god i love the background color transitions, it really shows alex's emotions throughout the entire song like in the beginning when it was light and happy (the white background) like in the middle where the sudden dramatic change (the dark gray background) signaled an important change in his life like in the end where it gets better but not completely (the lighter gray background), like getting over but not forgetting the trauma fuck i love this animatic
I REMEMBER WHEN THE ORIGINAL ONE CAME OUT AND I CRIED FOR LIKE AN HOUR AND NOW ITS 1:00 AM AND IM CRYING MY EYES OUT THANK S (ITS AMAZING BTW YOU HAVE IMPROVED SO MUCH JUST I CANT HANDLE MY EMOTIONS)
It’s fine, I didn’t need this anyways **throws heart into a trashcan** (No but seriously, what an improvement??? I love this so much!! You are so amazingly talented???!!?!!??)
Okay - as an artist myself, I can totally understand how, as your art style develops, you’ll begin to despise your old works. The genius of this one is, even though there are similar frames, and the story is the same, it’s almost an entirely different animatic. You’ve changed the angles, adjusted proportions, added details like glasses and foreshadowing images and little comments that really thoroughly allow the audience to engage with our beloved characters as they are in your universe. I didn’t know how I could love this one any differently to your old one, but I do. As with everything you draw, I absolutely adore this new addition. I’ll always adore your first - it’s a classic to me. One time, one my fourth rewatch, my grandma walked in on me just after I had finished it, and I was absolutely shaking with sobs, because your expressions were so brilliant and it HURT me so badly that I could feel exactly what you drew. I managed to convince her that it was just the pressure of senior year that made me cry like that, but your animatic became the thing I watched whenever I needed a good cry. I’ll always love your original, but this new addition I love just as much, if not differently, for the added details and things I mentioned before. Your art style is just so gorgeously iconic to me. Thanks for your effort in this - it was so much appreciated.
wow, just when i thought your old one couldn’t get any better, you make this! your character designs have gotten so much better, and your expressions. i love Alex’s hair so much, and john’s is so f l o o f y
I CAME AS SOON AS I HEARD you know I translated and sang this song in spanish JUST FOR THIS ANIMATIC, I LOVE IT SO MUCH Update: I finally had the courage to upload the Spanish version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i5MenTmrH1M.html It's not the best, but this animatic inspires me way too much
@@WhoTheBuckyIsFucky omg thanks flr noticing me afahskaghsjs someday I'll get the courage to upload the Spanish version ANYWAY, KEEP ON WITH THE GOOD JOB, I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
This is beautiful. I've watched the first one a lot, and this one will be no exception. I've wanted to do something with this song with two of my original ocs, but this one does this song so much more justice than I ever could I think.
Dont let my animatic hold you back!!! There are a ton of different ways to interpret songs and all of them are great so I'm sure your animatic will be amazing and I'm excited to see what you come up with!!
im gonna die i wached the old one like 7 times I cried every time and here I am crying again.......for the 8th time I told myself I wouldnt cry vut I guess my brain is a rebel and doesnt care what I say
Oh Eliza my dear sweet child. I almost teared up when we see her crying at the end, and going to comfort Alex like, "Boy, I love you too much, no crying on my watch." So as you can see, I really liked the animatic.
... I have no words, this is a beautifully tragic story about true love and learning how to move on from loss. John Laurens will always be in my heart. (Back, so hard to type with an android lmao)
You know what I really like, that you were not satisfied with your previous video so you made another. I don't mean this as something as bad. I mean this as you have improved so much and that's why you wanted to make a new one. And that's what I'm really happy. This is closer to your vision. That is really great. In the end, this is yours and the people who will stay will stay. I am so happy that you have gone to this point. You still want to improve. That is really amazing. I'm proud of you.
I didn't think there could be a better animatic than the first "I'll Be Here" animatic you made... yet here we are. I really appreciate the way you drew their expressions, and how you can really see them falling in love with each other as time goes on. And I also like how in the begginning the background was white, and it got darker when John died to show an important change in Alex's life. I feel like 3:27 is such a powerful picture. "You're aloud to move on-- it's okay." John almost looks sad, whereas in other animatics he looks (somewhat) joyful or looks as if he's trying to comfort Alex, which he is. I love that it seems almost as if he doesn't want Alex to move on-- but he knows what's best for him. I know when I first watched the original animatic, I hadn't seen the full musical, but a few months ago I watched the full thing and it makes some of the references in this song make sense-- like the "getting rid of my favorite sweater" or "when you find someone handsome and patient and true." Oh, and GOSH, 4:28 gets me! Alex is finally able to start living his life, past the trauma, and knows he'll never forget his dear John. Anyways, I love this animatic all around, phenomenal job, FreeSmooches!❤️
*cries in Lesbian* It's so sadddd.... Admittedly I didn't cry as much as the 1st one. I was to focused on the animatic and looking at the details to really be *that* sad. Like wow you've improved so much and it's so amazing. Tbh the original will probably always be my favorite. It was just absolutely the best animatic ever and it was an original. It's my favorite in the since of like reading a really good book and then seeing them put on a screen and not being as good as what it could be. The original is definitely the book as previously mentioned. This one is like the next book in the series. Equally as good but probably not a favorite. All in all this is really good!
@@rosecruzan1187 dude check out my little fan account on tumblr called all things ordinary days you might find more people there who liked and reblogged OD stuff but yeah the fandom is tINY man I love this but I wish someone did an IBH animatic with the actual OD characters
The first version of this animatic made me cry, and now im crying again. Beautiful, keep up the excellent work!😁😁😢😢😢😢😢😁 Edit: is it coincidental that when it said "Till I saw all the sirens and smelt all the smoke" that a firetruck and police siren was going off ?
I subscribed two days ago and I’ve just been blessed. I thought this channel was dead, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I forgot I was crying half way through and my phone was all wet.
That moment when you know you're going to cry again but you keep watching it over and over because you swear the ending will change if you watch it enough times.
Thank you, it's 1 AM and I'm crying my eyes out because you just had to make it hurt. Oh my god the "even if you get rid of my favorite sweater" just kills me every time. This animatic is so beautiful, thank you for this piece of art
I’m eating up my hands and my foot is literally gonna scratch the flesh off my other foot... *I thought I couldn’t be more hurt than I already was with the animatic.*
Your art style has definitely evolved over time, and this animatic is stunning and a bit more refined in ways the other one isn't, but I hope that you don't feel embarrassed looking or thinking about the old one. We're all our own worst critics, but the truth is that both animatics are beautiful and emotionally impactful, and I'm personally glad they both exist.
I watched this 3 times and I cried 3 times... OK, so here’s what makes this special to me. I rarely, I mean RARELY cry at these types of things. My eyes usually tear up but I DON’T CRY but this, wow, I got super emotional, First time I watched it, CRIED, second time, CRIED but third time, I washed my face, and for some reason, washing my face helps me be more emotionally strong, welp, I STILL CRIED. Great job, please make more of these. NVM, CRIED 4 TIMES
I remember the first time I saw this i had to stop watching it so I didn't cry. Not because I was affected by 9/11 directly or anything, but because of how much emotion and power was in the animatic
