Chairs provide stability and comfort. I think its a metaphor for trying achieve a place in society where you can get that. Others arent successful in achieving stability and some fail more quickly than others despite trying hard and they are forced to leave into a place of nothingness and left behind because everyones only focused on trying to secure their own seat on the "chair" to do anything else.
First time I found this video because I was specifically searching for hand-drawn animations. Today it got into my recommendations. It gives me hope, that more people will see it
I love how the chair retains its clear shape throughout, even from far away, the tension is so palpable, and I love the ending. We live in a time where aesthetic means so much, people love color and big eyes, I'm glad you made something stark and different when there's so much pressure to do the opposite
metaphor for life? when you think you have just done all it takes to be seated you look aroundand see others have had a hard time being seated as well, just to realize thats what is going on with existence in general,seat taking
This could be seen as someone trying to find their place in the world, struggling to grasp at it and finally attaining it in the end. But we also come to the conclusion that, we're not alone in this and at times some fail to find their place and just fall into the abyss.
Or that once we find our place in the world we come to the conclusion that we're just like everyone else and the only way to be free of the "safety in purgatory" that the man-made illusory construct of the chair comes with is to let go and find our own fucking way. But in truth, most of us will simply die without the leash of the safety chair holding us from the great abyss.
I mean, if you think about it, we could only see the person at first. At the end, we see everything he could already see all around him. Those are all the examples of people who got this situation to work for them in their own sad way. They're simply sitting around doing nothing, waiting to die. But they're safe. But as he's falling, he sees they're safe; that's ALL he sees in that terror-filled moment. So he follows their example to be safe, never knowing what happens when you reject the leash. And he becomes like them.
The apathy these people who made it on their chairs show to the people falling is truly abhorrent. They watch from their safety net and do NOTHING while people, brethren die all around them, crying out for help, for direction. Maybe the masses of people in their chairs have it in their mind that life in this twisted world is meaningless, and their only choice is between a slow, meaningless, coddled death atop a chair and the unknown fall that would certainly lead them to a painful death. Maybe they all know this and have lost hope, despite the fact that there may be a different way to live if they jump and take their life into their own hands.
@@evieisleavie some art is less a message and more a reflection of yourself that you want to see. To someone who thinks this, you can determine what your own woes are. Maybe you should look at these comments you made to find out what makes you unhappy, now that a year has passed and you've likely forgotten what you wrote.
The anxiety is strong with this one No but siriously I am amazed at how beautiful and terrifying this is, such a surreal yet simple idea and you delivered the emotion flawlessly. Amazing, really
Being that i animated a short film myself for the first time, seeing this is just amazing. Not just the animation but the visual storytelling and the unnerving music zooming out to see the other people is just great. A great animation!
To me it's about how we are confining and restraining our infinite and ever expanding souls with mere 3d achievements and societal pressure (notice how chairs themselves are hanging and pulled downwards by gravity but the bodies are shown to float upwards).
Thanks everyone who watched!! I went from a 100 views or something in 2018 to suddenly a few 1000 views in second half of 2019. THANKS!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
@@monkeyking734 believe it or not this was shot old-school. So paper frames are placed down and shot on a 16mm film animation camera called Oxberry. Even the pan, zooms are manual with a hand crank! Later the 16mm film was transferred to digital.www.oxberry.com/filmaker_page.html
I am very impressed with the drawing technique you have, the concept of the story itself is disturbing as well as realistic. I have no words, you are a great artist!
I imagine it as everyone is struggling in life both mentally and physically some people can’t make it to “ the chair” some people push and make it and are able the continue with life and sometimes they make a wrong move and fall off the chair
This was amazing. I haven’t really seen a lot of animated stuff that’s drawn out like this. Im planning on doing one myself and this short film made me excited.
The struggle of life to find comfort with ones station, to fight to be comfortable in ones own skin. Will you stop fighting and relax or will you plunge to your pitiful doom?
This really illustrates the state of modern capitalist societies where everyone is forced to earn a seat at a company in order to ensure a decent living/survival.
Thanks, I cant give a definite answer on how long I took. I worked on it in fits and stops, all I can say is it took a long time. Drawn with dip pen on paper and there were a lot of rejected fames, ink spills, ripped paper, re-dos.
yup done old school way, pen on paper then shot frame by frame on 16mm film using an Oxberry camera. Obviously today there are other ways to create animation.
accurate representation of how it feels to lean slightly too far back in a chair
Chairs provide stability and comfort. I think its a metaphor for trying achieve a place in society where you can get that. Others arent successful in achieving stability and some fail more quickly than others despite trying hard and they are forced to leave into a place of nothingness and left behind because everyones only focused on trying to secure their own seat on the "chair" to do anything else.
Hope YT recommends this to more people, making hand drawn animation takes a lot of skill and patience
First time I found this video because I was specifically searching for hand-drawn animations. Today it got into my recommendations. It gives me hope, that more people will see it
Glad YT recommended this
Digital animation require skill too..
@@user-xh6ju3pg8c yes, yes it does
@@narwhal5447 Thankx and it's really expensive to buy papers or animation cells
I love how the chair retains its clear shape throughout, even from far away, the tension is so palpable, and I love the ending. We live in a time where aesthetic means so much, people love color and big eyes, I'm glad you made something stark and different when there's so much pressure to do the opposite
Thanks for watching !!!
when ur teacher tells u to sit the hell down
And u say no mom
yes
metaphor for life? when you think you have just done all it takes to be seated you look aroundand see others have had a hard time being seated as well, just to realize thats what is going on with existence in general,seat taking
the muscles were handled delightfully. Although just graphite, the rope seems so full of real tension
Thanks everyone for watching in 2020!! Obviously a trying year. One of those year will use as a marker in our lives.
What was the plot of this chair story my boy? How did all this connect?
dang, pretty strong animation :o👌 love the weight feeling when he trys to grab the chair, also cool ending! dammn artistic stuff :D and mad skills!
Trying to hold on, like the people in your animation.
I hate how little attention this animation has, considering how amazing it is
I've watched it over and over, sometimes months apart, haunting. Never forget it
Cuanta imaginación x Dios!! Realmente.PERFECTO. Saludos dd Argentina
thanks for watching!
And this is why hand drawn animation is superior to everything else --- its the mother of all storytelling. Please share this! ❤
now seeing all these ai art trends etc its so refreshing and beautiful to see such commendable work.. so beautiful
This could be seen as someone trying to find their place in the world, struggling to grasp at it and finally attaining it in the end. But we also come to the conclusion that, we're not alone in this and at times some fail to find their place and just fall into the abyss.
Or that once we find our place in the world we come to the conclusion that we're just like everyone else and the only way to be free of the "safety in purgatory" that the man-made illusory construct of the chair comes with is to let go and find our own fucking way. But in truth, most of us will simply die without the leash of the safety chair holding us from the great abyss.
I mean, if you think about it, we could only see the person at first. At the end, we see everything he could already see all around him. Those are all the examples of people who got this situation to work for them in their own sad way. They're simply sitting around doing nothing, waiting to die. But they're safe. But as he's falling, he sees they're safe; that's ALL he sees in that terror-filled moment. So he follows their example to be safe, never knowing what happens when you reject the leash. And he becomes like them.
The apathy these people who made it on their chairs show to the people falling is truly abhorrent. They watch from their safety net and do NOTHING while people, brethren die all around them, crying out for help, for direction. Maybe the masses of people in their chairs have it in their mind that life in this twisted world is meaningless, and their only choice is between a slow, meaningless, coddled death atop a chair and the unknown fall that would certainly lead them to a painful death. Maybe they all know this and have lost hope, despite the fact that there may be a different way to live if they jump and take their life into their own hands.
@@evieisleavie some art is less a message and more a reflection of yourself that you want to see.
To someone who thinks this, you can determine what your own woes are. Maybe you should look at these comments you made to find out what makes you unhappy, now that a year has passed and you've likely forgotten what you wrote.
This makes so much more sense when you watch it upside down.
The anxiety is strong with this one
No but siriously I am amazed at how beautiful and terrifying this is, such a surreal yet simple idea and you delivered the emotion flawlessly. Amazing, really
This literally put me on the edge of my own seat
Being that i animated a short film myself for the first time, seeing this is just amazing. Not just the animation but the visual storytelling and the unnerving music zooming out to see the other people is just great. A great animation!
To me it's about how we are confining and restraining our infinite and ever expanding souls with mere 3d achievements and societal pressure (notice how chairs themselves are hanging and pulled downwards by gravity but the bodies are shown to float upwards).
Thanks everyone who watched!! I went from a 100 views or something in 2018 to suddenly a few 1000 views in second half of 2019. THANKS!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Thank you
What software did u use to bring your drawings together
@@monkeyking734 believe it or not this was shot old-school. So paper frames are placed down and shot on a 16mm film animation camera called Oxberry. Even the pan, zooms are manual with a hand crank! Later the 16mm film was transferred to digital.www.oxberry.com/filmaker_page.html
This was brilliant
The ending is very terrifying but so amazing at the same time
👁👃👁 Does This face scare you
Hand drawn animation is beautiful. And this is beautifully done, dang. Wow.
oh he be sittin
A gorgeous piece. Gave me chills. Great stuff, dude.
The is beyond words simply beautiful, hope more people will see this and that 2d animation is not lost to time.
I remember when this had only 4k Views... Such a masterpiece!
This probably has a deeper meaning but I have no idea what it is.
This is terrifying, legit gave me that dizzying feeling you get when you almost fall off of something. I love it.
the storytelling is amazing ✨
thanks!
Wow it's 2023 already! Thanks for still watching!
Am from 2024 hi
Underrated for how amazing this looks
And now for something completely different...
I come back to this every few months
I'm learning animation and this is just awesome
I absolutely love the way this ends.
Wow...! Love it!
love the storytelling and the raw lines
The sound design is amazing .
Love the sound design. Man this is so dark and unsettling
Incredible work - can’t believe I never saw it until now. Great animation, great concept, great sound design.
Thanks Steve!
Beautiful animation!
"Hold on to your seats ladies and gentlemen"
Beautiful animation! Makes me fill discomfortable just as it should to. Amazing!
I am very impressed with the drawing technique you have, the concept of the story itself is disturbing as well as realistic. I have no words, you are a great artist!
Oh I love this I really want to watch it upside down though. That last part was super creepy, this is great.
That phycological moment when you can’t sit the fuck down.
No one liked this
@@riverbandit2138I liked it
Maybe because you couldn't spell psychological properly, or because the top comment has the practically same joke
Dramático
Are you Mori? I love this short film. One of the best I've ever seen!
yes, Hiroshi Mori
It's SO FXXKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
The timing is so great!
I love it, very well done
Holy crap! Excellent work! Really felt this
awesome video, found that ending quite dark with some of the figures falling off. very cool.
Thanks for watching! Guess I have a bit of existentialist streak.
@@imagevulture don't we all. Makes me want to have another go at animation
This is absolutely amazing
I imagine it as everyone is struggling in life both mentally and physically some people can’t make it to “ the chair” some people push and make it and are able the continue with life and sometimes they make a wrong move and fall off the chair
Had a fun idea of watching this upside down.
I can't even animate this good on a tablet lol, I guess practice makes perfecto
My mans just trying to the relax but the puppet gods said nah
This is so INCREDIBLE!!!! it's so eerie! The sound effects are spectacular and add so much!! I love how the ending just makes you question more!!
Amazing this reminds me a little bit of Junji Ito,
especially the last part
Thanks! That's high praise!
OKAY TH-cam EXPLAIN WHY THIS DIDN'T GO VIRAL
Woooow !
This is gold.
This was amazing. I haven’t really seen a lot of animated stuff that’s drawn out like this. Im planning on doing one myself and this short film made me excited.
Makes me think of dealing with the chairs 🪑 system in band class back in the day. Very thought provoking, thanks.
Haha!
LOVE IT! I have a film idea with similarities to this that I really want to write!
Write it! My philosophy now is to spend 70% of the time on the writing - before it was reversed.
This film is me trying to tether myself back to reality lol.
On a real note though that was amazing
oh my god this put me to the edge i think i like it
Wow! Your so amazing!
me at ikea trying to get _chair_ on blackfriday
Woa
I just realized that the video was upside down after watching half of it 🙃
Woooooow
Genuinely fascinating.
This is awesome
I love chairs! (Those ones in
Particular)
Wowww, great work 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
The struggle of life to find comfort with ones station, to fight to be comfortable in ones own skin. Will you stop fighting and relax or will you plunge to your pitiful doom?
Amazing work!!
This was great
Master strokes !
this is dope
This is great some work. Something I should consider as a pencil artist and an animator.
This is what an existential crisis feels like.
Inspiring. Confined to the chair to create, released by the chair to deflate.
thanks!
This shows life some win and some don't that is just how it is
This is... really amazing
Amazing!
awesome animation
Bravo!! Very good , i really love it!
Thanks!
awsomeeeee
This really illustrates the state of modern capitalist societies where everyone is forced to earn a seat at a company in order to ensure a decent living/survival.
This is awsome
Great stuff
Really cool and eerie.
Wow great animation man
It's an odd comparison to draw but this feels very Junji Ito. Incredible piece!
great job 💯👍👏
This is super good how long did it take? This looks so hard to make💜💙💚💛🧡❤
Thanks, I cant give a definite answer on how long I took. I worked on it in fits and stops, all I can say is it took a long time. Drawn with dip pen on paper and there were a lot of rejected fames, ink spills, ripped paper, re-dos.
WAIT WHAT?!?!?!??!?! You did it on paper?!?!?!?!? I thought it was like made on a app or something that’s super good!!!!! @@imagevulture
yup done old school way, pen on paper then shot frame by frame on 16mm film using an Oxberry camera. Obviously today there are other ways to create animation.
That’s super. Impressive@@imagevulture
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