The Evolution of Club Penguin's Art Style ft. Former Club Penguin Artists! | Render Breakdown

[@valentin-mj2dq]

Am I the only one who noticed he's wearing Gary's clothes?

[@polofield]

Nope, I noticed that, too 😊

[@uppityducky]

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.

[@OrimaJam]

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

[@purplenerdsplushie]

is that intentionally gary's clothes because thats such a cute detail if so

[@thomoclock]

haha of course it is!

[@krisariash]

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 “

[@thomoclock]

yeah! it was so cool definitely felt the shift there as well

[@hasanmohamad5579]

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.

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Bro is going back to my real childhood, so much nostalgia for the last two penguins in the thumbnail

[@amesstarline5482]

See this, this I appreciate that- attention to later times.

[@scheddoc]

Damn, and I’m nostalgic for the first two.

[@Dialga22239]

Wow, you really nailed the Artstyle! :D It's amazing, how you got both into an Interview and also then reviewing your Artworks. Thanks for this Video, it's very entertaining ;P

[@thomoclock]

Haha this was several interviews across several days!

[@PDD555]

Yeah, this was one of club penguin's aspects that I always found interesting. But never had made a deep dive

[@SC1Sam]

Love this video! I signed up for Club Penguin in late 2009, and IMO, the gradual progression of the room style guide was noticeable as well.

[@mephisto8884]

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.

[@dchiqui87]

Mad respect for being willing to step outside your comfort zone with these interviews, Im very excited about the direction this channel is headed. Cant wait to see more from you!

[@kerfluffl]

Agreed!

[@ItsDreamiee]

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!"

[@estela5973]

yeah i definitely thought of them as older since they all have jobs and stuff.

[@newcpofficial]

Thanks for this awesome video! The community really appreciates it. :)

[@Jman-367]

new thom o'clock upload after I just cooked dinner let's fucking go

[@ScaryMeadow]

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

[@thomoclock]

@@ScaryMeadow i know you came from the Hellsite

[@Bluestk]

Fantastic video! Honestly as someone who has documented a lot of Club Penguin side and talked to a few people (mostly on the music side), it's always really interesting seeing different sides like the art, tbh Club Penguin has one of my fav art styles around. Also I appreciate you covering all the eras and not glossing by some of the later years, which I tend to see a lot in videos like these. Also minor thing regarding the AS terms, I've seen that a lot of people just use it to mean Art Style 1-3 now due to the actionscript thing not being accurate. (most of Club Penguin was in ActionScript 2 even when it first launched and ActionScript 3 was used as early back as 2010 and basically was the main language by like 2012 so I never thought it worked, I personally just go with the term Era 1-3 but I do quite like your classifications, especially with mentions of how they're not super concrete and have a lot of overlap which is something I've realized, also being super nitpicky you could argue 2014 tended to have a slightly different look, mainly noticeable with the more detailed lighting, but that's just me being nitpicky and idk if it would count lolol) Also really nice job on the art as well! I will say that could you maybe mention the Club Penguin music you used for the video specifically? I can help you provide specific credits for songs in the description if you want since I have everything documented.

[@Casperrlin]

Oooh, unexpected choice, but a welcome one! Super cool to be able to finally put faces behind all the artwork I saw so much of as a kid, and even hear some of the stories and reasons behind them! Love that kind of insight. Thank you for the work you put into this series man 🙏

[@cyberfruits_]

thanks a lot to this video, club penguin was a huge part of my childhood, specially on third grade too! i´ve discovered this render breakdown series pretty recently and im obsessed with it, so it was pretty fun to see a club penguin episode.

[@cyberfruits_]

(also loved the gary cosplay)

[@thuzi5518]

u nailed the club penguin style wtf

[@ElbowStuff]

Awesome vid! I want to make my own Club Penguin art style vision now

[@DaNintendude]

I discovered your channel with the Sonic video, and I was surprised to see another so soon! I really appreciate the amount of detail you go into in these videos. It's genuinely a great starting point for emulating these artstyles. I played Club Penguin for years as a kid. Very big part of my childhood. It's so cool to hear about the thought processes behind how the artstyle evolved over the years. Massive props for actually going back and improving upon the artworks you did based on the critiques you received! I was hoping you'd do it, but I wasn't expecting it. You truly went above and beyond with the effort you put into them.

[@TheSuperqami]

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)

[@safenobisonho1549]

2015 was when Club Penguin Island started being created, so they gave more priority to it instead

[@TheSuperqami]

@ yeah i feel like that was implied, i played island too, so sad how that ended up

[@ishidk]

Another banger video my dude!! Every one of these videos it shocks me how much you nail each style lol It was super interesting to see the feedback you got too, always insightfull to get notes from the artists themselves If it ever interested you, it would be sick to see a video breaking down the Danganronpa art styles, the differences in the mainline games' art style can be really subtle but it would be really cool to watch a proper breakdown of what differenciates each game's signature look^^ Keep up the amazing work!!!!!!

[@smoopinc]

This was such a fun and extremely insightful video! This game is so near and dear to my heart and it's always awesome learning more so long after its end. Thanks for using my little lo-fi cover, it led to me finding your amazing channel :)

[@thomoclock]

thanks for your awesome tracks :)

[@kerfluffl]

This was an incredible video and such an insight to one of my favourite childhood games. I played between 2008-2013 and my dream as a kid was always to work for club penguin. It’s so great that you managed to get personal interviews with both Chris and Ryan, props to you for having such confidence to reach out. I’m currently in my last year of uni studying Illustration and it is surreal to hear my old role-models discuss illustration terminology when now I am of the age to actually understand this sort of stuff :’) Brilliant postcards btw, I think you nailed each penguin era!

[@estela5973]

thank you for this interview, it's actually super interesting to know how decisions are made in big projects in more depth. it's also an important reminder on how club penguin wasn't (necessarily) changed as the years went by just because of that "disney is purposely ruining our childhood game for profit!!1!1'!" narrative but also because there was technical thought put into by actual artists who were trying their best to keep the game modern and alive. that means, it's always good to hear and remember the real, normal people involved in creative processes in order to avoid black and white thinking like some youtubers do lol. the postcards look sick btw

[@celestialdragonlord]

This is such an amazing video!! I played Club Penguin so much as a kid and it’s so awesome to revisit these influential art styles and learn about how these things were made. I can say Club Penguin’s art style was definitely a big inspiration for my own art as a adult and learning how it’s made is so cool!

[@123ABCabby]

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

[@cozyvrc]

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

[@thomoclock]

hehe i did steal his line

[@cozyvrc]

@ I was wondering if that was the case😭

[@AngelBagatella]

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

[@maryrosekrouse4089]

Gary the Gadget Guy cosplay I see you ;)

[@blakeearth]

Wow, what an awesome project! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this.

[@ballisticfluffygaming]

HES DRESSED AS GARY THE GADGET GUY AHHH

[@cheziscool1234]

0:06 club penguin was a flash game

[@ItsGravix]

Amazing video !!

[@tomasnanni5594]

Incredible video, your production quality is excellent especially for such a new/small channel

[@toast89]

bomb ass video 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@InkAirplane]

Great video with a lot of insight :D

[@mug3765]

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.

[@tophatgeo]

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!

[@portalgungamer1815]

Discovered your channel from the Ace Attorney video, amazing stuff!! If you're open to requests, could you do a Render Breakdown on the art in Kirby Super Star: Ultra? It's very much some kind of 3D render, but I've always wondered how it was done!

[@tacticalturtleneck7544]

Could you do an art breakdown of any of the atlus games? Like Metaphor Refantzio and the Persona series or maybe even some of the disney/pixar artstyles

[@thomoclock]

it's queued up for december :)

[@tacticalturtleneck7544]

@@thomoclock CAN'T WAIT! Greatly appreciated until then will continue to watch whatever else you put out!

[@d3spii]

Awesome video!

[@s0sblue]

This is great content, man!

[@pieabout]

too underrated

[@JonSafari]

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

[@ryanschroeder2956]

One of the most easy to draw animal designs, not just for furry art, but before MLP, the penguins design were my spirit animals. The beaks made me want to noseboop them, and their body designs made me want to hug and cuddlw them. I would draw them all the time back then!

[@sentiantpineapple8618]

i have an artsyle request thats probably a big challenge compared to what youve done so far. The art style of Marvel Rivals character art. I know its new but the art style has alot of people incuding me in love so id love for you to try it out

[@justbooks8419]

Dos segundos en el vídeo y se que voy a llorar

[@NikimonxD]

Nice video btw

[@NikimonxD]

Hi!

[@thomoclock]

heyo!

[@Vicsterr821]

Could you do Henry Stickmin for a future video ?

[@cheziscool1234]

i love the grilled cheese postcard

[@snowman21279]

hell yea

[@arkansio]

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

[@RubiAkito]

Puffels are the only thing i can draw 😭

[@thomoclock]

better than nothing, keep at it!

[@RubiAkito]

@@thomoclock Thank you

[@StarryScribbles]

they animorphed

[@EdgyMiku]

sigma

[@thomoclock]

true

[@MediumRareBacon]

gary ahh fit

[@thomoclock]

bro thinks he's gary fr 💀

[@localgrassfieldboneshandler]

I do prefer the original penguin design but what surprises me is that i prefer most new room redesigns. Except for town, i wish town kept more of its originality but updated.

[@ProjectMirai64]

Great video!