This video is sponsored by skillshare so i would consider myself a filmmaker more specifically i’m hoping to become a cinematographer but i’m also a minecrafter i make a lot of minecraft videos um yeah it’s my full-time job this is what i do so that might come as a bit of A surprise to those of you who are subscribed to this channel and don’t know anything about the other youtube channel i do these filming projects for fun this is like my creative outlet this is what i do in my spare time uh my daily grind is is playing Minecraft now obviously with the fact that i have this kind of duality where i’m working on filming projects and also working on minecraft videos it often kind of occurs to me that minecraft is an incredibly unique tool because obviously you have this infinite world of various different blocks all of different All of different colors and textures and you have the ability to construct whatever you desire you can do absolutely anything you want with minecraft that’s kind of the beauty of the game and i can’t help but feel that minecraft is an incredibly powerful tool for artists and creative people and Filmmakers i’m absolutely terrible at drawing which is a bit of a problem when it comes to storyboarding filming projects because i hate the process of drawing up the storyboards and then the storyboards never actually look like how i want the shot to look which makes it all a little bit Pointless now i know i could use reference images but that has its own drawbacks and i know there’s plenty of tools out there to aid storyboarding for people that can’t draw but none of them feel quite as fluid to me as minecraft does in minecraft i can Build up a rough estimation of the set using various different types of blocks then i can get my characters in and i can get my camera in and i can adjust the focal length i can adjust the angle relatively easily i can move around the scene i can work Out what framing looks good i can work out compositions that work well it just seems like a really natural and fluid way of working my girlfriend vicky is an artist she would laugh at me and she would probably punch me for saying that but that that is the case she does beautiful Ceramics she does beautiful drawings whenever she works on her ipad she always creates these beautiful images she is 100 an artist and i know i’m biased because i love her but that that is the case and when she played minecraft for the first time i was really surprised to see that instead of Doing the conventional build a house build a castle do all that sort of thing she immediately just started creating a painting and that to me that i’m i’m really really curious about that so i did whatever good boyfriend does which is put a camera in front of her while she’s eating dinner And ask her about it i’m used to doing things like pretty flat like on a 2d surface so i’ll draw or i’ll paint or you know i’ll do those kind of things so to build something was never really in my wheelhouse i just didn’t think to Build it like why would i build a house when i could just paint something instead it didn’t help that i didn’t know how to use the game i didn’t i don’t know what redstone is or anything like that so i just i just used the pretty colored blocks And thought i can make something nice out of this that’s what i did i think i liked it now minecraft is a game in 3d space so you don’t just have to create 2d pieces of art you can also start looking towards creating sculptures and when i was doing research for this video I stumbled across this youtube video by a person called meg ray where they created an incredible sculpture by actually carving out of a gigantic cube which i thought was a really interesting concept you see building in minecraft is normally an additive process you’re starting off with nothing and then you’re constructing something Whereas this was a little bit more traditional in terms of stone sculpting you’re starting off with something and then you’re reducing it down to get the sculpture and my first thought was well this would be a really interesting tool to potentially use if you are a sculptor and you want to plan out A sculpture so you can go into minecraft you can build up a big cube and then you can reduce it down to create your sculpture and you will have planned it out you’ll know roughly how it looks so then you can do it in real life then i kind of Had to check myself because i realized this is the sculpture you know just because it’s not made out of stone and just because you haven’t used a chisel to create it and just because i can’t put it in the center of my room doesn’t make it any less of a sculpture And doesn’t make it any less of a work of art and then to go full circle i started off this video talking about how minecraft can be used to storyboard out films and yes that is the case but minecraft can also be used to make films you know if you can Effectively tell a story through filming a video in minecraft then you’re no less of a filmmaker than someone who does it with cameras and lights and actors minecraft is more than a tool that can be used by artists to make their art outside of minecraft minecraft can be used for the art itself A big thank you to skillshare for sponsoring this video for anyone who’s seen pictures or videos of our house you know that we have tons upon tons of houseplants we have over 50 in our living room alone and as the seasons have began to change some of them are looking a tiny bit Worse where and that’s where skillshare comes in turns out skillshare doesn’t just have courses for graphic design and drawing and film making and things it also has courses on how to look after houseplants and where to put houseplants so that they’re as healthy as they possibly can be How to choose houseplants dependent on where you live it’s insane i’ve been i’ve been going crazy over watching these courses over the past couple weeks and i think that truly does show the variety of 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Is Minecraft a tool for artists? Minecraft is a sandbox game of seemingly endless possibility. It’s a game I have spent a lot of time in making Mumbo Jumbo Minecraft videos and playing the Hermitcraft Server, and recently it’s got me thinking: Can Minecraft be used as a creative tool to aid the process of creating art? From filmmaking, to painting to sculpting, I think Minecraft has an application, not just in the process of planning/testing ideas, but actually in the process of creating art itself. Minecraft filmmaking, Minecraft painting, and Minecraft art are all disciplines that have been formed from this game!
INCREDIBLE MINECRAFT ARTIST: MegRae: https://www.youtube.com/c/MegRae Stone Carving Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtGIP1aZieo
Minecraft Short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_OshHIXBzk
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