I Can't Decide - TAZ Animatic 

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Can we just talk about how this -fully animated -fully coloured -practically movie tbh Is labelled as an animatic? This is an animation.

Aaaaa, the “feed you poison birthday cake” and takko’s faaccceeeee. And ravens roost. And how johns face is always wavering between wanting to be amiable towards Merle and remembering what he had to do. And there’s no face after being taken. You feel that John isn’t there anymore. And the light beams from takko’s wand flashing and growing to the beat of the music. It’s ALL WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC. I don’t know how to deal with this much visual pleasure. It’s like being in party city but with my favorite podcast.

It’s funny just how many people got recommended this out of nowhere and started listening to the podcast because of it, including me!

'It takes the truth to fool me' is such a good line for Merle telling John everything he knows which is nothing lmao

Bouncing to the beat can win me over 99% of the time this is so good Jesus

the poison birthday cake line was a brick to the face

Hi! I see that you found this video in your recommendations without knowing about the Adventure Zone! So for everyone who doesn’t know, The Adventure Zone is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast created by the McElroy Brothers. Its one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever consumed. Its very funny, creative, and made me cry multiple times. So if you haven’t listened to it and you liked the animation, go ahead and give it a listen, you won’t regret it!

Nobody: Him: *kills somebody cause he lost at chess*

Everybody in the comments knowing the names of these charcters meanwhile I don't know shit about any of them.

I listened to The Adventure Zone podcast because of this song. I do not regret a single thing.

Dude, stumbling across this animatic changed the course of my life. You got me into the adventure zone through sheer intrigue, and it helped pull me out of a really dark spot. Its been a few years since and Im a whole lot better, still occasionally tune back in to watch this from time to time to bring me back to what started it all. Really man, thank you for making this.

The little spin on the fist “We’re going for a ride” is so charming.

Fun fact, it’s canon that Merle is always shirtless while talking to john

Dude the way the song lined up with the entire Taz narrative is wild. Great amazing job

It's actually pretty frightening about how accurate the song is to the story

At 0:33 the ship has different sprites for rotating to and away from the camera. It’s such a small detail, but it adds so MUCH and I *LOVE IT.*

I'm not crying at the sunset beach scene you're crying at the sunset beach scene

2:40 “If we meet somewhere in infinity you can apologise to me and tell me you were wrong”

i consider this as the actual music video.

my favorite part of this animation is always looking to the comments and seeing people try to gauge wtf taz is about from this animation. it does a rlly good job of telling a part of the story of taz, but if you enjoy this animatic i would 1000% recommend looking into taz!!

Really dig the way you drew Garfield The Deals Warlock in this one, cuz he looks like a perfect mix of warlock and pawn shop owner

i first watched this several years ago. I had no idea what Taz was, but was too preoccupied with life to find out. Just maybe under a month ago, I finally managed to get with the program and actually listen. It was a slow start, but over a break from school just last week, I hyper fixation - binged it nonstop reaching the end of the suffering game. Today, only a few minutes ago, I have finished listening to taz balance, and I love everything about it. I’m not one to cry from fictional stories, but even so the final episode made tears run down my face. A big reason that I had faith in the podcasts quality was because there’s no way someone would put this much effort and talent into an animation about a bad story, so even if you don’t see this comment specifically, Thank you.

ive been looking for this for like 5 years, finally

Why was I recommended this? I never even heard of "The Adventure Zone" before this video.

I really like the opening scene you decided to show, it's not something really depicted a lot with John, that he used to be just a regular man, a motivational speaker, everyone just portrays him as monster, pure evil

I have no understanding of the lore here but it looks insane as hell

0:39 me and the boys joining the among us game

I love the idea of John straightening his tie as a nervous tic. That’s so cute. I looove your designs for everyone!!!

On top of everything else that's amazing about this (which many others have spoken of), I just want to say that I love your designs of all the various minor characters. Lady dwarves with beards are something I'm always happy to see more of, and I think you may have just designed my favorite Garfield.

I've listened to TAZ Balance fully through at least 5 times how have I NOT seen this!?

I want to thank you immensely for introducing me to the adventure zone. after listening to the whole thing over the span of a few months I get all the references and i love this video even more. my favorite part is how the carecters apear in the order tey were summoned. I love the way they all look (:

If only John has gotten free of the hunger, he seemed cool.

why isnt anyone talking about the poisoned birthday cake and Lup scene :( its super tiny but owwwww :(((

This animation actually introduced me to TAZ, and I’ve enjoyed it ever since :) Thanks for making it

I *really* like the bond engine part *it’s just so damn smooth*

Also your interpretation of Garfield is my favorite ive seen. The ones that are actually a cat or literally just Garfield are funny but leaning into the sleezy salesman aspect with the garfield ears is perfect

I just finished Story and Song like 10 minutes ago and now I'm sitting here watching every animatic I can get my hands on and just trying to come down from the amazing high this show has put me on. This is fantastic.

5/13/2023 and this still slaps

I've never heard of The Adventure Zone until this video and I've recently checked it out. Oh god, I feel like I'm spiralling down into a rabbit hole, not able to see the sun for many days to come. hELP-

As someone who doesn't know what "the adventure zone" is. Lets see if i get this right The guy in the suit atracks the people of the white ship. He doesn't want to, but is made to by some "being". After actualy meeting them he realises they are nice people and really doesn't want to kill them now. but has to out of fear of that "being". His confliction gives the "being" a reason to take over. Bunch of side plots happen leading up to them beating the man and the "being". Also there maybe something involing heaven and hell being actual places.

I really like the concept of John, something so impossible inhuman, an eldritch horror, born from one man feeling empty inside and spreading that to others.

I at first watched this with no knowledge of what TAZ was, and just thought it was the coolest animation I had ever seen. Now I’m back, years later, having just finished TAZ, teary eyed and happy. You did an amazing job MooselyBased.

Me: knows TAZ means the adventure zone also me: THE ALDER ZKROLLS

I love the head bobs, I love the pacing, I love how dynamic and alive everything feels, I love the matching music to story, I love the colors, I love the art, I love roswell and joaquin, I love this, thanks for this. Thank you!

First watch: "oo, TAZ thinger." 200 watches later: "must hear song and see bobbing animations."

EVERY MOVEMENT IS ON THE BEAT. I AM SATISFIED.

Step one: find this in your recommendations Step two: listen to every episode of the zone cast

Literally this alone convinced me to start listening to TAZ, so I can only recognize a few scenes. This is honestly the best animation I have ever seen in my whole entire life what

I don’t know what “the adventure zone” is but here is what I think is happening. The suit guy is some businessman who doesn’t like the people with the red coats. But he talks to the short guy and finds out he is nice but they black thing with the colors makes him attack the short old guy and now he has to kill them all. During the final battle he becomes the big demon monster and gets destroyed by the green guy. Basically it’s the weird black with colors demon thing that makes him evil even though he is a good guy, (as seen by the end where he is looking at the sunset)

I originally watched this before I finished TAZ and now that I how I love this so much more

Ynow. This is the animatic that started it all. My love for animatics, but most of the feel of my stories. Jesus, this gices me such nostalgia.

I feel like John hunger goes under-appreciated as a character. He has such a complex characterization, especially for somebody who wasn't formally introduced until really late in the story.

The smooth transitions are everything! It makes it have this lovely tone.

So I need to look up what inspired the animatic, but admittedly I’ve gotten more out of learning that this song exists then anything, easily one of my favorite songs

Ah i love trying to piece any semblance of lore while never watching TAZ

I’ve never felt the urge to willingly die to protect a piece of art before but I guess that’s changed now

Never heard of adventure zone? Wondering why you’re here? 1. Maybe you watch a lot of animatics/animations. 2. *Man, nobody talks about this really good song anymore TvT*

Happy anniversary!! I still love this and watch it often

"It takes the truth to fool me" is a good heckin' line

So I have to thank you for being the reason I actually got into TAZ. The story was amazing and I never would have experienced it without this video.

This is another one of those ones I'm going to watch over and over because this is just so firkin good, you are made of awesome. Brilliant work. This must have taken you 6ever.

I seriously love this, it's so well done. I've been rewatching this over and over again. The song is super catchy as well

This is just employees fighting the ceo of google for less job interviews.

holy shit this is so good i literally watched the entire thing w my jaw dropped bc i could not process how fucking incredible this is

So, not only are the character designs perfect, but this song so accurately tells the story of John I’m beside myself. This is amazing and I’ve watched it like 20 times already.

As someone who has literally no idea what TAZ is, this is just “Haha funny colors go brrrrrr”

I've have watched over 10 times now... And I'm not stopping any time soon!

Omg using the people they called through the bond engine as transitions, FUCKING GENIUS

I have absolutely no idea what's going on in this, but I like what I see.

Ive watched this so many times this week, its really really wonderful

I gotta say, there isn’t a better TAZ animation out there imo. Great song, great animation. Great character designs. It’s golden and I come back to this very often.

Before listening to The Adventure Zone: oh this looks cool After: THE TEARS WONT STOP!!!

Merle: *Beats John in a game of chess* Also Merle: *Fucking dies*

I’ve watched this 8 times

Just stumbled on this. Heard this in a part of my childhood memories.

The best thing about this is that I've got no idea what TAZ is so this makes absolutely no sense to me

I've never heard of The Adventure Zone, so all I see is Google (G-Man lookin guy) chasing down some space pirates making their lives hell, idk something like that

This reminds me of when having fun wasnt cringe and everybody could just be themselves

Watched this again. This is such a gorgeous and amazing piece, i aspire to make something like this someday. Thoughtful and fun and heartwrenching.

This is a perfect "end credits" scene for The Adventure Zone. The animation, the song choice, the featured scenes. It so accurstely encapsulates TAZ. Especially the Stolen Century arc. Just undescribably emotional and beautiful. Thank you

So this song is my alarm so that was slightly jarring initially lol But the animation here is beautiful and worked so well with the song! I’m definitely sending this to all my friends who like The Adventure Zone cause they need to see it

This didn't get me into TAZ, but I did watch it before The Stolen Century Arc and I was VERY confused. I finished Balance just a few minutes ago, and I cried a bunch. Thanks for convincing me to keep listening.

I just finished the first season of TAZ and this is just such a good video i cant think of how to explain its just yes

I wouldn't have chosen this song initially, but by god you made it work perfectly. One of the best tributes out there! (also kudos on making content about John, it's too rare)

Tbh, this is hardly an animatic. It boarders on pure animation, the tweening is so smooth and fluid. It is amazing work, and wonderful to look at!

ive watched this video everyday ever since i found it, im in love with this art style, animation and direction and i appreciate something new abt this video every time i watch it

Just had to revisit again for a good morning cry. Just seeing the characters and their interactions makes me emotional, that's how powerful this show was/is. Kudos again to your style and talent :)

I've never heard of TAZ before, but this video randomly popped into my recommendations. "I Can't Decide" was a favorite song of mine in middle school and this music video does it justice. The story inside this video, along with the music, does a great job of telling me what TAZ is like and what exactly the plotline is, despite me not knowing any of the character's names or anything about it. Amazing work!

I misread "TAZ" as "TF2", so I clicked on it. I'm not disappointed, but god damn I'm interested in whatever this is.

This is the animatic that got me listening to the adventure zone. I had no idea what it was about but your thing looked so cool so i gave it a listen. Thank you, this was awesome.

to see this so well done and on a topic that i have loved for years now makes me incredibly happy. Thank you for doing this animation, it really is an incredible callback to season 1 of the adventure zone

This introduced me to TAZ. You are directly responsible for me loving this podcast, for my renewed excitement over DND and for just me knowing about these characters. I just want to say thank you. Thank you so much.

I saw the thumbnail for this and thought "THIS song? with TAZ? what the actual heck" and clicked on the video out of sheer morbid curiosity. I WAS NOT PREPARED TO FIND AN EXCELLENT AND HEARTFELT ANIMATIC THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST I'VE SEEN SO FAR, CONGRATS ON THE TALENT OMG.

This is so amazing. From the thought that went into the animation, the fitting song, and the emotional connection we all have to Balance you have made something great!

Btw I LOVE your design for these characters and everything and you have my favourite version of Garfield the deals warlock

This is just unbelievably astounding. I watch this video whenever I'm having a bad day, and without fail, it has cheered me up every single time. Just the perfect use of colors, lively animation, and sync with both the beat and plot are just something to behold. It disappoints me that this masterpiece hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves yet, but as you can see, everybody who has seen it greatly thanks you for making it.

Such a smooth and consistent style! The light-heartedness of the head bobbing and cartoon like style contrasted with the depictions of what are some of the most heart breaking things in the story really compliments the tone of TAZ itself.

omg just revisited this animatic,, reminds me of when i had first gotten into the fandom. good shit.

I only started listening to the podcast to understand this video and I'm loving it so far