Original video: • VILLAGER NEWS: BREAKIN... This one's for you if you really love the little details. This is just a little comparison video showing the difference between the vertical and horizontal versions that we released. Enjoy.
"They decided to bust it down early 2000s Pixar style and redo every shot so no matter how you decide to watch you have the intended experience" -Noodle
@@justabrowser4744 Maya is not a rendering software afaik? It's a 3D editor thing like Blender. When I mean "Rendering Software" it's the technology they made that.... renders things
I agree with you this needs to be both. There is a time and place where both would’ve been changeable, but I preferred the horizontal because you can see more but I also like the vertical because it makes it feel personal so I’m up in the air.
1,00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. (I'm kidding!) I want at LEAST... ... 3 more :)
You can see how the animation was done with the horizontal layout first.Because of this, in the vertical version, you can clearly see how the center is much more busy than the top & bottom in many of the shots.
4:27 is interesting to me cause the shot has a completely different feel when Villager #9 isn't taking up half the frame. His little bounces when he emphasizes certain words have less impact since he's farther away, and if you watch closely at the way his legs move you can sort of tell they were animated after his gestures were. They have a sort of awkwardness that doesn't match up with the shot's original intention. I just think it's a cool example of how the camera's angle can impact a scene's feel
same with 2:37 and contestant 1! hes so blurry you cant see how excited he is about the heart of the sea! but instead you get the looming feeling of the judge, which is appropriate and interesting!
i genuinely love the attention to detail between both versions and the small but meaninful changes made when adapting the animation into a vertical format - y'all did not have to render it a third time just for vertical but you did and it shows how much you care about it
In this age of TikTok and vertical videos, I'm grateful you guys are still releasing horizontal videos on RU-vid. I didn't even realise there was a full vertical version!
Indeed. But there is still a problem. Right before the 'harp scene' the horizontal version is deformed before it is supposed to. (Look at the yellow pillars in the background). 0:53 0:59
I wonder if the best way to animate for veritcal and horizontal, is to film in a 1x1 frame, a perfect square. That way you can center everything off of one point. Kind like "Shoot and Protect", where the action takes place within a certain area within frame, to better protect the integrity of the scenes when cropping for format. Imagine it, filming in a format for early box televisions becoming extremely relevant again to help people make content for both horizontal and vertical film formats, nearly half a century or more later.
That might balance the quality, but at that point you may get better results without cropping and having black rectangles to fill out the rest of the view for each platform.
@@Spikeba11 That's called letterboxing. It's been done before, many many many times and is completely inferior to the method I'm suggesting. It leads to a poorer viewing experience, because the screen your viewing the film on is not being sufficiently used. Imagine going to watch a movie in a theater, and it uses the whole screen, a massive 2.5x1 aspect ratio screen. Now imagine going home and watching it on your computer. Most common computer screens (aside form ultrawide) are 16x9. That means for the video to fit length wise onto the average screen, the video has black bars put along the top and bottom. Okay, fine, not too bad. Still worse, but not too bad, because most computer screens are pretty big nowadays. You'll still need to squint a bit to see the background action and far away stuff though. And then imagine watching that same movie on your phone, most of which have 9x16, aka vertically, with massive black bars on your screen at the top and bottom of the video, having to squint at the screen to even see the main characters emptions, let alone the background characters and far away stuff. Now the best way to make sure everything fits in frame and movie isn't compromised, is to do kinda do what they did for the song, go back in and reanimate to make sure everything fit into the frame for both versions of the video. However that's time consuming and can be costly if you're paying animators to do work with you. Which is why my idea is the most cost and time efficient solution, that I could think of. There may be better ideas, but yours is not one of them.
You know you can flip your phone, right? You don't have to watch it vertically. Filming like that is a compromise, which results in neither screen having the ideal experience. Movies and TV should be made for the big screen, not be held back by inferior devices.
At 0:45 you can clearly see that the black stained glass textures are different between the versions, it is then fixed in the horizontal one in the next scene
bro is pumping these out hour, after hour. I'm happy watching al of them to give them more money to give us more news :D Also, fr take my cash even tho I'm a base patrol supporter
3:55 Some people have no capitalization on their subtitles. Really adds to the feel. Also, when I watched this, I couldn't stop thinking: *Wow.* I am impressed and commend the amount of care you put in for the vertical edition. Of course, since everything is animated and framed and whatnot horizontally, that's the best way to play. But still; you're not missing much on the vertical version, and that's something to commend.
Even though its just a simple aspect ratio change it actually changes the feeling and composition a lot. Its super cool to see the little changes you guys made in order to achieve the vertical video to be just as good as the horizontal one. When I am animating I always hide stuff right out of frame so it would definitely be difficult for me to try to do something like this lol.
I don't know why it took so long, but I just realized a little thing about the seed thing 17,000 seeds is around 5 double chests full and with how one slice of melon crafts into one seed, the villager that was hoarding them was clearly up to something lol
I'm only subscribed to you on RU-vid, so hadn't seen the vertical one. I think it's pretty well done, some things adapted for vertical platforms are just trimmed from horizontal video (or vis versa), this is actually two seperate versions, and the subtitles are there I assume because other platforms don't have subtitle options. Well done and thought out.
Interesting. So basically, you have to add space in the vertical format when the frame is not centered on a character (because characters are pretty vertical in essence), and in the horizontal formats either the space is completely occupied, or you cut the legs of the characters when the frame is zoomed in. Which is normal since our world is mostly on a horizontal plane (aka the floor), and there are not too many vertical things that are more than two meters high appart from human beings, trees and buildings. Considering that the vertical media are centered on single people rather than landscapes or compositions, this is natural. And you can used the empty space for the text, in the vertical format. For RU-vid, I really liked that the lyrics were in the subutitles, because you could choose to see them or not (I chose to, as I am not a native English speaker). I think I prefer the horizontal format overall (but I don't know if that's because I'm more used to RU-vid or not).
Very interesting, looks like focused camera movements work best in horizontal version, but slow/wide shots are better visible on the vertical version. Too bad the wooly/notebook scene reveal is ruined on the vertical version because camera is no longer "IN" the village forecast
props to framing things out so they would work in both formats but that just reminds me how verticle is just not a good way of viewing video unless youre specifically on a phone and are too lazy to turn it 90 degrees and it sucks that you would have to animate it to work in both formats for the sake or reaching wider audiences
1:27 horizontal version: hmm i wonder which shoes hes talking about. One of life's great mysteries! Vertical version: oh. They're just. The generic grey ones. Of course
You know, usually the vertical version is just objectively worse than the horizontal version for stuff that's in both, because the video was never really made to go vertical. But with this one I think the horizontal view might actually be slightly better!
The special news intro in the video version: you can hear the villagers louder, I think I prefer the background villagers better it just flows with the music better
The bees go through a wall befor the final release the bees. Also on the tv during the weather part where woolly wasn’t there the villager with the mustache’s eye turns green. Here are some things for element animation
Gee is the next one gonna have one say, "Well, Villager #5, I made it. Despite your directions." "Ahh, Villager #39, welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable cooked Porkchop!" "Nyeh."
