r/videos • u/-Appleaday- • Mar 24 '24
A Japanese artist makes art using Microsoft Excel
https://youtu.be/OrwBc6PwAcY?si=FJte4Cqs7qOYAll_23
u/snmgl Mar 24 '24
"I set a goal. In 10 years I wanted to paint something decent that I could show to people."
Imagine having his patience in goal setting. Doesn't matter if you want to start your own business or a youtube channel. If you are willing to spent 10 years on it, you will most likely be successful.
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u/DesignerTex Mar 24 '24
"Yes, I am a fool." He doesn't take it too seriously and knows it's kinda odd. Yet the art turns out great. I was shocked!
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u/Leetzers Mar 24 '24
Cool, but someone should probably show this guy adobe illustrator.
Seems he's working with vector art.
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u/TheBatemanFlex Mar 24 '24
I feel like at this point it has defined his style which is constrained by these tools though. No?
It would be like if someone specializes in a very niche but tedious and limited medium and then recommending a different (albeit more flexible and practical) medium.
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u/Shapes_in_Clouds Mar 24 '24
I feel like at this point it has defined his style which is constrained by these tools though. No?
Exactly. The dude doesn't live in a bubble, he's surely aware there are 'better' tools. A lot of artists find their creativity in a process defined by limitation. Greater flexibility and more options don't necessarily result in better work.
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u/liforrevenge Mar 24 '24
Did you watch the video? The whole point is he didn't want to buy an art program.
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u/brainpostman Mar 24 '24
Someone should show him GIMP. Or Paint.NET. There are so many plugins for those things too.
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u/philmarcracken Mar 24 '24
getting flashbacks to the seating arrangement girl doing everything in excel post...
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u/HotPumpkinPies Mar 24 '24
Why aren't there paint-by-numbers excel files?
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u/TheBatemanFlex Mar 24 '24
So I thought that's what was initially meant by "paint in excel". I thought he was filling in cells on a HUGE spreadsheet. Its actually a little more bizarre if anything. He is using the Microsoft shapes, lines, and fills and just using the spreadsheet as a canvas.
I think there actually are excel files where you can fill in cells with the corresponding colors and create a picture.
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u/R0ckhands Mar 24 '24
No one going to mention the subtitles?
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u/-Appleaday- Mar 24 '24
What about them?
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u/R0ckhands Mar 25 '24
White on a white background? They're practically illegible. Ironic on a video about making the best use of a visual medium.
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u/-Appleaday- Mar 25 '24
Oh. Now that you mention it it I kind of see what you mean. I can read the subtitles just fine though personally, but I can totally see how it may be hard for some to read them.
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u/gobrowns88 Mar 24 '24
Meanwhile, I struggle trying to get two sets of data on the y-axis of a graph.
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u/distortedperspective Mar 24 '24
And there I was years ago bored at work one day so I wrote a macro to do basically this in like 10min
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u/quequotion Mar 24 '24
I have seen Japanese people do things with Excel that were unnecessary, redundant, stupid, overly complex, and weird.
I have seen Japanese people make everything from "databases" to New Year's greeting cards to functional CPU emulators in Excel.
This man makes masterpieces, and finally, I get it.
Excel is not a spreadsheet program.
It is an everything program.