Dracula | Part 2: The Longer I Live | Animatic
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2019
- For some reason, I had such a hard time working on this one. I ended up cutting about a third of the frames I originally intended to include, and there's some hardcore lazy backgrounds going on. I'm actually satisfied with the final product though, so that's good :)
Music: "The Longer I Live" from Frank Wildhorn and Jeremy Roberts' "Dracula the Musical - The Studio Cast Recording" (2011). Sung by James Barbour.
Tools: Apple iPad Pro; Procreate; Windows Movie Maker
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Next, Dracula desires some fresh blood ;)
S. K. Michels Oh god... he’s going for Will Smith
Your art is so handsome!
Please do please don't make me love you, loving you keep me alive, at last and always there a tomorrow!.
Please do: loving you keeps me alive, please don’t make me love you, at last you’re here, and I am condemn, for the angel you are, I’m really not insane, the master’s song.
Your next video should start with “Previously on...Dracula!”
Oh God I just imagined Hyde giving him love advice.....
Dracula: the love of my life is dead and I long for her every day...
Hyde: bro I fell in love with a prostitute after a week I cant relate
@@seventeen_nights7368 true but can you imagine VF's creation,Dracula,KGIII and Hyde meeting? Yo they be chaos mix Jevil and JD into this bull shit Joe many schools could they blow up?
Add King George ( Hamilton representation), and maybe JD, and we've got a real humorous horror on our hands.
@The Shadow gamer duh no shit! They both go out at night what do you expect?!?
@@snowyfootofwindclan8691 I WAS THINKING OF THAT OH GOD
Dracula: Cold hearted count who does everything in his power to ruin everyone's lives and is also dealing with complicated love stuff
Count of Monte Cristo: Allow me to introduce myself
Dracula: a creature of evil and immorality who literally takes your blood and then your afterlife.
Also Dracula: literally can't enter a home unless invited, dresses like a Lord or King/Prince. Dapper gentlemen vibes
Count of Monte Cristo: Ah, a kindred soul
I love how tired your Dracula is, almost like it’s a burden to keep on living. I also adore your design, such as the Jabot shirt, gloves that go over his claws, and the hair. Personally, I would’ve given him facial hair, but that’s just me
Alexander Smith
The design fits Dracula perfectly, you’re right!
I personally think that no facial hair gives Dracula this “forever young” thing. Like, it says that he can’t die, and can’t age passed the age he looks like, so it makes it surreal that he looks younger than he should be. It could just be a design choice. I wish I could draw humans as good as this. I can’t even get hands right.
Emma Wiley
I can’t get feet right lol. If you want my suggestion as an artist, start off by taking pictures of real life things that are somehow connected to the thing you like, (for me it was Vlad the Impaler, Al Capone, and other infamous people) and over time your brain will start making shortcuts, and things will get easier for you, and before you know it you’ll be able to draw without needing a device as a reference. As for the forever young thing, I agree, but I still think facial hair would be worked into it, like giving him a mustache similar to (again) Vlad the Impaler. I know a lot of people who are young and handsome (no homo) but still have facial hair
But his perfect look is deceiving for a story. He IS anholy abormination, Dragon reborn. Much like Hyde from this same autor must look as ugly deamon. I guess its just for make work on them easier, or somewhat of personal taste. But i feel like another look on their characters would give this animations fresh flaivour
I became a fan of the Jekyll & Hyde musical after watching your animatics...now, Imma get ready for another musical to love
Thank you for bringing these wonderful songs to life and keep up the great work 💕💕💕😄
I take it that your also a troll hunters fan due to the picture
Same
FOR REAL
Lyrics:
I've seen so many sunsets in my life
I should know everything there is worth knowing
But since I saw your face, I don't know where I am
There's no map that can show me where I'm going
The longer I live, the more I wonder
If I know anything at all
If I've ever been in love, I can't recall
The longer I live, the less I'm certain
That I have all the answers right
I'd give all my yesterdays for one more night
It's hard to make each moment count when you're alone
Maybe, that's all I need to know
The longer I live without you near me
The longer the empty years will be
The world will not turn until you turn to me
My world will not turn until you
turn
to
me...
Love the fact in the song he is like: if i ever been in love i can't remember. But he still feels like something is missing, and it must be his loved one. IM-
Imagine Jekyll took a shave on fleet street
And had himself a lovely pie, too!
Hell yeah goth book cinematic universe
I'll be honest, I found the first of these Dracula animatics this morning, and I was happy, because the most elegant gothic horror icon ever gets a kick ass sounding musical!
So Mina is in this case the one with light hair and Lucy with dark hair :) good to design known characters new :D I love the song and your animatic
Lucy if you didnt know was from the jekyl and hyde series
@@steakjakegaming6098 The material on which the musicals Drcula and Jekyl & Hyde are based both have a woman named Lucy in the respective role.
First Dracula adaptation/abridgement I ever read had Mina with blonde and Lucy with short, dark hair...this was twenty years ago, when I used to sneak the book home all the time from the elementary library...
In the OG book, Lucy is described with dark hair. Can’t remember how Mina’s was.
@@Levsa399 Mina's was also dark.
This song is absolutely amazing! The passion, the desire, the yearning...Its art. This song kinda reminds me of my favorite character, Alucard from Castilvania
Very fitting.
That lock of hair and the painting...is that supposed to be Mina?
I also think that's she
@EmilyTheVirgo Hmm interesting. This concept was used for the series with Jonathan Rhys Mayers.
@EmilyTheVirgo The original book mentions nothing of love stories indeed. The book is basically the journals and diaries of the protagonists. The story starts with Jonathan Harker going to Transylvania to meet the count because Jonathan was working for an agency and was bringing some examples of houses since the Count was interested in purchasing an estate in London
The horrors and agony that Jonathan experienced made him get some neurological shock and Mina Harker was still waiting for him and eventually she went to the Transylvania hospital where he was and they got married.
At the same time we have Renfeld who is locked into a hospital for the mentally insane and seems to be talking of a mysterious master. We see his case through the diary of his supervising doctor of course. Parallel is the story of Lucy Westerna who is slowly killed by a vampire and Abraham Van Helsing who is helping in saving her but in the enf she dies but returns as a vampire so Van Helsing cooperates with her three good friends to terminate her
Meanwhile Jonathan and Mina return to London and hear of the death of Lucy and when Abraham suspects that it was no normal death all of them cooperate to bring down Dracula. Eventually Mona is slowly fading too and so they stop Dracula in the middle of his trip and kill him.
Now the story pictures the Count like the devil himself and as a villain but there are plenty of questions in the book. For example if the Count was traveling from Transylvania to London then how could he be the one to attack Lucy and Mina as it is left to assume? If the Count was such a murderer and a monster how did Harker survive after seeing his three vampire brides and knowing the truth? Shouldn't Dracula kill him for knowing too much and then write to his agency that a horrible accident found him across the way? How did Harker survive even if he ended up in a hospital?
Many questions rise about this thing. There was a second book published after Bram Stoker's death by one of his sons or some other relative that was turning the original story upside down and it was pretty close to the story shown here or the series I mentioned:
That Dracula in reality was not a villain at all and that he had experienced some horrible experience in his life (and indeed I think it was about his wife being murdered) while Jonathan was a cheating scoundrel to Mina and that Van Helsing was a conspiring man that had nothing to do with the wise mentor we see in the original book. Lucy was not killed by Dracula but by some other vampire and that Dracula loved Mina honestly.
That book is said to be written by Bram Stoker himself and that it was the sequel of the first story. I think the second book relied on the fact that Count Dracula was mentioned as cruel as devilish and as a vampire mainly by his enemies. That's how we know Vlad the Impaller. By racontations of his enemies so it is quite possible that Stoker wanted to say that things sometimes are not as it seem. So it is this second book that rose all these media adaptations such as this musical or the series with Jonathan Rhys Mayers.
I was under the impression that it was his deceased wife at first, but with the help of @katerinaaqu that's been thoroughly debunked.
@TooLateToTheStory Hahaha! Exactly he WAS a meticulous vampire hunter in that book! Hahaha! But honest Dracula's mysterious aura was definitely great
I need to read that full book by the way. I mean the second. I have already read the original. That second book sounds indeed interesting!
It's such a shame that this musical didn't do good. The music and songs were just...brilliant. The passionate lyrics that show Mina and Dracula's love. Ooooh 🔥. I wish someone would've picked it up... 😔
So tough Dracula isn't so tough, ha?
Beautifully drawn, once again!
Like always, your animatic is brilliant! The climax of the song with him opening the door certainly gave me goosebumps! And who does the hair in the locket belong to? Who is the girl in the portrait? WHY MUST YOU BRING UP SO MANY QUESTIONS? Anyways wonderful job! Keep up the good work
The girl in the portrait is probably Mina.
OH MY GOD FIRST JEKYLL & HYDE NOW THIS?!?! I owe u my life
I swear, there is a musical for everything now a days. Though I won't lie, the song is pretty great! And your animatic is awesome!!!
Germans have a lot of weird Musicals... This specific isn't but they do have a musical about vanpires
I'm waiting for An Inspector Calls because it would help with my GCSE if it follows the same plotline.
Oh yeah there's a musical for any thing. I'm still waiting for "My bus broke down on my commute to work and now I stand outside a closed cafe with an empty cup."
I made this as a joke but now I want to see it.
This all-boys school near me literally had a playwright write up a script for Frankenstein that they performed. Still waiting for somebody to produce the musical :(
@@SairinEarthsea Me too :/ Maybe it's the atmosphere of this song, but especially the last part of your title sounds strangely poetic.
I can't wait for you to do my three most favorite songs from the musical! "Please Don't Make Me Love You", "Loving You Keeps Me Alive" and "At Last".
You're out here doing the Lord's work by providing good Dracula animatics.
Wow! The Wildhorn's fan in me is simply overjoyed! Thank you for your hard work and giving a new vision to all the songs!
I do hope for Mina and Jonathan to make an appearance in your videos. I don't know why, but in this story I always cheer for Mina×Johnathan (unlike in Phantom of the opera, where I can't stand Raoul), and can't help but feel for Dracula too. But you are the artist, so it's your call and I'll watch no matter what!😍
In the novel they're so adorable together!😍
I love "Before the summer ends"! Such a beautiful, underrated song!
Eso depende xd, los prefiero más en el stage...en especial el 25th xd, peor en la película no tanto
Darn my heart goes out for him truly. I just want to give him a hug, lovely voice and a face to match. But a lonely broken heart. Gosh dang it now I'm a blushing mess!
im always a sucker for our dear count and Barbour's voice is absolutely enchanting
@@alissaschlesinger1355 I could agree more.
You should do a manga of Jane Eyre. Your auster character designs would be perfect for that story!
Actually there's a musical of Jane Eyre if you're interested.
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 I was just going to write that! I love it! And it's also with James Barbour in it!
@@paulamusik2509 anything with James Barbour I love. Did you hear him in Wildhorn's Monte Cristo?
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 That's not James Barbour. That's Thomas Borchert for whom the musical was written. But you are right, they have quite similar voice timbres (which is the reason they played the same characters so often) and are equally amazing! Thomas hasn't played in Jane Eyre and James hasn't played in Count of Monte Christo. And Thomas technique is a little different. James is much more classical. He was amazing in a tale of two cities as well! If you don't know that one I highly recommend it to you! (It's not by Frank Wildhorn though. He just did a bonus track)
@@paulamusik2509 okay, thanks for the correction. Have actually heard Two Cities, quite enjoy it.
I’m getting flashbacks it’s a rectangular object of story importance covered in a cloth half the time
These animatics are so beautiful. I've become obsessed with the Jekyll and Hyde songs because of your work. My only regret is that I don't have the vocal range for any of the songs. 😅
I watched all of your Jekyll and Hyde animatics and instantly fell in love with your art style and the way you convey movement!!! (The way you draw expressions is also soooo amazing!) I just had to subscribe!
Makes you wonder, right? An immortal who lived countless centuries singing of love and that one chance again to feel it....sort of sad to think about it.
Teach me your holy ways, SK.
Hell yeah. This is my favorite song from the musical!
Thomas Borschert (certainly misspelled) does a beautiful rendition in German that I find much more emotionally evocative.
@@aubreyackermann8432 oh definitely. But im just a sucker for gothic musicals in general. 😅💕
Agreed. And as someone who plays Dracula, it chokes me up when I sing.
I know I'm late to the party but dear lord this animatic is *incredible!!!*
Damn that voice
Oh I love the Dragula musical and your artwork is impeccable once again, and excellent touch adding a portrait of Dracula’s wife💗💗💗💗💗💗
I gotta admit, even though he's a bloodthirsty monster, Count Dracula is pretty hot. He's literally the definition of "Hot villain with a tragic backstory".
Oh Dracula is one of my favorite musicals!!
Meadowlark R mine too I’ve always been a Dracula 🧛♂️ fan, and the song definitely captures the deep loneliness and mourning for his wife.
Do you know who the girl in the portrait is? I imagine the blonde hair in the locket is hers, since Lucy is a brunette. It's been ages since I read the novel...
Raven Sutcliffe In the movie with Gary Oldman Dracula’s wife would’ve been Elizabeta while in one of the novels I read I think her name was Camila or was that in one of the documents I read
@@drogo1913 Carmilla is a different (and older) vampire novel/legend. It's weird that Dracula's wife's name would be Elisabeta when his real life-counterpart Vlad Tepes' cousin's name was Ergsbeth/Elizabeth (pretty sure I butchered the Romanian spelling) Báthory, who was also accused of being a vampire. Legends are weird
Raven Sutcliffe I was going by whatever documentary’s along with novels and videos I could get my hands on. I was doing a research on vampires a long time ago and most of the documents except for mention of Elizabeta and Camila I couldn’t find much anything else involving his wife.
(unless I somehow overlooked it- )🤔
I’ll have to relook
A great early Xmas gift I woke up to this morning. The song was so sweet and I just wanted to cuddle Dracula and tell him its was okay. Again you made something amazing!!!!
I don't know much about the original story of Dracula but I'm guessing the person in the painting is Mina? otherwise another great work.
You’ve introduced me to three musicals I now love 😭😭😭 Could you please make a video or something about other fantastic musicals?
Oh my god the feels.
hello, hi, it is I!
I LOVE your animatics!!! I'm falling more in love with the Dracula musical, just like I fell in love your your Jekyll and Hyde animatics
Dracula: knows what true love is.
Jekyll and Hyde: Jekyll does Hyde doesn't
Jack the Ripper and Dorian Grey: Lack any knowledge of true love
I love the way you use the music and your art work together so well to tell the story.
You never cease to amaze. Everytime you make a new animatic, you improve!
I just love all of your animatics so much, you’re such a talented artist and you give love to my favorite songs and musicals!! I’m so so so excited for fresh blood, take your time and sorry this one was hard to get through! It looks amazing!
As always your work is amazing and truly brings the song to life! And if I may suggest a song for your next animatic series then might I suggest, "birth to my creation," from the Frankenstein: a new musical soundtrack?
Glad to see this return! It's incredible like your other animatics! Keep up the great work!
So was anyone gonna tell me Dracula was a musical or was I just gonna find out about it myself
Fabulous job with the cape, it looks flowy even in stills
Your storyboards are fantastic!!! I absolutely love this! I recently listened to the Dracula and Jekyll & Hyde musicals thanks to RUclips, and it fills me with joy to see how much love is given to this underrated musical!
I can't wait for please don't make me love you and the finale!
Oh God😮
That left me breathless! Amazing, wonderful work❤️
Perfect, as always!
Amazing as always, get the chills every time
Thank you so very much for your hard work and time 💝
Okay...but whatever you do!! YOU SIMPLY MUST DO SWEENY TODD!! I am dying to see your interpretation of the songs!!
You line these perfectly with my latest obsessions
Awesome job. I love all your videos, keep up the good work.☺️
I'm... so ready for a master's song animatic....
AGH, lovely as always. I yearn, man.
I want the next one so bad! I might be binging these animatics but whatever, it's totally normal anyway
Simply fantastic! 😍
Godly as always after this series will you do the count of Monte de christo ? Or little shops of horrors?
Im so confused by your turn of events. But im loving every second of it.
Ahh, this is so incredible, I love your work! Can't wait to see your next video!
I would also be thrilled if you maybe did an animatic from the Frankenstein musical some day!
This is amazing!!
is the lady in the painting use to be his wife? I absolutely love this it sooo good it gives me chills
Yeah I think so, in the story mina was supposed to be a reincarnation of his previous wife. And once he saw Mina Harker's picture or in this case her hair it probably brought back some strong memories.
@@mariableu8578 oh okay, I've been dieing to see the musical but I can't seem to find it so I don't know to much yet
@@alizeandrade8370 Well I watched I think either the German version or the English. Or both, but the German version should be on RUclips completely. Better than the English in some cases with the same guy here playing as Dracula, it's pretty rad lol :P highly recommend.
@@mariableu8578 would u mind sending me the link? If that okay
@@alizeandrade8370 I'll try.
Wow this is spectacular!
I liked it. This is beautiful and great interpretation of the song
Your channel has opened my eyes to many good musicals. And I'm Dying cuz I Never Liked Musicals Before This.
(Looks up the full musical)
(Sees the order the animatics have gone in)
(realises they have no idea how this version is going to pan out)
:3
Cut scene from _Castlevania._
I love it you’re really talented (I really like this one and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and I was thinking you should try doing some phantom of the opera i think your art style would really suit that kind of story.
I love animatic's, keep up the good work! 😊👍
OMG THIS IS ANAIZING!!! THE DRAMA YESSS!!!
I think you did quite lovely with this video. 🥰
Gorgeous!
Oo, another onee, I've been waiting
I fucking LOVE your work!!! And so far I love where your going with the Dracula Musical, it's another one of my fav gothic musicals so I can't wait to see how the next one goes!
Ok. This song, arts... O my God! I love it!
Marvelous!!
!!! I never knew you continuated this, I LOVED IT AND STILL DO!!!!!! KIZBEFLIBARFEPOFZHRE I'M SO HAPPY RN
WOW THIS IS MASTERPIECE
As insanely amazing as your previous works
Yay the next song!
Interesting with Dracula more reflective less bitey moments. Is that his long life shows change and he's learns enough to know just how temporary some structures are, and how much are understanding, empy, bored and lonely, or all of the above. Also, is that Johnathan's hair lock of Mina, is that Mina's portrait. I prefer the spanish adds to the two towers. I support socialism and and fed up with a number of pitfalls of capitalism, especially as regards to the environment. Skill share also seems decent to me. Thank you for sharing this with us.
YOO THE PERSON IN THE PAINTING... IS THAT JEKYLL?!?!?!!! THE GLASSES! THE HAIR, IT ALL LOOKS LIKE HIM!!!
Edit: you cant catch me gay thoughts!!
Yes the fuck we can bitch.
Plot twist: it was Jekyll the whole time! Or mina's husband either way it was a dude 🤣🤣🤣
You were expecting Mina Harker but it was me, Gay thoughts
@@KumaoftheForest DIO!
Beautiful...
This is the most beautiful song ever 💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️
this is really cool!
IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE IT'S HERE! DOO DO DO DO DO DO DO IT'S HERE! YAAASSSS!
Lisa: why don’t you travel like people do, you might like it
I love that he's this gorgeously tragic figure with a rich voice😍
I love this musical!!!
I LOVE HIM! IM CRYINGGGGGG
Yeah this Dracula can take me any time tbh
I love your style.
Great job 👍🏻👍🏻
The emotion of his voice of the longing of pain and the lost of his lover is so beautiful. 🖤❤️👁️👄👁️
Listen,
I am a person of classical and hardstyle music; I do beats and melodies, organic and synthetic, from the deepest bass to the highest frequency, and I've probably heard it all.
I've never had the ear for vocals because I just get automatic overall cringe reaction throughout my entire body, and so I avoid it utterly.
Disney songs have a special place in hell just waiting for me.
But this, this is bizarre, because it works, it's awesome. I don't get it because I actually like it? Whatever it is you did, I guarantee that nobody else on the planet, nobody of the human race, is doing what you do to make this.
Your Dracula music videos are very, very, very strange, and good. Strange, and good.
I'm curious; is the one in the picture a man or a woman (this is kind of important to how I will mentally see this story play out)?
WELL, THAT'S THE QUESTION ISN'T IT?!
Do you want the book, or usual adaption answer?
@@sigridhorn2408 Both would be great so I can make an educated guess.
@@katharinemiller9783
In most adoptions, almost all I've ever seen/read/heard, Dracula falls in love with Mina Harker, a young intelligent woman. Sometimes the feeling is reciprocated.
HOWEVER! In the original boothis does NOT happen. The two share a single conversation and a very traumatic encounter in which Dracula bites her, and force-feeds her some of his own blood, so he can spy on the men hunting him through her eyes and ears, which hilariously backfires, as she spies on HIM with the same connection.
In the book, at the very first few chapters none the less, Dracula makes three vampire ladies who want to "kiss" aka bite/eat the young JONATHAN Harker, Mina's fiancé (who is in Transylvania to sell Dracula real-estate in England, that's his job) by saying that "He is mine alone" (Don't kill me, haven't read this part in a while), and is generally very flirty, and even blows Jonathan a kiss the last night before his departure. Dracula is VERY gay in these parts and shows no attraction to Mina. So if going by the book, the person in the painting is a man, Jonathan.
original book, this *
@@sigridhorn2408 Thank you for telling me both versions.
Aaaaaaah I love this song!
Amazing