If I ever won the lottery, I would commission Felix to write and direct his own 10-episode series of cartoons. No strings attached, I just want to deove deeper into this beautiful mad man's mind.
This is exactly why I love animation! :) We are so used to everyday streams of fakeness that everyone has been tuned to it and became immune. But animations are still uncensored for the better part, and totally good for opening peoples eyes, which are starving for the weirdness of such... as our minds mirror what's mosly seen, pictures in animations exaggerate aspects of reality making it shockingly strange, yet still true. One cannot express emotionality any better.
I love how we constantly shift between the big and the small. How, things are so infinitely complex if you shift your perspective. Yet, one thing is simple throughout, life is brutal and beautiful.
No, it is very natural. If you walk around the meadow IRL and randomly point camera here and there, you will record random things. But mostly, somebody eating somebody.
No wonder has has won awards as an animator, he has a very interesting style and an amazing imagination. Dude, you need like your own show in Adult Swim or something.
So basically the theme of this one (as I see it) is "There's always a bigger fish". Those who think they're in power or seem to have the upper hand are often only more powerless to a being bigger than themselves, whether that being is their original prey or a completely new entity.
I love the style! It reminds me of being a kid and not understanding everything fully. Edit: Holy shit this comment got a lot of attention. To clarify, I was referring the level of complexity of the world Felix Colgrave created in this animation and comparing it to how, as a child, it takes time to understand how the different aspects of our world are connected. For example, how the smallest insect or blade of grass impacts the world around it, and how many other organisms depend on that one insect or blade of grass. Also, I did have a kinda messed up childhood for those wondering lol. While I wasn't high as a kid like some of you were suggesting, my biological father was often high or drunk off his ass. That and I watched the shit out of Adult Swim from age 3 and up, so watching trippy animations was a norm for me growing up.
Id love to see more of this place at night. It's so cool exploring a living place like this. In all of it's little coves and glades, undergrowths and canopies. I'm in love with places like this
@@mosterchife6045 that kinda ruins the joke, the drug thing it's overdone but a poison trip sounds a lot more jarring... and funnier, like bam! you licked the wrong frog and now you're going to die but not before having the trip of your life.
@@lewismcdonald985 I feel like the important part of the transition goes deeper than the visuals. His earlier work had a more realistic and horror tinged visual vibe, but that was used in contrast to what was usually just goofy and surreal (and at times pretty dark) humor. His newer pieces feel like the opposite. They have this brighter more superficially cartoony look, but they have recurring themes of ecological devastation, extinction, pollution, etc. More serious, real world issues lurking behind the still goofy and surreal first layer, and I think the contrast works equally well in the opposite direction.
I thought I was the only person who played that game. Unless you have the creepy and cute parts pack, good luck. Some of the creatures probably will be super hard to make
I’ve watched this dozens of times before, but this is the first time while high as a kite. And everything is different. The instruments in the songs are intensified, almost creating a new song altogether. And let me say, I am a fan both ways. Truly stunning work
+Iyus Yusuf its just a story about a world ,all of the different things somehow interacting ,like our ecological system on earth do you want me to elaborate about something specific ,because everyone sees things in a different way
Candy Man The concept that most people seem to lose sight of, with these sorts of animations, etc., is that there is still, in the universe, space, etc., different "degrees of glory" for different worlds, etc. In other words, hell is still hell, and heaven is still heaven. A world where the strong prey upon the weak is still a world which is not like heaven, and, of course, hell is far worse still...
People keep bringing up drugs.. but yeah, almost everything in this animation is still things that make sense, concepts we are familiar with and can relate to. It's really cool, but it isn't as far out there as people make it out to be. Try to see the world and life from the reduced perspective of a fish or a mosquito, can you even begin to comprehend it?
You have the best imagination I have ever seen you make masterpieces, how in the hell does someone make millions of dollars taping a banana to a wall when there are people like you. you deserve millions of dollars, this is true art you are what I aspire to be.
I love how no matter how amazing the animations are, he never forgets to include a few funny bits, like the gardener (?) and the red blood cells. For something like this, it makes me smile :)
1:55 reminds me of an Australian children's book I can't remember what its called but its about a frog who drank all the water and the other animals had to make him laugh so he'd let it out
@@pifflesomepuffnadder855 The reason it says "Yes" is because "Me", the person writing the meme, simply chooses to not answer directly and just say "Yes", which means several things related to the question or just none of them at all.
this is the greatest nature documentary ever created, all of these beautiful elusive creatures found on ###### are usually so difficult to capture even if just with a camera. Well done, Felix Colgrave.
Don't worry, it just got eaten by a giant green monster, 1000x its own size, with hundreds of sharp mechanical teeth, spinning along toward its deep dark gullet. Just imagine if that happened you... you'd be okay, wouldn't you?
the one thought going through that elephent cells mind was "hmmm there's a blood sucking monster eati g all my friends, F:&#k this!!." walks as fast as he can in the oposit direction
I think Felix is one of those artists who really understands the power of cycles on a spiritual level - all these rhythmic, cyclical movements in his animation (complementing they cycles of the music), paired with these cycles of day and night, birth, life, death, and consumption. A beautiful portrait of life as a whole, a wheel, in apparent perpetual motion. Horrifying, ugly, beautiful, funny. Still resonates with me all these years later. Been loving your recent work too
i remember seeing this as a kid and being so weirded out by it, but i just stumbled across it again and gosh this is an absolute masterpiece, love every part of it :)
Oskar Forever "So we uh, let this bird that sings chiptune fly over a crevice, but this crevice had some huge worm and uh it eats the bird but then this bigger bird grabs the worm so the worm pulls its entire body out which reveals a human body and they both wrestle" *intrigued and confused looks from people*
Pulling cards out of a hat "bird" "eaten by" -oops I grabbed two --just take both "worm" "person" --oh ---person with worm head? -whatever "wrestles" -wrestles? "bird" -another bird? --we need a where "chasm" --bird in a chasm? -how about the worm is really long ---isn't it also a person? -whatever
Peeble Kitty "Okay , so . This hooded monster king starts murdering every other monarch in the realm to get as many crowns as possible and then manages to get the Lich's crown by pissing him right the fuck off"
I learned from Felix's videos that for any creature, no matter how beautiful or happy it thinks it is, there is always another that is going to swallow it or slaughter it in the worst way possible.
I was thinking of like Rick and Marty getting tossed into this world(the one in the video) with seemingly mad random logic but also appearing to be (could not find an English word to finish this very carefully crafted sentence in a RUclips comment section because that would be oh so embarrassing if someone were to catch an error in my reply(because you can’t real call this a ‘sentence’ now could you? It’s like a run on paragraph,), anyways lost track what I was getting at here I am getting pretty old 17 I’m practically on my death bed right not(“que the iron-e-see(I did that’’ as auto correction on an iPad won’t give me a good word to replace my gibberish-ibberish soo that’s about all ) ) fun words and all great comment by the way KamiSilver I would mention your first replay-er to our pit-tick-u-lurr comment here on this video but I’d rather tap more buttons!waste more unregainable heat and energy than to punch in 6 letters and say thanks in 3 letters good bye hand ave safe travel to your permanent staying place you were before at.
So here's my little analysis of the film. The Elephant's Garden: The Earth. The largest garden in the world, and as such, tended by mighty behemoths. The elephants could represent the natural laws of the universe that keep the earth alive and in balance. The majority of the film is a discussion on nature, about creation and destruction and consumption, and the transferral of energy. The first scene is about the terrible perils of predators who can disguise themselves as the things we love and need, only to prey on us using these desires. The second scene is similar, but instead of the predator being big, it is tiny. We see the phenomenon of how some animals produce millions of young only to literally throw them away (almost like farting them out, as the lump does), they are as insubstantial as bubbles. In environments such as these, the little serpent gets by by sneakily eating what is not noticed. The baby killed gets fat and laughs because his job is so easy. The third scene with the hummingbirds has several parts. I interpret portions with human faces to represent larger forces, like forces of nature, rather than creatures. The tree is the wisdom and comfort of environments that are safe, when the first bird is consumed by the cloud man, it is not eaten, but killed by greater natural causes outside it's control. The second bird is killed by lack of caution from a hiding predator. When the worm man is attacked by the stalk and fights back, he represents the hidden power which animals often hide, but which can become deadly when their life is threatened. The fourth scene is about how not all that is killed is consumed for useful purposes. The flowers push each other to show that they have little use on their own, but may be taken advantage of by the goat for pleasures beyond simple survival. This is how humanity begins to develop. The fifth scene is about the birth of humanity and it's roles versus animals. The hunters wear masks because they believe themselves to be important and with an identity beyond the world. But while they are chasing the bloodsuckers they suddenly discover the rope which chains earth to the elephants (they suddenly realise their own smallness in the face of the universe, much like astronomy). The animals meanwhile ignore this revelation and continue to reap the benefits of the natural world (feeding off the elephants), but this means they are utterly defenceless when great powers are indifferent to them (the elephant farmer and his bloodsucker-spray). Humanity knows to be afraid of the elephants. Finally, when the moon eats the sun, we see that the whole universe and the laws of physics and entropy are no different from earth and nature. Just as this world is always run by energy and exchange, so is the rest of everything.
This is one of my favorite animations. Great world building and creature design. Reminds me of when I was a kid and I would love to draw bizarre alien worlds.
I think my favorite thing about this animation, save for literally everything about it, is the sense of humor. Every moment has some form of silliness to it, like there's a slight quirky absurdist joke in the unexpected and you're just like "well, life is like that." Like the llama's movements, how it's rolled into the belly of the beast, literally. The muted music of the little birds. The flowers poking at each other. The parasite's villain laugh. The entire mosquito bird bit. The animation is so beautiful and profound and so damn casual about it. It's very relaxing to me.
@@Spesnom thank you for your constructive critism roblox player who's age certainly doesn't exceed 10. It really hurted my feelings and shreded my self-confidance
@@Spesnom you shouldn't use Bad words at your âge, its not appropriate. And you got a youtube Channel full of deplorable roblox content that you call a "video"
I’ve always loved your animations because of the feeling you get well watching them that there’s always a bigger fish- if you get what I mean. What ever creature(s) were following at a time is just a smaller part of something much bigger’s else’s life.
i have to say i really respect felix colgrave and his form of avant garde art. he creates worlds so amazingly and well that in 5 to 10 minutes it feels like you just got as much information on his world as you could get from this one in a lifetime of study
If I ever won the lottery, I would commission Felix to write and direct his own 10-episode series of cartoons. No strings attached, I just want to deove deeper into this beautiful mad man's mind.
That Asshole in The Comment Section *no no he/she has a point*
and he should do a collab with Duncan Trussell
Ksawery or maybe a crossover with salad fingers and double king
@@hellosrek2654 lmfaoo
ok so this comment seems like it might blow up to im just taking a spot right here
This is *so weird.* I must show my beloved _immediately._
AJ D yeees! I did the same thing
God bless you both lol
This is exactly why I love animation! :) We are so used to everyday streams of fakeness that everyone has been tuned to it and became immune. But animations are still uncensored for the better part, and totally good for opening peoples eyes, which are starving for the weirdness of such... as our minds mirror what's mosly seen, pictures in animations exaggerate aspects of reality making it shockingly strange, yet still true. One cannot express emotionality any better.
I dont have a beloved but i have a cat.
I must show my cat *immediately*
@@anintellectual1637 cat must see weirdness
I love how we constantly shift between the big and the small. How, things are so infinitely complex if you shift your perspective.
Yet, one thing is simple throughout, life is brutal and beautiful.
Just like real live
The small of quatum world and masive of multiverse theory
What I absolutely love about this video is that while it looks like something absolutely random, you can see a certain logic in this world.
No, it is very natural. If you walk around the meadow IRL and randomly point camera here and there, you will record random things. But mostly, somebody eating somebody.
@@BarafuAlbinoi agree
2:27 he used bass boost before it was cool
Lol
@@QuantumsMinecraft101 👌😫
Michael_0404 those poor boodes why 😖😖😖
@@d3vlkkrs946 whats a bood?
@@lvbboi9 2:09 that a bood
Now, I'm not saying that's the weirdest elephant based surreal ecosystem I've ever seen, but it definately ranks in the top 10.
You... tonight.
megastoejoe LOL! I almost didn't catch that, until I read the name above. #AquaTeenHungerForce .
megastoejoe haha hand banana no no bad dog
It's up there with that trippy scene in Dumbo 😄
Now what are you searching up on RUclips there?
This is one of those dreams that you know you had but can't quite remember.
How do you knowledgeable
Yeah I agree @worrior cast
@@juluke8385 yes
Yea...
Dreams are weird
No wonder has has won awards as an animator, he has a very interesting style and an amazing imagination. Dude, you need like your own show in Adult Swim or something.
It's litteraly called drugs or DMT salvia acid shrooms or possessed by a u know what
@@davidweining8981 I have a feeling you’ve done none of those lol
@@kehtonhultquist5075 guess your intuition is shit then cuz iv done acid
@@kehtonhultquist5075 Bros on the internet just act like they do drugs cause they think it makes them look cool
@@davidweining8981
This is NOT what lsd does. I mean, this is a great video to watch ON lsd, but that’s besides the point
I love surrealism, especially in animation.
You never mention this during your playthrough of "I have no mouth, but I must scream"
That was awesome
And who doesnt
Funny to find you here
.🤔😑.
So basically the theme of this one (as I see it) is "There's always a bigger fish". Those who think they're in power or seem to have the upper hand are often only more powerless to a being bigger than themselves, whether that being is their original prey or a completely new entity.
I'm pretty sure you weren't supposed to find meaning in this one
@@Brambled802 yeah maybe, but that won't stop me from grossly over-analyzing it
The cartoon is made for everybody to have fun. If you have fun analyzing it, then do it.
@@ИгорьАнтонов-в4л Thanks man :D
@@Brambled802 the abscense of meaning in this animated piece may be a clever demonstration of the absurdity and meaninglessness of our life.
The wilderness of your imagination is a dangerous place. Great work as always.
Ricepirate ello rice
Hi people who are scrolling threw the comments
669th like
lol
the place he lives is dangerous
More like the wildness on how much acid he's on
I'm gonna create names for all the creatures because why not
0:17 Loxodonta the Planet Bearer (and kin)
0:46 Grass-Eating Llama
0:54 Grasstooth Swallower
1:13 Hill Lurker
1:19 Woodland Lumpus
1:24 Woodland Lumpus Larvae (Lumpets)
1:31 Slitherstriker
1:55 Water-Bearing Frog
2:01 Bearded Oldertree
2:09 Twig-Beaked Hummingbird
2:13 Homonimbus
2:24 Gorge Dweller
2:27 Goliath Stork
2:32 Floaterfish
2:40 Florasapients
2:50 Gasper the Gardenkeeper Dragon
3:01 Spore Tortoise
3:07 Banded Bloodsucker
3:14 Colgravian Head-Hunters
3:18 Colgravian Siege-Beast
3:54 The Elephant Gardener
Lumpets!
Colgravians. Awesome name.
missed opportunity to call it sporetoise
Za dragon
reminds me a bit of Pikmin, I like it
I love the style!
It reminds me of being a kid and not understanding everything fully.
Edit: Holy shit this comment got a lot of attention.
To clarify, I was referring the level of complexity of the world Felix Colgrave created in this animation and comparing it to how, as a child, it takes time to understand how the different aspects of our world are connected. For example, how the smallest insect or blade of grass impacts the world around it, and how many other organisms depend on that one insect or blade of grass.
Also, I did have a kinda messed up childhood for those wondering lol. While I wasn't high as a kid like some of you were suggesting, my biological father was often high or drunk off his ass. That and I watched the shit out of Adult Swim from age 3 and up, so watching trippy animations was a norm for me growing up.
+xxWinglessWolf The mistake many people do when growing up is deluding themselves that they actually know anything about reality and its implications.
RUclipsr
*takes a hit*
whoah man so deep
TheWinglessArtist I
TheWinglessArtist so you were high as a kid? huh
i think he was implying that as an adult you will not understand anything in Colgraves world, in similar way a kid dont understand this world.
This is sad knowing all those beautiful creatures will eventually become one of Double King’s crowns....
RIP *The bass bird*
isnt the double king stuck in limbo now?
@@shelster374 Limbo is his crown
oh
looks like im an idiot then
0:50 i like how the llama was so chill like "welp guess it's my fate"
It was so cute. I am sad about it.
More like "guess I'll die"
This is not the Llama's first time. For unbeknownst to the grass giant, the Llama is not the pray.
It’s got sunglasses
Id love to see more of this place at night. It's so cool exploring a living place like this. In all of it's little coves and glades, undergrowths and canopies. I'm in love with places like this
Same.
1:02 the teeth movement is so satisfying
My portuguese ;-;
Ikr
- khushi and.... and-and scary.......?!
LOL right
and the grass at 0:43
2:40 You know the weed is good when it becomes self aware
Japhethy that’s when you know, you’re on more than just weed
You know the weed is good
ruclips.net/video/ZKi6WQUjvaA/видео.html
*_terraria truffle NPC intensifies_*
more like dmt lol
I love his comment : "a film I made with elephants in it, and a bunch of other things too". The elephants were top priority
MiniAlpha the elephants were definitely top priority
I like how in his animations we never really get a sense of scale, so we just have to imagine how big these creatures are
2:25 Ah yes, my favourite character...
Bass Bird
Magestic
I agree
And naked man with an extremely long neck.
Earthworman
Have you forgotten the mighty marijuana dragon
I’m sorry, I don’t seem to recall consuming any LSD.
*And yet we are here.*
Welcome to my world
*What's LSD*
Carmen Sandiego *what's LSD*
Prakriti It’s a drug that causes hallucinations, among other things. You may know it as shrooms or acid. “LSD” stands for lysergic acid diethylamide
Everyone is always asking, where in the world is Carmen sandiego, no one is asking why is Carmen sandiego *here*
This episode of Nat-Geo was brought to by:
Poison.
And 30 tabs of acid
Make that a thousand
LSD: requiem
haha
@@mosterchife6045 that kinda ruins the joke, the drug thing it's overdone but a poison trip sounds a lot more jarring... and funnier, like bam! you licked the wrong frog and now you're going to die but not before having the trip of your life.
3:16 that run animation is so smooth
Do you think watching this high would even change the experience.
Cyborg Lion maybe you'd feel like you're in that world instead of observing it lol but I see what you mean
Wait, telling me im not already high?!
No
I actually saw it under the effect of the drugs
@@chingwaza wait there are people that watch this while not being high? I only watch this high and it's completely amazing!
if hell exists this man has seen it
Actually Cyriak has seen it..
Oh no no
Thats weed dont worry
Heaven* I would say
He’s seen the beginning and the end, hell and heaven, Sour milk and smooth chocolate cake. And everything inbetween.
truly brother
2:01
it's bob Ross as a tree
A happy little tree!
Duuudeee cool
You have an interesting mind, and thats absolutly Bob Ross i cant oversee it from now on. Thank you mate.
@@moriarty8197 aye no problem
@@mrmcticc8198 you have gained a sub
I can't get over how perfect this is as both a final beautiful sendoff to Felix's old style, and a graceful transition into his new one.
Colgrave's old artwork gives more "horror and realism" vibes, while his new one gives a more "cartoony yet graceful". and I'm here for it
@@lewismcdonald985 I feel like the important part of the transition goes deeper than the visuals. His earlier work had a more realistic and horror tinged visual vibe, but that was used in contrast to what was usually just goofy and surreal (and at times pretty dark) humor. His newer pieces feel like the opposite.
They have this brighter more superficially cartoony look, but they have recurring themes of ecological devastation, extinction, pollution, etc. More serious, real world issues lurking behind the still goofy and surreal first layer, and I think the contrast works equally well in the opposite direction.
0:57
Does anyone else find that weirdly satisfying?
I do i like the waving
The effort in that wow
not really, i feel like the fps is shit
Yup
Me
2:50
Here we are given insite on how Felix gets his video ideas:
Yaz
@@mr.zapiekanka8462
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@@forregom yaz
I dunno, man, that's kind of insulting
Felix's true form
2:01 he turned Bob Ross into a happy little tree, how the turn tables.
I see what you did there
@Adam Scuute its an intentional misspelling, a reference from the office i think, idk i never watched it i just heard of the quote
Woi apaan nih,🗿
@@ionicman2908 he wasn't actually correcting him however, his correction is still an obvious jumbled joke so there's no need to explain
The fact that this has *0* dislikes is a miracle
ok i love that “drunk felix” is credited in the special thanks section
I am just gonna create all these creatures in spore
I wish you good luck
I thought I was the only person who played that game. Unless you have the creepy and cute parts pack, good luck. Some of the creatures probably will be super hard to make
rockboiler I thougth the same, but i was lazy to do it
rockboiler hey i have spore too
HEY YOU STOLE MY WISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teacher: relax guys the test isnt that confusing
*the test:*
Exotic Glyphs the video makes me go:𝔂𝓮𝓼
Me: How much weirdness would u like in ur vid?
Felix: yes
699 likes, consider me 700th, but I don’t wanna ruin it so I won’t actually like it
This test is easy
999 likes, consider me 1000th, but I don’t wanna ruin it so I won’t actually like it
3:16 The 1.14 Village and Pillage update looks great!
🤣
Wow...Felix thought of it first, I guess
That what I was thinking 😂😂
I think those are Florans who are wearing the pelts of the Apex to stay warm.
Lmao
Love to see a spec evo based on this.
That’d be amazing
2:26
*”YOU PICKED THE WRONG FOOD FOOL”*
Ayyyyyyy.... Big worm it's me Smokey..
B A S S
2:26
Monkey worm
fun fact: he animated the peen on it
It’s like watching an acid trip of some crossdimensional ekosystems.
Yes I agree with you this would be lovely to watch while having a nice trip on acid! And if you know how to get some let me know
@@mariajobe2543 NOPE NO NO NO THIS WOULD BE A BAD MISTAKE
@@prestonnormile9996 no it wont its cool ive seen a few of his videos while tripping
@@Catinthebag1513 Depends on person and environment and state of mind I guess
@@nickkohlmann Exactly. Set & settings if you know what i mean. :)
The music, the art, the symbolism, man what kind of awesomeness is this
I didn't get any symbolism tho, care to share some?
@@albarence0522 it's called acid & cocaine
@@gun_peak1853 ok, share some coke then
@@gun_peak1853 Shrooms
@@albarence0522 Each scene has some form of predation
Ok but can we talk about how good the music is? It fits perfectly with each act.
Your artstyle reminds me of Dr. Seuss if he was just 3% more unstable
Only 3% more?
@@BeriadanLocien i mean, dr seuss's style is similar to felix's but less disturbing but kept the surrealism
@@C0wy_ fair point
@@C0wy_ disturbing??? the most pg-13 that happens in this video is somebody smokes some flowers
@@gremlinman9724 the disturbing-ness comes from the weirdness of the characterrs themselves
2:26 the visuals the music everything
Adventure time vibes
Gives me anxiety vibes
Gives me high vibes
Makes my ears bleed
@@KarusKardin same
Konrad Balanyk lol begger
2:23 this feels like it could be a meme the music is almost deepfried
BASS BIRD
It's my favourite track lol. Sheet Grinder. It's in the playlist in the description.
yes it *is*
2:27
lmao nice
Years later and I’m just now noticing pretty much all of the clips shown are representing the circle of life
Remember, someone had to make the sound effect at 2:16
*lol*
wow lol great comment
Oh yeah
I wonder how...
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0:56 that must've been a pain to animate
Well actually, if you look at just one, you will realize that it‘s just copy and paste. Looks cool tho!
The alpaca looked like an ipod, just me?
MR ALPACA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@buddythemoth yeah, because Felix remove it's leg
Yea
2:10 is anyone going to talk about how weird that is
That's normal
@@BillyBob-jy1gv Completely normal
2:23 is much worse
Mmmmhmmmm mm mmm
C O N S U M E T H E B I R D
I’ve watched this dozens of times before, but this is the first time while high as a kite. And everything is different. The instruments in the songs are intensified, almost creating a new song altogether. And let me say, I am a fan both ways. Truly stunning work
Watch it while candy flipping it’s amazing
The fact you can even explain this while your high is impressive
i just like how that last elephant blood cells went like nope and walked away
2:13
ikr
i feel like something is wrong because i kinda find this makes sense ,and its just really gorgeous animation
Please tell me what is the essential of this video? I don't get the point :(
+Iyus Yusuf its just a story about a world ,all of the different things somehow interacting ,like our ecological system on earth
do you want me to elaborate about something specific ,because everyone sees things in a different way
+Tamar Avrahami some say that every scene is the effect of some of drugs
Candy Man The concept that most people seem to lose sight of, with these sorts of animations, etc., is that there is still, in the universe, space, etc., different "degrees of glory" for different worlds, etc. In other words, hell is still hell, and heaven is still heaven. A world where the strong prey upon the weak is still a world which is not like heaven, and, of course, hell is far worse still...
People keep bringing up drugs.. but yeah, almost everything in this animation is still things that make sense, concepts we are familiar with and can relate to. It's really cool, but it isn't as far out there as people make it out to be.
Try to see the world and life from the reduced perspective of a fish or a mosquito, can you even begin to comprehend it?
You have the best imagination I have ever seen you make masterpieces, how in the hell does someone make millions of dollars taping a banana to a wall when there are people like you. you deserve millions of dollars, this is true art you are what I aspire to be.
Because youtube is overtaken by brain dead 8 year olds now, thats why clickbait channels are profiting
Ditto this
*Ba na na on waII*
I feel like he gets a lot of inspiration from acid trips
**snap **snap** period
I love how no matter how amazing the animations are, he never forgets to include a few funny bits, like the gardener (?) and the red blood cells. For something like this, it makes me smile :)
2:37 Yep, the blunt smoking dragon is my new spirit animal.
Don't smoke kids!
*IT KILLS*
Out of all the things I could call that creature, a dragon wasn't one of them, but it fits pretty well
The Socially Awkward Falcon it was some sort of demented wildebeest.
@@ERROR-k9v - Oop, I smoke weed lol
S A M E
0:35 "woah" *looks around* "YEAAAAAAAAA-"
Made my day xD
Wow just wow
lol
Makes me happy :D
Why’d you have to say that, now I can only hear that lol
The part with the birds and the human worm thing had me questioning my entire life.
Even more is that it was earrape
I only came for that part
I only came at that part
& roses! Roses forever!
Is everyone here in 2024?
No
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me but I watched this last time
Me
But not much
We showed up
2:58 this explain everything
Idk what did I watched.....but it was beautiful
Weed. Weed explains everything.
lmao
Nobody:
Felix Colgrave: (True art noises)
Clouds can succ 2:15
You know what else can succ
???
@@Onyx2troll your mom
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@@Onyx2troll not funny didn’t laugh
1:55 reminds me of an Australian children's book I can't remember what its called but its about a frog who drank all the water and the other animals had to make him laugh so he'd let it out
The story of Tiddalik the frog, an Australian Indigenous folklore story found in a number of Indigenous communities across Australia
3:11 will always be my favorite part
I know he’s so cute lookit him
i concur. totally right!
the music is my favorite alone, plus the cute little boy running away
@@Snippe475 ma boi in danger :(
psychologist: how does his videos make you feel?
me: 𝙮𝙚𝙨
"Yes" what?
@@pifflesomepuffnadder855 r/woooosh
@Bryce Ko I don't t freaking get it though!
Can you please explain?
@@pifflesomepuffnadder855
The reason it says "Yes" is because "Me", the person writing the meme, simply chooses to not answer directly and just say "Yes", which means several things related to the question or just none of them at all.
Get a new psychologist
I can't get over how good this is.
this is the greatest nature documentary ever created, all of these beautiful elusive creatures found on ###### are usually so difficult to capture even if just with a camera. Well done, Felix Colgrave.
i hope the alpaca is ok
Don't worry, it just got eaten by a giant green monster, 1000x its own size, with hundreds of sharp mechanical teeth, spinning along toward its deep dark gullet. Just imagine if that happened you... you'd be okay, wouldn't you?
That's a Llama Bitch!
Its dead
Dead like Muggs
Yeah, he's okay. He died though.
LOL that one blood cel that was all like...."nah man" 😂
Noah Song fuck this shit I'm out
the one thought going through that elephent cells mind was "hmmm there's a blood sucking monster eati g all my friends, F:&#k this!!."
walks as fast as he can in the oposit direction
Noah Song Did you just spell a four letter word wrong?
Noah Song these videos were made by artists high on drugs
Noah Song faq this shit I’m out
friend: "how high are you?"
me: "Felix Colgrave"
Me: Cyriak And GD Peaceful.
Edit: yey I replied
You need more likes my friend
hahahaha I just took lsd and I can't stop but laughing at this comment after this vid xD
Well you're fucked
I think Felix is one of those artists who really understands the power of cycles on a spiritual level - all these rhythmic, cyclical movements in his animation (complementing they cycles of the music), paired with these cycles of day and night, birth, life, death, and consumption. A beautiful portrait of life as a whole, a wheel, in apparent perpetual motion. Horrifying, ugly, beautiful, funny. Still resonates with me all these years later.
Been loving your recent work too
Psychologist: Humanoid worm is not real, it can't hurt you
Humanoid worm: 2:26
Big Birb: o thank goodness
You are a real G
mY favourite part was the earrape
Noah, get the boat
In the animation the worm has 1 frame that shows a fucking dick
0:55 Those teeth... those teeth.
hypnotizing as fuck dude
Satisfaction...
ICUSeriously It's like a walking man-whale... Kind of...
Forget those teeth, look at the cute llama! :D
mhhhh......AhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHhHhHHH 🤢🤢🤢
these could be 8 generation pokemons.
PeekoBoss Miami Force 2 Wrong Bro
*That would be Fucking AMAZING! I would buy that!
Instead we get pokemon that look like people in fursuits :(
i remember seeing this as a kid and being so weirded out by it, but i just stumbled across it again and gosh this is an absolute masterpiece, love every part of it :)
1:33 music giving me huge terraria vibes
Martian madness be like
b
New boss theme
@@michalrodzik8440 more like new biome
@@geniusbruh542 new evil biome, that spreads
"Written, directed, and animated by felix colgrave"
I'd like to see you reading out a script for one of these videos to workers
Peeble Kitty the thing is he animates without a script for these videos
Nik DUY that's not the point. Just imagine a briefing where people face this kind of script.
Oskar Forever "So we uh, let this bird that sings chiptune fly over a crevice, but this crevice had some huge worm and uh it eats the bird but then this bigger bird grabs the worm so the worm pulls its entire body out which reveals a human body and they both wrestle"
*intrigued and confused looks from people*
Pulling cards out of a hat
"bird"
"eaten by"
-oops I grabbed two
--just take both
"worm" "person"
--oh
---person with worm head?
-whatever
"wrestles"
-wrestles?
"bird"
-another bird?
--we need a where
"chasm"
--bird in a chasm?
-how about the worm is really long
---isn't it also a person?
-whatever
Peeble Kitty
"Okay , so . This hooded monster king starts murdering every other monarch in the realm to get as many crowns as possible and then manages to get the Lich's crown by pissing him right the fuck off"
Party Man: "So, how many hits of acid do you want, man?"
Felix: "Yes"
Чта?
Yeah pretty much
@@МагомедСулейманов-б8й Патимейкер: Чел, тебе сколько "кислоты"?
Феликс : Да
the guy that buys a whole sheet just for one trip
That's one of the worst one's yet. These memes are unfunny.
I learned from Felix's videos that for any creature, no matter how beautiful or happy it thinks it is, there is always another that is going to swallow it or slaughter it in the worst way possible.
Animal planet on acid.
But out of honesty, love the work
It would be a terrifying adventure to actually be in that garden
humans would be the first one to die
I was thinking of like Rick and Marty getting tossed into this world(the one in the video) with seemingly mad random logic but also appearing to be (could not find an English word to finish this very carefully crafted sentence in a RUclips comment section because that would be oh so embarrassing if someone were to catch an error in my reply(because you can’t real call this a ‘sentence’ now could you? It’s like a run on paragraph,), anyways lost track what I was getting at here I am getting pretty old 17 I’m practically on my death bed right not(“que the iron-e-see(I did that’’ as auto correction on an iPad won’t give me a good word to replace my gibberish-ibberish soo that’s about all ) ) fun words and all great comment by the way KamiSilver I would mention your first replay-er to our pit-tick-u-lurr comment here on this video but I’d rather tap more buttons!waste more unregainable heat and energy than to punch in 6 letters and say thanks in 3 letters good bye hand ave safe travel to your permanent staying place you were before at.
So here's my little analysis of the film. The Elephant's Garden: The Earth. The largest garden in the world, and as such, tended by mighty behemoths. The elephants could represent the natural laws of the universe that keep the earth alive and in balance.
The majority of the film is a discussion on nature, about creation and destruction and consumption, and the transferral of energy.
The first scene is about the terrible perils of predators who can disguise themselves as the things we love and need, only to prey on us using these desires.
The second scene is similar, but instead of the predator being big, it is tiny. We see the phenomenon of how some animals produce millions of young only to literally throw them away (almost like farting them out, as the lump does), they are as insubstantial as bubbles. In environments such as these, the little serpent gets by by sneakily eating what is not noticed. The baby killed gets fat and laughs because his job is so easy.
The third scene with the hummingbirds has several parts. I interpret portions with human faces to represent larger forces, like forces of nature, rather than creatures. The tree is the wisdom and comfort of environments that are safe, when the first bird is consumed by the cloud man, it is not eaten, but killed by greater natural causes outside it's control. The second bird is killed by lack of caution from a hiding predator. When the worm man is attacked by the stalk and fights back, he represents the hidden power which animals often hide, but which can become deadly when their life is threatened.
The fourth scene is about how not all that is killed is consumed for useful purposes. The flowers push each other to show that they have little use on their own, but may be taken advantage of by the goat for pleasures beyond simple survival. This is how humanity begins to develop.
The fifth scene is about the birth of humanity and it's roles versus animals. The hunters wear masks because they believe themselves to be important and with an identity beyond the world. But while they are chasing the bloodsuckers they suddenly discover the rope which chains earth to the elephants (they suddenly realise their own smallness in the face of the universe, much like astronomy). The animals meanwhile ignore this revelation and continue to reap the benefits of the natural world (feeding off the elephants), but this means they are utterly defenceless when great powers are indifferent to them (the elephant farmer and his bloodsucker-spray). Humanity knows to be afraid of the elephants.
Finally, when the moon eats the sun, we see that the whole universe and the laws of physics and entropy are no different from earth and nature. Just as this world is always run by energy and exchange, so is the rest of everything.
imo there’s no meaning behind this, it’s a glimpse into felix’s schizophrenic imagination
I don't think Felix thought these things,but this doesn't mean they're wrong.Great👏
That was deep.
@Brandon G humans think everything has to have a purpose.
Nature is meanless.
Life is meanless.
Death is meanless.
This comment is meanless.
Interesting interpretation.
This is one of my favorite animations. Great world building and creature design. Reminds me of when I was a kid and I would love to draw bizarre alien worlds.
My mom: go outside
Me: no the animals scare me
My mom: oh come on, they are harmless
The animals:
haha! nice!
@@froogletanimations1086 Wdym?
@@azubilp I think they edited it out but when I saw the comment it did the cringey thanks for all the likes and made a cringey joke
@@froogletanimations1086
Ah, I understand now. That sounds completely reasonable
2:27 when the teacher calls on you because you're goofing around with your friends but you actually know the answer
God of Ramen agreed
800 likes 4 ya
1:51
When it's 3 AM and you successfully get something to eat without waking up anyone else in the house
Hehehehehehegegegee3eee
I think my favorite thing about this animation, save for literally everything about it, is the sense of humor. Every moment has some form of silliness to it, like there's a slight quirky absurdist joke in the unexpected and you're just like "well, life is like that."
Like the llama's movements, how it's rolled into the belly of the beast, literally. The muted music of the little birds. The flowers poking at each other. The parasite's villain laugh. The entire mosquito bird bit.
The animation is so beautiful and profound and so damn casual about it. It's very relaxing to me.
2:37 so relaxing with headphones
If you got the time stamp a bit wrong you would have made them all go deaf
2:27
@@kittycat-sc7je LMAO YAH
@@freshmango2719 edit it
@@kittycat-sc7je nah, i'm talking serious about that
What about the flowers touching each others faces part
2:12 There is something very pythonesque about this moment.
probably because of all the stuff involved with clouds in the flying circus
*tells you to find the holy grail*
It took me way too long to figure out that word
Totally had the same thought. Was waiting for God to bestow a quest.
omg I thought the same thing
4:00 i love that scene.
Vore
@@hbushnell 💀
vore
i have to admit that i've whatched this animation like, 100 times and i never get tired of seeing it
I don't know what I just watched.
I don't know why I watched it.
But I think I liked it.
2:01
Is that...
Bob Ross tree ???
@@Spesnom thank you for your constructive critism roblox player who's age certainly doesn't exceed 10.
It really hurted my feelings and shreded my self-confidance
@@Spesnom you shouldn't use Bad words at your âge, its not appropriate.
And you got a youtube Channel full of deplorable roblox content that you call a "video"
@@Spesnom if you continue like that i'll have to call your parents
@@Spesnom you seriously think Capslock's gonna impress me.
Your just ridiculousing yourself on internet
it’s not..
I’ve always loved your animations because of the feeling you get well watching them that there’s always a bigger fish- if you get what I mean. What ever creature(s) were following at a time is just a smaller part of something much bigger’s else’s life.
Those grass teeth masticating in peristalsis motion is now my utmost favorite visual bar none.
who needs drugs to get high when i have your videos to do it! they're awesome!!!
SWATDRUMMUH But these videos are even greater with drugs
SWATDRUMMUH doublehigh
Ogon kishi no
tripple high....drugs make these sooo much cooler.
Please...
stop...
If someone came up to me and asked me what I was watching...I don't think I'd be able to really answer.
I still love it though
Yoshi Zero true
2:29
*Top ten anime battles of all time*
Lol
U got 69 likes I don’t want to ruin it
i have to say i really respect felix colgrave and his form of avant garde art. he creates worlds so amazingly and well that in 5 to 10 minutes it feels like you just got as much information on his world as you could get from this one in a lifetime of study
0:57
This is the most satisfying thing that I’ve ever seen
Ikr
He is kinda killing a animal.
You like when animals get eaten alive my dude?
Oscar Perez
They meant the teeth, not that
Oscar Perez Yes, I meant the animal being killed and digested as being satisfying and definitely not the teeth that were moving in a satisfying motion
Lotion Pizza lmao
I really love how everything moves, great animation!
Or the original style, or the unexpectedness of things. It's awesome!
Nice picture friend
Same. I think felix's imagination is pretty wild no?
Drusbakat it really scary
Drusbakat I see many of this shape every. Day they are and can become one of us the only sign of infinity is definity itself
I pray that the Patreon works, want to see a full length of this mind bending experience provided by Colgrave.