I definitely teared up at the end. I may not have been alive [or old enough] to experience some of the greatest art alive, but I have definitely developed a major respect for it.
I can say, back in the 90s pc games were with big blocky pixels, not blury like console games. PC monitors were much sharper than TV sets. So being pixelated does not come from emulators. But you might be right, that for some people, who hat a console instead of a pc in the ninties might have a different experience
@Protomanbeawsome It doesn't matter in the end if you're good or not, but more if you had try to learn it. Art (drawing, painting) are skills learned. There's no such thing as "born" talent. What people seem to forget when say: Oh you had talent, it's the effort and time spended in learning. Just don't give up and never give up, keep going.
I was like you until I decided to learn and now I'm happy with my skill.
But be smart when training, set a goal for each session of training.
Pixel art on the DOS PC games in the late 80's-early 90's i always thought was the best. Back as a kid games like the original duke nukem,commanda keen,winter games,street rod2,dave2 and winter games looked so bright and vibrant. Even to this day i still like that style of game gfx. For me in them days you truly got lost within the games. Amazing era it was
Just another dude talking about something he never did as a kid...
These hipster types have their f#%&ing iPhones, where the music player is a tape when in fact they are to young to ever have listened to a tape. Duh man it's retro... retro my ass... it's old, it's outdated, it's obsolete. Those of us having lived in times where we had no HD, would never praise the pieces of shit techs we had (not including sentimental valued items).
i can get what your talking about i played final fantasy 13... got bored and went to play final fantasy 6 and it's so more fun.. it's got more feel about it the story is sooo much better and they never really cared about graphics just keeping the player entertained i have so much nostalgia to go back and play all these games
I'm creating a cute, "life simulator" game engine. It will enable you to do ANYTHING and its PIXELY!
But I dont have time to paint and script at same time, so if your a pixel artist that wants to join this project. Check out my channel for videos, and send me a pm.
Sorry for AD but its hard to find good sprite artists..
Please cut out Rohrer next time. Mentioning and showing those pixel art music clips is ok, but where is Cavestory, Eboy, Pixeljoint, Henk Nieborg, or actually anything detailed?
This documentary is about pixels as something abstract, while pixels have become the masters of iconic details!
And for the old school: There is so many people who did great things with the difficult restrictions and resolutions.. But in stead you have only shown the 'programmer (f)arts'!!
Rohrers stuff, ugly or not, it does not represent pixel art the way we know it.
Not in the old school way, because of its thousands of colors and strangely distorted canvas.
Not in the new school way, lacking the use of pixel arts powers such as detail or iconism.
Like he says it, this is just a form of simplified/abstracted art, which has randomly taken shape of pixels. Just as well it could have been vector or whatever else.
I disagree. Pixel art in it's original form, like I mean in the 80's or something could perhaps be called 'simple', but not abstract. It was trying to be as iconic as possible, which is the exact opposite of abstract.
In modern pixel art people are able to choose if they want difficult restrictions or not, and in most great works I have seen detail is the biggest strength. The power to create high resolution images and yet have control over each single pixel!
Not even mentionning eBoy, even if purist hates them, is a shame. But it's very hard to be both objective and exhaustive about pixel art. It's a good documentary anyway...
..I cant believe pixel powerhouses like "Thisfool" "badassBill" and the myriad bamfs of pixelly-goodness from pixel-joint haven't been mentioned. Many of the users at Pixel-Joint are amongst the BEST of the BEST in this whole art-style! Many, like Artooi, famous for the game "Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel" are residents there. As a pixel-artist myself, I'm insulted by this.
Why isn't this talking at all about the golden age of pixel art, the 16-bit era, when all the really amazing stuff was made. "first there were these NES games and you couldn't tell what anything was and then the indie scene rediscovered it 200 years later!". And it doesn't even interview any good (or even decent) pixel artist. I wish someone who actually knows their shit would make a pixel art documentary.
hmm pixels are created digitally, but when miyamoto was thinking how to make super mario he drew them on paper first, so tbh you can make pixel art with out a computer, you can draw a grid and use shading or colours for different pixels, i mean im doing that right now im my fine arts class, im looking at miyamoto and what motivated him into making the characters that he made and why he made them
@lisn92 It's no longer made using pixels. Like if you draw a picture of a stone statue it isn't made of stone. That stuff is a extension of pixel art, which I do find really awesome though. Miyamoto made Mario the way he is because of pixels, not because he likes the blocky asthetic, he didn't have a choice.
the sentiment in this doc was a little over the top. but please stop misusing/overusing the word 'hipster'. it's about as annoying as someone using the word 'artsy'. total over-generalization/mis-categorization.
This is really impressive. You go into a lot of detail of an intricate but overlooked style of expression. Thanks for presenting such a brilliant view on pixel art!
Pretty nice, but why didn't you talk to any pixel artists?
What you're talking about here is really only one pretty small aspect of pixel art (indie developers using it because of nostalgia or because it's easy to produce passable art this way).
Also, Rohrer must have had the world's worst TV back then. Playing old games on a CRT isn't like he describes it at all.
@J0cked Rohrer's description matched my experience... mostly. The part about the effect on the gamer of going from a TV to an emulator did, anyway. The part about not being able to distinguish the fairy's arm from her head solely because of the TV's blurriness... not so much. But anyhow, all the TVs' images I knew as a kid were blurry compared to a perfectly crisp rectangular grid, and that was certainly important. I still prefer to play old games on a TV, for that reason.
Very moving documentary! Though the idea that the games that shaped my child hood were in fact crappy seemed absurd at first, the realisation that the emotion and stage of my life factored into the enjoyement of the experience, I've always been a believer that game play is the most important, though if given the choice between two very playable games, I will choose the one with the most realistic graphics. Which was a mindset I held throughout my years as a teen. Nowadays I'm rethinking the rule
@AnimusBehemoth Aha, I was just taking a stab at him. I saw a heap of other people commenting similar things, and thought I'd pretend to be a nuisance.
Rohrer doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Calling CRT’s “blurry” and saying nothing about the effect of scanlines? Ignoring the fact that manuals such as Super Mario Bros. and Zelda had blown-up pixelicious images of the enemies and items? Ugh.
This is a bunch of hipsters trying to appropriate a style so they can artwank about the "essence" or "meaning" of the pixel or whatever.
More wrong ideas in this video: "pixel art" = "low res," "simple," or "abstract." The false distinction between "created digitally" vs. "created by hand." The implication that you can't be blown away by incredibly detailed pixel art. Of course, this isn't helped by using Rohrer's ugly stuff instead of an awesome example like Shatterhand, Metal Slug, or pretty much any 2D fighting game.
In fact, the more "literacy" you have (to use Rohrer's term), the less likely you are to be impressed by anything he's doing.
I did like Joe Brumm's comments about animation, at least. But yeah. An honest title for this video would be, "The low-res retro indie hipster artgames aesthetic."
@salient47 He also isn't mentioning the fact that CRT screens were lower scale thus the screen wasn't as stretched as it is on emulators... this is why there are many filters and blending options that he never mentioned. if you can see the individual pixels in a game you are doing it wrong.
interesting video, thanks for this look at pixels, and people are ding with them still today, pixel art, is kinda a lost form of art, but it's nice to see people still using them
I know for me personally, my love of pixel art is mostly due to nostalgia, however, I think it's possible that it will have an appeal all of its own as an art to those who will not have lived in the pixel era. I have told people for years that portrait painting did not go away when photography came around in reference to 2D animation vs 3D. I think the same can be said of pixel art.
@LadyElfie I asked all my interviewees if they think it has value to people not familiar. They all gave a similar response and speculated it would never die out. It will be interesting to see what happens when we get some new screen tech that makes pixels close to obsolete.
I'm in the neutral zone on 2D and 3D... I know I've grown up with 2D and played it until PS1 time and the Orignal Xbox, it's just time to move on... A little fact here: Do you want to see a 8-16 bit explosion or a 3D explosion where the true color is... Not bashing on it... But it's what "realism" is bout... =\
When the first 3d consoles were released,like ps one saturn etc, some wise guys in a couple of game magazines was saying that the 2ds are dead! Well in the way i see it they are not,in fact they grow in houndreds of newer versions of 2d games other with polygons and others with clasic sprites.Like megaman 9-10.The 2ds are never gonna die.....NEVER and this is because those were the games that have started all,golden ages was named,those old days!
@lavalevel Don't be upset. I didn't knock the vid or anything, just telling you what I thought. I think you sound very monotone and the accent, to my ears, is difficult to understand. I would do that part over, the rest seems spot on.
Pixel art has been around for a while now... and it's on its way too I must say unfortunately... I have inclination that the generation who never knew 8 or 16 bit will come of age and not feel a particular special attachment to the pixel style. I wouldn't be surprised if lo-res 3D is experimented with.
@thejobloshow I have agree with you on this one. The newer generation growing up with the Playstation 3 or even 2 I don't think care that much About the history of gaming or were it came from
I definitely teared up at the end. I may not have been alive [or old enough] to experience some of the greatest art alive, but I have definitely developed a major respect for it.
CreemeOfCheese 2 weeks ago
when he say chisel and stone theres a penis 09:40
pigcow1 2 weeks ago
I can say, back in the 90s pc games were with big blocky pixels, not blury like console games. PC monitors were much sharper than TV sets. So being pixelated does not come from emulators. But you might be right, that for some people, who hat a console instead of a pc in the ninties might have a different experience
krux02 3 weeks ago
I really wanna try pixel art if anyone knows a prorgram that I can download
please tell me.
Protomanbeawsome 1 month ago
@Protomanbeawsome software doesn't matter, but a good software for pixel art it's graphics gale.
Software can't teach you perspective, color theory, tonal values, anatomy. Which are more important to know to make images than the software used.
If you can't make good images with paper, ink, pencil and color pencils, photoshop can't help too much.
cristianceron1989 3 weeks ago
@cristianceron1989
I am not good at drawing at all,but I think I can ,better create images on a computer
using small multi-colored squares
Protomanbeawsome 3 weeks ago
@cristianceron1989
I understand art I am just not good at it
Protomanbeawsome 3 weeks ago
@Protomanbeawsome It doesn't matter in the end if you're good or not, but more if you had try to learn it. Art (drawing, painting) are skills learned. There's no such thing as "born" talent. What people seem to forget when say: Oh you had talent, it's the effort and time spended in learning. Just don't give up and never give up, keep going.
I was like you until I decided to learn and now I'm happy with my skill.
But be smart when training, set a goal for each session of training.
Good luck.
cristianceron1989 3 weeks ago
great documentary, that end compilation was quite teary :')
wateverwill 1 month ago
Mona Lisa 1956?
machimetalthor 1 month ago
It's not 11:00 mins. it's 10:59!!!!!
HeManPerson 1 month ago
<3 harry potter
TigerFallOut 2 months ago
Amazing, creative, and overall well done documentary.
UnStableProgrammer 2 months ago
1080p
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minecraft
your video
DJSch0ck 2 months ago
Gotta love pixel art.
ChowMeinChowdown 3 months ago
zomg it's the IBM 5100!!!
1tach1m4ng3ky0u 3 months ago
narrator wake the ef up man ur mumbling like a bitch
gadigadigadigadi 3 months ago
If i had a dollar for every pixel in this video I would have lots of money.
Fizzmobile 3 months ago
Pixel art on the DOS PC games in the late 80's-early 90's i always thought was the best. Back as a kid games like the original duke nukem,commanda keen,winter games,street rod2,dave2 and winter games looked so bright and vibrant. Even to this day i still like that style of game gfx. For me in them days you truly got lost within the games. Amazing era it was
fpvshitsonhsv 3 months ago
How was minecraft not mentioned in here?
benblue3 3 months ago
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Just another dude talking about something he never did as a kid...
These hipster types have their f#%&ing iPhones, where the music player is a tape when in fact they are to young to ever have listened to a tape. Duh man it's retro... retro my ass... it's old, it's outdated, it's obsolete. Those of us having lived in times where we had no HD, would never praise the pieces of shit techs we had (not including sentimental valued items).
ttclsp 4 months ago
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ttclsp 4 months ago
i can do pixel art! ______ There. it's a worm.
straaler5 4 months ago
i can get what your talking about i played final fantasy 13... got bored and went to play final fantasy 6 and it's so more fun.. it's got more feel about it the story is sooo much better and they never really cared about graphics just keeping the player entertained i have so much nostalgia to go back and play all these games
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Check out a new documentary...Go-Go Girl: a documentary about Tiffany, a malibu basted art student by day and professional go-go dancer by night!
YouTube: mydogspotproductions
mydogspotproductions 5 months ago
CAN YOU PIXEL PAINT?!
I'm creating a cute, "life simulator" game engine. It will enable you to do ANYTHING and its PIXELY!
But I dont have time to paint and script at same time, so if your a pixel artist that wants to join this project. Check out my channel for videos, and send me a pm.
Sorry for AD but its hard to find good sprite artists..
GamersDreamGame 5 months ago
Amazing!
realfearclown 5 months ago
Why is it that chiptunes always sound "fake"? There has yet to be a chiptune song made that actually sounds like it came from an older console...
S0ryiu 6 months ago
this guy is talking out of his edge connector, or his RAM pack is fried, 2:41 onwards, complete bollocks, 8x8 since '81....go get an education kid.
SingularityEmulator 8 months ago
i think the pixels in the middle of the eye at 0:04 looks like a mario head!!
skrolli99 8 months ago
Please cut out Rohrer next time. Mentioning and showing those pixel art music clips is ok, but where is Cavestory, Eboy, Pixeljoint, Henk Nieborg, or actually anything detailed?
This documentary is about pixels as something abstract, while pixels have become the masters of iconic details!
And for the old school: There is so many people who did great things with the difficult restrictions and resolutions.. But in stead you have only shown the 'programmer (f)arts'!!
MrHapiel 8 months ago
Rohrers stuff, ugly or not, it does not represent pixel art the way we know it.
Not in the old school way, because of its thousands of colors and strangely distorted canvas.
Not in the new school way, lacking the use of pixel arts powers such as detail or iconism.
Like he says it, this is just a form of simplified/abstracted art, which has randomly taken shape of pixels. Just as well it could have been vector or whatever else.
Please discover real pixel art and artists!
MrHapiel 8 months ago
@Amazerfulify
I disagree. Pixel art in it's original form, like I mean in the 80's or something could perhaps be called 'simple', but not abstract. It was trying to be as iconic as possible, which is the exact opposite of abstract.
In modern pixel art people are able to choose if they want difficult restrictions or not, and in most great works I have seen detail is the biggest strength. The power to create high resolution images and yet have control over each single pixel!
MrHapiel 8 months ago
good information but please turn down the music
19gregorx51 8 months ago
Not even mentionning eBoy, even if purist hates them, is a shame. But it's very hard to be both objective and exhaustive about pixel art. It's a good documentary anyway...
bako976 9 months ago
When you start spouting numbers 23 seconds in, you've already lost most people
TheBilly 9 months ago
fantastic
TheAzvel 10 months ago
well wasnt that nice.
21Larz 10 months ago
what's a HAYCH-D TV?
colouredbills 10 months ago
10:17 this is a iphone/ipad game called superbrothers, and its wonderful
rayovacking 10 months ago
*Fool, not "thisfool".. Sorry bout that. mixed some names up. Seriously though, check out Fool's work. It's totally awesome.
mmmmmarcus 10 months ago
..I cant believe pixel powerhouses like "Thisfool" "badassBill" and the myriad bamfs of pixelly-goodness from pixel-joint haven't been mentioned. Many of the users at Pixel-Joint are amongst the BEST of the BEST in this whole art-style! Many, like Artooi, famous for the game "Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel" are residents there. As a pixel-artist myself, I'm insulted by this.
mmmmmarcus 10 months ago
You know what bugs the shit outta me? All these people making this crappy ISO-style pixelart, it all looks the fucking same!! I hate it!!
mmmmmarcus 10 months ago
Demoscene?
sakodak 10 months ago
This was really good. Now I want links to ALL of those artists and videos!
stereo123 10 months ago
Hmm I found this really interesting to watch, thanks :D
Leinadarcher 11 months ago
what is the track in the outro?
bhryian 11 months ago
I wonder how some of these guys feel about the new Tron..so, so shiny..so shiny
HappyRogueStatus 11 months ago
Always glad to see the other Pixel Artists out there.
Nixel85 11 months ago
i don't like pixelart because it's old, i didn't even live when the first games where released.
bonkswa 1 year ago
the ending scene is so beautiful!
andrew88ng 1 year ago
they didnt show "out of this world" and not a single mention of Minecraft!!!
FutureLaugh 1 year ago
That was really cool! Thanks for posting. :3
However, I can't get over the fact he did this whole thing and never once mentioned Cave Story! D:
emazinglyemi 1 year ago
@emazinglyemi That's because he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's just a couple of hipsters trying to colonize another obscure medium.
Savaril 1 year ago
Great short documentary
Thanks for you for posting :D
mafesas 1 year ago
This is touching.
TheNordbjerg 1 year ago
Why isn't this talking at all about the golden age of pixel art, the 16-bit era, when all the really amazing stuff was made. "first there were these NES games and you couldn't tell what anything was and then the indie scene rediscovered it 200 years later!". And it doesn't even interview any good (or even decent) pixel artist. I wish someone who actually knows their shit would make a pixel art documentary.
J0cked 1 year ago
Rohrer is fucking painful.
lneh 1 year ago
hmm pixels are created digitally, but when miyamoto was thinking how to make super mario he drew them on paper first, so tbh you can make pixel art with out a computer, you can draw a grid and use shading or colours for different pixels, i mean im doing that right now im my fine arts class, im looking at miyamoto and what motivated him into making the characters that he made and why he made them
lisn92 1 year ago
@lisn92 It's no longer made using pixels. Like if you draw a picture of a stone statue it isn't made of stone. That stuff is a extension of pixel art, which I do find really awesome though. Miyamoto made Mario the way he is because of pixels, not because he likes the blocky asthetic, he didn't have a choice.
lavalevel 1 year ago 18
Just a bunch of hipsters with the wrong ideas about everything liking something only because they think it's old.
glacko2021 1 year ago
It reminded me of xkcd comic xkcd.com/598/
wizzard405 1 year ago
the sentiment in this doc was a little over the top. but please stop misusing/overusing the word 'hipster'. it's about as annoying as someone using the word 'artsy'. total over-generalization/mis-categorization.
elpretentio 1 year ago
I love pixel art. Brilliant docu, although i wasn't always able to understand what he said.
samipso 1 year ago
This is really impressive. You go into a lot of detail of an intricate but overlooked style of expression. Thanks for presenting such a brilliant view on pixel art!
archmage84 1 year ago
boriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
MegaVickyStar 1 year ago
brazil
busetacomi 1 year ago
i really loved this, thank you
calql8edkos 1 year ago
Awesome... I just found out a lot of new things yet I grew up in this era. Pixel music ! I'm going to go look online now for songs!
AngelinaGDu 1 year ago
@AngelinaGDu
You mean chiptunes or chip music? :)
grimlock047 1 year ago
10:15
can anyone tell me wat that is?
EmperorOfMars 1 year ago
This is bad ass dude.
Ivanopolis 1 year ago
awesome
crewcabconnection 1 year ago
Pixel Art != Low Res Stylization.
Savaril 1 year ago 11
@Savaril ha ha, programmer lol
DreamIn8bit 1 month ago
1920 by 1080? holy shiiittt
sheikah7 1 year ago
Game poems piss me off
Fablezzz 1 year ago
hey man, nice work. I really enjoyed this.
destroyallart 1 year ago
i liekey ^_^
occult702 1 year ago
this was amazing.
KingDavid73 1 year ago
This was awesome! Good work!
Deneteus 1 year ago
After watching this video IM BUYING 3-D DOT GAME HEROES GO PIXELS!
KissChad 1 year ago
whoa, other people are pissing on this thing in the comments too, and I feel badly--I'll now point out that I liked the documentary (mostly)
Bananadine 1 year ago
way to end with an image of voxels, pixel art documentary
Bananadine 1 year ago
I pretty much agree with the entirety of this video.
thebradshaw 1 year ago
Nicely done.
myromance123 1 year ago
Pretty nice, but why didn't you talk to any pixel artists?
What you're talking about here is really only one pretty small aspect of pixel art (indie developers using it because of nostalgia or because it's easy to produce passable art this way).
Also, Rohrer must have had the world's worst TV back then. Playing old games on a CRT isn't like he describes it at all.
J0cked 1 year ago
@J0cked Rohrer's description matched my experience... mostly. The part about the effect on the gamer of going from a TV to an emulator did, anyway. The part about not being able to distinguish the fairy's arm from her head solely because of the TV's blurriness... not so much. But anyhow, all the TVs' images I knew as a kid were blurry compared to a perfectly crisp rectangular grid, and that was certainly important. I still prefer to play old games on a TV, for that reason.
Bananadine 1 year ago
what is the game at 10:15 ? I looks amazing and I would love to play it
justanotherpatriot 1 year ago
@justanotherpatriot Look up "sword & sworcery ep". It's in development.
J0cked 1 year ago
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Hipster crap. Games are not art.
4hodmt 1 year ago
perhaps go to pouet.net and get another perspective on oldskool computer art and it's origins
itecoz 1 year ago
Very moving documentary! Though the idea that the games that shaped my child hood were in fact crappy seemed absurd at first, the realisation that the emotion and stage of my life factored into the enjoyement of the experience, I've always been a believer that game play is the most important, though if given the choice between two very playable games, I will choose the one with the most realistic graphics. Which was a mindset I held throughout my years as a teen. Nowadays I'm rethinking the rule
drbeserka 1 year ago
The haiku of the visual arts.
xlupine 1 year ago
Fantastic documentary. Do you mind if I embed this on my indie studio's website?
AnimusBehemoth 1 year ago
Wow. That made me horny.
drewcifer66 1 year ago
Nostalgic.... Thanks...
wellington591 1 year ago
I thought this was going to be more about modern isometric-style pixel art rather than some artsy retrospective
bityard 1 year ago
At 6:10, you actually couldn't have spelled "architecture" - as in 'Frchitecure in Helsinki' - any worse if you'd tried.
videonasty89 1 year ago
@videonasty89 Well, I'm sure glad that you obviously got the point of the film.
AnimusBehemoth 1 year ago
@AnimusBehemoth Aha, I was just taking a stab at him. I saw a heap of other people commenting similar things, and thought I'd pretend to be a nuisance.
videonasty89 1 year ago
Epic.
2ShotgunOpera 1 year ago
totally awesome video.
CTVadim 1 year ago
whats it at 10:14 ?
EvilKnebl 1 year ago
Super Mario All Stars in 1983 !??!!? Think not!
mpgarib 1 year ago
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salient47 1 year ago
Rohrer doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Calling CRT’s “blurry” and saying nothing about the effect of scanlines? Ignoring the fact that manuals such as Super Mario Bros. and Zelda had blown-up pixelicious images of the enemies and items? Ugh.
This is a bunch of hipsters trying to appropriate a style so they can artwank about the "essence" or "meaning" of the pixel or whatever.
salient47 1 year ago 80
@salient47
More wrong ideas in this video: "pixel art" = "low res," "simple," or "abstract." The false distinction between "created digitally" vs. "created by hand." The implication that you can't be blown away by incredibly detailed pixel art. Of course, this isn't helped by using Rohrer's ugly stuff instead of an awesome example like Shatterhand, Metal Slug, or pretty much any 2D fighting game.
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In fact, the more "literacy" you have (to use Rohrer's term), the less likely you are to be impressed by anything he's doing.
I did like Joe Brumm's comments about animation, at least. But yeah. An honest title for this video would be, "The low-res retro indie hipster artgames aesthetic."
salient47 1 year ago 54
@salient47 It's true, they ignored some aspects.
patu8010 8 months ago
@salient47 jason rohrer = hipster? lol.
everything that rohrer stands for is kind of the opposite of hipster, man.
destroyallart 1 year ago
@salient47: it's vga crt's that are blurry at lower res. same reason lcd's are blurry when they are not at their native resolution.
I hooked up my old commodore 128 to a monochrome monitor from the time and MAN was that sharp. Way crisper than my lcd and much brighter too.
Its not the blocky pixels that people go on about, it's the phosphor glow, scanline texture that make it look great.
Check this one out on vector.. O M F G.. nuclear !
youtube .com / watch?v=-GD2dZ4jYtU
Paperclown 1 year ago
@salient47 He also isn't mentioning the fact that CRT screens were lower scale thus the screen wasn't as stretched as it is on emulators... this is why there are many filters and blending options that he never mentioned. if you can see the individual pixels in a game you are doing it wrong.
S0ryiu 6 months ago
I published this video on the Dutch website WELSTIJL (28 may) Kind regards Sem Mallée
welstijlfilms 1 year ago
I can't believe they spoiled Passage. That game needs to be played, not watched.
That aside, this is a great documentary, and I really enjoyed watching it.
animateTheLight 1 year ago
Great train of thoughts. The game Minecraft should realy be mentioned in here ^^
DIProgan 1 year ago
wow this was so cool, I love it.
CosmoStokewood 1 year ago
As a film critic and film reviewer... this brings me back to my old school gaming days. I love it!
NeuroMan42 1 year ago
sorry, but I couldn't read what is written at 10:13 . great video!
guigatrojan023 1 year ago
good work
bnmcmhn 1 year ago
hey can someone tell me what the clip is from with the guy walking across the water with the moon in the background, it looks incredible.
great vid btw
bigyellowlegoman 1 year ago
This was a great listen, thanks for making this @lavalevel!
McPunchface 1 year ago
does anyone know the song from 8:53-9:53?
cullenshea 1 year ago
ME RIKEY THIS WIDDEO.
Aeshir2 1 year ago
Junior Senior's Move Your Feet was from 2002, not 2006. Reading comments, I see this wasn't the only mistake in dates.
peon17 1 year ago
maaaaaaaaaaan, when i saw Only In Dreams i thought of weezer
TheRaindrops 1 year ago
look at the dumpster at 6:14 wtf
matKilla9801 1 year ago
Awesome, and full of references for even more awesomeness
pixshatterer 1 year ago
well done.
pleckles 1 year ago
Sosiological study of gaming would be the specific study of these thing
teemuruskeepaa 1 year ago
Pardon me, I believe this script is specific art studies in the university. .
teemuruskeepaa 1 year ago
great video :)
TheOnlyTiminator 1 year ago
interesting video, thanks for this look at pixels, and people are ding with them still today, pixel art, is kinda a lost form of art, but it's nice to see people still using them
Jshaw71 1 year ago
Ah, what a great video! I miss the old days.
hamciucabuca 1 year ago
This really moved me. It brought back memories from my childhood, which I haven't thought of for years.
Thank you, Simon.
aLbii666 1 year ago 3
@aLbii666
Same here. Great video.
Treasurefan02 1 year ago
Saw this on Pixeljoint. Fantastic.
TheTop10s 1 year ago
Pixel is the real art of games !
Lemmavs 1 year ago
a playlist with all the pixel art videos featured in this doc can be found on my channel
DokuJunkie 1 year ago
fantastic documentary man definitely makes me feel right at home <3
I love those chiptunes and pixel art...
s0nlxaftrsh0ck 1 year ago
I know for me personally, my love of pixel art is mostly due to nostalgia, however, I think it's possible that it will have an appeal all of its own as an art to those who will not have lived in the pixel era. I have told people for years that portrait painting did not go away when photography came around in reference to 2D animation vs 3D. I think the same can be said of pixel art.
LadyElfie 1 year ago
@LadyElfie I asked all my interviewees if they think it has value to people not familiar. They all gave a similar response and speculated it would never die out. It will be interesting to see what happens when we get some new screen tech that makes pixels close to obsolete.
lavalevel 1 year ago
I'm in the neutral zone on 2D and 3D... I know I've grown up with 2D and played it until PS1 time and the Orignal Xbox, it's just time to move on... A little fact here: Do you want to see a 8-16 bit explosion or a 3D explosion where the true color is... Not bashing on it... But it's what "realism" is bout... =\
KnightKiller1000 1 year ago
this is GREAT. thank you so much
psyyyduckkk 1 year ago
Pretty cool
AssaulteedOne 1 year ago
haha, glad i'm not the only one to be reminded of pointillism when i see pixilated images with a limited pallet.
freezingbeast 1 year ago
cool video! like venturing thru memory lane... I remember the first time I had played mario & pacman.... :D
MrJoram35 1 year ago
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wanadhite 1 year ago
bunch of hipsters
Phobboi 1 year ago
Beautifully done.
laughingfurry 1 year ago
When the first 3d consoles were released,like ps one saturn etc, some wise guys in a couple of game magazines was saying that the 2ds are dead! Well in the way i see it they are not,in fact they grow in houndreds of newer versions of 2d games other with polygons and others with clasic sprites.Like megaman 9-10.The 2ds are never gonna die.....NEVER and this is because those were the games that have started all,golden ages was named,those old days!
youtoubakias 1 year ago
One of my fav indie devs right now is Hard-Circle. These guys do some really wicked pixel work. Check out there games. I hope to see more from them.
thunderbombdope 1 year ago 2
beautifull T_T
radclift 1 year ago
Decent documentary. Didn't overstay its welcome.
Tomcatadam 1 year ago
Very interesting thank you very much for your work. Sad you didnt get paul robertsons interview, I love his work.
Hawaiianspawn 1 year ago
Beauty. Really glad I stopped to watch that.
sewerface 1 year ago
History
GeoffRichardson 1 year ago
ugh, kinda reeks of doucheness. But in a way, I guess Malevich really did kick it all off.
dudeglove 1 year ago
Amazing =) Great work!
wingnux 1 year ago
I'm having a hard time understanding the narrator.
yearofox 1 year ago 4
@yearofox I'm speaking Latin most of the time.
lavalevel 1 year ago 5
@lavalevel Don't be upset. I didn't knock the vid or anything, just telling you what I thought. I think you sound very monotone and the accent, to my ears, is difficult to understand. I would do that part over, the rest seems spot on.
yearofox 1 year ago
@lavalevel, roflol!
myromance123 1 year ago
Thanks for this video mate.
pablomarquesuk 1 year ago
so im using 360 pixwel;s?
darkshanobie09 1 year ago
anything imaginable can be embellished the way this artform was
ChineseSerpent 1 year ago
i dont get it
quickster93 1 year ago
The song "only in dreams" by star city secrets at 4:02 is AMAZING
guimontag 1 year ago
INCREDIBLE Documentary. Another internet masterpiece.
zuriku 1 year ago
Pixel art has been around for a while now... and it's on its way too I must say unfortunately... I have inclination that the generation who never knew 8 or 16 bit will come of age and not feel a particular special attachment to the pixel style. I wouldn't be surprised if lo-res 3D is experimented with.
thejobloshow 1 year ago
@thejobloshow I have agree with you on this one. The newer generation growing up with the Playstation 3 or even 2 I don't think care that much About the history of gaming or were it came from
30phayte 1 year ago
Fucking WIN
KatrinaCabrera 1 year ago