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I've always used the skin I made when I was younger and just updated it over time, usually just repainting it :')

Taking the many comments into consideration, I'd say that a VAST majority of people who actively play minecraft make their own skin. Skin sites would make you believe that most people wear those depressed looking skins but that simply isn't the case, not even close. Go into a server and you will find a very diverse range of skins. I think that the lack of creativity is from people who actively make skins on these sites, not the actual minecraft player base. So no, skins are not ending, not even close. But the video is great, even if I don't agree with it's point.

there was also an era somewhere around 2019-20 where people would use their namemc skin history to display pixel art, like taking a 72x24 image and dividing it up across the faces of 27 different skins, most notable one being a picture of harambe a bunch of accounts used at one point, loved this style of video thought it reminds me a lot of lemmino and barely sociable

I've always enjoyed making my own skins from scratch, and the memories of showing off each new skin have been some of my favorite with the game. If you haven't ever made your own skin before, I can't recommend it enough. Also cool vid! It brought back some great memories, and I liked it a lot.

10:23 this is really true. I don’t dislike these skins that people wear but every time I press tab and I see a whole row of like the same skin just slightly different shade of grey is really sad. I hope people will be more creative in the future

I think the "gamery" and other common skins are mostly seen on minigame or quick play servers, since most of the playerbase are teenagers looking for cheap thrills so it's understandable that they just take a quick skin from namemc and slap it on. If you look at places like roleplaying/ worldbuilding servers you'll see players there are really creative with their skins.

What I always liked to do is 'remaking' a skin. Basically, I first think of a cool idea for a skin. Then, after realizing I lack both the skill and time to make one, I download a skin from a random website, and basically re-paint the thing, slowly, into the skin that I have thought of. If you ever want to make an original skin both quickly and with high-quality, this is probably the way to go with.

I strongly recommend blockbench for custom skins. Even if you don't know how to make skins from scratch, It's a great tool to edit and merge features from various skins to make something unique. My skin is broken down into a set of features on their own texture layer (a face, a scarf, a hat, etc). From there I can mix, match, and edit for the situation I need. If I need to associate with a team or color, I change the scarf hue because it's the most vibrant part of the skin. I'll make variance for each update or a specific setting.

Personally, I've always opted to create my own skins instead of taking another from some skin website. It gives that grain of knowledge that I *know* I'll stand out because I DID the creation process in-person.

1:23 of course someone almost immediatly made a block themed skin lol. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Not to be disrespectful but this video really feels like "old good new bad" a lot of the arguments you use to say new skins are unoriginal can also be applied to the older skins. Mob skins: Just mobs Block skins: Just blocks Gamer boy: Copy paste with a little edits KZfaqr skin: Copy paste (sometimes with a little edits) For pixel art you even show a skin that you later also show as an example of just a png. The same skin is both good and bad? I agree that there is a decrease in color but even that is not as bad as you say it is, you can still find plenty of colorful skins on the namemc trending section.

This made me realize how big of an impact skins had on the history of Minecraft.

i'm not even going to lie, this legitimately gave me chills. this is one of the greatest minecraft documentary i've ever seen, it's so well done. phenomenal job Vix!

I started playing Minecraft during the "Dark Age" of 2016-2019, and I must say that skin originality was nearly at its peak during that time. Since there were so few players, and the ones who only started playing because the game was popular left, the community was filled with great people (actually interested in the game) who were capable of creating and choosing interesting player skins. But then again, my experience might be different from that of other people: I mostly played creative mode plot worlds and role-play servers at that time, which I know were never very popular.

My current skin matches my profile picture (same character). When I was 6 years old, I made my first Minecraft skin. Over the years, I continuously edited the skin and added and removed things until I eventually got to the skin and character I use now, one which I am 100% happy with. Minecraft skins were really the first chance I got to play with how I saw myself and is eventually how I found out who I am. They're more than just a pixelated character in a game, they embrace the user and give insight into the person behind the screen.

It's here! This video looks awesome from especially from looking at the channel member previews

Part of what I love about my skin is that I made it pretty much from scratch shortly after I got my account. It's a few iterations in but it's still similar to the base skin I made in the first few hours of owning a mc account. I've worn a few other skins, whether as a joke or because I liked that skin, but I've always come back to my first skin and it's newer versions. If you want to see it, my mc name is the same as my username here.

I’ve always made my own Minecraft skins, mainly for roleplaying purposes. One of my favorites was a character with a bright, multicolored jacket. It was so fun to make and use

I have realised that I made 900+ skins, but I don't have any official player skin.

i strive to have the editing skills like you one day. When this showed up on my recomended, all i did was check the thumbnail and not the views, and throughout the video, I was expecting something like 100k-1m views. insane.

What a sick video vixios glad to see someone from the Minecraft niche adapting the so popular storytelling that I often see on other videos aimed at larger audience bases. one thing tho, the calebissalty edit felt very out of place, just the whole sequence was a mess, the music didn't fit the narrative, the scenery was sometimes clunky and not fitting too, but the rest was fire 🔥 W vix

They were never original in the first place, they have always looked the same

very interesting video, keep up the good work dude

This is why I make my own skins. My skin actually has a recreation of my goth/punk battle jacket that I own and wear regularly irl, as well as a red bandana I often wear too.

This is why i force my buddies and brother to spend some time in the creator menu. His skin is atrocious to look at but his skin is unique to him. Same as mine. Creating your own skin is you.

another documentary, another banger vix

W video, your documentary content is really good and hope you continue with it

One thing that wasn't mentioned is that the old and flashy skins went out of fashion because the became stereotypical. Most of the time when someone had an OG 'gamer' skin, they would be looked down upon and harassed for their 'trash taste in skins', so in more modern times, they became more mundane.

Personally I love making my own custom skins, especially when it's time to show them off. I especially like making variations of my base skin (me, but disguised as an Enderman) with some interesting twist (the latest having a Steampunk theme).

I’m not really a skin artist but I wanna say I do make pretty good skins for personal use. It still takes practice but imo it’s infinitely better than whatever skins you can find that’s popular. There’s something special about having a skin unique to only you regardless how it looks. It’s been fun seeing my variety of mc skins evolve throughout the years.

Fire video! Love the edit, different narrators and the message! Stay creative

I remember faction skins to be a lot older then mentioned in the video, but that might have just been the Dutch community. Between 2012 and 2015 we had the YT series called "The Kingdom" which was roleplay/faction involving the bigger Dutch Minecraft YT channels. Some of those factions had faction skins for plot reasons.

You think the ones in 2012 are original????? what. The dumbass "Hoodie character" thing isn't original at all. Everyone did it. Also, the skins that people upload online do not represent the "Creativity" that people have, because lots of those uploaded skins seem to follow the same rules and such. Log onto servers and whatever else, and you'll see that the lack of originality only applies to these Minecraft skin websites :/ Literally.

THIS WAS AMAZING! KEEP IT UP!!!

I love these documentary-type videos, they’re really well-made you should make more!

This was amazing ❤

this is such the Lost History of Minecraft Skins documentary

Whattt this video is sooo good!! One of the best vids I’ve seen! Keep it up vixios!

love this type of videos man! Keep it up :)

I still remember the first few skins I made as a kid, maybe I’ll remake my first skin if I can find an old screenshot somewhere. Right now I’m making skins for friends based on their characters, it’s really cool to see something you made being used in a game

Ive just recently gotten java minecraft and I was able to finally make a design that Ive been dreaming of for years and am so glad. And now when I load into a server I just look around and just see copies of copies it feels like Im just swimming in a ocean of mundain now.

This video is fantastic, huge effort put in, hope to see more

Completely unrelated, I really appreciate you adding the script into the description, mostly for the music you use because you always seem to find bangers!

I'm loving the recent video essays you're doing, they are extremely high quality and fun to watch.

this video's making me feel inspired to get back into making minecraft skins again :) it really is a lot of fun, and i don't know why but it feels really rewarding to finish a skin and finally be able to see it on yourself in-game! personal story: i'm really attached to the shovel knight skin i made, because way back when minecraft was around its peak popularity, i decided my "minecraft youtuber gimmick" would be using a diamond shovel as a weapon instead of a sword. i had never even heard of shovel knight at that point, so when i did finally learn of it, i got really excited because of my idea and felt a connection with it right away. i didn't end up making my skin until just a couple years ago (also never ended up being a minecraft youtuber lmao), but to this day i still have no desire to change it because of how personal it feels, with the way that little idea has come full circle in a way! i mostly just wanted to share that story in a place where it's somewhat relevant lol, but i guess the takeaway could be that you don't need to have an original idea to be able to make a meaningful custom minecraft skin? idk lol, either way it's a really fun art form and i hope it doesn't fall out of practice! and of course there's nothing wrong with using a skin someone else made, or even using really popular skins, but it's kinda sad to see how little variety there seems to be on skin hosting sites like namemc.

I had that reflexion on this for a while, such a good video!

This is BEAUTIFULLY edited and I’m only a minute in love the credits with the laptop

Loved this video Vix, i rly like how u get other ppl to do voiceovers and not just urself, thats not a common thing to do i like it keep it up 100K Soon!!

This video is gonna change our minds completely, I can't wait.

I made my skin back in the day with a face based on Taurtis’ skin, a little hair floof, a tshirt and shorts, and a hidden layer of heart undies. The only changes it’s seen is fun new versions to fit whatever theme I’m playing with

This channel can go from perfectly cut Minecraft moments to incredibly made and cinematic Minecraft documentaries. and I’m here for it

I make my own skins based off original ideas that nobody seems to find despite having great quality so I’m completely original also this video was really well made wow! Thanks for this great documentary

Another AMAZING documentary👏🏻👏🏻 this deserves more views

Vix you just made my day fam 💯

Holy shit. This video is like. A convo i had with a friend a few days ago. I was scrolling through skindex while on call, and we started talking about how all of the skins had a similar colour style (all the colours looked like they had a warm filter over it), and how they were very same face-y. Very cool to see a video elaborating on both that, and the history of mc skins!

blob skins and emo skins were so tryhard it was unhealthy

The originality got so low that even derpy skins look original now.

The cinemaphotography and documentary vibes to a Minecraft skin history..astounding. 10/10 a masterpiece.

this style of editing is amazing! i come across channels with unique editing styles semi-often but i really enjoyed yours, and i think it’s very unique :). subscribed!

ngl the examples in the thumbnail are like. the worst examples. How is "that one fire and ice skin every white boy used" more original than "completely custom design that is actually unique to the owner?" This is not a defense of Dream in any capacity, but by definition, his skin is more original than the majority of old skins. I just don't see how the argument computes with the given examples. Also skins of licensed characters is about as far as you can get from "original" lmao

Dude, this video is AMAZING! It’s a great balance between funny and sad. This channel deserves more!

such a good documentary, didnt feel like i sat here for less than 15 minutes

Was thinking about designing my own Minecraft skin. Thanks for the vid

8:15 So surreal to see my skin being shown in a random video. I love to remake old skins.

I hate how every skin nowadays is either an eboy skin, meme skin, or skeppy face skin.

This was actually a crazy video I can’t even lie

I just started playing Minecraft recently, and I have been using a skin of a traditional Russian costume I downloaded from the Skindex. It's a fairly unique one, I hope, and I did end up actually repainting it recently, making the colors nicer and making him look more like me. i don't know if that's enough to make it count as an original skin, though, considering the basic design is still much the same.

i really liked the previous one better. you should do a poll so that we can choose which video essay was better so that it helps u improve.😊

So does it mean that my skin is unoriginal?

Great video Vixios!

W Vixios for this type of commentary vid! 💪

8:23 the old Lololowka

I remember as a kid using a skin generator, where you'd see a selection of parts and then pick and choose them to create a skin, and somehow it's still original in my opinion to this day. I'm not even into Superman but it has the Superman suit logo on it and "goggles" and then otherwise is just a standard dude. I randomly thought while watching this that maybe I should modify my skin so it has something more "me" then for whatever reason I have Superman on my chest. Not sure if I'll ever do it but I might some day.

Nice to see the blue creeper skin in the video, iconic one. Have been using it for almost 9 years.

im glad i gave a chance to the video, it is very educational and perfectly edited

10:38 why is jopig in this lol

AI WAS TRAINED TO MAKE MINECRAFT SKINS I REPEAT AI WAS TRAINED TO MAKE MINECRAFT SKINS

I remember back in the day making my own skins on those skin making websites. Now I just use that really really old Link skin cause it just brings me back to when I first started playing

this was an interesting video, I like the editing style. and this is exactly why whenever i get a new skin, i always draw it from scratch, though i have just made variations of my skin and taken inspiration from other skins and media, its still fun to design and draw my own skin, even wearing one i made is fun as i know that this is my creation. wish more people had that mindset.

anotha common vix w, great vid btw :)

A masterpiece this indeed is…

I just realized this is the first video on my phone that takes the entire screen, good job! 👍 and good video too

Sorry i couldn't make it to the premiere but this video was amazing and well written!

Mf you are also using a blob skin lol

i rarely comment on a random vid i got recommended to but this stands out good job on this made it look like a movie

everydamn time youtube recommends your video a month later but here I'm watching this one two!! interesting to watch and again awesome subject choice.

My dad made my skin and I've aways used it

I really miss the old days of Minecraft, 2013 - 2018. Many things have "distroyed" Minecraft over time... I really miss the days when this game was actually a means of real entertainment. 😔

I love these high quality video essays

So well edited!

That thumbnail is wrong. Although I hate dream, his skin was originally made by him. That skin on the left was something many people could just download off a website

Do you have 13 different thumbnails in ur files that u can change every day again? (joke lol)

i love this videos!

I really liked the editing for this video.

minecraft skins never were original bruh

Your also using blob skin lol 😅

why is this like a crime scene documentary... I ABSOLUTELY ADORE IT

sometimes I forget I've been playing minecraft for over a decade, and watching videos like this one about things I lived, it surprise me how much has happen in minecraft

IT CAME OUT