Everything WRONG with our videos: VILLAGER NEWS!

[Music] hey guys my name is dan and if you don't know me i'm the director here at element animation and i play a few characters in the videos my favorite and most challenging character of course being woolly the talking sheep oh my god oh my god he said it now it's no secret that animation takes a long time so while our next videos are in production we thought it'd be fun to go back and tear apart our old work people love to do that right right this new character is mean now even though our animations take a long time to make we're still going as fast as we can and that can lead to some mistakes so let's find out everything wrong with our videos yay this time it's villager news villagers they've been around for what feels like a millennium in internet time and since we created our version of them they've spun off into lots of different series they have their own superhero with his own actual book it's a book and they've been included in lots of other channels to enter including the official minecraft channel they even took over the game for a day gravel gravel gravel and sand sands so we technically canon right we originally created them as side characters for our next guide to minecraft travelers you must help us our village is being attacked by a wild beast but we didn't really get to see them in their element until villager news so let's see what we got wrong with that before we start though villager news has gone through a bunch of style changes and improvements over the years so we're not going to focus on those because we we could be here for days what we're looking for is the technical problems let's go so as soon as the first video starts we spot a problem and it's this this weird blurry text on the sides so why did that happen well when you're making a sign and you want text on it you could just slap it on the texture in photoshop and just drop it on but then if there's loads of signs and they all say something different you'd have to make a different texture for every single one so instead we just put some flat 3d text slightly in front of it so you can make it say whatever you want at any time you think that'd be fine but back then we used to use a lot of something called ambient occlusion ao is a sort of fake shadow that gets into the corners and the nooks and crannies just to give everything a little bit more contrast and depth minecraft itself eventually started using a version of ao in the game that they called smooth lighting but we thought we were super cool because we did it first and we applied it to everything it's kind of like when you first discover filters and you ramp it up to the max perfect so adding ao to the scene meant that this text casts a shadow onto the signs leading to this weird overly soft looking text now the police are everywhere this next issue is this check out the black area here that's supposed to show the inside of the villager cloak so on the old villager textures there were two parts to the body the cloak and this undershirt and there's a little gap at the top of the cloak where you're supposed to see through to the undershirt but it's not really a gap in the geometry it's a clear part of the texture kind of like a window problem with that is that our old friend ambient occlusion didn't know about the window and saw it as a solid object so what we're seeing is the shadow caused by the cloak itself but hey it looks like somewhere in the middle of the video we noticed and fixed it after spending hours and days banging your head against the wall trying different ways to solve the problem that doesn't make any sense failing over and over again until you've lost all faith and oh here it is neat this was quickly followed by a high speed now i know we weren't going to talk about stylistic stuff but those low poly geometric eyebrows used to bug me so much not enough to do anything about it for like two years but those eyebrows needed smoothing out and usually when you want to smooth something out in 3d you subdivide it but you try doing that to a village ahead and uh yeah there's there's definitely some extra steps it was just a normal day in the village the crops over here have these weird lines over the top all of the block textures in minecraft used to be on one big image so if you wanted just one of them you had to use a uv map which tells it which part of the image to grab it from it looks like in this case this one wasn't perfect and it was dragging in some of the pink wool from above it but check this out if you move a uv map it makes everything go super trippy villager news could have been a very different show [Music] he's running are they gonna catch look at the torches there we just didn't even bother texturing them they're all just pitch black it looks like quite a situation you've seen a helicopter before but a villager copter is something else unlike a regular helicopter though the villager copter has really bad motion blur helicopter blades are going to blow like this in a circle you've seen it right but our villager copter doesn't do that and that's because all of the motion blur in all of our videos is fake i know such a scandal we do it because rendering real motion blur takes ages and when you're trying to get a video done as fast as you can that's a massive setback so we fake all of our motion blur in post the main problem with that is that it can't handle things that move really fast this is what we start with this is what we want it to look like but this is what we get most of the time this way of doing motion blur is really good and it's super quick but every now and again it spits out these glitches you know what let's just add a bunch more because there's so many motion blur glitches in this video [Music] gonna catch him we don't know back to this shot with the broken torches there's no tall grass anywhere except here but then later there is [Music] if you're a super observant minecraft player you might have noticed that in our earlier videos a lot of the tall grass and foliage was perfectly aligned to a grid no well it's not like they're in the game it's scared about in a bit more random we couldn't export that from the game though so we made a system to paint them in ourselves but that came way after villager news stop no oh he said no for a long time we've made the leaves on our trees solid so you can't see through them but it looks like one of them here didn't get the memo in the game you can make them solid by turning graphics from fancy to fast we did that so we wouldn't have to build too much we just placed a bunch of trees that you couldn't see past without it we'd have had to keep building sets all the way to the horizon or you'd see that the world just ends or that we build all of our sets in the same world i knew it there are a couple of things on this shot first the treetops are missing this will have been done in the game before we export the world we use world edit and that lets you slice through anything side note if you want to come help us build sets come hang out on our server we could always use the help anyway i don't know why the trees were top but when it was built i don't think we expected the village to be seen from this high up the second issue is right here on the villagers pelvis there's some kind of weird warping going on now this is a problem with that old villager rig i think we built him in like an hour so there are a lot of issues one of them was this weird stretching that happened when they were pulled away from the center missile inbound what deploying flares deploying flares here the world ends it just ends we should be able to see all the way to the horizon from this hype but that would mean exporting a huge chunk of land to fill that area and at the time our computers were dying with just this [Music] and the last one this is madness this is the big 300 scene and we all love this part this is minecraft but you see his cape that's not in any of the other shots we just didn't put it in and we are explaining things into your ears explaining things so that brings our total count too [Music] oh is this a good or a bad thing okay so there's probably loads more that we missed and if you do find any let us know in the comments the main takeaway from this is that you don't have to make everything perfect with villager news we wanted to make people laugh and i think we did that even with all these problems also some of these problems can help and make it funnier but even so it's always good to go back and look at your work see where you can learn or make it better even really old work if you managed to make it this far thank you for watching this video was supposed to go over a few episodes but we ran out of time just with this one but let us know if you like this and if we should do more shout out to our ultimate patron waffen hortonclan thank you pointing out we are pointing out we're pointing out all of the problems we're pointing out things that we did wrong we're pointing out things that we're not good we're pointing out [Music] we'll break it down we are breaking down we'll break it down no not like depression we'll break it down all of our old work will bring it down so we get better we'll break it down

Channel: Element Animation

Views: 3,885,096

Keywords: Villager News, Testificate Man, Minecraft, Everything Wrong, Wrong with, Villagers, Villager TV, Pokemobs, Animation, comedy, gaming, minecraft animation, Breakdown

Id: DXfCYUYDdcA

Length: 9min 28sec (568 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021