The Campfire Song - The Lightning Thief Animatic 

Luke is literally turning everyone against their godly parent lol and everyone is singing about how their life sucks I love it

I love how Percy seems to question his existence in almost every scene. Especially the one where he pays Grover’s back.

2:18 Can we appreciate the fact that Annabeth and Luke knew that Grover is going to have another meltdown

okay things i love about THIS ONE: -Luke doing little flappy bird hands when describing his dad’s shoes -the lighting getting REALLY dramatic and Zuko-y when Luke stares into the fire -annabeth throwing grover the bread and him catching it in his mouth like they’ve done that a thousand times -percy’s RIGHTFUL confusion about how annabeth exists if athena’s sworn off guys, that won’t be resolved until BOOK FOUR 😂 -You can see percy gradually becoming more comfortable with everyone through his face and body language -katie and selena BOTH inflicting bodily harm upon beckendorf while singing -katie you are WAY too young to be driving, come on now -grover’s adorable index finger thing -annabeth and luke’s shared look of “oh no grover’s getting sad about pan again, what do we do” but then it turns out percy’s got it -but percy does NOT got it so he asks chiron about his dad to distract grover and it works!!!! grover is fine by the time chiron is done talking but PERCY IS NO LONGER FINE -the campfire does the thing it does in the books!!!!!!!! -everybody falling over from the INCREDIBLE aphrodite cringe, which is frankly worse than the kronos eating his kids thing -percy is SO SAD ABOUT HIS MOM, I MUST PROTECT HIM -percy’s face journey in the verse about his dad -the way the mud he kicks drips down the camera -luke is definitely flirting with selena a lil bit which is a deep cut reference to book 5 -clarisse sharpening a spear the the background the whole time😂 gah i can’t even, this is so good it’s not even funny

Katie’s angry foot stomp is so cute!!! And Silena squishing Beckendorf’s face, and everyone’s reactions when she gets to the “nightie” part is just perfect!!!

The absolute love of the books is so evident in all the little details and Easter eggs....THIS IS the Percy Jackson Fandom

The gluten/bread toss is priceless!

I like how the musical really makes Luke feel like a “I don’t want to hurt people, but it’s for the greater good” sorta character. Like, I always had that sort vibe from him in the books already, but it feels very accentuated in the musical, yknow?

There’s so many things to love about this animatic: The campfire reflecting the campers moods (a detail I’d forgotten about until now) Luke’s expressions and how he interacts with everyone at the end really cementing how well liked he was Annabeth with the roll Percy looking concerned, comforting Grover, and asking Chiron about his dad as a distraction CHIRON Selena and Charles Percy looking around and starting to feel like he belongs 😭 Overall absolutely amazing animatic from someone who’s clearly a huge fan!

That's gorgeous! 'I don't care when our parents may be as long as you are here with me'. That part was amazing! It might've taken you forever

"Kronos ate his kids." "...Chiron wins, guys"

I don't know how to describe it but that little silent pause when Percy says he doesn't know who his godly parent is somehow adds so much by doing so little.

Love the energy you gave Katie Gardner, and especially Grover!

This is literally amazing. Also anyone else find Luke and silenas voices oddly pleasing. And Luke doing a twirl at the end with Silena and spinning annabeth was such a cool touch. I also love annabeth and Luke’s panicked looks after Grover starts to talk about pan. This is just gorgeous

This animatic was GORGEOUS! I also adored your last PJO animatic with ‘My Grand Plan’ and you outdid yourself once again here! I’m absolutely in love with all of the character designs, the details from the books such as the fire growing with the mood of the campers and passion of the singing, the charming additions like Grover eating Annabeth’s bread and Percy kicking dirt into the fire rather than food. This was phenomonal and you should be damn proud of yourself; I know I am!

omg i just noticed you did the thing where the fire matches the energy of the campers! that's so cool!

I don’t understand- WHY DOESNT THIS HAVE MILLION OF LIKES AND VIEWSS? THIS IS SOO GOOD AHH

I just want to point out the details that you made extra silent breaks in the song so it'd fit the animatic. Plus, such a good idea to use the campfire as the representation of the campers' moods. And I loved the part where Grover just cried in Percy's arms Fabulous video! :)

3:18 bro look at Beckendorf’s face in this shot lol

I really like the amount of emotino that you showed with the characters. Mainly when Percy starts singing about his mom. At this point in the story he's still trying to recover from his mom's death and the little movements and the focus on those really showed that!

I really liked Annabeth, Katie, Chiron, and Percy's parts of th esong. Overall, I think you did a great job, Nicole!

This song REALLY captures the comfort I feel reading about camp half-blood in the books, and you illustrated it perfectly! I love that you included the detail of the flames getting higher/lower with the excitement of the crowd :)

This is honestly my favorite The Camp Fire Song animatics because the animation is so smooth and the drawings are absolutely amazing. Anytime I think of this song I automatically think of this. Your art style is very memorable and I'd honestly kill to have skills like that. You put expression into the characters when you drew them so you can tell what they think just by looking at them. Especially Luke and Percy. You can tell how much pain Luke has gone through just by watching his movements and eyes ( I really loved the side view drawing of Luke ) and Percy looks so confused and even a bit uncomfortable because he just came to camp and everyone is singing about how much they hate their parents. If somebody watched this and didn't even read Percy Jackson, they can probably tell this guy is super confused just by the first minute of the video. I also love the part where Percy sings he looks more angry than all sad and gloomy. Now when I hear the song I hear him mad rather than upset just because of this animation and I LOVE it. You're one of the best artists I have ever seen and I won't be changing that fact. ❤❤

You've done an amazing job! I couldn't stop smiling. Grover's leap!

C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E SONG AND IF YOU DONT THINK THAT YOU CAN SING IT FASTER THEN YOURE WRONG were the first words I belted out bc I forgot abt the fact that this musical existed 💀

I love this!!! The storytelling is amazing and it feels like a scene from the movie. Absolutely breathtaking! Also the whole ending sequence had me sobbing, not gonna lie - it was just so sweet!!

This song foreshadows Luke's betrayal better than the book honestly

Yay! I had loved you "Grand plan" video and I was really excited to see this new one! Once again, amazing job portraying the characters and their relationships. Loved it!

I absolutely love this animatic, all of the characters' movements and facial expressions convey so much emotion

HELLOOOOO I WATCHED YOUR OTHER PERCY JACKSON ANIMATIC THIS IS CRAZY IM SO GLAD YOU DID ANOTHER!!!!

Somehow this passed me by while I was looking for new TLT Musical animatics. It's SO GOOD. I hope you keep making animatics, because your attention to detail is really great. I love all the kids we know showing up.

It's kinda cute that in almost of the animatics of this song, Grover goes to Percy when starts crying and Percy's kinda like "there,there"

“She’s sworn off guys” Percy: how does that work???? The fandom: I DONT KNOW THATS WHAT WE’VE BEEN ASKING FOR F###### YEARS

i'm obsessed with your style

I really like your art. It gives me cartoon network animation vibes! Also the way you animate Grover just makes me smile in every frame, his part made me laugh 😂

I love this so much!!! The little details are so much fun, like the fire growing bigger or smaller at times, or just watching everyone’s reactions to what they say. The animation looks so good, amazing job!!!

0:16 Dam, really love this scene. Also, this one 0:27 Love your Katie design. And your Beckendorf one. And the background characters- I guess that's all of them. Love the fire lighting. And the detail of the fire growing when everybody gets more excited, I don't see that one added that often. Is Luke dancing with Silena at the end intentionally foreshadowing their "secret" relationship? Because if so, that's cool. I was one of the original commenters on the last one. Apollo-gies for coming here a bit late. Also, I can really see the improvement between this one and the last one, keep it up! Love to see what you create next, I'm subscribed.

My favorite part of this is how expressive you made the carecters. You put so much detail into it, it's like thier faces changed with every word they said. Great Job!!!!!!!

Love it! I’ve been waiting for the next one for a really long time! The details are so great, especially the fire matching everyone’s mood after Chiron reminds them about his dad. Great job! Worth the wait!

0:59 thought that was a hat not bread

0:53 It's probably just me but me, but when Luke closes his eyes, that dot on his eyelid makes it look like his eyes have that evil narrow look to them

Incredible job!!!! Love it and hope it gets famous :)

“He ate his children.” *horrified looks from everyone in the room*

love how the fire grows bigger when Percy got into the singing lol

Love the expressions :D

Your Clarisse design is better than both of the Percy Jackson movies combined.

Percy: 🎵My Dad’s Poseidon The god of the sea Even though he’s distant He cares about me He came to my birthday With my family tree Oh ye-es Atlantis is great I’d love to take you there But just avoid Triton My dad’s son & heir🎵

This is amazing!

OMG I LOVE THE ANIMATION. The way the move is AMAZING. Who ever made this has got some serious talent. Everyone's reaction to the nightie part was great.

Love the detail with the fire

0:56 Why is Annabeth staring at Percy like that? 2:59 *laughs* Percy's facial expression!!

I like how they added the detail about the fire!

Why doesn't this have 300k views yet

this is so fricken cool the animation and drawing is awesome!! goes so perfectly with the song!

How’s this? My mom is Pheme Goddess of fame She puts hard work and dedication to shame, No matter what all I do, to her it’s lame Oh nooo (Oh nooo) Every time I mess up she gets super petty, she spreads all this bad gossip of me This would be sung by my OC Preston (son of Pheme goddess of fame and gossip) Comment below If you want info about him

This is fantastic, Nicole! Such great work and I look forward to more!👏⭐👏

Omg this is perfect, all of the characters facial expressions, the subtle stuff with Luke. It’s *chef’s kiss*

this just makes me feel so sad about luke like i can fix him guys

I also love the detail of the fire growing and shrinking with the mood, just like the books!!!

yeah why did I just decide to start simping for Luke a second ago After I hated him with all of my guts until he sacrificed himself

Wow! That was awesome! Great work Nicole!

I was listening to this on the train and in the “to the gods!” The people next to me razed there cups oh my zeusssss

Nobody talks about Aphrodite trying to sleep with teenagers

Wow just wow

Incredible job, Nicole! I really liked the ending!🎉💞

Incredible work as usual Nicole!

I just want to say great job on like getting the Hearth accurate to the books

honestly im gonna keep an eye on you, there are still a few songs i'd love to see in your style and i know these take a while so you just earned a sub

Love it! Super expressions. Your work is always amazing Nicole!!

God this is so well done

i love it so much it so good

This is so cool!!!! So inspiring

I love how this is just a bunch of angsty kids getting turned against their parents 😭😭

Percy looks so traumatized after hearing what Chiron’ dad did to his kids. Great job in the video!!!

This is AMAZING!!

You did increíble well this animation, you put your Heart on every movment of the characther, honestly this is my favourite animation of the song!! Keep it up, and i will love to follow you and see more content of you :))

That was the best one I’ve seen!! I love it!! ❤❤❤

I love Chiron here. His tone scares, ‘What have I been teaching you all this time?’

2:07 grovers jump was so smooth omg

omg omg omg omg yes yes yes yes

Bonding over messed up beginnings. Cheers to that. I never read these books before, is it like the personfied idea of what gen-z with slang is, as I've heard or is it more on the story element.

THIS SONG

3:18 is the best face ever

3:18 Beckendorf's face tho

The gods watching this from Olympus: Zeus: we should probably do something about that before it becomes a problem... Zeus: got any 8s? Hera: go fish

3:18 bro someone help Beckendorf

My brother is going to play percy in a production of this musical

Percy tipo yo que hago aqui con estos locos que se ponen a cantar de la nada 😂😂

Jesus is a camp counselor there

Lemme add some people of my own Magnus: Norse god of summer my dad is Frey. He left me my sword down in Boston Bay. Fought Surtur fought Loki never looked my way oh nooo. While he was off playing music at a gala I was fighting for my life in Hotel Valhalla. Eric: My dad is Eros you know has him as Cupid. So you’d I’m a lovey-dovey kid. Really I think Valentines Day is stupid oh nooo. When he married Pshyce he thought he was done and then forgot that he had a son. Becky: The moon goddess Artemis she hates kids. And then she had me surprise plot twist. She didn’t want others to know I exist oh nooo. So instead of just locking me up. She went and tried to beat me to a pulp. Vitel: My mom’s Nike goddess of victory. I’ll always win so no need to worry. But if I don’t then she’ll make bloody oh nooo. Guess I’m just lucky I don’t live with her. Cause if I did I’d go insane for sure.

Poor grover

1:19 It’s an 8-9 hour car ride (1 hour on plane) so how long did it take her to walk? Considering she was 7 at the time.

I love grover But if Pan hasn't been seen for 1000s of years How was he born

0:59 Oh My God, Annabeth looks like Sasha Waybright from Amphibia.

OMG poor baby percyyyyyyy, mysister waoutraged by luke flirting with silena though.

3:33 ha

Thalia: 🎵My dad is Ze-us The lord of the sky Don’t make him angry Cuz you’ll find out why When he talks about exploits I just want to cry OH No-o Yes he is tough And worth a scare But once you get to know him He’s a big teddy bear🎵

3:18

I love Luke but hate him at the same time What do I do😢😢😢

If two half bloods have a kid together does that mean there kid is a half blood too or are they 1/2 human 1/4 one type of half blood 1/4 another type half blood? Please help me with this