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Aaaaa, the “feed you poison birthday cake” and takko’s faaccceeeee. And ravens roost. And how johns face is always wavering between wanting to be amiable towards Merle and remembering what he had to do. And there’s no face after being taken. You feel that John isn’t there anymore. And the light beams from takko’s wand flashing and growing to the beat of the music. It’s ALL WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC. I don’t know how to deal with this much visual pleasure. It’s like being in party city but with my favorite podcast.
@@woodenwinds9629 Oh!!! It's from The Adventure Zone, a really great podcast! It's these three brothers and their father playing D&D and it's real funny and then it gets incredibly sad and beautiful and heartfelt and GO CHECK IT OUT!
Dude, stumbling across this animatic changed the course of my life. You got me into the adventure zone through sheer intrigue, and it helped pull me out of a really dark spot. Its been a few years since and Im a whole lot better, still occasionally tune back in to watch this from time to time to bring me back to what started it all. Really man, thank you for making this.
my favorite part of this animation is always looking to the comments and seeing people try to gauge wtf taz is about from this animation. it does a rlly good job of telling a part of the story of taz, but if you enjoy this animatic i would 1000% recommend looking into taz!!
@@soMeRandoM670 Believe it or not, this basically sums up most of the 60+ hours of their campaign, or at least "The stolen century ark". You'll understand when you start listening, it's really really good. This got me into The Adventure Zone (TAZ) and I come back to it all the time, appreciating it far better now than I possibly could have before.
I really like the opening scene you decided to show, it's not something really depicted a lot with John, that he used to be just a regular man, a motivational speaker, everyone just portrays him as monster, pure evil
Also your interpretation of Garfield is my favorite ive seen. The ones that are actually a cat or literally just Garfield are funny but leaning into the sleezy salesman aspect with the garfield ears is perfect
i first watched this several years ago. I had no idea what Taz was, but was too preoccupied with life to find out. Just maybe under a month ago, I finally managed to get with the program and actually listen. It was a slow start, but over a break from school just last week, I hyper fixation - binged it nonstop reaching the end of the suffering game. Today, only a few minutes ago, I have finished listening to taz balance, and I love everything about it. I’m not one to cry from fictional stories, but even so the final episode made tears run down my face. A big reason that I had faith in the podcasts quality was because there’s no way someone would put this much effort and talent into an animation about a bad story, so even if you don’t see this comment specifically, Thank you.
On top of everything else that's amazing about this (which many others have spoken of), I just want to say that I love your designs of all the various minor characters. Lady dwarves with beards are something I'm always happy to see more of, and I think you may have just designed my favorite Garfield.
GG Crono | I’ve always seen him as an incredibly creepy old guy with orange spray-tan skin. The beard and hat of a warlock with the trench coat and...*glint* of a used-car salesman who deals in blood and first-born children.
Holy hell, I didn't even realize that was Garfield! I guess I was too busy admiring the way that part syncs with the beat. The character designs really are amazing though, as well as the way even objects are designed like their ship and the hunger itself, or the visualization of John preaching to a crowd. It's been a while since I finished Balance so maybe those things were already described in detail and I just forgot, but I really love them anyway.
I just finished Story and Song like 10 minutes ago and now I'm sitting here watching every animatic I can get my hands on and just trying to come down from the amazing high this show has put me on. This is fantastic.
Dude. Im halfway through relistening to the hole series. I simply cannot emotionally detach from these characters. By the time im done with this second play through, i will have knocked out nearly 200 hour's of TAZ.
@@zac5805 The Adventire Zone is a podcast, available on spotify, initially about a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, but has branched off into other games when that campaign ended.
I love the head bobs, I love the pacing, I love how dynamic and alive everything feels, I love the matching music to story, I love the colors, I love the art, I love roswell and joaquin, I love this, thanks for this. Thank you!
As someone who doesn't know what "the adventure zone" is. Lets see if i get this right The guy in the suit atracks the people of the white ship. He doesn't want to, but is made to by some "being". After actualy meeting them he realises they are nice people and really doesn't want to kill them now. but has to out of fear of that "being". His confliction gives the "being" a reason to take over. Bunch of side plots happen leading up to them beating the man and the "being". Also there maybe something involing heaven and hell being actual places.
@Eren Yıldırım Taz stands for the adventure zone, it's a real play podcast, I listened on Spotify but I'm sure you can find it anywhere you get podcasts It's so, so good and I wish you luck comrade
Eren Yıldırım maximumfun.org listed under their comedy section. There's a load of other stuff but I've never had the interest apart from the McElroys' D&D podcast on there.
I ran into this thing I have never heard of trying to listen to a song call In the zone by Ken Ashcorp and now I think I am about to fall head first into a nieshe but big fandom wish me luck
I don’t know what “the adventure zone” is but here is what I think is happening. The suit guy is some businessman who doesn’t like the people with the red coats. But he talks to the short guy and finds out he is nice but they black thing with the colors makes him attack the short old guy and now he has to kill them all. During the final battle he becomes the big demon monster and gets destroyed by the green guy. Basically it’s the weird black with colors demon thing that makes him evil even though he is a good guy, (as seen by the end where he is looking at the sunset)
That is pretty close. The biggest difference is that he created the black thing and he wants the same thing that the red coats have, so its less hate and more about opposite ends of a similar goal.
The adventure zone is a D&D podcast by the elroy's. They have the first 2 parts of the campaign as graphic novels, if that works easier than listening to over 100 hours of gameplay
Literally this alone convinced me to start listening to TAZ, so I can only recognize a few scenes. This is honestly the best animation I have ever seen in my whole entire life what
I really like the concept of John, something so impossible inhuman, an eldritch horror, born from one man feeling empty inside and spreading that to others.
Hi! I see that you found this video in your recommendations without knowing about the Adventure Zone! So for everyone who doesn’t know, The Adventure Zone is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast created by the McElroy Brothers. Its one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever consumed. Its very funny, creative, and made me cry multiple times. So if you haven’t listened to it and you liked the animation, go ahead and give it a listen, you won’t regret it!
When I found the Adventure Zone i noticed a fully animated trailer for Balance but the podcast episodes arent animated whatsoever. What's up with that?
I want to thank you immensely for introducing me to the adventure zone. after listening to the whole thing over the span of a few months I get all the references and i love this video even more. my favorite part is how the carecters apear in the order tey were summoned. I love the way they all look (:
So this song is my alarm so that was slightly jarring initially lol But the animation here is beautiful and worked so well with the song! I’m definitely sending this to all my friends who like The Adventure Zone cause they need to see it
Never heard of adventure zone? Wondering why you’re here? 1. Maybe you watch a lot of animatics/animations. 2. *Man, nobody talks about this really good song anymore TvT*
I've never once heard of The Adventure Zone yet somehow I've made the villain of the story I'm writing EXACTLY like what seems to be the villain of this... Even down to a similar design for an ultimate form like at 2:04...
This is another one of those ones I'm going to watch over and over because this is just so firkin good, you are made of awesome. Brilliant work. This must have taken you 6ever.
I at first watched this with no knowledge of what TAZ was, and just thought it was the coolest animation I had ever seen. Now I’m back, years later, having just finished TAZ, teary eyed and happy. You did an amazing job MooselyBased.
Just wait till you start Amnesty. Unless you meant you finished all of TAZ and are completely caught up, in which point congrats. Get used to waiting a week!
So, not only are the character designs perfect, but this song so accurately tells the story of John I’m beside myself. This is amazing and I’ve watched it like 20 times already.
I've never heard of The Adventure Zone, so all I see is Google (G-Man lookin guy) chasing down some space pirates making their lives hell, idk something like that
No. He just knocked the entire black team of the match, had a existential crisis and used black majik given to by the Majikal Dragoon hidden in the moutains to make a person breath black fire then collapse
I feel like John hunger goes under-appreciated as a character. He has such a complex characterization, especially for somebody who wasn't formally introduced until really late in the story.
I've never heard of TAZ before, but this video randomly popped into my recommendations. "I Can't Decide" was a favorite song of mine in middle school and this music video does it justice. The story inside this video, along with the music, does a great job of telling me what TAZ is like and what exactly the plotline is, despite me not knowing any of the character's names or anything about it. Amazing work!
Talinah I 100% suggest watching it. It’s a D&D podcast. Very funny, very entertaining, extremely well written, and one of the most amazing fantasy stories I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. I’ve watched GoT, LoTR, and neither of those have made me as emotional as TAZ has. It’s something so incredibly special. You’re missing out if you don’t watch it. I suggested it to a friend for over a year, and when he finally watched it, he binged it in a month
@@chery0 T.A.Z. The Adventure Zone. It's a podcast group of 3 brothers and 1 dad playing table top games like D&D. The animatic is based off of The Adventure Zone: Balance Arc. Where they all play D&D in an completely original story. Would highly recommend. There are multiple playlists of all the eps on UA-cam but they all miss one episode. But you can listen on Spotify for free and it has all the episodes. "T.A.Z. : Balance Arc" is honestly the best D&D podcast out there in my opinion. Hilarious banter between the family and their in game characters but it also has an amazing story which can get pretty serious at times. 100/10 do recommend.
Any time spent listening to The Adventure Zone (TAZ) is time well spent; never wasted. You can listen to the podcast here on youtube, in fact. I assure you, you will not regret it.
This is a perfect "end credits" scene for The Adventure Zone. The animation, the song choice, the featured scenes. It so accurstely encapsulates TAZ. Especially the Stolen Century arc. Just undescribably emotional and beautiful. Thank you
I wouldn't have chosen this song initially, but by god you made it work perfectly. One of the best tributes out there! (also kudos on making content about John, it's too rare)
This introduced me to TAZ. You are directly responsible for me loving this podcast, for my renewed excitement over DND and for just me knowing about these characters. I just want to say thank you. Thank you so much.
I saw the thumbnail for this and thought "THIS song? with TAZ? what the actual heck" and clicked on the video out of sheer morbid curiosity. I WAS NOT PREPARED TO FIND AN EXCELLENT AND HEARTFELT ANIMATIC THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST I'VE SEEN SO FAR, CONGRATS ON THE TALENT OMG.
Well this is heavy spoilers but you may or may not forget it. TAZ is "The Adventure Zone" a podcast by the McElroy brothers and their dad. It's an amazing series, I highly recommend it.
Out if all of the villains I have seen. This man has to be the strangest one I have ever seen. A talkshow guy complaining about mere existence and is corrupted by sone dark magic (or something else cause I never looked at TAZ) and is simply faded away on a beach with white beard guy. I love his design in this and I never thought that he is kind of understandable and relatable to people with immense depression. And I admire whoever thought it up for that
This is just unbelievably astounding. I watch this video whenever I'm having a bad day, and without fail, it has cheered me up every single time. Just the perfect use of colors, lively animation, and sync with both the beat and plot are just something to behold. It disappoints me that this masterpiece hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves yet, but as you can see, everybody who has seen it greatly thanks you for making it.
Everyone seems confused as to why they were recommended this. Not me, I was watching an animatic including the song Still had no idea what the Adventure Zone was, I'd heard the name before but never bothered to find out what it was Seeing this intrigued me to find out and I can safely say that I'm hooked now. Thank you for gracing us with your masterpiece, your talent deserves more than a couple of subs.
Such a smooth and consistent style! The light-heartedness of the head bobbing and cartoon like style contrasted with the depictions of what are some of the most heart breaking things in the story really compliments the tone of TAZ itself.
Had never even heard of the adventure zone before finding this animation, and then of course that sent me down a rabbit hole of animatics until I gave up and gave it a listen. I just finished the final episode of the balance arch today and came back just to bring it full circle. Thank you for introducing me to this show!
like everything about this is amazing?!?!?!?! like so much so that it actually confuses me on how amazing, like I actually suspect you might be a wizard or something. Just the art and animation styles are so nice, and how everything is set to the beat of the song. like the timing and everything is so smooth and prefect. I could probably write a 5-page essay on how much I love this and it still wouldn't be enough.
I found out about TAZ through this very animatic and only just allowed myself to rewatch it after hearing the last episode of the first campaign. I'm speechless. The attention to detail is amazing, and I've really liked trying to figure out how any of this fit into the story. It never felt like a spoiler at all. It's just been an amazing experience altogether, and you brought it upon me. Thank you.
I watched this video before I started listening to TAZ. I had no idea what was going on for most of it, but the animatic made me interested enough to try listening to it. I just finished the finale, and I just want to say thank you for making the video that got me to start such listening to such a wonderful story.
i holy SHIT MAN i'm absolutely COVERED in goosebumps, i loved everything about this. the art is incredible and the editing is amazing and the boarding knocked my socks of just,,, HOLY SHIT thank you so much for sharing this!
Lost my shit at I could throw you in the lake line. Imagining Merle not sneaking of but straight up leaving made me laugh but does seem a thing he would have done. That mixed with I could throw you in the lake does sound like something that might be said to him.
This was my first introduction to The Adventure Zone, and what really got me into D&D. I come back to this every now and then and it's always still as good as I remember. Genuinely big part of my life, thanks for making this
I really gotta thank this video for being awesome enough to make me check out The Adventure Zone, one of my favorite podcasts now, and get to know the McElBoys
also, as I've watched this about a dozen times, just gotta say you can still kinda watch it even without knowing about TAZ. It can just be, like, the metaphorical story of a businessman being consumed by his hatred, or something. Still makes for a fun video outside of context, imo. With context it's even better, of course.
If u are planning on ever watching TAZ, I would not watch this animatic. Watching the end of this show and not having a clue about what was about to happen, it was the best thing ever.
@@gunfiend5175 The Adventure Zone, specifically The Balance Arc. It's a very good D&D podcast, back before that was a common thing, by a group of comedians. It's a very solid story with excellent writing and hilarious moments, and a few INSANE payoffs. This animation is based on it. I highly recommend listening to it if you get the chance. It's funny, I watched this back when it had a few thousand views if that, and tried to get others to watch it. Apparently since I made the original comment, it fell into the algorithm vortex and now has millions of views. I'm glad, because it's an awesome little animation, but also kind of a bummer since it's a huge spoiler. Oh well! I see a lot of people got into TAZ because of this, so hey, so much the better.
I just finished the Balance arc last week, and I'd been waiting to watch this video till then. This was an amazing work, thank you for crafting this and using that song, it was a perfect fit. I especially appreciated it from 2:09 on, the quick swipes timed with the beat were fantastic!
oh my word???? the typography work??? the art??? the designs for all of the characters and minor characters and merle being shirtless and the song suites everything perfectly and john convincing thoe people to join him and the starblaster dodging the hunger. the hunger looks amazing. and im??? it looks beautiful, it tells an incredible story, and overall it's just really wonderful. thank you for sharing
@@wolflplushlnoice Yup! The Adventure Zone! I recommend starting with Balance, as it's the basis for this animation. I had a hard time getting into the first 4 episodes or so, but after I listened through them, I fell in love. The first episodes, while lackluster, are worth it. They're amazingly important.
I first watched this animation when I was like, halfway through TAZ? I spoiled a little bit for myself, but I figured I already saw a few spoilers, what's a bit more? Today I finished Balance, bawled my eyes out, and watched this. This is honestly such an amazing animatic, it captures the spirit of the show so well! Things were so well drawn and animated and it really left an impact on me! I hope you keep doing cool animations like this!
Omfg only a small part of me liking this is your design of the characters This isn’t animatic this is full on animation, easily the best taz fan video I’ve ever seen Fully colored, always moving, always leaving room for the words Holy hell you are a genius
ᛏᚺᛖ ᛃᚨᛖᚷᛖᚱ Homestuck 2 came out. Never read it myself cause I’m just tired of it. My pic was from when I was in middle school and I’m just toooo lazy to change anything
Man, when I first watched this, it was near the end of the 11th hour arc, so I thought that the big bad here was from Magus' backstory, and that this campaign would end with a typical "past enemy has ties to dark forces" revenge quest for the most heroic PC. I could not have been more wrong. I loved how this both perfectly summarizes the events of the finale without spoiling the important details and implications of the events.
I love John adjusting his tie, that detail gives me life, aaaaaaaaaa. This whole thing gives me life, I love the loop-de-loop of the words in that one spot and in general just how the lyrics fit the scenes, it's so great. Taako at "Or feed you poisoned birthday cake" is such a fucking good expression holy shit I'm so alive for this whole animation
Yeah this convinced me to listen to it on my way to school each day and I’ve finally gotten to the stolen century part and I finally understand what’s going on in half of this song with the voidfish and John and most of the other stuff like the FLAMING POISONING RAGING SWIRD OF DOOM
![FNaF - "I can't decide" Animatic [Remake(?)]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MGaTE6I2Mak/mqdefault.jpg)
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how did you KNOW i’m back after hades
Haha perfect timing, I just felt the need to come back to this one
I can't stay away for long
The animation is made so well and works the banger song. How could we not come back?
I recently saw your Ethersea posts and I knew I recognized the art style. I love your work
Can we just talk about how this
-fully animated
-fully coloured
-practically movie tbh
Is labelled as an animatic? This is an animation.
Nope I'm sorry to say that not all parts are fluid animation so it's an animatic sadly nonetheless it's still good
Not all parts of an animation need to be moving? An animatic is more of a rough preliminary to an animation, or a WIP. This is a final product.
@@evanev7 oh OK
@@zenit1066 i agree
@@zenit1066 Yup, thanks for pointing that out
Everybody in the comments knowing the names of these charcters meanwhile I don't know shit about any of them.
I don't know what this game is, but it's still a great animation!
@@thatguy763 it's some dnd podcast not a game, called the adventure zone. You should listen to it
@@raxtherobber7258 I looked it up. This is some good shit.
@@raxtherobber7258 It needs to be tho.
Raxtherobber Neat. Time to binge.
the poison birthday cake line was a brick to the face
AND THEN THE “i wont deny im gonna miss you when youre gone” HURT SO BAD
That entire sequence, my heart was ripped out with Taako, stomped of with Lup and burn to ash with Magnus
*cries in there were forty*
The look on his face just broke my heart
IT JUST GOT WORSE-- FIRST TAAKO, THEN LUP, AND THEN MAGNUS AND JULIA- THIS ANIMATION IS PAIN😭
It’s funny just how many people got recommended this out of nowhere and started listening to the podcast because of it, including me!
Its 2 years old thats why
And also i really only liked the song
Same
Wait there's a podcast? Nice.
Yup, on ep. 6 of Petals to the Metal
Bouncing to the beat can win me over 99% of the time this is so good Jesus
It's some really strong tech, no doubt. Even better when your lyrics suit the material so perfectly
*slowly looks at Mystery Skulls* '3'
Have you checked out mystery skulls? That's literally their whole shtick.
Hel yeah!
Im jesus
Aaaaa, the “feed you poison birthday cake” and takko’s faaccceeeee. And ravens roost. And how johns face is always wavering between wanting to be amiable towards Merle and remembering what he had to do. And there’s no face after being taken. You feel that John isn’t there anymore. And the light beams from takko’s wand flashing and growing to the beat of the music. It’s ALL WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC. I don’t know how to deal with this much visual pleasure. It’s like being in party city but with my favorite podcast.
Reck Biscuit Wand? I believe you mean the Kreb-Star
Reck Biscuit what is this from
@@woodenwinds9629 The song, or the characters/story?
Ayah13 the characters
@@woodenwinds9629 Oh!!!
It's from The Adventure Zone, a really great podcast! It's these three brothers and their father playing D&D and it's real funny and then it gets incredibly sad and beautiful and heartfelt and GO CHECK IT OUT!
Fun fact, it’s canon that Merle is always shirtless while talking to john
How
@@uhhhwhatwasidoingagain I haven't seen it but probably from the podcast series this us based on
Bro I just realised at 0:29 the sky isn't purple and there aren't two suns!! This is a SCAM!! /s
The rules of parley require it haha
LOL
'It takes the truth to fool me' is such a good line for Merle telling John everything he knows which is nothing lmao
Merle really was the best person to talk to John
I'm not crying at the sunset beach scene you're crying at the sunset beach scene
Fuck you're right.
Shit I've been bamboozled
This music has little to nothing to do with TAZ. It's a good song but it really seems a bit out of place to tie it to the podcast.
Nate T okay ??
FUCK HOWD YOU KNOW
I listened to The Adventure Zone podcast because of this song. I do not regret a single thing.
I’m getting there! Just finished the crystal arc.
Ok. I’m back. I’m crying.
Same I'm at the suffering games rn
I’m on the second episode after seeing this a couple hours away
Well I can’t edit that comment for some reason so ago*
2:40 “If we meet somewhere in infinity you can apologise to me and tell me you were wrong”
Oof
Oof oof oof. Ooooooooooooooof
Oof
O O F.....HELP ME
Dats deeeeeeep
Dude, stumbling across this animatic changed the course of my life. You got me into the adventure zone through sheer intrigue, and it helped pull me out of a really dark spot. Its been a few years since and Im a whole lot better, still occasionally tune back in to watch this from time to time to bring me back to what started it all. Really man, thank you for making this.
Dude the way the song lined up with the entire Taz narrative is wild. Great amazing job
What is this from? Can I find it on UA-cam in it's entirety?
@@Zerpderp0 I know it's been awhile but it says it's some kind of podcast in the description
What is said narrative?
@@Beef__89 Taz= the adventure zone which is a podcast
@@Zerpderp0 I used Maximum Fun, a podcast website.
my favorite part of this animation is always looking to the comments and seeing people try to gauge wtf taz is about from this animation. it does a rlly good job of telling a part of the story of taz, but if you enjoy this animatic i would 1000% recommend looking into taz!!
Stranger from a year ago who is Taz and how do I look into them?
Is it referring to specific episodes?
@@soMeRandoM670 Believe it or not, this basically sums up most of the 60+ hours of their campaign, or at least "The stolen century ark". You'll understand when you start listening, it's really really good. This got me into The Adventure Zone (TAZ) and I come back to it all the time, appreciating it far better now than I possibly could have before.
@@Nanamowa problem with that is you’d have to watch the thing to understand what the hell is going on
@@monokuma371 - Yeah, that’s kinda the point. You wouldn’t understand this *unless* you listened to the podcast.
Really dig the way you drew Garfield The Deals Warlock in this one, cuz he looks like a perfect mix of warlock and pawn shop owner
Mondays amirite
I require lasagna, Jon
I take it he's suit guy?
Jake Grocholski that is john
Garfield is at 2:15 -2:16
Why was I recommended this? I never even heard of "The Adventure Zone" before this video.
Justas youtube's trying to get you to join us. one of us, one of us!
Same
@@AnnoyingMystery ... I'll check it out....
Same
I don't know what it is but it's a nice animation
I really like the opening scene you decided to show, it's not something really depicted a lot with John, that he used to be just a regular man, a motivational speaker, everyone just portrays him as monster, pure evil
Whayt were the episodes with him? I wanna rewatch them but its kinda hard to find.
@@tonya1979 how fitting lmao
I haven't heard this song since flipnote hatena. I didn't even remember that's what the song was called until I heard the chorus.
Some would say politicians are pure evil 😈
He is google, I don’t see your point
Also your interpretation of Garfield is my favorite ive seen. The ones that are actually a cat or literally just Garfield are funny but leaning into the sleezy salesman aspect with the garfield ears is perfect
Who?
@@theonewhoslost Garfield, the Deals Warlock!
Yeah now I knos
I wasnt listening to taz at the time of posting sorry :/
Then why ask if you have no fucking context at all
i first watched this several years ago. I had no idea what Taz was, but was too preoccupied with life to find out. Just maybe under a month ago, I finally managed to get with the program and actually listen. It was a slow start, but over a break from school just last week, I hyper fixation - binged it nonstop reaching the end of the suffering game. Today, only a few minutes ago, I have finished listening to taz balance, and I love everything about it. I’m not one to cry from fictional stories, but even so the final episode made tears run down my face. A big reason that I had faith in the podcasts quality was because there’s no way someone would put this much effort and talent into an animation about a bad story, so even if you don’t see this comment specifically, Thank you.
Same exact thing happened to me beat for beat
On top of everything else that's amazing about this (which many others have spoken of), I just want to say that I love your designs of all the various minor characters. Lady dwarves with beards are something I'm always happy to see more of, and I think you may have just designed my favorite Garfield.
GG Crono AAAA thank you, I love doing character design, and spent a long time figuring out Garfield as not a lasagna cat, I’m glad you liked it!
GG Crono | I’ve always seen him as an incredibly creepy old guy with orange spray-tan skin. The beard and hat of a warlock with the trench coat and...*glint* of a used-car salesman who deals in blood and first-born children.
Holy hell, I didn't even realize that was Garfield! I guess I was too busy admiring the way that part syncs with the beat. The character designs really are amazing though, as well as the way even objects are designed like their ship and the hunger itself, or the visualization of John preaching to a crowd. It's been a while since I finished Balance so maybe those things were already described in detail and I just forgot, but I really love them anyway.
This song gets stuck in my head and I love it! ^_^ this video is a perfect balance of dark and light, somber and whimsy.
@@mooselybased For some reason my brain always put that deals warlock as a scraggly little man
I love the idea of John straightening his tie as a nervous tic. That’s so cute.
I looove your designs for everyone!!!
NightTheKitten k
why isnt anyone talking about the poisoned birthday cake and Lup scene :( its super tiny but owwwww :(((
Yes! Taako's expression was an unexpected punch to the heart.
Wait I haven't heard the podcast, what happened?
@@wyvernscale9634 spoilers
@@wyvernscale9634 VERY big spoilers, listen to the podcast it's really really good.
Ok I guess I will just listen to the podcast after a torrent of warnings, thank you
At 0:33 the ship has different sprites for rotating to and away from the camera.
It’s such a small detail, but it adds so MUCH and I *LOVE IT.*
If only John has gotten free of the hunger, he seemed cool.
@Hello There Are you intending to listen to the podcast? If you are, I won't spoil it.
@Hello There Well, if you don't care, John is the dude in the black suit
@Hello There What exactly do you mean? If by the podcasts, yes, However, they go into varius other arcs with different characters.
What
@@jodireese8965 yeah
I just finished Story and Song like 10 minutes ago and now I'm sitting here watching every animatic I can get my hands on and just trying to come down from the amazing high this show has put me on. This is fantastic.
Dude. Im halfway through relistening to the hole series. I simply cannot emotionally detach from these characters.
By the time im done with this second play through, i will have knocked out nearly 200 hour's of TAZ.
I just relistened to the entire series so I could spot all the inadvertent foreshadowing and now I'm doing the same.
Kuroba tell me about it. Ive now logged more than 200 hours of TAZ.
And yeah, you absolutely pick up on lots of little cues in the 2nd run.
Quick question, what is "The Adventure Zone"?
@@zac5805 The Adventire Zone is a podcast, available on spotify, initially about a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, but has branched off into other games when that campaign ended.
I love the head bobs, I love the pacing, I love how dynamic and alive everything feels, I love the matching music to story, I love the colors, I love the art, I love roswell and joaquin, I love this, thanks for this. Thank you!
Happy anniversary!! I still love this and watch it often
As someone who doesn't know what "the adventure zone" is. Lets see if i get this right
The guy in the suit atracks the people of the white ship. He doesn't want to, but is made to by some "being". After actualy meeting them he realises they are nice people and really doesn't want to kill them now. but has to out of fear of that "being". His confliction gives the "being" a reason to take over. Bunch of side plots happen leading up to them beating the man and the "being". Also there maybe something involing heaven and hell being actual places.
Lightmagician60 I wonder what the suit guy name is...🤔
@@kristabautzmann5298 probably "Suit Guy"
Not entirely wrong, but the suit guy is the guy that created the being. And he only appears at the end.
Turi Drowned Ohhh, I see!
He’s called John, the guy in the suit
First watch: "oo, TAZ thinger."
200 watches later: "must hear song and see bobbing animations."
I know exactly what you mean, I've started to crave this video
@Eren Yıldırım Taz stands for the adventure zone, it's a real play podcast, I listened on Spotify but I'm sure you can find it anywhere you get podcasts
It's so, so good and I wish you luck comrade
Eren Yıldırım maximumfun.org listed under their comedy section. There's a load of other stuff but I've never had the interest apart from the McElroys' D&D podcast on there.
They good bobs tho
I ran into this thing I have never heard of trying to listen to a song call In the zone by Ken Ashcorp and now I think I am about to fall head first into a nieshe but big fandom wish me luck
I don’t know what “the adventure zone” is but here is what I think is happening. The suit guy is some businessman who doesn’t like the people with the red coats. But he talks to the short guy and finds out he is nice but they black thing with the colors makes him attack the short old guy and now he has to kill them all. During the final battle he becomes the big demon monster and gets destroyed by the green guy. Basically it’s the weird black with colors demon thing that makes him evil even though he is a good guy, (as seen by the end where he is looking at the sunset)
That is pretty close. The biggest difference is that he created the black thing and he wants the same thing that the red coats have, so its less hate and more about opposite ends of a similar goal.
The adventure zone is a D&D podcast by the elroy's. They have the first 2 parts of the campaign as graphic novels, if that works easier than listening to over 100 hours of gameplay
Close enough except he created the black thing
Oh shut the slayer is nearby
You should fully listen to TAZ balance then rewatch this (TAZ is a podcast)
The little spin on the fist “We’re going for a ride” is so charming.
Literally this alone convinced me to start listening to TAZ, so I can only recognize a few scenes. This is honestly the best animation I have ever seen in my whole entire life what
How far are you now
Same
Yeah same here, just started listening to the 3erd episode of "here there be gerblins"
Oof huge spoilers here
Same please help it’s part of my personality now
I really like the concept of John, something so impossible inhuman, an eldritch horror, born from one man feeling empty inside and spreading that to others.
Now I want to see like the opposite, of a guy who feels a lot of happiness and spreads it to others
Space Dwarf just play the danganronpa games. Naegi is hope boi.
Hi! I see that you found this video in your recommendations without knowing about the Adventure Zone! So for everyone who doesn’t know, The Adventure Zone is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast created by the McElroy Brothers. Its one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever consumed. Its very funny, creative, and made me cry multiple times. So if you haven’t listened to it and you liked the animation, go ahead and give it a listen, you won’t regret it!
When I found the Adventure Zone i noticed a fully animated trailer for Balance but the podcast episodes arent animated whatsoever. What's up with that?
@@SamuraiDestroy because they’re podcasts, which is an entirely audio-based medium
@@cryptiddmashups I know but if Balance is fully animated then wouldn't there be more fully animated episodes than that?
thank god someone mentioned what this is because ive never seen tgis and thought i was watching some kind of fever dream
Well I did
Fell in love right away
I want to thank you immensely for introducing me to the adventure zone. after listening to the whole thing over the span of a few months I get all the references and i love this video even more. my favorite part is how the carecters apear in the order tey were summoned. I love the way they all look (:
The smooth transitions are everything! It makes it have this lovely tone.
So this song is my alarm so that was slightly jarring initially lol
But the animation here is beautiful and worked so well with the song! I’m definitely sending this to all my friends who like The Adventure Zone cause they need to see it
Dude this song is perfect for an alarm clock why didn't I think of that
This is like the opposite of the perfect song to wake up to. Yeah it's upbeat but it's also threatening to kill you
@@azazelreeds Exactly
Never heard of adventure zone? Wondering why you’re here?
1. Maybe you watch a lot of animatics/animations.
2. *Man, nobody talks about this really good song anymore TvT*
@@Fishy-224 Yup
Mr. Fishy OMG YES! ITS AMAZING!
Chloe Soeswanto if you knew, just ignore me-
FuzzWuzzle TvT
Chloe Soeswanto lmaox
I've never once heard of The Adventure Zone yet somehow I've made the villain of the story I'm writing EXACTLY like what seems to be the villain of this... Even down to a similar design for an ultimate form like at 2:04...
This is another one of those ones I'm going to watch over and over because this is just so firkin good, you are made of awesome.
Brilliant work. This must have taken you 6ever.
Actually it only took about a month! I just graduated and am currently unemployed, so I've had a lot of time on my hands
Lucas Hespenheide well congrats man this is awesome, I loved it
Lucas Hespenheide these are some of the best episodes and you did the a terrific job animating them
Do you mean 4ever? instead of 6ever?
holy shit this is so good i literally watched the entire thing w my jaw dropped bc i could not process how fucking incredible this is
T H I S
So I have to thank you for being the reason I actually got into TAZ. The story was amazing and I never would have experienced it without this video.
Same bro😁.
I’m going to look into now just because of this video. 😁😁
@@ZachTheHuman did you watch it?
Tf is TAZ
I at first watched this with no knowledge of what TAZ was, and just thought it was the coolest animation I had ever seen. Now I’m back, years later, having just finished TAZ, teary eyed and happy. You did an amazing job MooselyBased.
Just wait till you start Amnesty.
Unless you meant you finished all of TAZ and are completely caught up, in which point congrats. Get used to waiting a week!
So, not only are the character designs perfect, but this song so accurately tells the story of John I’m beside myself. This is amazing and I’ve watched it like 20 times already.
I've never heard of The Adventure Zone, so all I see is Google (G-Man lookin guy) chasing down some space pirates making their lives hell, idk something like that
I mean, yeah, basically
Please listen to the Adventure Zone podcast! Honestly, it's worth it! It is SO worth it! :)
honestly
I watch it and yeah that seems legit
Me too ._.
Nobody:
Him: *kills somebody cause he lost at chess*
YES
They didn't even start a game lol
No. He just knocked the entire black team of the match, had a existential crisis and used black majik given to by the Majikal Dragoon hidden in the moutains to make a person breath black fire then collapse
lmao yea,, john hunger is definitely a character..
@@viiravos
That's the best fucking pfp I have seen ever.
6 years later i still know nothing about this other than john is the hunger and based af, still a peak animatic though
Listen to The Adventure Zone 🙏
I feel like John hunger goes under-appreciated as a character. He has such a complex characterization, especially for somebody who wasn't formally introduced until really late in the story.
I’ve never felt the urge to willingly die to protect a piece of art before but I guess that’s changed now
made the likes 69 lol
Pilot Omi thank u for ur service 😔✊
I have no clue what this podcast is about, but I will die for everybody in this video
I've never heard of TAZ before, but this video randomly popped into my recommendations. "I Can't Decide" was a favorite song of mine in middle school and this music video does it justice. The story inside this video, along with the music, does a great job of telling me what TAZ is like and what exactly the plotline is, despite me not knowing any of the character's names or anything about it. Amazing work!
Talinah I 100% suggest watching it. It’s a D&D podcast. Very funny, very entertaining, extremely well written, and one of the most amazing fantasy stories I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. I’ve watched GoT, LoTR, and neither of those have made me as emotional as TAZ has. It’s something so incredibly special. You’re missing out if you don’t watch it. I suggested it to a friend for over a year, and when he finally watched it, he binged it in a month
It's actually pretty frightening about how accurate the song is to the story
What Is TAZ?
@@chery0 T.A.Z. The Adventure Zone.
It's a podcast group of 3 brothers and 1 dad playing table top games like D&D. The animatic is based off of The Adventure Zone: Balance Arc. Where they all play D&D in an completely original story. Would highly recommend. There are multiple playlists of all the eps on UA-cam but they all miss one episode. But you can listen on Spotify for free and it has all the episodes. "T.A.Z. : Balance Arc" is honestly the best D&D podcast out there in my opinion. Hilarious banter between the family and their in game characters but it also has an amazing story which can get pretty serious at times. 100/10 do recommend.
Art imitates art 😊
I have absolutely no idea what's going on in this, but I like what I see.
Jack London
Apparently It’s dedicated to a podcast you can find in UA-cam called The Adventure Zone
@@daubeny6796 its also on spotify and other podcast apps, absolutely amazing and the last season is so fucking good!
Any time spent listening to The Adventure Zone (TAZ) is time well spent; never wasted. You can listen to the podcast here on youtube, in fact. I assure you, you will not regret it.
Yes
Omg using the people they called through the bond engine as transitions, FUCKING GENIUS
This is a perfect "end credits" scene for The Adventure Zone. The animation, the song choice, the featured scenes. It so accurstely encapsulates TAZ. Especially the Stolen Century arc. Just undescribably emotional and beautiful. Thank you
At first I was like, oh this is a nice D&D campaign, then I realized that TAZ was "the adventure zone". still an amazing animatic.
And then I remembered that it was still a D&D
I wouldn't have chosen this song initially, but by god you made it work perfectly. One of the best tributes out there! (also kudos on making content about John, it's too rare)
The best thing about this is that I've got no idea what TAZ is so this makes absolutely no sense to me
@@usernotfound7224 ooh sounds fun
The woman behind the slaughter it is listen to it while playing a Gabe or something
@@TuckyBlue ok im playing gabe from valve
Before listening to The Adventure Zone: oh this looks cool
After: THE TEARS WONT STOP!!!
I've listened to TAZ Balance fully through at least 5 times how have I NOT seen this!?
Tbh, this is hardly an animatic. It boarders on pure animation, the tweening is so smooth and fluid. It is amazing work, and wonderful to look at!
This introduced me to TAZ. You are directly responsible for me loving this podcast, for my renewed excitement over DND and for just me knowing about these characters. I just want to say thank you.
Thank you so much.
yo like nice work but this isn't an animatic, this is jsut finished animation lol
Gotta agree with this, this is full on animation x')
This!
i agree! this is a full-on music video!
its more like motion art imo?
Motion Art Is A Type Of Animation
this is awesome!
this vid is what got me into Taz and animation.
I saw the thumbnail for this and thought "THIS song? with TAZ? what the actual heck" and clicked on the video out of sheer morbid curiosity. I WAS NOT PREPARED TO FIND AN EXCELLENT AND HEARTFELT ANIMATIC THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST I'VE SEEN SO FAR, CONGRATS ON THE TALENT OMG.
Merle: *Beats John in a game of chess*
Also Merle: *Fucking dies*
I misread "TAZ" as "TF2", so I clicked on it.
I'm not disappointed, but god damn I'm interested in whatever this is.
Well this is heavy spoilers but you may or may not forget it.
TAZ is "The Adventure Zone" a podcast by the McElroy brothers and their dad. It's an amazing series, I highly recommend it.
lol
Ah, a man of culture I see
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When the pootis goes nope and other memes are reccomended then you get trickstabbed
Out if all of the villains I have seen. This man has to be the strangest one I have ever seen. A talkshow guy complaining about mere existence and is corrupted by sone dark magic (or something else cause I never looked at TAZ) and is simply faded away on a beach with white beard guy. I love his design in this and I never thought that he is kind of understandable and relatable to people with immense depression. And I admire whoever thought it up for that
This is just unbelievably astounding. I watch this video whenever I'm having a bad day, and without fail, it has cheered me up every single time. Just the perfect use of colors, lively animation, and sync with both the beat and plot are just something to behold. It disappoints me that this masterpiece hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves yet, but as you can see, everybody who has seen it greatly thanks you for making it.
Everyone seems confused as to why they were recommended this. Not me, I was watching an animatic including the song
Still had no idea what the Adventure Zone was, I'd heard the name before but never bothered to find out what it was
Seeing this intrigued me to find out and I can safely say that I'm hooked now. Thank you for gracing us with your masterpiece, your talent deserves more than a couple of subs.
Updates man, we need updates
@@grease7425 I finished the entire balance arc a couple weeks ago.
Merle and John friggin appearing and dropping onto the chairs on "It's a bitch convincing people to like you" made me crack up. Quality animation!
I've have watched over 10 times now...
And I'm not stopping any time soon!
Such a smooth and consistent style! The light-heartedness of the head bobbing and cartoon like style contrasted with the depictions of what are some of the most heart breaking things in the story really compliments the tone of TAZ itself.
Had never even heard of the adventure zone before finding this animation, and then of course that sent me down a rabbit hole of animatics until I gave up and gave it a listen. I just finished the final episode of the balance arch today and came back just to bring it full circle. Thank you for introducing me to this show!
Same my freind told me the name
like everything about this is amazing?!?!?!?! like so much so that it actually confuses me on how amazing, like I actually suspect you might be a wizard or something. Just the art and animation styles are so nice, and how everything is set to the beat of the song. like the timing and everything is so smooth and prefect. I could probably write a 5-page essay on how much I love this and it still wouldn't be enough.
I found out about TAZ through this very animatic and only just allowed myself to rewatch it after hearing the last episode of the first campaign. I'm speechless. The attention to detail is amazing, and I've really liked trying to figure out how any of this fit into the story. It never felt like a spoiler at all. It's just been an amazing experience altogether, and you brought it upon me. Thank you.
I watched this video before I started listening to TAZ. I had no idea what was going on for most of it, but the animatic made me interested enough to try listening to it. I just finished the finale, and I just want to say thank you for making the video that got me to start such listening to such a wonderful story.
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holy SHIT MAN
i'm absolutely COVERED in goosebumps, i loved everything about this. the art is incredible and the editing is amazing and the boarding knocked my socks of just,,, HOLY SHIT
thank you so much for sharing this!
Lost my shit at I could throw you in the lake line. Imagining Merle not sneaking of but straight up leaving made me laugh but does seem a thing he would have done. That mixed with I could throw you in the lake does sound like something that might be said to him.
69 thumbs up. Nice
This was my first introduction to The Adventure Zone, and what really got me into D&D. I come back to this every now and then and it's always still as good as I remember. Genuinely big part of my life, thanks for making this
i absolutely ADORE this and everything is so smooth and wonderful, i just can't stop watching it
best animatic ive seen in a long time! i love the adventure zone and i love this!
Like many in this comment section, I have never listened to The Adventure Zone but this song sure is a bop and the animation is just *chef kiss* mwah
Please, please GOD listen to it. You won't regret it!
I really gotta thank this video for being awesome enough to make me check out The Adventure Zone, one of my favorite podcasts now, and get to know the McElBoys
also, as I've watched this about a dozen times, just gotta say you can still kinda watch it even without knowing about TAZ. It can just be, like, the metaphorical story of a businessman being consumed by his hatred, or something. Still makes for a fun video outside of context, imo. With context it's even better, of course.
tbh this is what made me find TAZ xD
If u are planning on ever watching TAZ, I would not watch this animatic. Watching the end of this show and not having a clue about what was about to happen, it was the best thing ever.
TF is the context
@@gunfiend5175 The Adventure Zone, specifically The Balance Arc. It's a very good D&D podcast, back before that was a common thing, by a group of comedians. It's a very solid story with excellent writing and hilarious moments, and a few INSANE payoffs. This animation is based on it. I highly recommend listening to it if you get the chance.
It's funny, I watched this back when it had a few thousand views if that, and tried to get others to watch it. Apparently since I made the original comment, it fell into the algorithm vortex and now has millions of views. I'm glad, because it's an awesome little animation, but also kind of a bummer since it's a huge spoiler. Oh well! I see a lot of people got into TAZ because of this, so hey, so much the better.
I just finished the Balance arc last week, and I'd been waiting to watch this video till then. This was an amazing work, thank you for crafting this and using that song, it was a perfect fit. I especially appreciated it from 2:09 on, the quick swipes timed with the beat were fantastic!
oh my word???? the typography work??? the art??? the designs for all of the characters and minor characters and merle being shirtless and the song suites everything perfectly and john convincing thoe people to join him and the starblaster dodging the hunger. the hunger looks amazing. and im??? it looks beautiful, it tells an incredible story, and overall it's just really wonderful. thank you for sharing
I have no idea what TAZ is, can't even identify what's happening and I still love it!
My friend, if you haven't already, you HAVE to listen to TAZ. Trust me.
@@The_Echo_3-1 listen? is it a podcast or something?
@@wolflplushlnoice Yup! The Adventure Zone!
I recommend starting with Balance, as it's the basis for this animation. I had a hard time getting into the first 4 episodes or so, but after I listened through them, I fell in love. The first episodes, while lackluster, are worth it. They're amazingly important.
@@The_Echo_3-1 okay! thank you, I'll definitely listen now! :3
I first watched this animation when I was like, halfway through TAZ? I spoiled a little bit for myself, but I figured I already saw a few spoilers, what's a bit more? Today I finished Balance, bawled my eyes out, and watched this. This is honestly such an amazing animatic, it captures the spirit of the show so well! Things were so well drawn and animated and it really left an impact on me! I hope you keep doing cool animations like this!
@Eren Yıldırım You can find it anywhere you find podcasts, like itunes, google play, etc. I personally listened to it on Spotify
@Eren Yıldırım I listen to it at Maximum Fun's website, a podcast website.
Omfg only a small part of me liking this is your design of the characters
This isn’t animatic this is full on animation, easily the best taz fan video I’ve ever seen
Fully colored, always moving, always leaving room for the words
Holy hell you are a genius
Man this is fiiilllled to the brim with lore hot damn I should check TAZ out.
Demon Eon I just finished it and it’s definitely worth it👍
Has there been a homestuck renaissance i wasn't invited to? Because i see homestuck everywhere now.
ᛏᚺᛖ ᛃᚨᛖᚷᛖᚱ Homestuck 2 came out. Never read it myself cause I’m just tired of it. My pic was from when I was in middle school and I’m just toooo lazy to change anything
@@demoneon9527 no i know that, but even before hs2 there was an explosion of hs content
ᛏᚺᛖ ᛃᚨᛖᚷᛖᚱ then I have no clue.
I never realized it was a podcast! I love the graphic novels, so I’ll check it out.
Man, when I first watched this, it was near the end of the 11th hour arc, so I thought that the big bad here was from Magus' backstory, and that this campaign would end with a typical "past enemy has ties to dark forces" revenge quest for the most heroic PC.
I could not have been more wrong. I loved how this both perfectly summarizes the events of the finale without spoiling the important details and implications of the events.
The amount of people that have found TAZ because of this is amazing. Thanks for helping this phenomenal series reach more people!
Oh my god, Garfield the Deals Warlock has actual Garfield cat ears haha. 2:15
Nitpick - Gaming I think that's my new head canon, now.
I’ve always pictured him as a King Candy-like floating imp man, but this design works too.
That's almost how I saw him.
I can only thank you as now the adventure zone is my new favourite thing
I love John adjusting his tie, that detail gives me life, aaaaaaaaaa. This whole thing gives me life, I love the loop-de-loop of the words in that one spot and in general just how the lyrics fit the scenes, it's so great. Taako at "Or feed you poisoned birthday cake" is such a fucking good expression holy shit I'm so alive for this whole animation
I don’t know anyThing about this adventure zone stuff but I will soon because now I’m a fan. I chose the right animatic to randomly watch
Phatniqqaboolin it’s amazing
yea same man, respect to u
Yeah this convinced me to listen to it on my way to school each day and I’ve finally gotten to the stolen century part and I finally understand what’s going on in half of this song with the voidfish and John and most of the other stuff like the FLAMING POISONING RAGING SWIRD OF DOOM
i saw the title and context of the animation and i think i made the most inhuman sound know to man
I just finished the first season of TAZ and this is just such a good video i cant think of how to explain its just yes