I Went Viral For Editing Minecraft Into Photos

Over the past 7 months, I've been making silly Minecraft photoshop edits on twitter that have translated into hundreds of millions of views/impressions. many of the edits I have made have transcended me and become memes of there own getting reposted all over the internet getting millions of likes and views. This is explaining how I made them and how I managed to translate this viral gimmick onto several other platforms!

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00:00 Intro
00:47 How I make the images
11:53 Capitalizing on Virality
13:32 How Much $$$ Did I Make

[Mogswamp]

Oh cool I love these edits. Thanks for sharing your process

[DankGas-]

Hey here's a Minecraft tip, if you use f3 + c it will copy your location and where you are looking. Then, you can paste that into chat and it will teleport you to where you were. This would let you get the same angle as the rest, if doing more than one screenshot.

[Laqqy]

The amount of your edits which get crossposted to instagram is unreal 😭😭😭

[blazeInternal]

Little tip! If you go into your Photoshop preferences -> General -> Image Interpolation and set it to Nearest Neighbor, it'll preserve the hard edges of blocks in Minecraft screenshots when resized in Photoshop, so the Magic Wand Tool will select ALL of the green colors with no additional cleanup needed.

[WoolyCow]

just a lil tip with the greenscreen texturepack: if you change the base block to something emissive like glowstone or sea lanterns it ensures that it will be the same shade of green everywhere on all sides, and so there is no ambient occlusion. this means you wont get the darkening in the corners

it is super useful and id really recommend it!

[GogglzMUSIC]

Pro tip: You can actually overlay the original image over minecraft with OBS that'll let you get it near perfect!

[itzspiro]

Hey Kratzy, here's the best hint for you! Please lmk if you end up using it. Instead of winging the angle. Make a layer in OBS for it with the photoshop image overlayed with 50% opacity over Minecraft. You can now see the world live with an overlay of the image and get the angles perfect 100% of the time.

[SamiTheAnxiousBean]

Considering you rarely use modern blocks, there's several minecraft "producer" mods that straight up add a green screen block which doesnt get effected by shading

alternatively, you can use a resource pack that replaces the end gateway overlay with green screen and the beacon beam with it just being transparent so you can just build out of concrete or smt, and go with a /fill [coords 1] [coords 2] end_gateway replace: green_concrete command to get absolutely no shadows with a normal rendering mode

[roblaltrello]

I see your photos on Instagram literally every single day. I can’t escape it

[RadicalElder]

Awesome images and great idea! If you use Zedaph's greenscreen texture pack it turns glowstone into greenscreen but it's also lighting so ... way better. Love the shadow trick btw, I'm gonna steal that 100%.

[lelaleasl]

as someone who 3D models frequently the eyeballing hurts me 😭😭

[bwueberryyoghurt]

very interesting, but i think you could benefit from using a mod called "Isometric Renders", which lets you cut out parts of the world and render them as high quality images without background, and with adjustable angle and perspective, which would probably make this process much faster and easier!

[SpookyLttleDude]

Nice video! I was curious if the greenscreen block would work better if it was a retextured a lighting block such as sea lanterns? I have virtually no experience with this so I have no idea.

[JpFromAiBites]

I've seen those photos literally everywhere, crazy that it was you.

[Crazyguy_MC]

This kinda reminds me of the artist who makes the paintings for Minecraft.

[swanthedeveloper]

I've started making these because of you and I never thought to use a greenscreen

[Nugcon]

For lining up the image, you can use the scroll wheel to change your flight speed in spectator to have finer control of the camera

[steveceli]

Honestly this whole video is awesome. Honest and straightforward. Respectfully.

[vaggsy]

You should be able to use pure ref to get the perspective to match the image perfectly. You can put the image in pure ref, pin it to the front, lower the window opacity and then line up the minecraft scene that way. I haven't tried it myself but I would give it a go.

[mcjaxon]

its good to see the bloke behind these post, great video.