeyes3417]

@@kitsofthekats7040 there's always a chance

[@hubijohn7451]

Honestly, the old designs aren't even that bad. You're just so good now!

[@greenapple9477]

Minter's old designs gave off serious "child's Sonic OC" vibes. 😂 I have my own creature taming project, and this gave me some insight on what style I want my creatures to be in. Thanks.

[@danielcornwall1585]

You managed to turn "toss out my cringe old art" into a "lessons learned/process" video. As well, you showed how you managed to break out of a more Pokemony style to start becoming a unique Stema style

[@ohcadin6590]

A possible idea if you were to redesign the snails... make them based on the sin, cos, and tan waves, with the design referring to how they act at 0... or on the range from [-π, π] ... you could possibly even make a reference to how tan is sin over cos in the final design (possibly by having the sin shell sit on top of the cos shell? Idk)

[@neversparky]

Honestly, a flatworm that can fold into a cube is a pretty fun idea!

[@AWE-Nessy]

the background instuments for the music changing when talking about the conet line was perfect

[@TauGeneration]

there 👏needs 👏to 👏be 👏a 👏STEMA 👏community 👏already👏

[@tincat2347]

If you cringe at your old work; you have grown, and that’s a good thing

[@RoninCatholic]

One of my projects is a proof of concept that reusing the same zoological inspirations for multiple collectible/trainable creatures within a single project isn't a doomed prospect, a game where literally every thing you can get is based on a fox in some way. Some are based on mythical foxes like the kitsune, some are based on uncommonly talked about fox species like the cape fox and cross fox, some are based on idioms like the "foxy lady" fitting your obligatory feminine humanoid slot, some based on wordplay like a bat (flying fox), red squirrel (fox mouse), and red panda (fire fox). I'm determined to make it work even though I'm not as passionate about foxes as I am about rodents or mustelids, I just like them quite a bit.

[@Amphorde]

The thumbnail is gold

[@waflefries]

I think a fun way to do a pseudo-science mon would be mimiku like mon or even ditto or zorua that could pretend to be a actual topic/other mon. Anyway cant wait to see where this project goes and congrats on 100k!

[@astick5249]

What i find most funny is that none of these old designs are even necessarily bad. Its just that the new stuff is even better

[@voch123]

CONGRTS ON 100K! This project is so cool, you deserve it!

[@RandomFolk]

If you look at your past and cringe, it just means you’ve improved from what you once were. Good work Nortis, I wish you luck with stema!

[@j.jsamra]

Your growth in art over the last few years is one of the reasons I've decided to get back into drawing after giving up.

[@childeofepickness]

“oh… that’s art of my old fakemon…”

[@MANGONDRAS]

Me gusta escuhar a personas hablando de un tema mas que interesante especialmente cuando lo hacen cln pasion e intentan comunicar algo, el ver y escuchar como una persona me habla de como ha podido evolucionar y desarrollarse en un area que le apasiona me llena tanto que me hace mas que feliz. Tienes un nuevo subscriptor y muchas gracias 🎉

[@mokshjain5956]

It's just a whole another level of fun when you see a creator that you watched from its beginnings has grown by alot , it was fun being here from the beginningalso keep growing man

[@DeadEndFrog]

The grass starter and its concept is a masterpiece and could be a legit pokémon

[@thequagiestsire]

Honestly this video is so inspiring for my art, I’ve been seriously struggling with keeping up with it alongside things like high school and gender identity exploration, but this video helps me see that those feelings of “god this design sucked, I just want to completely replace it” is normal. You inspired me to make my own creature collector, being focused more on mythos and fantasy rather than STEM concepts, so things like my types are named in things like Greek or Latin (Ignis, Aqua, Silva, etc.) and my designs will be concepts from things like alchemy, mythology, and stuff commonly found in fantasy and maybe religion, not sure on the last one. My Silva/Grass starter is gonna be a kitsune or inu, minorly inspired by Ōkami alongside the fantasy concept of a sentient and raging forest, but every time I draw it, it looks meh and like I wasn’t able to make it look like a starter or like the concepts in question or too much literally like the concepts. It really helps to see that it’s expected to go through several attempts at a design, especially an important one like a starter.

[@Clockehwork]

The new Chippu is a huge improvement; I was never big on the old one, and the ears were a big part of why. Looking forward to whatever that therizinosaur is; huge dino nerd, & it's already one of my favorite STEMA designs.

[@ZenecGD]

That thumbnail reminds me of that one SpongeBob scene where SpongeBob is in the toilet.

[@PBJeater78]

I think you gonna say skibidi toilet right??

[@ZenecGD]

@@PBJeater78 nah that stuff sucks, I would never mention it, even for $10,000.

[@LitPinata]

I never realized they were flushing a plate of corn in that scene!

[@PBJeater78]

​@@ZenecGDFr!!

[@_yarnzgaming_7012]

Some random thing, with my own pokemon like creatures. Ive made plenty. Like over 200 (i could seriously make my own region). But i started back when I was in grade 3 so the mons looked really bad and had terrible names but I kept using the same group of mons, over and over. Improving my art over the years while keeping to the original ideas. The stupid thing is that the names are the exact same. (THE FIRE STARTER WAS NAMED "FLAME'EM" AND WAS JUST A FIREBALL WITH A TAIL AND TINY STUB LEGS. Tho it looks really dope now).

[@achehex]

6:50 My god I love these designs so muuuuuuuuuuch. Even if you had to dip the star stages motif, I hope you get a chance to revisit those body plans and sillhouettes cus they are so good.

[@EOS62035]

the retrospect was awesome, and the speech at the end reached my heart. i'm happy you've grown to be comfortable of your works enough to share it with all of us, and give us advice from your experience! thank you and great video!

[@redopal9796]

Ahh,,, ,,m,,.. the Conet... part entirely, was AGONIZING for me. The trumpet VST playing through the entire section was piercing for my ears, just absolutely painful and also, there is SO MUCH math in music. I have no clue how you would integrate it for a fakemon, but music is simply ratios. look into microtonality (xenharmonic wiki might be a source)- if you want to peer more into the abyss of ways to attempt to approximate those ratios, with people using matrices and geometries and the zeta function as they obsess with prime numbers.

[@FoxGalahArtStuff]

Ok. Here's my own art story. So anyways, my fursona (a fox/phoenix/galah hybrid) went through multiple revisions until she became what she is today. My fursona wasn't even this 3 animal hybrid mythical creature at the start. She was various animals such as a chicken, alicorn (because MLP) and purely a phoenix. In 2017 and 2018 she was Pokemon specieses like a Latias, Heliolisk and Latias/Lunala hybrid. The species of my fursona was finalised in 2019 when I learnt that galahs existed. However, her design wasn't finished yet. It went through lots of revisions. One that I want to talk about is about some skill issue. The proportions on one version (more specifically one made in 2020) were horrendous! The limbs were too short and the body was too long! This wasn't my fault as I followed a proportions guide a little bit too hard and didn't notice until 2021. Artwork of her final design with proper proportions was made in 2022. However, I noticed these off proportions in 2021 but didn't create the art until 2022 and used the horrible proportions version as a placeholder. Also don't forget my character has a protogen form and she used to have wings! Wings are illegal on protogens without consent. I tried to justify it but it was still breaking the protogen rules so I redesigned her in 2023 so she could have a jetpack to fly with instead.

[@Greul.]

Bro, we need to thank you, for showing us your beautiful drawings and your incredible knowledge of art and scientific topics with these interesting little monsters. Really you work is wonderful.

[@Camo1177]

Even though they don’t fit with the current aesthetic of the Stema project, I love the OG Minter line and I want them as plushies

[@ack7]

I really thought that you were going to show us a design iteration based Stema at the end of this video

[@EzraTheHomie]

Love the design of Conet, it's really cute. Could be a nice lil gimmicky single stage, like a Pincurchin or Pyukumuku. The red or silver designs are both really cute

[@sosasees]

i used to plan making a rhythm game, which i abandoned because i couldn't get enough level ideas. maybe i _can_ make that game someday because this video inspired me to try a new approach for coming up with level ideas: instead of trying to fit my levels around random cartoon scenarios i could base my levels on music theory concepts and create the cartoon afterwards - maybe with each level's description having an "inspirations" tab that lists or explains the level's most important inspirations. this doesn't mean i _will_ get enough level ideas but now i have a place to look 🙂

[@azzahnoble]

I HATE trying to add art to turn STEM into STEAM. Not cos art is lesser or easier than science, tech, engineering or maths, but because I feel art genuinely doesn’t fit in amongst them. It’s too different. I get trying to remove the whole science vs. art antagonistic dichotomy, but implying they’re the same is an over correction. I like the metaphor of a plate of food. STEM can be the food and art can be the plate. Both are important for a nutritious diet. After all, the most amazing food in the world looks unappealing if served badly, or even becomes dangerous if served unhygienically. Doesn’t mean we need to add crockery to the food pyramid.

[@The7thLysineinyourDNA]

I called it (Also 9:58 he pulled a Meowscarada)

[@ilyatepeyolotich6459]

Having a ditto pseudoscience mon sounds fun. Or more like zoroark. Like it may look like anything but in battle its pretty weak.

[@superspider64]

I think you could still rework minter's first form as a sort of mint-like seed maybe, give it a little curly plant stem like baby hair and waddly goomba feet or something

[@nightmonsirecactus5929]

Ok I unironically love tuchlea, I would be interested in seeing a redesign/concept inspired by it Planeray is adorable and wedgish looks neat. On design alone, I love them.

[@ceresthestarspinner4609]

I remember so much of this old art…

[@finlay3849]

Tbh Tuchlea would be the first ever Fire-starter I would even consider using

[@ianzhou7010]

100K... I remember watching you since 30K. You've grown a lot...

[@meeb_consumer]

I honestly really like the older grass starter-

[@CoralReaper707]

Man, you've come a long way, haven't you?

[@GoatGuy36]

It’s incredible how fast you channel has grown, it feels like you only had 1000 subscribers last week

[@luukthegamer]

The old Behavian design is soooo cute i love it so much!!! Sad that its not gonna be used New design is still better tho

[@zalkarkazakbaev6691]

Velomu and accelerwary, they look like a regional form for your posishum line 9:07

[@caldineescogroft8831]

Honestly the ornaith comcept sounds really cool, imagine a region where you get only one normal type starter but depending our there moves our evs they can evolve into a different middle evolution gaining the fire, grass our water type and for the final evolution they could each chose a secondary type

[@carloseliasmartinez6221]

Congrats on your 100k! Your channel was such a great discovery and as a Pokemon fan and Science and Maths teacher I'm really looking forward to the STEMa region release! And who knows, maybe in a years we'll have a sequel on the arts theme :D

[@michaelolympus5994]

Your wordings always gets me to watch your video more

[@LittleTimmy2016]

8:50 Sir, the second milimit has hit the towers

[@gorritoconperro9077]

be kind on yourself this are also pretty good , you are a great artist and its great to see the evolution

[@brew_toct]

YOOOO Congrats on 100k! I am so happy to see you come such a long way, I remember subscribing at around 5-6k IIRC, so seeing you slowly grow was so exciting

[@mattu53]

Congrats, so happy for you. Been following you since I left FDS years ago, so impressed with your commitment and success. Keep it up!

[@lilylunamoonyt]

imho the minter line is kinda cool tbh, i kinda dig humanoid creature designs if i'm honest

[@caracaracat2958]

Congrats on 100k!! I love your current creature designs and hope you keep improving for many more months :]

[@thisorthat2497]

CONGRATS ON 100K!!!!

[@ExlhkA]

I forgot how much I love nortist videos man keep it up Chears to 100k

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Ngl I would love to watch your drawing process!

[@elliotmidgley]

Sihorn doesent just give magcargo vibes he gives the whole magcargo orchestra

[@Scribbables]

Constantly wishing I could leave more than one like on your videos! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! I love STEMA!!!

[@poweredbymoonlight9869]

*n0Rtist* - I really like both your older as well as your newer designs!

[@CamelRoach]

What a lovely journey you had

[@cedwardcutts5797]

I just want Conet. Not either of the Evos. Just Conet as a standalone.

[@okeanos317]

I mean your designs were awesome before,and still awesome after the redesign for the most part

[@EduSolsa]

Thanks for sharing those old desings

[@Ririxpj]

6:54 stage 2 of the early design here looks like a mon that I would use, honestly

[@Ririxpj]

Now that I’m thinking about it, not that I haven’t ever before thought about it, I want to be an artist but I haven’t even figured out my own grounds; I haven’t found what would make my so-called art better. I’ve, truly, found nothing so far. Thinking about it, I might just change my profile picture as well, as I’m currently kind of inspired to try something more… unique than just my Roblox avatar’s head. You know what, I’ll try. I’ll try and see what I think may suit me well. Maybe I’ll change my username, too, since there’s no real inspiration behind it… not anymore, anyways.

[@Ririxpj]

I mean, I could start with pencil and paper, getting the concept right first before actually doing it… But, wait, don’t I need a point of reference, an idea, a deeper meaning behind it? And how exactly am I supposed to turn something, that is just a concept made up of words, into qualities of a creature/character/etc.’s design? And aren’t there principles I need to follow? Certain rules or things? Why am I bothered by any of this? I should just try a design, just a simple shape, a simple idea. I have to start off small.

[@ekekelanapoleon2550]

congrats on 100k n0rt!

[@FantomMind]

I cannot wait till this is playable. Keep at it!

[@BonnyJohn]

congrats to you my guy! love how you can put yourself out there and watch yourself grow, the quality of your work is night and day, but i think we're all proud that you're able to see your missteps and recalculate from there. keep it up as we continue to root for you!

[@konakg8174]

While they redesigns look amazing, make sure you don't get stuck in development hell. Good talk on the art part. There's still a ways to go when it comes to incorporating art in stem, but it's at least acknowledged now. I pretty much guessed you were a chem major as well because of how you approach the sciences. It's a field that demands a lot of abstraction for the sake of understanding.

[@moof1224]

Ngl conet is adorable, I kinda love him

[@williamclancy-jundt118]

I'm in the first four comets! Well time to learn from someone else's mistakes...

[@user-fn8xi1jg4]

Dude love your work this is really funny but next i think it'll be fun to revisit your better works that got you hear

[@dispenser996]

I love the videos as always, especially the engagement in philosophy. Good job on 100K, you earned it! Also I think it would be funny if there was a Stema-mon that looked like the Eye of Sauron lol.

[@firelolbit]

Thank u for giving people like me a better understanding of art and stem topics also ,mind if I ask, but I would love if ur outro theme song was accessable cause it's a banger nlg

[@Dunbit]

AAAAAAAHHHHH I LOVE YOUR CONTENT AAAAAAAHHHHHH

[@robinsuva9367]

CONGRATS! First time catching a video in under an hour aswell.

[@NavyaBhatt-ed8bw]

This is going to be fun :) also first!

[@davinogarcia5665]

This video was fantastic!! Very inspiring too

[@MAtuSKoo5394]

WE ARE MAKING A GAME WITH THIS ONE🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

[@guse7688]

Great vid, snort! Excited for the next

[@mrpiggly]

Congrats on 100k

[@josh8901]

Smokes and Conet are really cool design on their own :D. One thing I noticed about your water starter is the fact that the feet of the first two stages feel not connectedness the body. Maybe it would be possible to add the kind of feed design of the last stage of the water starter?

[@adphoenix600]

Bro I always love this music

[@Blowter]

*”oh, that’s real nice.”*

[@samuelbushway1054]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@devaneciadelport2647]

I can't wait :D

[@kensizhang5398]

Hey there! I’ve been watching you for a bit and I’ve noticed that I prefer your lineless style much for than the Pokemon replica style. Your designs don’t really conform to Pokemon either so I think it would be awesome if you leaned into more of the lineless with your eventual game. They look great! Keep it up!

[@emolgaisourlordandsavior]

13:06, did anyone else notice the glitch when he said not Really? 🤔

[@thedizzytuna]

Is it wrong that I kinda prefer some of these 😅 like don't get me wrong you've certainly grown but the grass starter is such a more intriguing and fun design to me and I like the look of the OG water starters more than what we've landed on. I feel like the finch mon idea needs to be used in Stema it has potential to be my favorite Also when you talked about your acceleration birds you mentioned blank spots but I do think having clear design is easier sometimes to visually digest. I love both the flightless and flying designs but if I were to change one thing about either it'd be how busy the flying ones look I feel like they could use some more blank spaces to help the design feel more visually appealing. That being said you have really improved a lot. Minter works a lot better as a single stage mon although the baby form might be my favorite off of sheer cute factor.

[@----S.]

Oh...its gore, its gore of my comfort character

[@sosasees]

i just realised how _all_ game dev is some sort of STEMA project 🤯 Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Art ## Science many game mechanics are based off real world physics. driving simulatiors and flight simulators attempt to simulate physics exactly but most games - like parkour games and fun racers - have cartoony physics. cartoony physics are _not_ totally unrealistic, just exaggerated. and playtesting is science: when you first make any part of a game, you can just guess how people are going to play it. only through playtesting can you find out how people _really_ play. ## Technology video games are always made for computers using a programming language. they can not be made with any other kind of technology: • if you try to make a video game without a programming language, you get a custom level for an already‑made video game. • if you try to make a video game without computers, you get something like a sport or a table top game. ## Engineering to keep a good overview of the game's source code, you have to plan how it's all going to fit together. and optimization is just as tricky as other engineering. ## Mathematics the computer calculates _a lot_ of mathematical equations which the game devs added so the game does certain things like • counting time • calculating how fast something moves in which direction • rolling a random number • rolling a number that has been pre‑randomised with a seed • setting the right audio volume based on the audio settings and computer graphics are all math, calculating the color of every pixel ## Art all good games have art - and design, which is art with the purpose of making things easy to understand. the right music and visuals make a game _much_ more impactful than it ever could be with just the STEM elements: players just _love_ them some good colors and movement with fitting music and sounds.

[@greenapple9477]

Very good points!

[@fjdpaco]

Old Minter isn't THAT bad, but I get that it might look like those "human-like" mons that show up in weird places.

[@Unknown-rz6vi]

Secondly HOW THE HECK DID YOU NOT HAVE AT LEAT 500k AT THIS POINT?!?!

[@gkgeze]

Congrats!!

[@meow-gk8gz]

how dare you!! those are good designs

[@jephteesesa6180]

I know it's weird to ask this to a art channel but when the stema is over I would really like to see how you managed to program the game

[@oliverdavies4748]

Let him cook, let him cook