I love how you don't use Ichabod's wings as his hands like so many artists do, It feels more... believable, I guess, when the character actually uses their talons to hold something.
I read it and hear the voices in my head. Help! Bad sign? I have to ask Ichabod about it. By the way...It´s the first time Calamity wears a dress, doesn´t she? Can´t remember I have seen her wearing a dress before or is it just my imagination?
@Nicholas S Things don't evaporate in an oasis... which is why they exist and are frequently used by desert travellers who make their route to be based around them
Wikipedia: "Chalchiuhtlicue was represented as a river from which grew a prickly pear cactus laden with fruit, symbolizing the human heart." I find it interesting that you included a prickly pear cactus and that Ichabod stood on one before they found the pump. I wonder if this has anything to do with Ichabod being able to use the fork later on. I'm not sure what the connection is and it seems probably that there is a different reason, but dangit that's why this show is so hard to stop thinking about.
i kinda like the exact reasoning that Calamity has for trusting the people she gives the fork to: ichabod: the judgement comic illustrates exactly why calamity would trust ichabod to save her in a life or death situation, and brom bones shows he hasn't lost that protective instinct, even if she wasn't actually in trouble then. two siblings who routinely save each other's lives? that sort of thing doesn't come without trust. huey: well, what exactly would huey need to find in this situation? trouble. and who better to trust to find trouble than the single most irresponsible person in the cast?
@@alexanderleonardi3625 I think she's just lazy and doesn't want to do everything herself, so that manifests as her being able to pick her friends to cast certain spells from the fork. She picked Huey for the finding spell because he's already good at finding stuff. He led her almost to who they were looking for before she let him try the fork.
Nickelodeon had the chance to run Harpy Gee as a new cartoon. They made a test short with voice actors for it. It was so good! Nickelodeon said nvm and chose never to make a series out of it. Animation studios don't do art. They're all sellouts who only run whatever types of shows appear to be popular -- never taking risks on anything new.
Water gets its blue hue from selective absorbtion of the light form the red end of the spectrum. The jar or a shallow puddle lack depth for the blue to show though.
When you put "desert pete" into the RU-vid search, this is the second result. Serously, why isn't this series more popular?! Also, I am now mildly addicted to this song.
it's more like mixing country with a more traditional type of folk song, the result is (imho) better than "pure" modern country. Not a fan of country myself, but this specific version of this song is the best one out there.@@Cedar_Wolf
I'm several years late to the party, but I just thought I'd say I love this series. I'm currently going back and re-watching them and they're great. ( also Desert Pete was a great song choice for this imao )
Did some research: Apparently, after Tlaloc was rejected by his love interest he became a depressed a bum with a bad temper, so he wasn't doing his job properly and caused a drought, yadayada... Chalchiutlique was supposed to happily marry him and fix the problem. Also note, "some research" was googling for about 20-30 min finding random info that may or may not be false. I like your variation much better though.
Chalchutlique married Tlaloc, kicked him to road, married Quetzalcoatl and had a couple of kids with him. Source: also 20 minutes of "research" on Wikipedia.
Rewatching this so much, and with what I know now in the series, I still cannot think of Tlaloc ever talking without a very heavy South Western accent because of this video
so I deduced that the name applied to Tlaloc the aztect god of rain, and the "pump handle is actullay his weapon or something like that, and he wanted Calamity to have it cause Ichabod could not move it one bit at all. So does that mean there is some short of big plot to her having that, I can't wait to find out.
I’ve rewatched no evil so many times now and I only just noticed at 1:41 ichabod crosses his toes as if he’s crossing his fingers, this is why I love these so much as it doesn’t matter how many times I watch them I always find details which I missed before :)
Crying at the end - every.single.time. *sniff* I love the music episodes - episode 2 got me into the series, but it was this one that really got me into the characters. Icky's expressions are priceless and Calamity is simply adorable here, not to mention their interaction is wonderful and shows their personalities beautifully without the need of dialogue.
Jeepers, I genuinely forgot how absolutely _adorable_ Young Calamity was. All bright-eyed and playful, but still with little tolerance for what she considers stupidity. Hee~
This series is so wholesome and pure. The illustrations are creative and surprising. The story is interesting with humor but at the same time there’s a darkness that can be appreciated. I look forward to seeing more of this story.
I kinda fell in love with the hillbilly American tribe culture stuff in these stories, their rather cute and has a decently respectable amount of accuracy ...
Something really cool about watching this series over and over again is that you can really tell just how much Betsy improves with every episode. From backgrounds to linework she always seems to improve her style and her fluidity in animation! I love that the effort she puts into this show can be described just by her art, and not by her words. As always beautiful animations Betsy, and I'm really excited to see this animation continue!
Kingston Trio?! Aw dang. One of the few cassettes my late father kept in his old Jeep was a "Best Of" Kingston Trio tape. I listened to "Tom Dooley" _SO MUCH_ growing up, it still plays in the back of my head some days, often when I'm sad.
Calamity is ridiculously cute in this one!! I love all the emotion shown in her body language and tail. The part where she steals the jar with her tail and goes skipping back to the well is just *chefs kiss*
I found this on Newgrounds so so long ago. Your series is one of my favorites I've ever seen! The story is good, the animation is unique and always improves, and the life in your work; by the Gods how well you and your friends have breathed life into this series. I'll always be a fan!
Hey, Betsy ... if you're reading this. I know No Evil contains a lot of New World literature, and I'm wondering if the story depicted here is actually canon for how Calamity gets Tlaloc's Tuning Fork or just a fun song and animation. I ask because in the canon of "No Evil" (specifically the video Wrip an' Vinkle) Calamity has some kind of operators manual for the fork, which apparently lists the song/spells to be used with it, but in this video she doesn't have it, and thus wouldn't know that kick-ass song/spell to sing/cast to make water do it's thing. Though, since Ichabod's got Tlaloc's notes, I guess he could've given the relevant ones to Calamity after the fact (but then it seems he'd have recognized the fork pretty quickly...) I'm probably looking too deep into this. :P I love the video...s. All of them. And if this is just a fun song and animation, I'd also love to see how she really got the fork. ... And what happened to the Machete ... and where Mama went....! I guess just keep up the fantastic work, and I'll try to be as patient as possible. XD
Nothin' wrong with looking deep. Yes this is cannon.... Tough to go into it without getting.... spoilery (need to get these out faster) but this is where she finds it.
@Juni Post Yeah the singer is singing it the way we say it here in the south. Bakin' Powder. So it's easy to misunderstand. Doubly so if you don't know what baking powder is.
really cool and unique to see an anthro bird use its feet with such dexterity. people seem to forget that some real birds even do this to hold stuff and usually turn the wing feathers into psuedo fingers or completely turn them into arms which looks weird. this is great!
SPOILER ALERT DON'T READ IF IT'S YOUR FIRST WATCHTHROUGH ...so... the tarantula we've seen with mama spider, right? and mama spider is known to give odd gifts and blessings, right? did mama spider arrange for calamity to get the tuning fork?
On this day in 1963 {August 11th} the Kingston Trio appear as the celebrity 'mystery guests' on CBS-TV network 's panel game show 'What's My Line?'... At the time the trio's "Desert Pete" was at #51 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, four weeks later it would peak at #33 {for 1 week} and it spent 8 weeks on the Top 100... The song was track one of side one on their album, "Sunny Side!', the album peaked at #7 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart... "Desert Pete" was composed by Billy Edd Wheeler, who also wrote "Jackson" {a Grammy award winner for Johnny Cash and June Carter}, "The Reverend Mr. Black", "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back", and Kenny Rogers' "Coward of the County"... The late Glen Campbell played six string banjo on "Desert Pete"... Between 1958 and 1963 the Kingston Trio had seventeen records on the Top 100 chart, two made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Tom Dooley", for one week in 1958... Besides "Tom Dooley", their other Top 10 record was "The Reverend Mr. Black", it peaked at #8 in 1963...
Calamity is by far one of the best original character designs I've seen in a long time. She just looks like she belongs in the world you've created. Outside of the design I want to applaud you on making animations that tell separate stories for each character you've drawn up. The stories have meaning, not just because most are based on myths, but because of these characters and their actually quite realistic personalities. Keep doing what you're doing and don't follow anyone else's path. :D
For fans of the song, poet Waddie Mitchell expanded it into a cowboy poem. There's a great recording of him reading his version, with singer Don Edwards taking choruses with the Kingston Trio version.
Ohhh, Icky is crossing his fingers....but as a biiiiiiiiiiird....ohhhhh yeahhh that makes sense... lol. I thought it was cuz he hurt himself trying to crank that fork.
Tlaloc just liked to mess with people apparently, and was really really wise. So he created a test that would guarantee the only person who could take the Tuning Fork was someone who'd use it wisely and not abuse it, but also hide the Tuning Fork in plain sight so nobody actively looking for it would be able to find it, and at the same time have a laugh at the finder's expense. The fact the pedestal is in the shape of a frog sticking out its tongue is a dead giveaway the test is partly a prank. Tlaloc must have walked away from setting this up snickering. One final jape before he gave his life to break the Tezcatlipoca Mirror.
It's not a very loud/hyper show, and the topics are kind of niche (as nice as they are), too. I was recommended it by youtube many many many moons ago where i was feeling quite ill, at night, and watching the first few episodes felt really nice and comfy, and funny. Was hooked ever since.
hey betsy, i'm thinking of making taloc's tuning fork out of aluminum and i need to make the specs for it so i can carve it out of Styrofoam correctly, so i need either the height of calamity so i can ratio it in or the size of it its self if you can give me either one i will be extremely happy.
From a broken pump handle. Which... begs the question, why did Tweloc (I butchered the name) leave his tuning fork to be used in a fountain in the middle of the desert?
@@suburban-mech2107 The video is called "Tlaloc's Test". It's a secret test of character - will someone trust the note well enough to actually do what they said? That's how they're testing to see if they're worthy of the fork. Of course, Tlaloc is supposedly dead... but the fact that this is out in the middle of the desert suggests that he might not be as dead as we were lead to believe, as someone had to set the whole thing up.
I always come back to this one. The ongoing story always leaves me wanting more and is intensely fascinating. But the catchy tune, the silent story going along with it and the animations make this easily one of my favorites. It would be so easy to just make water blue, but instead we just get a shimmering white outline like the water is perfectly clear. Even when it's picked up off the ground, it's like the tuning fork affects the water alone and just leaves all the silt and debris behind.
Time line wise it would be interesting to see when this event sits in because as of now I've see all the episodes and I know this is more in the beginning of the series but calamity and even icky seem to have youth to them. Like she found the tuning fork in mid teen years and where the story is currently at she mid to late 20s.
This is a joke, but I should probably clarify anyway. Scientific basilisk not mythical basilisk. A lizard known for the comb on top of it's head and ability to run on water, also known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard"
taureleafsilver The next line was "Drink all the water you can hold, wash your face, cool your feet. But leave the bottle full for others, thank you kindly; Desert Pete"
