#ultrahardcore

i'm in tears over this

This pic is actually super special to me, since it was later actually used by Docm as a thumbnail! It was done for their UHC team with ZombieCleo, and it’s one of the first fanarts I’ve done like that. I remember how hard it was to figure out what Doc’s skin is back then. Like, what is that amalgamation even? XD

A lot of the modern Minecraft audience as it stands on Instagram, tumblr, and those fans exclusively on YouTube, grew up on Minecraft. A good portion were part of TeamCrafted, Yogscast’s minecraft golden age, and the rise of Minecraft machinima. Core audience’s will most likely be from that audience that once the content changed or when others ‘grew out’ of Minecraft, there could have been a trend in the fandom projections but. I was and to an extent(I am posting this on a mineblr after all) still in some of these fandoms. It makes me extremely happy to be able to just tell someone one in school that I played Minecraft all of last Saturday since I had a lazy day. That hasn’t been something I’ve been able to confidently say since middle school; but I’m also a bit sad, because yeah while there’s the ‘Minecraft Renaissance’ happening I see so little of some series that I remember vividly predating those. Paulsoursjr’s how to survive the night? The survive and thrive series! It was on the download redirect page in place of a tutorial. Fuck I remember when there was a ‘play tutorial level’ button on the home screen of Minecraft. I remember Mindcrack and the aether mod hype. I remember seeing 7 or so episodes of shadow of iseraphirel out at the time. These were mid 2010. Logically I know that a core of the modern Minecraft audience is younger than me. That they didn’t really see Minecraft as a community being built, but these were fundamental times! YouTube was only 5 years old, Minecraft was in beta and still had a playable test version on the site! Mindcrack and multiplayer in its entirety predates some of these communities. Ethos lab season 1! All of these I never thought would be the foundations that modern Minecraft communities were laid upon and looking back it’s mind boggling to see how these core concepts got built upon and refined and Minecraft is so much bigger than it was then. I’m old, not ancient for this community but I’m definitely on the consumer side of things one of the ‘big kids.’ I do love how things have changed and expanded i just needed to reminisce.

New Video out hope you all enjoy it and show me some love and give me some feedback!

Official cinematic trailer for the Votable UHC Season 2 event, by me! :) Also I worked on that build! Check the event out and the charity around it.

Wherein dramatic irony reigns.