This animatic has me speechless. Robin is my favorite Strawhat, and this video reminded me of every reason I adore her story. 0:24 Your ability to show deep emotions in only a few seconds is incredible. Robin drawing a picture of her and her mother, only to have her mother’s face erased by the ocean-it needs no explanation. It’s perfectly heartbreaking. I love how you were unafraid to make things symbolic. Like… not every scene in this video is “realistic” but the symbolism works so well. Robin dreaming about the Strawhats climbing a tree at 0:36 and then 0:46 “I saw a piece of heaven waiting impatient for me” with Robin seeing the Strawhat’s backs and then running toward them is so good. It just builds the feeling that she’s been waiting for them, for a FAMILY, her whole life. It’s like… through all the suffering she went through, when her mother told her to run and live, and when Saul told her to run and find her friends, the STRAWHATS were what she was running toward! Even if she didn’t know it! And then at 2:16 she sees them laughing and exploring again but it isn’t a dream anymore because she’s WITH THEM! She made it! 0:41, 1:26, 1:37 Robin’s own hands help her up the tree. The symbolism you’ve created with hands is phenomenal. When Robin reaches for a hand, no one is there to catch her when she falls because she’s alone. Robin’s own hands pull her up again and again because the only person who helps her is herself. I’m taking a moment to appreciate your animation real quick. Robin kicks her little feet while walking on the beach! When she gets out of the water her hair looks wet! When she dances in the rain it’s so fluid and beautiful! Your expressions and perspective is SO GOOD! I’m in love with your art! The way you match the lyrics to the animation is perfect especially the lines “Take me home where I belong” and “I can’t take it anymore,” those hit hard every time. The way you drew Robin joining the Strawhats is everything. It’s Luffy’s happy smile when he decides to trust her despite everything. It’s Robin making the boys laugh. It’s her face of confusion and awe when Nami gives Robin her first hug in decades. It’s Sanji bringing her food to support her while she does what she loves. It’s the way Robin covers Zoro with a blanket because for all the world calls her heartless, the moment Robin finds people she can safely love she INSTANTLY starts loving and caring for them. It’s how HAPPY Robin looks (2:15) exploring Skypia and being with people who support her dream. It’s Robin getting to read a poneglyph and reclaim a little of the home she’s lost to “take me home where I belong.” It’s all of it. Everything about this sequence is flawless, it says so MUCH in so little time. Another little moment to appreciate your animation. I adored the tiny shot at 2:14 so much because it only lasts for a second but it’s so full of character. Also color coding the Strawhats is genius, it makes them so easy to see. 2:30 The acceptance in her face is killing me. To Robin, the dream is over and she’s finally going to die. The parallel between the sequences at 1:47-1:56 and 2:36-2:46 is so emotional. Because this is what Robin does when everything goes wrong: she walks away and she lies and she fights and she ends up alone. It’s all she knows how to do. The difference is, the first time she’s desperate to save herself and the second time she’s desperate to save those she loves. I just love how you told her story so much. Also Robin’s expression at 2:44 is making me feel an indescribable emotion. 2:52 “And i kept running for a soft place to fall” cause Robin keeps running! She’s running away! She’s running toward something but she doesn’t know what! You get it! 3:08-3:16 “Take me home where I belong, I got no other place to go” BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T! THIS IS THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR ROBIN, SHE HAS NOTHING! SHE HAS NO WHERE TO GO! BUT HER FAMILY COMES FOR HER AND TAKES HER HOME! 3:16-3:21 AND THEN THE FIRE BECOMES OPEN HANDS BECAUSE SHE ISN’T ALONE ANYMORE! PEOPLE ARE FINALLY THERE TO HELP HER! TO CATCH HER WHEN SHE FALLS! (This is the exact moment I started crying while writing this.) AND SHE ACCEPTS THE HANDS! SHE ACCEPTS THEIR HELP! SHE ISN’T ALONE ANYMORE! 3:25-3:50 And then Robin runs and falls again but she’s coming home to Merry this time and she’s with her family. And Robin gives them wings! They’re all flying and Robin did that for them! And Robin holds Chopper and it’s adorable! Thank you for the Going Merry appreciation in this animatic. 3:51 THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOT! 3:57 Maybe I’m reading into this too much but the shooting star is like… “make a wish.” And Robin has been wishing her whole life, but this time she just smiles and goes to sleep because she’s home. She has her dream (the book, her research) and her family and she doesn’t need to wish anymore. Anyway, this is a long comment but the moment I watched this I knew I needed you to know how much I adore it. You’ve combined one of my all time favorite characters with an amazing song and amazing art to tell a beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing your work!
Seeing and reading this comment made my day! I actually reread it when I need a mood-lifter 🥲 Thank you so so much for your attention to detail and thorough breakdown of my animatic and what you appreciated about it! It was amazing to me to read your comment because it was like you were in my head for the planning process. You highlighted so many things--the message of Robin waiting her whole life for her found family, the parallels between the sequences for the "running far away" chorus, the "no other place to go" and how she runs one last time but towards her happiness in the end. You even caught the book in the end, which I did keep as a recurring motif through the whole thing, even when she "gives it up" in a way before putting on the Miss All Sunday persona :') Your comment and attentiveness make me indescribably happy and proud of what I've made, since it was positively picked apart by such a big Robin fan! As a storyteller, it's encouraging to know that the ideas and visuals I had in mind came across. Thank you again!
This is an amazing analysis and the only thing I have to add is that I LOVE the fact that at 3:39 Sanji and Zoro are acting as Luffy's wings. Because Robin said that Sanji was one of the wings of the King of the Pirates.
@witec83 and not only that but each of them only have 1 wing each, really hitting into that factor of they are his wings that will carry him when he's pushed himself past the limit
The poneglyph falling on top of Robin, about to crush her is fantastic and pretty simbolic: her knowledge, and Ohara's legacy quite literally nearly destroying her
3:39 I love that in this shot Sanji and Zoro are searving as the left and right wings of the (unconsious) Pirate King. When I first saw it I thought that Luffy has his own 2 wings and Zoro and Sanji each had one wing while holding him up, but I'm pretty sure they are each meant to have 2 and are carrying Luffy. Either way it turns out in the final animation, the fact that they are serving as his wings.
Hey I know this is late and not really the point. But that wings thing was likely a bad translation. Sanji is Luffy's wings playing off his ability to sky walk and his mother being named Sora. Zoro is likely Luffy's earth playing off how he tends to ground the strawhats (mostly Luffy) and his mother being named Tera. Jimbei being the third son of the sea really rounds out.
@@greenwarrior33 hey I know this is late but the sanji & zoro volume of the one piece magazine uses "wings" to refer to both of them thus validating the original translation sanji zoro and jinbe do form a nice son of sky/earth/sea trio but that is separate from sanji and zoro being the wings of the pirate king
Going through Water Seven and Enies Lobby I realized how much fire recurred as an image BUT it had a different connotation when the Straw Hats were there 🥹 I'm glad you appreciate it!
This video reminded me why Robin is my favorite strawhat, not that I'd forgotten, but the raw EMOTION you wrung out of me with this is so wild. When I saw it only had about 250 views I was FLABBERGASTED. This deserves Millions.
You're so kind!! I truly can't put into words how encouraging it is to hear that something I've created has had an emotional impact on someone ;_; Thank you so much!
Robin is definition of found family, her arc I cried, I relate to her so hard, I got her devil fruit tattooed on my chest to keep a remind that "I want to live"
Holy crap this is insane!! Teared up when Nami hugged Robin, and even more so at the I want to Live scene. Genuinely incredible, thank you so so much!!
Thank you so much for watching!! I knew in the beginning I wanted a Nami hug scene and expanded it to show Robin interacting with the rest of the crew. Then the "I want to live" scene is just so iconic; how could I not include it? 🤧
Oh man this perfectly encapsulated Robin's emotional arc and really got me thinking about how Luffy's charm and kind of the point of the strawhat pirates is that he can turn anyone into a child again, and that anyone can change. That scene where she joins them after Alabasta really reads like an adult humoring children, but it very quickly changes into her becoming one of them, and reconnecting with her childlike self, when she starts to play with the strawhats and rediscover her passion. This is really incredible! and the storyboard and art are so well crafted as well!! well done!
2:52 i love how you showed that she kept running away since she was a child till she fell but then she didn't need to keep running they are saving her and helping her wich made he remember how it's like to be safe without having to run away ✨️
I love the detail of robin always having herself (thematically her DF) to climb any hurdles that comes along her path. Since she hadn't had anyone to help her, she had considered herself her only crutch in this cruel world. But the one hurdle she couldn't climb (the world itself) the hands of her friends pull her through the cruelty that is the world.
The juxtaposition of her reaching for her own hand near the start and then the crew's hands reaching out later is an obvious highlight, but what I really love is around 2:26. The way her face changes from startled to neutral could be her putting her poker face on, but to me it's like she's thinking, "It's over now. It was inevitable." It makes the joy on her face later hit all the harder.
This was so freaking incredible, I'm extremely impressed!!!! I really love how much emphasis you put on the Going Merry being her home, cause that's an angle that I hadn't thought of before but it's so obvious now that you pushed it to the forefront. Incredible!!!!
Wow thank you!! The "home where I belong" line was what made me first think of the connection to Robin, actually! I'm glad my focus on her home with the Straw Hats/the Merry came across well!
Home is where the heart is, because where you belong is where you love to be. Robin couldn't even feel at home in her own skin, but because of the love the strawhats show her, she loves herself again, not just this merry band of misfits.
Yes! I wanted Luffy to be part of the flying but since it was post Enies Lobby he was unable to move, so I thought having his Wings carry him was a fun workaround!
i can feel every single emotion in this so STONGLY ohhh this is so good :,D you've captured her story extremely well, and needless to say i'm crying over the strawhats and nico robin for the millionth time or so now
2:13 My favorite simply for the fact that I can see it happening in the anime, and the fact that you feel like like you're falling *and* flying _with_ her.
all this time *sniff sniff* she had no one to lend her a hand except herself, but the last scene *sniff* the flowers bloom and it's the other straw hats hands *screaming, crying, throwing up* 😭oh Robin. I'm so glad this strong and beautiful woman has found people who will fight for her no matter what
The only hand she was ever offered being the ones she grew herself, until the burned flag turns into a ring of hands being offered to her by the straw hats fkn majestic
Just found this. I havent watched all of onepiece, its more my brother's thing, but I absolutely ADORE Nico Robin, and I loved watching that! Thank you so much!
I've always loved how her devilfruit ability fits her in the sense that the only one to hold her hand is herself. Her only wish as a child was to hold her mothers hand and tyat was taken from her. So you can't blame her for not believing anyone would ever again reach out for her in any meaningful way until now.
Wow. Wow. Just. What beautiful and dynamic storyboards, you captured robins emotions and motions so insanely well… Some scenes like all the strawhat children scampering up the tree or the poneglyphs circling above robin’s head are particular stand outs for me (though all of them were breathtakingly good). Ahahah I love the wings of the pirate king being his actual wings to keep him up in the end part! Ahhh this was just such a great animatic :)
dude. DUDEEEEEEEE. okaokayokay. THE CHILLS I GOT FROM THIS??? THE WAY THIS IS AN ACTUAL MASTERPIECE?? the visuals the movement the Everything. it feels like a freakin' movie!! robin's story, the waves washing away olvia's face in the sand, the images of robin running, the kid strawhats in the trees, how robin's life begins with her own hands reaching out to her and how alone she was, SAUL
I really appreciate when people point out specific parts that stood out to them and then it turns out to be a list 😭 Thank you so much for watching and paying such close attention to everything! Even Saul wasn't lost on you and he was there for maybe 1.5 seconds 🥹
this is so beautiful im bawling my eyes out robin is my favourite character and you’ve portrayed her so perfectly. literally watched it 4 times and been sobbing for half an hour
This animatic was on top of my homepage reccomended today. I think about it a lot and watch it every so often and it’s still one of my favorite animatics ever! I’m an artist myself and hope to make animatics like this one day. I’ve continued watching and falling in love with One Piece and I’m on Punk Hazard now. This video made me so curious about One Piece and its world and its characters. I could tell it was deeper and more complex and serious and emotional than I’d initially assumed and I wanted the context for this amazing animatic. Now having seen it for myself, fallen in love with the characters, the story and world, it’s nice coming back here to where I started with a new understanding having seen the arcs, especially Ennies Lobby. I’m struck again and again by how well thought out and beautifully done it is. I’m so thankful to this vid for giving me the nudge I needed to start the journey for the One Piece
In love with the fact that in the first part of the video the only hand that was extended to her was her own, kind of showcasing she was on her own, only herself and her powers to lean on and in the later part there are multiple hands extended to her with different colors (yknow the strawhats) symbolizing she's got others to help her now and she's no longer on her own I really love the symbolism of the shots here but this one really stuck out to me
The only thing that stopped me from crying was that I'm in class. This is an amazing piece of art, and you understand intimately why Robin is One Piece's greatest treasure.
OH BOY DID I ENJOY WATCHING IT TWICE AND FOUR TIMES AS MUCH. (avid one piece AND aurora fan) THIS IS. GOD. it's such a nice coincidence that this is a project from before the live action, bc as soon as i found out aurora would sing for the show i was starting to hope more ppl would get into her music and then hopefully make things with it for one piece - AND HERE YOU ARE DOING THAT EVEN BEFORE THAT HAPPENED!!!! Man, the variing and creative shots, the movements in them, the different visual metaphors you chose to transition between the sections and from subject to subject... amazing, truly, i literally already started tearing up when i saw this video reccomended and then the tears started flowing and getting worse throughout the whole video!!! many many good emotional storybeats and synched up wonderfully with the different climaxes of the song, and ugh. as someone who also has assigned robin to this song for ages now, you hit the nail on the head. And now I'm thinking again about the Robin animatic i've been wanting to do with Cure for Me by aurora TCT
YEAH a fellow Aurora OP fan! :D Thank you for watching!! It makes me so happy that people catch and understand the metaphors and storytelling I chose to include ;u; I say go for it if you want to do an animatic of your own! They're challenging but fun!
oh yeah i know, i've done a few in my time as well! no idea how i mustered the energy to do them all good lord, it's time consuming... but yeah again, amazing work man, and you got such a good eye for combining reality with more abstract imagery!@@trinblom
I COMPLETELY forgot I had this bookmarked to watch lmao. Robin is my fav and this is absolutely gorgeous, you captured her story so well. I love how joyous she looks when she's smiling and laughing ;u; wonderful work!
This is so gorgeous. Having Robin go from reaching out to her own hands to reaching out to the Straw Hat Crew's hands (with flower symbolism to boot) is brilliant🎉
That scene where they went up knock up stream really stood out to me. Somehow symbolised a real turning point in her story. The whole animation also has such a nice pace. I really enjoyed it! Made me cry.
I'm glad you appreciated the Knock-Up Stream scene! Going through Robin's story in my head over and over, I wanted to find a turning point, like you said, for her after leaving Baroque Works. I needed to sell the happiness before I brought in the pain haha
I love how thru out the animatic, Robins been using her own arms to pull herself, showing how for most of her life shes had to relie on herself. But then at the end the rest of the strawhats hold out there arms, showing how shes no longer alone.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL I AM COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY BY THIS ?? THE SONG FITS HER SO WELL AND THE ART AND FLOW OF THE ANIMATIC ITSELF IS JUTS MWAH GORGEOUS BROUGHT ME TO REAL TEARS I LOVE ROBIN I LOVE THIS VID I HOPE THIS BLOWS UP BC THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAV ONE PIECE ANIMATIC OF ALL TIME
DUDE! TRIN! THAT WAS STUNNING! THE MOVEMENT, THE TRANSITIONS, THE TIMING, THE EXPRESSIONS, STRUCTURE OF YOUR ACTUAL ART! I'm so blown away by the quality, you deserve way more recognition for this! Keep up the incredible work!💜
Watched this 3 times already, sure the song is beautiful, but the way you drew the animatic and expressed Robin's character and her story was SO good. If this doesn't get at least million views... actually no, I'm pretty sure it will
I've had to go back and watch this animatic sooooo many times in the last week alone. It's simply breathtaking and it's making me fall in love with Robin all over again. That scene with everyone's arms unfurling for her leaves me teary eyed every single time. Thank you so much for sharing this masterpiece !!!!
a work of art! loved how you prepared us for robin's fruit hands turning into the crew reaching out for her by the scene in the beginning and how sanji and zoro are the wings of the pirate king. the scene with the kid versions of the crew climbing the tree was so haunting and heartwarming at the same time my favorite part! i went frame by frame to see zoro getting lost and sanji yelling at him to turn back around and usopp helping chopper while luffy helped nami i could die from this thank you for sharing this with us!
How in the everloving fuck does this have less then 1000 views?? Absolutely phenomenal animatic You captured robins character and progression SO WELL I CANNOT both with the song choice and the visuals Amazing and highly underrated
I am in shock, this was so beautifully made, I am crying about all of it, Robin constantly using her hands to climb things, young Robin seeing all the other Strawhats climbing the three and then following, and then at the end when the hands become THEIR HANDS??? Robin using her df powers to make all of them fly???? I am a sobbing mess Edit: JUST REALIZED THAT ZORO AND SANJI ARE CARRYING LUFFY AND THEY EACH HAVE ONLY ONE WING BECASUE *ROBIN* CALLED THEM THE WINGS OF THE PIRATE KING AKSDJKSAJDKLSAJDKLAJSDKL THIS IS AMAZING
I love how all the hands reaching for her in the start were her own, showing that she only has herself to help her. Now, the hands have changed to the crew’s. Beautifully done 💕
Great googly moogly, this is so beautifully constructed- beat by beat, shot by shot!! Seeing little Robin dancing in the rain with glee, only for her to have to witness her own island engulfed in smoke and flame made me WEEP. But I love the way you told her story. For most of her life, the only person she could rely on, or find solace in, was ultimately, herself. I noticed that you added a scene where she’s on the ground, and one of her duplicate hands, literally, reaches out to help her climb back up. And later on, she’s able to extend that ability, which had kept her protected up until that point, to defend/look out for and care for the *straw-hats.* ( i adore the part where she puts the blanket on zoro :). ) And then we see them care for her too, making an enemy of the entire world just to see that she comes back safely. I bring this up because I love how her hands can be interpreted as protection, care, & love throughout the animatic, especially at the very end. Robin & her newfound family (straw-hats) gliding with her hand-wings (for lack of a better term) after having just freed her from a deadly government base, means so much. It’s her acknowledging that they care for *each other.* no sacrifices on luffy’s watch & i love the way you draw little robin & the little straw hats!! & robin w/ the poneglyphs , the transitions, the train shot!! the facial expressions! everything is just, chefs kiss, amazing, & this animatic deserves the world. wonderful work.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! It's encouraging to see comments about the hands and symbolism of the animatic; it assures me that I'm doing something right with storytelling 🥹 I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
oh my GOD this is INSANE!!!!! i am IN LOVE with the theme of robin reaching out to help herself up AND THEN ITS THE STRAWHATS REACHING OUT TO HER!!!!!!!
this is so breathtaking. what a stunning love letter to robin. i was struck by the way you used her hands pulling herself up in contrast with the strawhats later reaching out. Amazing incredible job!!!!
WHAAAT?!?! THIS IS INSANE!!! Every shot is incredible, the changing perspective, the transitions, the fluid character animation, the layout of each shot, the facial expressions, the sheer BREADTH of Robin's story this covers??? I am in awe, putting aside how much of a masterpiece this is technically, it evokes so much emotion, it really amplifies the lyrics. Truly breath taking
This is, without exaggeration, one of my top 3 favorite One Piece animations that don't come from the show itself. It's glorious, and you should be proud of your brilliant work.
Excuse me?? How does this not have a million likes. This is absolutely incredible. The emotion portrayed in such a short video is astounding, not to mention the art and animation. A truly perfect song for Robin, and the scene where the poneglyph falls on top of Robin oh my god. And when Robin creates wings at the end, holding chopper - goosebumps. Literal goosebumps.
This is absolutely incredible, it captures Nico robin so well, you have done such a wonderful job !! The cinematography is perfect and it’s so emotion brimming 😭😭💕💕 well done 💖💖
i adore this animatic so much. the first time i watched it i cried. this song is such a perfect choice for robin, and the way you draw her is so beautiful. Her expressions are done so well, and the lonely isolation she feels when shes running her whole life shows very clearly in ur work. I truly love this animation so much, robins one of my fave strawhats n this makes me appreciate how beautiful her story is and how heartwarming the crews continuous acceptance of her is! its so so lovely. thank you for making this!!!
This is freaking beautiful holy shit. Like huh?? just WHAT. This is such a specific intersection too, I can't believe someone else likes Aurora and One Piece enough to do something like this!
Beautiful, had me crying by the end. The part that had the most impact on me was the hand imagery - when the hands reaching out had been her own for the rest of the video and then they suddenly changed to the Strawhats' hands, man that color coding hit hard. :')
I loved this so so so much. The shots and transitions were so dynamic. I love how you focused on how Robin grew into her family with the Strawhats and gave all of them a scene. Very happy to see amazing One Piece animatics being created even now and I can’t wait to see your next work One Piece or not.
Thank you so much! I originally just planned to have a Robin/Nami scene, but as I drew the actual storyboards I thought it would be more impactful to see her bond with all of the members 🥹 I'm glad the scenes I thought to add later have been people's favorite partsQ
THIS IS SOOOOOO INSANE I love it so much!!! All the imagery is incredible, I love the change from robin helping herself out of places with her hands to the hands turning into the strawhats, and the shot of her running where she goes from a kid to 28 is SO incredible. This is just so amazing
This animatic has me speechless. Robin is my favorite Strawhat, and this video reminded me of every reason I adore her story.
0:24 Your ability to show deep emotions in only a few seconds is incredible. Robin drawing a picture of her and her mother, only to have her mother’s face erased by the ocean-it needs no explanation. It’s perfectly heartbreaking.
I love how you were unafraid to make things symbolic. Like… not every scene in this video is “realistic” but the symbolism works so well.
Robin dreaming about the Strawhats climbing a tree at 0:36 and then 0:46 “I saw a piece of heaven waiting impatient for me” with Robin seeing the Strawhat’s backs and then running toward them is so good. It just builds the feeling that she’s been waiting for them, for a FAMILY, her whole life. It’s like… through all the suffering she went through, when her mother told her to run and live, and when Saul told her to run and find her friends, the STRAWHATS were what she was running toward! Even if she didn’t know it!
And then at 2:16 she sees them laughing and exploring again but it isn’t a dream anymore because she’s WITH THEM! She made it!
0:41, 1:26, 1:37 Robin’s own hands help her up the tree.
The symbolism you’ve created with hands is phenomenal. When Robin reaches for a hand, no one is there to catch her when she falls because she’s alone. Robin’s own hands pull her up again and again because the only person who helps her is herself.
I’m taking a moment to appreciate your animation real quick. Robin kicks her little feet while walking on the beach! When she gets out of the water her hair looks wet! When she dances in the rain it’s so fluid and beautiful! Your expressions and perspective is SO GOOD! I’m in love with your art!
The way you match the lyrics to the animation is perfect especially the lines “Take me home where I belong” and “I can’t take it anymore,” those hit hard every time.
The way you drew Robin joining the Strawhats is everything. It’s Luffy’s happy smile when he decides to trust her despite everything. It’s Robin making the boys laugh. It’s her face of confusion and awe when Nami gives Robin her first hug in decades. It’s Sanji bringing her food to support her while she does what she loves. It’s the way Robin covers Zoro with a blanket because for all the world calls her heartless, the moment Robin finds people she can safely love she INSTANTLY starts loving and caring for them. It’s how HAPPY Robin looks (2:15) exploring Skypia and being with people who support her dream. It’s Robin getting to read a poneglyph and reclaim a little of the home she’s lost to “take me home where I belong.” It’s all of it. Everything about this sequence is flawless, it says so MUCH in so little time.
Another little moment to appreciate your animation. I adored the tiny shot at 2:14 so much because it only lasts for a second but it’s so full of character. Also color coding the Strawhats is genius, it makes them so easy to see.
2:30 The acceptance in her face is killing me. To Robin, the dream is over and she’s finally going to die.
The parallel between the sequences at 1:47-1:56 and 2:36-2:46 is so emotional. Because this is what Robin does when everything goes wrong: she walks away and she lies and she fights and she ends up alone. It’s all she knows how to do. The difference is, the first time she’s desperate to save herself and the second time she’s desperate to save those she loves. I just love how you told her story so much.
Also Robin’s expression at 2:44 is making me feel an indescribable emotion.
2:52 “And i kept running for a soft place to fall” cause Robin keeps running! She’s running away! She’s running toward something but she doesn’t know what! You get it!
3:08-3:16 “Take me home where I belong, I got no other place to go” BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T! THIS IS THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR ROBIN, SHE HAS NOTHING! SHE HAS NO WHERE TO GO! BUT HER FAMILY COMES FOR HER AND TAKES HER HOME!
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AND THEN THE FIRE BECOMES OPEN HANDS BECAUSE SHE ISN’T ALONE ANYMORE! PEOPLE ARE FINALLY THERE TO HELP HER! TO CATCH HER WHEN SHE FALLS!
(This is the exact moment I started crying while writing this.)
AND SHE ACCEPTS THE HANDS! SHE ACCEPTS THEIR HELP! SHE ISN’T ALONE ANYMORE!
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And then Robin runs and falls again but she’s coming home to Merry this time and she’s with her family. And Robin gives them wings! They’re all flying and Robin did that for them! And Robin holds Chopper and it’s adorable!
Thank you for the Going Merry appreciation in this animatic.
3:51 THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOT!
3:57 Maybe I’m reading into this too much but the shooting star is like… “make a wish.” And Robin has been wishing her whole life, but this time she just smiles and goes to sleep because she’s home. She has her dream (the book, her research) and her family and she doesn’t need to wish anymore.
Anyway, this is a long comment but the moment I watched this I knew I needed you to know how much I adore it. You’ve combined one of my all time favorite characters with an amazing song and amazing art to tell a beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing your work!
This is an amazing breakdown of the video! I wonder how many times did you repeat 😭
Seeing and reading this comment made my day! I actually reread it when I need a mood-lifter 🥲 Thank you so so much for your attention to detail and thorough breakdown of my animatic and what you appreciated about it! It was amazing to me to read your comment because it was like you were in my head for the planning process. You highlighted so many things--the message of Robin waiting her whole life for her found family, the parallels between the sequences for the "running far away" chorus, the "no other place to go" and how she runs one last time but towards her happiness in the end. You even caught the book in the end, which I did keep as a recurring motif through the whole thing, even when she "gives it up" in a way before putting on the Miss All Sunday persona :') Your comment and attentiveness make me indescribably happy and proud of what I've made, since it was positively picked apart by such a big Robin fan! As a storyteller, it's encouraging to know that the ideas and visuals I had in mind came across. Thank you again!
This is an amazing analysis and the only thing I have to add is that I LOVE the fact that at 3:39 Sanji and Zoro are acting as Luffy's wings. Because Robin said that Sanji was one of the wings of the King of the Pirates.
Such a great analysis 💜
@witec83 and not only that but each of them only have 1 wing each, really hitting into that factor of they are his wings that will carry him when he's pushed himself past the limit
The poneglyph falling on top of Robin, about to crush her is fantastic and pretty simbolic: her knowledge, and Ohara's legacy quite literally nearly destroying her
I appreciate you pointing that part out! I was worried the "weight of the world" symbolism might have been missed 🥹
@@trinblom Yippieeeee
Anyways "weight of the world" made me think of Hades' Good Riddance so imma go listen to that and cry for a bit
Ohara is like palestine except the buster call never stopped. Robin is one of my favorite characters
3:39 I love that in this shot Sanji and Zoro are searving as the left and right wings of the (unconsious) Pirate King. When I first saw it I thought that Luffy has his own 2 wings and Zoro and Sanji each had one wing while holding him up, but I'm pretty sure they are each meant to have 2 and are carrying Luffy. Either way it turns out in the final animation, the fact that they are serving as his wings.
Hey I know this is late and not really the point. But that wings thing was likely a bad translation. Sanji is Luffy's wings playing off his ability to sky walk and his mother being named Sora. Zoro is likely Luffy's earth playing off how he tends to ground the strawhats (mostly Luffy) and his mother being named Tera. Jimbei being the third son of the sea really rounds out.
@@greenwarrior33 hey I know this is late but the sanji & zoro volume of the one piece magazine uses "wings" to refer to both of them thus validating the original translation
sanji zoro and jinbe do form a nice son of sky/earth/sea trio but that is separate from sanji and zoro being the wings of the pirate king
3:11 this was a genius shot. How the flames on the flag of her suppressor turn into the arms Straw Hats reaching out for Robin, their family.
Going through Water Seven and Enies Lobby I realized how much fire recurred as an image BUT it had a different connotation when the Straw Hats were there 🥹 I'm glad you appreciate it!
the fact that throughout her life the only hand that really helped her was her own, and then the Straw Hats' hand reaching out to her
This destroys me internally whenever i remember this
This video reminded me why Robin is my favorite strawhat, not that I'd forgotten, but the raw EMOTION you wrung out of me with this is so wild. When I saw it only had about 250 views I was FLABBERGASTED. This deserves Millions.
You're so kind!! I truly can't put into words how encouraging it is to hear that something I've created has had an emotional impact on someone ;_; Thank you so much!
Made me cry the first 5 times I watched it. It’s so good.
I like the subtle nod to Zoro and Sanji being “The Wings of the Pirate King” when they’re all flying with Robin’s wings 3:38
3:44 Love how you bring to life Robin's quote "wings of the pirate king"
OH THIS IS GORGEOUS!!!!!!! The shot of all of their hands reaching for her TwT
Thank you!! I came up with the hands idea as I did the rough boards; it's interesting how much of the animatic I didn't originally plan out haha
Zoro getting lost in the tree is such a nice touch 0:37
Thank you so much for pointing that out, I hadn't even seen it myself!!
Robin is definition of found family, her arc I cried, I relate to her so hard, I got her devil fruit tattooed on my chest to keep a remind that "I want to live"
The part where everyone’s hands were reaching out to Nico Robin made me SOB. Beautiful animation.
I don’t think anyone noticed but at 3:59 the scene is actually from one of the openings
Good eye! It's actually a reference to one of the endings! When Robin is up keeping watch and the meteor shower starts
I don’t even watch one piece, but I am in the middle of the video and I started crying and getting so happy
3:16 the arms being the colors of all her friends made me shit tears I love this so much.
Holy crap this is insane!! Teared up when Nami hugged Robin, and even more so at the I want to Live scene. Genuinely incredible, thank you so so much!!
Thank you so much for watching!! I knew in the beginning I wanted a Nami hug scene and expanded it to show Robin interacting with the rest of the crew. Then the "I want to live" scene is just so iconic; how could I not include it? 🤧
nico robin fans casually dropping the most incredible works of art like it’s nothing
absolutely devastated. beautiful thank you
Oh man this perfectly encapsulated Robin's emotional arc and really got me thinking about how Luffy's charm and kind of the point of the strawhat pirates is that he can turn anyone into a child again, and that anyone can change. That scene where she joins them after Alabasta really reads like an adult humoring children, but it very quickly changes into her becoming one of them, and reconnecting with her childlike self, when she starts to play with the strawhats and rediscover her passion. This is really incredible! and the storyboard and art are so well crafted as well!! well done!
I just pressed on this because I listen to some songs of AURORA and love One PIECE & Robin
But goddammit I never planned to cry like a baby today
2:52 i love how you showed that she kept running away since she was a child till she fell but then she didn't need to keep running they are saving her and helping her wich made he remember how it's like to be safe without having to run away ✨️
I love the detail of robin always having herself (thematically her DF) to climb any hurdles that comes along her path. Since she hadn't had anyone to help her, she had considered herself her only crutch in this cruel world.
But the one hurdle she couldn't climb (the world itself) the hands of her friends pull her through the cruelty that is the world.
The juxtaposition of her reaching for her own hand near the start and then the crew's hands reaching out later is an obvious highlight, but what I really love is around 2:26. The way her face changes from startled to neutral could be her putting her poker face on, but to me it's like she's thinking, "It's over now. It was inevitable." It makes the joy on her face later hit all the harder.
Rewatching this to feel happy over and over and over and over
This was so freaking incredible, I'm extremely impressed!!!! I really love how much emphasis you put on the Going Merry being her home, cause that's an angle that I hadn't thought of before but it's so obvious now that you pushed it to the forefront. Incredible!!!!
Wow thank you!! The "home where I belong" line was what made me first think of the connection to Robin, actually! I'm glad my focus on her home with the Straw Hats/the Merry came across well!
Home is where the heart is, because where you belong is where you love to be. Robin couldn't even feel at home in her own skin, but because of the love the strawhats show her, she loves herself again, not just this merry band of misfits.
I’ve always associated this audio with robin. The constant need to run, the lies, and the emotion in the song made me associate it with her trauma.
I love how Zoro and Sanji are holding up Luffy with each a wing it gives off from Robin speach in Wano. If it's intentional that's really neat.
Yes! I wanted Luffy to be part of the flying but since it was post Enies Lobby he was unable to move, so I thought having his Wings carry him was a fun workaround!
@@trinblom I love it it's great !
This made me tear up ;-; robin's distance, her being on her own and finally being with ppl she belongs to, i felt that in my heart ;-;
i can feel every single emotion in this so STONGLY ohhh this is so good :,D you've captured her story extremely well, and needless to say i'm crying over the strawhats and nico robin for the millionth time or so now
Thank you!! I'm so glad the emotions came across :'D We all cry over Nico Robin and the Straw Hats.
2:13
My favorite simply for the fact that I can see it happening in the anime, and the fact that you feel like like you're falling *and* flying _with_ her.
You should be a director! 1:48 these scenes onward gave ne goosebumps!!
10/10 i cried iam typing this with tears iin my eyes. when the fire turns into the arms of the strawhats? i bawled.
all this time *sniff sniff* she had no one to lend her a hand except herself, but the last scene *sniff* the flowers bloom and it's the other straw hats hands *screaming, crying, throwing up* 😭oh Robin. I'm so glad this strong and beautiful woman has found people who will fight for her no matter what
This song is so perfect for Robin its crazy
The only hand she was ever offered being the ones she grew herself, until the burned flag turns into a ring of hands being offered to her by the straw hats fkn majestic
Just found this. I havent watched all of onepiece, its more my brother's thing, but I absolutely ADORE Nico Robin, and I loved watching that! Thank you so much!
Wow I’m a n00b when it comes to OnePiece however you don’t need to understand the story to appreciate this piece of art. Well done! ✨👏🏽✨
Thank you!! People who are unfamiliar with One Piece but still enjoy the animatic are personifications of praise themselves 😭
I've always loved how her devilfruit ability fits her in the sense that the only one to hold her hand is herself. Her only wish as a child was to hold her mothers hand and tyat was taken from her. So you can't blame her for not believing anyone would ever again reach out for her in any meaningful way until now.
Oh my LORD, Please refine this animation!
Wow. Wow. Just. What beautiful and dynamic storyboards, you captured robins emotions and motions so insanely well… Some scenes like all the strawhat children scampering up the tree or the poneglyphs circling above robin’s head are particular stand outs for me (though all of them were breathtakingly good). Ahahah I love the wings of the pirate king being his actual wings to keep him up in the end part! Ahhh this was just such a great animatic :)
This made me cry 😭 It's so beautiful and shows Robin's story so well omg, thank you for making this 🥺
Im at the end of water 7 rn and this made me extremely excited to see Enies lobby arc
dude. DUDEEEEEEEE. okaokayokay. THE CHILLS I GOT FROM THIS??? THE WAY THIS IS AN ACTUAL MASTERPIECE?? the visuals the movement the Everything. it feels like a freakin' movie!! robin's story, the waves washing away olvia's face in the sand, the images of robin running, the kid strawhats in the trees, how robin's life begins with her own hands reaching out to her and how alone she was, SAUL
OH AND I LOVE THE CAMERA SHAKING AT THAT TRAIN SCENE. SO MUCH
I really appreciate when people point out specific parts that stood out to them and then it turns out to be a list 😭 Thank you so much for watching and paying such close attention to everything! Even Saul wasn't lost on you and he was there for maybe 1.5 seconds 🥹
Gah my heart this is so amazing, love it! Your art is so cool!!!! Water 7 and Enies Lobby arc killed me when I first watched it.
Thank you!! W7 and EL were such a roller coaster of emotions for me; I totally understand.
That last bit where they all got wings, I'm crying as hard as she did when she proclaimed that she wanted to live
this is so beautiful im bawling my eyes out
robin is my favourite character and you’ve portrayed her so perfectly.
literally watched it 4 times and been sobbing for half an hour
Ohmygod THE PARALLELS THE HANDS THIS WHOLE THING IS AMAZING WORDS CANT DESCRIBE HOW I FEEL ITS A ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS
This animation is what made me finally start One Piece la few days ago! I’m on S1 episode 50, and so far I’m loving it!
I am so honored 😭 Welcome to the crew!
This animatic was on top of my homepage reccomended today. I think about it a lot and watch it every so often and it’s still one of my favorite animatics ever! I’m an artist myself and hope to make animatics like this one day. I’ve continued watching and falling in love with One Piece and I’m on Punk Hazard now. This video made me so curious about One Piece and its world and its characters. I could tell it was deeper and more complex and serious and emotional than I’d initially assumed and I wanted the context for this amazing animatic. Now having seen it for myself, fallen in love with the characters, the story and world, it’s nice coming back here to where I started with a new understanding having seen the arcs, especially Ennies Lobby. I’m struck again and again by how well thought out and beautifully done it is. I’m so thankful to this vid for giving me the nudge I needed to start the journey for the One Piece
As a One Piece fan AND suck at perspective and animations, I’m subbing rn
havent cried at all during one piece except for ace's death. yet somehow this made me sob. this is amazing
In love with the fact that in the first part of the video the only hand that was extended to her was her own, kind of showcasing she was on her own, only herself and her powers to lean on
and in the later part there are multiple hands extended to her with different colors (yknow the strawhats) symbolizing she's got others to help her now and she's no longer on her own
I really love the symbolism of the shots here but this one really stuck out to me
The only thing that stopped me from crying was that I'm in class. This is an amazing piece of art, and you understand intimately why Robin is One Piece's greatest treasure.
This made cry with a smile, I love Robin! She may not be my fav Mugi, but she is my favorite female character. I love how much emotion went into this
Oh man... This is incredibly good. The hands blossoming then revealing themselves as her crewmates reaching out for her 😭
OH BOY DID I ENJOY WATCHING IT TWICE AND FOUR TIMES AS MUCH. (avid one piece AND aurora fan) THIS IS. GOD. it's such a nice coincidence that this is a project from before the live action, bc as soon as i found out aurora would sing for the show i was starting to hope more ppl would get into her music and then hopefully make things with it for one piece - AND HERE YOU ARE DOING THAT EVEN BEFORE THAT HAPPENED!!!!
Man, the variing and creative shots, the movements in them, the different visual metaphors you chose to transition between the sections and from subject to subject... amazing, truly, i literally already started tearing up when i saw this video reccomended and then the tears started flowing and getting worse throughout the whole video!!! many many good emotional storybeats and synched up wonderfully with the different climaxes of the song, and ugh. as someone who also has assigned robin to this song for ages now, you hit the nail on the head.
And now I'm thinking again about the Robin animatic i've been wanting to do with Cure for Me by aurora TCT
YEAH a fellow Aurora OP fan! :D Thank you for watching!! It makes me so happy that people catch and understand the metaphors and storytelling I chose to include ;u; I say go for it if you want to do an animatic of your own! They're challenging but fun!
oh yeah i know, i've done a few in my time as well! no idea how i mustered the energy to do them all good lord, it's time consuming... but yeah again, amazing work man, and you got such a good eye for combining reality with more abstract imagery!@@trinblom
I COMPLETELY forgot I had this bookmarked to watch lmao. Robin is my fav and this is absolutely gorgeous, you captured her story so well. I love how joyous she looks when she's smiling and laughing ;u; wonderful work!
This is so gorgeous. Having Robin go from reaching out to her own hands to reaching out to the Straw Hat Crew's hands (with flower symbolism to boot) is brilliant🎉
This is criminally underrated, the art is so dynamic and emotional. Seriously incredible job
Ok I'm crying now. This is beautiful
how does this not have more likes, this is so beautiful! This autoplayed I'm so glad it did because It going into my favorites
That scene where they went up knock up stream really stood out to me. Somehow symbolised a real turning point in her story. The whole animation also has such a nice pace.
I really enjoyed it! Made me cry.
I'm glad you appreciated the Knock-Up Stream scene! Going through Robin's story in my head over and over, I wanted to find a turning point, like you said, for her after leaving Baroque Works. I needed to sell the happiness before I brought in the pain haha
I love how thru out the animatic, Robins been using her own arms to pull herself, showing how for most of her life shes had to relie on herself. But then at the end the rest of the strawhats hold out there arms, showing how shes no longer alone.
This really fits my friendwave ascetic. Total hope-core vibes.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL I AM COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY BY THIS ?? THE SONG FITS HER SO WELL AND THE ART AND FLOW OF THE ANIMATIC ITSELF IS JUTS MWAH GORGEOUS BROUGHT ME TO REAL TEARS I LOVE ROBIN I LOVE THIS VID I HOPE THIS BLOWS UP BC THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAV ONE PIECE ANIMATIC OF ALL TIME
Thank you so much!! I'm glad that people love the song paired with Robin 🥲
This was absoluterly beautiful oh my god??
DUDE! TRIN! THAT WAS STUNNING! THE MOVEMENT, THE TRANSITIONS, THE TIMING, THE EXPRESSIONS, STRUCTURE OF YOUR ACTUAL ART! I'm so blown away by the quality, you deserve way more recognition for this! Keep up the incredible work!💜
Watched this 3 times already, sure the song is beautiful, but the way you drew the animatic and expressed Robin's character and her story was SO good. If this doesn't get at least million views... actually no, I'm pretty sure it will
this is actually the best animatic i've ever seen omg
Let's go!! I wonder how Netflix going to adapt Robin backstory
I've had to go back and watch this animatic sooooo many times in the last week alone. It's simply breathtaking and it's making me fall in love with Robin all over again. That scene with everyone's arms unfurling for her leaves me teary eyed every single time. Thank you so much for sharing this masterpiece !!!!
thank you for watching it so many times!! 🥹
a work of art! loved how you prepared us for robin's fruit hands turning into the crew reaching out for her by the scene in the beginning and how sanji and zoro are the wings of the pirate king. the scene with the kid versions of the crew climbing the tree was so haunting and heartwarming at the same time my favorite part! i went frame by frame to see zoro getting lost and sanji yelling at him to turn back around and usopp helping chopper while luffy helped nami i could die from this
thank you for sharing this with us!
I'm so glad you went back and see all the kids! It was fun figuring out what actions and interactions to give them
Okay! the scene where everybody got angel wings is just beautifully drawn
How in the everloving fuck does this have less then 1000 views??
Absolutely phenomenal animatic
You captured robins character and progression SO WELL I CANNOT both with the song choice and the visuals
Amazing and highly underrated
The fact this animation made me cry proves how underrated this is.
I am in shock, this was so beautifully made, I am crying about all of it, Robin constantly using her hands to climb things, young Robin seeing all the other Strawhats climbing the three and then following, and then at the end when the hands become THEIR HANDS??? Robin using her df powers to make all of them fly???? I am a sobbing mess
Edit: JUST REALIZED THAT ZORO AND SANJI ARE CARRYING LUFFY AND THEY EACH HAVE ONLY ONE WING BECASUE *ROBIN* CALLED THEM THE WINGS OF THE PIRATE KING AKSDJKSAJDKLSAJDKLAJSDKL THIS IS AMAZING
I love how all the hands reaching for her in the start were her own, showing that she only has herself to help her. Now, the hands have changed to the crew’s. Beautifully done 💕
Why does this absolute gut wrencher have such low views?! It's the best one piece animation I've ever seen, and boy have i seen lots!
Great googly moogly, this is so beautifully constructed- beat by beat, shot by shot!! Seeing little Robin dancing in the rain with glee, only for her to have to witness her own island engulfed in smoke and flame made me WEEP. But I love the way you told her story. For most of her life, the only person she could rely on, or find solace in, was ultimately, herself. I noticed that you added a scene where she’s on the ground, and one of her duplicate hands, literally, reaches out to help her climb back up. And later on, she’s able to extend that ability, which had kept her protected up until that point, to defend/look out for and care for the *straw-hats.* ( i adore the part where she puts the blanket on zoro :). ) And then we see them care for her too, making an enemy of the entire world just to see that she comes back safely. I bring this up because I love how her hands can be interpreted as protection, care, & love throughout the animatic, especially at the very end. Robin & her newfound family (straw-hats) gliding with her hand-wings (for lack of a better term) after having just freed her from a deadly government base, means so much. It’s her acknowledging that they care for *each other.* no sacrifices on luffy’s watch
& i love the way you draw little robin & the little straw hats!! & robin w/ the poneglyphs , the transitions, the train shot!! the facial expressions! everything is just, chefs kiss, amazing, & this animatic deserves the world. wonderful work.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! It's encouraging to see comments about the hands and symbolism of the animatic; it assures me that I'm doing something right with storytelling 🥹 I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Fuck. shot right in the feels. you should be really proud of the animation work dude
oh my GOD this is INSANE!!!!! i am IN LOVE with the theme of robin reaching out to help herself up AND THEN ITS THE STRAWHATS REACHING OUT TO HER!!!!!!!
this is so breathtaking. what a stunning love letter to robin. i was struck by the way you used her hands pulling herself up in contrast with the strawhats later reaching out. Amazing incredible job!!!!
This was just amazing
WHAAAT?!?! THIS IS INSANE!!! Every shot is incredible, the changing perspective, the transitions, the fluid character animation, the layout of each shot, the facial expressions, the sheer BREADTH of Robin's story this covers??? I am in awe, putting aside how much of a masterpiece this is technically, it evokes so much emotion, it really amplifies the lyrics.
Truly breath taking
This is, without exaggeration, one of my top 3 favorite One Piece animations that don't come from the show itself. It's glorious, and you should be proud of your brilliant work.
Thank you so much! It really means a lot to hear that so many people have enjoyed what I made ;_;
Just finished Enies Lobby; the moment where Robin chooses to live sits in a special place in my heart
Bruh this has me in tears
This is breathtaking.
THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION
Actually crying at how gorgeous this is. The staging and symbolism, how things line up with the lyrics. Very well done.
Excuse me?? How does this not have a million likes.
This is absolutely incredible.
The emotion portrayed in such a short video is astounding, not to mention the art and animation.
A truly perfect song for Robin, and the scene where the poneglyph falls on top of Robin oh my god.
And when Robin creates wings at the end, holding chopper - goosebumps. Literal goosebumps.
This is absolutely incredible, it captures Nico robin so well, you have done such a wonderful job !! The cinematography is perfect and it’s so emotion brimming 😭😭💕💕 well done 💖💖
i adore this animatic so much. the first time i watched it i cried. this song is such a perfect choice for robin, and the way you draw her is so beautiful. Her expressions are done so well, and the lonely isolation she feels when shes running her whole life shows very clearly in ur work. I truly love this animation so much, robins one of my fave strawhats n this makes me appreciate how beautiful her story is and how heartwarming the crews continuous acceptance of her is! its so so lovely. thank you for making this!!!
This has to be one the best animatics I ever see it’s truly amazing the way you capture Robin’s character.
Bro the hands in the beginning- is peak (my goal is to be able draw hands and arms like that 😩)
This is freaking beautiful holy shit. Like huh?? just WHAT. This is such a specific intersection too, I can't believe someone else likes Aurora and One Piece enough to do something like this!
this was so beautiful I genuinely cried
Beautiful, had me crying by the end. The part that had the most impact on me was the hand imagery - when the hands reaching out had been her own for the rest of the video and then they suddenly changed to the Strawhats' hands, man that color coding hit hard. :')
I loved this so so so much. The shots and transitions were so dynamic. I love how you focused on how Robin grew into her family with the Strawhats and gave all of them a scene. Very happy to see amazing One Piece animatics being created even now and I can’t wait to see your next work One Piece or not.
Thank you so much! I originally just planned to have a Robin/Nami scene, but as I drew the actual storyboards I thought it would be more impactful to see her bond with all of the members 🥹 I'm glad the scenes I thought to add later have been people's favorite partsQ
this is criminally underrated
THIS IS SOOOOOO INSANE I love it so much!!! All the imagery is incredible, I love the change from robin helping herself out of places with her hands to the hands turning into the strawhats, and the shot of her running where she goes from a kid to 28 is SO incredible. This is just so amazing
the running through the ages shot is one of my favorite little moments! Thank you!!