"Friendly Shadow" | Dystopian Animated Short Film (2020)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2020
- Created by David James Armsby.
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"Hello, Citizens of Autodale!"
"This Public Service Announcement is following ludicrous concerns and whispers we've been hearing as of late. Silly claims of monsters and other loathsome things living within our city walls!"
"There are no monsters here, citizens. Not in Autodale!"
This film follows a detective that Autodale's public knows as the "Friendly Shadow". Autodale makes an effort to keep the monstrous creatures that lurk outside their walls from entering the city but somehow, incursions and attacks are becoming more and more frequent as of late. It appears that one particular monster-breach got very violent very fast and the Friendly Shadow is sent to investigate.
This film was a colossal amount of work, as you can imagine. It's the longest animated film I've ever made. I've been working on this project for just over 10 months now and the number of sheer man-hours I've put into this one film is something I don't want to think about.
I'm extremely proud of this film, though. It's very near and dear to my heart. I think it's a decent film, with a decent story and I'm very chuffed I managed to pull it off. It's one of the most ambitious projects I've ever attempted and I think it turned out pretty awesome.
I REALLY hope you guys like it too! ^_^
Voice Actors:
Adrienne Cox - "Hive"
Kirie Quackenbush (TwistTVShow) - "Mother"
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www.dreamstorypodcast.com
Original Music composed by Rayshaun Thompson and Cameron Moody of "Controlled Noise".
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FULL SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE!:
• Friendly Shadow: Origi...
MAKING OF:
Part 1: • Making of | "Friendly ...
Part 2: • Creative Process | Aut...
Part 3: • Creative Process | Aut...
This is the sixth film in the Autodale Animated Series. Here's the full playlist!:
• "Autodale" | Full Anim...
PATREON!:
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I've been working on this project for over 10 months now. It's one of the most ambitious projects I've ever attempted and I love this thing to bits. It's one of my favourites of my films, if not my absolute favourite.
I REALLY hope you guys like it too! :D
CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE AUTODALE SERIES HERE!:
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You did it this time, this is freaking AMAZING!!
I’m so excited for the next video of this!! This one was amazing!!
Amazing, thank you for putting this out for us
Pin the comment, I almost missed it!
The friendly shadow was a human that new to much so the "hive" made him in to what he is now.
“And he disobeyed”
*AUTODALE BECOME HUMAN*
deviant become human!!
Ayy
This needs more likes
I laughed way too hard at this
They stole my life, can't have shit in autodale
"Promise she'll be joining her brothers, and NOT ME"
chilling.
I dont get it what does it mean?
Welcome To Auto Dale My Friend... *evil laugh*
666th like
Phosphrite watch model citizen that should help
Why are they gonna kill her?
Shout out to the mother: all she cared about were her children being safe
In reality like Autodale she hadn't had anything else to care for other than her children. Is it true love of a mother or merely desperation of the person who wants to leave legacy as her life matters not much?
@@verti3213 She probably did have real love for her children even if there was some of that was mixed with desperation
@@rawcookiedough7518 I just felt like to dig deeper into mothers love that while beautiful in reality like Autodale... There is nothing else to live for. All people are railroaded into very specific roles with specific planned enjoyment. Love is planned. It doesn't change value of dying mother to Shadow itself since her love is real and yet it's in itself Is sad that this is ONLY source of happiness that person can gain in Autodale.
@@verti3213 :(
@@rawcookiedough7518 I would love to see story like Autodale where MC is simply powerless. Where there is no special MC cheat powers or place that can easily become MC goal to save the world of sth.
Imagine that helplessness so, you live in this distopian reality, free yourself from Autodale in your mind... And what now? So you are "free" but what if you are freed from happiness? The price of freedom becomes happiness. And yet you grit your teeth despite helplessness and try to live anyway, against all odds, all helplessness.
“There are no monsters in autodale, the wall of autodale is just as impenetrable as the handymen who stand on it.”
Gives me the same feeling as “there is no war in ba sing se.”
No but literally I was trying to remember what that line reminded me of thanks for jogging my memory
Yea but difference is that Ba Sing Se was an utopia and Autodale a dystopia
@@L.O.752 to the citizens of autodale it’s a utopia
@@fizzyizzypop1300 yea you're right
Pancake kat the earth king has invited you to lake laogai
“There is no war in Ba Sing Se” has such a similar tone to “And Autodale is Safe.” Both terrifyingly ignorant to reality.
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!
Dude, soo true
Not ignorant. Ignorant implies an opinion based on an incomplete fact. These are deliberate
Oof ya
What?
One of the better details was when the “friendly shadow” referred to the girl and “freak” as both kids and both having parents, meaning he does humanize the freaks despite the matriarch referring to them as creatures the whole time
Edit: thank you everyone for the likes
another interesting thing is at the start hive said not to kill the adult freak because they could use it for research and at the end she starts gushing about how much they could learn from the kid because she doesn’t care about the girls death like shadow does or the freaks inevitable death in testing.
Also, in the behind the scenes of "don't feed the freaks" David says that the freaks represent normal people, and in my opinion, they don't just "represent" them.
Y’all think that the “shadow” was human before. Edit: nvm he was a human at one point.😂
Da Pug Lord you think the freaks were people at one point?
@@joseisme1367 No, I think they are people, but everyone who lives in Autodale has been "assimilated" so much that they can't help but see them as freaks. Not literally, it's more metaphorical, but there is some evidence against this theory. The small freak was still shown as a freak even after the little girl accepted him, and the friendly shadow still saw him as one, but I'm still sticking to my theory.
Dude, the ending gave me chills. She has attain one thing that the "citizen" don't have. Freedom, she now could see what Autodale actually looks like, and probably learns more as she grows up.
I hope this is just the start, because I wanted to see Autodale fall and demise
Autodale will not fall... it stoot for tousands of years repeating its cycle. It's more robust than any empire in our wold and the people are happy with the system. Why should they rebell?
But, if Autodale was so bad, why did the monsters move in?
@@captnwinkle rescue mission maybe?
@@captnwinkle Curiousity.
sadly, autodale will never fall. Well, not from the inside anyway. The citizens have absolutely nothing to compare their life to, and are very happy with it. The extremely few who aren't or even see through the lies are either killed or assimilated into the hive.
The mothers emphasis on “You’re a lot less scary without the coat” makes the Hive’s solution to “Give him the coat” at the end all the more chilling. As if she picked up on the subtle hints, even as a child, of how he seems to have less empathy and individuality when he’s wearing it. Phenomenal job with this!
The robot women at the ending were screaming about “the coat.”
The mother said, “you’re not scary without the coat.”
I smell foreshadowing.
Yea, at the end I heard them yell "give him the cloak" I think theres more to that cloak
"BIG COAT!"
i heard one of them say that
i cant unhear it
And he only looked up when they said that
I dont think he likes the coat. I think he likes his humanity, but what choice does he have? The hive probably sees all his thoughts anyways
Foreshadowing? What is this, continuity?
It’s not a robot it was a exceptional citizen
“Nothing gets in, nothing gets out.”
Hole in the wall: *are you sure about that?*
All in all, it's just another hole in the wall
It's a hole in the wall It's a dirty free for all
sry to say this, but this isn't rly fitting the theme of the film AT ALL
Finally, a memer who doesnt overuse jokes!
I just got to that bit xd
I’m amazed Netflix or another streaming service hasn’t tried to sign a contract with the creator. This is an amazing film and it could serve as a pilot to an entire series.
yes it definitely could and should
Funciona mas como una pelicula
nah, netflix will make disgusting garbage from this wonderful masterpiece.
@@sordesmax6238 Arcane and Nimona were big, so I doubt that.
!!!
Its so comforting to see someone so humane like Friendly Shadow in Autodale.
*_I like how they made a kid friendly television show about the incident to make everybody feel safe._*
What a bold statement
@Starman 777 why did this make me laugh
Lol yeah
@@starman7773 Lmao
@@starman7773 Lmao
“This isn’t one of your cartoons shadow”
Animator: *sweats*
Theo’s Random Videos oops sorry didn’t see that😅
S T O L E N
Therussianman huh?
@@frogcultist2537 You stole a comment that now has 5k likes.
Ess Kay I did??? Sorry I probably didn’t see it I don’t really read comments
I love how when he shot the mother you could hear clear, human, feminine screams under the animalistic, pained screeches.
It’s interesting that when Shadow was in “kill mode” he dropped the human mannerisms, such as moving his mouth while speaking and using facial expressions.
Funny how she's actually safer outside of Autodale than on the inside.
we dont know...
@@jenprochazim Yeah. See "Don't feed the freaks"
Why would she be safer? The outside could be even more dangerous
p A watch the other short films
The further one gets from the wall, the weirder it gets, to the point where she may, herself become a freak. Autodale is bad to us, but in the context of its world, it may well be the only safety left.
"There are no monsters in Autodale."
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
There are no bodies in the water
the great wall is impenetrable
Life is eternal
The rose wall can’t be breached. The Great Wall will not fall. There are no monsters in Autodale.
Gremlinton
Meanwhile, Azula and friends with the Kyoshi Warrior’s clothes: Hah, you wish.
You know you've been watching too much distopia when you see a drawing of the sun and your first instinct is "what? Really? Is even seeing the sun problematic now? Will the girl get murked simply for drawing the sun?" and you don't even register "oh, there's two monsters in that drawing"
Love the detail of the grass - in the beginning opening shot of the crack in the wall - looking like people crawling out from the ground; or grasping for life as they die. The grass strands on the left look like a person lying on the ground, while the grass strands on the right look like a person reaching their hand out to the sky. Truely even the smallest details are given extra care! A classic and amazing film series.
Who else felt bad for the baby freak literally it was like “daddy?”
Me
"DO I LOOK LIKE-"
I'm sorry
That made my heart throb
I got more of a "Mama?" vibe. But that works too.
@@sho.thatsit Lol
The “freak” child and the human child are both the same story from their point of view. The child had a parent killed by the other side, and so did the “freak”
But the girl see her parent as a monster so, they don't do the same
@@andiworld in the video it shows/says that the younger monster drew the people of autodale as the monsters.
@@Zucchini05 I though this girl was from the "children toys" episode
@@andiworld That's a different girl.
I liked the parallel between the adult monster and Shadow where they had both lost an arm yet continued to fight to protect their little ones
"nothing gets in and nothing gets out" the little reminders they give us about how the city is like a prison but they dont yell it out just makes it so much more creepy
i find it horrifying and amazing that they turn real events into fiction just by making it a cartoon and comic series. entertaining the masses and not scaring them, but people cant say they aren’t giving news about events
The sad part is that the Freak was simply acting how a true mother would. Defending their child till the end
It's because they're actually just humans too, but autodale tells everyone that they're monsters and that they should be killed
Did... He/She *just* say "Help me?"
Edit: I've been wanting to cry whenever I remember this...
@@mikemagnus9447 you could just have used they
A true human *needs* to kill
A good human doesn’t need to kill
A pure of something, is the death of other.
@@ishakedice2212 fax broo
Ironically, it seemed like Shadow was more human than anyone else. I mean when hive didn’t send him into terminator mode
Y E S
That terminator mode seems like a plausible reaction from a human to a life or death situation. That's just fear and adrenaline to me.
That wasn't Hive. It was simply Shadow's robotic, ruthless side taking over when the Freak ripped his arm off
why does he look like nick Valentine a bit if nick was fixed up.....
@@maxgamer553 THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING
Finally skilled artist who doesn’t use their skills for *UNSPEAKABLE THINGS*
0:17 only after three/four years of this existing have i just realized that the moon's placement within the clouds here looks like a giant eye observing Autodale, with a second gap a little to the right forming the appearance of another. Absolutely astounding.
I like how they gave more personality to the people and the monsters
You can see it shine through too! I’m really glad he added such
Hello there
B R U H M O M E N T general kenobi!
B R U H M O M E N T You are weak and I have the high ground
I too am a bruh
"There are no monsters, citizens. Not in Autodale." gives off the EXACT SAME ENERGY as "There is no war in Ba Sing Sei."
that is because it is ba sing sei but isnt at the same time
Freak Avatar confirmed
"nothing gets through our walls"
exactly what i was thinking
Yes
We need a whole TV show with 4 to 5 seasons of this. I just want to see where this could lead.
5:24 the pain in mothers voice when she kindly said "I know"😢
Me: *Sees the sunset is another color other than gray.*
Me: “AND GOD SAID-“
SAME
Yep! Next color to the palette!
LETTHEREBELIGHT
ᴸᴱᵀ ᵀᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴮᴱ ᴸᴵᴳᴴᵀ
AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH AHHH E YAHHH EYAAAHHH AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. AH AHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHA AHHHHHHHHHH AHHAHAHHHH AHHH AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHAHHAHAHAH
It makes sense they’d create a vigilante, if they want to depict someone being a bit outside the rules, but still doing what’s good for society.
You can’t have a regular citizen in this role, because you don’t want the average person thinking that they can operate outside the system. Yet you also can’t have a Handyman in this role; imagine how scared people would be, if they thought a handyman had the ability to disobey, and do whatever it wanted.
So a cyborg is a nice middle ground, to settle on
True, but clearly he was also too subversive for the matriarchs' liking.
Big brain
Vs more brain
enough humanity to relate to him, but enough robot as to distance him from a citizen
I'm the 1k like!
I love how this series uses colour, normally red symbolises death/danger while yellow symbolises hope/curiosity, that's why there is so little of it.
I can't see any yellow.
Yoo the "Sometimes there are no good endings." marks Shadow's story really well. Such good foreshadowing.
“Hello Citizens of Autodale...” is both the most comforting and terrifying thing about this.
The freak will come to your nightmares
I agree for the reason that its comfortable that nothing has change but its terrifying for the same reason
It's weird how that is the most fearful part, while the freaks are the good guys
I feel like that's the point of the phraze. It's meant to feel just off enough to put us on edge, but still comfortable enough to be believable as Propaganda media.
The most Terrifying part is the enunciation
Everyone is forgetting about the "coat" the mother mentioned. She said he's much scarier with the coat. And in the pp tower we heard majority of the council come to a conclusion and say "give him the coat!". The coat could perhaps erase all human emotion and put him in a "shoot first, ask questions never" mode. The next episode we might see him wearing the coat and hunting the girl down.
Saeed Smith AMAZING THEORY
Saeed Smith This comment legit made me gasp. That would be so chilling to watch!
Pp tower LMAO
*pp tower*
*pp tower*
I like how he proceeds to shoot the beast several more times even after it’s dead for good measure
The rising sun brings color into the short, other than the bright red of blood, in my opinion it means that the girl is walking into a new more colorful world.
When the most human person in autodale is another robot, then you know this place is screwed
the human just cant do anything agains them, i havent watch the whole series but that what i see correct me if i'm wrong
Silver_ Sour oh they can, they just don’t because they believe it’s normal life to be killed off for disturbing the machine that is autodale
@@NatjoOfficial holy shit
Well technically cyborg the hive talks about how there's still organics in the friendly shadow
"Cyborg detective cowboy"
Yeah, a cyborg.
this would make a sweet game. A robot detective in a post apocalyptic world where he’s programmed to think the freaks are evil and he slowly realizes that they’re not and that the robots that are made to protect, are.
It would be like a cousin to the Fallout games because this gives me major fallout vibes with the robots and in fallout the synths and the city is reminiscent of many cities in the game. If you haven’t played a fallout game I’d recommend it if you like the idea of this in a similar game version
Detroit: become freaky
Reminds me of connor from detroit become human
Nick Valentine.
Kind of like Detroit become human plus fallout
Can we just appreciate that he put this masterpiece for free. Can we just appreciate that he put this masterpiece for free.
A truly horrifying picture of a dystopian world. I love it
"This isn't one of your cartoons, Shadow."
_Ironic._
I’m your 666 like :D
Reminds me of fallout new Vegas and the synths of of fallout 4
@@N1CKT00N Right? I was getting some serious Nick Valentine vibes from him.
Yah
Lol
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se. He we are safe. Here we are free."
"There are no monsters here. Not in autodale. Autodale is protected, Autodale is our home, and Autodale is safe.
Joe has invited you to Lake Autodale
@@stuffedcrust4441 And this Joe, would he happen to be JOE MAMA?!
-Dorothy Zbornak
And it has a giant hole in the wall
Oh damn
Judee
Yellow shows up twice. Once when the girl is bringing a candle to the young freak. And again when they leave together. Grayscale is the model of Autodale, red is what they don't want you to see, and yellow (at least... so far) is joy, discovery, genuine love, or otherwise just the unrealized positivity of these supposed "monsters".
Edit: After having seen the next one, "The Immortal Machine", I realize more what yellow is. I see it now. It's the girl walking off with the freak. (Spoilers ahead) It's the withering world of the "Forbidden Fairytale". Forbidden. Yellow is forbidden. Yellow is exactly what society and its overlords are avoiding. The girl isn't supposed to leave forever with a freak, it's something to be avoided. In the next one, the world wilting away like that is a horror seemingly worse than feeding the blood of the deceased to... that. It's something to be avoided. Yellow is the natural which they go out of their way to prevent, eliminate, and forget about.
I've recently discovered the Autodale series. Shadow is such an incredible figure, but the freaks are absolutely amazing. Maybe it's because I'm a cat person but a creature with claws, a tail, a growl and glowing eyes makes me want to go "pspsps" 😂
Cat-Person instincts.
The mother was scared for her child’s life. She knew that her child was going to die at the hands of the people she trusted. That’s horrific.
And morbidly fascinating. She wasn’t brainwashed, despite her society. Rlly odd
@@arsonhycan not necessarily, it was like she was but she was disillusioned when her husband was killed and her child was taken
@@minibat7169 I agree she was in shock and grief
Shilah Morris yes
I would say that maybe she always knew what their reality was, but it was the only thing she knew, so she didn’t really have much of a choice. She had to trust it, or at least follow the path laid out for her, because that is what she knew they expected of her.
I loved how the girl saw through the creature's appearance and looked for humanity in it.
It’s ironic how the humans show animosity and the animals show humanity in this dystopia
@@nightradiance7287 ^is it really ironic or thats how it really is
YEAHHH SAMEE
@@nightradiance7287 but isn't that the way it really is? the word humanity does not necessarily equate to humane.
"The mind of kids are more accepting of new things and change. The older humans, get the less accepting of change and fear it and with fear comes the rise of trickery, hostility, and an age of bloodshed" - me
The "monster" looks adorable, 10/10 would hug
OMG! "There's a lot more to these creatures than we thought..." ?? THAT'S CUZ THEY'RE PEOPLE!!!!!!! What a terrific series this is--absolutely incredible and full of truth, pathos, even hope (though not for the citizens of Autodale!) Just amazing. 💗
Robot voice in the beginning of the mission: the girl isnt your priority
Robot voice when shadow finds the monster: *FiNd ThE gIrL*
To be fair, the freak is already secured. So he moved on to his secondary objective.
I thought of it more as both distracting Shadow from killing the Freak while also moving on to Shadow's second objective as the comment above says
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! I paused the video at that part and went, “Wait, are you stupid? That’s precisely the opposite of what you said two minutes ago!”
PR. The 'tabloid heroics' are a lot more belivable if there are actual heroics to back them up.
@@ADAJ342 **gets his arm torn off from behind a minute later*
To be executed for something out of her control just underscores how twisted and punitive their society is.
Shadow's design as a flawed hero is really cool. Although his role is ultimately an exterminator, he is drawn towards benevolence and has a sense of morality. His cyborg status reflects his balance between puppet and protector.
Indeed. Not to mention the Freaks as well; even though they appear monstrous, very rarely do any of them actually show outright malicious intent unless attacked first (the adult one didn't attack the Friendly Shadow until *after* he threatened to shoot the younger Freak), much like any animal simply living its life. It's safe to assume that the father saw his daughter chilling with the Freak, screamed and attracted the Handymen who attacked the Freak under the biased assumption that weird = bad and the father was accidentally killed in the crossfire while the Freak merely defended itself.
Funny how Autodale expresses disgust for monstrous things when the city itself is controlled by unnatural, inhuman monsters.
the nature of authoritarian rule
in a stark contrast to our western world .. even if it seems like that freedom is crumbling lately (hate speech laws, cancel culture, abolishon of rights, ..)
@@mrreyes5004
I think it's more likely that the Handymen killed the father because he'd seen too much. Seems to be a pretty popular theory
We live in a society
@@ascottishgamerx9728 love how every other reply is serious then there's this
we need the freaks as marketable plushies.
Absolutely great. Watching this is like to breath fresh air in these times, when boring filler-shows just trying to copy each other. Fascinating. Love it.
I think the handymen killed the father and then the “Freak” attacked the handymen, given the differences between the man’s body and the handymen’s bodies. Also, the way the man seems to have been killed. If you remember one of the other films, they are killed by being knocked on the head and fall into a pit.
The screaming was probably from the little girl after the handyman killed her father, and then the freak killed the handyman. Two more come to the scene and damage it, but the freak kills them. The freak retreats and shadow is sent to find the girl.
True, you know the pit that the handyman hit the citizens over the head and they fall. The man was bleeding from his head. This theory is a theory I like a lot!
This theory is underrated, I love it.
Cool theory but i don't think its true since handymen is robotic and thus does not do stuff like that. They follow order like everyday and don't have intention to kill since they have the pit for "the ugly"
@@lazywibuuwu8467 Maybe the Handyman were ordered to kill the father because he saw the freak.
@@SergieXD but we have the pit such are what going to be the same with the mom.
They have the pit to take away the ugly so why the robot have to do anything at that moment?
*the moment when you see a different color than black, gray, white, and red*
WHERE I DIDN'T SEE IT
Sunshine at the end
@@Frisher1 It means someone's dead, blood is the only colored thing in the entire show, I think it's to highlight the pain.
@@Frisher1 There's some yellow to the light
Frisher Gisher plus candle at the beginning
I really like the main character, the look and feel of the overall animation, the realistic motion of the “monsters”, and the B&W motif. Great job, I’d be willing to watch a whole series, maybe even buy the comic books!!
Well good news, there are other animations within the Autodale series. Not all featuring the same main character, each focuses on new people within the world of Autodale.
Does anyone else get Nick valentine vibes from the 'friendly Shadow' guy?
the way the friendly shadow just “auto piloted” when he was attacked it was disturbing, like a brainwashing but since he’s a robot you can tell he was purposefully made to do that yeah it worked.. kinda. offense was not the only option and it was kinda important that he kept the creatures alive. it’s primitive and band aid sort of approach especially in a “perfect” society this is sadly very real
That wasn't auto-pilot. He was ordered to take the "monsters" alive. That seemed more like... the adreno-cortisol response
Take note of how they wanted to remove more of his humanity. I think the friendly shadow is moreso a cyborg. Like robocop. A human turned machine.
Well he could have a human brain downloaded into the robot sense the motherboards in guess said that he has little humanity in him so yeah it guess
that made him more human to me because it was an attack out of anger and it was clearly emotional maybe when he was attacked that actually freed him up a bit
@@tamonk9054 Detroit: Become Human
The lady’s in the pp tower took control of him when he shot the beasts. You can tell because sparks came from him before and after shot the beasts, as to symbolize that they took away his humanity and gave it back.
his mouth also wasn't moving when he was speaking when they had control of him.
pp tower
thanks captain obvious
pp tower
@@kasakro9829 nice
David - this is absolutely fabulous! I just want you to know that. The characters, story and animation are brilliant.
Nick Valentine in a parallel, still dystopian, universe
Awesome animation btw 👍
Robot lady: The child is not your priority
Robot lady 5 minutes later: GET THE CHILD BACK TO HER PARENTS
Yup XD I noticed the inconsistency the first time I watched it
I think that might be the very clash of the bunch of minds that make up HIVE...
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 I'd say its more like they needed to tie up loose ends. If they had assumed the child dead, and she turned up back in Autodale on her own somehow, that would be bad. They sent him down to secure the freak and confirm the child's death.
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 I am pretty sure the robot lady said that because her parents where dead or going to be so -that means bring her to death
Well the freck was taken care of
"Hello, citizens of Autodale..."
_bursts violently through a wall_
*_Whomst'd've summoned the prettiest one?_*
*Whomst has chosen the chosen one?*
"There are no monsters here."
Meanwhile, in the totally not foreboding spire outside the window:
After the attack when the sonic tv show was announced kinda shows the amount of attacks that have happened subtle yet noticeable
Friendly shadow really said:
"The hive has elected a dicision but seeing as it's a stupid decision, I have elected to ignore it"
_give him the coat_
AND GET THIS MAN A COAT
The only not stupid thing they have said is “give him the coat” cause he would look cool in a coat
@@isarki09 The coat is what takes away his humanity.
@@ellal3554 understandable, coats make everyone look like a god
"She doesnt draw it like a monster... her parents tho." Hit me hard.
“Oh my…”
Didn't the 'freak' draw those?
@@ileanabriannemariR/hol up
Bro it was the kid freak that drew the drawings
You can see a pen in its hand
@@mrawesomecool8191 So that's what it was.
The whole time I had a mixture of "METROPOLIS-" and Halloween-feelings. The mood of this video is braethtaking. Many thanks to you & the complete team for this brilliant way of working! Hollywood-like! :-)
You have a mind and product that makes it fun to get stoned and watch these. I'm 70. Thanks.
I feel like the ending is in complete opposite to “Don’t Feed The Freaks” because at the end it is seen as freedom and hope as in DFTF the person attempts to find Autodale and get out of the same ‘freedom’ that the girl and ‘Freak’ receive in the end.
I think she’ll have to be exposed beyond Autodale for a bit before that happens
I want the girl in the end to get an army of freaks and will kill everyone in autodale
@@jameslamberton7671 thats quite dark eh?
@@donutlovingwerewolf8837 This world is already VERY dark so not too far off.
@@astronic9979 Point taken...
Idk if this is just me, but when the Friendly Shadow was shooting the adult freak, his eyes were glowing just like the handymans’. He was ruthless with no emotion at all and then he was about to kill the child freak when his eyes returned to normal and he let them both go.
I just though that was a really cool detail
Yes it was, It seems like they took a human and put various robot parts into him, or maybe the other way around, point is they made him so that the citizens of Autodale could feel safe with a human like figure with emotion around. And it seems to have worked but not like they expected.
Nope not just you
@@Maieveryday2 I agree. supporTed by the chatter in the matriarch tower discussing the fact that if they replace anymore of his broken parts with machine then he is hardly human
I think that effect is either there to symbolize that he is controlled. Also he shaked a few times with lightnings around him as someone is turning switches.
Gacha n chill yeah the shadow that was cast across his eyes made him strikingly similar to the monster kid’s drawing of a handyman, showing that in that moment he was not acting like a human would, but rather, like a handyman
I would pay SO MUCH for a well made video game set in this world where you play as Shadow as he uncovers the secrets of Autodale
As I spend hundreds of hours down these damn rabbit holes, it's RARE that I stop for a BRILLIANT video, storyline that is ORIGINAL, ARTWORK that is SUPERB, Animation that beggars description and allows me to thoroughly ENJOY a fantastic piece of film. You are brilliant and deserve far more exposure than you have. I will tell all my other subterranean friends to check out your work. BRAVI!
This is the first sueccessful act of Rebellion we ever see against Autodale. And i'm really hoping it won't be the last.
Need to be cautious though, remember what happened to "Town" in the previous episodes. They seemed to have gone down fighting their handymen and there isnt anything or anyone left.
The creator also sait that there will be no uprising in autodale because everyone's "happy" there, the adults do their roles and the children will mildly be brainwashed by being reassured everything is fine
@@notad-class3899 i mean the only logical way a revolt could happen would be if it happens within like we just saw with friendly shadow
@@notad-class3899 if he does do a revolt, because stories are organic things that ever change, I see it more realizing the world is so broken and desolate they were 'better off' staying ignorate and blind. A very pyrrhic and hollow victory
Definitely agree, I hope that David armsby will continue with this theme!
(Wow I sound like I’m in school)
Can we just appreciate that the girl giving the freak a slice of cake is a callback to the original artwork?
I also wanted to point that out
I think it's a great detail!
Yeah I was really excited when I saw the little girl and the cake!
Why not turkey, why waste.pig meat on ham instead of bacon
I was looking for this for awhile now.
Wow.... this was amazing.
The story is riveting, the animation is extremely well done. About to check out the rest in the series
I'm just blown away...you should be very proud of your work.
i don’t know why i love Autodale stories so much. it’s really a special and awesome series - and there is so much human emotion in the stories. thank so very much for creating it and for the incredible thought and creativity you’ve put into it.
the Shadow is an eloquent and beautiful character, string, vulnerable, caring. he’s like a western hero - he’s like Shane. 🥀🌵
(i do hope you’ve seen that movie. he’s one of the classic western heroic figures.)
The little girl offering the “freak” cake is reminiscent of the drawing that inspired this whole thing. Also, when the hive asked Friendly Shadow “what a warped perception of reality, right?” I think it’s interesting how he doesn’t respond
The only one with allowed to have a modicum of humanity is able to see through the facade that is forcibly blinding everyone else so that they can maintain their power
Think about how that applies to us. Humans always think they're right, whether it be the military or terrorist.
the monsters see Autodale as Autodale sees the monsters
He didn’t respond because he’d clearly been having doubts. He didn’t just believe what Autodale tried to portray; instead of taking the lies at face value, he chose to look deeper, and that ended up being a fatal mistake in the hive mind.
Its also ironic
Anyone else interested that the woman during the interview said “You look less scary without the coat” and the hive at the end repeated “the coat, give him the coat!” Does the coat represent the loss of his humanity and compassion, and instead resembling more of an unsympathetic detective? Also, the commercialization of Shadow showing how he’s used as a puppet? Idk lol
that's the point
Get atta my head
No no meaning
As an English teacher i can confirm that's exactly what the coat represents, and you are in no way reading into it too much.
Yeah, I want to see what happens with that too
Honestly, this should be on Netflix or any TV streaming service. Such high quality videos are too good for just TH-cam.
I love characters like this that grapple between their human and machine selves, characters LIKE the Friendly Shadow, Nick Valentine from Fallout 4, and hell even some versions of RoboCop.. seems like the trope works very well for a half machine detective/police officer.
*”There are no monsters in Autodale.”*
Mhm, and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Edit: I keep getting people saying I stole this- there are surely several ATLA fans in the comments who had the same idea, folks. A lot of us probably thought the same thing; even the ones who didn’t comment. Please don’t bicker or start anything.
Omg I was just thinking that
YES
Weemo The Veemo don’t call the “freaks” monsters they are just trying to live in peace
J Kiddo dude, it’s a quote from the video...
OMG. I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING
I love the detail of the girl giving the “Freak” a piece of cake like the drawing that started “Being pretty”
"Don't Feed the Freaks"
ikrrrrr
It was modelled to look just like it so lol
It's called a "freak"
That was probably them grown up. Did anyone notice the freak in the original drawing had a scar on his shoulder, like where the baby got shot?
God this is terrifying, Outlawed Dissent, the British 1950's look of the town, it's almost as if tensions during the Cold war flared into creating this horrifying world.
This things is like one of the coolest I've found... it's depth makes me wonder whether here is all it features at!! Great work @DeadSound
We don't know a lot, bit we do know one thing: he's a lot less scary without the coat.
Yes. That is probably a important part of the story, I feel like it will come back
That a fact
Im not shure about that maybe if it was said in the short film i could agree with you
i agree
You speak for yourself there Mate !!
Freaking Robot wearing a "cowboy" type outfit, Plus "Big Ass" Gun = Scary Robot to Me !!
On top of Which - they makes Comix, Books and Shows from It's (FS) Real life Investigations !
And then top it off with 3 Borg Queens at the End !
I Call Scary AF!!
Even more sad and terrifying when you realize in “Don’t Feed the Freaks”, the monsters were established to be people, who are unrecognizable as humans to the citizens of Autodale because they were from outside of the city.
If the people are told monsters are not real, then how did they condition people to see them as monsters.
How is it able to rip steel like its nothing.
"Don't Feed the Freaks" guy was a freak the entire time. He just didn't realize or maybe once was human. He lost him memory and likely suffered some kind of insanity. Its more likely one freak thinks he's human than 1000 human see people as the same giant monster.
@@josephcourtright8071 I agree more with your theory than the theories that the freaks are actually humans and the freak body is the illusion. It just makes more sense that some freaks might have a form of mental state that causes them to see themselves as human rather than the other way around.
Akari Enderwolf I really like this interpretation! But even more so, what if freaks are humans who started out as totally normal humans, but when they get to the “weird stuff” the narrator describes outside, they slowly start to morph and change into freaks, but they don’t realize that’s happening. Like some kind of supernatural radiation that turns you into a monster? Creepy.
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Jessica Fisher this has been my assumption too
Not only does this need to be an animated series, it needs to be a game. It would be so cool!
If you have overwhelming empathy levels please don't watch this. The bit with the baby freak is killing me
*Clicks video:* "This video is probably going to be 4 minutes long...."
*Looks at how long it is:* "OH MY GOD YES."
Dude same its soooooo goood
So true
What?
@@medical-cyanide1526 I meant that, when I clicked on this video I thought that the film would be about 4 minutes long, but when I looked at how long it was it was 18 minutes long. (I was happy about it lmao
@@indublick8568 Nice pfp lmao
Oh thank god, one where an "imperfect" human actually _survives_
DezAmmySel My left foot has a birth defect so, I agree, Glad to see an imperfect person live!
Its going in a direction
I feel like those who are aware of what horrible place they live in are the excepcional ones, as we saw a woman in another video running and she was classified as “excepcional”, and put with the hive mind
@Jonathan Desrosiers not in reality, but according to the handymen
Honestly, I have at least 3 reasons why I’d be killed pretty much immediately so yeah I’m pretty glad too
Getting some Deathclaw vs. Detective Valentine vibes here
The story is so fluid, so perfect, so pretty. as are the visuals.
am I the only one who saw the girl with the birthday cake and was like
“OH THATS THE THING!! THATS THE DRAWING!!”
No I saw that too! I started freaking out.
Same here!
Same bro.
I said that too!
Same here
Autodale returns with monsters and robots
2020: write that down
Lets just hope the government does not watch this
Georgie A they probs have
Let’s not give 2020 any ideas...
@@blocked9129 sadly yes
No robots or monsters in 2020
This was Amazing! I'm working my way through all your films and your art style and sound design are just amazing. Thank you so much for this!