The Artstyle of Five Nights at Freddy's - FNAF Video Essay
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Today I explore the artistic style of Scott Cawthon and the Five Nights at Freddy's series, and how it's changed and evolved with time, along with how it aided in the success of the series as a whole.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Chapter 1: The Origins
6:52 - Chapter 2: What made FNAF work? (Visually)
12:46 - Chapter 3: The Other Scott Games
12:58 - Five Nights at Freddy's 2
16:23 - Five Nights at Freddy's 3
20:00 - Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
23:42 - Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
30:00 - Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
33:38 - Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
34:46 - Beyond
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Done and it’s apparent from the first minute it took forever
I definitely will I really enjoyed it
Hey, could you maybe do a video on the fnaf books?
I can't even fathom the amount of editing that went into this. No wonder it took forever, I love this, it's a *work of art.* Heh. I definitely enjoyed it a lot.
First vid I have seen from you… but one thing confused me… is your avatar the turtle… or the bunny… you seem to talk from both. If both… explain lol
I always considered FNaF 1's art style to be very realistic. To the point where I could see it being an actual run-down pizza diner with oddball animatronics. Its a vibe to a game that I have yet to see be replicated. Scott's style really is something special.
Pretty much why I didn't like Security Breach, since its art style is very cartoony and colorful. The atmosphere just felt too 'safe' for horror.
@@Val17282 I think as the game progressed the pizzaplex should have gotten darker. Realistically they wouldn’t keep all those lights on 24/7 anyways. Maybe have certain areas dimly lit with only one color, something similar to one of the animatronics so they could blend in better. It would help make each area far more distinct and each could utilize a different type of horror. For example make Monty golf this really dark green and have Monty himself hide in the foliage with only his eyes lit up as white pinpricks in the darkness like a real alligator. Also have the shattered forms be more horror-like similar to Roxy’s. Monty just losing his legs didn’t really make him any scarier, just funny to look at.
Also, I know the lighting thing would mean moon has to be reworked a bit, but he kind of sucked outside of that first encounter so I don’t think it’s much of a loss if it meant the whole game could be scarier.
As a kid coming across fnaf, I was always baffled about how on earth the graphics looked so real, considering that video game graphics still weren't as advanced, and that I was still too young to point out flaws in graphics then.
if you like this you should check out desolate hope. just stunning renders man holy crap
@@keslerjenkins9683 Honestly have thought about playing it, cause Scott's visual talents really glow with that game of his from what I've seen.
As a 32yo adult who is from the 90s, I have to say that Scott's style really does hit that vibe with me that feels strangely nostalgic and weirdly comforting. Like, it feels like playing a PC game on your parents' computer in the garage past bedtime, or the coolest new game your rich friend got from Toys R Us to show off at the sleepover. It feels like a time capsule without actually being from that time. The endos have a very late 80s, early 90s SciFi blockbuster feel to them.
Bro yo dumbass ain't from the 90s.
@@southerncoastproductions7587 I was born in 1990, so I'm pretty sure I'm from the 90s. In fact, I was born in June 1990, so I'm pretty sure that makes me a 90s Kid/Millennial.
Exactly why would you say otherwise? Who are you, I don't even know you.
@@raelogan Nobody knows you either. Who says you not lying? Keep it to yourself. Nobody fucking cares.
@@southerncoastproductions7587 Well, it looks like about 104 people plus Mr Springs seems to like my original comment, so maybe stop trying to be a troll because I don't have to prove anything to you, you're the one who came at me, who's to say that no one cares about what you have to say because I certainly don't, I wasn't talking to you to begin with.
Anyway, as I was saying, the games' art style is very much retro inspired, as I can tell as someone who grew up with that sort of game aesthetics, it reminds me of the old Oddworld games background art, or like that old Transformers cartoon where they turned into animals. The first FNAF game could very well fit as a game released in 1996, tbh.
I'm going to talk here because this is my thread I've started, and you can't stop me.
@@raelogan make that 116 people who liked your original comment
and uh, sorry about the trolls, don't let them get to you
plus they deleted their comments, which shows how confident they are about what they're saying
have a nice day '90's kid, keep on rocking on
The amount of times we end up saying “what happened to Springtrap” really says a lot of how well that first design held up, and how it became so iconic
FNaF 1 and 3 are peak FNaF artstyle imo. That dark, shadowed, and gritty environment. The uncanny valley look of the animatronics. I love it.
The first one has the uncanny valley thing the third not as much
@@twoshu8940 third has the most evil character in the entire franchise
withered animatronics have the scariest animatronic design in the entire franchise to me. with scrap animatronics scott was trying so hard to make them look scary with the way they are damaged while in fnaf 2 its enough to remove the face of bonnie or make chica's jaw hang down from the endoskeleton skull to make it pure nightmare fuel
@@randomannoyance springtrap is also on of the scariest
I think toy Bonnie so dcary in camera
For nostalgia, i was replaying fnaf 2 last week. One thing that i've noticed that really freaks me out about the withered animatronics is just how big they look, especially when in the office. Like, whenever you look at the cameras, they absolutelly tower around the daily objects. Idk why, but they are just GIGANTIC and it always makes my hearth skip a beat when i lower the camera and see them in the same room as me.
i played FNAFVR recently and was not anticipating how MASSIVE these things were. i knew they were big, but i didn't really fully realize how terrifying their size would be in comparison to my own
You think they are huge?
Nightmare fredbear is 12 ft tall when he's in the hallway. He has to slouch.
Someone replicated his pose in the hallway with his canon size and put him in the bedroom. His belly alone took 60% of tge room he is frickin massive.
Still nothin compared to the books afton amalgamation but still.
The reason them being bigger is also the reason why fnaf 4 is the scariest to me, it's because it makes it feel like they can actually hurt you and not just be tripped and smashed
Endo 02’s are like 7 feet tall
the artstyle of the older games is also what drew people in, the gritty dark feel of it was so good, old fnaf looked so gritty and dark,
The Desolate hope and the rest of Scott’s gritty sci-fi aesthetic reminds me of the 90s pc game adaption of “I have no mouth and I must scream”. I wonder if that is what inspired him partially
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@@Joey-dl6nmOh cmon
My explanation for why the Funtime animatronics have the opening plates is so the technicians have easy access to the endoskeleton without having to tear the suit off every time they need maintenance
This makes an insane amount of sense
...huh...WAIT THAT MAKES SENSE!
They're also useful for quickly making lots of facial expressions
As an artist who has followed FNaF since the first game's release, I've found quite a few things regarding how the artstyle is structured.
1. LIGHTING. LIGHTING PLAYS A MASSIVE ROLE. However, there's more to it than simply setting a light source. Scott uses 3DS Max to model his characters and backgrounds, and as such, lighting in a 3D space works differently. Even with ambient lighting present, the default for 3D models is a pitch black space where lighting cuts out shadows *in* the space. I called this lighting method "Define by Shadows". Where light doesn't define shape, lighting, or even texture, but the absence of shadow does instead. How does this work? Imagine a pitch black room. Now imagine a light in the hallway, and now one light in the top corner of the room, and so on. You'll notice some areas aren't fully illuminated, but the shape of things like doorways and furniture are all still defined. To define lighting by the light sources is to say all visibility is defined by what is illuminated or clearly visible. To define by shadows means to use shadows or the absence of shadows, to give definition to an object whether or not it is illuminated or completely visible. Pair this will hard light definition and colored light sources, and you got FNaF's lighting style, my guy.
2. TEXTURES. FNaF is huge about textures. EVERYTHING is textured. *EVERY DAMN THING IN THE EARLY SERIES (1-UCN) IS TEXTURED.* By adding grit and grime, coarseness and smoothness to everything; it further sells realism, despite realism not being the focus. The realism in textures is meant to give uneasy uncanny valley responses to the viewer. Giving the brain the impression that what you're looking at might be real enough to touch or have sensory registering to it, but not real enough to not feel unnatural or something that shouldn't, within reason, exist.
3. DESIGN. Everything from the animatronics to the backgrounds is meant to break conventions. The animatronics look like pizzeria animatronics, yeah, but some of them just straight up look like mechanical monsters. Robots are always known to be clean and uniform, humanoid or militaristic or non-threatening in design. Cyberpunk films such as iRobot and Ghost in the Shell apply humanity to inhuman objects such as robots, thus making the machine more like man. FNaF does the exact opposite, with each murder victim once being human and now possessing a grotesque and monstrous mechanical abomination. Effectively taking humanity away from a human, and making man more like machine. Defined, not by what is gained, but by what is lost. The unnatural way the animatronics stand, move, and behave are all reminiscent of this fact. Progressively, the series moves from focusing on the pizzeria aspect of the series' aesthetic to moreso dealing with the character William Afton's past sins and the mechanical monsters born from it. All of these things are reflected in the design *as they should.*
In conclusion, Scott's artstyle is a heavily defined one that not many people know how to replicate because it's so specifically *unique.* And as such, it should come as a push to other developers to continue being creative and not falling into worn out standards.
i wish i could blaze this comment bc this is so good, I do not have the words to have said all this and you said everything perfectly
Personally I like the artstyle of the Scott Era games a bit more, than the Steel wool era games.
Steel Wool's FNAF is a lot more colorful than Scott's FNAF
@@Mandalore_ultimatedepends. ffps is SUPER colorful, while help wanted is very dull. but security breach is bright and flashy while fnaf 3 is very dark. it’s very relative
@@frostwing1899 I'm referring to Security Breach their latest FNAF game
@@Mandalore_ultimate yes but you just said “steel wool” in general so that wasn’t blatantly obvious
@@Mandalore_ultimate I see that as a negative. SB looks too kiddy, SB looks more like Hello Neighbor than FNAF.
Funniest part is, his entire art style practically revolves around a single texture he used in his 3D renders.
Care to elaborate? Pretty please?
@@blank3065 Scott Cawthon's infamous specular texture, AKA the 3DSMax Turbulence/Noise texture. It's used in every single thing he's done with 3D design, even down to the Pilgrim's Progress.
I finally figured out what Scott’s early art (desolate hope especially) reminds me of… it’s animusic! Those weird CGI self-playing instrument videos that everyone thinks were a fever dream. They’ve got the exact same creepy/nostalgic CGI vibe.
Those do have that same clearly-CGI-in-an-unexplainable-way vibe, I do see that. It's uncanny because you can tell that it's fake, but not how.
Good thought!
Never in my 16 years on this earth did I ever expect Animusic to be mentioned when talking about FNAF.
You know what, you're right! I never realized how similar they look.
“The black substance is clearly supposed to be paranormal”
This makes me feel so much better about my bathroom! I thought it was mould 😮💨
You miiight still wanna get that checked though.
💀😭😭
Stuff that Scott's artstyle reminds me of:
Bowling alley strike screens, Hoodwinked (2005), Super Mario 64, liminal spaces, a kiosk where they sell those weird little toys that last for 3 days, eating a hotdog at a funfair standing next to a carousel
This is so acurrate what
@@Jazker_da_thief I have my ways of describing things
Omg Hoodwinked I fuckin love that movie. Glad to see it being acknowledged lol
Same! I don't care what anyone says, that movie's a masterpiece!
fnaf1 is to me actually realistic somehow, the way Scott used his models with big and close animatronics it's so claustrostophic
This video devolved from "This is a very scary atmosphere with a clear direction and smart design choices" to "He is a very weird boi and I love him"
I love FNAF's unique art style. It really adds to the creepy atmosphere.
im really gonna miss scott's primitive cgi style moving forward in this series
Fnaf 1's art style is legit amazing because not just the restaurant but also the animatronics cause the place feels like a real thing that would be in the 80's.
Actually Michael's living room from SL has resemblance from a scene in one of Scott's old animated films, it's called A christmas Journey.
32:18 i have some thoughts behind the design of fnaf VR springtrap. i think steel wool knew they were getting a bit high on their performance limits and they needed to cut a few corners with some of the models. but the way they did it through springtrap actually kinda works. the beginning of the game highly suggests they’re trying to market the game for both grown ups AND kids. so it seems like a fazbear entertainment thing to do. they lowered the detail of the overall design and the body inside so kids wouldn’t be too scared, and the corpse bits remaining are a dark purple color, possibly to poke fun at the in-universe equivalent of the purple guy. it seems just sleazy enough to be something fazbear entertainment would do
jesus, i did not realize how long i made this 😭
@@frostwing1899 Based
if you think about it really FNAF was just you looking at gifs in essence and we LOVED that
My ears thoroughly enjoyed whenever you ate the microphone to emphasize points with the lack of a pop filter.
I actually have a soft spot for the humanoid robots as opposed to the animal ones. Like Circus Baby, Ballora, Ennard, Balloon Boy and the Puppet (I guess you can also count Sun and Moon but they don't do it for me for whatever reason). Would like to see more of them in future entries, they just kind of stand out a lot to me in a series full of bears, rabbits and canines.
Ennard is still kinda an animal one, do to it having 5 animontronics in ut.
I agree! :) The humanoid ones are some of my favourites
Balloon boy is so underrated, remember when everybody hated him?
For me, i think that’s a dumb argument as ennard doesn’t show signs of anything animalistic. Sure he’s an amalgamation of all the funtimes but that doesn’t mean he’s an animal design wise
I honestly like them in low quantities, since it makes them stand out on the crowd of usual animal animatronics everybody is used to.
Woo it's finally here! I also think I just realized a big reason for the visuals of more recent FNAF games being so different heavily depends on Scott Cawthon's influence and improving skill on the modeling of the characters
Regarding Security Breach, I love the Glam rock designs. In my opinion, Roxanne Wolf and Monty are a little over designed, while Freddy and Chica are some of my favorite designs in the game, if not the entire series. Love what Steel Wool has been able to do so far and am looking forward to where the series goes from here. Clearly, they are very capable and worthy of taking over for Scott.
"Clearly very capable".
"Worthy of taking over for Scott".
Are we living in the good universe where Security Breach was good?
@@twinzzlers Security Breach can be a bad game, i like it but that's not the point, but SW clearly loves FNAF and i'm sure that they learned from their mistakes and the next fnaf projects are gonna be good (including Ruin DLC)
@@charlioanimations234 I have absolutely no hope from a story standpoint. Afton always coming back, the blob, *FUCKING REMANANT*
Just doesn't feel like FNAF to me anymore, and the overly kiddy boring look for SB doesn't help
@@twinzzlers remnant has been a thing ever since the silver eyes released in 2015.
I hated the models in SB, Scott was producing better models 7 years prior
i will never understand the editing trend of random "earrape" segments for emphasis, jesus christ, dude
yeah lol its shitty editing
17:50 This still is the pinnacle of FNaF horror
Way to blow out my eardrums
I've also been enamered by the fnaf art style because I am half convinced it's realistic and cartoony. I don't know why. But Scott's style is very early 2000's, late 90s CGI. Reminds me of Mia the mouse, jimmy neutron, the "in the jungle" animation I used to watch as a kid with a singing hippo and those polar bear shorts.
It's interesting how Scott's visual style has some vibes of liminal spaces, specially in the backgrounds and environments.
I just adore Scott’s style. Something about it is just so encapsulating
I think the black substance is probably mold, that’s why I think it was cool to me cause it gave it a sort of dirty look
Being from a time where I still watched stuff like VHS and went to places like Chuck E. Cheese's, even if from the late 90's and all throughout the 2000's, FNAF hit that mark with it's nostalgic art style. It also obviously matches how Animatronics were creepy, but also kept the charm that made them more endearing to those not originally super scared of them as a kid, like me.
With people criticising Scrap Baby's design, honestly their reasons to not like it is one of the reasons she is my favourite character.
Fnaf's artstyle is amazing. It just looks like something from many years ago, and its really charming to me
The fact that I've dedicated most of my life to people I met through fnaf and fnaf related things is astonishing
Scott Cawthon Practically built my childhood from the bottom up
The holes in Springtrap could’ve been him trying to claw his way out of the suit
I actually never thought of that, that would actually be a cool explanation
i like that idea but most likely it was rats eating through the suit to get to williams body
FNAF's art style is always gonna be one of it's defining features, this is a great video talking about how recognizable and unique FNAF will always be for it's style alone.
It's finally here! I love how unique FnaF's artstyle is, its something that no other horror game or fangame truly know how to replicate. From environmental storytelling (with the black substance, you pointed out) to how he designed the characters (FnaF 1 and 4 animatronics being my favorite in the entire series.)
I feel like Chipper and Sons looks like an educational game I played in kindergarten
shoutouts to scott “big man” cawthon. one of my favorite companies
19:06 the suit / springtrap was in a damp moist run down building for 30 years, not to mention it was filled with blood, and possibly mold. Having holes makes sense...it's rotting
Agh finally someone recognizes how scary withered Chica is. She's always called goofy and sidelined by withered Bonnie, but honestly the giant, dangerous gaping jaws, the elongated eye sockets giving her an animalistic look, her giant stature, she's so creepy
Yes it’s the best animatronic someone needs to make a real life working version with 3D printer
@@explosiveboi6692 that would be so awesome
@@felsiccanis ikr imagine how cool it would look biting someone’s head off
In regards to your warehouse-of-mannequins analogy: I've said it before in reference to why the VHS scene is so popular. FNaF 1 benefits because of the aspects that make you feel like you're in a haunted environment due to the things exempt from the animatronics. The hallucinations, the changing scenery on the walls, the sudden shorts of the cameras clearly intentionally covering their tracks. It makes it feel not just like you're in a room, being hunted by massive robots, but like you're locked in with forces you can't fully comprehend or even observe, unknowing of just why they're like this or what they stand to gain from it. And you can't leave, because they clearly have control of the location and they almost certainly won't let you. The animatronics are just vessels to attack you, rather than the culprits themselves. And, as well, they aren't always attacking, despite being otherwise hostile - Chica and Bonnie sporadically travel around, wandering the building; while Foxy and Freddy keep to themselves most of the time, rarely moving from their spots either hidden behind the curtains or wholly dormant on stage, respectively. They're not fully bent on killing you, or if they are, it takes a lot more effort than had they just been robots with extra programming to do so. That is why FNaF 1 feels so much like a horror environment, and why everything since has been a bit of a downhill, whether it was focusing on characters rather than environment in 2 and 3, or science rather than paranormal activity in SL and since.
Also. Help Wanted. I could write a book on my thoughts of Help Wanted (and it would be 40% my expansions on the gameplay and 30% repeating the other 30%). You can tell the game was rushed by the models, by some parts of the gameplay (hard mode P&S, Funtime Freddy's level, etc), and by there not being full animations for a lot of things, but the models definitely show it the worst. That said, I think the reason they do is because of two things: Firstly, Help Wanted's gameplay style obviously lends a lot of leeway towards cutting out entirely things which didn't pan out during development or weren't finished; and secondly, many of the animations can be believably passed off as deliberately not lining up, particularly when covered by a light going out or a camera breaking. The models, though... they don't get that same leeway. I think the classics and the Toys were the first modeled, as while some aspects show that they weren't exactly the most skillful ones between texture and color and shape, they do have good quality regardless. Later on, the more complex ones such as Springtrap and the Funtimes got shafted completely, and I have to say that a lot of the solid surfaces on the animatronics really show their polygon counts plainly as too low. That applies to the Toys to a lesser degree, but mainly the Funtimes - and also Nightmarionne, with the mask. Conversely, the Nightmares and Withered (the latter of which were added later and so not a time crunch) look absolutely amazing, and you can tell that they got more experienced as they went. Still, a pass back over the first few models with what they learned would've been nice, although the textures on nearly everyone look a bit off to some small degree. Also, the classics look like they're hard plastic or something rather than plush, which I've never liked (and those buttons on Chica should fold her whole face up not open her beak).
Scott’s style, especially in Desolate hope looks very much like the cgi in The Matrix films
William Afton in Fazbear’s fright: *Ooh, wall remnant!*
Also william Afton: **Starts intensely sucking on wall**
I'm glad you ended on such a positive note, I do think on the whole fnaf has been really memorable in video game horror
SO GLAD THAT SOMEONE FINALLY CALLED OUT THE PARALLELS TO TDH AND FNAF THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
FNAF 1's art style really reminds me of my time touring Aaron Fechter's warehouse. For those unfamiliar, he invented the current style of pizza place animatronics that we know today, including many whose internal mechanisms (endoskeletons to most fnaf fans) currently used in places like Chuck E. Cheese. I toured his warehouse where he housed all his animatronics. The place was dark and gritty, with huge animatronics literally all over the place. Some were kept in very nice shape, while others had rotted away since the 80s and showed massive holes (the ones who had latex masks had started to melt as well). Others were just empty robots with no costumes. It was full of 70s-80s style technology and art, and idk- the whole vibe of FNAF 1 really captures that in a way. His warehouse is like an animatronic time capsule, and I got to see some fantastic things there. FNAF 1 always brings me back to those happy memories, because of the darkness, the run-down condition, the 80s style robots, the vintage feel of it all. I think Scott did an amazing job at capturing the feeling that he was aiming for.
8:50 I can't seem to find any pictures of it on google images, but I have seen stains like that. It was in a decrepit wooden bathroom in an outdoor area. The wood seemed unprotected and old, in an area that got lots of rain and high humidity, so I assume it's some kind of mold or mildew, growing in that way because of the way the water permeated the wood, the grain of the wood, or both.
So not entirely unrealistic, though I'd be thoroughly grossed out to find those kinds of stains in the drywall of a pizzeria 😭
Probably my favourite thing in general from the series, is in fnaf2, since withered Bonnie is missing the top half of his head, instead of going to bite you in his jumpscare, he instead reaches to grab you
The closest I’ve seen someone get to replicating Scott’s designs are the creator of Tykes Lumber Co. and Nightmare Baby’s Circus games.
I didn't really like the loud parts, but this is a pretty good video
21:42 believe it or not, it sort of is. There are some new state of the art robotics that instead of Hydrology joints and what not, instead use more of a "muscle-like" system, which bears the apperance of wires and tubes. Though I'm unsure if this was the intention on Scott's end.
While working on this fnaf series, this helps so much
I wasn’t expecting to watch a video including both a turtle and bunny avatar talking about the aesthetics of 1980s animatronics, but… I love it.
This was a great video, especially because it showed a particularity that turns a videogame into a masterpiece: the artstyle, which is really underrated in so many videogames. I really enjoyed watching this. Great job! 👍🏻
I was always fascinated by the by his art style. It always kind of freaked me out and interested me. It reminds me of early 2000’s bad cgi nostalgia kinda of like shark boy and lava girl, lazy town, spy kids 3D and etc. I would love to learn how to make this kind of art. If anyone knows how to do that inform me and help me pleas
Scott makes his stuff using a program called "3D Studio Max" if that helps at all!
The biggest thing that made fnaf scary was what a lot of horror does is to make something child like and innocent and making into something horrific like clowns and dolls with their uncanny inhuman look
I love that I was on a fnaf video essay binge today, and that you ended up uploading 2 hours ago on this exact day.
26:25 still more original than most fnaf oc's
The Desolate Hope would look awful if it looked any other way than it does. I love that game
I love the original Five Nights at Freddy's Style looked almost real to me I hope that's in Five Nights at Freddy's movie we'll capture that ecstatic in live-action
I'd love to see all the colors desaturated while inside the Pizzeria to capture the FNAF 1 location for the movie
@@MRSprings I miss the feeling that the franchise used to have I used to listen to FNAF songs whole playing Hitman absolution pretending to be the purple guy and kill everyone in the mission while listening to I'm the purple guy, time to die, and it's not the end.
Great video! Your style and characters are very charming. I will say that you may have overdone the loud mic bit a little, but it was a good watch nonetheless.
This is a really good video i hope it blows up to make more people see it you explained everything really well the editing is amazing great job!!! ❤
The only thing I hope Steel Wool improves at is the writing and polish of the game, but artstyle and personality definitely made the SB gang my favorites.
Another amazing analysis video, each one of these get better and better!!
MR I love your videos but the sound levels on this video are all over the place. I have to turn it up so loud to hear you and then I get blasted by meme sound effects. Please, I'm just trying to sleep!
I want to point out your use of the fnaf ambience and jumpscare noises for the mannequin bit illustrated how well sound design works- even if the graphics aren’t even animated!!
Also the fact you continuously used the fnaf music and ambience in the video is really cool but I’m constantly on edge man
These video essays you're doing are super cool! Keep it up mate :)
Scott “Big Man” Cawthon
I think the main thing that contributes to Scott’s style is how he textures his models
i think i speak for everyone when i say that Freddy Fnaf had a rough transition into 3D
we need more fnaf games in this art style
I wonder if the reason springtrap is covered in cuts and holes is because of rats, they could’ve chewed through it over the years
Babe wake up new Springs video dropped
This makes me miss old FNAF so much, Wonderful video.
I was 12 years old going into 6th grade when fnaf came out I’m now 21 crazy how time flys by, and it’s crazy how it’ll be 10 in 2024
This video and Scruffy's duology about the sound design are a great little bundle to help understand how the scott cawthon-era fnaf games scare us
I know people generally aren't afraid of the Toy animatronics and i would agree but Toy Bonnie is the exception for me. His beady eyes and sinister aura just genuinely unsettle me.
On the contrary, I now find the toys to be way scarier than the withereds. They're so fake-looking that they have to be hiding something, whereas the withereds are open books.
Why Scott's Era is darker and depends more on a grity old texture, it was bound to change at some point when we started getting into games set in modern time that's not underground facilities or horror attractions.
Especially for a place so recent, Security Breach is realistic design.
Older games were mostly set when Freddie's wasn't as big or popular and most running it were working in mostly old buildings.
But the pizza plex is new and actually has plenty costumers throughout the day in the building.
I think the plex design would be how the original Circus Baby's would've looked a bit like prior to them being reduce to a rental
Bright, clean, crisp animotronics with some creepy aspects.
I love the glamrock designs, they're fun and why not completely spooky they're huge compared to the player and start to break apart making them even spookier.
Moon and Sun Especially are some my favorites
I think the reason they're not very spooky-looking is because they're not meant to be. They're just doing their jobs, no supernatural element involved.
Oooo! I’ve been waiting for this video since you post the teaser and I’m so excited to watch it!!! Also I love your videos:D
Talking very loud into the mic is very funny *eardrums burst*
Great video, tho!
Honestly, the Mediocre Melodies look like they have cheap felt glued on.
Honestly I think this very accurately sums up how criminally underrated the art of this series is. Yes, obviously, the animitronics are scary and unsettling. But the environments really sell the scare factor for me. The black streaks along the walls, the loose hanging wires on the walls and ceilings. It's not that it looks abandoned, but that its cheap and under low maintenance. Like if something were to happen there, the people responsible for it probably wouldn't do anything about it... oh wait.
Scott really nailed it with the first three games from an artistic standpoint.
Been waiting for this one, hope its as good as I imagine it'll be.
Well the only Metallic parts of the rockstar anamatronics are only the Bowtie, endoskeletons, top hat, and the stars on their chest. (Except rockstar chica.)
And now there's a movie no not a movie but THREE MOVIES being developed as adaptions of this game...
Finally, someone sees Security Breach style as the 80s!!! Everyone else says futuristic scifi and I'm sitting here like, am i taking crazy pills?! Lol but anyway, great video!
It's what the 80s imagined a futuristic style being.
Fnaf kinda has that backroom feeling
I’ve got something to watch at 12:00 at night
Great video! Loved that effect you used to compare the human proportions between Springtrap and previous animatronics
So the hater basically inspired scott to make a horror game, if the hater never found out of chipers then FNAF wouldn't even exist
Fnaf 4 terrified me as a kid because until then we had only been in public places like a restaurant and a haunted house where you could avoid the danger by just not going there. The idea of the animatronics breaking into my house got rid of my one mental safety net as a kid and it really, really freaked me out. Additionally, its silence is really off-putting especially with how close you need to listen to said silence
Whenever talking about bad help wanted designs, I'm always surprised when people don't mention ennard
Am I literally the only person in the FNaF Fandom to notice that they changed some of the animatronics's colors for Help Wanted? This is most noticeable on FNaF 1 Freddy and honestly I dunno how to feel about it.
Edit: I literally paused the vid to write this comment just before Springs mentions that. Lol.
I love your editing lol 😭
I JUST NOTICED THAT THE LAMP IN MICHEAL AFTONS LIVING ROOM IS THE SAME ONE FROM THE HALLWAY IN FNAF4😭😭
Many thanks to the person who called out Scott's characters for looking like animatronics otherwise we wouldn't have FNAF today.