I admire your personality. You convey your passion intriguingly and respect the craftsmanship of others in such a sincere manner. You're quite the gentleman. Thank you for sharing this with everyone.
@@AdamDuffArt Your video work is top quality and your content resonates at very soulful frequencies. I will coment more from now on since I know you appreciate it.
Something that stood out to me was the challenge of this game, its like they playtested it with the purpose of making every second of the game push you to try your best. There was tons of variety and you had to constantly learn to progress. Cuphead is an all around perfect game to me, but i think any gamer who likes a good challenge owes it to themselves to play this game
cuphead was different because its not just about disney. its not so obvious most of the time, but cuphead was also HEAVILY inspired by classic gaming too
Personally I’m not into games that much, I actually really really suck at them, which I guess is the reason why I don’t play that often haha. But, my brother plays games a lot, and I’m usually not Interested in what he’s doing but when he bought this game I was immediately attracted to the art. I would sit next to him and watch him play for hours, just admiring the details and design which I loved! Although I never really got around to playing the game, I enjoyed it from afar. It’s so unique and the whole concept just attracts me. I’m glad this game exists.
@@Snavels In fact, everybody wanted nothing to do with this war, maybe except germany and their allies. And this war took you out from Great Depression so you ended with the best situation of us all. Perhaps only you took advantage of this war. Don't forget about genocide of two Japanese cities full of civilians, which was nuked out of existence.
Yaaay!!! Thank you so much Adam, that was a joy to watch! I'm also amazed at the intense love and quality that went into the Art Book. Such an honor to be part of it! ^_^
You worked with a stellar team - I’m so smitten by the care and talent oozing from this project - and I can’t stress enough how much quality your contributions brought to it You’re a precious artist Tina
10:13 - Mike Tyson was far more well-known for the Bite Fight than he was for his punch-out. It was and still is remembered because it was one of the more colourful incidents in sports. Even today, people still talk about it.
The pig merchant is not as "researched" as you think. I mean it is, but not by this team. It's literally a tribute to the same character in the game Wonderboy, who got a recent remake. Check that too, beautiful art.
Thank you! I was just thinking that when I was hearing his very lengthy explanation that probably has no bearings of the character. Where did he come up with all that?
I don't have video games and never played this, but I remember when this came out,, that I said: They need to do an Art of book of this! And it happened! NOw I only need to put the money together and/or wait for a black Friday or something. Then I'll be able to import it to my country. It surely gives me something to look forward to.
This tool of character juxtaposition that he described is what you would call a foil. Foil is a powerful literary device to emphasize ideas through comparison.
I would love to have longer videos from you. I know you say its already long but I would watch a 2 hour video of you just talking about art books as your insight is incredible and how instead of critiquing you point out the great techniques and things the artists have done.
I had never even heard of this book before. So thank you for reviewing it. But the instant you opened the book, it immediately struck me as a continuation of the greatest animation book there is. The magnificent Illusion of life. I have to read this at some point and play the game ofc.
Got really excited about this particular episode because I have the game on my switch. The art style is amazing as well and the rich history you speak of that went into all of it speaks volumes. Definitely will be getting the book🙏🏽 Thanks for sharing.
Love this stuff, started off super realism and studied Industrial Design to working on my cartooning now. Its a different beast love the raw expressiveness that cartoons and anime have. On a side note being a Merchant/store owner has changed but not as much as you would think. Still have to find those rare commodities to compete and there is always risk of robberies. Whether it be on the streets at your place of business or your home. So allot of security measures have to be put in place to keep you, your employees, customers and business safe. (Speaking from years of experience in family business.)
I've been eagerly waiting for the release of this book for months now. I can't afford to buy the special edition like I had wanted, but I just picked up the kindle edition tonight. This vid definitely made me finally take the leap. I loved listening to you talk about the history of animation and storytelling and I can't wait to check out more of your stuff.
I love Cuphead (regardless of the fact the game frustrates me more than writing my dissertation back at university - although I managed to finish that somehow 😂). I bought this book because I am passionate about 1930s cartoon and creating children’s literature. I want to use this book as inspiration and as something for guests to flick through in my home.
I just found your channel fairly recently, and I absolutely just had to write some sort of message to express my gratitude. If it wasn't for your wisdom and words of encouragement, I do not believe I would still draw and paint- despite the vast majority of my life that I have done both of these things. I had given up, more or less, without just outright throwing down my pen and saying: "I quit." I realize how now flawed my perspective of my own art was, and that the indifference I was being met with only holds the weight and value that I allow it to. I'm going to keep pushing and growing and seeing where art takes me. And for that, I thank you, eternally.
"I wouldn't call it a game, I'd call it an interactive work of art." All games are interactive works of art. A games visuals do not make it art or not art.
@@Zavendea I see what you mean and respect your opinion but personally I disagree, I think even bad art or boring art is just as valid to be called art, whether it is meant to be or not
Lewis Gads But I don’t think the intention of EA Sports is “Let’s make a beautiful, thought-provoking piece of art.” It’s just to make something for people to enjoy. It’s not “bad art.” It’s just not art at all imo.
It brings the old 1930's Disney animation, back then the best 10 Disney animator's were there with their beautiful character designs and art work (them being Milt Kahel, Art Babbitt , Tim Burton , ECT) I have the 'animator's servivel kit' book I'm not very much into books but I see this as the best book for animation basics and how the Author of the book 'Richard Williams' elaborates everything in a smooth way so the reader can understand even tho there is some complicated words in the book but it may be because of the timeline (idk why I wrote all this but I did anyway😁)
you want your character to look like there personality and voice with weight and depth, you should know about that your character should also have that depth even in those situations, you should also make your character fits in whatever place or scene with colors that work for it as well.
So many games aren’t art tho. Plenty of indie games are, sure. But FIFA isn’t a work of art. Call of Duty isn’t a work of art. They’re just supposed to be fun.
I love the art in the game. It is just a shame the stupid difficulty made me give up on it very quickly. I don't have the patience nor the time I used to have to suffer through it.
maybe a weird thing to ask but i would love to see/take on braking down animation. ie like explaining how they did a thing,why they did the thing ect i know you are busy n all but like just an idea if you ever run out of art books or just bored
recently Ive been watching a few review videos about new Marvel Comics. Then suddenly, I think of your videos about art collection and what makes them so so good. I just found this is a great opportunity to see clear what makes a good piece of art. Thank you so much for making these videos. I have not played the game though *sad*.
love the appreciation you show for the hard work that was put into this. hate how you dismiss digital and cgi work as "shortcuts" just because they were not made with ink
Porkring reminded me so much of the old "Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap" vendor NPC, right with the eyepatch and all. Kind of curious from where that design of a pigman with an eyepatch comes from 🤔
Nice camera setup, it's somehow slowly, slightly rotating left and right? Only a short distance. Sorry does anyone know how that is achieved? EDIT - Oh he mentions it in the video!
The lighting in your videos is stunning. I feel warm & comfy listening :) And how do you that subtle pan left & right?! Is your camera on a toy train? Or dolly setup?! ....is it a pigeon you’ve trained walking back & forth? It obviously has to be a resurrected pigeon from the 20s or 40s, I dunno if pigeons are that smart but maybe...and just smooth out all the up and down camera shakes « Just stop moving your pigeon head for 1.5 millisecondes! »
the essence of animation art - capturing a huge amount of subtlety in very minimalistic design - something often taken very much for granted by realist artists
I was just waiting for this video since you uploaded instagram post stating you are going to review this book, and I love the art style of this game your videos are art talks too.
I like the quote about humanizing animals. It makes me realize why I'm really taken with the animation of "Beastars". I never was a huge fan of 'slice-of-life' or high-school settings for Animation. But they really make me wanna relate to the anthropomorphized animals!
Great video Adam! I was wondering if you would be able to make a video on the art of Adventure Time? I ADORE the show, and the art has been a huge inspiration to me, would love to see your take on it!
Love this and appreciate the work you put into it, but please verify names of characters before saying them. Fritz the Cat was a funny gaff that at least got corrected, but it’s NOT Shrubshire Smasher, it’s “Shropshire Slasher”, from Looney Toons, “Deduce, You Say” with one of the best jokes: Porky Pig as Watson asks him questions: PP: “Name?” SS: “Shropshire Slasher” PP: ”Occupation?” SS: ”Shropshire Slasher”
