Holy cow I never thought my freshman year storyboard final would ever reach half a million views…Thank you all. 4 years and one pandemic later I’m finally graduating with my BFA. I hope to never stop making.
Honestly yoy are one of creators that got me into animation! So glad your animation got so popular! Congrats on graduations! (Liking just now because it is my second account, and recently i searched up old videos I used to watch like maniac)
Reminder that the “change” is literally his lungs, when the boys ripped open the machine they LITERALLY ripped his lungs apart, along with his face, then vandalized his body
I think what you mean is the change is his air since when the arcade stops being all popular he says it’s hard to breathe I think the change box is his lungs
@@Fionacle You are right, I’ve only seen one other one where it doesn’t have a face or eye of some sort and it also is pretty good, although this one depicts it as basically the Projectionist from Bendy And The Ink Machine but with an arcade cabinet head instead of a projector head, I’ll link it here if you wanna watch it (don’t worry I don’t Rick Roll, I like them but I don’t do it myself):
The idea that his consciousness is so intact that he can make decisions and be completely aware of his surroundings while his body rots and decomposes in the machine is the best take of this i’ve scene. The blood with the skeleton seems to imply that the wires have become like a vascular system, the machine is a like secondary living body holding on to his mind while his corpse lays dead inside. I just love this concept, it’s the creepiest version
When you realised this guy is consciously murdering dozens of people while he sits there, idk there something about the idea of a machine being fully conscience with working organs inside that are binder with the electronics that always disturbs but at the same time I love it.
I’d say this is probably the only animatic that explains exactly what happened as the others just don’t explain how he’s in the machine. Edit: on a random note this is probably the most popular comment I have so kudos :)
I’m commenting this at nearly 1 am but I just saw that this hit 10,000 and I can’t thank everyone who’s sat through the video and enjoyed my work. It means the world to me.
@@ifunny4442 Oh gosh it wasn't, if ANYTHING it was an insult to RUclips's terrible "automated" captions which don't even try. It was my fault for not checking sooner after posting tho haha.
this doesnt even look like a animatic. the lines are so crisp and professional. i love this so much and your effort shows in it greatly. you are an amazing artist. keep ip the good work.
Invader Zimmy [Sara Corso] I’ve actually gotten a few comments about it feeling FNAF like funnily enough!! As much as I appreciate the creativity of that series, a lot of inspiration for this project came from the works of comic book horror artists/illustrators (mainly Laurie Lipton because of her biomechanical themes and Junji Ito because of his amazing use of timing scares within his stories). If you enjoy a good scare, give them a search! Do be warned they get quite gruesome, but if you like FNAF’s darker themes I’m sure you’ll be fine!
I mean the quality of art isn't what makes it an animatic or not, the purpose of animatics is to define the timing for a full animation, kinda like a storyboard
@@kittenartist8908 I mean, the story itself is based on Polybius. But I guess more popular things are gonna be what people think other things are referencing.
there is no doubt this is one of the best fan animations for spirit phone. the lines, the extra character given to the narrator, the fluidity of it, EVERYTHING brings it together to be such a perfect fit for the song. you have a load of talent!
This is one of the only few animations that actually give it some justice, and I love it because Cabinet Man was the first Lemon Demon song I heard, making me fall in love with Neil's songs
I’m so glad I could give you a good portrayal of such an awesome song!! My first exposure to Lemon Demon was Touch-Tone Telephone but Cabinet man is my honest to goodness favorite next to Eighth Wonder probubly!
With this interpretation's blank eye pictures, I also imagined he can kind of hypnotize people so that they don't care as much about all the weird stuff as they should, but this ability wasn't strong enough to keep people interested in him indefinitely.
I have a small head-cannon that at 3:43 the little disturbance in his voice is him using the machine's speaker system to actually start talking so they goons can hear everything he says from then on making it 10x more terrifying
The “Cabinet Boy” at 2:56 is genius, and I loved the blood on their sneakers part. It’s by far the coolest interpretation of what the story would look like!
The ending on this makes it better than my original headcanon where in the end the guys who were destroying him got dragged into the machine and had to play the game for eternity until they beat the whole machine and get pulled into place with the main character.
Bro I remember seeing this Xmas eve and being really upset the next day cause I couldn’t find it. Glad you got everything sorted. I love how well done this is! Keep up the good work!
For me the ending part of the song where he gets broken is just one guy who breaks in and takes his shit. As he is walking away he sees the blood on his shoe. A fist rises from the broken screen and an inhuman combination of wires, flesh, and bone. The monster chases the man down until he tackles him and as the "Duh duh duh duh duh dah" part is what the monster is yelling as he caves in the man's head with the crowbar, swinging to the beat.
Lyrics: The day they found me, I hadn't yet been played Inside my workshop behind the old arcade Electric desires had unraveled all my wires Now I'm in the box for safekeeping The news reporters reported that I died But all my organs were living on inside Circuit board to brain with two lungs collecting change One big human heart gently beeping You can't win me, I can't be beat I won't hurt you unless you cheat You can't see me behind the screen I'm half human and half machine Thank God for business, they let me take the floor I stood so proudly, like I was going to war Players soon appeared and I quickly was revered This must be what love would have felt like Such dedication, they came from miles away With eyes so piercing, they'd wait their turn to play In perfect patient lines because I was in their minds I could do whatever I felt like (Whatever I felt like) You can't win me, I can't be beat I won't hurt you unless you cheat You can't see me behind the screen I'm half human and half machine I'm happy for years and years And only eating the occasional maintenance man Only driving a few kids to madness Maybe they were predisposed to madness, who knows? I only want to have fun But now they're telling me my days here are done 'Cause there's a little tiny box they make in Japan And pretty soon it's gonna fit in your hand It's getting lonely, it's getting hard to breathe The arcade's empty, I think it's Christmas Eve Someone's broken in, now they're painting on my skin Breaking me and taking my quarters Bashing in my face with a crowbar Kicking me and pushing me over Now they see my blood on their sneakers You can't win me, I can't be beat I won't hurt you unless you cheat You can't see me behind the screen I'm half human and half machine
This truly deserves more attention! every character looks so unique and you firmed up the story to this song in a very satisfying way. Also, the Cabinet Man's skeleton at the end was such a light touch but it was unnerving in the best way.
Vynnie No shame! I honestly admire FNAF in some ways for being such a unique idea for a horror game, and the fella who worked on it deserves props for being a one man developer!
@@p0rtalsg4ming59 I heard about that! I think specifically I remember hearing Jim Sterling comparing his earlier games to Chuck-E-Cheese animatronics and Scott Cawthon took his criticism and it inspired FNAF? If I'm remembering the story right?
This animatic is amazing! Ive been listening to this song so often recently that i kind of forgot what it felt like to hear it for the first time? But the visual storytelling in this animatic really helped me relive that vividly. Especially the beginning, which is not a thing many other animatics really ruminate on, but you did, which was really cool.
This is a really tiny detail but i am in LOVE with how the lyrics/captions go into full capitalization in the last chorus. Just the static shot of the broken machine, slowly zooming in, is SO cryptic. The shot where you realize again that it’s (half) human.
@@Agpicklefeet i have captions on for everything, and I think it’s really cool when people put effort and time into captions as much as they do with art/animation. very cool and awesome
This is still my favorite visualization of this song. The depiction of the person inside, the white eyes, the cords wrapping around people, the skull at the end... iconic
I love how the song was interpreted and twisted right at the end. It feels like the cabinet was keeping a promise yet with animated context turned it into a threat.
I’ve listened to this song so many times but 3:35 was the first time that part gave me chills. The storytelling with this is uncanny, and the way the shots are framed is really clever. I can’t wait to see more of your style!
I like how this showed him actively allowing for the arcade machine to function by controlling it with his ‘computer’. I wish more people would do this.
Wrote an entire character based off of this song. Here's their prompt: Evil, but tends to only attack if provoked. This character died but was brought back with a glitch of sorts. They could enter digital realms. They decided to become the character of their own game for a little while but eventually started driving people playing it into madness once they got bored. They managed to escape their own realm and now torment people by traumatizing them via every game they play until they descend into madness. If someone tries to stop them by destroying their device, hacking, or other means, they're found dead the next day with a note simply saying "Game over". Thoughts?
when I heard "my organs were moving on its own" and "I was in the box for safe keeping" from the song, I thought that he meant that his organs were inside the arcade cabinet.
this is so incredibly professional that it blows my mind it was just made for fun. this serves as a lot of inspiration to get started on animatics of my own. thank you so much for this!
just watched this like the fifth time and it was the first time id actually caught the face in the hole in the screen. dunno if i was just to focused on the blood or the song lmao. but then again this time i was watching *and* playing it on my ukulele so idk man
i never payed too much to lyrics when the chorus came up with the line "you can't see me behind the screen" i for some reason always imagined a wizard of oz kind of thing "pay no attention to the man behind the sheet". but with this animatic being.. basically a 1 to 1 translation of the lyrics i probably won't be able to unhear them now while listening in the future
@@Agpicklefeet ok so just out of curiosity, how did he do it himself?? also you did a great job on this, he seems like the perfect guy to do something like that for some reason lmao
i think the reason why he says later in the song that it’s getting hard to breathe, is because his lungs are the change collectors, but no one is there to remove the change anymore
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I CAME BACK HERE BC I WANTEDTO SHARE YOUR THESIS VIDEO THEN I SAW THIS OF COURSE YOU LIKE LEMON DEMON AND HOLY FFF SOMEONE NEEDED TO ANIMATE THIS SONG SO THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jack hes lego maniac Oh man, considering I did this as a final the work load was pretty stressful! The pre-production was done over the course of about a month but I ended up doing the bulk of the work within about a week and a half! I do not recommend this kind of stressful time constraint, but I am very proud of the final product! I’m glad you enjoyed it, it really makes the hard work pay off!
@@sealbeegle9785 after months of rethinking my life choices and coming back to this video having forgotten that I commented this let me explain what I meant: the dude looks kinda cute in a greasy man that doesn't ever get out of his house kinda way, so I used the word incel to encompass that vibe. Hes cute but I would also like to bully him
I will never be over the fact that supposedly the inspiration for this was Polybius and it now haunts me more than before Also this is the best animation for Cabinet Man I've ever seen and I'm honestly kinda shocked by the whole thing because its almost exactly like the animatic I had planned
This animation literally clarified some of the lyrics and events in the song to me. Amazingly made, very creative and has a lovely style! Loved the "CabinetBoy" detail too!
I found out about this video like a yesterday, I love the execution of the story. However, I have question: What is going on during 2:33 - 2:34, where Cabinet Man is gripping a screwdriver? He is in the machine at this time, correct? He seems upset, for some reason? Is he not happy about fulfilling his "electric desires"? Is he feeling some regrets over his decision? He said that he was "happy for years and years" after that over that one part of the song, but how much of that is true?
SO my idea was that scene as well as the others that take place in the workshop are all flashbacks of him progressively turning himself into a machine. The scene you mention 2:33 - 2:34 , I imagine takes place as he's grappling with the decision to sacrifice most of his body to become the Cabinet Man as we know him (before he's confined himself in there). Although this is my original interpretation, I do like to implement death of the author; so I'd love to hear your thoughts!
@@Agpicklefeet Oh ok, That makes alot more sense. I always thought that the other scenes were him already in the machine playing against other people, but it makes alot more sense that they were flashbacks working on becoming Cabinet Man. Along with "this was what Love must have felt like", I also thought it was him receiving positive attention upon when he was revealed at the arcade.But I'm guessing that was another flashback and monitoring his heart to see if it was compatible/working with his modified cabinet.
My favourite part of this song is "Now they see my blood ... on their sneakers" followed by the Reveal, so a massive thank you for doing it justice!! Not only is the visual of an arcade machine wounded & bleeding so compelling, but the reveal of the skeleton (& implied amalgamation) was just 😙👌 When the cables turned prehensile to exact vengeance, I audibly went "FUCK YES", it was SUPERB. Transcend the limitations of form, babey!! "I'm half human and half machine" and all monster!! I LOVE what u did with this animatic & the creative choices u made to convey the story. Keep it up, ur incredibly talented! 🌟
This is absolutely flawless in every single way and I hope it gets animated in full some day. The only change I would make is adding a subtle detail to the workshop at the beginning in the background: A draft letter. The line in the song "I stood so proudly, like I was going to war!" always struck me as a bit odd in regards to the rest of the song, and I know I'm looking waaaay too far into this but considering the time frame this song takes place in has to be somewhere between the late 70's and early 80's (the Famicon, or"tiny little box in Japan" came out 1983), and the draft was reinstated in 1980, it'd make sense if getting a draft letter was the final push Cabinet Man needed to act upon his "electric desires". In my theorized time frame for the song he probably converts himself sometime in 1980 after recieving a draft letter, and he was active until 1983 when the video game crash killed most arcades and the NES would have been launched. HOWEVER he also mentions the Gameboy specifically, but does point out it will come out "pretty soon", so absolute best case scenario the arcade started declining in '83 and was basically abandoned by like '87 or '88. TL;DR: Cabinet Man is a draft dodge, yo.
I was terrified of receiving such a long comment under my video, but I am...Genuinely in love with that theory. The idea that he's escaping possibly dying in a war by faking his own death and becoming a machine is...damn thats GOOD!
@@Agpicklefeet Ha ha, sorry my long comment scared you, I tend to rant. Fantastic video, by the way! I must've watched this like two dozen times, love all the character and detail!
ive always imagined him as being a bunch of disembodied human organs wired to the inner workings of the machine, so he no longer needs to eat or anything and can live as long as the machine is there. basically his most important body parts are still there, and the cabinet is his body
For sure about the keeping important parts (head, heart lungs), but I think we know he needs to eat by the fact of all the eating of the maintenance men- sadly.
@@Agpicklefeet he says he only ate "the occasional" maintenance man, so i assume he either does it for fun or doesnt need to eat often to stay alive. after all, his lungs are being constantly filled with quarters so i would think he doesnt actually need very much to live seeing as how his oxygen supply is constantly being reduced
Holy cow I never thought my freshman year storyboard final would ever reach half a million views…Thank you all. 4 years and one pandemic later I’m finally graduating with my BFA. I hope to never stop making.
Honestly yoy are one of creators that got me into animation! So glad your animation got so popular! Congrats on graduations!
(Liking just now because it is my second account, and recently i searched up old videos I used to watch like maniac)
u deserved it!
Reminder that the “change” is literally his lungs, when the boys ripped open the machine they LITERALLY ripped his lungs apart, along with his face, then vandalized his body
And the fact he’s dying cause of lack of players cause his lungs collect change
I think what you mean is the change is his air since when the arcade stops being all popular he says it’s hard to breathe
I think the change box is his lungs
I still don't think they deserved death.
@@elliot._.119 hi, thought I'd leave a reply on the comment, if anyone else than Elliot sees this reply, check out his content, it's pretty cool
@@senireye.5597 AHWA- HELLO!? THANK YOU-
the blank, unreadable screen of the cabinet is so much more unnerving than any of the animatics that give it a face.
Yeah!
Agreed, fear of the unknown is way worse than fearing something you can see
@@mehpainter Also it shows it's not a cutesy robot, but rather a box filled with organs
@@Fionacle You are right, I’ve only seen one other one where it doesn’t have a face or eye of some sort and it also is pretty good, although this one depicts it as basically the Projectionist from Bendy And The Ink Machine but with an arcade cabinet head instead of a projector head, I’ll link it here if you wanna watch it (don’t worry I don’t Rick Roll, I like them but I don’t do it myself):
Here’s the link (I meant to do it in the last comment but RUclips won’t let me edit it): m.ruclips.net/video/xf55dKWfSM0/видео.html
The idea that his consciousness is so intact that he can make decisions and be completely aware of his surroundings while his body rots and decomposes in the machine is the best take of this i’ve scene. The blood with the skeleton seems to imply that the wires have become like a vascular system, the machine is a like secondary living body holding on to his mind while his corpse lays dead inside. I just love this concept, it’s the creepiest version
*Exactly*
Epic
@@Agpicklefeet You did amazing, what is it about Lemon Demon that brings out the creativity in people?
I like to imagine his body literally fused with the machine, hence him saying painting on my skin and the machine bleeding.
It’s giving springtrap
When you realised this guy is consciously murdering dozens of people while he sits there, idk there something about the idea of a machine being fully conscience with working organs inside that are binder with the electronics that always disturbs but at the same time I love it.
Maybe he kinda lost some morals or started to insane alone all that time?
I think he was eating people. Like a zombie. He probably needed fresh blood
I was staring at it bleeding on the ground waiting for it to do the thing.
Thank you for delivering.
*pokes cabnit* cmon do something
@@kt_laptop2835 congratulations, your accomplishment will be wiped from history in mere moments
Same
What thing?
@@cherrify3498 the *thing*
(The thing is where something pops out of the machine and k!lls the kids or something)
I’d say this is probably the only animatic that explains exactly what happened as the others just don’t explain how he’s in the machine.
Edit: on a random note this is probably the most popular comment I have so kudos :)
i thought it was kind of obvious that in the other animatics that he made himself half-cabinet
Richard Chicken no it was I just like specifics rather than here he is he’s half man half arcade with no sort of small lead up to it
@@robertpaiva4953 he wasnt murdered
@@richardchicken923 I thought he just kinda got shoved into a game cabinet and died
@@Thalia_Aquaticaa he did it to himself
since they fpund him in HIS workshop
I’m commenting this at nearly 1 am but I just saw that this hit 10,000 and I can’t thank everyone who’s sat through the video and enjoyed my work. It means the world to me.
It's not bad
it. is a fuckin amazing animatic??? it's a new idea compared to a lot of the ideas people have for the song. it's rlly enjoyable
This is some neat stuff dude
30,000 now!!
well didnt this blow up
The "File photo" of him just looking like a gremlin made me laugh so hard. That's gonna be me one day tbh.
Ngl that’s just me.
that's me *now!* i'm a filthy goblin girl and i wouldn't have it any other way
@@cy-bernet-ix that's a big mood right there
@@miyah9661 :) im mood central, baybee
Timestamp?
UPDATE: Sorry to all deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, I finally got the corrected captions up so you don't just see the [MUSIC] thing anymore!!
Okay your a saint I ain't hearing-impaired but I can still respect the effort it took to do that
@Kendrick Charlie you guy's again listen ya scammers quit it
because thats what heros do
I read this as a insult for some reason.
@@ifunny4442 Oh gosh it wasn't, if ANYTHING it was an insult to RUclips's terrible "automated" captions which don't even try. It was my fault for not checking sooner after posting tho haha.
this doesnt even look like a animatic. the lines are so crisp and professional. i love this so much and your effort shows in it greatly. you are an amazing artist. keep ip the good work.
Fnaf anyone?
Invader Zimmy [Sara Corso] I’ve actually gotten a few comments about it feeling FNAF like funnily enough!! As much as I appreciate the creativity of that series, a lot of inspiration for this project came from the works of comic book horror artists/illustrators (mainly Laurie Lipton because of her biomechanical themes and Junji Ito because of his amazing use of timing scares within his stories). If you enjoy a good scare, give them a search! Do be warned they get quite gruesome, but if you like FNAF’s darker themes I’m sure you’ll be fine!
I mean the quality of art isn't what makes it an animatic or not, the purpose of animatics is to define the timing for a full animation, kinda like a storyboard
@@kittenartist8908 I mean, the story itself is based on Polybius. But I guess more popular things are gonna be what people think other things are referencing.
@@zerutonii5556 ya
there is no doubt this is one of the best fan animations for spirit phone. the lines, the extra character given to the narrator, the fluidity of it, EVERYTHING brings it together to be such a perfect fit for the song. you have a load of talent!
UH IS THAT A FELLOW HOMESTUCK?!?!?!
@@poorlydrawn2dfromgorillaz431 no i just havent bothered to change my icon since 2015 :|
mackie goss No shame. Homestuck is a scar we must bare with dignity.
@@Agpicklefeet Oh yeah i have liked it since 2013 so im a goddamn veteran
Hot steamy load of talent
This is one of the only few animations that actually give it some justice, and I love it because Cabinet Man was the first Lemon Demon song I heard, making me fall in love with Neil's songs
I’m so glad I could give you a good portrayal of such an awesome song!! My first exposure to Lemon Demon was Touch-Tone Telephone but Cabinet man is my honest to goodness favorite next to Eighth Wonder probubly!
Mine was modify.
mine was two trucks ;-;
@@turtleboi456 then you're a god.
Hey Mista he’s gonna gain up on u- MISTA SHOOT THE FUCKER, HES GONNA FREEZE EVERYTHING.
I cant imagine the smell he would leave,
Wouldn’t anyone be worried about were the smell is coming from???XD
Mixifóòx Someone asked this earlier and the new explanation for the lack of a smell is that the arcade just had a really bad stink to begin with haha
Agpicklefeet LMAO
cant smell like death if your not dead
With this interpretation's blank eye pictures, I also imagined he can kind of hypnotize people so that they don't care as much about all the weird stuff as they should, but this ability wasn't strong enough to keep people interested in him indefinitely.
Fnaf
All of these nice comments make my heart absolutely MELT thank you all so much it means the absolute world to me to know you guys enjoyed my work
Initial news report: arcade owner murdered and organs stolen
After Christmas news report: ok so funny story
That same news reporter: AND NO ONE *CHECKED* THE CABINET???
NES: (is created)
Cabinet Man: well shit
Wow the quality is so high, I can’t believe this only has 500 views. Btw nice touch uploading this on Christmas Eve haha
THE POST DATE WAS 100% INTENTIONAL HAHA, I didn't initially post it after my semester had ended so I saved it until the 24th.
I never would have noticed that without it being pointed out; incredible.
U
@@Power-xl8vh explode
Year later...over 200k
I'm so upset that I missed the chance to screen-cap my video receiving 69,420 views.
F
I’m gonna be honest, I never really understood the song but holy hell this puts it to light
I saw somewhere that it was about the polybius urban legend, but just like the arcade in the legend, the comment seems to have disappeared.
@@nnnn-rt2pb iirc Neil said it was inspired on polybious but not ABOUT it
@@spillednoodles9847 thanks for correcting me, but I honestly don’t care
@@nnnn-rt2pb I know this comment is 2 years old but was the rudeness necessary back then?
Oh so THATS what this song was about.
What did you think it was about..?
The scene showing the skeleton inside gave me chills
10/10 would watch again
I have a small head-cannon that at 3:43 the little disturbance in his voice is him using the machine's speaker system to actually start talking so they goons can hear everything he says from then on making it 10x more terrifying
100% behind this, that is terrifying. Especially if its distorted because of the damage to the machine.
@@Agpicklefeet Oh so good!Even better if the sound reverb is bouncing of the shattered interior and head oh gruesome but so cool!
I look at the cover of this video and I’m like ‘IS THAT STAN PINES???” From gravity falls
He turned himself into an arcade cabinet
funniest shit I've ever seen
Please somebody respond im losing my mind
To me its more on the creepy side of things. Things like this interest me, and freak me out at the same time
@@quinnforrester7833 thank you so much, you are the shining star in my darkest night
this made me laugh so hard that i decomposed, thank you
The “Cabinet Boy” at 2:56 is genius, and I loved the blood on their sneakers part. It’s by far the coolest interpretation of what the story would look like!
it’s genuinely such a freaky concept lmao
imagine being locked in a frickin arcade machine, completely sentient, slowly decomposing
The "blood on their sneakers" part always gives me chills. Probably my favorite part.
The ending on this makes it better than my original headcanon where in the end the guys who were destroying him got dragged into the machine and had to play the game for eternity until they beat the whole machine and get pulled into place with the main character.
Bro I remember seeing this Xmas eve and being really upset the next day cause I couldn’t find it. Glad you got everything sorted. I love how well done this is! Keep up the good work!
I had to re-upload because of a coloring issue that was driving me nuts!! It's staying up this time though, promise!
For me the ending part of the song where he gets broken is just one guy who breaks in and takes his shit. As he is walking away he sees the blood on his shoe. A fist rises from the broken screen and an inhuman combination of wires, flesh, and bone. The monster chases the man down until he tackles him and as the "Duh duh duh duh duh dah" part is what the monster is yelling as he caves in the man's head with the crowbar, swinging to the beat.
I'd love to see your rendition of that :) It sounds like a really cool design for the Cabinet man at the end.
@@Agpicklefeet I wish I had the time and/or the skill.
Lyrics:
The day they found me, I hadn't yet been played
Inside my workshop behind the old arcade
Electric desires had unraveled all my wires
Now I'm in the box for safekeeping
The news reporters reported that I died
But all my organs were living on inside
Circuit board to brain with two lungs collecting change
One big human heart gently beeping
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine
Thank God for business, they let me take the floor
I stood so proudly, like I was going to war
Players soon appeared and I quickly was revered
This must be what love would have felt like
Such dedication, they came from miles away
With eyes so piercing, they'd wait their turn to play
In perfect patient lines because I was in their minds
I could do whatever I felt like (Whatever I felt like)
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine
I'm happy for years and years
And only eating the occasional maintenance man
Only driving a few kids to madness
Maybe they were predisposed to madness, who knows?
I only want to have fun
But now they're telling me my days here are done
'Cause there's a little tiny box they make in Japan
And pretty soon it's gonna fit in your hand
It's getting lonely, it's getting hard to breathe
The arcade's empty, I think it's Christmas Eve
Someone's broken in, now they're painting on my skin
Breaking me and taking my quarters
Bashing in my face with a crowbar
Kicking me and pushing me over
Now they see my blood on their sneakers
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine
This truly deserves more attention! every character looks so unique and you firmed up the story to this song in a very satisfying way. Also, the Cabinet Man's skeleton at the end was such a light touch but it was unnerving in the best way.
This comment made my day, thank you so much
Where Is the Skeleton?
oh my god I can't believe I'm saying this in 2020, but the skull in the box gave me SEVERE fnaf vibes and I'm HERE for it
Vynnie No shame! I honestly admire FNAF in some ways for being such a unique idea for a horror game, and the fella who worked on it deserves props for being a one man developer!
@@Agpicklefeet The inspiration was because people said his style made everything looked like scary animatronics
@@p0rtalsg4ming59 I heard about that! I think specifically I remember hearing Jim Sterling comparing his earlier games to Chuck-E-Cheese animatronics and Scott Cawthon took his criticism and it inspired FNAF? If I'm remembering the story right?
@@Agpicklefeet That's it right there!
i found this while looking for cabinet man fnaf animatics actually, haha
I hardly ever see animatics with this much extra storytelling added, and never done THIS WELL! You should be very proud.
"...with two lungs colecting change." "It's geting hard to breath" "Breaking me and taking my quarters"
Okay but imagine you and the boys out vandalisin an arcade machine before Christmas keeps you indoors then it starts bleeding and ominously singing
3:38 i think that lemon demon repeating that verse, is the machine talking to the robbers in a broken tone.
This animatic is amazing! Ive been listening to this song so often recently that i kind of forgot what it felt like to hear it for the first time? But the visual storytelling in this animatic really helped me relive that vividly. Especially the beginning, which is not a thing many other animatics really ruminate on, but you did, which was really cool.
This is a really tiny detail but i am in LOVE with how the lyrics/captions go into full capitalization in the last chorus. Just the static shot of the broken machine, slowly zooming in, is SO cryptic. The shot where you realize again that it’s (half) human.
You're the first person to point that out :) Thanks for noticing.
@@Agpicklefeet i have captions on for everything, and I think it’s really cool when people put effort and time into captions as much as they do with art/animation. very cool and awesome
this is fantastic!! all the cabinet man animatics are great and i'm glad there are so many super high quality ones like this!!
yooo your profile picture is banana man! i get the reference. i love that song!
Hold up I saw you on Doing This from Spies are Forever and commented on your Banana Man pfp, what's happening
@@gloomz3r I am inevitable.
@@no1mayorofsimpleton oh no
I’m in utter disbelief at seeing my own video at 100k views, I can’t thank you all enough.
this is amazing!! It deserves the 100k views
Super professional
This is still my favorite visualization of this song. The depiction of the person inside, the white eyes, the cords wrapping around people, the skull at the end... iconic
The concept of the song is ALOT MORE creepier with this,but is SOO good
he didn't even know what love felt like until he was inside the screen...sad
Poor guy had to simulate what love is like...Sad is right!
I love how the song was interpreted and twisted right at the end. It feels like the cabinet was keeping a promise yet with animated context turned it into a threat.
I was like "Please tell me he eats the children at the end"
glad to say I wasn't disappointed
I’ve listened to this song so many times but 3:35 was the first time that part gave me chills. The storytelling with this is uncanny, and the way the shots are framed is really clever. I can’t wait to see more of your style!
I like how this showed him actively allowing for the arcade machine to function by controlling it with his ‘computer’. I wish more people would do this.
Wrote an entire character based off of this song. Here's their prompt:
Evil, but tends to only attack if provoked. This character died but was brought back with a glitch of sorts. They could enter digital realms. They decided to become the character of their own game for a little while but eventually started driving people playing it into madness once they got bored. They managed to escape their own realm and now torment people by traumatizing them via every game they play until they descend into madness. If someone tries to stop them by destroying their device, hacking, or other means, they're found dead the next day with a note simply saying "Game over".
Thoughts?
this is my personal favorite cabinet man animation
when I heard "my organs were moving on its own" and "I was in the box for safe keeping" from the song, I thought that he meant that his organs were inside the arcade cabinet.
this is so incredibly professional that it blows my mind it was just made for fun. this serves as a lot of inspiration to get started on animatics of my own. thank you so much for this!
That's the best I could have hoped for, knowing my art inspires others is the best feeling!!
The SCP potential that this gives off is criminal. Just, vengeful arcade man that eats people and causes the occasional bout of insanity.
This is... *criminally* good. You have no idea how much I appreciate
I love how every animation of this agrees those kids at the end GET GOT
i like that you left out some of his body parts at around 0:43 since he couldn’t fit his entire body into the machine
:)
thank you SO SO MUCH for getting me into lemon demon btw
@@crimsonfirecat I listen to Spirit Phone at least once a week- I’m so sorry to have passed the curse on to you as well dear viewer 😭
just watched this like the fifth time and it was the first time id actually caught the face in the hole in the screen. dunno if i was just to focused on the blood or the song lmao. but then again this time i was watching *and* playing it on my ukulele so idk man
bro this animatic does not need to go as hard as it does. but it DOES and it's amazing
i never payed too much to lyrics when the chorus came up with the line "you can't see me behind the screen" i for some reason always imagined a wizard of oz kind of thing "pay no attention to the man behind the sheet". but with this animatic being.. basically a 1 to 1 translation of the lyrics i probably won't be able to unhear them now while listening in the future
3:33 YES HOLY SHIT I SCREAMED THE WAY THEIR EXPRESSIONS CHANGE- this is so perfect, i love it!!
DUDE THIS GIVES ME VIBES IT LOOKS AWESOME
i love your pfp
it’s... entrancing
My mans really still had acne in his digi form
This is probably the best crack at a music video for this song anyone's ever taken
Gonna tell my kids that this was Lain
I WISH I COULD LIKE A COMMENT TWICE
This was amazing, my only question is what was with the arm laying on the ground at the beginning after he put himself inside the arcade machine?
Brandon Styve Yes! It is what’s left of his body after putting his head, heart, and lungs into the machine!
Agpicklefeet ohhh ok so the scenes of him inside the machine typing on a keyboard were simply metaphorical?
@@captainmartinwalker2848 They were more like flashbacks of him planning to make himself into a cabinet!
@@Agpicklefeet dude i love your brain, mostly because you think of this song just like i do. XD
@@Agpicklefeet ok so just out of curiosity, how did he do it himself??
also you did a great job on this, he seems like the perfect guy to do something like that for some reason lmao
The quality of this is insane and while watching it struck me I never fully processed the lyrics-
I'm sorry why is this in my recommended only now and why is it happening to so many people? Love lemon demon.
this needs to become a scp
agreed
if i could write
i think the reason why he says later in the song that it’s getting hard to breathe, is because his lungs are the change collectors, but no one is there to remove the change anymore
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I CAME BACK HERE BC I WANTEDTO SHARE YOUR THESIS VIDEO THEN I SAW THIS OF COURSE YOU LIKE LEMON DEMON AND HOLY FFF SOMEONE NEEDED TO ANIMATE THIS SONG SO THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those people that broke in...
Fuck around and find out
Cabinet Man™: the Classic Arcade Game from Cybus Industries®.
this is amazing! youre so talented! this mustve been hard work im so glad to see the final product
jack hes lego maniac Oh man, considering I did this as a final the work load was pretty stressful! The pre-production was done over the course of about a month but I ended up doing the bulk of the work within about a week and a half!
I do not recommend this kind of stressful time constraint, but I am very proud of the final product! I’m glad you enjoyed it, it really makes the hard work pay off!
This is so disgusting (visually and when you think about it). I love it so much.
I love this to hell and back that ending was amazing
He’s kinda cute in an incel way
(Dhdhg no but for real this is one of the best animatics I’ve seen on RUclips, terrific job)
what?
@Hey I’m Jaii what? i don't know what they mean by cute in an incel way that makes no sense whatsoever
@@sealbeegle9785 after months of rethinking my life choices and coming back to this video having forgotten that I commented this let me explain what I meant: the dude looks kinda cute in a greasy man that doesn't ever get out of his house kinda way, so I used the word incel to encompass that vibe. Hes cute but I would also like to bully him
total madlad just turned himself into an arcade cabinet just for the hell of it
Man, the Wreck-It Ralph prequel is wild.
Disney really took a wild direction with this one
I will never be over the fact that supposedly the inspiration for this was Polybius and it now haunts me more than before
Also this is the best animation for Cabinet Man I've ever seen and I'm honestly kinda shocked by the whole thing because its almost exactly like the animatic I had planned
He does whatever a cabinet can
THATS WHAT ITS ABOUT?!?!? THATS SO FRIKEN COOL!!!! THIS MAKES WAYYY MORE SENSE!
This animation literally clarified some of the lyrics and events in the song to me. Amazingly made, very creative and has a lovely style! Loved the "CabinetBoy" detail too!
I found out about this video like a yesterday, I love the execution of the story. However, I have question:
What is going on during 2:33 - 2:34, where Cabinet Man is gripping a screwdriver? He is in the machine at this time, correct? He seems upset, for some reason? Is he not happy about fulfilling his "electric desires"? Is he feeling some regrets over his decision? He said that he was "happy for years and years" after that over that one part of the song, but how much of that is true?
SO my idea was that scene as well as the others that take place in the workshop are all flashbacks of him progressively turning himself into a machine. The scene you mention 2:33 - 2:34 , I imagine takes place as he's grappling with the decision to sacrifice most of his body to become the Cabinet Man as we know him (before he's confined himself in there).
Although this is my original interpretation, I do like to implement death of the author; so I'd love to hear your thoughts!
@@Agpicklefeet Oh ok, That makes alot more sense. I always thought that the other scenes were him already in the machine playing against other people, but it makes alot more sense that they were flashbacks working on becoming Cabinet Man. Along with "this was what Love must have felt like", I also thought it was him receiving positive attention upon when he was revealed at the arcade.But I'm guessing that was another flashback and monitoring his heart to see if it was compatible/working with his modified cabinet.
I can't lie this is my favorite thing right now. My favorite animatic ever.
Average Name thank you so much ❤️
wow.. I never "really" listened to the lyrics.. chilling. well done!!
My favourite part of this song is "Now they see my blood ... on their sneakers" followed by the Reveal, so a massive thank you for doing it justice!!
Not only is the visual of an arcade machine wounded & bleeding so compelling, but the reveal of the skeleton (& implied amalgamation) was just 😙👌 When the cables turned prehensile to exact vengeance, I audibly went "FUCK YES", it was SUPERB. Transcend the limitations of form, babey!! "I'm half human and half machine" and all monster!!
I LOVE what u did with this animatic & the creative choices u made to convey the story. Keep it up, ur incredibly talented! 🌟
This is absolutely flawless in every single way and I hope it gets animated in full some day. The only change I would make is adding a subtle detail to the workshop at the beginning in the background: A draft letter. The line in the song "I stood so proudly, like I was going to war!" always struck me as a bit odd in regards to the rest of the song, and I know I'm looking waaaay too far into this but considering the time frame this song takes place in has to be somewhere between the late 70's and early 80's (the Famicon, or"tiny little box in Japan" came out 1983), and the draft was reinstated in 1980, it'd make sense if getting a draft letter was the final push Cabinet Man needed to act upon his "electric desires".
In my theorized time frame for the song he probably converts himself sometime in 1980 after recieving a draft letter, and he was active until 1983 when the video game crash killed most arcades and the NES would have been launched. HOWEVER he also mentions the Gameboy specifically, but does point out it will come out "pretty soon", so absolute best case scenario the arcade started declining in '83 and was basically abandoned by like '87 or '88.
TL;DR: Cabinet Man is a draft dodge, yo.
I was terrified of receiving such a long comment under my video, but I am...Genuinely in love with that theory. The idea that he's escaping possibly dying in a war by faking his own death and becoming a machine is...damn thats GOOD!
@@Agpicklefeet Ha ha, sorry my long comment scared you, I tend to rant. Fantastic video, by the way! I must've watched this like two dozen times, love all the character and detail!
Gef Don’t be, thanks for enjoying my video so much :)
This needs to be the official music video for this song. It’s fantastic and I love how you designed the characters and the backgrounds!
I’m still crying from the cabinet boy joke
I'll never live down the fact that frame has a misspelling in it, RIP.
It's such a zany yet horrifying story, it's just awesome
ive always imagined him as being a bunch of disembodied human organs wired to the inner workings of the machine, so he no longer needs to eat or anything and can live as long as the machine is there. basically his most important body parts are still there, and the cabinet is his body
For sure about the keeping important parts (head, heart lungs), but I think we know he needs to eat by the fact of all the eating of the maintenance men- sadly.
@@Agpicklefeet he says he only ate "the occasional" maintenance man, so i assume he either does it for fun or doesnt need to eat often to stay alive. after all, his lungs are being constantly filled with quarters so i would think he doesnt actually need very much to live seeing as how his oxygen supply is constantly being reduced
THIS IS AMAZING. fits the song perfectly !
ik right? its so gooood!
HOLY-- THE FREAKING SKULL DROPPING SCARED THE LIFE OUT OF ME
OMG THIS IS SO PERFECTTTT
The character spin chefs kiss 🤌
i am OBSESSED w this oh my god !!!!!!!
possibly one of my favorite songs finally portrayed extremely well and i am absolutely captivayed
Everybody gangster until the arcade cabinet starts bleeding