Thumbnails

Hello audience (the tumble weed blown into the corner)

I feel like sharing my stance on thumbnails on youtube videos.

This morning I woke up and on my YouTube channel I had only ever used 1 thumbnail on my 841 videos. I've never been into wanting to use thumbnails. Mostly because I like the pre-generated thumbnails from my game play. I like to be able to choose from 3 scenes that happened and it makes me happy. However I recently was suggested by a friend that maybe I should start making thumbnails because they can attract attention. So I've decided I’m going to start.

I don't want to make thumbnails for all my videos but I figured some series I will.

I started this afternoon with my Digimon World championship Lets Play. The thumbnails for it usually suck so I figured it was a good place to create some ( I have 29 episodes released already). I created 10 today and I was impressed with the quality. So I figured i'll show you guys how some of them look! Let me know what you think!

I made the thumbnails in a program called Paint . Net (No it isn’t a website) and It probably took 5 minutes to make the first thumbnail and then it takes like two to three minutes to construct the rest based on the original I created. I found the pinkish-reddish background on Google (I honestly don’t remember what I searched up) and it didn’t seem to have an artist so I can’t really give someone credit for it. Then I used my photoshop skills (Paint . Net skills I guess) to paste the Digimon World Championship Logo on and then used those exact same skills to paste each Digimon onto each thumbnail. For my first set of thumbnails I am very proud and I really hope I get positive feedback on them! I’m trying to already come up with designs for thumbnails on my future series that I plan on playing. I have a few ideas but I won’t work on them yet. My next art project for my channel is going to be a layout for a future Pokemon series. I started not liking sidebars and then I was like “You know..sidebars are pretty cool” even though 3 of my sidebars were made for me and I have only made two (both being used in my Soul Silver series starting on Episode 1 and Episode 30). I’ve also designed some of the profile pictures on my channel and a few backgrounds but for the most part background have been commissioned for me (with a few matching Youtube icons). I love making icons though so I’m probably going to return to making my own. Backgrounds are no longer part of youtube, but now covers exist and my first (and current) one was created for me, however the one that will follow it was created by me and will most likely premiere this February beside a brand new series!

Anyways here are the thumbnails.