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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2023
- An exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders. The musical!
Also an experiment in pre-rendered graphics.
The name comes from a box of miscellaneous plastic objects my child has. Things that are not categorically blocks or figurines or anything describable. I referred to them as "gonks", which was pronounced by my then-2-year-old as “donks". This film was me making my own set of donks, and building silly things out of them.
Made by myself over 16 months, at WOMBOT @wombotstudio (a new studio, which is me and my wife, in our garage)
Funded by a lot of very lovely people on my Patreon: / felixcolgrave 
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The idea of there being leftover waste from a character creator is so unique and fun I love it
Ohhhhh now it all makes sense!
It's like the Windows XP computer with the DAW turning up in Throat Notes
nfts
Mi too 💜
It seems like it takes place on the same universe as throat notes
Incredibly playful and imaginative. Always a pleasure to see a new film of yours. Brilliant as always ❤
wow you here too
maaaaan go back to pibby glitch googoo gaga
the man itself
He is a genuine genius
@@oxfordkuvshinuniversity6702 I’m sure felix is a huge inspiration for animators on this platform. I mean he really is on another level entirely.
4:49 I love the little "eeeuuugh" before he leaves.
Tried to leaves
@@phuuc8075 but this one can't escape
@@VehemenceOfTheDemigods7712 That’s what he gets for insulting the Donks.
The interesting thing is, the submarine (or the people controlling it) was disgusted by something he himself created. Humans created the useless plastic and decided to mindlessly dump it into the ocean, but then tried to distance themselves from the destruction they created, until nature, playing by it's own rules, got revenge
@@toomanywhalesinteresting!!!
the submarine-whale fall idea is golden
Felix’s animations always have me wondering which came first, the visuals or the sounds?
fancy seeing you here lol
also ikr its so mind blowing, i love felix's short films, always fun to watch :D
The weed
The answer is: yes XD
I think he does both at the same time
moufronn
I just love how the Donks don’t just use feet for feet or heads for heads. They use every part for everything.
One of them literally used a shoe for a mouth!
@@Speakerlil75 yeah I wonder what sound that was
They keep eyes pretty consistent though
@@Speakerlil75 is my favorite donk
@@unidiotaconuncanaldeyoutub1629 Dogball and Noseshroom with his buddy are some of my favourites
After all this time, I've finally conglomerated the words to describe how this makes me feel:
This short has the style of an old Boomerang bumper, with the music presence of Plok!, and the thematic atmosphere of a dream I had where I lost my favorite stuffed animal in a bottomless pool.
PLOK MENTIONED
you just BLASTED me with nostalgia omg 😭
plok mentioned
5:10 That eye somehow makes it so much more unsettling
I mean yeah he's getting eaten alive by black mystery hermit-like creatures, with no hope for someone tk save him, or get him out.
We even see the light fade away from its eye as its slowly being eaten alive.
Oh my god, the dynamic transition from the comedic “submarine going in reverse using sonar tones” to the tense music where the submarine gets seized by the creatures from below is so, so clean and creates an incredible feeling
One is filled with wonder of ehat inhabits the depths, the other is filled with horror at the answer
when the periscope got grabbed, my complete and total attention got grabbed too
THEY DANCED ON IT
It also mirrors the beginning when the donks are dumped into the ocean by the cargo barge!
Every animation on this channel has moments that just really get me. So good.
I love how the sound effects of the beeping from the boat and submarine and the cartoon running noise effortlessly becomes part of the song despite initially sounding disruptive
Thats one of my favorite aspects of this film its so fucking cool
I also like how the short jingle creates a mini-action scene of sorts as the Donks pull the sub to its death
It's so good, you don't really appreciate sound design sometimes until it's so integrated
Wait the implosion…..
Donks
(Triondarkonus)
Donks are creatures that was discovered a few months ago, and scientists are baffled of what they are capable of.
Appearances
Donks do not posses its real form, as it covers itself in trash and garbage, somewhat related to some crab species, snails, or no-shelled organisms. Without anything covering, they posses a black form with sparkling color changing eyes, specifically two, and has the ability to change its size, mass, shape, and amount of appendeges.
Using the trash to its advantage, it is able to use them to make entirely different forms, seemingly able to change properties of objects
Properties
Donks has a very strange property, where they can go inside a Donk, and able to control it completely, and able to attach and connect objects, and able to make it float, and use it with any functions.
Ex.
A boot can be used as a nose + mouth, and the Donk now has the ability to speak and smell. Donks can seemingly change functions and capabilities, and these objects can serve as protection for these Donks.
Location
Underneath a certain ocean through a almost watertight hole where trash can go in, but not out. This might mean the end of the Donks species since if any water leaks out, they will not be specialized to then breathe underwater, meaning they are under (litterally) an excinctional threat if the water breaks through.
woooww!
Dont forget they constantly fight for other parts for no reason just to be perfect
Donks lore
Beutifull
Donk lore...
how could something so playful and whimsical also be so eerie?
This possesses all the vibes of a nightmare without actually being frightening. Truly a masterpiece
I get that as well it so surreal
It almost had a cyriak vibe, but instead of nightmare fuel its just abstract bouncy.
Idk dude it managesd to frighten me a little, that montage of the submarine being picked apart creeped me
Perfect summation
@@xanderkhan7943 I feel like it's very much inspired by actual time lapses of carcasses being eaten by marine life on the seafloor... those echinoderms are rather creepy when sufficiently sped up
that "goofy comic running timpani sound" transitioning into Breakcore/Jungle music at 2:42 is just beautiful!
I really want that part to get expanded into an entire song. I adore that part.
That's Penis Music BayBee
@@Grannatz001 OMG. YES!
so goofy ahh
@@marcocivalerian9099 true yall
*goofy ahh sounds*
5:06
Me and my friends when we see a bag of chips on the floor
nah fr
😂😂😂😂
That's what happens with my sisters!!!
My class was shown this at our final day in an internship with the Cleveland Institute of Art. This short alone felt agonizingly slow but rapid paced, whimsical but disturbing, all and all, a bad acid trip. I respect fellow artists as I know the hand cramping work that goes into these things one a personal level and I will continue to show that same respect. All I can say now is good job fellow internet user because I have no idea what I just watched.
I think PLAY might be a description.
Brilliant work Felix, you’re incredible.
You should do a Lesson on Felix’s videos
Yooo why do you have so little likes also luv ur vids
Oh hoi
Truth revealed 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Donks
I love how all the little creatures cheered for the big one as it sang, like they were celebrating the fact that it was the biggest to ever be made. Also the fact that the submarine was an organic creature, loved that
That one timelapse shot of the subs eye rolling back gave me the gnarliest chills
@@mackcollasius3690 they literally slapped it to death.
@@apollyonnoctis1291 LMAOOOOOOOO
@@apollyonnoctis1291 now i just imagine a thousand table slap Sr. Pelo noises coming from that timelapse
@@apollyonnoctis1291 No, they were just slowly ripping it apart.
I love how almost, if not every musical sound can be traced through movement or context of animation.
THIS IS THE BEST ACID TRIP OF MY LIFE!!!!!!
no but seriously the animation and creativity put into this is astonishing, astounding, magnificent, a magnum opus of art at it’s finest and many more exaggerated statements.
Keep up the good work man.
Little dude at 3:20 showed up and produced the most ethereal sound I've ever heard with ZERO warning
Talking donk doesn't need autotune
sounds like a npc in juice galaxy
@@sloft-70
that donk talking with a shoe for a mouth
a rapper that doesnt mumble
Felix Colgrave is one of the primary reasons I’m working as an animator today. So grateful for this guy’s work and the insane things he brings to life
@@werewoIf well that wasn't needed. Why do you wanna sound like a dickhead
thats rockin man thats rockin
Same
This is a bot
@@Tangarisu what
2:18 i just love how the music/sound design kinda just goes all Pikmin Breadbug like for a moment there.
Definitely a fun watch in its entirety tho
Breadbug transformation ahh music
When the breadbugs are out:
I love these animations because they feel like a fever dream, a place where you go when reality is just not there at all and the only things that you can see are just the remains of its contents, miscellaneous moving objects like plastic toys, devices, even some creatures and places that try to mimic something that would make sense but always fail by somehow getting carried away by altering things too much or simply melting everything together. All that at the same time, i sometimes wonder how these videos are even invented in someones mind.
Felix's animations leave you with a feeling of knowing and not knowing of what happened
The only thing i know is that that ending aint so good like how can you not see a HUGE creature trying to grab you
Im ur 666th like
@@humanhuman7280 periscopes have a poor FOV
@@crimsonhelios25 makes sense
It’s legit just like “ah, I see.. mhm… what the fuck just happened?”
How does felix create such interesting almost open-ended metaphors with the strangest of storytelling methods and animations... always a treasure to watch these animations.
Bowser ˙˚ʚ(´◡`)ɞ˚˙
All i know is that it takes a lot of time.
Is it a metaphor? Or is it just "nonsense" as he himself calls it? Is everything meaningful or nonsense? I hate philopshy.
With his brain duh
moufronn
As I've been recently rewatching your animations (As is customary every few months), I've started noticing some of the underlying messages of your videos. The fact that the messages are subtle enough to not be "preachy" so that the videos remain fun while also being consistent and nuanced is further testament to just how amazing of an artist you are. Keep it up!
What’s this one about? I know what the pig pen is
@@user-ik6dg9uk3u I believe it's about personalities on the internet. (Think of people who spend hours every day on Twitter.) Initially, you have no form, but once you start to adopt aspects of a personality, people can see you. The video starts in the early Internet days, where people had simple online personalities that were mostly experimental, but over time the creation of personalities becomes more deliberate and complex, until we get to the end with the massive conglomerate beeing cheered on by a hoard of nearly identical people. The submarine guy is anybody not part of online spaces looking in
For this one, I think it's about rampant consumerism and pollution. We keep buying shiny new things and then casually throwing them away once we're bored of them, and it all gets thrown out like some garbage - even though these things still have plenty of potential.
@@vicraiden3068 My theory was a bit different, but that one also is pretty solid
What was your interpretation, then?
1:57 i love the way that guy looks
2:13 box croc guy
2:43 WOOF"goofy ah running sounds"
3:04 ball mushroom and giant horse thing
3:15 how i sing
4:55 it was at this moment he new he ducked up
I really love the scene of the donk using the shoe as a nose+mouth and vocalizing. There’s something weird and adorable about it, like watching a baby learning to speak for the first time
Dude same here!
It would be more appropriate to call it a donk creature because it's composed of multiple donks
@@vectoraz1435 donklore
Truth revealed 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 i assume the creator of this bot has access to it's account so here's my message. Get a father figure
The scene starting at 5:06 where the donks strip the submarine down to its bones is super reminiscent of those timelapse videos of starfish and other sea floor scavengers going after whale falls and stuff. Those sequences always felt so eerie to me, they're a natural example of exactly the type of surreal horror this channel does so perfectly
It's reminiscent because it's meant to be. In the description, felix says "adaptive bottom feeders."
The eye rolling back freaked me out
It's called "whalefall" when a whale dies and sinks to the bottom to be eaten by scavengers which is just such a perfect and badass name for it in my opinion.
It's like one of those timelapses of ants eating food or something.
@@walrusArmageddon Yeah, that, and the way the donks were just tearing the submarine apart right before that. I keep coming back to that part of the video and it never gets any less creepy
ive been watching and rewatching this as well as other videos by colgrave for many weeks now, and like the many other fever dream creations of colgrave, it's so immersive and filled with emotion, yet so simple and goofy. colgrave's videos are a form of abstract art-wacky nonsense at first glance, but they illustrate such beautiful worlds that are windows to this mad man's mind.
This should be required viewing for all animators. There's so much more going on than just interesting visuals; this is a master class in character movement. Every creature moves so uniquely and expressively, amplified by astounding audio work. I'm gonna be coming back to this for a long time.
My guess is that the Donks, being mostly formless creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean, need to make bodies to inhabit. They would probably use stuff like shells and bones normally, but the waste produced by the society living on ground provides something better; trash that is thrown away into the ocean by the tons. The Donks are infinitely creative and can use the trash to make any kind of body they please, allowing each of them to be unique. However, they fight over materials because they all want the best stuff and can't seem to settle on any one form, and are even willing to strip a dead submerwhale (what I'm calling the submerine creature) to its bones of its metal. However, they are also able to work together to make something even better than what they can alone, by combining their resources and creativity. When one seems to be having trouble picking out just the right face and sings about it's plight, other Donks gather materials and help it build a towering form that amazes everyone else. It's expression doesn't change, but it's singing and enthusiastic clapping indicates it's quite happy with the results.
The Donks themselves, which are the amorphic black creatures with glowing eyes, are weirdly cute in their own strange, eldritch kind of way. Though the submerwhale didn't seem to agree!
That's a good one!
Which is probably how they made the giant guy at 4:08.
lovely interpretation!
Hmmm I personally disagree with the final thoughts - I really think the guy at 4:08 is really in discomfort, that's what the imagery and music feels to me at least (the screams in agony and the fact that his expression is sad and the spikes on its head are constantly hurting him). I think he was the only one to be kind of fed up with everything at 3:20 and he ended up being merged with all the other stuff against his will. For me the two creatures at 3:36 represent two big businesses / networks, like Facebook and Instagram, that end up being bought and merged (like when Facebook bought Instagram) and end up creating the giant creature at 4:01, which is a representation of capitalism itself (its feet are the ones of the two previous creatures!).
The appearance of the outsider submarine is to me the idea of alternative ideas that don't want to be part of this extreme capitalistic consumerism, but that eventually even they end up being trapped and consumed by capitalism itself - this is a very negative view, like there's no way to avoid and or escape it :/
I'm not trying to generalise 'capitalism' as capitalism = bad, but I really think this specific type of capitalism (the post-capitalism, extreme consumerism one) is not good for us. Even the giant creature looks like a DNA, like it's telling us it's part of us now.
What are your thoughts?
@@classicalmusicanalysis Really complex look at it, and a logical one too!
Marine snow and whale-fall ecosystems!!
Such a cool concept, thx for sharing all of your animations.
wait you’re right! the silly parts are marine snow!
this feels like something they would play in my grade school music class and never explain
2:42 the moment it goes from occasional rhythmic sounds to a full on BOP
That section was breakcore/jungle
@@Dorkish yes
That classic Hannah Barbara running sound into an Amen Break was magnificent.
choon
Goofy ahh sound moment
4:50 I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything as cool as a mechanical in-universe sound (namely, the Submawhale reversing, making beeping like it was a pickup truck) so quickly becoming an out-of-universe forboding musical tone warning of danger. They’re both warning tones with insanely different weight and fear.
It’d be like if a horror movie somehow made the squeaking of the rickety basement stairs and the violin sting of the monster appearing based on the same sound. That’s crazy effective.
That's a sort of reprise to 0:35 too.
@@JoseMat2953 OMG You two are totally right. Felix's done it so beautifully as always.
LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
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@@JoseMat2953 7
3:23 its a MASTERPIECE plus emotional
i really want this stuff on spotify
Can we all appreciate the bravery this man has to record footage at the bottom of Mariana Trench.
We’re gonna spend centuries getting down there only to find the Donks
Oh yeah, a toy factory in the middle of the Mariana trench
Yea
He went all the way down there to raise the bar
but its a living submarine, not a person
I love the scene at 4:50- 5:00 so much.
It's such a perfect reprise of the boat backing up in the begining; showing of how the shadow creatures have grown enough thanks to the very trash that got thrown in the ocean to take on such large surface prey.
I kinda feel bad for the submarine whale but DONKS gotta eat so
@@kcrelax3330 same
whalefall timelapses are insane
@@kcrelax3330 why cant the donks find any food in a black void tho
@@chaosruby9792 I would imagine the shadow creatures usually get their food from already deceased things that fall into their territory. It's just that the advent of Donks has allowed them to actually reach up and drag something already alive down to their level.
Oh my LORD this was a cool one. Its like if younger me playing with legos except the legos were sentient and had somewhat dubious means of existing. Even then I can't really describe what the heck I just watched, and that's an amazing feat of creative development.
Honestly probably my favorite of your animations so far!
Amazing.
Amazing.
I love how with a brief, wordless 30 seconds, Colgrave gives a reason unique for this absurdly abstract world to exist somewhere.
Truth revealed 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 bro the bot forgot to add the link
You mean the submarine?
Animation is stellar, but the sound? Absolutely genius. The vibes are so potent here, almost feels wrong being able to view it on RUclips lol, exquisite work!!
What wrong with it being on RUclips
@@Lumberjack_king It's free
@@Cye_Pie I mean he probably has other sources of income
@@Lumberjack_king Of course but what Corax meant it is that the video is too good it shouldn't be watchable for free on RUclips
@@Cye_Pie ok
Recycle, humans. Donks play around in dark spots, until they're found.
The dog donk so cute😍
Felix is part of my childhood,i remember whatching double king
The subtle horror of a submarine being scavenged down to bones is a fantastic way to end a video. I love how your 2D animation style works perfectly in 3D
same
It was being scavenged it was hunted and killed
BRO AGREE ITS SO SCARY especially the little detail of it being eaten alive, you can see the eye roll up, it makes me feel so gnarly
@@blacklight_sunset also are we not gonna take in the fact how it could not scream, it did have a mouth but I guess the pressure of the world couldn’t let it open it’s mouth.
It's based off a time-lapse of a whalefall.
I keep rewatching the scene at 4:51 and trying to figure out how in the WORLD Felix made these things a million times more terrifying in an instant. The way the sound of the submarine backing up calls back to the establishing shot at the beginning of the scene and then twists it into something so MENACING!! Genuine shivers
I got unsettled by it dying slowly while it is alive
I feel like for me it's the fact that none of the Donk creatures are acting as systems anymore, each individual piece is just devouring the whalemarine as fast as possible. The short depicts them as being very prideful and competitive (mushroom vs snail), but when actual food is available, it all goes by the wayside.
It might be the lower framerate and decreased inbetweens of the critters. It either brings up the connection to maggots sped up or the quick jolts of spider legs
Fr
Imagine doing your job as an.. alive submarine? And going to that place to check it out, cuz you were told to or so. And then, boom, something grabs your eye and pulls you down. Next thing you know, you feel solid, plastic and/or rubber toys entering your insides and eating you alive while you suffer in agony, screaming just for nothing.
..Just sit there and think about it for a moment. How would it feel if millions of toys tore your skin apart to enter your insides, to eat you from there? I don't wanna think about it anymore.
These are the cutest microplastics I've ever seen
OH MAN! The sound design in this one was absolutely amazing! Every piece gets better and better!
5:06 I love that it looks like those time-lapses of deep sea marine life eating a carcass.
That’s because it is
@@ILOVESKITTLESANDCAPARISUNS but ig in this case it's a "submarine fall"?
Well still saw it get eaten alive. Even its eye pupil went grey
2:42 🤓🤓🤓
same
Also someone has said this before but I love how so much of Felix's art revolves around ecosystem dynamics. He teaches you so much about these ecosystems in such a small amount of time
What?
Woah. E C O S Y S T E M S .
@@AqucideSUS Whats dumped into the environment spread around the ocean eventually leading to the bottom of a trench and into the Donk's realm, where they end up using it for better or worse.
This is now one of my favorite projects on RUclips! I’m not sure if there’s a part two, but man I’d do anything to see this world fleshed out more!
I really liked how the boat and submarine sounds were incorporated into the music. And this animation style was very interesting to watch.
I would absolutely die for a Gooseworx + Felix Colgrave collab.
the sounds of the shoe mouth donk really reminded me of some of gooseworx's music. Specifically the beginning part
YES
Hellllllll yea
I agree!
i think you wouldn’t be the only one dying. i believe we need to form a cult and perform ritual sacrifice to will it into existence :)
I absolutely adore how the beeping of the boat backing up slowly transitions into beautiful chords of music as the camera pans through the polluted ocean. Such raw artistic value!
And then you hear it again when the submarine tries backing up.
Same!
@@TrillionCakes but this time instead of being a beautiful panning shot, it’s more dramatic and sinister..
I hope Felix makes 3d printed donks which can be assembled into things like the dog and other and new characters.
How the **** does somebody even come up with these ideas. The choreography is unreal, the way the parts move so intricately and in TIME with the music nonethless. This is all made in a virtual environment...how does someone even begin to come up with this level of composition? Truly amazing.
Same thought lol
Wow the entire animation community is really coming together to celebrate this art, so incredible
Felix Colgrave is like a clown in a bathtub being pulled upstream by geese on leashes. You might not be able to understand the madness behind it, but holy FUCK is it interesting to watch!
At 5:10 you can see the submarine's eye move around frantically for a second and then fade to grey and become motionless. We are watching the life literally drain from its eyes
yeah no that was nightmarish. awesome job on colgrave’s end!
*eye
Yes.
Omg I didn't notice that 😭
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So glad that you keep evolving. Finding joy and inspiration are so important.
I found you through elephants garden back when it released and have kept an eye out since.
The era I found you in is my personal favorite, but I would never want you to go back to that unless it was due to inspiration.
I can express enough how important your work is, this is pure art
every time i see a felix colgrave work, i go "okay mr colgrave, show me some of the most creative fever dream type shit I've ever seen" and he never disappoints. it always somehow makes sense too, it's crazy
It’s equal parts wonder, horror, and sweet jams
I hope I'm not the only one who just loves the descending tone of the reversing beeps at 0:39 and 4:55 when it becomes so much more sinister.
I just made a comment about this and was looking to see if anyone else had noticed.
I love that it's not only the beeping, but the, for lack of a better tone, bubbly notes are mirrored too, with the second half being faster to create a panicked feeling as opposed to the first half's slow, calm sound
@@rogerwashington7690 SFX transition into song beautifully.....
Everything about this is so damn creative, but that specifically definitely did stand out to me
It gives me goosebumps 😍
i didnt even know that till you pointed it out. wow!
Your idea is golden
I absolutely LOVE your animations!! Have been repeatingly been watching them for the last 9-10 year by now ❤️❤️
This animation is like a love child between Felix and Cyriak.
Absolute god tier animation never ceases to impress me.
my thoughts exactly
I'd also add AndyLand who does a lot with the retro 90's era 3D graphics style. I love that Felix' style is always evolving
yessss!!! imagine if they collaborated! also made me think of Joe Cappa
Came here to say this, I'm hearing a distant mooing 🐄👀🙌
Glad I’m not the only one who was reminded of Cyriak by this one.
If I'm not mistaken, this is Felix's first video that is more or less fully 3D. It's awesome how you were able to keep your distinct style despite changing mediums! Looks (and sounds) incredible as always!
its easy to make 3d look good as long as it looks like 2d
@@cooldud7071 easy?
@@kumobscura3994 Uhh, yeah?
It isn't easy to make 3d look like 2d, but it is easy to make it look good by making it look 2d as opposed to other methods.
@@cooldud7071 orly? Damn. You should really go get a job in the anime industry and fix things then. The weebs have been complaining for a while
judging by looks and description each object was rendered from limited angles and then animated in a 2d program like after effects.
I just came across this channel, you got talent dude. I love all the bright vivid colors and the sound effects. I liked how the sounds matched the colors and the vibe it was giving off. This gives me memories of the Fantasia movies.
that credits soundtrack is ⭐MAJESTIC ⭐
After a few watches, it seems like the whole idea of the animation is that these creatures who once never had a voice, nor even a visible body, were actually given the chance to take on personalities of their own through these mounds of plastic, and by the end, are actually able to reach for bigger prey as well. Really cool idea that was executed perfectly, as always. Super enjoyable to watch!
I think it's just an outlet for felix to process the absurdity of prey-predator relationship: here we are in this globular object suspended in space, we dismantle each other and incorporate each others parts in our own bodies to grow and sustain ourselves.
if you look into his other work, you can see this motif of predation everywhere.
I felt like it was just kind of a hermit crab thing
@@bahayesilyurt9433 I agree. I saw some critique of so-called late stage capitalism as well. The two who start facing off with an attitude of "it's you or me", piling hoards of material on their backs with no regard for the intended purpose of the pieces, then charging at each other while a crowd cheers them on as though it were a gladiatorial event. Also, these two creatures reassemble into one towering being with the legs twisting into a double helix implying natural selection; the creature reaching down and manually separating the strands seemed to imply that the direction things take is very much a conscious decision. In spite of all the destruction and horror the survival of the fittest approach has caused, the pig-nosed colossus seems to sing it's own praises to roaring approval. Moments later, everything is observed to be in ruin. Given that they're all constructed of useless plastic waste at the bottom of the ocean, I get the impression this is criticizing the assertion that the "free market" is a living thing that will ultimately make the best decisions and that governmental interference causes more problems than it solves. The recuperation of critical observation at the end was a nice touch.
A lot of cyclic predation, yes
It's an ecology thing. Or at least inspired by what's going on right now. Let's just appreciate it for the art, why need to have meaning or moral.
2:43 is actually such an addictive sound, and the entire thing is so smooth and yet so random and by the end you’re met with such a horrific sort of fate I can’t stop watching
I know exactly how you feel dude, it reminds me of staying up late and watching those little snippets of old cartoons on Boomerang, or at the very least Watching the little animations that come on Adult Swim before airing a show.
Thats called breakcore lol, its music. No wonder its addictive
Goofy ahh
@@Salamandra40k penis style breakcore
goofy ah sound
I LOVE ORIGINAL IDEAS LIKE THIS
Epic musical with leftover parts from a character creator game 10000000000000000/10
I wish Cyriak and Felix Colgrave will collaborate one day. It's a crazy thought, but I can dream.
Yeah i got huge cyriak vibes from this
yeah especially 2:50 - 3:05
I want Gooseworx to be in this collab too
@@Sloppa813 I think she's currently busy with her Glitch studio show.
Add Jakov Burov to the collab and have them make a VR experience, sanity won't be an option after watching that.
There's a charm to Felix Colgrave animations that no other person or studio has ever matched. The surrealness plus the cartoony themes are such a treat for the eyes.
Immensely glad to see your animations back again!
Well I trust your opinion immensely, random person I see commenting everywhere, so I will assume it was a good choice to stay up past midnight for this, at least until I can actually watch it myself and decide.
Edit: So worth it.
I agree! I made my own comment too!
Indeed.
@@leandersmainchannel4493 well done :) and goodnight.
moufronn
All of his videos have a fever-dream like feeling and i love it
2:41
i absolutely love the little barks, and how the cartoon running sound effect mixes into the music. literally perfect
It’s scooball doo
Truth revealed 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
I agree, very smooth and satesfying.
The Goofy Ahh beat
what the dog doin?
I renember i saw the teaser a couple years ago and I was exited but then I got youtube taken away from me
now Im back again after finding out it was released, I can not explain my happiness right now seeing this
As a sfx nerd I can admit Felix is a GENIUS of an artist in this area, he manages to create an ABSURDLY tension within so few seconds, that’s absurdly incredible
idk if english is your first language but the first « absurdly » should be « absurd amount of » instead to make more sense
@@commie_dog_boy what
@@4as2i they didn’t use absurdly properly
@@4everinthe4d you still know what they meant tho
@@BLHLF oh ik of course I was just clarifying
Astonishing work. I'm glad I'm supporting you on Patreon. Keep creating art :)
entonces ahora quieres crear otra cosa que no sea minecraft?
Que grande el rich, apoyando una obra de arte de un talentoso artista :D
Un artista felicitando a otro 👑👑
Que inesperado ver a Rich aqui XD
Elrich siendo elrich todo un capo
Cyriak would be an appreciator of this.
I want to see a collab between these channels
the sound designs scratch my brain in the best way possible
I love how the goofy sound effects at 2:44 transition into some pretty awesome music.
true
That's a bit goofy
@@stupidstinkymarker just a bit silly.
Goofy ah type beat
@@glowyogurt wat the dawg doin?
remember kids, don't overuse your character creator
otherwise all the extra parts will pollute the ocean and drift below the Marianna trench to be possessed by bottom feeders
This is such a cool animation! It definitely gives me Cyriak and Purble Place vibes, yet it has its own unique style and energy that makes it interesting in a different way.
Has anyone else noticed that the tune in this part: 4:50 is similar to the one that plays at the beginning of the video?: 0:40 i just think it's pretty interesting and really cool detail that i have not seen many people comment about
Yeah
Here's my idea of Donk physiology:
Donks normally appear as formless black creatures with many legs and glowing, color-changing eyes. They can only survive in one place: a dark, near-watertight cavern beneath the Omnipresent Ocean, where little light reaches. Donks are vulnerable to injury and attack due to their bodies being so soft and malleable, so they attempt to cover their bodies with a layer of protection. Due to the massive dumping of garbage and used avatar parts in the ocean above (which consequently float down into the Donk cavern), Donks have developed a dependency on the garbage, as there isn't much else to serve as protection. Depending on where a Donk makes its home can change its capabilities, such as improving its sense of sight or touch. Now, a single Donk is not very intelligent, but these creatures can link to each other mentally (and usually also physically) to create a hive-minded colony that acts like one organism. It is believed that the larger a Donk colony is, the more intelligent and self-aware it becomes. Interestingly, certain Donk colonies have different personalities, capabilities and traits depending on the Donks they are made out of.
I love this, Felix needs to make a biology book of all his creatures and this should be included
@@mayonnaisequeen1513 Thanks!
Thanx dude!
Thanks for explaining 😁
My head canon right here
All of Felix' animations have this energy thats similar to an old pixar short. When there was no pressure to be marketable, and the purpose of the animation was to explore how much they could accomplish with the medium. Everything he creates feels like an audiovisual playground
Feels even more on point after the latest animation, audiovisual playground is a solid eay to describe the experimental feel and style
Honestly or Paint3D animators since there’s no animate feature. They’re, like, hand doing every frame
@@TheLinposterIsSust😢❤❤❤❤
I know that's meant as a compliment, but I think this is far, far better than anything pixar has ever made.
Comparing Colegrove’s work to an “audiovisual playground” is one the best description I’ve seen, to be honest.
Second only to “an equalized hodgepodge of creativity and weirdness”.
Better than what Disney makes these days
Hermit crabs will sometimes use trash, like large bottle caps, as shells; they also frequently fight over shells; the creatures in the video are like advanced hermit crabs
I love how the people who caused the problem scoff at it, and then when it finally effects them that's when they start caring about what is going on. The fish eating a corpse timelapse was a great touch as well.
Reminds me to the news that scientists found a plastic bag in the Mariana trench and there surely is more after all this time
The ending scene actually occurd irl, it's a whale fall, and happens when a whale corpse sinks to the bottom of the sea to be picked clean by bottom feeders and such (also bone worms)
This is definitely gonna like one of those kinda animations everyone has watched in their childhood somewhere in the future I believe
I’m not so old that I don’t remember watching his earlier animations as a kid. I have simply kept following along. I hope more people are exposed to this art as time continues.
@@Numbabu you mean to tell me you haven't watched double king?? It's so cool I like the concept and it's what I remember most from him, like I literally just found out he made that
@@dr.random239 of course I did hehe. I have kept up. I have seen every video on this channel, since there aren’t too many. But I started with the ones that were posted like 9 years ago, and then coming back more recently I watched all the new stuff. And then rewatched it. Elephant’s garden and double king are top class, but I’m also very happy I was here day one for throat notes and now this one! I am a more active fan than I used to be and I intend to keep it that way.
@@Numbabu ohhh I see what you mean, yeah his animations have always been so good
This perfectly looks and feels like something I consumed as a kid.
I don't understand how your pipeline worked, but this was amazing.
Thanks for making it.
There simply is no drug that compares to Felix Colgrave.
These animations are just the purest form of imagination and I live for it
I was gonna say psychosis but yea. One in the same really If you squint enough
Animagination?
I love how they made the final bit at the end with the submarine so similar to how a whale carcass is eaten at the bottom of the sea floor.
Yeah it’s both terrifying and fascinating
Oooooooo it's also like watching a Temponaut Timelapse video
Whale fall
Yeah, but that whale was alive, and eaten alive
@@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 yeah
Your animations are always soothing to me. The weirdness of them is actually my brain. A sense of childless and madness. Mixed with calm and purpose. Never would I think I’d find someone who can recreate my mind and it’s beautiful.
chaotic.
it got me even scared in the chase scenes necause of how sudden it was