may I ask what is Gideon the ninth and what side of youtube have I stumbled into? this suddenly started popping up on my home feed and I have no clue why.
@@roberine7241That's so funny! Well, Gideon the Ninth is a fantasy/sci-fi novel by Tamsyn Muir, the first in a short series (3 published so far, out of a likely 4). It has often been flippantly described as "lesbian necromancers in space," which, while funny and conveying some of the vibe, is not very informative. It's a genre-blurring novel with a wry sense of humor, that features a puzzle-solving contest, which turns into a sort of locked-house murder mystery, and in a weird way is also sort of a love story. If that appeals to you, give it a try! It also truly has one of the most wholesome fandoms I know of, right up there with the Horizon fandom.
I know I commented down here already but I think I didn't exatly express just how OBSESSED I am with this. It is now the new way I imagine Gideon and Harrow to look like. Just. Perfect. Ugh. They should pay you a million bucks to make an animated series, no joke. You read those book through, I can tell, every detail is spot on. I have read the damn things over 5 times each, I can tell
I'm gonna be so real it's comments like these that remind me why I create things :)) being able to share things i love with other people who love it too is the best. Thanks so much for your support!!
FABULOUS choice of song, it really draws into focus how many times Gideon makes TRULY hard choices for Harrow's sake in spite of their surface-level emnity in GtN - not just because Gideon cares about her (although that's also a part of it) but because Gideon is a genuinely, truly good person.
this is incredible. bab’s stupid trident knife, all the constructs, the COLORING and composition and portrayal of necromancy. really the whole thing, the whole thing is beautiful, but the flashback scenes are particular favorites of me. i’ve been watching this on loop to inoculate myself to the feelings and it has yet to work.
This is amazing??? I can't believe how clean and well drawn the whole thing is, not to mention the amazing song choice. Made me feel some of what the book did all over again
I just finished Harrow the Ninth, and if I thought Gideon destroyed me, that was even worse. I'm terrified to read Nona at this point. Beyond gorgeous work. Isn't it crazy to think how consistent the visualization is across the whole fandom?? The description is so exquisite. Absolutely stunning!!!
@@kaidablu Pretty much. Nona's a delight, and wonderfully oblivious to how dark her world is! But the fact that Camilla and Palamedes are in it should be warning enough about what your heart is in for.
The “I can’t meet your eyes” during the water scene is fucking gorgeous. This entire animatic is fucking gorgeous literally the best thing I’ve seen today you have no idea how in love with this I am. This made me relive the books so vividly and I’m crying for it
I have no idea what this world or who these characters are, but I did NOT expect that guy to sacrifice himself for her, and I am invested now. Props to you for drawing so many skeletons-that’s like anatomy practice over and over again.
It's from the first two books in the Locked Tomb book series (Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth). I can fully recommend it. It's snarky and funny and tragic.
@@annesofiegrumsen105 I second that recc. Just reread Gideon for October and I loved it just as much as I did the first time. Maybe even a little more now that I know all the plot twists.
The animation and character design is so amazing. The scene where Gideon is holding Harrow and looking at the fence hurt so much. The entire animation was just so wonderfully done
First of all, I love how you draw Gideon's expressions. Second of all I love that you had Gideon dropping her sword as the singer says "sword in hand". Perfect imo. Third of all I adore your designs for all the characters and lastly I want a GtN animated show with you as one of the lead artists or at least your character designs In short; I love this
This added ten years to my life. Breathtaking work -- it made me love this series all over again. I also can't get over how lushly you rendered some of these scenes; they match what I'd imagined so perfectly! Thank you so much for making this! What a gift to the fandom.
I love this so much!!! The lighting, the smiles, the designs of the creachers, the song. The montage of Gideon and Harrow toward the end, just, AUGH. This punched me in the feelings just like the books did. I will now watch this several more times ty
This is gorgeous! I can’t imagine how long this took. The panel of Gideon just looking at the fence while holding Harrow made me want to cry. Also my roommate’s cat walked into my room and meowed at me while I was watching, so I would say that she approves as well
Not me, watching this, itching to reread Gideon for the fifth time. I have so many other books to read, but I just keep going back to Gideon. Thank you for this. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long time.
This is absolutely fucking sublime. I'm tearing up. Your scene selection and timing was so perfect, and the character design is so wonderful, the motion is so fluid, everything is just aghgcgfxfhfjgfjcgjcv. I'm going to watch this a million more times and find a million more lovely details.
Skies, I'm obsessed with this. This book series has opened up a fandom different from any other I've been part of before, and I'm so grateful for it. You're incredibly talented - the art style, the scenes, the character designs, the visualizations - hold up, can we talk about the wave of blood? Because _that was incredible._ I'm going to be watching this on loop until Alecto comes out.
I love this so much. This song choice is everything - the chorus is perfect, obviously, but also "arms so steady" in the moment Gideon says she's not afraid, her hands are just shaking like are you kidding me?? And your art is beautiful
First off, it is an absolute *crime* that you haven't breached a hundred subs yet, this is phenomenal and absolutely drips with effort. You captured the scenes so perfectly Secondly, what an absolute banger choice of a song -- I gotta thank you for introducing me to it bc you already kno that shits going on my playlists
I’ve repeatedly come back to this as I’m reading my way through Harrow the Ninth since it’s harder for me to get through but I need to reminded of how much I love the story. Thank you for your incredible animation that captures all that I love about Locked Tomb
This is amazing, gosh, it just made relive the books with such intensity... I can't choose if my favourite part is Harrow's eyes in the end or the transition between the flashback and the pool scene...
excellent song choice, florence and the machine is amazing also this animatic is sooo good!!!! the amount of work you must have put into this!!! it's so cool to see the words that i read visualized in such a creative way! great work!!
I saw the animatic that you did for Reinaeiry and recognized your style right away! Congrats on doing such a big project. The religious imagery and marking those in death by making them red was very cool.
Aw man thank you so much!!! Means a lot! And YAY! From the getgo I was determined to get religious imagery in there as much as I possibly could, they ended up being some of the best scenes fs :)
There's nothing wrong with drawing your faves as practice, especially when we get such a lovely result! Thank you for sharing this, and now it makes me hope that if there's ever a TV show, that Florence might write a song for it.
This hits so hard. Your animations are fabulous. The imagery, the way it pairs with the song, the moments you chose. Is this sorcery? Thank you so much for this
I keep coming back to this--have watched it so many times, and it spurred a necessary re-read of the Tomb books. This song is so APPROPRIATE! Thank you for the insane amount of work. ♡♡
the art is gorgeous, the work you put, everyone has already mentioned this but holy shit the atmosphere is perfect. this is exactly how i pictured these scenes. It's so insane to me, it's like you pulled some of these images from my head
I genuinely cannot express how amazing this is. The art is wonderful, but also the sheer skill in matching the scenes and the story so perfectly to the lyrics. And the last minute never fails to give me chills.
Wow, gorgeous! The coloring, the details, the skeletons -- amazing. Special kudos for the little vignettes at the end to scenes we didn't see in the main video -- my favorite was Dulcinea holding Gideon after the "battery" test -- I always found that moment really touching, both for Gideon's devotion to Harrow and the warning "Dulcinea" was trying to give Gideon about Lyctorhood. Great job!
OH MY GOD???!!!!! i have ALWAYS thought of gideon and harrow when listening to this song. this so gorgeous and as an artist i can so appreciate how much work was put into this. fabulous job. i cried
I've been watching this animatic on repeat the past couple of weeks, your animations are so smooth and the song is so fucking catchy I am OBSESSED and has inspired me to make a bunch of new fanwork
HOOOOLY SHIT THIS IS INCREDIBLE???? Literally sat through the entire thing feeling BLOWN AWAY by EVERY SINGLE SHOT like WOW!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!! I'm trying to find coherent words to describe how this made me feel but all I can manage right now is keysmashes and caps lock nonsense. But like-the composition, the pacing, your art and character designs, just everything about this??? I love this so much oh my GOD
Okay but “let me live or let me love you” with Gideons sacrifice, because does it as an ultimate act of love and devotion, and even though harrow doesn’t want this, if she doesn’t absorb Gideon in that moment then Gideon dies, and for nothing
When I say that I screamed during this animatic, I mean I SCREAMED! This is so awesome, I'm so happy you decided to share it here because it really brought out the feels in me again :)
I come to youtube when I want to listen to this song because of how incredible this is. Amazing work! You really captured the characters, and gave more life... errr, undeath to the scenes from the book.
*just finished rereading Nona for like the fifth time* whelp, time to read Gideon again This was so beautiful ugh the way you compose shots you have such a cinematic eye!!!!
holy shit this is amazing!!! the composition is amazing, and the music choice is stellar!! i scrolled down and could not believe that you didn't have at least 1000 subs, you certainly deserve all that and more
"let me live or let me love you" is such an evocative phrase for the two of them
it's "let me leave or let me love you", but frankly both work for GtN
"sword in hand" right as gideon drops the sword is so very very cruel
The fade from the fence to gideon right on 'the executioner's within me' might be the most brilliantly tragic bit of the whole thing omg perfect
Also, "sword in hand" as she lets her sword fall... oof.
may I ask what is Gideon the ninth and what side of youtube have I stumbled into? this suddenly started popping up on my home feed and I have no clue why.
@@roberine7241That's so funny! Well, Gideon the Ninth is a fantasy/sci-fi novel by Tamsyn Muir, the first in a short series (3 published so far, out of a likely 4).
It has often been flippantly described as "lesbian necromancers in space," which, while funny and conveying some of the vibe, is not very informative. It's a genre-blurring novel with a wry sense of humor, that features a puzzle-solving contest, which turns into a sort of locked-house murder mystery, and in a weird way is also sort of a love story.
If that appeals to you, give it a try! It also truly has one of the most wholesome fandoms I know of, right up there with the Horizon fandom.
@@TimMFWolfe I might try it. sci fi and fantasy sounds great.
Harrows moment of realisation in this is, for a lack of a better word, harrowing
STOP IM SCREAMING 😭😭
Ohhhh, yes. You know it's coming, but hot DAMN the shot of those golden eyes in Harrow's face...
I know I commented down here already but I think I didn't exatly express just how OBSESSED I am with this. It is now the new way I imagine Gideon and Harrow to look like. Just. Perfect. Ugh. They should pay you a million bucks to make an animated series, no joke. You read those book through, I can tell, every detail is spot on. I have read the damn things over 5 times each, I can tell
I'm gonna be so real it's comments like these that remind me why I create things :)) being able to share things i love with other people who love it too is the best. Thanks so much for your support!!
FABULOUS choice of song, it really draws into focus how many times Gideon makes TRULY hard choices for Harrow's sake in spite of their surface-level emnity in GtN - not just because Gideon cares about her (although that's also a part of it) but because Gideon is a genuinely, truly good person.
this is incredible. bab’s stupid trident knife, all the constructs, the COLORING and composition and portrayal of necromancy. really the whole thing, the whole thing is beautiful, but the flashback scenes are particular favorites of me. i’ve been watching this on loop to inoculate myself to the feelings and it has yet to work.
This is amazing??? I can't believe how clean and well drawn the whole thing is, not to mention the amazing song choice. Made me feel some of what the book did all over again
I just finished Harrow the Ninth, and if I thought Gideon destroyed me, that was even worse. I'm terrified to read Nona at this point. Beyond gorgeous work. Isn't it crazy to think how consistent the visualization is across the whole fandom?? The description is so exquisite. Absolutely stunning!!!
Nona's not as emotionally devastating. Its like someone swapped Harrow and Gideon's mind with a toddler.
@@aria5614 mmm I'd say nona is worse in some ways and better in others, as far as heartbreak lol
You'll love Nona, because Nona loves you!
@@kaidablu Pretty much. Nona's a delight, and wonderfully oblivious to how dark her world is! But the fact that Camilla and Palamedes are in it should be warning enough about what your heart is in for.
The “I can’t meet your eyes” during the water scene is fucking gorgeous. This entire animatic is fucking gorgeous literally the best thing I’ve seen today you have no idea how in love with this I am. This made me relive the books so vividly and I’m crying for it
I have no idea what this world or who these characters are, but I did NOT expect that guy to sacrifice himself for her, and I am invested now.
Props to you for drawing so many skeletons-that’s like anatomy practice over and over again.
they are both girls :)
@@SwagMyAssOff Oh, COOL!
It's from the first two books in the Locked Tomb book series (Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth). I can fully recommend it. It's snarky and funny and tragic.
@@annesofiegrumsen105 I second that recc. Just reread Gideon for October and I loved it just as much as I did the first time. Maybe even a little more now that I know all the plot twists.
Go read or listen to Gideon the ninth and thank us later :)
Wow, that was absolutely stunning. I love this. Bravo, you even nailed Gideon pulling up her shirtsleeves before she jumps on the railing! Lovely work
God something about harrow's little hand clench at 1:18 absolutely guts me every time. Incredible work and fantastic song choice.
This literally got me to read the first book AHHHH! I'm so glad this introduced me to the fandom. Thank you 😭 🙏
omggg welcome!!
The animation and character design is so amazing. The scene where Gideon is holding Harrow and looking at the fence hurt so much. The entire animation was just so wonderfully done
First of all, I love how you draw Gideon's expressions. Second of all I love that you had Gideon dropping her sword as the singer says "sword in hand". Perfect imo. Third of all I adore your designs for all the characters and lastly I want a GtN animated show with you as one of the lead artists or at least your character designs
In short; I love this
ah thanks for the sweet comment ^w^ Glad you enjoyed it
This added ten years to my life. Breathtaking work -- it made me love this series all over again. I also can't get over how lushly you rendered some of these scenes; they match what I'd imagined so perfectly! Thank you so much for making this! What a gift to the fandom.
Thanks so much
the last shot....she is READY for the heralds and its stunning
started crying around the 3:00 mark 😭😭😭 this is beautiful
I'm gonna be screaming peak until my lungs collapse. This is absolutely brillant
I love this so much!!! The lighting, the smiles, the designs of the creachers, the song. The montage of Gideon and Harrow toward the end, just, AUGH. This punched me in the feelings just like the books did. I will now watch this several more times ty
Ahhh thank you sm ;;;-;;;;;;
This is gorgeous! I can’t imagine how long this took. The panel of Gideon just looking at the fence while holding Harrow made me want to cry.
Also my roommate’s cat walked into my room and meowed at me while I was watching, so I would say that she approves as well
Thank you
Holy crap, my friend, I am sobbing. I can't imagine the amount of work you put into this. Please know that it was all worth it.
Not me, watching this, itching to reread Gideon for the fifth time. I have so many other books to read, but I just keep going back to Gideon. Thank you for this. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long time.
hi yes i am SCREAMING. this is literally actually perfect, it feels like reading gideon all over again
Any time I need something to kick me into a good cry, I just watch this. ❤
This is absolutely amazing work. There's more artwork of TLT in this video than I've seen before, it's phenomenal! Thank you so much
every once in a while I have to come back, watch this again and cry all my tears
Thank you for this amazing animatic!
This is absolutely fucking sublime. I'm tearing up. Your scene selection and timing was so perfect, and the character design is so wonderful, the motion is so fluid, everything is just aghgcgfxfhfjgfjcgjcv. I'm going to watch this a million more times and find a million more lovely details.
AGREE her scene selection was perfect, and I liked the flash back sequence near the end.
Skies, I'm obsessed with this. This book series has opened up a fandom different from any other I've been part of before, and I'm so grateful for it. You're incredibly talented - the art style, the scenes, the character designs, the visualizations - hold up, can we talk about the wave of blood? Because _that was incredible._ I'm going to be watching this on loop until Alecto comes out.
I'm so glad the youtube algorithm blessed me with a Locked Tomb animatic, especially one as gorgeous as this one!
I come back to this every once in a while and start overflowing with emotion
Harrow, I told you to lift weights!
I would love a locked tomb series. Producers, take note.
I love this so much. This song choice is everything - the chorus is perfect, obviously, but also "arms so steady" in the moment Gideon says she's not afraid, her hands are just shaking like are you kidding me?? And your art is beautiful
Incredibly impressive! Made me feel all the feelings all over again 😢 we screamed, we shook...
I shed some tears while watching this. You managed to encapsulate the emotional hits of this story perfectly :)
Thx
I keep saying that if they ever adapt this book series jt needs to be animated and not live action/cgi, snd this here is why
First off, it is an absolute *crime* that you haven't breached a hundred subs yet, this is phenomenal and absolutely drips with effort. You captured the scenes so perfectly
Secondly, what an absolute banger choice of a song -- I gotta thank you for introducing me to it bc you already kno that shits going on my playlists
i seriously watch this animatic like once a week, its just out of control!! its so perfect!!!
I’ve repeatedly come back to this as I’m reading my way through Harrow the Ninth since it’s harder for me to get through but I need to reminded of how much I love the story. Thank you for your incredible animation that captures all that I love about Locked Tomb
oh my GOD. this is amazing. the choice in song and scenes, the timing, and especially the drawings!!! i could watch it for hours. incredible work
This is one of the best animatic I have ever watched. The drawing style, the timing, everything is amazing! Thanks you so much for this!
This is amazing, gosh, it just made relive the books with such intensity... I can't choose if my favourite part is Harrow's eyes in the end or the transition between the flashback and the pool scene...
excellent song choice, florence and the machine is amazing
also this animatic is sooo good!!!! the amount of work you must have put into this!!! it's so cool to see the words that i read visualized in such a creative way! great work!!
i shed a tear this is the best thing i’ve ever seen in my life
This is SO fucking gorgeous, the transition from gtn to htn gave me gosebumps!!!! I love the way you draw them
Screaming and crying and throwing up this is so incredible my god hhhhhh
im in love w the way dulcineas shadow falls at 1:52 it's soooo smooth
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT this is impeccable...I cant
I saw the animatic that you did for Reinaeiry and recognized your style right away! Congrats on doing such a big project. The religious imagery and marking those in death by making them red was very cool.
Aw man thank you so much!!! Means a lot! And YAY! From the getgo I was determined to get religious imagery in there as much as I possibly could, they ended up being some of the best scenes fs :)
I literally watchbthis all the time I’m actually so dangerously obsessed w this
this is FANTASTIC, I am covered with goosebumps and crying 😭
There's nothing wrong with drawing your faves as practice, especially when we get such a lovely result! Thank you for sharing this, and now it makes me hope that if there's ever a TV show, that Florence might write a song for it.
The best animation of TLT I've ever seen! Incredible. It shows how much work you put into it.
This hits so hard. Your animations are fabulous. The imagery, the way it pairs with the song, the moments you chose. Is this sorcery? Thank you so much for this
I keep coming back to this--have watched it so many times, and it spurred a necessary re-read of the Tomb books. This song is so APPROPRIATE! Thank you for the insane amount of work. ♡♡
Gods this just proves to me how bady this book series needs a tv adaptation u_u this is the coolest ive seen gd
I had to pause to sob for multiple minutes
the art is gorgeous, the work you put, everyone has already mentioned this but holy shit the atmosphere is perfect. this is exactly how i pictured these scenes. It's so insane to me, it's like you pulled some of these images from my head
I genuinely cannot express how amazing this is. The art is wonderful, but also the sheer skill in matching the scenes and the story so perfectly to the lyrics. And the last minute never fails to give me chills.
The Take Me To Church Gideon the ninth Animatic seam to take inspiration from your antimatic or a least the same event in the book
Oh God my eyes are wet! I have an unhealthy obsession with these characters now. Tysm for putting in the time and effort in creating this❤
Wow, gorgeous! The coloring, the details, the skeletons -- amazing. Special kudos for the little vignettes at the end to scenes we didn't see in the main video -- my favorite was Dulcinea holding Gideon after the "battery" test -- I always found that moment really touching, both for Gideon's devotion to Harrow and the warning "Dulcinea" was trying to give Gideon about Lyctorhood. Great job!
THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL!!!!! I swear all of this is exactly how I picture the book, huuuuuge props for such an incredible animatic!!
OH MY GOD???!!!!! i have ALWAYS thought of gideon and harrow when listening to this song. this so gorgeous and as an artist i can so appreciate how much work was put into this. fabulous job. i cried
The timing of the eye-change and the music was my favorite bit
WUGH... I LOVE IT... please know you did a fantastic job on this! I cried a little bit!! Thank you so much for making it
I've been watching this animatic on repeat the past couple of weeks, your animations are so smooth and the song is so fucking catchy I am OBSESSED and has inspired me to make a bunch of new fanwork
omgg thank you
This is incredible!! I got chills!!
A small detail I liked is Gideon dropping the sword when the song says "sword in hand."
GOD i love this SO SO MUCH *sobbing*
HOOOOLY SHIT THIS IS INCREDIBLE???? Literally sat through the entire thing feeling BLOWN AWAY by EVERY SINGLE SHOT like WOW!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!! I'm trying to find coherent words to describe how this made me feel but all I can manage right now is keysmashes and caps lock nonsense. But like-the composition, the pacing, your art and character designs, just everything about this??? I love this so much oh my GOD
Okay but “let me live or let me love you” with Gideons sacrifice, because does it as an ultimate act of love and devotion, and even though harrow doesn’t want this, if she doesn’t absorb Gideon in that moment then Gideon dies, and for nothing
This is beautifully amazing! I had to pause it like a million times to just take in the awesomeness of it. Perfect song choice, too
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS ANIMATIC AHAHHH. So cool. Thank you for making it
Holy shit! This is amazing! Easily the best locked tomb animatic I've seen to date
What the hell this is so cool and catches the nuances that aren't explicitly stated in the books, omg, this is so cool.
I cried with the books, and now I'm crying over this animation.
Holy crap, that was amazing! I was really feeling it, I can't imagine how much work you put into this, it's wonderful!
words can not properly express the feelings this brings up in me... I just screamed the whole time I watched. absolutely brilliant and beautiful
When I say that I screamed during this animatic, I mean I SCREAMED! This is so awesome, I'm so happy you decided to share it here because it really brought out the feels in me again :)
The cresting wave of spirits taking Gideon 💥💔
This is honestly beautiful and i keep coming back to it!!!!
i'm so unwell over them over this I cant handle anything it's so good
This was a super beautiful animatic! It made me want to relisten to GtN AGAIN!
OMG! It’s so good! I’m honestly at a loss of words. Incredible!
Oh my god this is amazing I'm crying in the best way. I LOVE the way Gideon and Harrow are drawn oh my fucking John is this great
I just finished this book and I am LOVING all the fan creations. This is my top favorite. Amazingly done.
oh this is gorgeous! I especially loved the b/w montage showing all the Gideon and Harrow moments. it hurts my heart in the best way.
OMG. this was SOOO FREAKING GOOD 😭😭😭😭 not me feeling everything all over again
AUGHHHHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD ??????????? it's so CLEAN and the expressions are VISCERAL. GOD I LOVE THIS
I AM SO DEEPLY OBSESSED WITH THIS OH MY GOD
Obligatory I LOVE the storyline of this, especially the shot of Gideon being taken by the River, but MAN I love your cyth too
I come to youtube when I want to listen to this song because of how incredible this is. Amazing work! You really captured the characters, and gave more life... errr, undeath to the scenes from the book.
i’m literally. i’m sick. i’m SICK. you’re a god.
this is incredible and the angles, the timing and your style and the way camera moves is just chef's kiss i can't stop rewatching this
*just finished rereading Nona for like the fifth time* whelp, time to read Gideon again
This was so beautiful ugh the way you compose shots you have such a cinematic eye!!!!
holy shit this is amazing!!! the composition is amazing, and the music choice is stellar!! i scrolled down and could not believe that you didn't have at least 1000 subs, you certainly deserve all that and more
This is so good!!! Every couple of days I think about it and have to go back and watch it again!
Dead gods this is amazing. I want to go read TLT again now