Is MDE/Sam Hyde's current art style cool or embarrassing? Sincere and naive or ironic?
it's BA$ED & GIGAPILL'D 9000
>>447629niger
>>447629You know how they say beauty is a reflection of one’s soul? Well have you seen what his group of friends look like?They’re all ugly looking people, so it shouldn’t be so surprising that the art they produce is of the same nature. I don’t dislike them at all as people it’s just an honest observation.
I mean, it’s not bad, it’s kind of unsettling to look at but not to the point that I just don’t want to look at it. Does it job and reflects Sam’s thing, I guess.
>>447629on the subject of MDE aesthetics, how did the editing team accomplish this analog video effect and have it be in 4K? there's no way its just a filter.
>>447629it looks very web 1.0 of which I approve
i personally love his HWD transitions. im trying to create stuff in that style as a way to learn more about after effects and photoshop
this particular one is not super strong, but the mondo megabits stuff is fantastic as nearly every design to come out of mde is. especially the stuff from @konzept.globe
>>449130i'd imagine he ran the final thing through some analog equipment like a vcr or something, remember he said he hates doing stuff the cheap way and that there's no filter that can convincingly do this kind of stuffthere was a pic that was probably on his old instagram of him in a room sitting on an office chair with something on his lap smoking a pipe, i'd imagine that had something to do with it
>>449130It could have been rescanned - meaning you use high quality CRT like Sony Wega and then record the CRT screen with 4K camera and put it back to video editor to get this look.Could have also used Blackmagic Intensity video capture card.
>>447629those are literally all subjective, like seriously you cant form your own opinion? do you like it or not? Im not a sam hyde fan but hes been doing graphic design for years so I highly doubt its "naive"
>>450254wanting to spark discussion and hear opinions>can't you not form your own opinion?
>>447629It's cool but really nothing that should inspire anyoneIt's basically an ironic amalgamation of his entire upbringing on dah computaaz put to mograph
what in the web 1.0 is this shit
>>451116can't you see?!it's le cool!
>>449502me too, its his best work.
>>447960the average person is uglysocial media destroyed the soul of everybody prettyits the weird goofy people that make cool shit
>>451366no the average person is, by definition, average. If everyone was ugly then that would then be the average. Most people you'd meet walking down the street aren't models, but you don't wince by seeing their faces either. His friends are ugly as fuck tho lmao, inside and outside
>>451370average people are now much below average (pushing ugly) because of soft foods corn syrup diet messing up our jaws and dna from birth, and our fucked up social media ideals
>>447629Thanks doc
>>447629Dude his stuff has always been sick and innovative, the problem is he's a fucking child and is physically unable to be forthright. Everything he makes has to be behind 20 gorillion layers of irony or instantly retorted with some stupid blackpill shit. Take this clip video for example https://youtu.be/5sKW_E25qBE?si=lvlMEshrX0Bh8egT interesting monologue about transcendental artwork and the human condition up until five minutes where he realizes he's being too vulnerable and instantly goes into the "women can't do this only men can" shit. Same thing with this tee design. It's a weird, technophilic, flashy in your face design that has so much potential but, it just needs to the word "chike" on it, okay? Would be so much better if he could drop the /pol/ humor and create cool shit apolitically
>>451823based.so much this! I appreciate your honest, human take!
>>447629>>449130>>449218Does anyone know what this design style name is?
>>447629ever see the face of a beautiful woman?its very simple and delecate and when you try to draw it, you find it is much more difficult that youd think, so instead, you decide to draw the most hideous renditon of the human form possible...yeah thats what this looks like... its just a bunch of crap slapped together
>>447629it's trying too hard
>>449502>>451317He doesn't do the bumpers for HWD, most of those are konzept.globehttps://www.instagram.com/konzept.globe/
>>449218This. Over the years I've learned to appreciate less complex design as long as it's creative.phdm
>>453518Does Sam even do motion gfx anymore? Seems like he juat pays other people to do it now.
>>447629The stock is definitely in a downward trajectory. Only held up by sam being good at avoiding mainstream memes - these always die in cringe within long.He still slips up, like when he allows his team to dub the massively overrused black man exaggerated laugh audio (the "oh no no no" one) into his videos.Sam just isn't cutting edge any more, and he only focuses on perfecting what he sees as the peak of his aesthetic, and his advice giving internet dad persona. We don't need more of those. The only funny thing he's done in the last 5 years is the video from the boxing fight where he says he's coming for Hasan Piker "in real life"
>>447629World Peace graphics are still some of the best I've ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT8vPNsrACo
>>453813I forgot to mention the saddest part, these graphics were what Sam submitted that he made with Pomp&Clout but all the text and WP logos were erased and only the cast names left. Sad stuff.
>>451823 Have an updoot!
>>451823Have some gold, kindly stranger
>>453573The question was about his art style John stupid
>>455185These anons all have it right->>450312>>451823>>452509>>452663-and once you accept that, the fact that >>453573 doesn't comment exclusively"about his art style" makes perfect sense; all of that extraneous bullshit is camouflage for having no cohesive "art style" that is independent from monkey dance "edgy" pandering to zoomer poltard fanboy sensibilities.tl;dr:His "art style" is disjointed sophomoric vapidity.
>>447629MDE used to be funny but Sam Hyde just makes me cringe with the 2hip4u attitude and having to be contrarian to everything. Dude never matured past high school.
>>451823>"women can't do this only men can"imagine thinking this is ironic and not 1000% true. all of these posts are just redditors coping with the fact that they appreciate sam hyde in some manner. they have to pretend that he is being ironic at every moment because they couldn't possibly agree that someone talented would have a different view.
>>447629It is cool because it is ironic, his background is in sports advertising, he could tryhard, but there's nothing humourous in that.It's impressive at best and intentionally bad at worst.best examples are probably black & whites, stickers, low colour, showing off the pure graphical ability.https://captivated.com/products/million-dollar-extreme-sticka_pack_1-6-stickers-1-art-printhttps://imgs.search.brave.com/B944TiW2eaI6-tFi60FjomWEmKCddI2JFIOEECuiAnk/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/cGljY2xpY2tpbWcu/Y29tL1RGY0FBT1N3/V2hWbU42bVIvU2Ft/LUh5ZGUtTURFLUhl/cmJhbC1ULVNoaXJ0/LVNpemUtU21hbGwu/d2VicAother cases, they just know someone will buy the shit.my personal favourite was an mde hwd hoodie, which, I'm not sure if it ever made the sale quota.also referring to "sam hyde" as someone who gives the go ahead for designs, not the sole artist, he obviously has multiple talented artists nowadays.
>>449130>>449528the fidelity of the text "my hand-selected team..." is really high and deffs not real VHS. makes me think the green text elements are achieved with a retro sharpening plugin digitally and then the background layer of skeletons etc may be rescanned idk. The interlacing on the skeletons looks pretty authentic to me
>>455979>The interlacing on the skeletons looks pretty authentic to meThat's the most obviously faked part of it and clearly 100% digitally produced and not even passed through a single generation of analog video to try to camouflage how fake it is.
does a bad image always need to be 'analogue'? video image on a typical lcd 16:9 teevee can be also bad due to low bitrate, interlaced, low framerate or otherwise bad source encoding, a coax cable receiver, a shitty vga cable or encoder (even a bad 'digital' displayport will produce rgb snow), bad power supply, wrong contrast, scaling and resolution settings on the monitor
>>456015like it doesnt have to be a vcr, 2001 camcorder source and a crt tv just to look all fucked
>>456016like there's plenty of display screens in the public that play ads over the internet and look all garish because no wagie will care to adjust the settings
>>447629this is terriblethe fuck you guys thinking?
>>456015No, but just like when faking old/crappy audio it's more about triggering the idea quickly and efficiently in the audiences brains than it is technical accuracy.IOW technically accurate distortion and artifacts and the like won't necessarily register the way you want them to and rather than evoking some era or situation they can just look/sound like you don't know what you are doing in the present.
>>447629the issue is every youtuber is doing this shit (if they do have bumpers/graphic shit in their vids) and none have sam's autistic art knowledge since the dude went to school for it
i can relate with sam's story about the work culture in graphic design places.. maybe i should become a car salesman turned internet dad figure too
>>447629it's trash just has alt right halo. sam hyde reeks similar to reddit now
>>449130AE/PR plugin called Signal does this effect pretty close for some purposes - seems a little different but i recognize the white around the edges around the letters and on the main sticker's color bleed as something specific to the plugin. as for the skeleton - not sure.
does sam do his own art?
>>456478Maybe in terms of prompts. He has a team of editors and designers most notably this chick kozept.globe. I'm not even sure if he does post-production anymore nor do I even care at this point.
>>447960>if you ugly you bad>if you pretty you goodare you a woman or a faggot?
Bump
Interesting question
