I LOVEE the minor difference in how Dave and John r sitting in the chairs typing at the computer. The small change in their postures say so much about their characters already
hey! i voiced rose in this and seeing all the comments live about the voice was fucking awesome 😭 i was so nervous lmao. anyways PROJECT S SWEEP! WE FUCKING DID IT LADS
1. i love how close to canon the art style is 2. i love the 'hand synching' when they type 3. the scene where john drops the urn is SO well animated, such nice movement (but hes lacking the silly glasses in that shot) 4. roses voice sounds far away? kinda hard to hear compared to the others (she looks so cute though!!) cant wait to see more! great project ♡
Oh i love how some extra jokes are smooshed in beacuse of the adaptation Like adressing the "retrive arms" joke and John being hesitant to capthalogue the nails
It's honestly a great idea, and how I always figured captchaloguing would work "for real", that you need to physically hold the item and _have intent_ to store it.
DAVE’S SHADES EMOTE??? LOL PLS DONT EVER GET RID OF THAT!!! I’ve been wanting to see homestuck get an animated adaptation since FOREVER and I’ve been DYING TO SEE THIS!!! Looking forward to seeing more episodes!!!! :D
Overall: this is incredible. It's extremely fun to watch, well produced from VA to animation. The urn scene is an obvious highlight (though the smashing sound effect is a bit out of place where the urn remains intact!) and I love that you called back to the original Homestuck book 1 with that upward angle of John during the note desolation plays. There are some odd omissions. Not mentioning Dad is getting the mail, not showing Dad's seeming obsession with harlequins, not talking about Colonel Sassacre, some other stuff as well. Meanwhile, there's a lot I would cut (though I understand why you didn't!) Cutting the opening scenes of John messing around with his sylladex may seem sacrilegious, but I think while it works in mock adventure game style, it feels too aimless in animation. Commands similarly work there but feel jarring here, because it feels much more than in the comic that John has no agency. The narration, however, fits in pretty smoothly. I think you could spice up the typing shots (which are amazing - the smoothness on the finger animation is brilliant) by adding in other planning shots of the things they talk about, like Game Bro, the calendar, the Little Monsters poster, the apple juice, zoom in on characters' faces occasionally, etc. It's not that those scenes are bad, and it would be wasted effort to add more complex animation to them, but a few interspersed bits of visual interest that convey information to the audience would go a long way and take advantage of the medium. Overall, this is incredibly impressive on a technical level, and I was smiling a lot watching it, seeing these scenes come to life. But I think as an adaptation it wouldn't necessarily stand on its own - you need to know the comic to follow it. Nonetheless, I'm super excited to see where this goes!!
thank you for pretty much saying all the stuff that i was thinking, now i can just turn my brain off and comment "wow the animation was really cool and this is awesome!"
I agree with everything you said here (which was quite concise btw), and wanted to add something on the captchalogue portion. Part of Homestuck's original writing had to do with conveying to readers more information than they'd normally need so they could submit commands that made sense and progressed the pages. All the screwing around with the sylladex and the in-depth tutorial conversation with Dave were excellent inclusions in the original comic, but don't really serve any purpose in this different medium since there's no active viewer engagement. With how long Homestuck is, it would definitely be wise to consider changes and omissions like this to ensure the final product is as engaging and time-efficient as possible. It's going to be quite the challenge, as the styles of presenting information are vastly different, but I think it could be done with lots of feedback. That being said, the foundation here is excellent, and I'm excited to see where this goes once they've found their flow. I'll be keeping a very close eye on this as it's being made.
I completely cannot see this making it all the way to the end, but my god has this first animatic come out well. I'm stoked to see what comes next, and how far you'll all take it!
@@quantifiedamalgamation The most popular part of Homestuck is the introduction of the Trolls. If anything, that'll be the part that people invested and that's the part I'd aim for. Act 4 I think?
Dude I’ve been offline for like a year and came back to THIS. I’m literally so excited it feels like I’m having a anxiety attack lmaooo, I’ve been with this series since i was like 10 and I’ve wanted this adaption forever
omg i love the mechanic detail of 'gripping' something to transfer it to the sylladex, instantly adding this to my headcanons OMG DAVES SQUINTY GLASSES
Man, maybe it’s just the fact that I’m looking back on something nostalgic from over a decade ago but John and Dave really do talk like weird 13 year olds, which is exactly what they are.
Recent rereads of Acts 1-5 have gotten me feeling that way too. People used to say that the Beta kids didn't really sound like 13 years olds, but idk John always felt that way, and the Beta kids in general seem to act like dorky young teens too. There's a certain silliness and the sense that they're simultaneously still kinda immature and prone to freaking out, but are trying to impress everyone and seem more mature than they are. It's especially evident in the exaggerated depictions of parental angst that John and Rose deal with. You can see that even in the hyper-violent, edgier trolls, especially Karkat, Tavros, Terezi and Vriska -- they seem more mature but in the context of their society they're surely all still seen as grubs. Maybe people just felt that way because the characters seemed oddly resilient to the insanity and world-ending experiences they were dealing with? But I think that might be because most of them are a little too good at compartmentalizing, and maybe because the early acts literally take place within roughly 24 hours. Maybe it's cause I'm in my mid-20s now and they all just seem like kids now, and I tend to think that most adults are barely more mature than teenagers or tweens.
This is amazing. John’s voice is kind of weird, but it fits him perfectly because he is also super weird. Rose’s voice was amazing, and Dave’s voice was so Dave that I cannot wait until he has a conversation with Davesprite. Great work!
YOU STUCK HIS HAND IN THE BACKGROUND!!!! Oh my god this looks phenomenal so far, I particularly adore the way you styled it, it's so on point to the comic while still having its own flair. Everyone did a brilliant job, I wish you all luck!!!!!
This was amazing! I love how a lot of the narrative was adapted to the new art-style-medium, like the whole arms thing at the beginning. I can’t wait to see more! Edit: On the rewatch I just have to say I LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK it’s so beautiful!
My friends and I recently finished reading Homestuck. So I've actively been looking for new Homestuck videos in 2023, and seeing Act 1 Episode 1 get an entire animatic is awesome to see!
This was an absolute pleasure going through it! All of you are doing an amazing job and it's really exciting to know such a thing is being created... It's super cool to see homestuck animated and it also makes some of the jokes land in a new manner. I enjoyed how the captchalogue bits were done, Since it is a UI thing I fear they would get in the way of a More traditional animation, but it ended up working just as well as always!
First of all just thank you all for this masterpiece, right now I'm just flabbergasted by your work. The animation fit so well, Dave having expression with is sunglaces, YES, LOGIC! The narrator tone/voice is exactelly what is expected. I'm going crazy it's so great, you've made a great gift to the Homestuck community and other in general, it's another way to approach the webcomic but such in an accurate way. I could continue to write a long praise but I'm stopping here, again thank you for this video! (PS: If you need French subtitles.... There is mysteriously a French traduction of Homestuck in my computer.....)
dude this is cool as hell please don’t let this turn into one of those projects where you animate 2 acts then halfway through the third act you guys cancel it
I don't think it's even possible to animate past act 5, wouldn't fault them either way. They're doing this from the good in their hearts, and they don't have to continue if they don't want to
This reminded me why I liked act 1 so much - the casual conversation between online friends, the nostalgia of being a kid in the year of our lord, playing around with the world, pretending it’s a video game… Happy 4/13 everyone)
much easier to digest than the comic itself, but still captures the spirit of it and the nostalgia definitely hit me like a freight train. everyone did so good!! the art is wonderful and definitely keeps in line with the homestuck style. so excited to see more of this from yall when yall get the chance to work on it more, doing this for the entirety of the comic wont be easy but it makes me so happy to see yall getting as far as yall have. i love love LOVE the typing animations and dave’s expressions happening purely with the sunglasses, definitely laughed my ass off at those because that makes so much sense for him. hearing the ending of the video (you have a feeling its going to be a long day) absolutely made me cry a little, i won’t deny it. my only kind of critiques are that rose’s lines do sound a bit far away, and john loses his disguise when the urn drops, but i don’t remember if the latter happens in the comic itself so maybe it’s just that lol. regardless, excellent job!! keep up the excellent work!! yall got this 💜💜💜
I know basically nothing about Homestuck except Toby Fox did some of the original music, so this should be really interesting. Good luck with the rest of it you all!
I had a whole paragraph typed out on the nature of the webcomic and why I adore these types of things, but listening to Foley on page 82 made me delete it. Thank you for working on this so tirelessly. I, and many others in this fandom, GREATLY appreciate your efforts on producing content for Homestuck, our holy bible.
0:54 Isn't Johns chumhandle actually ghostlyTrickster at the beginning and he changes it later to ectoBiologist to try and get the trolls to leave him alone?
wow they're really making homestuck into an animated series it's so cool man no like seriously, I hope the project succeds and I will be able to watch the entire homestuck as an animated series as I'm nearing my retirement in 50 years
I'm amazed by the effort that was put into even the first cut. I hope this is pushed to more people who aren't familiar with homestuck and that it gets the attention it deserves!
Honestly, Huge homestuck fan here, This is already exceptional. If you are going to do the full series, PLEASE take a break to admire how good the work you guys do is.
This is utterly fantastic and so well adapted. Me and my friend just finished Homestuck together this 4-13 after slowly reading it for like 6 months- it’s so exciting to finally see new fan content come out as it’s happening! And something as impactful as this!
This is by the far most competent and well-thought out concept for an animated rendition of Homestuck that I have ever seen. No one before has put this much effort and thought into what Homestuck could be in motion.
My friend Luna has advised me to not look for more Homestuck things to watch while I prepare myself for civing back into it soon (I only read a little past act 1 back in 2020), but this video has been in my reccomended multiple times yesterday and today, so i clicked it. This is just... freaking wonderful! And it made me feel things I didnt know possible concidering I am only fammiliar with such a miniscule part of the comic! I love that the voices are jsut pretty regular and arent very exaggurated, I think it benefits a story like Homestuck and I loved your rendition of the [S] page at the end, it was wonderful, upon re-reading the act recently I realised how much I appreciated that short moment of geniuine prose and this animated version was very cool to see Though I wish some things werent cut, like seeing dad outside the window, but I appreciate that you put the piano refrain of showdown in the credits! Thats great I wish everyone the best of luck with this project and I hope it's not too much of a pain to complete. Honestly if it were like this only a bit cleaned up instead of made into a full fluid animation I'd be okay with that! this is already so so good.
i just discovered this today and i think i cannot describe the happiness it provided me i was genuinely shocked when i looked at your team's sub count, and will be doing my very best to spread the word concerning your genuinely impressive work! i cannot wait to see more of you guys' content!!!
I don't know why I waited so long to watch this, yet it made me feel _SO_ much nostalgia (as it's been ages since I've read Acts 1 - 4) I can tell already this project is going to come out amazingly ^v^
As someone with reading issues who hasn’t read too far into homestuck because of it this is gonna be the best thing ever- can’t wait to watch ALL of it!! 😍😍😍
Idk if you’ve heard about this yet, but theres a read aloud series by Voxus Nexus you can watch as an alternative! Thats how i got into homestuck myself :)
On one hand, the effort and talent put into this is absolutely mindboggling! Massive props to everyone involved. On the other hand, I think this could benefit a *lot* from a bit more looseness in its adaptation, most particularly in the department of condensing things further. Not only would that probably make it work better in this medium in terms of flow and stuff, but it'd make things much easier in the long run (even if it would leave behind some of the work put into this-sunk cost fallacy and all that)-at this rate, adapting the whole comic (I'm unsure if you're truly _that_ ambitious, although the presence of John's retcon arm would seem to indicate that…) would take just under 100 episodes! (Lots of other comments with very good suggestions as well. Also, I really do hope you find this criticism (both that of this and other comments) constructive instead of frustrating-nothing should detract from what an incredible accomplishment this already is.)
this is so goooodddd, love the art style, the jokes, the music, great job putting this together! much luck with whatever's coming next, wishing ya'll love
I love that they actually sound like 13 year olds many homestuck voice overs make them sound like adults and it always bothered me it took away the teenage feel they had to their speech :3
You guys absolutely nailed it!!!! The voice acting, animation, writing added AH!!! I ADORE IT ALL!!! The backgrounds are wonderfully done, I love how you used the space and I know I feel like I am there in the house with John. Amazing work!!!
i dont know if yall will ever finish this just cuz its literally homestuck that shit is long but id really love to see even just 2 episodes i really like this project lol
SCREAMING CRYING THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST HOMESTUCK ADAPTATIONS EVER OMG, (second only to lets read homestuck) THE ANIMATION AND VOICE ACTING WAS TOP TIER
This is so incredible! Immediately brought me back to early high school days and the animation fluidity was beautiful. Not to mention the voice acting, the music, the attention to detail on the narration- just, screams!
WOW!!!! This is incredible, amazing job!!! That end scene especially so so cool. Congratulations on pulling this off, seriously. The voice acting for everyone was killer too.
I’m literally so excited for this right now, I run a Promstuck event every year with my friends at a con and I’m always so afraid Homestuck will be too irrelevant by the time we run the next one. Seeing stuff like this gives me so much hope for the fandom’s future! It’s so exciting to see new Homestuck things going on! Keep up the good work, everyone involved seems to be doing such a great job so far!
Hey I run the biggest Homestuck blog on tumblr and I'm gonna signal boost this to all the three people still using that platform. Great job. Liked and subscribed
Okay Ive been with Homestuck from the *beginning* and I dont hesitate to say this might be, if continued, it's ideal final form. I can't imagine the masterpiece of experiencing the entire comic like this, just, great fucking work man.
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Whoever autism2009 is, his voice fit SO WELL to rose
man idk who that guy is… he sounds kinda cool though (thanks!!!)
@@autism2009 damn, hope that you can find them soon *checks user* autism 2009
@@autism2009 Autism2009 when autism2006 walks in
@@autism2009dang, I guess we’ll never find who he is (awesome voice acting!)
Wtf people born in 2009 are 13-14 now
literally adore how Dave expresses through his sunglasses, one of my favorite style choices in glasses-having characters
I LOVEE the minor difference in how Dave and John r sitting in the chairs typing at the computer. The small change in their postures say so much about their characters already
literally! its so realistic! like these characters have personality
hey! i voiced rose in this and seeing all the comments live about the voice was fucking awesome 😭 i was so nervous lmao. anyways PROJECT S SWEEP! WE FUCKING DID IT LADS
You were amazing
LITERALLY THE BEST ROSE VOICE EVR U DID AMAZING!!
You did well! You need to better soundproof your environment, though. You know, to avoid the echo and reverb. Might I suggest a blanket method?
Joen sweep!!!!! You did amazingly!!!!!!
u sound great
1. i love how close to canon the art style is
2. i love the 'hand synching' when they type
3. the scene where john drops the urn is SO well animated, such nice movement (but hes lacking the silly glasses in that shot)
4. roses voice sounds far away? kinda hard to hear compared to the others (she looks so cute though!!)
cant wait to see more! great project ♡
Oh i love how some extra jokes are smooshed in beacuse of the adaptation
Like adressing the "retrive arms" joke and John being hesitant to capthalogue the nails
2:14 To captchalogue something you've made it so John has to squeeze the item, and he hesitates with the handful of nails 😂
It's honestly a great idea, and how I always figured captchaloguing would work "for real", that you need to physically hold the item and _have intent_ to store it.
DAVE’S SHADES EMOTE??? LOL PLS DONT EVER GET RID OF THAT!!! I’ve been wanting to see homestuck get an animated adaptation since FOREVER and I’ve been DYING TO SEE THIS!!! Looking forward to seeing more episodes!!!! :D
the idea of making dave's glasses change shape like fucking spider-man to make him more expressive is one of the best things i've ever seen
i love how it retains early Homestuck's videogamey nature
YOOOOOO They remembered to put John’s hand next to the Homestuck title at 12:18!
Overall: this is incredible. It's extremely fun to watch, well produced from VA to animation. The urn scene is an obvious highlight (though the smashing sound effect is a bit out of place where the urn remains intact!) and I love that you called back to the original Homestuck book 1 with that upward angle of John during the note desolation plays.
There are some odd omissions. Not mentioning Dad is getting the mail, not showing Dad's seeming obsession with harlequins, not talking about Colonel Sassacre, some other stuff as well.
Meanwhile, there's a lot I would cut (though I understand why you didn't!) Cutting the opening scenes of John messing around with his sylladex may seem sacrilegious, but I think while it works in mock adventure game style, it feels too aimless in animation. Commands similarly work there but feel jarring here, because it feels much more than in the comic that John has no agency. The narration, however, fits in pretty smoothly.
I think you could spice up the typing shots (which are amazing - the smoothness on the finger animation is brilliant) by adding in other planning shots of the things they talk about, like Game Bro, the calendar, the Little Monsters poster, the apple juice, zoom in on characters' faces occasionally, etc. It's not that those scenes are bad, and it would be wasted effort to add more complex animation to them, but a few interspersed bits of visual interest that convey information to the audience would go a long way and take advantage of the medium.
Overall, this is incredibly impressive on a technical level, and I was smiling a lot watching it, seeing these scenes come to life. But I think as an adaptation it wouldn't necessarily stand on its own - you need to know the comic to follow it. Nonetheless, I'm super excited to see where this goes!!
thank you for pretty much saying all the stuff that i was thinking, now i can just turn my brain off and comment "wow the animation was really cool and this is awesome!"
I agree with everything you said here (which was quite concise btw), and wanted to add something on the captchalogue portion. Part of Homestuck's original writing had to do with conveying to readers more information than they'd normally need so they could submit commands that made sense and progressed the pages. All the screwing around with the sylladex and the in-depth tutorial conversation with Dave were excellent inclusions in the original comic, but don't really serve any purpose in this different medium since there's no active viewer engagement. With how long Homestuck is, it would definitely be wise to consider changes and omissions like this to ensure the final product is as engaging and time-efficient as possible. It's going to be quite the challenge, as the styles of presenting information are vastly different, but I think it could be done with lots of feedback.
That being said, the foundation here is excellent, and I'm excited to see where this goes once they've found their flow. I'll be keeping a very close eye on this as it's being made.
So glad to be part of this, and I hope all of you thoroughly enjoy (and stick around for more)!
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Seeing John react to his intrusive thoughts was needed for humanity to continue
that was AWESOME, there's so much to love in this
I love how there is still the arm next to "Homestuck"
That John fella has a bit of a funny voice there
(that's my voice)
@@CorgisMax you did so good😭
:smooch:
@@CorgisMax I've done some voice acting in my time. Do you have a director? Are you all using comparable quality equipment? I have lots of questions.
@@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085 we are directed, and take multiple takes, I can't say anything about comparable equipment
"You have a feeling it's going to be a long day."
love how dave’s sunglasses act like spider-man eyes
I completely cannot see this making it all the way to the end, but my god has this first animatic come out well. I'm stoked to see what comes next, and how far you'll all take it!
If it does it'll take longer than the comic itself took.
honestly? im okay with it going just until they enter the medium, sort of as an introductory series to get people into the webcomic.
@@quantifiedamalgamation The most popular part of Homestuck is the introduction of the Trolls. If anything, that'll be the part that people invested and that's the part I'd aim for. Act 4 I think?
@@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085 Act 5 Act 1
THE SOUND DESIGN WAS SO GOOD FOR ALL OF THIS IM SO EXCITED FOR MORE
EDIT: YES YES YES AND USING DAVE’S GLASSES TO EMOTE A LA SPIDER MAN
Dude I’ve been offline for like a year and came back to THIS. I’m literally so excited it feels like I’m having a anxiety attack lmaooo, I’ve been with this series since i was like 10 and I’ve wanted this adaption forever
idk why but i kinda dig how the people the perspective character's talking to are noticeably less detailed, with them missing their mouths and bgs
omg i love the mechanic detail of 'gripping' something to transfer it to the sylladex, instantly adding this to my headcanons
OMG DAVES SQUINTY GLASSES
i feel like 'you are neither of these' would greatly benefit from a cut to johns dorky face then back to hands once it continues
Man, maybe it’s just the fact that I’m looking back on something nostalgic from over a decade ago but John and Dave really do talk like weird 13 year olds, which is exactly what they are.
Recent rereads of Acts 1-5 have gotten me feeling that way too. People used to say that the Beta kids didn't really sound like 13 years olds, but idk John always felt that way, and the Beta kids in general seem to act like dorky young teens too. There's a certain silliness and the sense that they're simultaneously still kinda immature and prone to freaking out, but are trying to impress everyone and seem more mature than they are. It's especially evident in the exaggerated depictions of parental angst that John and Rose deal with. You can see that even in the hyper-violent, edgier trolls, especially Karkat, Tavros, Terezi and Vriska -- they seem more mature but in the context of their society they're surely all still seen as grubs. Maybe people just felt that way because the characters seemed oddly resilient to the insanity and world-ending experiences they were dealing with? But I think that might be because most of them are a little too good at compartmentalizing, and maybe because the early acts literally take place within roughly 24 hours.
Maybe it's cause I'm in my mid-20s now and they all just seem like kids now, and I tend to think that most adults are barely more mature than teenagers or tweens.
@@PatManDX Teens are just big children and adults are even bigger children.
This is amazing. John’s voice is kind of weird, but it fits him perfectly because he is also super weird. Rose’s voice was amazing, and Dave’s voice was so Dave that I cannot wait until he has a conversation with Davesprite. Great work!
The Pesterchum sound fired off dusty old neurons so quickly I felt my skull catch fire
10/10 would feel incredible amounts of nostalgia again
YOU STUCK HIS HAND IN THE BACKGROUND!!!! Oh my god this looks phenomenal so far, I particularly adore the way you styled it, it's so on point to the comic while still having its own flair. Everyone did a brilliant job, I wish you all luck!!!!!
The music in the introduction of John Egbert was BEAUTIFUL
For someone like me who has a hard time reading homestuck due to the chat walls-of-text this is great.
I love how expressive Dave's sunglasses are, especially with the basic aviator shape being his standard expression.
I can't really put into words how amazing this was to watch
I just want those responsible for this animation to know, you’re going to bring homestuck to a new generation of kids. Honestly beautiful....thank you
This was amazing! I love how a lot of the narrative was adapted to the new art-style-medium, like the whole arms thing at the beginning. I can’t wait to see more!
Edit: On the rewatch I just have to say I LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK it’s so beautiful!
man, you really don't notice how act 1 stands out before reading the whole thing
amazing work guys!
My friends and I recently finished reading Homestuck. So I've actively been looking for new Homestuck videos in 2023, and seeing Act 1 Episode 1 get an entire animatic is awesome to see!
This was an absolute pleasure going through it! All of you are doing an amazing job and it's really exciting to know such a thing is being created... It's super cool to see homestuck animated and it also makes some of the jokes land in a new manner. I enjoyed how the captchalogue bits were done, Since it is a UI thing I fear they would get in the way of a More traditional animation, but it ended up working just as well as always!
brooo just imagine if viz media actually cared abut homestuck and put money into this project that would be INSANE
This looks like a really big undertaking. Hope you’re up to the challenge…
First of all just thank you all for this masterpiece, right now I'm just flabbergasted by your work. The animation fit so well, Dave having expression with is sunglaces, YES, LOGIC! The narrator tone/voice is exactelly what is expected. I'm going crazy it's so great, you've made a great gift to the Homestuck community and other in general, it's another way to approach the webcomic but such in an accurate way. I could continue to write a long praise but I'm stopping here, again thank you for this video!
(PS: If you need French subtitles.... There is mysteriously a French traduction of Homestuck in my computer.....)
French subtitles are out!
Words cannot describe how impressed I am with this, homestuck animation is always going to hold a special place in the OG fandom
all the characters just, aggh. the voices fit so much
dude this is cool as hell
please don’t let this turn into one of those projects where you animate 2 acts then halfway through the third act you guys cancel it
this is almost definitely whats going to happen
(not that i blame them; i couldnt do page one nevermind the entire thing 💀)
this will do all of homestuck i will make absolute sure of that
I don't think it's even possible to animate past act 5, wouldn't fault them either way. They're doing this from the good in their hearts, and they don't have to continue if they don't want to
I would be ecstatic to even see Act 1
Homestuck is longer than the BIBLE. There’s no way in hell they’re going to animate any farther than maybe act 3
The Rose voice matches so well!!! Good art, good voice acting, good friendships
This reminded me why I liked act 1 so much - the casual conversation between online friends, the nostalgia of being a kid in the year of our lord, playing around with the world, pretending it’s a video game…
Happy 4/13 everyone)
rewatching for inspiration as i draw, such an honor 2 be a part of this project !!!^-^
much easier to digest than the comic itself, but still captures the spirit of it and the nostalgia definitely hit me like a freight train. everyone did so good!! the art is wonderful and definitely keeps in line with the homestuck style. so excited to see more of this from yall when yall get the chance to work on it more, doing this for the entirety of the comic wont be easy but it makes me so happy to see yall getting as far as yall have. i love love LOVE the typing animations and dave’s expressions happening purely with the sunglasses, definitely laughed my ass off at those because that makes so much sense for him. hearing the ending of the video (you have a feeling its going to be a long day) absolutely made me cry a little, i won’t deny it. my only kind of critiques are that rose’s lines do sound a bit far away, and john loses his disguise when the urn drops, but i don’t remember if the latter happens in the comic itself so maybe it’s just that lol. regardless, excellent job!! keep up the excellent work!! yall got this 💜💜💜
I know basically nothing about Homestuck except Toby Fox did some of the original music, so this should be really interesting. Good luck with the rest of it you all!
I love the way Dave’s glasses show emotion like Spider-Man
I just imagine some kind of shading to preserve the mystique of the other kids' appearances.
I had a whole paragraph typed out on the nature of the webcomic and why I adore these types of things, but listening to Foley on page 82 made me delete it. Thank you for working on this so tirelessly. I, and many others in this fandom, GREATLY appreciate your efforts on producing content for Homestuck, our holy bible.
I love this so much. Seeing John’s tomfoolery brought to life through animation is all I’ve ever wanted (that, and Dave’s stupid shades emoting, haha)
0:54 Isn't Johns chumhandle actually ghostlyTrickster at the beginning and he changes it later to ectoBiologist to try and get the trolls to leave him alone?
yes but that happened in a flashback, at the beginning of the comic he’s already ectoBiologist
wow they're really making homestuck into an animated series it's so cool man
no like seriously, I hope the project succeds and I will be able to watch the entire homestuck as an animated series as I'm nearing my retirement in 50 years
I've been following you guys on tumblr and must have missed this somehow, it's looking great! I can't wait to see what you do next
Holy Shoot! Kudos to y'all for making this and Happy 413!
I'm amazed by the effort that was put into even the first cut. I hope this is pushed to more people who aren't familiar with homestuck and that it gets the attention it deserves!
really glad to have helped with this! I'm still pretty proud of all those cel shaded captchalogue/sylladex animations ^w^
I love that projects like this are still being made for Homestuck years after it ended! Keep up the great work
Honestly, Huge homestuck fan here, This is already exceptional. If you are going to do the full series, PLEASE take a break to admire how good the work you guys do is.
As a person who has been trying to get into homestuck, this really popped into my recommendations at the perfect time. Keep it up!
This amazing. It makes me so happy that people still care enough about Homestuck that you all are willing to make something so incredible. Thank you.
idk how you manage to make the typing animations fit the cadence of them talking SO perfectly it’s amazing
This is utterly fantastic and so well adapted. Me and my friend just finished Homestuck together this 4-13 after slowly reading it for like 6 months- it’s so exciting to finally see new fan content come out as it’s happening! And something as impactful as this!
This is by the far most competent and well-thought out concept for an animated rendition of Homestuck that I have ever seen. No one before has put this much effort and thought into what Homestuck could be in motion.
The start of something great.
My friend Luna has advised me to not look for more Homestuck things to watch while I prepare myself for civing back into it soon (I only read a little past act 1 back in 2020), but this video has been in my reccomended multiple times yesterday and today, so i clicked it. This is just... freaking wonderful! And it made me feel things I didnt know possible concidering I am only fammiliar with such a miniscule part of the comic! I love that the voices are jsut pretty regular and arent very exaggurated, I think it benefits a story like Homestuck
and I loved your rendition of the [S] page at the end, it was wonderful, upon re-reading the act recently I realised how much I appreciated that short moment of geniuine prose and this animated version was very cool to see
Though I wish some things werent cut, like seeing dad outside the window, but I appreciate that you put the piano refrain of showdown in the credits! Thats great
I wish everyone the best of luck with this project and I hope it's not too much of a pain to complete. Honestly if it were like this only a bit cleaned up instead of made into a full fluid animation I'd be okay with that! this is already so so good.
i really loves this, that said, maybe having the commands on screen (and maybe a mouse clicking it) would serve to help understand the narration
I thought this was well, or just have the text blink as though it was clicked. it would make the scene changes better I think
i just discovered this today and i think i cannot describe the happiness it provided me
i was genuinely shocked when i looked at your team's sub count, and will be doing my very best to spread the word concerning your genuinely impressive work!
i cannot wait to see more of you guys' content!!!
I don't know why I waited so long to watch this, yet it made me feel _SO_ much nostalgia (as it's been ages since I've read Acts 1 - 4) I can tell already this project is going to come out amazingly ^v^
As someone with reading issues who hasn’t read too far into homestuck because of it this is gonna be the best thing ever- can’t wait to watch ALL of it!! 😍😍😍
Idk if you’ve heard about this yet, but theres a read aloud series by Voxus Nexus you can watch as an alternative! Thats how i got into homestuck myself :)
On one hand, the effort and talent put into this is absolutely mindboggling! Massive props to everyone involved.
On the other hand, I think this could benefit a *lot* from a bit more looseness in its adaptation, most particularly in the department of condensing things further. Not only would that probably make it work better in this medium in terms of flow and stuff, but it'd make things much easier in the long run (even if it would leave behind some of the work put into this-sunk cost fallacy and all that)-at this rate, adapting the whole comic (I'm unsure if you're truly _that_ ambitious, although the presence of John's retcon arm would seem to indicate that…) would take just under 100 episodes!
(Lots of other comments with very good suggestions as well. Also, I really do hope you find this criticism (both that of this and other comments) constructive instead of frustrating-nothing should detract from what an incredible accomplishment this already is.)
great voice acting, and glad to see that it's uncensored, it is faithful to the original and yet has it's own unique charm. imma sub to you now
this is so goooodddd, love the art style, the jokes, the music, great job putting this together! much luck with whatever's coming next, wishing ya'll love
DUDE finally! I was begging for an animated adaptation of homestuck ever since I started reading it. So cool you guys are doing this !
I love that they actually sound like 13 year olds many homestuck voice overs make them sound like adults and it always bothered me it took away the teenage feel they had to their speech :3
Fantastic,
Just keep doing these with those sketches, it's a signature by this point.
This is it, this is the thing that gets me back into Homestuck
watching this was what made me read homestuck last year! I just stumbled across it again and remembered this was the inciting incident
dave’s shades doing the spiderman masks emotes is such a big brain idea im so in love with it
RECENT HOMESTUCK??? YESSSS OMG
I love the voices and love the art style even more! This so good! You really put a lot of work into this and it shows! Amazing!
You guys absolutely nailed it!!!! The voice acting, animation, writing added AH!!! I ADORE IT ALL!!!
The backgrounds are wonderfully done, I love how you used the space and I know I feel like I am there in the house with John.
Amazing work!!!
i dont know if yall will ever finish this just cuz its literally homestuck that shit is long but id really love to see even just 2 episodes i really like this project lol
brb showing this to everyone i know.
everyone comment for the youtube algorithm to boost this to high heaven
SCREAMING CRYING THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST HOMESTUCK ADAPTATIONS EVER OMG, (second only to lets read homestuck) THE ANIMATION AND VOICE ACTING WAS TOP TIER
What an amazing way to experience Homestuck. The artstyle fits the original story really and the animation is fluid and satisfying to watch.
This is so incredible! Immediately brought me back to early high school days and the animation fluidity was beautiful. Not to mention the voice acting, the music, the attention to detail on the narration- just, screams!
the madlads are actually doing it
Oh wow, this is an impressive project! Very entertaining, you made it flow really smoothly from comic to animatic/animated form!
WOW!!!! This is incredible, amazing job!!! That end scene especially so so cool. Congratulations on pulling this off, seriously.
The voice acting for everyone was killer too.
The animation? The voice acting? The goofs & gaffs? Top tier!! One could say.. god tier??
This was so good! Props to the great animators and voice actors!
I’m literally so excited for this right now, I run a Promstuck event every year with my friends at a con and I’m always so afraid Homestuck will be too irrelevant by the time we run the next one. Seeing stuff like this gives me so much hope for the fandom’s future! It’s so exciting to see new Homestuck things going on! Keep up the good work, everyone involved seems to be doing such a great job so far!
Hey I run the biggest Homestuck blog on tumblr and I'm gonna signal boost this to all the three people still using that platform. Great job.
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Okay Ive been with Homestuck from the *beginning* and I dont hesitate to say this might be, if continued, it's ideal final form. I can't imagine the masterpiece of experiencing the entire comic like this, just, great fucking work man.
i cant believe im only seeing this now. youre really reviving the love for homestuck i had that i didnt know what to do with.
You all are utterly insane for even starting down this road, but I have to respect what you're doing.
I cant wait for act 12 act 7 where vriska says its vriskin time and vrisks all over everybody
thumbs up to this hard work of effort, can't wait to see it continued