The part about film being completely impossible to experience how the creator wanted really spoke to me as I had spent over an hour trying to figure out how to get this video to play on an Index only to discover that KZfaq removed their VR app from steam

I've never seen a KZfaq animator as unique as noodle. this guy literally has character progression. like soon we're gonna have a homeless arc because his house got blown up or something

The part at 16:15 when he gets close to the camera and claps with his hand is genuinely so surprising and terrifying when watching the video in VR that it really caught me off guard. If you don't watch the video in VR it just doesn't feel the same way.

I love the way you reinvent your videos each time, from having a continuous timeline by keeping the house broken down, to changing your animation style or even video format just to prove a point or have an ironic pun, I seriously am in love with your dedication and I believe that's one of the reasons this is one if not the single best channel this platform has to offer.

It's worth remembering that before VCRs were invented, the only way to watch an old movie was to wait for it to be re-released in theaters (Disney used to make a lot of money by just putting their old shit back in theatres every few years) or wait for it to randomly play on some tv channel. Pan-and-scan may be horrible, but it was better than having no steady access to classic films. Glad we've mostly moved past the need for it, though.

this was a tedious pain to actually watch as intended in vr, due to most browsers not *having* that option anymore. After watching it, I can't help but realize the irony.

I LOVE HOW YOU JUST DIDN"T MAKE THE HAIR FULLY GO AROUND THE BACK OF THE HEAD THAT'S SO GOOD

Genuinely this is sick as hell. As somebody who spends a lot of time in vr, I can tell you once the technology just comes along a little further this could easily become the main way to consume content. Good job pioneering.

Came back just to comment how incredibly cool this was to watch in VR, and how incredibly terrifying it was when I was instantly swapped from the pink void to the default viewing environment. With a dominoes pizza searing my eyeballs like looking directly into a giant white IMAX sun. Great video hope you do a follow-up for videogames.

Using the “VR” mode to show off different aspect ratios is actually genius.

I watched this in vr by holding my phone in front of my face for almost 19 minutes and it was so worth it. You always make the most banger points and I love the funny little details like how your character is completely bald from the back, the little guy that runs across the screen, and the completely unnecessary (though I think it is completely necessary) dancing hell yeah dude

And yet again, more proof that this is one of the most creative and special channels in the entire platform. Simply amazing.

This has to be your best video to date. Using KZfaq's VR to capture the different aspect ratios is a genius idea and it works perfectly to get your point across. I want to add that a home projector is a versatile way to watch things in different aspect ratios as the picture can be any size and shape you want within it's bounds. How many people have an environment for a proper projection? Not many. But you can still make it work with a neutral coloured wall in your house and some wall real estate. Great work

Watched in VR. Aside from weird per-eye differences in shadows, causing a nasty looking effect, this video was absolutely fantastic.

Over the last 3 months I notice my mind goes back to this video, and it honestly made me appreciate a new level of attention people have when creating their films and art. How do people want their movie to be watched? When the movie is released is it on demand, in theatres, or on straight to dvd? During the pandemic companies moved to streaming platforms, this caused an increase in the health and safety of their customers, and a decrease in distribution costs. Now that the restrictions of the pandemic are lifting or loosening, we are seeing companies choosing to continue their streaming platforms. Yet, it's one experience to watch a movie at home, but to go out into the theatres to watch a movie in person is a unique experience. It's physical, you are actively going out to watch something you will hopefully enjoy. I just watched a trailer for the 2nd marvel spider-verse movie and at the end it said, "Exclusively in movie theaters", and it makes me think about what you said at 15:13: sometimes movies are made for an audience, to watch in person, as a group, in theatres. There's also the incentive of actively supporting the physical and local businesses, even if it's apart of a larger corporation. I love that there are little things a customer can look for to see how the business cares for their employees and customers, and I think this is one way. A similar example in the opposite direction is the 3rd Bill and Ted movie during 2020. I remember hearing that they tried to get the movie on every streaming platform they could, so that anyone could watch it and not having to leave home, that which connected to the meaning of the story, "music connects people". Music, film, art, all connects people as an experience, shared or disconnected. I have a new way of appreciating the small details of how a company chooses to put care, though, and effort into how they distribute their products because of this video. Why does the company make the choice they do, is it for cost, or the enjoyment of the customer. This was a long comment, but thank you for reading

Re-rendering CGI movies - awesome idea. Even better? Re-render them in VR.

Absolutely love how noodle switches up his animation mediums. It always feels kinda fresh with every video release

Oh lord, i could barely handle 2 dimensions of talent and humor. How am I going to manage 3!?

i have seen james cameron's Avatar three times while it was in theaters. My dad really liked it. Of those three instances, the one that I really remember more than anything is the time we saw it in IMAX, down in arizona. There's really something that can't be conveyed about how overwhelming a projection of that size is, but this video did a fantastic job of reminding me.

The little dances, animations, and gimmicks alongside your video make learning so much fun. This rant probably would have gone completely under my radar otherwise but the topic is simply enhanced with the visual experience. I wish I understood why I preferred to learn this way instead of like a book or something but got DAMN is it so much fun to watch your videos! I get excited every time you upload! Thanks, bossman!

god i really want vr headsets to be good enough to watch movies but its just,,, always blurrier than I want it to be right now and I don’t see that REALLY changing for a while but I can’t deny the presence it allows for

Your constant experimenting with styles of presentation is absolutely amazing. It does not go unappreciated

amazing video, 10/10. watched on a quest 2 originally, nails the feel even if noodly boy get's a little too close. watching back on an ultawide oled now...pure agony seeing the noisy mess in the "black" area of the theater...I regret becoming aware of what truly was there all along. nothing is pure black, emersion is dead. would like video again

When I first got my Valve Index and Virtual Desktop, I watched a few movies on Netflix and was absolutely floored at how cool an experience it was to feel like I was in my own personal theater. So glad you put that feeling into a well-formed argument that I can whole-heartedly agree with.

I hadn't thought about the importance of aspect ratios before so this was very interesting. Unfortunately this also made me discover that my phone sensors have some drift, so I'm now slightly nauseated and dizzy from slowly turning in a circle for 20 minutes

holy crap I really did not expect it being 360 when clicking LOL

My favorite use of the vr video function I've ever seen. You're constantly doing new stuff for your videos and going above and beyond and your content is just so good holy crap. Keep on making stuff dude

This was such a creative video and I had so much fun watching in VR. I wish there were more videos like this in VR because so far this is my favorite. You should make more videos like this in VR.

If you told me 18 minutes and 29 seconds ago that noodle animated his style in 3D for a vid, I would have told you it probably would look bad, if not downright horrible. BOY was I wrong. You beautifully translated your signature style into 3D, while still looking good, acting fun, and having that Noodle Charm. Thanks, man. Always love your stuff. Great content!! Excited to see what uses you have with 3D in the future. Keep making great stuff!!! :D

At first, I was like "why is this shot in a VR180"....and then I realized it was a great way to show the difference in sizes of theater and tv screens. Good job dude.

Corrections: 16:9 is an invention of the digital age. People who saw Robin Hood in theaters originally would have saw it in 1.66:1 most likely, but there was leeway in either direction (1.85 and 1.33 being the most common by far). Some theaters would still have had 4:3 screens and shown it that way. In fact if you were to look at print of a sound movie from this era, the picture would actually be about 1.2:1 because the sound part takes up some of what used to be picture, so even in 4:3 it's cropped slightly. These movies were never meant to be seen in this full 1.2:1 height, and it was not uncommon for boom mics or other unwanted parts of the set to be at the extremes of the frame that would have been cropped out, even for home video releases. Seinfeld wasn't "upscaled" to 4k, it was shot on film and rescanned in the 4k (or so) resolution it always existed in. Digital IMAX is usually 1.89:1

Cropping Dune is so incredibly stupid. Why wouldn't they at least use all of the 16:9 space that nearly all TVs have? It's truly baffling

That cropping shit back in the VHS days is downright criminal, crazy how long that went on for! And the video slaps lol, brilliant work!

Fantastic breakdown. Pan-and-scan is also an issue today due to phone screens, too! Filming ad content for TV at 16:9 and only being told during post-production that the client also need a vertical 9:16 version is like being asked to put your firstborn child through a mincing machine.

Watching movies in VR on PC is cool too, highly recommend it, especially with friends. It feels like you're sitting next to each other even though you are 20kms away. Cool. Oh and also noone can smell you stink cuz you were too lazy to take a bath at home after PE

Can we just talk about the fact that Noodle's home gets more and more destroyed with each video, and the destruction carries over to later videos?

Holy shit, I am so glad that I grabbed by Quest 2 to watch this (Virtual Desktop, 180 video mode, use headphones). Never have the ideas presented in a video felt so TANGIBLE. I haven't been to a real IMAX theater with the tall ass screen, and seeing it in VR truly helped me understand the scale. The Dark Knight section wowed me, and all the other examples, you feel so engulfed by the frame. The jokes also landed way better! I was actually jumping out of my seat and recoiling each time Noodle approached me or the camera moved closer to him. The whispering and rubbing at your right ear too! I was laughing so hard I had to keep skipping back until I found the strength to stay composed. The spatial sound in general was so great to experience! Noodle took advantage of the format in many clever ways, he is truly on the cutting edge of entertainment. I watched it again just on my desktop (gotta get you that watch time since Virtual Desktop downloading the video bypasses that) and it was fine, but a comparably inferior experience. Things are smaller and less clear when smushed into a viewable FOV the size of a screen. VR really brings you in and close.

The fact that at the time Dune:Part One came out I didn't have access to an IMAX theater and that now I'll never be able to see the movie like I was supposed to, even though I have a big TV and a VR set makes me really depressed. Seriously, there are things that kill me inside.

POV: Random animator kidnaps you and forces you to sit through his unhinged rant about TV screens

I love that your house looks different depending on what happens in your videos. The laser burn is still on the carpet from the Ice Cream Sandwich collab, and the walls are destroyed from the NFS video.

"Is he behind you? Oop- not anymore." You gave me half the VR!! I wanted to see the guy!! I miss the 4:3 aspect ratio. It was so cool!!! Anyways this is the first time I'm seeing a sponsored ad in a VR180 video so that's cool too!! Awesome video!!

Noodle, you legitimately never cease to impress when it comes to changing up your format and playing with your style. Please keep making videos for as long as you have bones

I was at 16:35 when I "realised" "all by myself" that I could move the screen around and zoom in and out and stuff.

This video took me by surprise cuz I wasn’t expecting the ave. Talking about screen sizes and shot compositions within a VR video is genius

This video by far the one that has had the most impact on me as a budding film enthusiast. I've seen exactly ONE MOVIE in IMAX but I never thought that the disparity of quality between the theater and home edits of movies was this bad (the sheer irony that struck me of having the video be made for VR headsets only for me to be unable to watch it properly on my phone still has me rolling around on the floor.) I just thought that most movies were made the way I watched them at home. This was pretty enlightening. Thank you!

When I was a kid, I saw The Dark Night in a true Imax Theater and wow. That memory sticks with me. I remember thinking as a kid like it almost felt like flying over the city in the opening shots because basically my entire vision was taken up by that massive screen and our brains do weird things when we see motion but don't actually physically move.

The ideal way to handle a movie would be in a video file that can store multiple aspect ratios within the same file (potentially on a per-frame basis), and leave how to handle them up to the playback program. If some shots are 2.35:1, then store them that way. If some are 4:3, then store them that way. Let the playback program crop or scale them however the user desires, but the actual file itself should always contain whatever version of the shot contains the most complete view of the scene.

A VR video essay showcasing a topic that can only be showcased in VR??? this is amazing

With today’s bigger TVs, watching older animated movies in the full picture makes way more sense. With live action stuff, the cinematography and theatrical ratio is more important but with animated films you get more of that sweet hand-drawn art. I’ve been watching older released formats of stuff like Watership Down that someone transferred from laserdisc and it's been great.

Watched this in VR and loved every second of it. Such a creative use of the format, and I appreciate that it was rendered in 3D as well. Hoping the supplementary video about aspect ratio in games is also made like this.

I remember when I first watched Ghostbusters on DVD and I was like "Only shit there is a LOT more Egon when they don't pan-and-scan!"

Get the largest OLED you can afford, put it in a dark room, no need for visible black bars. Infinitely better than any cinema. Yes it also perfectly syncs to 24fps. I no longer go to cinemas, only drawback: waiting for the UHD Bluray releases. edit: many movies are very hard to find in the correct aspect ratio, I am aware of that.

Noodle the amount of effort you put into your videos is astounding and on its own level. You make much larger creators look like amateurs.

I loved how the video being VR is sort of a meta commentary as well as functional This video was intended to be watched with a VR headset but made accommodations for the average screen The movies were intended to be watched in a theater, but made accommodations for 3:4 VHS tapes Tremendous work!!

Making me skip an ad while I'm wearing a piece of plastic that makes it as inconvenient as possible to skip forward in non-specific ways is the most diabolical thing I think has ever been conceived

16:15 so I was rewatching this on my oculus, and I started to doze off part of the way through. Then got woken up and saw you slapping my face. It scared the shit out of me, I genuinely thought for a brief second that you somehow knew I was asleep and were annoyed I wasnt paying attention anymore

I'm a stickler for the "correct" way to consume media. I am always trying to explain to my friends why it actually matters. I thought this video was a great explanation and that I could send it to my friends, but I know they wouldn't watch it because of the VR formatting. Which is GENIUS because that's your entire point. Bravo, sir.

This format is a breakthrough in my opinion, i really enjoyed it even without having any VR devices. Thanks for the content, Noodle!

Every time I stumble I to one of these 360 videos I spend the first 2 minutes wondering why I can only see the ground and then I move my phone and I’m like oh

Loved learning about ratios and the history. Watched the 2d version first unknowingly. And I'm glad, because watching this on phone is pain (center point constantly changing, my hands shaking from having to hold the phone). Ultimately it's just gimmicky, allows a few new tricks, but at any given time, we're just focusing on one part of the content (you, the tv, or the floaty screen). This comforts me in my opinion that authors should prioritize longevity and comfort. For their works, too.

Just finished watching this on my vr headset. Absolutely incredible experience, thank you so much for putting in the work to do that. Not only was it just fun, but it really helped prove the point you were making in the video. Amazing video, my guy.

Yesssss! I'm so glad you're the one to finally talk about aspect ratios, and the dumb black bars are forever imprinted on movies after they leave theater. It's getting more acceptable now that KZfaq allows any aspect ratio and will automatically crop it based on your device, so movies at least look wider and more "correct" if your monitor is ultrawide or you're watching on a phone (where most of them have a really tall aspect ratio). But my biggest pet peeve are movies that are 21:9 but RENDERED at 16:9. So that there will ALWAYS be black bars, even if you are watching on a ultrawide monitor or phone, since the bars are now a part of the movie itself (but still 16:9). Such an interesting topic, and I'm glad you're the one to finally bring it up.

This video made me feel like i was kidnapped and strapped in some dudes garage, at which point he started ranting to me about aspect ratios. 11/10 would visit again!

as there's no KZfaq vr player for steam anymore, to watch this video with the vive headset I own, I needed to download an old outdated version of opera that still had the vr video player in it, edit a shortcut to the installer to stop it auto launching when I installed it, then after it's installed, edit a shortcut to tell opera not to auto update, because otherwise it would update and remove the vr video viewer the accessibility side of this really hittin different, great video though!

Even without a vr headset, this format was incredibly entertaining! I've never seen a video that uses digital 3D space to explain concepts this effectively

I never leave comments. But i just had to say, even without VR, this was probably my best viewing experience on KZfaq yet. Amazing work.

I just found your channel and have been enjoying it very much. Much of this information on aspect ratios I didn't know, especially that they cropped The Simpsons and Seinfeld, wow! One thing I would add for a discussion about TV screens making movies worse in the "modern problems" section is the issue with framerate. I can't tell you how many times I've started watching a movie with some friends to find that their TV is adding frames because of its default settings, and I seem to be the only one that's appalled by the movie looking like it's shot on video. To me it's just as glaring as an incorrect aspect ratio. If I become president I will campaign that all movies shown at home be locked at 24fps. I think the world would be a better place. Keep up the great content!

I've got a 21:9 "ultrawide format" monitor and it's the best thing ever. It's the format a lot of movies and series are shot in, and it ends up occupying the whole screen, it's just glorious. Honestly I'd probably love to watch movies in VR, once the helmets are really up to the task. My CV1 Rift was kinda OK, I guess Quest 2 is way better for it.

This was low-key a nightmare to try to watch properly, without a VR headset... Nonetheless I still really enjoyed the video and I hope you had fun making it! All of your little physical comedy bits were really funny and I highly appreciated them :)

I love how really anyone can be going through the worst possible situations of their lives but then noodle uploads a vid and just "tis noddle time"

Can verify the bit about projector history. Manual methods were used to adjust aspect ratios. Fun fact: you still see that happen today. Your local theater can modify the aspect ratio of their screen to fit different aspect ratios - most commonly these days called 'flat' and 'scope'.

This makes me feel like I’m tied to a chair watching this man talk about tv.

I just love the damages to the house are never repaired from previous videos as he continues to educate us about films and animations.

honestly i really liked the VR format, it made me feel like i was actually being talked to, a lot of the jokes fly well and the format itself is a meta commentary about the VR way being the best (and only) way to watch this the way the artist intended.

I never noticed the little man running in the background until I watched it in VR. Love the dude.

I am using an ultrawide and was kinda thrown for a loop when a youtube video suddenly filled my screen. I love your take on the issue and the possibility of watching movies as intended in VR makes me want one finally for something else than just the "OOOoo a new shiny thing" factor.

this was a really fucking good video, I can really appreciate the effort you put into this in terms of vr and the setting you put us in throughout the video to prove you point on displays and aspect ratios. Major kudos to ya Noodle (as well as the little man that ran around the conclusion transition)

Did this video make me get up and get my headset to experience it properly? ...no. But did it make me WANT to? YES!

I love how your house is still destroyed from the NFS video. It's a really nice bit of continuity between videos

I swear to god the second you said that vr was the solution i was literally thinking "damn i wanna watch movies in a vr theatre"

I'm so glad I went out of my way and literally dug up the KZfaq VR application in my steam library I haven't used for years and isn't even accessible on steam store anymore just to watch this one video, I haven't been to an IMAX theater in over a decade but I feel like you properly conveyed the sheer daunting SCALE of how I remember it in my head with VR. It's a good way to demonstrate to a new generation the difference between blade runner in theaters and blade runner on VHS as well, you could instantly feel the deflation of presentation quality if you're watching this video with an actual VR headset. This is a S tier video if you're watching it properly. Might want to go for an 8k render if you can next time though if youtube allows it, just for that extra blur reduction.

Watching this video on a phone without glasses was a pain in the ass. Maybe my gyroscope is a bit broken or something, but it was truly a torture to be constantly reframing the content. You can do it by touching the screen and dragging arround the content, but with that same gesture just by holding your finger still for a second, you will, instead, be moving the time bar. Anyways, as always love your videos, they're amazing.

Your ability to capture then translate a medium is perfect. The recent need for speed video, then this, sells me on it

I stumbled onto a weird archive of a forum from a couple years ago where people were trying to get a campaign going to force everyone to shoot in 2:1 for everything. Netflix does this with its shows, as it’s a compromise of the widest range of modern screens whilst still being a bit ‘cinematic’, but I don’t like the idea of trying to ‘solve’ artistic intent with a technical specification.

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that he not only made a gorgeous animated video essay in 180 and a PLAYLIST with all of the songs he used on this video. This man is incredible what the heck. I genuinely love when creators put the music they used in the description or somewhere in the video instead of you having to look for it for the rest of your life and never finding it. It’s extra work, but in my opinion it’s worth it.

This didn't go where I thought it was going. The whole time you were making a case for accessibility and people being able to watch media the way it was intended to be seen, or at least how they want to view it, I was bent upside-down and sideways trying to keep my phone steady on the action, constantly fight drift, cause I can't afford a headset. I thought the video was gonna end with a talk about how the divide between VR and flat video is a new can of worms that will likely create new lost-in-translation ported experiences, like the one most people watching this video experienced since more people own phones than headsets. Anyway, my back hurts now, but great video.

hey just wanna say its nice to see flcl be seen in a bigger platform :) i really wish it got more attention

I watch a lot of my youtube in vr, and it was a genuine shock seeing my fog fill. I wish there was more like this.

Such a great experience in VR. The Part where it's like you're in a theater was super cool.

As someone who has motion sickness from VR headsets, I hope that the movie medium does not exclusively go in that direction. This video was a struggle to watch as well... I tried my best. My parents along with many of my friends can't handle VR for less than five minutes at a time. It would be a shame to be left behind by technology as the art form progresses.

Now, a lot of these issues seem to be antiquated these days. The resolution on screens and televisions are high enough where these scenes shouldn't need to be cropped, but instead the negative space filled with those letter box options. Hell, until I saw this video, I thought that was how letter boxing was being used. When you told me they were cutting movie out I was flabbergasted. I'm not overlooking the existing isssues still. The size and distance a television are from you does impact the viewing experience. If there is too much going on in the scene this can make it difficult to process what you are even viewing. However, I feel cutting film out entirely was the wrong direction to go at all.

i wish thirdtube (a KZfaq client for 3DS) supported moving the camera and seeing in 3d in 3d videos like these, that would be cool, but instead ive got to watch it the normal way on a vr headset

Noodle, I just want to say that watching your visual style branch out in so many different directions has been really fun and I can't wait to see what else you do!

Hey Noodle, really just, thanks for making this, I originally watched this on my PC monitor, then later rewatched it on my quest. My god is this great, I feel like I'm in a room talking to someone. I watched 16:9 videos on my quest and the sheer size of the screen there. Any video where I'd go out to grab popcorn and sit in my bed is fucking great. It's like getting a vinyl record and setting it up, the effort you put in and the quality of what you're listening to it's so great in just the same way getting my headset set up so the RGB elements are aligned to make an actual color, and clearing an area to watch it, just YES. Thank you so much Noodle, I'd absolutely love to see more videos like this ♥.

11:16 this depends on the movie and what lenses were used. alot of movies are shot on anamorphic lenses which squeeze the image horizontally so that when desqueezed it has a wider field of view (which is where the cinemascope aspect ratio comes from, it's when you get when you desqueezed anamorphic footage that was shot on 35mm film). When the film was shown at the theater, the projector would have another anamorphic lens that was turned sideways to desqueeze the image. of course now the image is desqueezed in post production and the digital projectors have no need to use lenses to desqueeze it.

Thank you, noodle. For making this 18 minute video, rendering, modeling and doing everything in 3D only for KZfaq VR to be removed from the steam store when i try to get the full experience. Google sucks.

I took the initiative to actually strap my brick to my face and all I can say is well done. This is one of the best put together KZfaq videos I've ever seen! You perfect used all the strengths of VR to enhance what would ordinarily be a normal video into an immersive, intimate event! Once again, well done! I really hope I can see more content like this pop up on KZfaq.

jesus dude, this is actually one of the best utilisations of VR i have ever seen in media, and despite not owning a headset, you somehow managed to make it an incredible watch for both people with and without one, you are incredible dude

I love with each animation his house gets progressively worse until it’s just holes

i love how i try to put it in vr mode and one eye is just flickering like theres no tomorrow