Paintings irl don’t all have one style, I don’t know why it should be a problem for Minecraft paintings to have different styles.

Kristoffer Zetterstrand, the original oil painter for MC, has been publishing videos on his Instagram of the original paintings and I'm a little surprised he wasn't approached to do more. His paintings are now iconic and he is a phenomenal artist!

1:34 im so happy this painting was added, its pretty much the old rose that was changed to poppies in version 1.7 nice reference to og minecraft, perhaps we could get something related to Classic or Alpha in the future huh

1:00 the best Rick roll in history

Ive never felt a villager being more bald than this picture, the shine gets me

Herobrine's cousins, traderine

2:08 actualy tought it was his wife😂

Unlike the texture update, the new paintings don’t replace anything and are entirely optional, therefore I’d think it be rather dumb if people genuinely complained over this.

The problem with the villager painting is that it needs a trident. Then it will be perfect.

the first 4 paintings I actually really like, seeing paintings of stuff that you'd see in the game itself is a nice addition but the villagers are throwing me off, they look like those hyper realistic villagers people sculpt

They should have many different artists in the game. Instead of a mob vote next live we should have an artist submission and we rank our favorite paintings where the top 10, 20, or however many get added into the game.

I love the one with the Cake, the Decorated Pot and the Sunflower. Really cool.

It's definitely a bold move for them to add new paintings, but I think making bold moves is the way forward, like when they updated all the textures.

They need to introduce 3x2 or 5x3, etc. paintings. Large paintings with a 1 block centre would make integrating them into your build a lot easier

1:44 Minecraft Arts and Farts update

Paintings in multiple styles is a good thing. If you went to a museum, would you expect every painting to be done in pointillism? Or for every painting to look like it was done like Jackson Pollock? No. I hope they add even more styles to the paintings in future updates

Villagerbrine is real

1:24 The person riding on the horse actually looks Iike Noor, one of the 7 new default skins included in Bedrock Edition alongside Steve & Alex.

I like that they’re doing this. It paves the way for more artists to be incorporated into the game in a way that doesn’t water down what’s already there. Using pack.png was a great call because that will get a lot of people on board with adding new paintings. Similar to how there are new disks from a new artist, which are aided by being absolute bops.

I like what terraria does where the community can sometimes add paintings, each one having their own style. Also I like how you can collect individual paintings.

As long as they don't replace any of the old paintings, I don't think trying out new styles is a problem. Some like them, some don't

Patch notes: - Herobrine un-removed seriously why are their pupils so hard to see

Well I never got used to the texture update either. But I never hated it either, it's just different. That's sort of how I feel about this too. It's good, but different

I like *all* the new paintings. I Much prefer the Softer anti-aliased paintings, as per you can actually *see* what is presented; whereas in the older style only larger ones were clear. ('cept for the kebab and creeper ones, for whatever reason)

0:58 Gotta make you understand

I think the villager painting is well executes, but it would fit better with kistoffers style if they just downscaled the American Gothic painting and cut out the villager heads, similar to the already existing pig painting

i dont think its a matter of style, but rather content. it makes a lot of sense that a game's custom paintings would reflect the world of the game, but the old paintings often didn't and that was neat. sure you had art like the ones with the pig face, creeper face, or the moonlit minecraft terrain, but they were usually always some nonminecraft aspect to it, like the lady with the pig face, or the creeper staring at you from a difficult to parse windowed background, or the realistic human skull with minecraft flame particles. i'd much prefer weird stuff like that than paintings that actually _do_ fit the world lore. more weird pixel art characters, more unfitting realism, and in general i'd just be happy with any style that depicts things that very clearly _aren't_ in minecraft.

2:35 POSITIVE RECEPTION ON SOMETHING MINECRAFT RELATED??? I genuinely thought we ran out of that 💀

Phoenix worries about his hand while I contemplate the missing fork in the Humble painting.

I think the new ones look a bit weird because the old paintings were based on real life things like human looking body part or real stuff just pixelated like human hands, skull, human style boxes or other games or fiction like donkey kong or Pinocchio but the new paintings are Minecraft based not real life but are still references to both in game and real world stuff

Sad. We are seeing more and more of Microsoft clearly owning the game. I would not be at all surprised if like C418, this is done due to licensing reasons.

I like it! Diverse painting styles are natural. Plus I think it’s a neat reference.

Honestly, I kinda like having multiple art styles represented in the paintings. It’s like each artist leaving their own personal touch on the game in small way. That and endless variations of art styles found in real paintings, I am a fan.

0:57 Damn it Phoenix!

id love to get a new painting, music disc, mob head and music every major update (+ new armor trim with every new structure)! Would be a really cool thing to always have and be able to collect

dude Sarah Boeving's pixel art is SO GOOD, GOD i wish i could make pixel art like that. love the new paintings, especially baroque.

pack.png being in the new paintings is really cool! I'm actually hyped to place it down somewhere. As for the villager painting, It really is very different from most others, And I think it could fit/be less out of place if they added more paintings in the same style, not having it be "the odd one out".

0:58 casually being rickrolled

Mojang should have given that front facing villager a trident to match the vibe of original paintings.

prairie ride may be a reference to journey of the prairie king in stardew valley as the artist seems to use the artsyle of that game in other art...

0:57 I can’t believe you’ve done this

The original paintings are most really good pieces of art but I'm really glad we're getting new ones!

The problem is with the downscaling. If they used nearest neighbor sampling it wouldn't seem as blurry and would fit the game a lot better. Im a big fan of introducing new paintings in different styles but i think its worth trying to clean up the edges (sarah boeving has done a lot of good pixel art in the past so this blurriness seems almost out of character for her).

I always felt that the skull painting, white man/black background painting/spider painting/flame painting were a bit odd/creepy too. So the villager painting fits I think. Especially because all the other new paintings are so peaceful.

ok so mojang finally are cooking something interesting, pack.png painting is really something that should've been in the game

0:58 Most people won't realise we've been rick-rolled

I really like that they're adding new paintings, I hope they keep this a traditiom with every update, like how every update so far (tho it seems 1.21 is gonna break this in favor of paintings) of adding a brand new music disk in the update (1.16 got Pigstep, 1.17/1.18 got Otherside, 1.19 got Disc 5, and 1.20 got Relic)

I think it makes send that the new paintings have different styles. Even in the real world, art changes over time, and many people have many different styles. I like that Steve is now experimenting with his art, rather than sticking to what he knows.

That bedrock hand thing is a new bug. Dont worry peenix.

I like how it references an old version of the villagers like how the original painting is from an old time period.

honestly I think the new paintings fit the style of the old ones very well, it's nothing new for paintings to include things from Minecraft, and I think these were well done.

One of the best written videos on KZfaq. Starts the video off by talking about his hand, moves on to paintings and makes us forget about his missing hand, and brings it back at the end. Well done, Phoenix.

Someone is definitely going to make a resource pack to make the new paintings fit with the older ones.

I don’t think anyone has said this yet, so I will say it here I belie that the poppy painting is actually a reference to a painting of a rose in a sunset field made by Dali. It looks literally just like it, just that they added a Minecraft flower instead

omg that pottery one is one of the best paintings I've ever seen.

3:14 the old textures and new textures have completely different vibes from each other, the old textures look like they were made in mspaint while the other looks like it was made by a professional artist

definitely understand the opinion of preferring the old style, but the new paintings align much better to the higher detail we're getting throughout the rest of the game

it would be cool if villagers wanted to look at it and were attracted to it to make it easier to keep villagers in onw place

I love that pack.png is a painting now. That's so cool and such a clever nod to the community. I might put it up in one of my builds on my main world

Why did his voice sound like that when he said “look look…. He’s embarrassed ”. 3:03

What they should do, is give the loom functionality to change what painting you’re placing.

Question rises - why, in bloody hell, they didnt thought of "pack.png" painting before slapping Wither one? Like... pack.png picture is basically as ancient as the rest of these paintings, it would be unbelievably awesome if it was done before and not like gagillion years later.

I love the American Gothic painting, but I wish the villager dad was holding a trident

I love the baroque one. I've never felt paintings fit too well in my minecraft bases/houses but this one is so lovely I may actually use it

Ngl the decorated pot looks like the long lost bundle

he couldn't handle that his hand was gone

The only solution to this is MOAR PAINTINGS! So glad you mentioned American Gothic which is the same thought I had upon seeing it for the first time :P

I actually like the new painting more than the old ones because the new paintings actually fits Minecraft world. Like villager actually exist in Minecraft, and so is the other things in other new paintings.

I knew Phoenix SC will make video about this after seeing Minecraft short

I think the main issue with the villager painting is the 2 pixel thick eyebrows and eyes. The proportions are all wrong. The nose on a villager is normally 2 pixels wide. So the increase of 2->3 for the nose and 1->2 for the eyes and eyebrows doesn't consistently keep the proportions so the eyes and eyebrows look enormous compared to how they should look.

0:46 Beautiful painting 🖼

I personally find that it looks rather different and doesn't align with the current Minecraft paintings. The style just isn't consistent or similar enough, and I do not agree the idea that IRL paintings have different styles so why should it be a problem in Minecraft. Barring some exceptions, the style should be fairly consistent for video games (An extreme example would be a realistic painting placed in Minecraft; It does not fit Minecraft's overall graphic style). And I can't shake the feeling of something off in the art. Maybe it's because of the tremendous amount of different pixel colors just for a gradient, in which there are multiple, making it look too smooth in my eyes (this is more obvious for the villager painting). Most of the older paintings have a certain roughness to them, and it fits closer to the block textures in which they are similarly rough looking.

Forget the painting we need to talk about where Phoenix’s hand is. Did it get chopped off before the video started?

0:58 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP PHOENIX

this video was my first look at the pack png painting and i honestly felt so hyped seeing it

Plot twist: Bedrock Steve doesn’t have any arms, and has to hold all his items in his mouth

A.I. Upscaled villager painting when?

Did he just rickroll us by using his minecraft worlds?

I think every new update should include one or two new paintings. Maybe they can even go back and make paintings for the past update themes, and have one painting for each new update theme, and one extra art piece.

That was one of the most creative rickrolls I've ever seen...

steve dropped his arms

2:28 thought that was a dog foot not a match.

As with the texture update, I feel like this is someone that will improve over time. Back when the 1.14 changed the texture, I didn't like it because of nostalgia bias. Now I can say that the new textures, or at least most of it, are indeed better.

A part of minecraft charm is that it is cobbled together from a bunch of very unique voices. The new music, textures, and assets are not bad on their own, but, added to a game like minecraft, they make it more generic.

1:30 jacques-louis david "Bonaparte crossing the alps at the great St. Bernhard" maybe? Edit: i am wrong, look at the replies

3:26 I ate it :D

I think that they should actually paint the paintings in Minecraft then downscale them just like they did for Zetterstrand's. It would just feel more authentic that way. Multiple of his paintings already featured Minecrafty elements in them which blend in nicely such as Skull on Fire. They could do the same.

the biggest difference between new and old paintings is that the old ones feel very abstract and have a lot up to interpretation, while the new ones are clearly in-universe works with minecraft elements. the closest the old ones got to having in-universe elements was the creeper face in "creebet," the pig face in "pigscene," and the environment in "skull on fire"

lol, I got the notfication on this video when I was watching the official minecraft short about new paintings

2:18 villagers are non binary (like all mobs besides the player), so they should fire the new painting artist.

The 2x2 painting of the jug and cake is so beautiful. I’ve wanted something nice and classical like this for years.

I love the little village painting

Best Rickroll ever 😂😂

I think it’s funny how phoenix, a usual Java player, is just now discovering very common bedrock bugs, such as the hand sometimes being too low to be seen by the player.

If I saw the 1x1 flower painting in-game I would have thought it has always been around

I like the fact that new paintings are designed specifically for Minecraft. Older ones were originally oil paintings that look fantastic, but after pixelization in Minecraft became hard to make sense out of

0:57 gotta make you understand Hi

1:11 yep, there is something wrong here

This is HANDS DOWN the coolest painting update

Love the new paintings. Honestly the old ones feel "old" since textured etc have been updated I dont use paintings much because they dont suit the style. These new paintings however - love em. I am also fan of Minecraft beta and for that I have my own Beta 1.7.3 server for the OG feel