Making of | "Model Citizen"
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025
- Created by David James Armsby.
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This is a behind-the-scenes video to accompany my recent animated short film, "Model Citizen". This video covers my creative process and my ideas behind the art and themes of the film.
This video also covers my return to the Autodale universe in general. I've been away from this series for more than a year and its legacy is easily the thing my channel is most known for. This is the short film all of you seemed to want and If I were to return to the series; I was going to do it right. A huge chunk of this video is dedicated to the preparation and research I had to do to get back into the mindset of the universe I created all the way back in late 2016.
Hope you enjoy! ^_^ This particular "making-of" was a blast to make!
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Tchaikovsky - "Waltz of the Flowers
StoneOcean - "The Message"
StoneOcean - "Last Pianist"
StoneOcean - "Soulwisp"
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GUEST VOICE ACTOR:
Mrs. Robinson - "Kirie Quackenbush"
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I really cannot thank you all enough for the tremendous support and reception for this short film! I've gotten 100k more subscribers in the past 7 days. This is really incredible! ^_^
More Autodale will be on the way! Starting the animation work on the next short film, "Friendly Shadow" tomorrow.
I love your short films
We're not worthy!
Yay
Question can You do a rubber hose animation You know like Popeye , Betty boob , Oswald the lucky rabbit, Félix the cat etc pls can You bring back the 1920's since is 2020
Congratulations! You deserve every one of those subscribers and more. Thank you as always for your awesome work, and for showing us your process! I'm excited to watch this video.
It’s clear when the robot tilts his head, he realizes that they nicknamed their handyman Joe
Or it's just confused
@@sevin8378 I thought it was a quizzical "stupid human" head tilt
It probably switched to the mindset of "Joe" in that moment or just pretended to be Joe.
I don't think the actual Joe recognises himself as Joe, either. It's a Handyman. It's not Joe at all.
Mr. Robinson: thank you joe
Robot: who’s joe
Mr Robinson: joe mama!
Dead Sound: "That's not Joe"
Me: *hard record scratch*
Same here! I didn’t notice the scratch when I saw it.
It was near the end and I was scrolling down the comments. I saw this one exactly when he said 'That Wasn't Joe'. It was perfect timing...
"... and the poor man being brutally *laughs* murdered in the background."
- David Armsby / Dead Sound 2020
Can’t imagine the blood
Mood
The FBI has taken notice...
*HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA wait is this even supposed to be a joke?!*
Lol
"Their names don't represent the individual, they represent their *gene pool*" This quote, to me, so perfectly sums up the fascinating and horrifying mentality of Autodale.
I would read a book or comic series on Autodale.
Heck, I’d even watch a live-action TV show.
Screw it, I just want more Autodale.
Autodale it's our society!
sub 2 brick miick brick
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial I would to, petition to get one shall start now on youtube
that makes me wonder about the genetic differences of Autodale citizens and the outside world. if a population is isolated long enough they develop certain traits unique to them. Autodale is at least one thousand years old so how different would there biology be?
"This is not Joe"
*My whole life has been a lie*
Joe mama
@@thatdudejonathan4854 God damn it
No no no no no no no it's JOE MAMA
Awww man
IKR-
I am so glad RUclips randomly recommended “Model Citizen” to me, because this series has honestly been such a joy to follow
Honestly Same. I've seen it before but had completely forgotten about it.
Indeed the handy men can be handy!
Liam Vic me too!
Same
Same
Honestly… It adds an extra layer of horror to know that the creator of this world sees it all as some kind of twisted joke. It’s bone chilling to Picture him laughing at their short, ignorant, yet blissful lives with no intention of giving an easy happy ending. It kind of makes you think about your own mortality.
*I love it.*
Meta
Dark Comedy Is one of my favorites
"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
Tbh, it is kinda funny how they kept thier act to the very second of death.
A cartoon "DONK" sound would been perfect
Yeah my sense of humour is kinda twisted
“And by the way, that’s not joe”
Of course not, that’s David.
I thought it was Jared
Baron of Hell Your telling me it wasn’t Paul?????
Guys that was Martha, how rude of you.
Bruh that's Susie
BOI that was John
“By the way, that’s not Joe.”
My Brain: “I KNEW IT!!!”
My Heart: “..But I didn’t want to believe it...”
M_Lynx VA who is joe? Nvm
@@Edwin-wv5eb aka joe mama
Edwin she ment joe mama
SAME!
EZ Sans r/wooooosssh
I love how much of a laugh he gets out of that whole "kissing while some dude is getting his head whacked in the background" scene. Cause that is honestly kinda hilarious
Ah, dark humor. I love it.
Yes. It’s so dark, but oddly hilarious.
Honestly I would be sad for the Robinson’s, but knowing that they died completely satisfied with their lives is kinda relieving in a sense.
I know this is irrelevant to your comment but
"Niiiiice!"
MWolfe but hopefully they’ll end up in a new world where there’s tons of people and maybe even magic. One can only imagine
Kinda like how people die everyday satisfied, except it’s driven by biology instead of machines
Nice nice very niiiice shiza chan
That is what all of the Democrats say to their victims, I mean constituents.
“NEARLY no one in Autodale wants to revolt”
Me: hmmmmmmmmm..... nearly....
He said it wouldnt END in revolution. I do see one happening and it either failing, or they win and because the world outside is just SO dead they waste away like everything else
bellringer I believe that IF a revolution starts, then it would either be from an outsider that would see through the propaganda, someone exceptional, like the child or the woman from “No Monsters.” The destruction of Autodale could also come from the Freaks trying to help as we know that there are some friendly ones out there. But if we don’t get something big about the destruction of Autodale, I’d like to see how the Towns come to rise and fall and why they did so. That seems like it could hold more story to me.
I would like to think that it ends maybe by some how the matriarch dies and all the handy man shut down but then some of the people just take up the role of handy men and keep the cycle going
Joshua Wright you know, I haven’t thought of that. That makes really good sense.
I feel like they gays pretending to be straight would be in that category
"This scene made me laugh"
Me: wait...
creeper 988 “bro wtf was that I was crying and now ur laughing r u a fucking handyman”
I mean he is the handyman
Fernando Grijalva
Dead sound after not uploading autodale videos for two years: deepest apologies, robinson family.
@@fernandogrijalva227 No, He is a Spiderman 2 DVD pretending to be lizard.
@@amadmaul at The Same Time Pretending to Be a Human
I’m very interested in how the mothers and fathers end up getting together. Are they simply assigned together or do they actually end up choosing who they end up with.
I image they are probably assigned based on genetics to ensure a healthy gene pool.
The Anime Noob Likely, pairs are either selected by the Matriarch, by weighted random (weighted to prevent incest) or just by a draft.
A system like that in The Giver is also possible, albeit modified: The newest adults are given a number at birth. They are called by their number at a graduation ceremony and assigned a place in society and a spouse.
Of course, they never actually have a child: some of the women in the book are assigned as a Birthmother, where their sole job is to have babies. They are artificially inseminated, brought to term, and deliver normally, but may not interact with society while with child: hence why you never see a pregnant woman, in the book, the movie, or in Autodale.
I remember someone was killed because they were divorced, so I’m guessing they choose
The Emerald Men Official but when all the children come from a select pool of mothers, surely there must be some incest in that society.
@@Corviidei Birthmothers don't stay as birthmothers permanently. They have one or two children and then become laborers for the rest of their lives, iirc.
Notice that under the word "FREAKS!!" It says "Innocent" and "Harmless"
Actually immediately went back in the video to find that. Sudden moment of realisation. As well as confirmation of my assumption regarding the labels. Its all about moulds. If you don't fit in that mould then you are ugly and thus to be removed, even if you serve no necessary detriment to those around you. Someone pointed out that in the Don't feed the freaks film, at the end the monster on the right hand side of the screen is wearing the same scarf as the adventurer we've been following. He is innocent and harmless but because he doesn't fit into the mould that is the model citizen in Autodale be is perceived as a monster
@@hammer1349 but of course the question after the most recent film is if don't feed the freaks is actually following a freak
@@axolotl0424 perhaps it could be actually. They may have once been human or even see themselves as more human than the citizens of Autodale which is certainly supported by the most recent film
@@hammer1349 yeah, I have to agree that the freaks are either former humans or intelligent beings that picked up where the human lives in the other city left off
"So alone"
"scared"
"why."
For some reason hearing that the handyman wasn't Joe makes me want to cry. That was such a wonderfully perfect detail. Really awesome work on the whole series!
@@brickmickbrick no
@@cupoflean8697 uno no u
@@brickmickbrick shit well i guess i have to sub 2 u
@@cupoflean8697 u know I actually regret spaming
@@brickmickbrick lol
This is a rather haunting series.
In a good way, of course.
Haha, dystopian futures, am I right?
am... i right?
ha... ha?
It's PRETTY cool
It's very creepy, but in some of the best ways. As how America was pretty much these ideals in the 50s and could of stayed this way.
Dystopian type narratives gives me existential crisis in a good way. This is the best way to describe the feeling lmao
I love it 😊
“This series has always been very goofy”
*HUH*
It has the male genitalia in almost every background
@@YeahAlright1983 wut
@@YeahAlright1983 ik that but where is it?
Ummm it’s the tower...
@@YeahAlright1983 oh alright. I thought there are more apart from that
I am so baffled at how you can remain so calm when designing and animating. I also love how you structure your sketchbooks.
Same, he really is organized with them while whenever I open one of my sketchbooks there’s a bunch of random things that don’t go together at all lmao
i mean to be fair it is a sketchbook with a purpose of organizing a story rather than somewhere to practixe
Ikr? His sketchbook looks super interesting :0
Without a doubt would buy a copy just to see how incredible his planning is.
Unpopular opinion, I would like to see a prequel to Autodale that tells how or why the city was founded.
I know it's a risky idea. If done badly the world of Autodale could lose all credibility or could ruin what makes it interesting. But if done right, the show could get even more interesting...
and maybe even scarier.
Your wish has been granted- it shows a bit more in the newest film of how/why it was created
well do i have news for you
DUDE YOUR WISH WAS MADE OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
I have a question: if a child shows early signs of not being "pretty" do the parents also get killed because they failed to raise up the ideal child, which is their most important job as citizens?
Edit, since this is still an active thread:
Autodale is constantly compared to a machine. If a machine misprints every once in a while yes, it can continue to make copies. But sometimes a cog is considered defective and thus is replaced, aka uglies. However, if a family were to create more then one misprint, why would they not be considered defective themselves and replaced early?
I feel like if it's their only child and did not / could not produce more, or if all of their children were not deemed pretty, they probably would label the parents ugly too. Maybe incompetent? Something to show that they couldn't make a model citizen, thus making them not one either.
Actually, if they could not produce more, they would be considered ugly, whether or not they raised a child correctly or no. In one of the previous films, a woman was killed for being unable to give birth.
@@connor7261 but she was unable to produce at all. If someone was near the time of expiration and then their child or children were deemed ugly, that would most likely fast track them to being label ugly instead of when their children grow up, because at that point they are too late to do anything and would be too old to raise another.
True.
Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat maybe but remember that the robinsons stuck around for at least several years after their son’s departure assuming the new Robinson family already had a child by the time the prior generation died. The father is still a cog. Even if he can’t produce a new cog I’d assume they still use him until he’s old.
oh my gosh the whole "this isn't Joel" and the fact that "Joel" has scratches is a great touch to cement it, and best of all like the Robinson's we don't even notice, until we're told
Joe, but yes
Oh sorry It sounded like he was saying Joel but fair enough
Wait when did he say that?
He is a good example of “you don’t need a ghost or monster to create a horror film”
Slime Boy this series has several monsters
Walter Clements It does? What are they?
@@Snapfuba The freaks
@@Snapfuba the matriarch
@@Snapfuba the humans hooked up to the machine
I love the fake out of that scene. You think he’s gonna stand up for himself and revolt when he takes off the mask. But the music changes and he thanks joe of all things. It’s an excellent subversion
Guess my hunch was right. "Was that really Joe, or just another Handyman humoring them to keep things tranquil?"
I did think that that would be a weird coincidence that joe just so happened to be on slaughtering duty when they were going to be executed. But i didn't think much of it until the plot twist happened.
Maybe those robots have a shared mind almost so what "Joe" remembers all other robots would also remember so they can keep things going
* Morelull * a hivemind?
Eh, I don't want to see a revolution, I want to see the lore behind what caused the apocalypse, and where the matriarch robots came from and their purpose. Backstoryyyy!
I did like the detail about the name being the gene-pool, not an individual's name. Really seals the whole cog idea.
For the record, I did find that kiss hilarious as well XD
Pewkii L I never thought I’d see the day someone has the same profile pic as I do
YESSS I really was a see the lore about the matriarch rather than a revolution
I would like to explore the cause of the apocalypse as well, then the initial reactions and actions taken by the people in the different towns. Maybe even the founding of Autodale, the fall of the towns and how that might have affected Autodale, if it did. Think that could be a really interesting story to explore in regards to this universe. Maybe there was a kind of trade between the towns with their respective Matriarchs or they were enemies who know? Could be very interesting following on in the towns that did not survive from founding to destruction.
"That's not Joe."
I may have not cried on the outside but I did on the in...
11:55
You're laughing. A man has fallen into the hole in AutoDale city and you're laughing.
*HEY!*
BUILD THE HANDYMAN
That guy just died and you're laughing.
Wow,you must be getting used to the whole being dead thing!
@@angelyiu629 that reference tho
No the reson is because they are brain washed and there happy they had done there job and there not real
16:13 So that Joe thing, juxtaposing “Joe’s” complete lack of individuality with the Robinsons’ human treatment of him, and using that to demonstrate their uniqueness and the injustice of what’s done to them, is SO COOL
Wait, who's Joe?
@@ThervingianGoth No one's gonna take that bait, man.
joe mama
Stranger Danger personally, I want to know who Joe is
daniel wogs
Uhuuuuuuuuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu 🤣🤣🤣
i don’t understand how your sketchbooks are so organized
mines all look like someone threw up graphite and ink on the paper.
respect
respecc
He already had sketches and stuff, so he could scan them and then print them. So, he can plan before glueing them.
That last part of "Joe" not being Joe was awful. That messed with my head.
:(
×&œ įß *øë?
Joe mama
its joel _idot_
Me too. Take care all!
Harry Potter fans: I want to go to Hogwarts!
Star Wars fans: I want to become a Jedi!
Autodale fans: ....nah I’m good
Ha. Yes.
I’m a fan of all three...and this is *so accurate*
Me : I want to become...my persona **realizes I don't have the same hair type as my persona** welp I have no point in existance anymore
Autodale fans: .... I think I already live in Autodale... I want out
El Larabee yes very accurate
It sort of strikes me that the machines don't really seem "evil" so much as they're just fulfilling their programming. The whole system was set up long before they were built. Also, despite the fact that Handymen are the ideal of their society, they're just as replaceable as the humans. Somewhere there is a giant scrap yard where the Handymen willingly throw themselves into the wood chipper.
They are robots without feeling
I didnt even consider that. Thats some awesome input
Handymen: *YEET*
lmaoooo
Kinda strange knowing that the Handymen aren’t that much different from the citizens...
People dislike this? They must be broken, cause’ Autodale is literally the best short animated series. It has such a deeper meaning behind it, and not to mention his sketches are *stunning.*
GGGamer 17 haters have notificationd on i guess because theyre so early.
.
That or they don’t like dystopia stuff, very dark stuff and meh animations (even though it’s animated by one man that has only a few years of animation experiences and they should be grateful that this even exist now)
GGGamer 17 they’re not broken.
*They’re UGLY!*
Probably because they think it’s “homophobic”
8:25
ah yes, the 3 basic human needs:
-eat
-sleep
-*kiss*
Stickman in the mirror we know you sleep alone. (And so do I)
@@signedzulu7637 isn't that everyone
XD
Its all fun and games for us loners until we hear footsteps in our house
Nah mines just
-eat
-sleep
- repeat
The fact that “Joe’s” only compliment to the Robinsons was that they were model citizens is chilling to me. Also, the title card when they kiss also really freaks me out. The fact that these people are so happy and blindly take pride in being a “model citizen” in just *frightening*
That handyman not being Joe really messed with my head and added a whole extra layer of darkness to this film. My mind is blown!!!!
As soon as he told us that "this is not Joe" unexplained how to tell the difference I was shook and started to tear up.
Top 10 Anime Betrayals:
1.) "That is not Joe."
Dude, the whole autodale town and this story that David James has created. Just gives me a HUGE "We Happy Few" Vibe.
OMG MY EXACT THOUGHT
same
Can we just appreciate this man's artistic skill? We stan
This is the best series I ever watched.
It gives me an existential crisis.
The Ketchup Knight In a good way of course
Busters Divorced parents Yes, in a good way or else you’ll be ugly
Thatbgives you existential crisis? Ever watched Exurb1a?
An* it gives you AN existential crisis.
@@Lizzy-pd2mg of course XD
I think it would be interesting to see a short film on how they do find their wives and husbands and what the social part of marriage is and how it works?
Hello Mother ikrrr
guess it is asigned by the state to avoid inbreeding and breakups?
Probably a lot of arrangements to get optimal Gene's
You’re going to hate me for this but their.
Do you think that people who cannot find a partner and remain single get killed?
I love how David's just like "Oh yeah, and that wasn't even Joe that killed them."
This is really a true dystopia, where people think that they are in a utopia.
ScytheHunt it screams communism to me on many levels. Where they feel free and happy, but in reality they remove the “bad” cogs like they did in the USSR.
And any people who don’t think that are Exceptional, and end up being Assimilated.
@@ApolloTheDerg for me screams both, facism, and communism...
Bot are not so diferent when you see closely...
Nazi Germany comes to mind, as in the National Socialist Workers’ Party. Also communism. But not the nuclear family of 1950s America.
Like brave New world?
I remember when I first watched Being Pretty, I felt that it was somehow just too much like every other dystopia I had seen, and wrote it off. Now, coming back years later, I realize that I had never seen anything remotely similar to it. Rather, this series captures the ideology of my upbringing so accurately that I had nothing to remark on. It was just what my normal had been for most of my life, maybe not with literal murder of the unfit, but everything else was spot on. The death scenes were the only thing I wasn’t familiar with, and it seemed too on-the-nose because of that. I understand this world on a visceral level. Too often I see things like this done like a caricature of the real thing, written like some kind of self-insert of what the author would do in that situation rather than focusing on how someone born and raised there would function. You are one of the only ones that seem to understand that life goes on, and that the mind will restructure itself to thrive as best as possible even in a living hell, deceiving itself to avoid the crushing weight of the nightmare around it.
I’ll probably delete this later, but congratulations, you captured the dystopia so perfectly that you even fooled my subconscious.
Wow. I don't think you should delete this, it's quite the comment.
It doesn't sound like your childhood was the best, i hope your all good now though.
No don't delete this comment i like it.
Me: Puts one centimeter of my pinky toe into the city
Them: *aight you're going in the hole*
Id be thrown in right behind ya i think lol f autodale anyways i just want the rat to tell me stories in his rock house lol
Where did it come from?
Came from the hole.
One glance at me and I would be shot on sight and used as an evil villain in propaganda.
Honestly I would have to just look at the city and to the hole I go.
@@VeeTOHFan I forgot the line but eh...
“So uh where’s your girlfriend?”
“At work”
“Where does she work”
“In the hole”
Man, after hearing all of this, all I want to know is how Autodale was founded and how they took "Follow your dreams" and replaced it with this.
I want to know why Autodale is hardly automatic
I want to know where the matriarch came from.
I think it may have been a survival thing... If you look at some of the more background information you can learn a bit more about the past. For instance, the Freaks we see in don't feed the freaks are likely aliens as if you look at the early concept designs there is a poster talking about rights for aliens or "eels". Based on the way they are talked about in those posters and the line "don't feed the freaks" there was quite a bit of animosity between the humans and aliens. Quite possibly even leading to a war that the humans thought they were losing so created the handymen and perhaps even the cities they live in hope that humanity would survive.
memory upgrade?
@@Alice-si8uz freaks aren't aliens tho because we see the main character as a freak in the end of the video
His accent is so heavy which makes his short film voices so much more interesting
Wait what do you think his accent is ?
Bushy Boom I think scottish
@@latedawns1797 cheers cause i can't hear an accent but I'mreally bad when it comes to this type of stuff
Bushy Boom think it’s some new zealandish accent
@@eugenerider0701 But he's Scottish
The level of talent in this is crazy, literally mind blown. He paints, draws, animated, does voiceovers...... good god man
People like him should multiply
Let's hope this perfect cycle never ends ...
"NEARLY no one in Autodale wants to revolt."
Me: Nearly, huh?
Jackaboymlg *friendly shadow intensifies*
*Exceptional Woman intensifies*
*Dave intensifies*
It’s probably like Orwell’s 1984, where the few that want to revolt are taken care of before they can
*coughs* Shadow *coughs*
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
Comparing dystopian stories to 1984 is a obviously a cliche these days, but the ending of your short film gave me the same feeling I had back when I read that book. I loved everything about the short, especially the very dark humorous tone at the end. I truly think this is the best short you've made for now and am excited going forward for what's to come.
It is similar in some ways but in 1984 people still know how it was before Big brother and some want to rebel. They still want freedom while in Autodale they know nothing different. They don't remember the time before because they had no need to. People in 1984 people like Winston are afraid to die while in Autodale they might be a little bit scared but they accept it wholeheartedly. Julia is also someone who rebels by sleeping with other men but Mrs. Robinson wouldn't even think about doing something like that.. it wouldn't even be a concept to her. In both everyone ends up the same: brainwashed and/or dead
I suppose these could be very easily compared, but in Autodale, everybody is completely blind; everybody is happy how they are. In Oceania, at least some people (let's take Winston, for example) want to rebel and reform their overlords.
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Try comparing this to Brave New World - everyone's happy (on drugs, to be honest), they are recycled when dead, no one wants to rebel, and everything is working like a clock.
The ending that broke my heart...
Did he say “‘NEARLY’ no one wants to revolt”.
Well there are the “exceptional” people who see the truth, but they’re so small in number I think, and we’ve already seen what happens to them
elijah mikle Not to mention, whats the alternative? They are surrounded by a literal apocalyptic wasteland. It doesnt seem like other forms of society have been successful/even attempted. Plus considering the weird physics of the world dont encroach autodale; the robots/matriarch actually might be doing something to shelter humans from this
But like someone could easily pretend to be “pretty” if they were gay or depressed or something along those lines because you can pretend to be happy or straight but you can’t fake a disease. And those people could plan a revolt, though it would prove to be difficult because as soon as you tell someone who is brain washed that you want to revolt, they will snitch on you, BUT if those people can be brainwashed into thinking that autodale is a utopia then they can also be convinced that they are in a dystopia, that’s what i think at least
We’ve seen other towns which revolted against the matriarch and they collapsed into chaos and all the citizens seem to be dead.
Anny I dont think so. First off the uglies believe in the system, so its likely most people would end up self reporting. Also its really hard to fake being happy 24/7 especially when u live with people who will report you. “Exceptional” people are even part of the system and accounted for. Also if you can get people to march to their own deaths with a smile on their faces I truly doubt someone from within could stop this. Outsiders /freaks interacting with children before they are fully brainwashed and have their imagination stamped out are likely how these cycles truly broke - at the cost of who knows how many lives
“Oh and that’s not joe”
Me: **dies**
Edit : I don’t deserve this many likes O.O
at the hands of Not Joe?
I thought it couldn't be Joe when I first watched it. I mean, why would he be here?
...oh shit
that was the saddest part
I new it!
Like, why a random family now here "executioner" but no the another "Ugly Citizens"?
Big coincidence for an automatic world or I am wrong?
( so for wen I see the Robinson say that I was like "Uh? Who said he was?")
16:14 from all the evidence I could gather about the shorts, the worker bots share the same AI. All of them have the same memory about the families as the others. The fact that they know the families name instantly, the fact that they call them model citizens, the fact that the handymen know that they are because they are just old and did their duties and not that they got divorced or something, and that they respond to the nickname "Joe" makes me conclude that the Joe impersonator remembers the robinsons and that he is really saying that they did good. Thus I conclude that the worker bots share the memories through the cloud.
If these were sold as merch, everyone would go crazy
Maybe the boy in “Don’t Feed the Freaks” could add to this story. Since he lived in absolute freedom his whole life until he reaches autodale. He sees that everything is fine at first but the starts to relies there are things that are absolutely wrong. He hasn’t been indoctrinated as well.
I imagine he would just get killed because he is a 'monster.' He is a freak, and he is different. They don't like different people, which is why people see them as freaks. That's why all he sees is freaks, because of his own perceptions. The people would outright reject him, like your own cells would if they saw a' freak' outside cell. I don't imagine he would be allowed to live in Autodale.
I think he announced in some video that Friendly Shadow (you can see news headline in this video) will be investigating security breach in Autodale. I think its that monster that he's after
@@justadumb8864 ironic that in real life, the normal people got rejected nowadays, and the freak ones were controling the society
The freak at the ending of "Don't feed the freaks" had the same scarf the boy had. So... yeah, he's probably dead because the citizens of Autodale see him as freak.
@@youzonk7692 Some parasites, if left to grow, will take over the host.
1. I love David’s personality when he’s describing his animations. You can really tell he’s passionate about them (and it makes everything more interesting)
2. What are their possible jobs? I mean, the rest of the world appears to be a wasteland so...what could they be doing??
3. What do children learn besides propaganda? Are boys separated into groups and taught about their specific jobs (if they have any)
Just some thoughts I had after watching this. ^w^
I think it’s the ancient method of one parent teaching the child that way of life
8:02 my god... I cannot stress how beautifully done this is. This signifies that it's not just defects that gets a citizen labeled as ugly- it's *any* abnormality.
I love how much you put into the detail. Even the fact that Joe isn’t actually the bot at the end
Joe? Whos joe?
@@panzhubnikaz7335 joe oman
"This is not Joel."
I feel my my brains are on the walls my mind was just blown that much.
Who's Joel?
BagofMangos Joellama
ScarGhost Channel
XD
Thank you-
Finding out the robot that killed them wasn’t joe, really blew my mind.
This has an attention to detail and world-building that is stunning. No wonder David has gathered so many views and subscribers. It really is the best of RUclips when this type of animation is allowed to flourish, outside studios and broadcasting, with voices like this one given a platform and a chance to reach out. Top drawer.
Tbh, I also laughed at the fact that they are kissing and it’s all romantic while a person is getting murdered in the background....
O.o
Same
A.K .C where is that part
Jamil Domingo It starts at 11 min to like 12:13 min
A.K .C ok
I would love to see a Being Pretty episode centered around a citizen’s escape, and discovery about the truth of her world, Don’t Feed The Freaks was about an outsider looking in, id love to see a story about an insider looking out. As there are multiple “Matriarchs” I believe that they aren’t actually the ones in control, they are more like overseers, they keep the system together, but didn’t create the system. the system itself must have been created by a far more sinister force. The world of Being Pretty seems post apocalyptic like there was some disaster, wiping out most of humanity, and whoever or whatever made the system organized the last of humanity into these little cookie cutter Towns, and tricked these people into following this system, so that was my theory/idea on Being Pretty, I really hope David sees this....
Molten Fredbear heck- I really like that idea a lot. I would love to see a short like that too!
@@SunnyTheOpossum perhaps whoever set it in place is absent, and so it still functions on, like a good machine. It doesn't need a leader, at least not once it's in place.
Kind of like the Borg Colective
Ya like maybe either an exceptionable kid/adult running away and actually getting out before they are killed and made into whatever the heck those human head things were and we get to follow them as they discover about the outside world and try to figure out why everything is so broken and maybe at the end they either die or something like that since it’s autodale so it’s gonna be creepy in some way
It would be really good for world building seeing someone who is at least kind of familiar with “normal” life unlike the traveling man and now we get to see what these ruins mean from this persons perspective we get to see their reaction
Heck maybe it would scare them enough that they would go back to autodale now thinking autodale’s way is the only way to really survive in their world lest it turn into the hell that waits outside the borders
@@thegaminggirls2154 It would also be interesting to see if the machiene that is Autodale would even accept someone who has left the city and how they would react to that rejection.
I really like how you said that you weren’t going to end the series with a revolution. I wrote my own dystopian story, And I believe that most dystopian stores Shouldn’t have a happy ending. It’s realistic. These people in autodale were raised with this mentality, and it’s hard to break that. In my story, as Quinn goes off to be publicly executed, she has some revelations. She sees that the world isn’t a utopia. It isnt the best. What does she do? She draws in her last breath and thanks the world for having her live. She doesn’t try to escape, warm everyone about the “corrupt” society, she realizes that everyone is happy, and that interfering will just end up bad for everyone. It’s a realistic ending, not some fairy tale ending. A dystopian story is an anti-utopia, so it should end sadly, not with everything being “solved”. Great work with your story. I love it.
Well there goes my sadness coming out for about a month lmao
I have a dystopia too but its extremely light-harded (i want to adapt it for a musical so it has goofy villains and everything). I hope one day I can make a serious dystopia like these shorts, 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, because I love that type of stories.
WinxBattles Season3 Your story sounds interesting. I’m sure it would be great to read. :)
Adam Sduuvacuum someday I’ll put it up somewhere. Until then, I’ll have to make other things
What’s the title of your novel? i would to read it
There's another dimension to the horror I just noticed: The handymen are more compassionate than the humans. The humans are completely ok seeing their people be murdered one by one in front of them. They don't even value themselves. But the handymen, they at least say "deepest apologies Robinsons, but duty calls.". The handymen at least view the deaths as regrettable.
These people are so beyond empathy, they don't care about seeing other humans from their community die. The handymen, they do seem to care. Compassion towards other people has been automated and removed from people.
I disagree. They are brainwashed, they think this is compassion in a sense. The robots are well... robots. They have no feelings and no compassion and all of the “empathy” is merely what they are programmed to say. I think the robot act like that as part of the brainwashing. If these robots are nice and kind why would hey hurt us? The Robinsons obviously loved each other and their son but they are too brainwashed to see the failures and violence of the system.
Also thats a automatic phrase, he hjust choose it because of the moment
The compassion of the handymen only goes so far though, if you try to rebel against the system... No kindness for you.
The handyman don't care about their death either. From what I understood, at least, his "deepest apologies but duty calls" apply to him interrupting their kiss, not him killing them. For him, killing them, is just like refusing to dance with them, or interrupting a movie by arriving early, a minor inconvenience that, as a modelrobot, he apologize for.
I've always have wondered like how auto-dale came into being and why everyone is so ok with being in this machine. My theory is that people in the 50s were in some sort of apocalyptic situation where a larger chunk of humanity got wipped out.. they didn't know what to do without a leader (Like the president) and made the handy men and Matriarch because they needed order in their lives,and once they got order in their lives they were satisfied, and then the cycle started and no one questioned it.
I'm sorry if thats completely wrong but I just love thinking about the story and what could have happened to start the cycle. Love the work and animations
Sounds reasonable
I don't think there is a direct connection here. Despite having strong values, people in the 50s were anything but authoritarian. Remember the age of McCarthyism and anti Communist rhetoric, while many of you may see this simply as conformity, that is not all it is. The USSR and China were Communist controlled and run by an authoritarian government, which I find even more reminiscent to what we see in Autodale than 50s America. Communist gray, one singular dictator and those who don't fit in are executed; this is very similar to both the Nazis and the USSR.
@@shankchalupa4852 Do I know. Watch film titled "America from Freedom to Fasism".
"Nearly no-one in autodale wants to revolt"
The key word of the day is *NEARLY*
T Thung There will be guards and a single person couldn't do anything... Im sure people have tried
@@pgakt I would love to see failed attempts
@@The_Keeper_of_Names You did, the pit of dead people
No one would come even close to doing anything
kitt it’s not even that they tried they are just labeled as ugly so they accept death. It’s the exceptionals that they worry about and they aren’t even killed they are taken and put on display around the matriarch.
When you told me that “It wasn’t Joel who killed them.”...
I felt that.
Boreworm Boreworm *joe
The panic! Theorists was it actually pronounced Joe? God... even I cant remember their “names” right....
Fantastic job as always, especially for something I didn’t even know existed a week ago.
There will be no uprising for sure, but perhaps this series could end on a... more interesting note. I know you’ve made great efforts analyzing the dystopia, and finding what you feel is the most horrifying aspect of it, maybe the ending could extenuate that premise?
This should be released in print. This looks so well made and so professional.
I love the “making of videos” they always inspire me to write and are intriguing and funny to watch :)
Yea
Yesterday, in my youtube recommendations I found your "Model Citizen" animation. And within only a day. I fell in love with your animations. Unfortunately I cannot support you on Patreon because of my country's money exchange. (Dollar is 7 times more expensive then our money) But I will support you in other ways. Keep up the good work. You became my favorite animator within a day. ^u^
Me too! I was amazed cuz I never saw anything so dark and mysterious, so I was in awe
Honestly I thought the kid from "no monsters" was the person who got labeled exceptional and got killed and then converted and strapped up with the matriarch
Same
the kid wasnt exactly that person showed, bc its already confirmed child was male. Exceptional adult was female, and had unique beauty marks that matched the girl in the storybook
1950s think that kid will just be kid, kid will be normal, so kid wont be murdered in this and named Uglies.
The thing about The Uglies that is so perfect is that even if, by some unlikely chance, you manage to fit in as a "Model Citizen", it doesn't matter because eventually, once your kid has a family of their own, you become ugly as well. The whole perfection complex is so awesome in this series because it is highly emphasized yet it doesn't matter because your life will still inevitably end without your control of anything
Actually, being a model citizen is super easy. But eventually, you will no longer be capable of the labors of being a model citizen.
Question, how does multiple kids work? Because having just one kid means there's only one to replace two, and having three kids means having one extra. Is it balanced by the robots across the whole city? As in, if one family has one child another must have three? Because that seems difficult to regulate. In a three kid home, is the extra simply disposed of? Is the whole family disposed of, because they have disrupted the cycle, and are therefore ugly?
Also, the imperfections that are detectable before adulthood, are those kids killed then, or when they become adults? Because we only see adults in the death pits.
I suspect the matriarch plans for this. There are probably functional adults not allowed to have kids due to genetic issues. When they die their defective genes aren't carried on. Some families with exceptional genetics are probably allowed to have extra children. Of course then again all children may be genetically engineered and given to the parents rather than being born the natural way.
@@icedriver2207 I feel like if they had a genetic disease they would be uglies
@@teezeehayes4155 Defective genes aren't necessarily a disease, but in a closed population you might not want them to spread. Loyal and functional citizens might be more useful than dead ones. I think without knowing why they need people we will never have a clear answer.
Icedriver If you watched “Being Pretty” they kill sterile adults
I would assume if there's a surplus that it'll be rebalanced by the right number of adults being labeled ugly
"My name is David and this..."
*throws sketch book on the table* "is a big sketch book"
Me in art class lmao. Seriously though wonder full job! You are so underrated and I hope to see more like this. Also when showing all the "uglies" I found it interresting that no childeren were standing in line (not that I feel like there should be) but do the robots wait until a child is 18 to decide if their imperfect? As surely if the parents felt something was wrong they would turn their own child in because as you said "everyones loyal."
I mean, the parents job is to create a model citizen, they probably just let the parents do what it takes to turn them perfect, no need to waste a potential perfect person
@@Josuh True.
Christian Stewart then that begs the question, what happens to parents who fail this screening process. What if something is wrong genetically? In being pretty there is an “ugly” man in the pit for being sterile, so if it wasn’t for the loyalty, would potential uglies avoid that process? To avoid being executed?
But what of the uglies labeled “disfigured” surely if a baby is born with a physical defect they’d be marked ugly immediately? I’m so stuck on that detail...
@@thedotintheletteri Kids probably have a separate line from adults. You can't expect an infant - even an Ugly infant - to stand in a line for hours waiting to be killed.
“ and this is not joe”
Me eating my serial * drops boul*
Serial
Boul
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S E R I A L
Cereal or serial
Who wonders what will happen when all of those huge pits of inevitable death fill up?
Also, it’s so cool that you made that small detail to distinguish Joe from other handymen
Concrete, perhaps? Imagine all the paved roads being tombs for the dead bodies...
Daniel Kim, that would be very....dark-
They probebly force the citizens to eat the half decomposed corpses raw, and the citizens do it without question. (:
The handy men can always dig more holes
When did you get here
Plot Twist: *This is actually a documentary*
It's not though?
This is honestly the most badass looking sketchbook I’ve ever seen
alright from here on out i'm watching your stuff frame by frame.
that reveal of the final bot not being Joe shook me. i did not consent to being caught off-guard like that my reality is a LIE.
jokes aside, in all honesty though it's amazing how you'd purposely distinguish them like that just to further the world's theme. you could've easily copy-pasted the same model but you _deliberately_ made sure the one at the end didn't have scratches, and that "Joe" did.
bloody amazing lad. i look forward to what you have planned; autodale or otherwise.
NEVER sell this to hollywood! The creative genius in this series is awe inspiring. I enjoy the love independent animators put into their works, but THIS series is head and shoulders above the rest.
The amount of comments accumulated one minute after uploading shows just how engaged and active the audience is.
Wait a minute...
Hello, Tamino Clark. This is a routine check to ensure that you are properly Pretty. How is your mask holding up?
David: Hello, my name is David - distant HURK *throws big sketchbook on desk* and this is a Big Sketchboök.
I love his accent so much lol.
This is so unsettling, but I love it so much. This entire series has so much meaning and invokes such strong feeling. I find the robot enforcers, Joe especially, incredibly terrifying in that they check the homes regularly presumably to look for ‘uglies’ and also that they behave like the model citizens. Seeing Joe interact with Junior and high five him made me so uncomfortable, and I found the eyes to be super unsettling. I don’t have the right words to express the way I feel about this. Beautifully done!
"And by the way, that's not joe"
*How many other lies have i been told by the council ?!*
Hey dead sound, I have an idea for a episode. All I want is a episode that shows what happens at the male people's work.
I second this
Yes please I need to know their job
Probably most parts being building and repairing Handymen, and the rest being regular jobs like selling food, making toys, etc.
Luc Pearl and school
@@tracks6984 that is a great idea, trac
20% of the story: David actually speaks and tells us abotu his recent artwork
80% of the story: *Model citizen - David Armsby*
Check the video title duh
@@x55554 /r whooooosh
He's saying he kept playing moments of the animation to the viewer throughout the video
@@elilundgreen I mean logically since the video is focused on the model citizen episode.
I'm sure Kim Jong Un is watching Autodale series in search for inspiration...
...shoot
...
Damn
The only way I can see this series getting a happy ending: A group of handymen becoming fully sentient and self-aware.
The citizens are lost.
The city is immortal.
Everything is either indestructible or already destroyed.
Except, if a single handyman discovers art, beauty or even faith.
It would certainly be ironic yet, in my opinion, an interesting way to get some sort of hope.
Though I very much doubt this would happen considering the fact that there doesn't seem to be any innovation going on.
No experimentation with the machines or the system which makes perfect sense considering that innovation requires innovation.
And refinement implies there are/were flaws, wich this city probably doesn't want to acknowledge.
Even if there is innovation being done, machines finding humanity usually happens in stories because people are making machines that look, act or are meant to be human.
That said, a group of robots escaping the hivemind and building an artsy city with freaks would be a very interesting event.
Would the original city be hostile to them? indifferent? friendly even?
Dunno, it probably would never happen, doesn't mean its not fun to think about though.
I would write a story about it myself but my own projects have already gotten my schedule full.
Should the uploader read this:
Hi, huge fan.
Art is about causing emotions and you certainly managed to cause a few within me with envy being in the top five.
I am an aspiring writer and I would like to ask one simple question.
What is the best way to kill an idea?
I keep coming up with new scenarios, ideas and characters that I want to put into my projects.
But then I discover that one doesn't work. So I take it out but then a scene that relied on that idea doesn't work either anymore.
Things stop making sense, yet keeping the idea would just create plotholes that I cannot fill or just make the story unnecessarily complicated.
And when its whole characters or large parts of the story that at the begging and in isolation are amazing but through the mutational process of expanding on the setting as a whole just cannot find a place to settle in.
Yet I am too invested in (as these characters or scenarios are frequently the very reason I begin on a project.) to remove or heavily alter them!
Sometimes when I read a story I feel like I am the only one struggling with this and that just cannot be the case.
So, TL:DR Your stories have very good pacing and have gotten in the goldilocks zone of enough detail to make it feel alive, believable and thought-provoking without getting too complicated or needing exposition.
If I could get Patreon I would check out the sketchbook but I cant so...
Sorry if this was way too long a comment.
Your fantastic god bless your soul
That Handyman is the Friendly shadow
The ten people who disliked this were the people who pointed out the “Exceptional” lady
14 people
No. They were the faulty "Exceptionals." A Model Citizen would love this series, knowing their society is perfect.
The people that dislike were upset about "this is *not* Joe"
Alchemy - they're dead tho so they can't
Don't call me out like that (I didn't dislike but I did point out the exceptional lady)
This needs to turn into a movie or a series, it carries such an amazing message and a interesting array of multiple perspectives on that message, you make it seamless to be both identical and different, I would be more than glad to pay for this artwork to be able to help with the progression of this artwork 🖤
He seriously laughed at the man being murdered in the background lmao
Hey, I do that, too.
Guess there really is a fine line between genius and insanity
I never noticed that it wasn't the same bot. That one got me pretty hard. Even when watching this video I knew what was coming at the pit scene but that silence still caught me off guard. When he shook Joe's hand that one actually hurt me, cause it showed how uterlly powerless people can be against what they believe because even if they are perfectly capable of fighting they don't want do. In their minds fighting is not only dangerous but also completely pointless and dumb.
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FOUND THAT SCENE HILARIOUS
SAME I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD HDBXHXBDBDHXJXB
The way you said "a the guy in the background being brutally murdered *Laughs* " it gave me the chills dude ;-;
Random sci-fi nerd here, but at the end when he said the scary part of autodale was the humanity of it I was reminded of the Borg
Bruh why did this thing just showed up on my recommended.. how come i found this so late?? The story is dang deep.. respect earned!