***** It's true, also when they sing wildlife comes! I enjoy the song don't care if it's not metal enough for most metal heads or whatever (don't really care what genre something comes from just as long as I enjoy it), but the music video harkens back to animation I love, so it was a double whammy.
musashidanmcgrath Yep I'm aware, that's why it pleases me, disney these days seems to be pulling away form the old animation style which had the most lovely hair movements. Not downing CGI as its progressing nicely but I miss animated hair like this.
Woah haha. Didn't expect you here! Big fan of Freak Kitchen as well as all of the things you've done concerning FNAF :) especially "Since You've Been Gone"!
Fun fact: The characters were drawn over their 3D models to handle the complex volume and perspective. Eg. 3:02 - 3:06 It goes to show that 3D doesn't replace 2D but improves it by making it more efficient for 2D animators.
I disagree entirely because when you see that shot you can tell it's CGI. If it actually enhanced the animation, you wouldn't be able to tell and I feel like the lack of imperfections caused by the human hand just makes it all the more more apparent.
Georges Abolin who worked on this animation is ex Disney during their hand drawn days. If any of you were wondering why it looks like 90's Disney animation. His projects: (1994) - The Return of Jafar (Animator: Sydney) (1995) - A Goofy Movie (Animator: Sydney) (1996) - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Additional animator) (1997) - Hercules (Animator: Adult Hercules) (1999) - Tarzan (Animator: Tarzan) (2001) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Animator: Miscellaneous) (2003) - The Jungle Book 2 (Additional animation production) (2003) - Brother Bear (Additional animator) (2006) - Bambi II (Animator: Bambi) (2006) - Brother Bear 2 (Animator) (2006) - The Little Matchgirl (Animator)
ATLANTIS that makes so much sense I knew there was a Disney animator on the team for this vid but I felt like there was something specific that I especially recognized
Sure the hair is gorgeous but has anybody noticed the hands yet? Most of the time In animation guitar/bass players fret hand usually just goes up and down with minimal finger movement (giggity) but in this one the hands actually have legit looking movements
The lead animator is a Disney vetaran. Any animator worth their salt studies the movements the characters would do and it always makes it better. It's very hard. My team I was on had to animate a girl missing her leg. We had to find references. So they probably spent hours just reviewing footage of freak kitchen performing the song. So much commitment
On top of the absolute beast of a song, and the stellar animation, the subtle commentary on the similarities between old circus freak shows and how far some people are willing to go for social media fame just sells this for me.
Man, coming back to this after so many years, after seeing the stuff that i have, how internet trends have evolved, how widespread the attention they can get is and the more and more depraved and insane the lengths people will go to for attention makes me realize that this song just seems to get more and more relevant as time goes on. Not only has it aged well, it has aged like a fine wine, with it just becoming more and more true as years go on.
I found this a few days ago and I LOVED IT. But now I have a funny story about it. Today I was at my 2d animation class and I told my teacher "Hey, I found a music video made with a combination with 2d and 3d animation. I really liked it" I put it in class, in the big screen we have, and he just looked at me and said "Have you seen the credits?" Then I saw 5:07 . My teacher's name is Vittorio Pirajno and he worked on this goddamn video. I think I see him as a god now.
The animation is sooooo smooth. Like by god, out of everything I've seen. This is something you would see a massive animation studio do for a movie or such. Ugh I want more of this animation.
@@doginhat13 fun fact, that is many thousands of dollars less than the average music video of this length. What all the others are doing to spend that much, I don't know?
DesignzRUs1 At least the Japanese still do anime but I want to see more western hand-drawn animation that isn't all flash and CG, something like classic Disney.
jhhwild I agree completely. I've always been a fan of older animation. Don't get me wrong.....some CGI is amazing but still.......why limit ourselves to just that?
I need a LOT more of all of this. I have watched this video over and over and over again, completely hypnotized by the animations. I've never seen this style in this sort of more serious tone and it's incredible. Every single contour of every single stroke in all of the animation, I can't seem to stop studying it over and over again. Hair, fangs, eyes, expression, thick lines, thin lines, how they morph and transition. Why is there not more of this incredible work to see?! And I don't mean this vid, I mean the creators. I crave the styles so much. I suspect this style - if these guys/you guys are the animators of some of my most beloved movies - is part of what influenced me as an artist today. My style, the LIFE in it, everything. Please make more content.
+Reigne Wolvenshire I should also comment that the music is amazing. Both visual and audio goes together so well- this is practically a unicorn of a piece. Fabled beauty so rare it's unbelievable. Such is my admiration and love.
+Reigne Wolvenshire Thank you for your enthusiastic comments. Unfortunately, not ONE single TV channel in the whole world has ever programmed this video. It took a full year of effort and passion for my team and me to make it, and I am proud as hell of it. But also ruined. No more animation content from me in a while. You can read my comic books, though. Best, J
I'll look you up! I was thinking how much work has gone into every single frame of this, aye. You'll recover from the burn out eventually! I look forward to your content. :)
I love the fact that this studio (fortiche production) have animated the Arcane series, I hope seeing projects coming from these guys, they have too much potential for making a lot of things
I love how the song is basically about dumbass people doing stupid stunts as a cheap and quick way of getting attention, while in contrast the people who worked on this not only clearly worked their asses to powder in order to get it done, but have obviously been doing this for quite awhile to deliver such polished work.
@Brutal Beat Oh, I'm pretty sure this song was not refering to people with physical oddities, but 'freaks' in this context was refering to class-clown showboats who need to draw attention to themselves by doing stupid and dangerous things.
I saw this video for the first time off of Tumblr today and was blown away by seeing such old school Disney style animation tossed in with a little Iron Giant and crossed with rotoscoping. The feel of the character's expressions right down to that sketchy line work of the old classics that i love. Animation like this is rare to find and I will take it over those complete 3D animated movies any day. Keep doing what you love to do!
That’s why like the best Disney movies are the old ones like bambi lilo and stitch and lion king animations but it cost lots too make that’s the only downside cost and time
What truly makes my jaw drop every time I see this is the not only the sheer passion and understanding of animation going into this, but the knowledge that this is also directed by the incredibly talented artist for the Blacksad series. The fact that Juanjo's art is so consistently high-quality is a goal that most artists dream of reaching :)
you know, i really like this video. not even just because of the beautiful animation. at first with just the audio, one might think "oh haha, crazy kids and their attempts at attention. this is about them.". but then you get to the video. the vintage clips of sideshows and fairgrounds (which is really cool as someone who loves amusement park history) suggest that the desire to do crazy bullshit is an eternal human condition. it is a tale as old as time. and thats dope as hell to me for some reason. were just a bunch of hyper advanced monkeys tryna keep busy in our cosmically short time. fuckin love it.
The phrasing between the end of the verses and the line "like me" gives off this cool double meaning. Become and amputee like me. (Become an amputee. Like me.) then asking "Won't you, like me?". In addition to asking them to "like me" in a video rating sense, it's also inviting them to do dumb things to achieve the same kind of superficial popularity. Who's leading the way like me? Comes off like a dare; like you should do it too. It's fucking clever lyricism.
and most people just think its a badass metal song with amazing Disney-like graphics. yet here we have one of the last remaining intellectuals who understands that not everything is as it seems. bravo good madam. in all seriousness i thought i was the only one who got the double meaning. reading your comment has somewhat restored some faith that humans might go back to a path of intelligence. there's a slim chance, but a slim one is always better than none.
@@LandyRShambles MTV was presented to this video by the band's manager and declined to air it. No television channel in the world has ever wanted to play it.
in terms of the song "thumbs up" in terms of art style, 90's Disney because back then their artists has skill and didn't make their characters with a child's head on an adult body. plus the pencil look with the line work really brings it all out. great job
This animation is why the Disney 2D animation department needs to come back...or a different department filled with these amazing animators needs to be created... Either way, please bring back 2D animation. I appreciate 3D, and know that there are a lot of things you can do with it, but 3D just doesn't have the same...impact, as 2D...
I totally agree and honestly I really miss 2d animation. It's really the main reason why I even considered clicking on this video. Don't get me wrong a lot of the 3d animations today are good but you have to follow a certain set of guidelines as the program can easily bug out with 2d this doesn't happen. Seriously, you can go from a super realistic style one second then you can change it to look like a 5 year old was animating.
You can go forward or backwards frame by frame using , and . (aka the "" buttons) also download Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and you can set buttons to do the same thing for when you're viewing downloaded/offline videos :D
I just can't stop watching this video. Not only does it make me remember fond times watching great animated movies in my youth, but I went and found more music by these guys and I'm in love. Sad this video isn't more popular than it currently is though :(. Also can we agree that breakdown and solo are fucking great?
Mattias is a genius. If he was from US, he would be huge because his music hits all the age and genres categories. So much humor in it as well. But he is from Sweden and that's it. Not that I care. I dig everything and anything that's good. But the American music market is so self-centered as no other.
@@RavenReach I get it, believe me. I am originally from Europe. This music is more or less dead in US when it comes to wide popularity. Bands are happy to fill up small clubs anymore. I think the quantizing along with other things like lack of anything new that would look like a instantly recognizable brand caused the decline. Look at Vai, for example. The man ran out of ideas roughly 15 years ago. Anything new he does is not really new, it's just rehash of his older stuff he got stuck in. Also, if you listen to early Haken (first 2 albums), they are really exciting and fun. Everything after that is just so much perfection and quantizing and so ridiculously complex that it loses rock's or metal's original catch - the simple idea, riff or lick that rocked the stadiums. Even Ekhlund is really difficult to listen to. I can never get through any of his albums from beginning to the end. Rock or metal reached its limits and just like all the other modern music, it's just rehashing itself. It's not reinventing itself and I don't think it will be able to. There won't be another Blackfoot or Deep Purple or Van Halen. The raw energy, the fun, those fantastic riffs. It's just not there. It moved from big stadiums to small clubs for a reason. And it's not because of low IQ of listeners. The only band that truly got me fired again after listening to so much lame stuff lately is "Lost In Thought". Fantastic band, fantastic music. But are they big? Not a chance. The interest is simply not there anymore. And that's a big fan of rock and progmetal talking here. I enjoy what's left and that's all I can do
@@xthrax ...which means they went through the process of animating it in 3D before they drew a single frame. So yeah, I bet it still took a while. Using the 3D like that improved the final quality, but I doubt it saved them much time.
@@GuitarWholesale That may be so, but I *do* know how long it takes to animate things in 3d. ESPECIALLY if you're starting from scratch and have to make all the models and such.
I came for the animation, and came back for the music and animation. Am I the only one who thinks the song is a badass commentary on how people will hurt themselves for public attention? I love the way it sounds, fun, epic, just all in all amazing :D .
10000th time watching this but I just love how the lyrics reference the modern "people will do anything for likes" culture, but the music video shows a bunch of black and white footage of older dangerous stunts to show that this behavior isn't entirely new among people. Not exactly a comforting thought, but an important detail not to be forgotten.
This is still not only one of my favorite songs, but one of my favorite music videos/pieces of artwork of all time!!! This was one of the very first things that made me really go "THAT, I want to make things like THAT for a living!" Nine years later, and here I am on my way to a design degree.... I'm no musician, and I'm certainly no master of animation, but this video inspired me to go after something meaningful to me, and I think the band and team deserve all the thanks for that :-) You guys are awesome!!!
Ok The singer looks like a more human beast from Beauty and the beast The bassist looks like every fantasy dwarf ever And the drummer looks like a Swedish Tarzan
I just remembered this video existed and I had to watch it again. It goes so hard and is so beautifully done, I wish more people knew about it. The song lives rent free in my head too, such a cool fusion of visuals and song
Hhhhnnggggnnnn! Juanjo Guarnido is SO GOOD, and this is an excellent song. Such a good use of CG and hand-drawn animation together (not just in compositing, but the use of CG in the planning for the hand-drawn master is subtle and very well done). It's beautiful, fluid, relevant, and visually rich. Really, well done!
***** I'm pretty sure it's drawn over keyframed 3D animation. Not most of it, and not the effects (those I'm pretty sure are just hand drawn frame-by-frame, but the big camera moves are too good and the slow motion is too consistent to be only hand drawn.
***** I don't know where my other reply to you went. Must have gotten lost, but I didn't think the characters were 3d other than using 3d stand-ins for the big camera shots, and I don't think pretty much any of this is mocap. The keys are too good, so I'm inclined to think that it's mostly video-referenced keyframe animation. Also, if you play the video at 0.25x speed and watch the characters at 0:48, you'll see they switch between ones, twos, and threes depending on how fast they're moving -- something that almost never happens in rotoscope (go look at monster house to see how bad mocap/rotoscope can be). I'm about 90% sure 0:52 isn't rotoscope for the reasons above. The instruments and environment are in 3d and all the shots were planned in 3d from what I can tell. Anyway, I finally found some pencil tests, and I'm pretty sure I'm right ca-tsuka.tumblr.com/post/103903797558/freak-kitchen-freak-of-the-week-linetests-music
I'm pretty sure Don Bluth is the reason why Disney corporation has added in statute of limitations for their animators once they leave their company. If I remember right, it is around "10 years" before they're allowed to work in the industry by any other company. In my opinion it is a bullshit limitation, although I may be outdated on my sources, they may have lessened things... anyways, the only person who I know was able to snub them has been Robin Williams and his role as Genie.
Yeah, Disney's done lots of great stuff and the entertainment industry as a whole wouldn't be where it is today without them, but they definitely have their darker side; a great example of this that also affects the whole industry is the changes to copyright law they've lobbied to prevent Mickey Mouse (and by extension everything else) to fall into the public domain. This means that in a few years' time virtually nothing "new" will enter public domain (because the law affects everything else, not just Disney's stuff), but it's also rather hypocritical considering that their fame and fortune as a company was built in large part due to them using public domain works to make their own stuff. This will likely have bad consequences for creative works as a whole that will only get worse as time goes by.
Holy fucking shit man, I logged in just so I could like this. The whole thing start to finish is fucking gorgeous and stunning and you can absolutely see all the hard work that went into it. Shame that it hasn't gotten the recognition it truly deserves. Things like this reinforce my love and absolute preference for 2D animation, so much more alive and with more fluidity than its fully 3D counterpart. That animation like this hardly exists anymore is fucking criminal honestly. This is so completely captivating and it makes me sad that it hasn't reached a bigger audience. You and your team did a wonderful job.
I keep rewatching this, and noticing more subtle animations that really bring this to life, it's so well done, like when the singer goes to help the other guy up, the little flinch of his head like he's about to hit him for more "likes", it just makes them feel so much more 'alive', wish there was more animation this fluid and smooth in the world
I always seemingly come back to this video every year and I’m never disappointed, I’m 19 turning 20 in June of next year, started my first semester of college and my dream is to be a professional digital artist / animator and this gives me so much inspiration and motivation to continue doing what i love most, my dream is to be as good as the animators who made this amazing project.
Everyone commenting about the video, can we just take into consideration about the quality of the production on the audio, it's easily the best mixed and mastered song I've probably heard can hear every idosyncrasy from each instrument and Ia's vocals sound super crisp
coming back to this song every year and its always a banger. The animation also slaps no matter what. Disney seriously needs to bring back their old style of animating..
* Sees drummer and gets a crush *: aww whats the point he is just a drawn out fictional charac- * Sees ending of real people *: *sniffle dreams do come true-*
You all chicks here and that's want you get from it they look attractive not the fact of how could the animation is and that a guy who worked for Disney was on the team
DAMN.... I think I'm in love... that was... just... too epic! I can't find the right words to describe this *sexy beast* you and your team just created!!... Also: I really really liked the song (I was afraid I might not like it), but... hey! that was pretty rad! The *only* "down" side to this whole video were the film scenes... even though they were really interesting... it made me "go out" from the video... I need a version with pure 2D GLORY... **Sends love to all the people who gave support on Kickstarter** x3
Look at those hair animations!!!! this is a hidden gem for the animation and heavy metal world definitely !!! :D cheers from Mexico guys, I love this song!!!
I'm in love with the fluidity of the animation and the dedication put into every frame. As an animation major, this is so inspiring! The song is amazing too and i vibe to it so well. Love it, love it, looooove it!
I have no ideia how many times i listened/watched this masterpiece, i'll always come back here just to refresh my mind and inspire me to become as good as who animated it and, of course, enjoy the song.
+masterredwood My thoughts exactly. For me, it could have been a lot heavier and grittier. Then I'd have liked it a lot more. Too pop-metal for my taste.
Just a friendly reminder that Fortiche (the animation studio) went on to animate the KD/A's Pop Stars and some other rad League related animation projects. that being said, goddamn I love Mattias, this Studio and Juanjo
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please note that this video cost $140,000 to make, all of it raised on kickstarter, and it was worth every penny.
So each second of this cost $437.50 to make. Damn!
"It costs $140,000 to make this video...for *4 minutes*."
The stock footage was probably cheaper than the animation.
@@EGRJ pretty sure the stock footage is from a free domain but I might be wrong
@ɮօʊռсє օռ ժᎥռցʊร the guy did work on Hercules
And that is how you crush dreams...
They've got disney princess hair and this pleases the ever living crap out of me.
Heavy Metal Pocahontasses rule ! ;D
The director and his team are former Disney animators.....
musashidanmcgrath Well... that explains a lot
***** It's true, also when they sing wildlife comes!
I enjoy the song don't care if it's not metal enough for most metal heads or whatever (don't really care what genre something comes from just as long as I enjoy it), but the music video harkens back to animation I love, so it was a double whammy.
musashidanmcgrath Yep I'm aware, that's why it pleases me, disney these days seems to be pulling away form the old animation style which had the most lovely hair movements. Not downing CGI as its progressing nicely but I miss animated hair like this.
This is really well done! Holy shit! More people need to see this!
The only way I can watch is if I'm high
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The Living Tombstone i like your subsciption your awsome dude!!!
Woah haha. Didn't expect you here! Big fan of Freak Kitchen as well as all of the things you've done concerning FNAF :) especially "Since You've Been Gone"!
Its such a small world I live in tomb, I've seen you twice in a place I wouldn't expect to see you lol
Fun fact: The characters were drawn over their 3D models to handle the complex volume and perspective. Eg. 3:02 - 3:06
It goes to show that 3D doesn't replace 2D but improves it by making it more efficient for 2D animators.
I disagree entirely because when you see that shot you can tell it's CGI. If it actually enhanced the animation, you wouldn't be able to tell and I feel like the lack of imperfections caused by the human hand just makes it all the more more apparent.
@@NoirRaven i dont see why being able to tell makes it lesser? still cool as hell
That's what Pixar/Disney did with Deep Canvas, it's a really interesting style.
@@coolitudeextraordinaire because being able to tell rips you out if the experience
@@NoirRaven maybe depends on the person I think
*motivated animator noises*
Same. Because of this video I spent 3 days straight working on shitty 2d animations
@@evelinaauditore A video all animators can appreciate
Also got me hyped to get shit done for animation study dead lines
oh damn your right
yup
Georges Abolin who worked on this animation is ex Disney during their hand drawn days. If any of you were wondering why it looks like 90's Disney animation.
His projects:
(1994) - The Return of Jafar (Animator: Sydney)
(1995) - A Goofy Movie (Animator: Sydney)
(1996) - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Additional animator)
(1997) - Hercules (Animator: Adult Hercules)
(1999) - Tarzan (Animator: Tarzan)
(2001) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Animator: Miscellaneous)
(2003) - The Jungle Book 2 (Additional animation production)
(2003) - Brother Bear (Additional animator)
(2006) - Bambi II (Animator: Bambi)
(2006) - Brother Bear 2 (Animator)
(2006) - The Little Matchgirl (Animator)
To me it also reminded me a LOT of The Black Cauldron and And American Tail..
ATLANTIS that makes so much sense I knew there was a Disney animator on the team for this vid but I felt like there was something specific that I especially recognized
@@CherryZomb13 That and The Sword in the Stone were my 2 comparisons before I realized they had actual Disney talent involved
You know what? I can see the Tarzan in the hair now that you've mentioned it.
the face of main guy reminds me of httyd
I love how the teeth almost make them look like wild animals. In general I love all of it.
Metal is feral and feral is Metal!
I love their animated proportions, they look like a party of dwarven bards in a d&d game
Reminds me of Tarzan
Just like Wolverine.
@Aima Fotógrafa And Blacksad;)
Sure the hair is gorgeous but has anybody noticed the hands yet? Most of the time In animation guitar/bass players fret hand usually just goes up and down with minimal finger movement (giggity) but in this one the hands actually have legit looking movements
The lead animator is a Disney vetaran.
Any animator worth their salt studies the movements the characters would do and it always makes it better.
It's very hard. My team I was on had to animate a girl missing her leg. We had to find references.
So they probably spent hours just reviewing footage of freak kitchen performing the song.
So much commitment
Right?! And when there's all those arms in the Shiva-style moments!
I agree fully! Another show that does that is Metalocalypse
Thank you
It is what I aimed to do
Everyone's talking about the animation, which don't get me wrong, it's beautiful. But, shoutout to Freak Kitchen, a severely underrated band.
Orieus the Night Really though
Freak kitchen is an awesome ass band
This is my first time listening their music because my animation teacher showed me this video today early at morning.
@@temaorocks2975 Same
I know! I’m totally getting an album
I want every frame of this framed and hung all over my walls, it's the smoothest animation I've seen in any music video ever, oh my god.
On top of the absolute beast of a song, and the stellar animation, the subtle commentary on the similarities between old circus freak shows and how far some people are willing to go for social media fame just sells this for me.
I feel that it's more relevant now with how isolating social media can be
Check out "Humiliation Song" by them. It's about the same topic, but on television instead of social media.
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or whatever they call themselves now, what is it? Oh yeah, influencers
Song is trash lmao
Man, coming back to this after so many years, after seeing the stuff that i have, how internet trends have evolved, how widespread the attention they can get is and the more and more depraved and insane the lengths people will go to for attention makes me realize that this song just seems to get more and more relevant as time goes on. Not only has it aged well, it has aged like a fine wine, with it just becoming more and more true as years go on.
One of the best animated music videos I've seen.
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Diddent expect you to be here, love your work man!
Micah Buzan are you serious it's not a big deal in the more that we were beds in this one
Go check out dead and gone by twizted. I personally don't like that kind of music but the music video is well animated
I keep seeing you everywhere. It's fun tho, please continue
I found this a few days ago and I LOVED IT. But now I have a funny story about it.
Today I was at my 2d animation class and I told my teacher "Hey, I found a music video made with a combination with 2d and 3d animation. I really liked it"
I put it in class, in the big screen we have, and he just looked at me and said "Have you seen the credits?"
Then I saw 5:07 . My teacher's name is Vittorio Pirajno and he worked on this goddamn video.
I think I see him as a god now.
Woah thats awesome
You know what. This Story is so cool, that made my Morning.
Maxwyn Art holy shit
I subscribed to you for that "funny story" and I'm interested in what you learned in your 2d animation class.
@@DarkBatWithin I plan on uploading something this summer - rn it's impossible because of my exams
Most underrated animated music video of the century.
This or every Video OK Go makes.
The animation is sooooo smooth. Like by god, out of everything I've seen. This is something you would see a massive animation studio do for a movie or such. Ugh I want more of this animation.
It was about $140,000
@@doginhat13 fun fact, that is many thousands of dollars less than the average music video of this length. What all the others are doing to spend that much, I don't know?
thats cuz this was animated by the someone who worked on Tarzan
Okay, the way the hair is animated is just absolutely fucking fabulous.
Pocahontas 2.0
Funny you say that, the director was a Disney animator who wanted to do his own things, but I don't think he worked on Pocahontas specifically.
You know you did well when you get an "awesome", but when you get an "absolutely f'ing fabulous" then , well, just good job man.
That was only the body; all the hair, facial expressions and hand movements were done by hand.
All the fucking budget go for the hair hahahaha xd
Whoever animated this needs to make a feature length film. The animation is really good!
the animator for this was a former disney animator
CalRufus He should be a current Disney animator, I guess they let him go after the transition to turning everything CGI.
+jhhwild I miss old animation sometimes.....EVERYTHING is CGI now....which is fucking boring.
DesignzRUs1 At least the Japanese still do anime but I want to see more western hand-drawn animation that isn't all flash and CG, something like classic Disney.
jhhwild I agree completely. I've always been a fan of older animation. Don't get me wrong.....some CGI is amazing but still.......why limit ourselves to just that?
I need a LOT more of all of this. I have watched this video over and over and over again, completely hypnotized by the animations. I've never seen this style in this sort of more serious tone and it's incredible. Every single contour of every single stroke in all of the animation, I can't seem to stop studying it over and over again. Hair, fangs, eyes, expression, thick lines, thin lines, how they morph and transition.
Why is there not more of this incredible work to see?! And I don't mean this vid, I mean the creators. I crave the styles so much. I suspect this style - if these guys/you guys are the animators of some of my most beloved movies - is part of what influenced me as an artist today. My style, the LIFE in it, everything.
Please make more content.
+Reigne Wolvenshire I should also comment that the music is amazing. Both visual and audio goes together so well- this is practically a unicorn of a piece. Fabled beauty so rare it's unbelievable. Such is my admiration and love.
+Reigne Wolvenshire
Thank you for your enthusiastic comments. Unfortunately, not ONE single TV channel in the whole world has ever programmed this video. It took a full year of effort and passion for my team and me to make it, and I am proud as hell of it. But also ruined. No more animation content from me in a while. You can read my comic books, though.
Best,
J
I'll look you up! I was thinking how much work has gone into every single frame of this, aye. You'll recover from the burn out eventually! I look forward to your content. :)
+Reigne Wolvenshire The animation kinda looks Don Bluth-esque.
+Juanjo Guarnido Why don't you try patreon or gofund me to make cool stuff like this?
I love the fact that this studio (fortiche production) have animated the Arcane series, I hope seeing projects coming from these guys, they have too much potential for making a lot of things
Arkane has such incredible art, glad to see the origins of the legends. The paintbrush-Dishonored artstylle is such a visual treat 👍
I love how the song is basically about dumbass people doing stupid stunts as a cheap and quick way of getting attention, while in contrast the people who worked on this not only clearly worked their asses to powder in order to get it done, but have obviously been doing this for quite awhile to deliver such polished work.
Hand drawn by ex Disney animator
Frak Circus has been around since early 90
@Brutal Beat Oh, I'm pretty sure this song was not refering to people with physical oddities, but 'freaks' in this context was refering to class-clown showboats who need to draw attention to themselves by doing stupid and dangerous things.
@@deathreus And now - author of famous Graphic Novels "Blacksad"
@@deathreus Not just any Disney animator, one of the lead animators from Tarzan
I saw this video for the first time off of Tumblr today and was blown away by seeing such old school Disney style animation tossed in with a little Iron Giant and crossed with rotoscoping. The feel of the character's expressions right down to that sketchy line work of the old classics that i love. Animation like this is rare to find and I will take it over those complete 3D animated movies any day. Keep doing what you love to do!
This is hands down one of the coolest fucking music videos I've ever seen
woah a Lyle McDouchebag comment, that's neat
BRING BACK TRADITIONAL 2D ANIMATION TO THE BIG SCREEN.
FUCK THE MODERN 3D CARTOONS, 2D ANIMATION IS GOLD !!
YEAH XD
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS
YEA BOIII
That’s why like the best Disney movies are the old ones like bambi lilo and stitch and lion king animations but it cost lots too make that’s the only downside cost and time
the hair animation in this video got me pregnant
cella gordon hows the baby?
@@nathanrolls4015 animated, duh
@@solidcreature5950 made my day :)
Same! And I'm a guy!
It has some serious my little pony vibe :D
It's a crime how under appreciated this is, this is a masterpiece in animation
u have no idea LAWL
Incredible job. Traditional animation will never die!
That's right!
Who said it will die? Not computer animators..., This video is a great mix between both traditional handmade AND CGI animation.
Luis Di Donna He is right u know, it is 2d with cg , mixing both has an aswome effect
se que el proyecto estaba en Kickstarter!!!
Quedo de pelos!
Luis Di Donna my animation lecturer at university told me 2d was dead :CCCC made me sad
What truly makes my jaw drop every time I see this is the not only the sheer passion and understanding of animation going into this, but the knowledge that this is also directed by the incredibly talented artist for the Blacksad series. The fact that Juanjo's art is so consistently high-quality is a goal that most artists dream of reaching :)
This is why you shouldn't fire people
*DISNEY*
😲😲😲 SAVAGE!!!!
No, this is good. Disney claims all creative material made by their artist, even on off time, so this would be just another Disney short film.
Job security has been solved via one random RUclips commenter.
Lol
@@skitterlyWhich is the reason why Disney is legally the owner of the largest Disney Porn collection on the planet ;-)
They remind me of a classic DnD party (a Dwarf Warrior, Human Mage, and Elven Archer/Rogue)
NNNNEEEERRRDDDD
@@shineayandrews1869 *shut up dnd id cool*
Hey man as a fellow dnd player it’s nice to see someone say it
f same
Who is who?
And me too they make me thinks of some class
Love the animation on this. Especially the hair.
Ikr! It's grade A animation
Damn I see you everywhere. How do you get to these things so fast??
Shius Not a damned clue
It's not metal if there isn't any hair action going on~ HAHA~
animators for this are some ex-disney people
you know, i really like this video. not even just because of the beautiful animation. at first with just the audio, one might think "oh haha, crazy kids and their attempts at attention. this is about them.". but then you get to the video. the vintage clips of sideshows and fairgrounds (which is really cool as someone who loves amusement park history) suggest that the desire to do crazy bullshit is an eternal human condition. it is a tale as old as time. and thats dope as hell to me for some reason. were just a bunch of hyper advanced monkeys tryna keep busy in our cosmically short time. fuckin love it.
Humanities greatest enemies are boredom and fear. Caution has taken the place of fear.
The phrasing between the end of the verses and the line "like me" gives off this cool double meaning.
Become and amputee like me. (Become an amputee. Like me.) then asking "Won't you, like me?". In addition to asking them to "like me" in a video rating sense, it's also inviting them to do dumb things to achieve the same kind of superficial popularity.
Who's leading the way like me? Comes off like a dare; like you should do it too.
It's fucking clever lyricism.
Michael Riley i agree
Michael Riley ikr
and most people just think its a badass metal song with amazing Disney-like graphics. yet here we have one of the last remaining intellectuals who understands that not everything is as it seems. bravo good madam. in all seriousness i thought i was the only one who got the double meaning. reading your comment has somewhat restored some faith that humans might go back to a path of intelligence. there's a slim chance, but a slim one is always better than none.
Lisent to their new song "Morons"
Dante Nightstrider is this a joke
THIS is what MTV should be playing. Kick-ass, incredibly creative music videos.
Landy does mtv still do music videos? I just know current mtv for jersey shore and “New Years resolutions for white people”.
@@LandyRShambles MTV was presented to this video by the band's manager and declined to air it. No television channel in the world has ever wanted to play it.
That's really upsetting. It's such a fantastic animation
Reminds me of animation of the late 90s. Absolutely gorgeous. Plus the song is catchy as hell.
True Mr Shambleface True
That's because Goerges Abolin was an animator for Disney during the 90's and early 2Ks.
in terms of the song "thumbs up" in terms of art style, 90's Disney because back then their artists has skill and didn't make their characters with a child's head on an adult body. plus the pencil look with the line work really brings it all out. great job
This animation is why the Disney 2D animation department needs to come back...or a different department filled with these amazing animators needs to be created... Either way, please bring back 2D animation.
I appreciate 3D, and know that there are a lot of things you can do with it, but 3D just doesn't have the same...impact, as 2D...
Studio Ghibli?
Metalicorn Love Studio Ghibli, and I know their animation is 2d (and it's beautiful), but I'm talking about the western 2d.
I totally agree and honestly I really miss 2d animation. It's really the main reason why I even considered clicking on this video. Don't get me wrong a lot of the 3d animations today are good but you have to follow a certain set of guidelines as the program can easily bug out with 2d this doesn't happen. Seriously, you can go from a super realistic style one second then you can change it to look like a 5 year old was animating.
Metalicorn WHHYYYYYYYYYYY T_T
A MacDowell There's also what Pixar is doing; reusing character models so that they can spit out movies at a rapid pace.
i am the only one who likes to slow down the video in the settings just to see ever gorgeous frame?
You can go forward or backwards frame by frame using , and . (aka the "" buttons) also download Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and you can set buttons to do the same thing for when you're viewing downloaded/offline videos :D
@@alloka2000 Thank you for this!!
I just can't stop watching this video. Not only does it make me remember fond times watching great animated movies in my youth, but I went and found more music by these guys and I'm in love. Sad this video isn't more popular than it currently is though :(.
Also can we agree that breakdown and solo are fucking great?
The breakdown was AMAZING
Mattias is a genius. If he was from US, he would be huge because his music hits all the age and genres categories. So much humor in it as well.
But he is from Sweden and that's it.
Not that I care. I dig everything and anything that's good.
But the American music market is so self-centered as no other.
@@RavenReach I get it, believe me. I am originally from Europe. This music is more or less dead in US when it comes to wide popularity. Bands are happy to fill up small clubs anymore. I think the quantizing along with other things like lack of anything new that would look like a instantly recognizable brand caused the decline.
Look at Vai, for example. The man ran out of ideas roughly 15 years ago. Anything new he does is not really new, it's just rehash of his older stuff he got stuck in.
Also, if you listen to early Haken (first 2 albums), they are really exciting and fun. Everything after that is just so much perfection and quantizing and so ridiculously complex that it loses rock's or metal's original catch - the simple idea, riff or lick that rocked the stadiums.
Even Ekhlund is really difficult to listen to. I can never get through any of his albums from beginning to the end.
Rock or metal reached its limits and just like all the other modern music, it's just rehashing itself.
It's not reinventing itself and I don't think it will be able to.
There won't be another Blackfoot or Deep Purple or Van Halen. The raw energy, the fun, those fantastic riffs.
It's just not there. It moved from big stadiums to small clubs for a reason.
And it's not because of low IQ of listeners.
The only band that truly got me fired again after listening to so much lame stuff lately is "Lost In Thought".
Fantastic band, fantastic music.
But are they big? Not a chance.
The interest is simply not there anymore.
And that's a big fan of rock and progmetal talking here. I enjoy what's left and that's all I can do
Not only is the animation top-shelf, the song itself is a banger.
It's a crime how unseen this is. I've watched this multiple times during it's years and it is gorgeous ;_;
...It's like if Disney animated Metalocalypse.
I love it.
Brutal
Shinbu1128 I would cry if they animated metalocalypse it would be so beautiful :')
This is dildos. a-HYUK!
If Disney was a metal band
This is amazing
New Woke Disney or Old Not So Woke Disney?
@@Qardo old one the new ones shit
The dude worked for Disney
New Disney could never
Disney should be so lucky
The animators for this are legends. This gives off 90's animated movie vibes and I fucking love it.
thats cuz the guy who animated this worked on Tarzan
This song should've gotten 7 million views in a single day.
I see what you did there.
Cherry Chan
good, i can see you're not blind.
Man... This must've taken forever to animate.
actually they used 3d animation to speed up the process and drew over the 3d rendered frames
@@xthrax ...which means they went through the process of animating it in 3D before they drew a single frame. So yeah, I bet it still took a while. Using the 3D like that improved the final quality, but I doubt it saved them much time.
@@TheBoundFenrir I guess it really is determined by what would've taken longer to do and how many people would they have to hire by comparison
@@TheBoundFenrir
You doubt it saved them time because you have no idea of how hard is 2d drawing by itself.
@@GuitarWholesale That may be so, but I *do* know how long it takes to animate things in 3d. ESPECIALLY if you're starting from scratch and have to make all the models and such.
The animation is gorgeous and these men have princess hair.
"I'm the ultimate high, stick around watch me die." love that line
Break my break in hd
One thousand and eighty pee
I'm imagining metalocalypse animated like this
That would be so epic!
Oh my god I will be speechless
Dude, I love you for just saying that.
Or Brutal Legend
That would be brutal
the animation in this is so fucking smooth it must've taken forever to get this done
3D models
Aiko Way it took an year
I came for the animation, and came back for the music and animation. Am I the only one who thinks the song is a badass commentary on how people will hurt themselves for public attention? I love the way it sounds, fun, epic, just all in all amazing :D .
+Bob MacAbe totally , i love the song a lot and the animations is just mindblowing .
Your comment read my mind exactly. Every single bit.
dam right
And the fact that this song is on RUclips only makes your comment more truthful.
Charlie Robertson not really, the video show that people have been doing that kind of thing decades before the internet was even invented.
THIS CAME OUT IN 2014!?! HOW AM I JUST SEEING THIS IN 2020!?? So much serotonin ;^;
2021 for me 😭
RUclips why
@@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I Same
No kidding
Words can't give enough praise to the animation! The music is nice too, but the animation... wow!
Classic Disney styled animations + Heavy Metal = AWESOME
10000th time watching this but I just love how the lyrics reference the modern "people will do anything for likes" culture, but the music video shows a bunch of black and white footage of older dangerous stunts to show that this behavior isn't entirely new among people. Not exactly a comforting thought, but an important detail not to be forgotten.
This is still not only one of my favorite songs, but one of my favorite music videos/pieces of artwork of all time!!! This was one of the very first things that made me really go "THAT, I want to make things like THAT for a living!"
Nine years later, and here I am on my way to a design degree.... I'm no musician, and I'm certainly no master of animation, but this video inspired me to go after something meaningful to me, and I think the band and team deserve all the thanks for that :-) You guys are awesome!!!
Cool fact : the production team for the graphics is the same studio that made "Arcanes" from the League of Legends franchise
Hate arcane
@@malphite8797 cope
@@malphite8797 heh nobody's perfect
source?
@@sigori4672look it up bro, fortiche studios, they’ve made gorillaz ads, arcane, some ads from big companies
Ok
The singer looks like a more human beast from Beauty and the beast
The bassist looks like every fantasy dwarf ever
And the drummer looks like a Swedish Tarzan
+Juanpablo Montalvo I was thinking the singers face looked like human version of Mufasas
+Raven Rayn
Damn you're right
+Juanpablo Montalvo Basically the best ever.
Omg! I need "Swedish Tarzan" on a shirt right now. XD
So glad I wasn't the only one that was thinking DWARF! ;)
To this day, (6 years later) I still watch this and get massive animator chills. God, I love this style of animation.
The snake striking always gets me.
I just remembered this video existed and I had to watch it again. It goes so hard and is so beautifully done, I wish more people
knew about it. The song lives rent free in my head too, such a cool fusion of visuals and song
Hhhhnnggggnnnn! Juanjo Guarnido is SO GOOD, and this is an excellent song. Such a good use of CG and hand-drawn animation together (not just in compositing, but the use of CG in the planning for the hand-drawn master is subtle and very well done). It's beautiful, fluid, relevant, and visually rich. Really, well done!
***** I'm pretty sure it's drawn over keyframed 3D animation. Not most of it, and not the effects (those I'm pretty sure are just hand drawn frame-by-frame, but the big camera moves are too good and the slow motion is too consistent to be only hand drawn.
***** I don't know where my other reply to you went. Must have gotten lost, but I didn't think the characters were 3d other than using 3d stand-ins for the big camera shots, and I don't think pretty much any of this is mocap. The keys are too good, so I'm inclined to think that it's mostly video-referenced keyframe animation. Also, if you play the video at 0.25x speed and watch the characters at 0:48, you'll see they switch between ones, twos, and threes depending on how fast they're moving -- something that almost never happens in rotoscope (go look at monster house to see how bad mocap/rotoscope can be). I'm about 90% sure 0:52 isn't rotoscope for the reasons above.
The instruments and environment are in 3d and all the shots were planned in 3d from what I can tell.
Anyway, I finally found some pencil tests, and I'm pretty sure I'm right ca-tsuka.tumblr.com/post/103903797558/freak-kitchen-freak-of-the-week-linetests-music
I keep coming back to watch this, I cannot believe something this astounding only has like 3m views after 3 years.
At the end: "You okay?" "I just saw us die, as animated by Disney." "...I repeat, are you okay?"
I've never wished I could get a video tattooed more than right now holy shit this is absolutely fantastic
AND IM SEEING THIS ONLY NOW IN 2019?!?!?! WTF RUclips!!!!???
Lol, same
I am hete
Same
Same
I know, right?
Wow, awesome job on the animation!!
Fadedragontear it is one of the animaters for pixar
It's like if Don Bluth and Walt Disney made a movie about rock and roll... Wicked.
I'm pretty sure Don Bluth is the reason why Disney corporation has added in statute of limitations for their animators once they leave their company. If I remember right, it is around "10 years" before they're allowed to work in the industry by any other company.
In my opinion it is a bullshit limitation, although I may be outdated on my sources, they may have lessened things... anyways, the only person who I know was able to snub them has been Robin Williams and his role as Genie.
Yeah, Disney's done lots of great stuff and the entertainment industry as a whole wouldn't be where it is today without them, but they definitely have their darker side; a great example of this that also affects the whole industry is the changes to copyright law they've lobbied to prevent Mickey Mouse (and by extension everything else) to fall into the public domain.
This means that in a few years' time virtually nothing "new" will enter public domain (because the law affects everything else, not just Disney's stuff), but it's also rather hypocritical considering that their fame and fortune as a company was built in large part due to them using public domain works to make their own stuff. This will likely have bad consequences for creative works as a whole that will only get worse as time goes by.
This is the MOST DISNEY METAL in animation and song.
Holy fucking shit man, I logged in just so I could like this. The whole thing start to finish is fucking gorgeous and stunning and you can absolutely see all the hard work that went into it. Shame that it hasn't gotten the recognition it truly deserves. Things like this reinforce my love and absolute preference for 2D animation, so much more alive and with more fluidity than its fully 3D counterpart. That animation like this hardly exists anymore is fucking criminal honestly. This is so completely captivating and it makes me sad that it hasn't reached a bigger audience. You and your team did a wonderful job.
I keep rewatching this, and noticing more subtle animations that really bring this to life, it's so well done, like when the singer goes to help the other guy up, the little flinch of his head like he's about to hit him for more "likes", it just makes them feel so much more 'alive', wish there was more animation this fluid and smooth in the world
THE ROCK GODS ARE PLEASED!!!
I always seemingly come back to this video every year and I’m never disappointed, I’m 19 turning 20 in June of next year, started my first semester of college and my dream is to be a professional digital artist / animator and this gives me so much inspiration and motivation to continue doing what i love most, my dream is to be as good as the animators who made this amazing project.
The song is good BUT THE ANIMATION...... Holly shit!
This has like a Tarzan feel to it. (The animation) LOVE IT!
It was made by a guy who animated Tarzan
nice!
i get that vibe as well, and also get a Atlantis the lost empire vibe
pocahontas is what i see.. pause it at the drummer
dont say
Everyone commenting about the video, can we just take into consideration about the quality of the production on the audio, it's easily the best mixed and mastered song I've probably heard can hear every idosyncrasy from each instrument and Ia's vocals sound super crisp
3:00 that scream still gives me chills!!! I love this band!
Makes me think of iron giant.
*quietly mourns over the iron giant*
It's okay.
Him Superman.
Sir Cupcake
Him Superman.
It's okay, he lived.
Some musicvideos age really badly, this is not an example of that. Still hold it's own after seven years.
I assumed it was brand new
This bad boy's gonna age like a nice wine
Am I the only one that loves the animation AND the music?
Nope!
yes; people either like the music or the animation only; yes, you are a freak.
Nope
Yes, actually. Music is radio turds. But the animation is awesome.
Yes you are the only human being in exsitance that gets enjoyment out of both the music and animation of this video you are so unique
coming back to this song every year and its always a banger. The animation also slaps no matter what. Disney seriously needs to bring back their old style of animating..
I love this Disney movie.
The music doesn't do the animation justice. Beautifully drawn and well designed.
* Sees drummer and gets a crush *: aww whats the point he is just a drawn out fictional charac-
* Sees ending of real people *: *sniffle dreams do come true-*
Looool same
You all chicks here and that's want you get from it they look attractive not the fact of how could the animation is and that a guy who worked for Disney was on the team
@@theboywhocriedwolfatemyson2535 what
@@theboywhocriedwolfatemyson2535 Jokes on you I’m a man and I’m simping too
@@zobedejesus lmfao Same
I keep coming back to this video year after year just to look at how the hair is animated. Delicioua
DAMN.... I think I'm in love... that was... just... too epic!
I can't find the right words to describe this *sexy beast* you and your team just created!!...
Also: I really really liked the song (I was afraid I might not like it), but... hey! that was pretty rad!
The *only* "down" side to this whole video were the film scenes... even though they were really interesting... it made me "go out" from the video... I need a version with pure 2D GLORY...
**Sends love to all the people who gave support on Kickstarter** x3
My thougts exactly, I think they could have least been incorporated in a more clever way. Each pause on an animated sequence is pure gold...!
Nox (BETA 9.2) I know! Right? I still love it anyway >:D
Nitanima Same here! I keep on watching it on repeat and I'm not even bored!
Nox (BETA 9.2) Awww yeah! My favourite parts are sooo many, but hmmm... I love when they're saying "like me" to the camera...
I can't believe its been almost 7 years since this came out.
Look at those hair animations!!!! this is a hidden gem for the animation and heavy metal world definitely !!! :D cheers from Mexico guys, I love this song!!!
There are movies with multi million dollar budgets that wish their animation was even close to this good.
I'm in love with their hair as much as I am the music
gosh this animation is beautiful tho i can't stop watching!!! And i'm trying to do assignments >o
k yea I've been listening to this for hours now on repeat....
ᎽօʊᏒ ᏢᎬᏁᎥᏕ same
I'm in love with the fluidity of the animation and the dedication put into every frame. As an animation major, this is so inspiring! The song is amazing too and i vibe to it so well. Love it, love it, looooove it!
I have no ideia how many times i listened/watched this masterpiece, i'll always come back here just to refresh my mind and inspire me to become as good as who animated it and, of course, enjoy the song.
This is one of the smoothest animations I’ve ever seen.
Anyone else love the Aristocats reference where the drummer puts the symbol on his head? X3
yea XD
Damn I was wondering what it reminded me of! Thanks!
Yeah! I knew that's what that was! *highfives*
I wander why this music video doesn't have hundreds of millions views. It's so awesome! :)
not my fave kind of music, but the animation production was impressive as balls.
+masterredwood
My thoughts exactly.
For me, it could have been a lot heavier and grittier. Then I'd have liked it a lot more. Too pop-metal for my taste.
+masterredwood you right bro. Hey! Give that man a cookie!
Soultrip89 actually, I like pop metal more then gritty metal. The song just was not one I got into.
Ah, yeah I'm into the grittier metal. If it sounds like pop, I usually won't listen to it.
also jethro tull is my favorite heavy metal band...
cant believe this is 10 years old, i was here when it premiered lol
Watched this video 10 times without liking. Fixed now.
Ashamed but yeah same
Watched this video "2 270 862" times but I forgot to drop a like as well :( * fixed *
Just a friendly reminder that Fortiche (the animation studio) went on to animate the KD/A's Pop Stars and some other rad League related animation projects.
that being said, goddamn I love Mattias, this Studio and Juanjo
freak kitchen is my favorite disney princess
This video deserves an award. It's awesome!!!!. And the song of course incredible.