• Minecraft pixel art world record - ~1.13 million blocks
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vChMzRnw-Hc[/media] I know the guy IRL (Made Botlar 2.0 for his channel on Twitch), and all I can say is that he has some dedication. Over 1 million hand placed blocks, during a period of 23½ weeks.
This would've been a lot cooler if the video showcasing it didn't have 3 quarters of the screen taken up by his twitch overlay.
Digging the SmoothMcGroove in the background. The end result is wonderful.
that layout deserves a @badlayouts shoutout.
You can generate these in seconds
[QUOTE=Sally;48028204]You can generate these in seconds[/QUOTE] To be honest, it looks too exact to be believable that he did it by hand.
i hope you enyoyed dat [sp]in all seriousness though this is pretty neat and it's good that this probably helped them generate a lot of money for charity[/sp]
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48028241]To be honest, it looks too exact to be believable that he did it by hand.[/QUOTE] It's actually legit, he streamed the whole process over the course of 23 weeks, 2 hours a day. Pretty cool job. [editline]23rd June 2015[/editline] He used photoshop grid to see the exact pixels. [editline]23rd June 2015[/editline] [URL="http://frigolit.net:8123/?worldname=pixelart&mapname=flat&zoom=3&x=10032&y=64&z=9696"]Here's[/URL] an exact map of it, you can see other projects too if you zoom out, most of them are on top rigth, near the spawn. (Thanks reddit for the info)
The overlay and little box showing his face is killing it for me. No one wants to see your grubby self sitting at your desk
It's impressive, but pointless. It's literally just time, since there are loads of programs that simply convert an image into the blocks needed.
in art school they taught us to do stuff like this but make your own 'stencil' or template or interpretation from the image yourself. In otherwords, if you use an auto-placer that places the blocks in seconds for you, not cheating. If you open photoshop and convert the image and copy the thing 1:1 what it tells you, thats cheating. He's doing the effort backwards. You're allowed to use a stencil in your artwork but arent allowed to use somebody elses. Sure you can generate your own with a filter in photoshop or whatever but the idea is that even if somebody else took the photo, the stencil design is your design if you interpreted it from the photo yourself... [editline]22nd June 2015[/editline] unless he didnt care about art and just wanted a record then yea, good job it looks sick.
[QUOTE=vladnag;48028433]It's impressive, but pointless. It's literally just time, since there are loads of programs that simply convert an image into the blocks needed.[/QUOTE] Yes this is true, however people do this stuff for a hobby. Its the video game equivalent of a "ship in a bottle."
Who the fuck wants to watch a guy placing blocks in Minecraft, Minecraft is already boring as fuck to watch
I think people watch him more for the commentary than for the block placing
[QUOTE=Tacooo;48028978]Who the fuck wants to watch a guy placing blocks in Minecraft, Minecraft is already boring as fuck to watch[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure people wanted to watch a guy comple a goal.
He did this for over six months. He must have a lot of free time.
[QUOTE=Oblivi-;48028668]Yes this is true, however people do this stuff for a hobby. Its the video game equivalent of a "ship in a bottle."[/QUOTE] No it's not, that takes skill, a steady hand and knowledge of building and structure. This takes right clicking and staring at a map of the blocks needed. Anyone could do this, not everyone could make a ship in a bottle.
[QUOTE=vladnag;48031585]Anyone could do this, not everyone could make a ship in a bottle.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't completely agree, yes anyone can make a pixel art in Minecraft. But making a [b]one million block[/b] one takes a lot of dedication.
[QUOTE=ace13;48031754]I wouldn't completely agree, yes anyone can make a pixel art in Minecraft. But making a [B]one million block[/B] one takes a lot of dedication.[/QUOTE] Dedication and talent aren't the same thing though, but I guess most world records are "I did thing for more time then other people did thing". I'll stop commenting now, since it sounds like I really hate this guy.
what a loser
I would have given up by the 50th block. This is really impressive for the amount of dedication, and the really neat picture of Kerrigan. But I agree with above posts, there's no real talent involved here (unless he did the source picture himself) just a lot of dedication and free time. Nothing to be looked down on, but not something to be blown out of proportion either. At the end of the day he did a cool thing and that's cool, and he also set a bar for someone to challenge and go bigger.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;48029244]He did this for over six months. He must have a lot of free time.[/QUOTE] Tbh he did it for 2 hours a day, that's not a lot at all. Even someone with two jobs could free up that much.
The vast majority of world records are pointless. Some of them don't even require much effort beyond doing one thing for a really long time, but they're still cool.
[QUOTE=vladnag;48031965]Dedication and talent aren't the same thing though, but I guess most world records are "I did thing for more time then other people did thing". I'll stop commenting now, since it sounds like I really hate this guy.[/QUOTE] I'd argue having that level of dedication is a talent all by itself. I know Id get bored 100 blocks in and give up
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48028241]To be honest, it looks too exact to be believable that he did it by hand.[/QUOTE] I'm betting that he had it generated, then used it as a template to place it by hand. [editline]23rd June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=vladnag;48028433]It's impressive, but pointless. It's literally just time, since there are loads of programs that simply convert an image into the blocks needed.[/QUOTE] Combine that with a program that creates importable block arrangements and you can make some cool but quick things. [img]http://i.imgur.com/fb1GxD3.png[/img]
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