DONKS 

Incredibly playful and imaginative. Always a pleasure to see a new film of yours. Brilliant as always ❤

The idea of there being leftover waste from a character creator is so unique and fun I love it

the submarine-whale fall idea is golden

4:49 I love the little "eeeuuugh" before he leaves.

Felix’s animations always have me wondering which came first, the visuals or the sounds?

I just love how the Donks don’t just use feet for feet or heads for heads. They use every part for everything.

After all this time, I've finally conglomerated the words to describe how this makes me feel: This short has the style of an old Boomerang bumper, with the music presence of Plok!, and the thematic atmosphere of a dream I had where I lost my favorite stuffed animal in a bottomless pool.

I love how almost, if not every musical sound can be traced through movement or context of animation.

Can we all appreciate the bravery this man has to record footage at the bottom of Mariana Trench.

This possesses all the vibes of a nightmare without actually being frightening. Truly a masterpiece

5:10 That eye somehow makes it so much more unsettling

Donks (Triondarkonus) Donks are creatures that was discovered a few months ago, and scientists are baffled of what they are capable of. Appearances Donks do not posses its real form, as it covers itself in trash and garbage, somewhat related to some crab species, snails, or no-shelled organisms. Without anything covering, they posses a black form with sparkling color changing eyes, specifically two, and has the ability to change its size, mass, shape, and amount of appendeges. Using the trash to its advantage, it is able to use them to make entirely different forms, seemingly able to change properties of objects Properties Donks has a very strange property, where they can go inside a Donk, and able to control it completely, and able to attach and connect objects, and able to make it float, and use it with any functions. Ex. A boot can be used as a nose + mouth, and the Donk now has the ability to speak and smell. Donks can seemingly change functions and capabilities, and these objects can serve as protection for these Donks. Location Underneath a certain ocean through a almost watertight hole where trash can go in, but not out. This might mean the end of the Donks species since if any water leaks out, they will not be specialized to then breathe underwater, meaning they are under (litterally) an excinctional threat if the water breaks through.

Oh my god, the dynamic transition from the comedic “submarine going in reverse using sonar tones” to the tense music where the submarine gets seized by the creatures from below is so, so clean and creates an incredible feeling

I love how the sound effects of the beeping from the boat and submarine and the cartoon running noise effortlessly becomes part of the song despite initially sounding disruptive

how could something so playful and whimsical also be so eerie?

My class was shown this at our final day in an internship with the Cleveland Institute of Art. This short alone felt agonizingly slow but rapid paced, whimsical but disturbing, all and all, a bad acid trip. I respect fellow artists as I know the hand cramping work that goes into these things one a personal level and I will continue to show that same respect. All I can say now is good job fellow internet user because I have no idea what I just watched.

Little dude at 3:20 showed up and produced the most ethereal sound I've ever heard with ZERO warning

I love how all the little creatures cheered for the big one as it sang, like they were celebrating the fact that it was the biggest to ever be made. Also the fact that the submarine was an organic creature, loved that

5:06 Me and my friends when we see a bag of chips on the floor

1:57 i love the way that guy looks 2:13 box croc guy 2:43 WOOF"goofy ah running sounds" 3:04 ball mushroom and giant horse thing 3:15 how i sing 4:55 it was at this moment he new he ducked up

Felix Colgrave is one of the primary reasons I’m working as an animator today. So grateful for this guy’s work and the insane things he brings to life

that "goofy comic running timpani sound" transitioning into Breakcore/Jungle music at 2:42 is just beautiful!

2:18 i just love how the music/sound design kinda just goes all Pikmin Breadbug like for a moment there. Definitely a fun watch in its entirety tho

THIS IS THE BEST ACID TRIP OF MY LIFE!!!!!! no but seriously the animation and creativity put into this is astonishing, astounding, magnificent, a magnum opus of art at it’s finest and many more exaggerated statements. Keep up the good work man.

I love how with a brief, wordless 30 seconds, Colgrave gives a reason unique for this absurdly abstract world to exist somewhere.

I really love the scene of the donk using the shoe as a nose+mouth and vocalizing. There’s something weird and adorable about it, like watching a baby learning to speak for the first time

Recycle, humans. Donks play around in dark spots, until they're found.

I love these animations because they feel like a fever dream, a place where you go when reality is just not there at all and the only things that you can see are just the remains of its contents, miscellaneous moving objects like plastic toys, devices, even some creatures and places that try to mimic something that would make sense but always fail by somehow getting carried away by altering things too much or simply melting everything together. All that at the same time, i sometimes wonder how these videos are even invented in someones mind.

Animation is stellar, but the sound? Absolutely genius. The vibes are so potent here, almost feels wrong being able to view it on RU-vid lol, exquisite work!!

The scene starting at 5:06 where the donks strip the submarine down to its bones is super reminiscent of those timelapse videos of starfish and other sea floor scavengers going after whale falls and stuff. Those sequences always felt so eerie to me, they're a natural example of exactly the type of surreal horror this channel does so perfectly

I hope Felix makes 3d printed donks which can be assembled into things like the dog and other and new characters.

This should be required viewing for all animators. There's so much more going on than just interesting visuals; this is a master class in character movement. Every creature moves so uniquely and expressively, amplified by astounding audio work. I'm gonna be coming back to this for a long time.

Also someone has said this before but I love how so much of Felix's art revolves around ecosystem dynamics. He teaches you so much about these ecosystems in such a small amount of time

As I've been recently rewatching your animations (As is customary every few months), I've started noticing some of the underlying messages of your videos. The fact that the messages are subtle enough to not be "preachy" so that the videos remain fun while also being consistent and nuanced is further testament to just how amazing of an artist you are. Keep it up!

The dog donk so cute😍 Felix is part of my childhood,i remember whatching double king

At 5:10 you can see the submarine's eye move around frantically for a second and then fade to grey and become motionless. We are watching the life literally drain from its eyes

I love the scene at 4:50- 5:00 so much. It's such a perfect reprise of the boat backing up in the begining; showing of how the shadow creatures have grown enough thanks to the very trash that got thrown in the ocean to take on such large surface prey.

this feels like something they would play in my grade school music class and never explain

It’s so perverse when we see the timelapse of the creatures making their way into the submarine’s body and slowly killing it from the inside

The subtle horror of a submarine being scavenged down to bones is a fantastic way to end a video. I love how your 2D animation style works perfectly in 3D

I absolutely adore how the beeping of the boat backing up slowly transitions into beautiful chords of music as the camera pans through the polluted ocean. Such raw artistic value!

Marine snow and whale-fall ecosystems!! Such a cool concept, thx for sharing all of your animations.

zoobles family

every time i see a felix colgrave work, i go "okay mr colgrave, show me some of the most creative fever dream type shit I've ever seen" and he never disappoints. it always somehow makes sense too, it's crazy

Felix's animations leave you with a feeling of knowing and not knowing of what happened

So that’s what happened to the submissile

The lesson is that if you are a submarine, don't go near creatures made of plastic parts.

My guess is that the Donks, being mostly formless creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean, need to make bodies to inhabit. They would probably use stuff like shells and bones normally, but the waste produced by the society living on ground provides something better; trash that is thrown away into the ocean by the tons. The Donks are infinitely creative and can use the trash to make any kind of body they please, allowing each of them to be unique. However, they fight over materials because they all want the best stuff and can't seem to settle on any one form, and are even willing to strip a dead submerwhale (what I'm calling the submerine creature) to its bones of its metal. However, they are also able to work together to make something even better than what they can alone, by combining their resources and creativity. When one seems to be having trouble picking out just the right face and sings about it's plight, other Donks gather materials and help it build a towering form that amazes everyone else. It's expression doesn't change, but it's singing and enthusiastic clapping indicates it's quite happy with the results. The Donks themselves, which are the amorphic black creatures with glowing eyes, are weirdly cute in their own strange, eldritch kind of way. Though the submerwhale didn't seem to agree!

Brilliant work Felix, you’re incredible.

3:23 its a MASTERPIECE plus emotional

ive been watching and rewatching this as well as other videos by colgrave for many weeks now, and like the many other fever dream creations of colgrave, it's so immersive and filled with emotion, yet so simple and goofy. colgrave's videos are a form of abstract art-wacky nonsense at first glance, but they illustrate such beautiful worlds that are windows to this mad man's mind.

I particularly really enjoyed how the donks were constantly pulling each other apart to get other parts but ended up creating entirely new creatures in the process. Phenomenal stuff as always, Mr. Colgrave!

remember kids, don't overuse your character creator otherwise all the extra parts will pollute the ocean and drift below the Marianna trench to be possessed by bottom feeders

These are the cutest microplastics I've ever seen

i love how the submarine is a skeleton after getting destroyed, implying that it was an organism.

4:50 I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything as cool as a mechanical in-universe sound (namely, the Submawhale reversing, making beeping like it was a pickup truck) so quickly becoming an out-of-universe forboding musical tone warning of danger. They’re both warning tones with insanely different weight and fear. It’d be like if a horror movie somehow made the squeaking of the rickety basement stairs and the violin sting of the monster appearing based on the same sound. That’s crazy effective.

If I'm not mistaken, this is Felix's first video that is more or less fully 3D. It's awesome how you were able to keep your distinct style despite changing mediums! Looks (and sounds) incredible as always!

All of the music here sounds like it could be in a splatoon game

I like how millions of creatures work together to make a full on organism if they eat oneanter

Wow the entire animation community is really coming together to celebrate this art, so incredible

We all forget about him and his animations, but somewhere deep in the soul we all waited

Oh my LORD this was a cool one. Its like if younger me playing with legos except the legos were sentient and had somewhat dubious means of existing. Even then I can't really describe what the heck I just watched, and that's an amazing feat of creative development. Honestly probably my favorite of your animations so far!

Better than what Disney makes these days

As a sfx nerd I can admit Felix is a GENIUS of an artist in this area, he manages to create an ABSURDLY tension within so few seconds, that’s absurdly incredible

This animation is like a love child between Felix and Cyriak. Absolute god tier animation never ceases to impress me.

I really liked how the boat and submarine sounds were incorporated into the music. And this animation style was very interesting to watch.

I know is not nice to compare an artist's work to another artist but this has big GOOSEWORX vibes

After a few watches, it seems like the whole idea of the animation is that these creatures who once never had a voice, nor even a visible body, were actually given the chance to take on personalities of their own through these mounds of plastic, and by the end, are actually able to reach for bigger prey as well. Really cool idea that was executed perfectly, as always. Super enjoyable to watch!

How does felix create such interesting almost open-ended metaphors with the strangest of storytelling methods and animations... always a treasure to watch these animations.

There simply is no drug that compares to Felix Colgrave.

Epic musical with leftover parts from a character creator game 10000000000000000/10

There's a charm to Felix Colgrave animations that no other person or studio has ever matched. The surrealness plus the cartoony themes are such a treat for the eyes. Immensely glad to see your animations back again!

each moment goes by so smoothly that one can forget how meticulously animated and choreographed everything is. not a single moment overstayed its welcome. an absolute treat and an instant classic. thank you Felix

Felix: (makes a wacky, trippy fever dream for fun and his own enjoyment) Everyone Else: *T H I S I S O B V I O U S L Y C O M M E N T A R Y* That said, this was a treat to watch! The right balance of whimsical and unnerving!

E c o s y s t e m

2:43 is actually such an addictive sound, and the entire thing is so smooth and yet so random and by the end you’re met with such a horrific sort of fate I can’t stop watching

The ability to create tension and suspense even though I have no idea whats going on is a fascinating skill which I see Felix consistently demonstrate.

Hermit crabs will sometimes use trash, like large bottle caps, as shells; they also frequently fight over shells; the creatures in the video are like advanced hermit crabs

2:41 i absolutely love the little barks, and how the cartoon running sound effect mixes into the music. literally perfect

i really want this stuff on spotify

2:42 the moment it goes from occasional rhythmic sounds to a full on BOP

Always loved the idea of mix n match monsters. Having a whole species dedicated to scrounging around in trashed limbs and parts to make goofy abominations is a great idea! And them making the music as they interact and walk is a really nice touch!

that credits soundtrack is ⭐MAJESTIC ⭐

How the **** does somebody even come up with these ideas. The choreography is unreal, the way the parts move so intricately and in TIME with the music nonethless. This is all made in a virtual environment...how does someone even begin to come up with this level of composition? Truly amazing.

I love how the people who caused the problem scoff at it, and then when it finally effects them that's when they start caring about what is going on. The fish eating a corpse timelapse was a great touch as well.

The almost Lovecraftian horror of the donks is truly incredible!

Amazing. Amazing.

This is now one of my favorite projects on RU-vid! I’m not sure if there’s a part two, but man I’d do anything to see this world fleshed out more!

Here's my idea of Donk physiology: Donks normally appear as formless black creatures with many legs and glowing, color-changing eyes. They can only survive in one place: a dark, near-watertight cavern beneath the Omnipresent Ocean, where little light reaches. Donks are vulnerable to injury and attack due to their bodies being so soft and malleable, so they attempt to cover their bodies with a layer of protection. Due to the massive dumping of garbage and used avatar parts in the ocean above (which consequently float down into the Donk cavern), Donks have developed a dependency on the garbage, as there isn't much else to serve as protection. Depending on where a Donk makes its home can change its capabilities, such as improving its sense of sight or touch. Now, a single Donk is not very intelligent, but these creatures can link to each other mentally (and usually also physically) to create a hive-minded colony that acts like one organism. It is believed that the larger a Donk colony is, the more intelligent and self-aware it becomes. Interestingly, certain Donk colonies have different personalities, capabilities and traits depending on the Donks they are made out of.

I absolutely LOVE the recurring theme of predator and prey in all of Felix’s animations. The ending of this video reminds me so much of timelapse videos where bottom feeders feast on a whale carcass that has sunk to the ocean floor. BRILLIANT

We need a Felix Coltrane and Cyriak collab

3:15 A reflection of how art so small and beautiful, grounded in purpose and a longing for something greater, can be misguided. To lose oneself in a grotesque process of overindulgence and exploitation.

Another amazing animation from Felix. 3:19 is my favorite part, when the shadow creatures found their own singing voice through an discarded shoe.

Felix can always tell a story with absolutely zero dialogue. It’s all brilliant sounds design and music paired with visuals that look exactly like they sound. I love how each of the sea creatures would be these big amalgamate donks before falling over and losing their pieces.

The fact that the submarine's fall is reminiscent of a whale fall is so exciting to me like this is so cool

This is the only time I've been creeped out by one of Felix's works even before those things ate the sub. This sort of scared the shit out of me, the way all these little things have no true sense of self and are constantly being torn apart and built anew in this ecosystem of theirs. Cool as heck to watch.

Animation teacher: “were going to be making a simple short animation” The kid who got his hands on blender:

I hope I'm not the only one who just loves the descending tone of the reversing beeps at 0:39 and 4:55 when it becomes so much more sinister.

Has anyone else noticed that the tune in this part: 4:50 is similar to the one that plays at the beginning of the video?: 0:40 i just think it's pretty interesting and really cool detail that i have not seen many people comment about

Felix Colgrave, the part at 2:41 make me relive my childhood memories of goofy sounds, and I must say, you are a master of all things weird and wonderful!