TAZ Animatic: Merle's bugs [or; some rather questionable stealth choices] 

grif: "You cast an insect plague." merle: *nods* "insect plague." grif: ¿¿¿¿¿¿wwwwwwwheeeeeeEEEEREREREERE?????

It has been so many years, and I still mentally go **security guard voice** "what the fuck.?" Occasionally. God I miss Balance so bad

i have no context for this at all but this is the happiest ive been all week i love ur direction so much

ahhh this is so good!!! The music is such a nice touch, and I love your designs for all the characters!!

I loved this live show Edit: omg this animatic makes it even better

*EHHHH ITS ANOTHER ONE OF THEM INSECT PLAGUES!*

_I cast punch dad_

The facial expressions of Taako and Magnus making fun of Merle with the “AHHH ITS SO NORMAL AT THIS POINT WE ARENT EVEN GONNA CHECK IT” and the mummy thing was so fucking funny I was just screaming laughing this is so good

"It's insects! It's a plague! Who would want to walk into that willingly?" X'D

I love seeing the ways people insert Griffin into the scene

Clinton's obscenely terrible logic in this situation genuinely gives me life

"you cast an insect plague *wheRRRRRRREE??* "

I love Magnus' armless tux and Merle's torsoless tux.

the second of silence after merle announces his plans is beautiful, as are all of the squad's horrified faces.

The fact that Griff just lets everyone else pass after Merle makes his decision speaks volumes. Doesn't even need Magnus to say anything, just let's him have it cause this is gonna be good.

I SAW LUP’S DAB AT 1:43 YOU CAN’T HIDE IT BY HAVING IT BE A SINGLE FRAME

Clint's logic is me but also Taako's "i just turn invisible and walk over there" is how my rogue plays lol

i. fucking, LOVE the idea of all of that teasing being fuckin in-character. you’ve made this a million times funnier.

I've watched this many many times over the past month and I just realized how smoothly you go from their planning session to the heist with Lup's hand, and I just wanna say I love it. You obviously put a ton of thought into how to incorporate the setting shift and the McElroy banter, and it's just so fun to watch!

I died at magnus and taako doing the mummy mouth in character, this rules

I appreciate that Clint acts at the beginning of having a thought, instead of thinking it all the way through. And I appreciate that you thought out this scene, and animated it so well. Thank you for sharing!

Loved this!!! I love your use of the music and I really love the expressions the characters made, especially griffins, it really suited the way they were speaking. this was such a great animation!!!

a good paradigm for D&D: if you have the choice of making the right decision or the funny decision, go for funny if that's how you're playing your campaign at least

Casino guard :* is covered with bugs * Casino Guard: oh nOoo

I love that «Oh nooo...» when they went outside. Sounded like Griffin just kinda gave up there. XD

1:13 omg I just noticed Lup facepalming in the background and slowly moving out of the shot behind Takko I'm dying XD

the reactions to merle's declaration of insect plague! griffin's dm bubble! taako's pirate shirt! magnus' bolo tie!lup's side boob! the nods to griffin when he tells them what they need to do! griffin falling into his dm bubble! the bugs coming out of their mouths! your art style! the purple background! all so very good!

Tag yourself I'm griff's what the fUCk?1!!" At 1:10

Griffin's initial delivery of "What the FuCk?!" SENDS me every time.

OH MY GOD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! I AM IN LEGIT TEARS RIGHT NOW, PAN BLESS YOU! :) The bast part has to be Magnus and Taako's facial expressions when reacting to and making fun of Merle.

I love Griffin's little reality window, especially how he falls backward out of it at 1:27 Also, I absolutely adore how you can hear Magnus and Merle bickering in the background as taako walks invisible down the hallway 10/10 detail

i love everything about this, from magnus grabbing the book from merle and griffin returning it, to how you did them poking fun at merle, how epic it looks then there's merle with the plague, all of the expressions oh my god i just love it.

haha, I love the way Griffin physically interacts with the scene in your animation 😄😄 well done!

This is pandammed good, the expressions and movement of the characters is delightful! This made me actually laugh again at this scene, Good job!!

That reminds me of that one time my party and I were sneaking past a hostile orc camp to get to a cave entrance, and had to get past one final guard. The whole encampment was still right there, off to the side, but we were already mostly past it. Someone fucked up their stealth roll then and made some noise, and the guard was like "huh?" and started moving in our direction to investigate, and in a moment of panic and absolute dumbess, I made my character throw a flash sphere in order to blind the guard. It only occurred to me a half-second later that this scene was taking place at night and that I had just created a bright flash right next to a huge encampment of enemies. It's been years and the others still won't let me live it down haha xD

I think I just woke my entire dorm with my loud hideous laughter at this beautiful animation

comin in almost two years late to say that i relate to Merle here bc when my cleric was finally able to use insect plague i was so fuckin psyched i wanted to use it EVERYWHERE

HANDS DOWN I DIED

It could have been worse... He could have cast Zone of Truth...

LMAAOOO THIS IS SO WONDERFUL 1:11 IS PERFECT

Glorious Pan, there is so much to love about this, the character designs, the goofs, Lup's fucking dab in, the expressions. Brilliant job!!!

This happened with bees at my school once

2:12 The way he says "Oh no" is the funniest line delivery I've ever heard!

Well, 2:02 is now one of my new desktop wallpapers.

_I'M DYING OML!!! THIS IS THE FUNNIEST ANIMATIC I'VE SEEN YET!!!_ 2:14 had me rolling, aahhhh!!!! Thank you for making this, it is perfect!!!!

This is the first TAZ animatic I ever saw, and I just listened to this liveshow for the first time yesterday. What a freakin journey. :D

words cannot describe how perfect this is. i'm laughing so hard this is rad 👌

I thought he was going to cast the plague on the casino floor

your framing, poses, expressions, and timing are perfectly spot on, i would sell my firstborn for a fully animated version of this

God, I can’t go over this animatic. I’m not even kidding, the characters expression made this 10x better. Like I honestly was wheezing bc of taako and mangus’s perfect expressions

Literally every expression in this is on point

Griffins genuine reaction of "WHAT THE FUCK." Is hilarious.

Objectively speaking this is my all time favorite animatic ever. It's just so incredibly top quality in every fucking regard. Thank you so much for making it!

So 5th edition actually gives you inspiration points if you solve a problem creatively it's at the dms discretion and I have to say Merle/Clint probably should have got like 10 inspiration points through out the entire Balance campaign and probably for this big plague. Clint is very creative he is adorable I love his logic

this is so good. I love Lup's finger tracing on the map to transition to her fusing the door shut and griffin's adorable pose with "what do you do?" and OF COURSE Lup dabbing. I am so glad I watched this twice I didn't see that the first time and this is so good :) thanks for posting!

coming back to this one five years later. it still fucking rules holy shit LMAO

Griffin is losing his mind so badly, he can't even stay in his fourth wall breaking dm bubble lol

this is adorable and also i adore the expressions it's very very good

My DM just sent this to me, saying this is our party...She's not wrong

this is mcfricking amazing

Griffin laughing himself out of existence is so godamn funny

The live shows are the fucking best

This is absolute perfection , like this has to be what it look like in canon

I love the absolute misunderstanding in problem solving going in Clints head for this. I think he sees the problem as "How can we get past without them seeing us" not "How can we discretely get past without being detected?" Because YES this does allow you to get past without being seen and fails at every other part of that problem

the facial expressions made me CACKLE especially while mags and taako were making fun of merle's magic choices. incredible work!!

Thank you for this gift

I heard this live show recently and remember thinking it funny but this makes it AMAZING. Holy shit, my dude, this animatic is so good! There's so much personality and liveliness through this, right from the beautiful opening plan, those transitions! And your little Griffin is perfect, I love everything about this, the faces kill me. Griffin's initial quiet 'fuck' when Merle first says it is priceless, and you make it from good to awesome

OK BUT MERLE WAS RIGHT I WOULDNT GO OUT THERE

You can see lup ducking out in the back when Taako and Magnus make fun of merle the first time

It was this video that made me want to hear this podcast. Nice video!

i feel like if he had cast insect plague INSIDE the room with the people in it it would have worked a lot better.

I love the pause, before the applause.

i love the addition of 'doing some crime' as bg music, it really adds flavor to the whole thing

i am. _so very gay_ for how you draw taako

HI THE TRANSITION IN THE BEGINNING IS SO BEAUTIFUL GREAT JOB

Merle was trying to Skyrim it. Put the bucket on their head then rob them blind.

Aw dang this is amazing! You did everyone so well! I really love how Griffin interacts with them and just the entirety of this. Great job!!!!

2:01 is one of the funniest things ever... love you how animate it

This is the 4th time I've watched this, god I just cannot get over this scene

I died at all of Griffin's expressions here

I've watched this so many times fuck great job!!

Merle was *exceedingly* lucky that Lup thought to jam the door, otherwise bugs wouldn’t be the only thing swarming the room.

What’s the soundtrack of this?

THE TRANSITIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS ANIMATIC ARE FUCKING G DUDE IM YELLING THIS IS SO G O O D

can we just please talk about the fact that the plot of this entire episode hinges on the fact that they made a FIFTEEN DOLLAR BILL

i loved this show sm i loved having lup pqrt of it

Genius!

1:27 I'm pretty sure that's actually Justin laughing

at about 0:22 magnus has eyebrows like a corgi 100/10

SUPER good

I’m so gay for Lup in that outfit

I wanna watch Clint rob an actual casino

What’s the music for this??

that transition in the start with lups finger was rad

The expressions in this killed me oml

I just realized the heist song was a Remix of the unused 'Wizards Duel' track from the 11th hour

Literally cannot stop watching this.

god im so happy someone made an animatic of this :0

awesome, amazing weekend. the MBMBAM show was a good'un, but this was an instant favorite TAZ

THIS IS PITCH FUCKING PERFECT