VILLAGER NEWS: BREAKING NEWS! 🎵Horizontal vs Vertical Comparison🎵

This one's for you if you really love the little details. This is just a little comparison video showing the difference between the vertical and horizontal versions that we released. Enjoy.

[AmbrosiaPoly-yolkEgg]

the care given to frame each shot well in both portrait and landscape is admirable

[StackOfPancakes]

"They decided to bust it down early 2000s Pixar style and redo every shot so no matter how you decide to watch you have the intended experience"
-Noodle

[winxclubfangirl]

This song makes you want to keep watching it so many many times

[TheCappuccino]

4:27 is interesting to me cause the shot has a completely different feel when Villager #9 isn't taking up half the frame. His little bounces when he emphasizes certain words have less impact since he's farther away, and if you watch closely at the way his legs move you can sort of tell they were animated after his gestures were. They have a sort of awkwardness that doesn't match up with the shot's original intention. I just think it's a cool example of how the camera's angle can impact a scene's feel

[per]

we need this but every thing that moves, is replaced by the stick next.

[EBhero]

You can see how the animation was done with the horizontal layout first.Because of this, in the vertical version, you can clearly see how the center is much more busy than the top & bottom in many of the shots.

[daftcinderss]

i genuinely love the attention to detail between both versions and the small but meaninful changes made when adapting the animation into a vertical format - y'all did not have to render it a third time just for vertical but you did and it shows how much you care about it

[Envix]

'How many versions of this do you want?'
'Yes.'

[crh]

“How many times can we milk this cow?”

Answer, “YES”

[penguinthepurple]

In this age of TikTok and vertical videos, I'm grateful you guys are still releasing horizontal videos on YouTube. I didn't even realise there was a full vertical version!

[DodgeThatAttack]

huge respect for actually animating the video vertically instead of just poorly cropping it

[djrfilms]

This is really admirable to see that they made everything visible in the different aspect ratios

[Something_XD]

Just realised the detective’s magnifying glass is another LotR reference to Sting

[pacomatic]

3:55 Some people have no capitalization on their subtitles. Really adds to the feel.
Also, when I watched this, I couldn't stop thinking: *Wow.*
I am impressed and commend the amount of care you put in for the vertical edition. Of course, since everything is animated and framed and whatnot horizontally, that's the best way to play.
But still; you're not missing much on the vertical version, and that's something to commend.

[Woodland_Adventures]

I wonder if the best way to animate for veritcal and horizontal, is to film in a 1x1 frame, a perfect square. That way you can center everything off of one point. Kind like "Shoot and Protect", where the action takes place within a certain area within frame, to better protect the integrity of the scenes when cropping for format.

Imagine it, filming in a format for early box televisions becoming extremely relevant again to help people make content for both horizontal and vertical film formats, nearly half a century or more later.

[thekethinplay]

I can’t stop watching villager News it’s so good

[Tutul_]

oh the angry bees are fixed on the vertical version xD

[Awesomeplayer]

I personally LOVE rewatching this over and over in different ways (the ghost one was my favorite 😉)

[brick]

At 0:45 you can clearly see that the black stained glass textures are different between the versions, it is then fixed in the horizontal one in the next scene

[LegoBob]

So does that mean that the ultimate experience is a cross shaped video? Get on it Element Animation