HOMESTUCK - [S] Scourge Prophecy | Vriska vs Noir 

Hello! Second year of me animating things, huh Well I hope they are at least somewhat reflected in this curious work. Tried to use more style and such things here. Actual thing was animated in 2.5 months, with most of the time spend on fight itself. Hope you liked it. Thanks for viewing this piece and EXTRA thanks for liking and commenting on it. Really appreceate that after all hard work that went into all this. As always, begging ya to repost that thing at least... somewhere? Twitter, tumblr anything will do. Another enormous thanks for simply being here and well... We'll meet another time in someone's ascension!

the quality of this is so good that I think you can show this to non-homestuck fans with no context and they will enjoy it too

Really good animation, great voicing and dialogue (more like monologue) writing. Noirs and Vriskas Mindfang mondels are marvelous and the moment with Fill em With Midnight was just !!!

I'd still encourage you to use less camera movement, especially in scenes where it's just two people talking. The camera is pretty good in the fight scene because there's a lot of movement going on with the characters, but in the intro scenes, it's pretty disorienting to have the camera moving around all the time. Other than that, great job! It's cool to see you becoming more and more ambitious with your animations!

the noir v vriska fight was some cinema-level spectacle! i had a brief thought that if homestuck was made into a movie, or a 5 part series it would be awesome as hell. and nice touch with vriska's wounds mirroring jack's at the end there. gnarly

that's not jack, jack wouldn't use his hands if he can just stab his only move is stabbing he doesn't bother himself with fancy kills or playing with his food, he just stabs I greatly appreciate what you did anyway, amazing work

Brooooooo, why does this never get put on my feed when a new one comes out? I'm literally subscribed and have rewatched all of these so many times, please understand that this is good, youtube. You are truly cursed to obscurity, forever under torment by the tyranny of the algorithm, I only knew there was a new one because I came back to your channel to rewatch them. Anyways, yet another great video, and you can definitely tell that you're improving. The characters seem a lot more expressive and less plastic in this one than in previous ones, which is impressive considering you haven't really changed the character models, just added more detailed movements that portray emotion, even it's small. You've done well in the past with big emotions, and it's been helped along with the (amazing) voice acting. Vriska doesn't say much during her scenes with Noir but watching Vriska's expressions change really sells it, from the initial trademark Vriska Smugness, to confusion laced with worry as Jack Noir leaves her, to the horror and anger as she realises all her friends are dead, then the fear as she realises shes not going to win and partially resigned to her fate (after she trys to get a last few hits in). Also Karkat's body language and movement in that last scence, he's an expressive guy and shows emotion through is whole body rather than just his face and you did a great job with that. And the trio walking up behind terezi as Vriska leaves, giving them a little bit of extra personality rather than having them just walk up in similar animations, or just straight having them just stand there or not be there at all. You've added a lot of little things that really ups the quality on the whole (listing all of them i noticed would take forever lmao). Also, THE WRITING. I feel like you don't get enough praise for this considering the main focus of these is the animation and fights (you don't get enough praise overall, let's be honest), but the writing that goes into not only the staging and progression of the fight, but also the character dynamics and the dialogue. I can appreciate how a lot of work goes into taking what is, in most cases, a handful of comic panels and turning them into epic confrontations. The dialogue feels so in character and, while some instances aren't the most comic-accurate, you never fail to do the characters justice and take their motivations and emotions into account. And the voice actors absolutely help in this by nailing the delivery, I tend to avoid things like this with their own voice acting because I'm kinda hyperaware of fake-feeling voice acting and over-exaggerated tones and cringe inside when I notice it, I can't stand it no matter how good the rest of it is (this applies to a lot of youtubers and, unfortunely, some shows and movies). But not once did i get that feeling with these voice actors, they are excellent at portraying their characters their emotions and the back and forth between them feels so natural (special props to Terezi's and Doc Scratch's VA's in that opening scene, beautiful). The backgrounds have been you've done extremely well since the start, and have continued that trend throughout all of them. Details like the chalk squiggles that make the smaller rooms like Terezi's feel lived in, the industrial and futuristic look of the meteor, with a lot of equipment and other elements that make it seem like it's actually a functioning base (or at least was at some point), and, in this one, the huge epic atmosphere of Skaia. There wasn't as much of it in this one, but you do really well at effecting the enviroment during a fight and letting the characters use it to their advantage (which was especially good in the feline carnival and 3x showdown). Most animated fights consist of just the two fighters duking it out in a flat landscape, occasionally smashing into flat surfaces like walls and floors, completely ignoring any and all landmarks. But damn do you make fights interesting. Also the contrast of the fact that, in previous fights, theres always a back-and-forth between the characters, they get some hits or some near-misses, almost all the characters are injured in some way during their fights because all the trolls are on similar power levels. They have had to be in order to beat the game. But in this episode? (they're episodes at this point, this is becoming some epic movie level shit) Vriska gets no hits in on Jack. This fight feels less like a skilled battle between equals and more of an anime battle between two op characters, which they both are at this point, but one is overwhelmingly more op than the other and thus its already decided. Noir is truly intimidating here and shows his terrifying power and competence as an assassin. Also his character model is absolutely fantastic, I love your carapacian design. All the models are pretty great, but I especially love his (and Lord English's in G I R L, even if that was mostly to do with the amazing effects in that one). Honestly, my only complaints with these, used to be the character faces and plasticity, but thats pretty much fixed if you keep that expression work up. It's the clipping that happens on occasion. I don't know enough about 3D animation to know how difficult it is to get around that. Like, Terezi's hair clipping into her collar seems like its something that can't really be fixed without animating her individual strands of hair or something (which is not something I guess is really practical, given your resourses and time). But things like Sollux's hand clipping into Feferi's face seems like something that could have been fixed more easily, even if you have to use the camara angles to hide it. But again, I don't know enough to really comment on this lmao, and its not too distracting from the rest of the high quality anyways. But, aside from that, keep up the good work!! I, unfortunely, don't really have any sort of platform to advertise this, although I really wish I did, you deserve a hell of a lot more than over a thousand subscribers.

I still remember watching your very first Homestuck animations and I'm still amazed by what you can do. This looks just so perfect, the music selection too is really good (especially I love the re-contextualization of _Sound of Judgement_) and the voice acting is amazing too.

PLEASE TELL ME YOU'LL BE MAKING MORE OF THESE the concept of a Homestuck series has always been so clear yet so impossible for me to conceive, the idea would most likely not work, but animations like these covering the most important events in the webcomic is just what this fandom needs to let its glory shine for new people to join it

This midnight crew theme is sooo perfect

gosh these animations and voice acting never cease to impress me!! you guys always come up with the coolest and most unique alternate scenarios too! great job everyone and i always look forwards to new stuff from this channel!!

this is incredible!!! we have people like you to thank for keeping the homestuck fandom alive 💕💕

4:30 You Have no idea how cool this îs pall. Jack Noir singing the theme of his former crew while the Greatest 'hero' finaly shows up for their greatest duel

I just started my reread of Homestuck, thank you so much for this amazing piece of animation

have you considered doing a animation of the [S] Rex Duodecim Angelus, it doesnt have to have dialogue, but imagining a 3d version of it sounds real cool, especially the vriska scene with everyone's ancestors

As someone who has watched from very early on the animation progress can't be denied, Well done!

Scratch's teleportation effect is sick

So this is doc scratch convincing terezi that she *has* to kill vriska?

This is great !!!! Please keep creating, I’m so happy to see new Homestuck content in 2022 : ))))

This is so amazing! The voice acting, the animation, especially with Homestuck dying, this is great!

"The flame of ambition-" lmao

Really cool, great work! Love what you did with Jack, gave him another 100% coolness.

This an incredible recreation of my favorite moment. Thank you

Good work as always. Keep up the good work

THIS IS INSANE! I LOVE IT

I LOVE YOUR ANIMATIONS!!!!!

ayo nice, haven't thought about homestuck in a while but this is cool

Wondeful animation! Voice acting fits the characters))))

Very strong claymation vibes, yet it works so well. I love it

WHAT HOLY SHIT I DIDNT EXPECT THIS TO BE A 3D ANIMATION SO I GOT REALLY BLOWN AWAY

Dude I fucking love these animations and voices.

I love your works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!

love this!

I love these

this is so nostalgic like an epic video game cutscene holy shit

I'm jamming to that cover of midnight crew

Cool work!!

SO GOOD

This is so fecken good oh my gog

I keep coming back to rewatch this, is so good. Hey, I'm curious, will you make an animation for the alpha trolls (mituna, kankri, meenah, etc) someday? I would love it so much, Mituna is my second favorite troll (sol is the first), I would cry for real hahaha But if not, that's ok! Just please keep doing these, each video makes my entire day when you post them 😍😍😍

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

This is fucking amazing

I can’t believe ive only just discovered your animations and binged them all in an hour or so. They’re absolutely amazing…it really brings the comic to life! just one question, do you have a link to the remix of ‘I’m a member of the midnight crew’ used in this video?

YESSS WOOO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO

0:20 Scratch is too tall here. He was supposed to be 4 feet tall ("the only character with a canonical height"!). Vriska is 13, yes, but he will still not be that much taller than her. 4:25 Oooh, that's a cool musical combination.

I like how in the original it was implied that Vriska had a better chance of winning than Jack did, but here Jack absolutely dominates Vriska

Even in death... Terezi owns

4:00 for the awesome piano theme

hey, i have a question, if possible, can i buy your modes for personal use in animations and whatnot? its alright if not, i ask due to how rare models for homestuck can be to find

song list?

What is the remix of spider 8ite used

Could someone tell me what that black remix was?

What is the theme at 4:00, I wanna play that on loop so bad

This is really cool! what is the song you used for 4:05 ?

... *wait a minute*

Does anyone has the name of the song in the end of the video?

Song 7:55?

Shoulda stole the Sun. Rookie mistake.

Can you please put English subtitles in these homestuck videos? 🙏🏼😭😭 it’s hard for non-English speakers to understand the characters sometimes, subtitles would help A LOT, please please? 🥺🥺

With the difference, that vriska ALMOST beat Jack!!!!!!!!

hi homestuckies🤑🤑🤑

nah, id win

you didn't voice scratch with a British accent. this is a sin

it's annoying how much Terezi moves. constant head shakes