Reviewing N64-Era Zelda Illustrations

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @Treppy_Gecky
    @Treppy_Gecky Рік тому +35

    So glad to have you back! This 2D art was such a big inspiration for me growing up. I remember being really young and thinking Zelda looked so beautiful. Oot has one of the best designs she’s ever had. And yes all the little details on her are a pain to draw lol

  • @abbynormal2419
    @abbynormal2419 14 днів тому +3

    8:50 I always thought those were his upper teeth and he just didn't have a jaw.

  • @TheRealMycanthrope
    @TheRealMycanthrope Рік тому +13

    So I just watched your N64 Era Mario renders video, and then clicked on this one; glad to hear you turned your mic up! :D

  • @MasterNoda
    @MasterNoda Рік тому +9

    You're the kind of guy I would love to go with to see an old video game artwork pop-up museum

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +7

      We should totally do that sometime. How's September 2023 sound?

  • @philipbrooks8321
    @philipbrooks8321 Рік тому +13

    8:00 I'm pretty sure I've heard somewhere that "Moblin" is literally a contraction that translates to "Forest Goblin". Although don't quote me.

  • @schawangus
    @schawangus Рік тому +7

    Dude, this is amazing. I have the Collector’s Disc for GameCube and always loved looking at the art for Ocarina and Majora on the menu and in the manual. The art in the manual was a bit sparse, but there was still enough to keep me interested when I was little. I even remember bringing the manual to school with me once just to look at the renders and art. If you’re able to look it up, there’s actually a really cool render of the Master Sword on the table of contents page that I still love to just look at from time to time. Mostly because it’s actually shown to be purple rather than blue.
    Anyway, I’m planning to introduce a friend of mine to the series and thought I’d start her off with these two. And this video is perfect because I also really wanna show her just the art, since she’s an artist and I feel like she’d connect more with that than the games themselves. So thank you for compiling all this together. You’ve absolutely earned a sub ❤

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +1

      Oh my gosh, I totally took the Collector's Edition's manual (alongside Super Smash Bros. Melee's and Super Mario Sunshine's) with me on long car rides just so I could look through the artwork. Good to know I'm not the only one!
      Your emphatic support is highly appreciated! Thanks a bunch for sharing the series, I hope your friend enjoyed/enjoys it!

  • @Nobody-c4t7p
    @Nobody-c4t7p Рік тому +4

    Congratulations on reaching 5000 subscribers

  • @tariqdotpng546
    @tariqdotpng546 7 місяців тому +6

    commenting for engagement, i hope everything has been going well. thank you for continuing these videos even if the view counts arent as high as the others. they’re really a treat.

  • @nicholaskaighen9057
    @nicholaskaighen9057 Рік тому +9

    these videos are great! keep it up, there are so many interesting renders and art styles from this era.

  • @soulcalibrII
    @soulcalibrII Рік тому +10

    21:45 - OoT3D is a remaster, not a remake. It is based on the original N64 game's source code. Same for MM3D. Grezzo just took the original source code and prettied it up for the 3DS releases.

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +5

      A small but important distinction, thanks for specifying!

    • @TricksterLawlet
      @TricksterLawlet 18 днів тому

      Be quiet man

  • @the9thinning1
    @the9thinning1 Рік тому +21

    Nice ganondorf announcer reference 😂

  • @Zawmbbeh
    @Zawmbbeh 10 місяців тому +4

    It’s stuff like this, videos that passionately appreciate little things like this, that make UA-cam worth it. The casual and self-honest tone is cozy as a campfire, engaging and human, odd to point out i know but it’s surprising how uncommon it is. This is a lovely place you’ve made, these videos.

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  9 місяців тому +4

      Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear that the series turned out as comfortable as I envisioned it. Talking about my highly specific interests is so much more fun than wrangling the more superficial elements of UA-cam, so I look forward to continuing the series when I get a chance!

  • @naomi9606
    @naomi9606 7 місяців тому +4

    came here to boost your engagement! your videos are so calming and your style of humor is unique and hilarious. two videos in and i’m already subbed!

  • @ashtonwilaby
    @ashtonwilaby 11 місяців тому +2

    14:39 in my opinion, this is the most beautiful art in all of gaming.

  • @Nathan-rb3qp
    @Nathan-rb3qp 9 місяців тому +2

    Honestly my favorite Impa design was her appearance in the Oracle Of Ages manga.

  • @Mahagion
    @Mahagion Рік тому +3

    I really like this series. You can see the quality of the videos improve as the series goes on and it's nothing but commendable! Heck, now I know about an epic site hosting all of these nice illustrations, which is always nice. I enjoy looking at stuff like this. The effort you've put into these videos is seriously impressive, and I hope you enioy making them as much as I enioy watching 'em, sir! My hat's off to you for the incredible job!

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +1

      Thank you so much! Everything from the research to the editing is a blast. (Okay, fighting with DaVinci Resolve can be annoying on occasion, but still!) It's just fun to share a bunch of thoughts that would've otherwise been bouncing around in my head for years on end.

  • @billycausey4277
    @billycausey4277 11 місяців тому +3

    I've always gotten this vibe that Nintendo executives didn't expect OOT to do very well... the lack of renders, the way it was just kind of thrown out there with minimal advertising, and the truncated development time compared to a lot of their other first party title on the N64.

    • @HighPriestFuneral
      @HighPriestFuneral 5 місяців тому +2

      If I may ask, how old are you? As someone who was alive in 1998 in America, I can tell you that OoT was everywhere on anything even partially related to Nintendo. They hyped its release from early 1998 until its release that November.

  • @seasonembrace3624
    @seasonembrace3624 6 місяців тому +4

    The N64 Zelda’s alongside Twilight Princess are really cool artwork illustrations for this series.

  • @leoisok03
    @leoisok03 Рік тому +1

    Love the shout out to history of hyrule, love this video too! just found ya and subbed

  • @VancieBoi
    @VancieBoi Рік тому +2

    i too, want that guys shoes.

  • @MATABEI
    @MATABEI Рік тому +3

    I love your in depth analysis of these awesome illustrations! The Zelda series has some fantastic artwork~
    Unless it's on your list already, might I suggest that you add the art of Yoshi's Island (or the Yoshi series as a whole) to your list? That game has such a unique visual style that's perfectly represented in its official art, would love to hear your thoughts on it :)

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +1

      Thank you very much! I've added your Yoshi suggestion to the list, hopefully I'll get to it someday soon!

  • @mtb2357
    @mtb2357 Рік тому +1

    Great video, I can't wait to see the next one

  • @obamius4521
    @obamius4521 10 місяців тому +6

    You know what’s weird? Adult Zelda is blonde in-game but rather brown-ish in the artwork.

  • @gonfreak4951
    @gonfreak4951 6 місяців тому +1

    these videos are so intriguing

  • @maplesezmewo
    @maplesezmewo 7 місяців тому +2

    I like how first pictures of young link and adult link both have basically the same pose, same with Zelda and Gannon.

  • @FuuHouji
    @FuuHouji 2 місяці тому +1

    I read all of the Warrior cat books growing up lol My friend made fun of me for it, but then he was reading Guardians of Ga’Hoole and I was like “You hypocrite” haha 😂

  • @fireaza
    @fireaza Рік тому +4

    The rather garish colors and heavy use of overlayed textures in the OoT artwork, makes me think this was VERY early use of digital image editing. When maybe the software and people's experience using it wasn't quite there yet.

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +2

      That's a good observation! I had a similar thought while I was writing the script, but I didn't want to raise it in case I was way off base. They definitely went ham on some characters' textures, particularly Skull Kid's and the Deku Scrub's. And it makes sense that Majora's Mask largely dropped the more extreme elements; once the tech was a bit more established, they might've found it easier to reign themselves in.

    • @abbyelectric
      @abbyelectric 5 місяців тому +2

      It looks to me like they drew the linework on paper, and then digitally scanned them to put the colours in. Although, some of them (particularly the OoT art of young Link pulling out the Master Sword, and the one of him and Zelda sitting together), look to have been coloured traditionally as well, based on my experience with alcohol markers.

  • @supersmashbro596
    @supersmashbro596 Рік тому +2

    actually phantom ganons mouth isnt sewn shut.
    he's straight up missing his lower jaw.

  • @rjd1922
    @rjd1922 4 місяці тому +1

    There is one other scene artwork from Majora's Mask, showing Link and Tatl in Clock Town.

  • @TheLEGOZora
    @TheLEGOZora 7 місяців тому +2

    29:30 I hope you have been well rested since then.

  • @troyithy
    @troyithy 11 місяців тому +1

    coming to this one straight from the mario render videos my eardrums got blown out lmao

  • @TheLEGOZora
    @TheLEGOZora 7 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for this video!

  • @bzzrtzzzrteertz2724
    @bzzrtzzzrteertz2724 Рік тому +1

    Finally got around to being in a position to properly watch the video and look at all the art and it’s a great one again! shocked it has so few views right now hope it pops off like the others 👍

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому +1

      Thank you very much, I super appreciate the support! The Algorithm took a few days to pick up the other two videos, so we'll see if it does the same to this one. Honestly, I'm just happy that it's finally out in the world at all.

  • @Jormunguandr
    @Jormunguandr Рік тому +1

    The walktrhough books had nice art in them

  • @guyrocketram9698
    @guyrocketram9698 Рік тому +1

    yes you're back!!!! :D

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn 3 дні тому

    21:11 it has a few too many prongs to be one of those..ouch!!😅😅

  • @TheLEGOZora
    @TheLEGOZora 7 місяців тому +1

    12:27 why does the guard look like a completely different art style than all the other art? Seriously that looks completely odd.

  • @meyerpictures
    @meyerpictures Рік тому +3

    I wish I could become the Fonz

  • @teamaster8004
    @teamaster8004 11 місяців тому +1

    good vid, very good

  • @bobdude7111
    @bobdude7111 Рік тому +2

    Wait the old man wasn't smirking this entire time?

  • @guyrocketram9698
    @guyrocketram9698 Рік тому +1

    oh my gosh. that one which looks a bit like the cover of doom? if you flip the image it is almost IDENTICAL to doom's cover in terms of composition and placement and poses of the enemies. almost certianly an intentional reference or an insane coincedence.

    • @Kirbunny
      @Kirbunny  Рік тому

      Good catch! Everything lines up nicely, including the green-clad hero fighting off enemies to his right and the closest enemy to the camera lurking near the bottom left corner.

  • @Tazerboy_10
    @Tazerboy_10 10 місяців тому +1

    Woah...

  • @TricksterLawlet
    @TricksterLawlet 18 днів тому

    Do you do this concept but with BOTW and TOTK?

  • @niicespiice
    @niicespiice 5 місяців тому +1

    dont worry, you didnt fail to learn to draw, you just didn't necessarily get where you wanted. but that's not "failing" to draw... because the only way to fail at drawing is to not draw at all

  • @Josuh
    @Josuh Рік тому +3

    hard images

  • @TheZestyOne
    @TheZestyOne Рік тому +2

    They just aren't doing it like this anymore