"im not a professional artist" she says...this is so incredible! as an illustrator who has only very, very briefly ever played with animation before, it fucking blows my mind that you even did this. animation is SUCH a hard thing to do well, and this is absolutely brilliant. wow.
I am a professional animator and though there's definitely elements to erika's animation that make it ping to me as clearly hobbyist work, a) there is nothing wrong with making unpolished, hobbyist pieces and b) her solid drawing and composition and the care put into the transitions especially more than make up for that and make this a solid work all around. I'm extremely blown away by her skill and dedication, if I was a PHD primatologist and not a BFA animator I absolutely would not be drawing at her level!! The fact that erika's put so much time and passion into this secondary hobby is so, so commendable and I'm glad she did!
It blows my mind that people can't see the awe in realizing that not only did this progression happen but that we used our brains to figure it all out.
I keep saying it, the scientific explanation is a lot more interesting marvellous, magnificent, beautiful and wonderous a story than the one in Genesis. It's so cool to understand that we are part of nature instead of apart from nature.
@@pencilpauli9442the fact that people can see a picture of a black hole, a region of reality where the laws of reality completely break and time and space end, and just be like “eh it’s blurry” and go back to worshiping some guy, is just damn.
@@jdmac44i think the very often visceral depiction of the cycle of life and death (and the ebb/flow of species and competition) is what makes this animation as beautiful as it is.
Homie this is AMAZING. I especially love the brief stint into an alternate relality where the meteorite missed and where (i presume) dromeosaurs became the dominant species only to be violently reminded of the reality seconds later. And the shot of our little mammalian survivor poking their head out of the ceratopsian skull in the middle of a complete wasteland and watching the sun rise (their dawn! Both literally and figuratively) was awsome. I also love all the little details like how the continents move further and further away during the moon timeskip scene (at around 0:45). Honestly, i am completely blown away. You better be proud!
That didn't really look like dromaeosaurs being all featherless and all, but just I being a dinosaur civilization and all is a nice interpretation I didn't think about. I more so saw it as the dynasty of that moment being lost and becoming a messy history
@@Feranogamei assumed dromaeosaurs because the shot in the style of ancient Egypt has the foot claws and as an artist my brain automatically read the head crest 'hair' as feathers just simplified for the purposes of animation. But ultimately yeah it doesnt really matter which dino becomes the alternate dominante species as long as the point still gets across
listen to me okay? Im an artist, I know professional and aspiring professionals personally. To make something like this would be a struggle for them. I know you might feel less capable because you’re self taught, and I get it. Trained artists like me had access to more resources, we had teachers, it gives us a leg up, But self-taught artists can and do reach our level and you’re not worse than us. And I’m gonna prove it by giving you the same feedback I’d give my peers: Your storyboarding and composition is great. You really know how to use every element of a piece to tell a story, and most of these shots are powerful and dramatic, with figures in dynamic poses and a great use of motion and color. To say nothing of the creative shot transitions! Animation isn’t easy, and by the looks of it, you’re doing frame-by-frame, which lends to your style of cartoons wonderfully. Frankly, your art looks made for animation, with its simple expressive figures and bold flat colors. Speaking of: it’s wonderful to see anatomical accuracy in a cartoonish style. It’s actually a pet peeve of mine in animation and art that people will not pay attention to diversifying the forms they draw, for human and animal alike. On the human side, you have “same face syndrome”, and on the animal side, you’ll see cobras with the heads of vipers, wolves that look like dogs, and a general lack of care to respect their actual appearance when sticking to a stylized form. Possibly due to your love of paleontology, you’ve struck a wonderful balance, In fact - your work is so good that you inspired me. Me, a “real” artist with four years of dedicated training, who’s been drawing all my life. See, we’ve got fairly similar styles and interests (I’m an anthropology major, even - erm, cultural anthropology, but still!), and if I had the patience to animate (and a tablet that wasn’t broken), I’d probably make an animated music video much like yours. But you know- my favorite creatures were always reptiles. I was a dinosaur kid who transitioned into a dragon kid. I love all sorts of animals - but I never paid much attention to apes. I wasn’t sure how to draw them in an interesting way, and I always struggled with human faces, because they just seemed so… disconnected from the glory of all the animals. And then i found your channel. And saw your intro. And then it clicked. Oh. That’s an ape. That’s us humans. As apes. There’s the connection. And that was the thing I was missing. And suddenly… I wanted to draw apes. Because of you. Watching this animation made me cry. You’ve improved so much over the years. This really is something else.
@salorarainriver7278 - What a glorious critique! ------------ When I was a kid, most of the others loved Dinosaurs! CHOMP! CHOMP! But I loved Neanderthals (still do) and have been thrilled to see new Hominoids crop up over the years in research and in Erika G. Gibbon animation. I'm a fan, too.
This is not at all to diminish the gibbons skills, I want to be very clear. But, I wonder how the study of anatomy and skeletal structures affects the learning of animation. Specifically the understanding of what each part of an animals anatomy is doing, movement wise. Since an artist will often learn to draw anatomy of something well by studying how to moves, looking at different videos and other animations and even computer generations, I wonder if understanding what is doing what inside a creature makes it easier to grasp that exact thing. either way it's so many years of study to actually understand that, Along with all the time learning art and other science. Extremely impressive
Wow! This is incredible. I think it also goes away from the "march of progress" thing you used to say bugged you a bit. I also loved that the implication that the dinosaurs could have one day become something like us if given the chance. That it was snatched away in an instant and something new had to adapt and rule the earth. Hope I read that right!
Oh DAAAANG! That was cool AF. Loved the subtle crowns and brain animations. So much interesting stuff to unpack from looking at each scene! Congrats on 100K!
Every animal I could identify; 0:03 Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) 0:05 Pikaia 0:07 Anomalocaris 0:10 Unknown jawless fish 0:11 Eusthenopteron and Tiktaalik 0:12 Dunkleosteus 0:14 Icthyostega 0:16 Proterogyrinus(?) and Dimetrodon 0:17 Gorgonops and a Dicynodontid 0:23 Suminia 0:30 Diplocaulus 0:33 Eoraptor 0:43 Herrerasaurus(?) 0:50 Pachycephalosaurus 0:56 Allosaurus and Stegosaurus 0:58 Sauropod (maybe Alamosaurus) 1:02 Dromeosaurid (probably Dineobellator or Deinonychus) 1:04 Dimorphodon 1:11 Plesiosaurid (probably Plesiosaurus) 1:20 Dinosauroid(?!) . 1:40 Parasaurolophus 1:41 Torosaurus 1:43 Tyrannosaurus 1:46 Elasmosaurus, Ammonitid, Icthyosaurid, Mosasaurid, and unknown shark 1:52 Unknown Neoavian 1:53 Triceratops (skull) and early mammal (maybe Purgatoris?) 2:07 Pantodont (I dont know much about Eocene mammals) 2:08 Gastornis 2:09 Creodont 2:10 Eohippus 2:11 Altiatlasius and an Unknown snake 2:17 Notharctus and an Unknown bird (maybe a protostrigian, but probably not) 2:20 Aegyptopithecus and "Crocodylus" 2:22 Dryopithecus and Sivapithecus 2:27 Gigantopithecus and a Hydrobate 2:30 Oreopithecus 2:37 Sahelanthropus and Chalicotherium 2:38 Ardipithecus and Deinotherium 2:40 Australopithecus, Homotherium, and Hyena 2:44 Paranothropus and Homo rudolphensis/ Australopithecus rudolphensis/ Kenyanthropus 2:45 Homo habilis 2:46 Homo erectus 2:47 Homo sapiens phenotypes (and Canis familiaris very briefly) 2:48 Homo floresiensis and Varanus, Human skull throughout sequence 2:49 Another Australopithecus(?) 2:51 Homo neanderthalensis 2:52 Homo sapiens (specifically Aurignacian/"Cro-Magnon" or EEMH) 2:54 Homo sapiens sapiens
The Hyena and Cat at 2:40 are likely Pachycrocuta and Megantereon respectively. The Gorgonopsid and Dicynodont at 0:17 are probably Inostrancevia and Vivaxosaurus, due to them living in Russia, where the eruptions took place.
Miracle Musical is one of my favorite albums, and The Mind Electric probably my favorite song from that album. I love how you used the moment when the subject of the song is getting electrocuted as a "what if dinosaurs didn't face mass extinction" scenario.
1:19 I don't know if this is a trope, or something like following the contours of the original music video, but I _really_ like this look into hypothetical dinosaur-culture, wiped out in an instant by the asteroid impact completely changing the course of history. (Also a big fan of the black-and-white scenes showing the kings of the world, and showing the passing on of the crown from species to species) I'm terrible at the "metaphor" and "hidden meaning" thing, but I'm on my way to learning how people pick up on this stuff, and it's really cool seeing symbolism in the animation. It's all intentional stuff, every frame of this was pain-stakingly drawn, one at a time, over the course of months.
@stoopidapples1596 Um, yes there is. Just search up Hawaii Part 2 and you'll find it. Also the sound effects are in the original. Anyways, have a good day :^)
@@stoopidapples1596 if you listen on Spotify, you'll hear the effects. It's from the original. Released on 12/12/12 with the creator named Miracle Musical (ミラクルミュージカル in English).
This made me cry like three times. There's just something about the song + visualization choice that's so fucking good. I can't explain why, but it's almost like they really ARE about the same thing. They mesh so well. My favorite part is at around 2:00, when the... feliform? is looking over the wasteland and it's almost like he's a sort of god conjuring the outpouring of mammalian life that exploded once the dinosaurs were wiped out. The fact that this coincides with such an interesting transition in the song itself + easily the best part of the song is making me soooooob.
The timing of this could not have possibly been better. I’m going to college in the fall and have spent the last 6 months pulling my hair out trying to decide between pursuing art or paleontology/anthropology at a professional level. Your channel- and this video especially-has made me realize I can do both well no matter what I end up majoring in. Thanks, Erika. I hope to meet you in the field some day :) Edit: ALSO, the fact that you managed to create this while getting your phd AND teaching is insane to me. you’re a beast, Gutsick Gibbon.
College student and a PhD🤔 If life evolved from a single cell organism like bacteria, why are there no two cell organism, or 3,4,5? Think about it. If a bacteria was able to evolve into a new organism the entire world ecosystem would collapse. Thank God a bacteria will always be a bacteria.
@@elguapo2831a big part of it comes down to energy. The ability to pump glucose or ATP, the ability to diffuse oxygen, all that stuff is far easier in a single cell than in a multicellular organism. In order to get over the hump of difficulty, you need a circulatory system, which increases the complexity dramatically, and with it, the need for yet more food and oxygen. As with everything in evolution, it's a tradeoff. You can walk farther to get food, but that burns calories so you need more food. My favorite example of this is brain power. Brains are incredibly resource intensive, but if you get them just right, you can invent farming and John Deere tractors to till the fields, things which make resources nearly abundant. A bigger brain creates its own niche. But you gotta get over that hump!
This is my favorite animation on TH-cam. “Unprofessional” my ass- you’ve captured the beauty of evolution in three wonderful minutes thank you thank you
as someone who's studied 2d animation..i can only imagine all the work that must have gone into this. you're insane! so so soo good! congrats on 100k!!!❤❤❤
1:11 - "My name is Plesiosaurus, king of kings: Look on my works, Dimorphodon, and despair!" Truly lovely piece of work through and through, but these few seconds alone were worth the whole watch. You might not call yourself a "professional artist", but it's kind of shocking how well put together this is. Just buckling down and *doing* a thing like this to completion is an enormous effort (something a lot of people don't really understand), and many "professionals" have done far, far worse at putting together an entertaining three minutes. Congratulations.
I have watched this like, so many times now already. I really like it. The mixing of the surreal and kinda spooky with the cruelty of nature, the dinosaur civilization, the pacing. Wow! Everything is really good, and I’m sharing it with many of my friends. Good stuff!
Agreed. I don't get when creationist say things like "Under evolution you're just evolved pond scum." Dude even if that were literally true, don't you see how cool that would be. Knowing we're the descendants of untold survivors, many just by luck, is humbling and wonderful.
@@MichaelDeHaven Never understood the boring claim “we came from god” egotistical and wanting to be different. But the fact all life came from the ocean is absolutely incredible, beautiful, interesting and better than some god waving a wand. To know we are star dust, chordate, cells, organisms, we are in some way connected to other animals (we share 1% with dinosaurs !!!) and nature it’s just way cooler than any gods ! I still get shocked thinking about this 😂 it’s so incredible! I’m so happy it’s how we came to be. That’s awesome like what we came from a little fish and that fish was most likely something else before etc . How we got our jaw bones and lungs etc is so fascinating! Deniers are seriously missing out how amazing this all is and all the facts!
@@MichaelDeHaveni prefer evolution over that simple primitive view of “humans are superior and earth is flat and only a few thousand years old the universe is not big but small and our creator is just a human with powers”
Might I just say, animating the beginning of the mammals to the line “spiraling down my majesty I beg of thee to have mercy on me” was golden. It actually got me tear up a little. You didn’t have to go this hard and emotional on the topic of evolution but you did!
This is great. As someone who found your channel late last year I binged your entire backlog from the start and missed when you used the Mind Electric as your intro and the old intro in general so it's nice to see an homage to it. I don't actually know how hard it would be but you could have played the whole animation on reverse for the first part of the song.
Holy shit This is art through and through, not a single shot goes on as filler, all of them have something interesting to do and are absolutely brimming with creativity; the chill inducing artsy stream of high concept sequences doesn't stop. And oh the concept, i love how each segment will have it's level of groundness so it doesn't feel hard to follow: there's the rapid moving part, the psychedelic part, the more quiet parts, and wonderful transitions that don't mess up the stupidly good pacing. Now my favorite part is the segment on The Meteor, where it misses, there's imagery depicting dinosaurs having an anthropomorphized history from human paleolithic era stuff to modernity going through all the eras of cultural stuff, just for the truth to be revealed, with that same meteor hitting earth. I absolutely loved it, it's an amazing way to represent the end of a stupidly long era on earth by anthropomorphizing it and giving dinosaurs the whole human history worth of emphasis and then saying "yeah, all of that is over now" And the music! The segment i just mentioned has glitchy music that fits perfectly with it; and the choice of the song is just genius, this version in particular just amps up the vibes of each part, i love how it's more snappy than the original at points and it makes the transitions just very hard hitting. (If you made the edits on the song, it was masterful, if not, amazing choice)
"I'm not a professional artist-" I am, and the life, expression, details, concept, and execution of this is astonishing. Not to mention how soul crushingly time consuming animation is! When you possibly found the time to do even a fraction of this, especially given your packed schedule, gives me a fossiliferous boulder of envy- one I'll need to crack open to get to the well-preserved inspiration inside
Erica is some kindof god of time management or something, uploading regular hours of content while she was getting her PHD and ALSO making this insane.
This is SO COOL. I clicked IMMEDIATELY. This looked absolutely fantastic. It captures the beauty and wonder and endless diversity of evolution. Can't even IMAGINE how much work this took! Congrats on 100k, and here's ever more success! Thank you for all the hard work you do!
Ngl this would be the coolest educational kids show ever. Idk how it would work, maybe with characters traveling through time to watch and learn how evolution works, and maybe watching significant events during eras, like key points for species, extinction events, and so much more.
AHHH THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! Speaking as an animation/illustratiohn major, you have a lot of talent in the art department even if you're not a professional, it's definitely on the level of some of the best work I've seen presented in my classes before!!
Your channel has become such a safe place for me at the end of last year, and your old intro evoked such feelings of empathy for our cousins and ancestors from the myocene onwards... love seeing this, thank you for everything you do
Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I got totally obsessed with your channel the past month and as soon as I saw this I clicked off another vid to watch it. Loved and missed the old intro and now you gave us the full song with your gorgeous animations.
The first time I watched this I thought she must have had it commissioned and then I read the comments. Erika, you astound me with your talents and I wish we had more people like you in the world.
This is a masterpiece! It covers such a complex but elegant timeliness in an artistic manner, and the animation style is cute and full of character. I wanna see more of it! Congrats again on the 100k, that's a huge achievement! You deserve it :)
@@jamiegallier2106 I'm familiar with this song already. I had to dig it out first thing after hearing OG intro. This is some next level shit tho. And a huge milestone 🥃
@@21380 I enjoy both the original and her original version. Sometimes I’d click and play older videos to listen again. *to clarify, I meant that I didn’t expect the tears, I was expecting ‘the hook’
You made this all yourself?!?! Amazing work! The earth fandom sure is lucky to have you. Incredible animated music video, and it even sticks to the canon.
Not only do your other videos inspire me as an anthropology student, but your art inspires me SOO MUCH as an artist!! I really really want to make anthropological animations because of your art like this. I'm so inspired cause this is amazing
Is it weird that it feels kinda like a spiritual experience looking at how far we've come as a species, how far life has come on this planet, watching the slow but also rapid progression to gentle modern apes, looking back at communities and cultures flourishing as their minds grew more curious and inventive, as generations pass, feeling proud to be their descendants as we too march on with that progression?
Not weird at all. Humans crave to bond with anything and everything. Its in our dna, its why we've survived and thus who we've grown to be. What could be more spiritual than getting to know everything as intimately as we can, becoming like old friends with the universe? The moment we have any way to research anything, we do it simply because we must. That is a prayer if ive ever seen one.
This is so cool! You did such a great job! I know you have your disclaimer about "not being a professional artist" but honestly the animation is so charming and all the different species have so much personality that the animation looks great anyway. Super happy that you shared this with everyone!
This is fantastic, I love your animation! You've got the timing, the squash and stretch, the exaggeration, the arcs of motion, you obviously know what you're doing! I'm giving you 10,000 extra points for making this with your hands, too! 🤘
I'm about to finish my BS in Anthropology and you are a part of what made me do it. This video weirdly hit me in the feels and I loved every moment of it.
This is fantastic!! Always in awe of those who take on the monumental task of animation :3 thanks for being a lifeline to teaching me actual science instead of the YEC junk I grew up with
This animation is fantastic !! Inspiring, silly, serious, vibrant, and informative ! Wow, Erika, stunning work here, incredible attention to detail. Congratulations on 100k ! and thanks for what you do :)
Not a professional artist... but you play one on youtube! Lovely and fitting and very wonderful, thank you so much for both creating this and for sharing it with us all. Also love your work, all of it.
We spoke during your Super Mega Premiere a while back, and I told you that my six-year-old liked your old animated opening. She is seven now, having had a birthday earlier this month, and she likes your new one, too, though she finds it a little scary. But I think it's amazing!
Wow that's incredible and so much work. I have no idea how you do all that besides your "normal" content and your academic work... Way to go! And congrats on the 100k subs! ❤ Greetings from Germany
Omgosh I’m addicted to 2:11 till the end I love all the symbols and how the lyrics tie into it I love it Edit: ALSO at 1:20 I love this exploration of how dinosaurs were in line to rule the earth until a random chance took them out
I am a professional animator, and this has an impressive amount of improvement from your older work I've seen on your channel, well done! Unfortunately animation takes ages no matter what oTL it's a labor of love and a test of patience. Keep drawing! Keep animating! These have so much charm!
Duddeee I love evolution & miracle musical so I already thought that your other animation was absolutely awesome 😭😭 The improvement between then and now though is HUGGEEE I can tell this one is more fluid and the compositions/scenes are much more interesting!! Keep up the great work holy moly 😽😽
Congratulations on the 100k subs Erica! I absolutely find our very own physical universe so magical and absurdly, mind bogglingly huge. Love the animation!
I forgot to comment on this but. This HAS to be one of the most beautiful animations ive ever seen. The sound effects. The aspect of history, its all so well put together. The animation is so beautiful and everything is just amazing. The way you can actually understand whats going on in a beautiful animation is impressive. Lovely work.
This not only is a great animated music video for the Mind Electric, but I mean this in earnest when I say this is a wonderful piece of animation & illustration!
I've always loved this song and your animation is so heartfelt, just brings a tear to my eye. Came for creationist bustings, totally didn't expect this kind of stuff, amazing
Brilliant! My favorite part is the first upright walk, and then the humans. The progression, the fire snap, the fire spear and then the three humans. You gave them so much more character since the last animation. Fantastic!
Comparing this animation to the original opening is honestly impressive how much your art has improved. it’s so much cleaner and smoother and more full of life. Love it
"im not a professional artist" she says...this is so incredible! as an illustrator who has only very, very briefly ever played with animation before, it fucking blows my mind that you even did this. animation is SUCH a hard thing to do well, and this is absolutely brilliant. wow.
Were all artists inside, Gutsick is better than some of us.
Yeah, I was thinking of how much I love the art style
I am a professional animator and though there's definitely elements to erika's animation that make it ping to me as clearly hobbyist work, a) there is nothing wrong with making unpolished, hobbyist pieces and b) her solid drawing and composition and the care put into the transitions especially more than make up for that and make this a solid work all around. I'm extremely blown away by her skill and dedication, if I was a PHD primatologist and not a BFA animator I absolutely would not be drawing at her level!! The fact that erika's put so much time and passion into this secondary hobby is so, so commendable and I'm glad she did!
@@amberbydreamsart5467, I liked paper stop animation and using Gimp to animate.
she did the art? wow. I would watch a show with this art style
WE CREATIN A NEW HEAT PROBLEM WITH THIS FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Top tier comment.
This is the most real thing I've read this week
😂😅😆🫡🤮
*YEC triggered*
It blows my mind that people can't see the awe in realizing that not only did this progression happen but that we used our brains to figure it all out.
I keep saying it, the scientific explanation is a lot more interesting marvellous, magnificent, beautiful and wonderous a story than the one in Genesis.
It's so cool to understand that we are part of nature instead of apart from nature.
@@pencilpauli9442the fact that people can see a picture of a black hole, a region of reality where the laws of reality completely break and time and space end, and just be like “eh it’s blurry” and go back to worshiping some guy, is just damn.
Irony
There was a bit in the middle with lizard people though right?
@exhumus I think it's Referencing a possible future if the dinosaurs weren't wiped out
The human brain's desperate need to bond means I am sobbing over animated dinosaurs. Yet again.
hell yeah brotherrrr
2:03 _recognizing the song_
oh shit, guys, I think the intro we all loved is back
The immediate click that happens when the deep voice appears 🥃
Literally the intro the made me stay and watch more
I heard the downbeats and was like OH BABY HERE WE GO.
I recognized it from the title i was like HELL YES LETS GO
Yesss! I wish I could buy it ❤
Erica congratulations on 100K subscribers! This was brilliant. Thank you for this- and for everything you do. ❤
$100?! Jeez!
Bro props for your kindness!!!!!
I'd been missing the old intro since you stopped using it, but now I see what's really happened is that you've been saving up for a big celebration!
I hope the intro makes a triumphant return. I get the YT algorithm is king, but that song rocks!
Yes. The public demands
I think I prefer the happier, goofier one with less graphic depictions of death. lol But it is cool. :)
@@jdmac44The wipeouts that punctuate this, remind us that extinction events have shaped who are are, as much as any other factor.
@@jdmac44i think the very often visceral depiction of the cycle of life and death (and the ebb/flow of species and competition) is what makes this animation as beautiful as it is.
Can never get over how this channel, despite being about science, manages to have such beautiful animation
It's not fair for one person to be this talented.
Lots of pretty pictures in evolution
The dinosaur culture that never was…the passing of the crown…the “one big happy” at the end…great story telling!
2:49 the frame of the human ancestor with her baby on the hill is so sweet
Holy crap I didn't notice that. Now I'm crying lol
I liked the creepy cave shaman so handsome ;D
@@franktupapi that stanragly rmeinds me of far cru primal that one shamen loker one
Since the baby was less hairy, I thought it was a different (to be extinct) lineage raising the baby of a more successful lineage.
OMG the extended cut!!! Magnum. Opus. Mic drop.
Or Magnificent Octopus, as Baldrick would say...
@@Deadbloke-dk6zc Wait, I have a cunning plan...
Homie this is AMAZING. I especially love the brief stint into an alternate relality where the meteorite missed and where (i presume) dromeosaurs became the dominant species only to be violently reminded of the reality seconds later. And the shot of our little mammalian survivor poking their head out of the ceratopsian skull in the middle of a complete wasteland and watching the sun rise (their dawn! Both literally and figuratively) was awsome. I also love all the little details like how the continents move further and further away during the moon timeskip scene (at around 0:45). Honestly, i am completely blown away. You better be proud!
That didn't really look like dromaeosaurs being all featherless and all, but just I being a dinosaur civilization and all is a nice interpretation I didn't think about. I more so saw it as the dynasty of that moment being lost and becoming a messy history
@@Feranogamei assumed dromaeosaurs because the shot in the style of ancient Egypt has the foot claws and as an artist my brain automatically read the head crest 'hair' as feathers just simplified for the purposes of animation. But ultimately yeah it doesnt really matter which dino becomes the alternate dominante species as long as the point still gets across
Homie, really.....Hominey, this is Amazing....
that was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE part oh my god.. the crash of the asteroid was so cool
didnt even notice the continental drift. awsome.
listen to me okay? Im an artist, I know professional and aspiring professionals personally. To make something like this would be a struggle for them. I know you might feel less capable because you’re self taught, and I get it. Trained artists like me had access to more resources, we had teachers, it gives us a leg up,
But self-taught artists can and do reach our level and you’re not worse than us. And I’m gonna prove it by giving you the same feedback I’d give my peers:
Your storyboarding and composition is great. You really know how to use every element of a piece to tell a story, and most of these shots are powerful and dramatic, with figures in dynamic poses and a great use of motion and color. To say nothing of the creative shot transitions!
Animation isn’t easy, and by the looks of it, you’re doing frame-by-frame, which lends to your style of cartoons wonderfully. Frankly, your art looks made for animation, with its simple expressive figures and bold flat colors.
Speaking of: it’s wonderful to see anatomical accuracy in a cartoonish style. It’s actually a pet peeve of mine in animation and art that people will not pay attention to diversifying the forms they draw, for human and animal alike. On the human side, you have “same face syndrome”, and on the animal side, you’ll see cobras with the heads of vipers, wolves that look like dogs, and a general lack of care to respect their actual appearance when sticking to a stylized form. Possibly due to your love of paleontology, you’ve struck a wonderful balance,
In fact - your work is so good that you inspired me. Me, a “real” artist with four years of dedicated training, who’s been drawing all my life.
See, we’ve got fairly similar styles and interests (I’m an anthropology major, even - erm, cultural anthropology, but still!), and if I had the patience to animate (and a tablet that wasn’t broken), I’d probably make an animated music video much like yours.
But you know- my favorite creatures were always reptiles. I was a dinosaur kid who transitioned into a dragon kid. I love all sorts of animals - but I never paid much attention to apes. I wasn’t sure how to draw them in an interesting way, and I always struggled with human faces, because they just seemed so… disconnected from the glory of all the animals.
And then i found your channel. And saw your intro. And then it clicked.
Oh. That’s an ape.
That’s us humans. As apes.
There’s the connection.
And that was the thing I was missing. And suddenly… I wanted to draw apes.
Because of you.
Watching this animation made me cry. You’ve improved so much over the years. This really is something else.
@salorarainriver7278 - What a glorious critique!
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When I was a kid, most of the others loved Dinosaurs! CHOMP! CHOMP! But I loved Neanderthals (still do) and have been thrilled to see new Hominoids crop up over the years in research and in Erika G. Gibbon animation. I'm a fan, too.
This is not at all to diminish the gibbons skills, I want to be very clear.
But, I wonder how the study of anatomy and skeletal structures affects the learning of animation. Specifically the understanding of what each part of an animals anatomy is doing, movement wise. Since an artist will often learn to draw anatomy of something well by studying how to moves, looking at different videos and other animations and even computer generations, I wonder if understanding what is doing what inside a creature makes it easier to grasp that exact thing. either way it's so many years of study to actually understand that, Along with all the time learning art and other science. Extremely impressive
Dude, the crown transitioning from species to species is such a powerful representation
Wow! This is incredible. I think it also goes away from the "march of progress" thing you used to say bugged you a bit.
I also loved that the implication that the dinosaurs could have one day become something like us if given the chance. That it was snatched away in an instant and something new had to adapt and rule the earth. Hope I read that right!
Omg yeah you can actually see the comet miss before she transitions into dinosaur versions of human art.
Realized that on like my 4th rewatch lol
Oh DAAAANG! That was cool AF. Loved the subtle crowns and brain animations. So much interesting stuff to unpack from looking at each scene! Congrats on 100K!
Every animal I could identify;
0:03 Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)
0:05 Pikaia
0:07 Anomalocaris
0:10 Unknown jawless fish
0:11 Eusthenopteron and Tiktaalik
0:12 Dunkleosteus
0:14 Icthyostega
0:16 Proterogyrinus(?) and Dimetrodon
0:17 Gorgonops and a Dicynodontid
0:23 Suminia
0:30 Diplocaulus
0:33 Eoraptor
0:43 Herrerasaurus(?)
0:50 Pachycephalosaurus
0:56 Allosaurus and Stegosaurus
0:58 Sauropod (maybe Alamosaurus)
1:02 Dromeosaurid (probably Dineobellator or Deinonychus)
1:04 Dimorphodon
1:11 Plesiosaurid (probably Plesiosaurus)
1:20 Dinosauroid(?!) .
1:40 Parasaurolophus
1:41 Torosaurus
1:43 Tyrannosaurus
1:46 Elasmosaurus, Ammonitid, Icthyosaurid, Mosasaurid, and unknown shark
1:52 Unknown Neoavian
1:53 Triceratops (skull) and early mammal (maybe Purgatoris?)
2:07 Pantodont (I dont know much about Eocene mammals)
2:08 Gastornis
2:09 Creodont
2:10 Eohippus
2:11 Altiatlasius and an Unknown snake
2:17 Notharctus and an Unknown bird (maybe a protostrigian, but probably not)
2:20 Aegyptopithecus and "Crocodylus"
2:22 Dryopithecus and Sivapithecus
2:27 Gigantopithecus and a Hydrobate
2:30 Oreopithecus
2:37 Sahelanthropus and Chalicotherium
2:38 Ardipithecus and Deinotherium
2:40 Australopithecus, Homotherium, and Hyena
2:44 Paranothropus and Homo rudolphensis/ Australopithecus rudolphensis/ Kenyanthropus
2:45 Homo habilis
2:46 Homo erectus
2:47 Homo sapiens phenotypes (and Canis familiaris very briefly)
2:48 Homo floresiensis and Varanus, Human skull throughout sequence
2:49 Another Australopithecus(?)
2:51 Homo neanderthalensis
2:52 Homo sapiens (specifically Aurignacian/"Cro-Magnon" or EEMH)
2:54 Homo sapiens sapiens
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thanks. I was looking for this
The Hyena and Cat at 2:40 are likely Pachycrocuta and Megantereon respectively. The Gorgonopsid and Dicynodont at 0:17 are probably Inostrancevia and Vivaxosaurus, due to them living in Russia, where the eruptions took place.
I'm a gentle and of course very modern ape.
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Miracle Musical is one of my favorite albums, and The Mind Electric probably my favorite song from that album. I love how you used the moment when the subject of the song is getting electrocuted as a "what if dinosaurs didn't face mass extinction" scenario.
I cant believe we now have 2 astonishing mind electric animations! This is amazing!
1:19 I don't know if this is a trope, or something like following the contours of the original music video, but I _really_ like this look into hypothetical dinosaur-culture, wiped out in an instant by the asteroid impact completely changing the course of history.
(Also a big fan of the black-and-white scenes showing the kings of the world, and showing the passing on of the crown from species to species)
I'm terrible at the "metaphor" and "hidden meaning" thing, but I'm on my way to learning how people pick up on this stuff, and it's really cool seeing symbolism in the animation. It's all intentional stuff, every frame of this was pain-stakingly drawn, one at a time, over the course of months.
There's no original music video for mind electric. There's a lyric video but it's just the lyrics. Amazing song tho
@stoopidapples1596 Um, yes there is. Just search up Hawaii Part 2 and you'll find it. Also the sound effects are in the original.
Anyways, have a good day :^)
@@anonymous13.1 Nope there's still not. There are several fan-made creations, but the only official music video is the lyrics video.
@@stoopidapples1596 if you listen on Spotify, you'll hear the effects. It's from the original. Released on 12/12/12 with the creator named Miracle Musical (ミラクルミュージカル in English).
Dromeosaurs would have had a good chance of developing primate like hands, supposedly
This made me cry like three times. There's just something about the song + visualization choice that's so fucking good. I can't explain why, but it's almost like they really ARE about the same thing. They mesh so well. My favorite part is at around 2:00, when the... feliform? is looking over the wasteland and it's almost like he's a sort of god conjuring the outpouring of mammalian life that exploded once the dinosaurs were wiped out. The fact that this coincides with such an interesting transition in the song itself + easily the best part of the song is making me soooooob.
The timing of this could not have possibly been better. I’m going to college in the fall and have spent the last 6 months pulling my hair out trying to decide between pursuing art or paleontology/anthropology at a professional level. Your channel- and this video especially-has made me realize I can do both well no matter what I end up majoring in. Thanks, Erika. I hope to meet you in the field some day :)
Edit: ALSO, the fact that you managed to create this while getting your phd AND teaching is insane to me. you’re a beast, Gutsick Gibbon.
College student and a PhD🤔
If life evolved from a single cell organism like bacteria, why are there no two cell organism, or 3,4,5?
Think about it. If a bacteria was able to evolve into a new organism the entire world ecosystem would collapse.
Thank God a bacteria will always be a bacteria.
@@elguapo2831a big part of it comes down to energy. The ability to pump glucose or ATP, the ability to diffuse oxygen, all that stuff is far easier in a single cell than in a multicellular organism. In order to get over the hump of difficulty, you need a circulatory system, which increases the complexity dramatically, and with it, the need for yet more food and oxygen.
As with everything in evolution, it's a tradeoff. You can walk farther to get food, but that burns calories so you need more food.
My favorite example of this is brain power. Brains are incredibly resource intensive, but if you get them just right, you can invent farming and John Deere tractors to till the fields, things which make resources nearly abundant. A bigger brain creates its own niche. But you gotta get over that hump!
Paleoart is having a massive resurgence right now! Great time to get into the field!
This is my favorite animation on TH-cam. “Unprofessional” my ass- you’ve captured the beauty of evolution in three wonderful minutes thank you thank you
as someone who's studied 2d animation..i can only imagine all the work that must have gone into this. you're insane! so so soo good!
congrats on 100k!!!❤❤❤
This is an excellent participation in the long, looooong hominid tradition of telling stories and sharing knowledge through art.
While I still prefer the "slowed down" snippet you used to use as an intro, this is freakin' EPIC. Congrats on earning your Silver Play Button.
1:11 - "My name is Plesiosaurus, king of kings: Look on my works, Dimorphodon, and despair!"
Truly lovely piece of work through and through, but these few seconds alone were worth the whole watch. You might not call yourself a "professional artist", but it's kind of shocking how well put together this is. Just buckling down and *doing* a thing like this to completion is an enormous effort (something a lot of people don't really understand), and many "professionals" have done far, far worse at putting together an entertaining three minutes. Congratulations.
Is it a Dimorphodon or a Dearc?
This scene (I think) is the oddly terrifying to me, most likely because of the sounds and look
"My name is Homo Sapiens, hominid of hominids. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
I legitimately showed almost this whole video to my cat and he watched it with interest, so this is definitely cat approved
I have watched this like, so many times now already. I really like it. The mixing of the surreal and kinda spooky with the cruelty of nature, the dinosaur civilization, the pacing. Wow!
Everything is really good, and I’m sharing it with many of my friends. Good stuff!
OH MY GOD DID YOU ANIMATE THIS???? IT GAVE ME CHILLS :-O
Evolution is a truly beautiful process.
Edit: I hope this is a sign that the intro animation is returning!
Agreed. I don't get when creationist say things like "Under evolution you're just evolved pond scum." Dude even if that were literally true, don't you see how cool that would be. Knowing we're the descendants of untold survivors, many just by luck, is humbling and wonderful.
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Never understood the boring claim “we came from god” egotistical and wanting to be different.
But the fact all life came from the ocean is absolutely incredible, beautiful, interesting and better than some god waving a wand. To know we are star dust, chordate, cells, organisms, we are in some way connected to other animals (we share 1% with dinosaurs !!!) and nature it’s just way cooler than any gods ! I still get shocked thinking about this 😂 it’s so incredible! I’m so happy it’s how we came to be. That’s awesome like what we came from a little fish and that fish was most likely something else before etc . How we got our jaw bones and lungs etc is so fascinating!
Deniers are seriously missing out how amazing this all is and all the facts!
@@MichaelDeHaveni prefer evolution over that simple primitive view of “humans are superior and earth is flat and only a few thousand years old the universe is not big but small and our creator is just a human with powers”
Might I just say, animating the beginning of the mammals to the line “spiraling down my majesty I beg of thee to have mercy on me” was golden. It actually got me tear up a little. You didn’t have to go this hard and emotional on the topic of evolution but you did!
This is great. As someone who found your channel late last year I binged your entire backlog from the start and missed when you used the Mind Electric as your intro and the old intro in general so it's nice to see an homage to it. I don't actually know how hard it would be but you could have played the whole animation on reverse for the first part of the song.
Holy shit
This is art through and through, not a single shot goes on as filler, all of them have something interesting to do and are absolutely brimming with creativity; the chill inducing artsy stream of high concept sequences doesn't stop. And oh the concept, i love how each segment will have it's level of groundness so it doesn't feel hard to follow: there's the rapid moving part, the psychedelic part, the more quiet parts, and wonderful transitions that don't mess up the stupidly good pacing.
Now my favorite part is the segment on The Meteor, where it misses, there's imagery depicting dinosaurs having an anthropomorphized history from human paleolithic era stuff to modernity going through all the eras of cultural stuff, just for the truth to be revealed, with that same meteor hitting earth. I absolutely loved it, it's an amazing way to represent the end of a stupidly long era on earth by anthropomorphizing it and giving dinosaurs the whole human history worth of emphasis and then saying "yeah, all of that is over now"
And the music! The segment i just mentioned has glitchy music that fits perfectly with it; and the choice of the song is just genius, this version in particular just amps up the vibes of each part, i love how it's more snappy than the original at points and it makes the transitions just very hard hitting. (If you made the edits on the song, it was masterful, if not, amazing choice)
"I'm not a professional artist-"
I am, and the life, expression, details, concept, and execution of this is astonishing. Not to mention how soul crushingly time consuming animation is! When you possibly found the time to do even a fraction of this, especially given your packed schedule, gives me a fossiliferous boulder of envy- one I'll need to crack open to get to the well-preserved inspiration inside
Erica is some kindof god of time management or something, uploading regular hours of content while she was getting her PHD and ALSO making this insane.
This is SO COOL. I clicked IMMEDIATELY. This looked absolutely fantastic. It captures the beauty and wonder and endless diversity of evolution. Can't even IMAGINE how much work this took! Congrats on 100k, and here's ever more success! Thank you for all the hard work you do!
As a LONG time fan, seeing this is like… it’s magical honestly! This is incredible, truly!
Ngl this would be the coolest educational kids show ever. Idk how it would work, maybe with characters traveling through time to watch and learn how evolution works, and maybe watching significant events during eras, like key points for species, extinction events, and so much more.
AHHH THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! Speaking as an animation/illustratiohn major, you have a lot of talent in the art department even if you're not a professional, it's definitely on the level of some of the best work I've seen presented in my classes before!!
I freaking LOVE THIS ❤
Never heard of this version of the mind electric but I love the new changed version of your intro!
Your channel has become such a safe place for me at the end of last year, and your old intro evoked such feelings of empathy for our cousins and ancestors from the myocene onwards... love seeing this, thank you for everything you do
Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I got totally obsessed with your channel the past month and as soon as I saw this I clicked off another vid to watch it. Loved and missed the old intro and now you gave us the full song with your gorgeous animations.
This alongside your depiction of god in the Noah's Ark video might be my favourite animations on TH-cam right now.
The first time I watched this I thought she must have had it commissioned and then I read the comments. Erika, you astound me with your talents and I wish we had more people like you in the world.
Absolute marvel. Thank you Erika for all that you do! Congratulations on 100K!
I totally get why you don't have the time, but I'd love to see more animations by you. This is amazing!
This is absolutely worth the wait!
Tip of the hat from another animator. You made the had parts look easy.
Thank you!
This is a masterpiece! It covers such a complex but elegant timeliness in an artistic manner, and the animation style is cute and full of character. I wanna see more of it!
Congrats again on the 100k, that's a huge achievement! You deserve it :)
I loved every single bit of this -- the small, exquisite artistic touches, the nostalgia... WHOA. Well worth the wait.
This is wildly good. I really like the crown motif
I'm not crying. You are!
Seriously? Glad I’m not the only one- when it got to ‘the hook’ I burst out crying! Didn’t expect that. 😂
@@jamiegallier2106 I'm familiar with this song already. I had to dig it out first thing after hearing OG intro.
This is some next level shit tho. And a huge milestone 🥃
@@21380 I enjoy both the original and her original version. Sometimes I’d click and play older videos to listen again.
*to clarify, I meant that I didn’t expect the tears, I was expecting ‘the hook’
You’re right. I am crying.
You made this all yourself?!?! Amazing work! The earth fandom sure is lucky to have you. Incredible animated music video, and it even sticks to the canon.
Not only do your other videos inspire me as an anthropology student, but your art inspires me SOO MUCH as an artist!! I really really want to make anthropological animations because of your art like this. I'm so inspired cause this is amazing
I love this, thanks Gutsick. What brings me back is not dunking on theists, it is the beauty of the natural world that they'll never know.
Is it weird that it feels kinda like a spiritual experience looking at how far we've come as a species, how far life has come on this planet, watching the slow but also rapid progression to gentle modern apes, looking back at communities and cultures flourishing as their minds grew more curious and inventive, as generations pass, feeling proud to be their descendants as we too march on with that progression?
Not weird at all. Humans crave to bond with anything and everything. Its in our dna, its why we've survived and thus who we've grown to be. What could be more spiritual than getting to know everything as intimately as we can, becoming like old friends with the universe? The moment we have any way to research anything, we do it simply because we must. That is a prayer if ive ever seen one.
This is so cool! You did such a great job! I know you have your disclaimer about "not being a professional artist" but honestly the animation is so charming and all the different species have so much personality that the animation looks great anyway. Super happy that you shared this with everyone!
"not a professional artist" THIS IS AMAZING I'VE BEEN DRAWING FOR YEARS AND CAN'T ANIMATE LIKE THIS
This was so much fun to watch and rewatch!!!
An animatic of _The Mind Electric_ that actually uses the distorted cut for once? Wild. Pun not intended.
I think this is the non distorted version, since "insane" is forward and Joe doesn't repeat "so" like a billion times at 1:52
Danke! I love it, what a beautiful homage to the weird and wonderful story of life!
I can’t wait for the inevitable day when we get Miniminuteman and Gutsick Gibbon in the same video.
We are well on our way!
This is fantastic, I love your animation! You've got the timing, the squash and stretch, the exaggeration, the arcs of motion, you obviously know what you're doing! I'm giving you 10,000 extra points for making this with your hands, too! 🤘
Holy cow!!!! I LOVE this!! Really like how the dominant species of their times had a crown, super cool :D
I love this song and was introduced to it through your channel, I'm so happy to see a full version animated by you ♥
Omg I just realized this was the same creator that made the deadliest pattern in nature!
Amazing animation.
Your character (the blue gibbon) should get an animated show.
I'm about to finish my BS in Anthropology and you are a part of what made me do it. This video weirdly hit me in the feels and I loved every moment of it.
This is fantastic!! Always in awe of those who take on the monumental task of animation :3 thanks for being a lifeline to teaching me actual science instead of the YEC junk I grew up with
I’m sorry, did you just casually release one of the most interesting animations I’ve seen in a long time????
This animation is fantastic !! Inspiring, silly, serious, vibrant, and informative ! Wow, Erika, stunning work here, incredible attention to detail.
Congratulations on 100k ! and thanks for what you do :)
I got chills from this! This is such a great animation and so many cute animals and I just, wow!!! This is so great!
You have been selected to have a great day 😀
HAPPY 100K TO INTERNET'S FAVOURITE GIBBON
Not a professional artist... but you play one on youtube! Lovely and fitting and very wonderful, thank you so much for both creating this and for sharing it with us all. Also love your work, all of it.
Your knowledge of biology and biomechanics is better than some artists I know, and I really shows in your animation style. Beautiful’
We spoke during your Super Mega Premiere a while back, and I told you that my six-year-old liked your old animated opening. She is seven now, having had a birthday earlier this month, and she likes your new one, too, though she finds it a little scary. But I think it's amazing!
Wow that's incredible and so much work. I have no idea how you do all that besides your "normal" content and your academic work... Way to go!
And congrats on the 100k subs! ❤
Greetings from Germany
Omgosh I’m addicted to 2:11 till the end I love all the symbols and how the lyrics tie into it I love it
Edit: ALSO at 1:20 I love this exploration of how dinosaurs were in line to rule the earth until a random chance took them out
Congrats on 100K subs Erika!! Keep up the amazing work! You are such an inspiration for all of us science communicators ;)
Amazing work, Erika! Congratulations on 100k! 🎉
I am a professional animator, and this has an impressive amount of improvement from your older work I've seen on your channel, well done!
Unfortunately animation takes ages no matter what oTL it's a labor of love and a test of patience.
Keep drawing! Keep animating! These have so much charm!
(Future) Dr. Gutsick Gibbon, you are obviously incredibly talented in many ways. Stay weird and wonderful. Love your content.
Love it! Fantastic job Erika - you've knocked it out of the ballpark.
Love it! You're so talented and creative. I so enjoy how you share knowledge and the joy of learning with us.
Absolutely AMAZING. This should be the official music video for this song. Amazing animation from an amazing channel! Love it so much!
Brings me to tears how miraculously beautiful life is. This video is perfect
This is among my favorite TH-cam videos of all time. It's so good. Serious, Miss Gibbon, you outdid yourself.
Duddeee I love evolution & miracle musical so I already thought that your other animation was absolutely awesome 😭😭
The improvement between then and now though is HUGGEEE
I can tell this one is more fluid and the compositions/scenes are much more interesting!! Keep up the great work holy moly 😽😽
“I would have waited an eternity for this.”- Megatron
Glad to have the intro back. This is so good, Erika!
Congratulations on the 100k subs Erica! I absolutely find our very own physical universe so magical and absurdly, mind bogglingly huge. Love the animation!
I forgot to comment on this but. This HAS to be one of the most beautiful animations ive ever seen. The sound effects. The aspect of history, its all so well put together. The animation is so beautiful and everything is just amazing. The way you can actually understand whats going on in a beautiful animation is impressive. Lovely work.
Loved the Dino 🦖 Civilization part. And at the end how you revamped your old intro
Gutsick Gibbon is being way too modest for her own good, this is incredible!
This not only is a great animated music video for the Mind Electric, but I mean this in earnest when I say this is a wonderful piece of animation & illustration!
I've always loved this song and your animation is so heartfelt, just brings a tear to my eye. Came for creationist bustings, totally didn't expect this kind of stuff, amazing
I love the saber toothed cat and hyenas at 2:40
I learned a lot about how they shaped our evolution in human evolution class
Brilliant! My favorite part is the first upright walk, and then the humans. The progression, the fire snap, the fire spear and then the three humans. You gave them so much more character since the last animation. Fantastic!
This is AMAZING. Holy balls I cannot imagine how long this took to make
It never even crossed my mind that you did your own animation. This is fantastic. I am beyond impressed.
Oh Lord, I love it so much. Thank you for putting so much effort and research into your videos. You deserve much more attention!
Comparing this animation to the original opening is honestly impressive how much your art has improved. it’s so much cleaner and smoother and more full of life. Love it