Who Made the Minecraft Paintings and What Do They Say About the Game? 

I love your work

No way it's GOD!

Du förtjänar det!

Your paintings were like a massive part of my childhood thanks to Minecraft,,, I love your work man!

*god has entered the chatt*

Shekel Snatcher kind of mind boggling if you think of it.

Kinda sounds like Banksy, but not quite. He's basically a very stealthy urban artist (Or artists, nobody knows) whose paintings somehow sell for millions cause people actually cut them out of the concrete walls

When someone tells you "do it for the exposure"...

Shekel Snatcher yoooooo

like the guy who composed the nokia ringtone

@@dieselgeezer18 delete yours

Shiney I 宇智波上帝 Damn they listened- 😂

Small world

If I find that mom painting I will be the equivalent of Yoshikage Kira with the Mona Lisa

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Pajkoks 4

spectator mode was an option back in 1.6...

@Pajkoks 4

nobody will remember that L, but many people will see that painting

@@DoctorWhom you do know they're talking about counterstrike, not Minecraft. Right?

Somebody had to do it

@@zetterstrand Have my Valve Gamer badge

r/madlads

Legend

@@Brib8888 lmao

Just a dude who likes dbs Not to downplay anyone involved, but consider this: Counterstrike (1999) - Minecraft (2011) 12 years and 3-6 layers of integration. Counter Strike (1999) (1-2) The digital compositions (1-3) The oil paintings (2-4) The pixelated oil paintings (2-5) Minecraft (2011) (3-6) --- Real world recreations of paintings from Minecraft (4-7) Video about the creation of paintings from Minecraft (5-8) --- This video in other media (69)

@Brayden Rankin I don't really understand any of what you just typed but I do know that there is the funny decks number at the end

I know you :^D

Brayden Rankin true

ikr

Sometimes you just feel like Anna from Frozen I.

With their odd and somewhat disturbing nature that I love I always imagined that there was someone else in the minecraft world that had made these paintings and I had just simply placed them in my house. It was a little bit of a comfort to have the paintings around.

I don’t know why, but the skull painting (the one where the skull is on fire) has always been my favourite.

Josiah Chlebek bro I usually have a sapling as my friend because I have no friends

Yeah, I’m a G A M E R G - My dad hits me A - M - E - R -

That's clever

@@i.pezzotti853 Yeah, I'm a G A M E R G - Call 911 A - M - E - R -

Yeah I’m a G A M E R G-terrible A-at M-realism E-poopy R-pants

Uh, yeah, I'm a gamer G - Hey A - Whats M - Up E - Guys R - somebody fucking help me the voices wont stop the voices wont stop

They are also only ever transactional in their behaviors. From trading to job assignments, and their responses to raids, they do not act with mercy or proactivity. They can’t be kind and are further dependent on the player’s beneficence or subject to their whims.

Finally... A people I can Rule!

Ruins? Also would you say the illagers can’t build either?

@@harambe8372 Yeah, my point is that villagers (and illagers) are not actually capable of building in the game. The only way for a village, pillager outpost, mansion, etc. to exist is for it to generate as part of the world; if you destroy a villager's house, for example, they're never going to be able to rebuild it.

i would put that on technical limitation and design choice eg : technical limitation because making a mob that can build properly is harder that simple npcs that wander and trade (and a few other mechanics such as farming, avoiding monster during the night by staying indoors or making babies and spawning iron golems) design choice : because Mojang don't want mobs to be able to modify the terrain too much, or it would interfere with the player building abilities (only exceptions are monsters that you must avoid on purpose as part of the difficulty (like ghasts, creepers, blazes, ender dragon, etc) so for villagers to be able to build would interfere with the player ,as they are suposed to be friendly and not an ennemy to be killed (unlike monsters) which is clearly indicated by the fact that they drop nothing; not even xp, the game clearly tell you that killing them is not the goal and you should not do it (the only consequences are negative : up in price for the survivors and iron golems gonna aggro you) in lore i would assume it make sense to assume that illagers and villagers do build their structure, especially in the case of illagers, outposts seem so specific and clearly made by them and also villages are clearly adapted to the villager needs, which would indicate recent design, and not repurposing of some ancient structure sure, if we only base our reasoning on what the game show you, villagers can't build but if we only base our reasonin on what the game tell you : villagers can survive without eating indefinetly, which would not make sense, especially since they clearly eat, and work for eating, even when they don't breed (for breeding they need enough beds and food) if they just have food, they still farm it and eat it, despite dont needing it for survival nor reproduction so we can assume that, in lore, they do feel hunger, even if villagers being hungry isn't a feature. also if we base our reasoning on what the game show you; villagers would no longer exist, as they are very vulnerable to monsters, and zombies can break doors (at least in higher difficulties) which would mean that, without player, on a loaded terrain, villagers would probably not survive long, as they would probably end up with their door destroyed and all of them killed so we can assume, that, in lore, they actually are able to fix their homes and build structures, because if they didn't, they would have died long ago from zombies breaking in

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@gradedcypress 11 lol

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2 of them it seems

Actually 3. Two for aztec and one for dust 2

Crazy how things work

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i actually thought one of the 1 by 1 paintings were a game map thing but the camera is inside the wall

"As those who played the game entirely in a vacuum" that's a much better way of describing the average group post player 😂

The subtle way minecraft teaches new players is one of my favorite things in the game

I don't really agree. There's no way to know that those blocks are supposed to be soulsand, and on top of that *none* of the other paintings have any hint towards gameplay, so someone uninformed would have no idea that it was spelling out a game mechanic for them.

As a child i had no idea that was actually a mob

​@@oranplan1630nah

Why not?

He is cultured.

@@Roseee_ A cultured *G A M E R* Nice.

he actually did research, anyone with more knowledge on a topic sounds like an expert, like if I studied fruit plagues and their effects on watermelons based on their composition and species.

Ye he sounds like a art critic

Hey, but that's the real academic research experience. Grad school is just full of people carefully pronouncing the names of artists and theorists and scholars, but butchering commonplace terms, having learned them from reading.

thomas underfoot it might be right in English lol

pronounces "Louvre" as "lerv"

@@TexboyGamer It's not.

@@wheedler I meant the "Zetter Str-and" pronunciation. That's not the correct pronunciation

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Perhaps the sun is rising and the skeleton is burning now?

How did I never think of that lol

ahh now it makes sense

Is so cool how the pixel art makes the surrounding look so much more realistic

lol

Memes😂

Giyuu loses his arm

Shinobu, Rengoku, and Muichiro dies

Nezuko gets immunity and Tanjiro gets plot armor

I always thought it was a fireplace and I used to put it at the botrom of chimneys if the floor was woid

Same... To this day I still put it in my Minecraft kitchens for that reason

I thought it was an upside-down golden apple.

Lily G I always thought it was a desert so I put it near the door to kind of simulate a window lol

^^^ this... HAMBURGER-

Hmmm? What is it?

@@enjoyasalad647 Try looking it up on youtube, no offense.

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i didnt even notice that those mountains were the same as the ones in pack.png, thats actually pretty cool

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Moist Memester couldn’t have said it better myself, the editing is so on point too.

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gradedcypress 11 edit it

It's always the two types of ways native english speakers guess prenunciations. The ones who confidently prenaunce things absolutely utterly ear-cancer inducingly wrong and the ones who are like "sorry imma butcher this one; *prenaunces foreign word correctly*

@@FinnDuDe95 that's literally every American emglish youtuber lmao

"emglish"

@@noodledude2171 oh boy... *EVAPORATES*

the different spellings of "pronunciations", "emglish"........ this thread is GOLD

Yes was looking for this comment

I thought it was a snail with a red shell

@@shadowcween7890 I thought that to

i thought it was a snail

I also thought "Wasteland" (the bunny on the the windowsill) was a hamburger

Kristoffer Zetterstrand: the best artist you’ve never seen.

Holy damn, that's poetic

How is that so sad

This gave me goosebumps, I had a similar experience when I was younger

@@dammyitch1569 sayori in your profile picture is bae

@@sereshaw so true

Also in his bio on instagram

I think that's so cool that he genuinely appreciates this video

I hope that this video gives him a bit more exposure.

the man is really into being meta :D

i pretty sure that is why it exists, its supposed to be a tutorial, telling you how to do it without breaking the atmosphere

@@ferretforrent1144 It would be incredibly hype learning how to build a wither through the painting.

@@Bonezee I completely see where you're coming from but given that there's millions of people playing the game from all different cultures languages and backgrounds there must be at least one person who learned how to build a wither from the painting and that experience must have been magical, and I think that's enough to justify one painting being not quite as good as the rest.

Victor Cleemonts If you don’t know about the wither then it must also have been terrifying with your sculpture of a painting in minecraft coming to life and destroying EVERYTHING around it.

@@sqentontheslime1967 When you put it that way, it's sort of like revitalizing a primal evil from an old textbook you wanted to know the meaning of

Such a good point. Although I'm guessing he wasn't looking for payment at the time, and it wasn't "work" to him.

A lot of artists make art as a way to express themselves, not as a way to work. Judging by his exposure, he couldn't be any more successful at that. The sad part is that even though millions of people see his art every month, not that many actually know about him as an artist. Heck, I originally thought that those were some random edits made by Notch himself..

@@Redspl Of course, I think what OP meant here was that, when you are making art for work, you should be able to expect compensation instead of working for "exposure." People who make art for a living deserve to eat too :P

Every artist in every field works for exposure. Perhaps in the beginning the artist is doing it for its own sake, but art is made for an audience. We aren't painting mausoleums or singing to walls.

@@Ailsworth artist may work for exposure but they don't expect ONLY that, they also work for money, personal satisfaction, fun. the problem is, people sometimes dont understand that and think they can commission an artist something and then, at the last minute, say they will be paying in exposure.

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I've never placed anymore paintings so that I don't accidentally place a _skeleton_ painting

🎵Spooky Scary Skeletons🎵

He should have just done a browsing deviantart episode for halloween

Ah, yes

I consider it Halloween enough.

With that mindset, and putting a lot of time into a server/world makes the game so much more enjoyable for me

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The ol long con.

Well, that escalated quickly...

So true it hurts

@@zetterstrand hahaha

@@zetterstrand the lord has spoken

Definitely

Solar Wi. Smort

Lol ok goon

Me too that way I can sell my old Minecraft download and make millions

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I've never found myself capable of playing Minecraft singleplayer. It becomes so purposeless, so lonely.

Really isn't because they made the world so vacant for some reason. The only NPCs don't have dialogue, and there's barely any life in the overworld. No birds or bees or anything

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 wElL aCtUaLlY tHeRe ArE bEeS iN mInEcRaFt NoW but yeah you're right

@@brainzpvz2592 Too big

It really gives you that feeling of loneliness, that’s why when I play with my brother, we usually pretend to be plane crash survivors or castaways. It feels like being in a world far away from life, like a place we aren’t supposed to be in.

BOI BOI I thought it was that too!!!

OMG U RIGHT

Same. I still wonder how i thought that too

I thought it’s was a jaw chomping down on a bloodied foot

I always thought it is a rabbit

I think that painting really just serves as an ingame guide on how to summon the Wither. Like anyone who sees that is gonna try it and figure out what happens.

Not sure but I believe the wither painting was what showed people how to build withers. Until the painting I don't think anyone knew those things could be built. Cool story I guess.

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@@littleghost6102 Damn you! I can't like anymore

Well it is possible to make a wither without giving it life if you put the skulls on and leave them in the ear and then place the sound sand it won't activate but I do support your idea tho of a parcel universe and my guess is the nether what if the nether used to be a more earth place with similar creatures like a wierd type of human thats bigger than us and what if they were trying to make life and death that they had all they needed a home and such but were greedy for power like making a weapon what if the lava of the nether wasnt always like that and that really the sky was just red what if that painting was moments before disaster what if ghasts might had not been giant white cube that are violent what if they just evolved to survive and that all the wither skeletons are people and that there previous food source was a pig like creature which evolved to a type of human hybrid like a piglin and that when the wither spawned after the painting the nether was doomed somehow and had turned to the nether we know.btw sorry this is long

Epic gamer moment

I figured why not

Kristoffer Zetterstrand absolute beast

Kristoffer Zetterstrand wow it’s the real you

@@zetterstrand Hey Mr. Painter.

I agree. thats likely why its there. for the peeps who dont know how to summon it. it isnt the wither itself, but the structure that summons it

And also for new players who don't know about it pretty sure they will be creeped out as well

It also adds some mystery to the game, giving the Wither an eery feeling.

Yeah, that seems fairly clear in my opinion

Da gorrilaa nah it sucks now

@Da gorrilaa And what, exactly, makes Minecraft not a good one?

@@elliottowens8913 what do you mean "now"?

I hate that when I shoot, someone builds a life size model of the earth

Meme Lord Bepis when it first started (at least for me) it was really fun and addictive. Now epic just cares about money and don’t listen to their community unless it’s a big streamer. Not to mention people getting good out of nowhere

I do feel when look at csgo map

Zetterstrand is the definition of a true epic gamer

CYKA

Dude must've been high af

It actually happened to me lol

Chris Handsome I read this in Chris Hansen’s voice

And it’s about video games

Affirmative fuck the backrooms

I wasnt paying attention and it scared the shit out of me

It's a video? I've only read the original post.

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Solar sands also made an entire video on liminal spaces.

What a mad man

Solar Sands did talk about that tho.

Ethereal Forest he makes broken 3D graphics a work of piece. Truly a man of culture and unique mind with art.

ikr. if you showed his spectator cam paintings to someone who's played 3d games before, they'd probably be like "oh lol he painted a map from out of bounds" but show it to someone who's never played a video game before and that's some surreal shit. neat blending of modern and traditional.

Ryoei A work of art indeed. I would’ve never thought of an artwork that consists of maps that are out of bounds, pixel characters and realism combined.

Wilbert soot?

@@strangersmemories1632 William Smooch

Rest in piece :(

@@strangersmemories1632 yup

when wilbur released new milo i broke down still do when i rewatch it

They give you a hint on how to summon the wither but don't tell you how to get to the nether. Brilliant.

@@Dv2YT i agree, there should be a natural structure or something telling the player about the nether portal, but hey i'm not mojang

yea but it looks like dirt not soul sand

I don't know... the game already doesn't tell new players a lot of things; the end, the nether etc. things that are hard to randomly stumble across without google. I think minecraft has always been and should be the sort of game that gives you a wolrd without explanation and just says: "have fun, explore". I think it's part of the magic. Even though the new recipe book and starter advice ruined it a bit.

To be honest, this game was made in 2009 when the notion of Minecraft becoming super popular wasn't really considered. I assure you if the developers knew it would be so popular, they would have made it much more accessable. I mean, why do you think the console versions of the game try to do such a thing? However, I mainly learned the crafting mechanics just from looking them up, or experimenting with other recipes. For example, if you know how to craft a wooden pick, you then mine cobble, which you then can extrapolate that you can craft stone tools. From there it's pretty obvious you can upgrade your tools even further to gold, iron, and diamonds just by replacing the minerals. Others, make sense, such as cooking sand in a furnace to create glass, which I figured out on my own. But yeah, a lot of minecraft is cryptic, but I believe it played to Minecraft's strength being mainly player-driven. If you didn't know, and if you're in a server, you could ask a friend, and they'd help. But, by now everyone knows how to craft recipes or get to the end or nether in minecraft, so needing to do a tutorial on how to get to the end or nether or whatever is largely irrelevant now.

Only recently was he hired

Yeah but his pixel art isnt depicted as a painting

@@animesenpai1163 Nobody said it was.

@@robertskitch i was the pointing it out but okay.

@@animesenpai1163 I mean... the "but" kinda suggests that you were pointing it out in contrast with what I said?

I've known who Zetterstrand is for a while, and I am absolutely sure that in some 50 years his art will become highly valued, even if a portion of it was seen by a large amount of people in not-so-distant past.

boomer moments amirite

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Kristoffer Zetterstrand holy shit you’re here

@@zetterstrand It appears you're about to BLOW UP. People are flowing into your youtube channel!!!

That's a great idea. Someone should get on it

theres no way someone hasnt already

Maybe everyone has assumed someone has, so no one has. :P

Done.

@@mortal1555 link?

But in a way, C418 is much more popular than Kristoffer since people are more likely search for music that plays all the time without prompt while you need to have a painting item in the game to see Kristoffer's work which most players don't really use unless they specifically wanted to craft it.

I wonder if he sells the art like c418 sells his albums?

quetzalcueyatl I’m sure his work will attract those who are into his type of art. I do, and I’d buy a lot and decorate my house with his merely creepy but unique atmospheric paintings.

@@lettuce6321 is it expensive. I'd like a few of the minecraft paintings. I like to support artists I like if I can afford to.

@@quetzalcueyat yeah I'd fuckin love to own some of the original versions of the minecraft paintings

Those were pretty funny, I feel the same way

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Beatrix W. LOL

@Antler Hit Samee

@Antler Hit Except it was Aztec1

@@itsaquagamer6101 Wuh... are you sure about that? Unless we're not on the same page 🤔

@Antler Hit I was meaning that i though Aztec1 looked like a Toucan lol. Sorry for the confusion

Same

Van Gogh who? Picasso who? Who are you? If you ain't Christopher don't talk to me ;)

Why musn't?

RamenGod - Kristoffer*

Uhhh.... who hit ur head with a rock?

@@rickydbz1777 ?

Ohh I like that, that’s my new head canon

Oo i like that for sure, perspective..! :o

Cool perspective dude

Indy pfp, _nice_

Haha exactly

@@zetterstrand lmaooo

And probably a very sensitive and compromising type of porn

Nah,he was playing minecraft,and the look in his eyes said "GET THE F**K OUT 8F MY ROOM I'M PLAYING MINECRAFT",probably.

@@tookawaii9765 Lmao