This was technically my Art Fight 2023 attack on @factorybought but I never finished it in July. Still wanted to continue working on it though! I promise this outline took me longer to make than it looks.
Kane Pixels is a genius at whatever his art might be called. Because horror is usually, like, gory ways to die that I didn't need to know could happen, stupid protagonists making stupid decisions so the stupid plot can happen, horrible things that I don't want to think about, jumpscares whose only purpose is to cheaply make something scary, etc.
Kane Pixels does none of that. Yet I cannot begin to put into words the fear, the dread, the impending feeling of doom that each of his videos brings me. And strangely enough, the wonderful and unstoppable fascination that grips me every time.
Until Kane Pixels, I never had to physically distance myself from a video in which NOTHING happens. No scary music, no jumpscare, no horrible creature, no blood, no immediate threat.
Guys. His latest video could almost be entirely pitched as: a man walks down a very long stairway.
It's stupid.
It's not scary.
I'm barely four minutes in and I had to stop at least three times because it was too much for me.
What was too much? I'm not sure. The atmosphere? The infinite possibilities of what could happen? The strange feeling that something might go wrong, while nothing really hints at anything that could go wrong? How real and casual it looks? The "hell no" I felt at first glance when that stairway appeared? Maybe all of the above. Maybe none.
The craziest is, despite all that, I WANT to know what happens next, and I keep coming back to it until I watch the whole thing. Every time.
And you know what, in any other circumstances, you'd need a pretty fucked up amount of money to convince me to watch horror for a long period of time — movie, series, video game, whatever. I don't like it, I don't see the point of it, I have a brain that more often than not gets stuck on "Can you imagine what it would actually feel like? 'Cause apparently I can and I will share this thought with you!" So yeah, horror is not my jam.
But I keep coming back to his videos because I'm so curious. I'm not even sure this qualify as "horror." It feels like so much more than that. His storytelling skills are ridiculous. He doesn't give us much. There's no need for complex elements. The thing is, it somehow awakens an old instinct from somewhere deep into my brain that tells me "run run run, something's off, this isn't right, save your life", while another part of my brain gets so excited, because "that's fascinating, I NEED to figure out whatever this is, whatever it means and how it happened."
His series about the Backrooms is insane, but his other random stuff is also beyond words.
every time something from Neil Gaiman's tumblr crosses my dash I'm so concerned about the people writing and to him like. why have you outsourced your imagination to this man? asking shit like 'what does Morpheus sound like in this scene' or 'what does this dialogue mean' or 'what's the backstory to this moment' like BABES. THIS IS WHAT BARTHES WAS TALKING ABOUT. YOU'RE MEANT TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS YOURSELVES THAT'S WHAT MAKES ALL ART A COLLABORATIVE CREATION OF MEANING. if the author wanted something to be explicit in the text they can make it explicit in the text and if it's not explicit in the text YOU CAN MAKE IT UP.
what really gets me is I 100% prommy these kids regularly use 'death of the author' to mean 'i can enjoy works by problematic creators' which 1) yes I agree you can and should (using some discretion re who it profits and what's replicated in the work) but 2) THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS IS. NEIL GAIMAN'S POST HOC OPINION ON SANDMAN OR GOOD OMENS IS A NO MORE LEGITIMATE FACT ABOUT THE TEXT THAN ANYONE ELSE'S INTERPRETATION. the text has left his control it belongs to the reader now, you get to decide and debate what it means.
Time Corridor “Land of Plenty, The legend of courage and protection”
【 Shining Nikki CN+TW 】
Time Corridor “Land of Plenty, The legend of courage and protection”
On the sacred mountain, the legends of the past are like golden poems left in the wind.
Beginning with iron, gold and turquoise, the gods of power were born.
He asked the young warriors: "Why do you desire strength?"
In order to open up the land, to fight against the cold, scorching heat and natural disasters, to become the strongest warrior, and to protect everything you want to protect.
As time passes, when desires begin to expand and the struggle becomes more intense,
Gold and jewelry bound the falcon that once roamed freely, and the "true faith" was buried in the rapid flow of time.
But there is still some kind of original power called "guarding", rushing through the blood of the gods.
"It doesn't matter.
A protective heart is enough to resist any destructive power."
asset for both my site and my little model promo animation =D look at him in his plasticine prison. i think making ridiculous packaging designs every so often is vital to one's mental well being. like i cannot think of anything more pointlessly joyful.
If you are searching for some good horror content this halloween. Give the work of Kane Pixels a shot. Found footage horror at its best. The Oldest View Series is so suspenseful and unnerving!
wanted to add this to the post hotrod's in but it was taking long enough to finish so i just said fuckit & posted it without lmao
prolly the main differences between hotrod and a classic meat car model would be cockpit placement; rather than it being tucked away under the main room, hotrods is in his skull, right above his brain(makes for faster connection)
thanks to clink's profession & interest in xenobiology, hotrod also has quite a bit of lab equipment in him, such as the big table & more varied storage outside of the default general storage
thanks to hotrod's habit of storing things(both alive & dead) to show off at a later date, the main room is pretty much always trashed lol
like always, gif stills and a no text alts r under the cut :)
Made as a more or less successful exercise to emulate the style of Junnn11, the person who illustrated many of the wikipedia articles on Cambrian arthropods and Paleozoic euchelicerates (and whose art I happen to like very much).