They’re recreating Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ in Minecraft in a big way, and the result is overwhelming

The person in charge spent a lot of time sculpting the Dutch painter’s famous artwork.

If we don’t think of anything when we talk about you ‘A night with stars’, don’t worry, when you see a picture you’ll probably know what we’re talking about right away. This work Vincent van Gogh It is so well known around the world that it also appeared in the famous video game Minecraft.

In the video, which you can see in the text, we leave you with the process ChrisDaCow went through to recreate the Mojang artwork. The original painting was painted in 1889 and is considered one of the earliest works. best works of art in history. Van Gogh painted an oil on canvas night sky with wind currents and yellowish spheres over a small village.

Rendering in 3D is a perspective-level challengeChrisDaCow in Minecraft has been creating great artifacts for years, and it’s remarkable how he did it in the ‘Starry Night’ example. You have to play with 3D perspective Getting items to fit as well as possible is an obvious challenge beyond the hassle of building everything.

“I set this goal because I thought ‘Starry Night’ would be a nice place to walk,” Chris tells PC Gamer. “I was not a Van Gogh fan before I startedbut after full production he definitely became my favorite artist.” Below you can see a comparison between the actual painting and the Minecraft recreation that is unfortunately not available to the public as a map:

this is not the first That Minecraft users surprise us with amazing creations. There are projects that aim to recreate planet Earth in its entirety, but it has gone beyond reality and our own galaxy along with other creations that take us, for example, on a journey into the Star Wars universe.

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