nothing about this animation is simple. animation takes incredible time and skill, even with simple character models. One thing I hate most about the anime fandom (not saying you do this) but they act like animation is easy somehow. Even this animation with simple character models is incredibly difficult and requires a life time of experience.
because it's so "simple" , there is a lot of clarity and smoothness of the action , it flow and it doesn't get overwhelming in a sense you get bombarded with colors and blurs, but by motion and intent , a thing that kinda make me think some anime just feel high quality but in truth it's just a sensory fog that make you unable to process and make you think"Wow it's impressive" , sometimes it work well and make sense, like when you want to give the feeling that what you are seeing is beyond your ability to perceive, but at time it just feel bad and short cutty
The problem is that part 1 wasnt just references but straight up 1:1 copied. Almost everything was copied from different anime and other stick animations. But he more than redeemed himself with part 2 which was all selfmade with a small team.
At 4:45 you just explained demon slayer tengen vs gyutaro, which is one of the best fights i have seen without actually anything understandable happening in that, its just colors and flashes bit woth the music it was epic
he realizes, he's playing dumb so he can fake his reaction when he gets there he's reacted to madara's theme and cjdachamp's madara video late last year
4:24 "I understand what you mean; it's called martial arts choreography. You'll find it in the anime Naruto; in other anime, the fights are more like discotheques, colorful but lacking martial arts finesse, relying solely on superpowers without any martial arts artistry."
With Nick talking about fighting animation being fluid and the RWBY OST. Makes me want to see him react to things Monty Oum has been involved with. Haloid, Dead Fantasy, and of course RWBY. RIP to the god animator that was Monty Oum.
I read the first half and I was like "wtf?" Then I read the rest and, I totally agree, this looks like something drawn by a corpse, don't hire this man
3:14 is actually a reanimated madara vs the shinobi alliance, thats why he made combat gods 2 because people were shitting on him for "not being able to make his own animations" then he cooked and proved them all wrong
That, the bridge scene, eldest uncles vs Sanchu, or Xuan vs Wrath would all be gas. Lin Hun is easily the best action animator alive rn when it comes to choreography and pacing.
If you like the OST used throughout most of the fight it's from a show called RWBY, created by Monty Oum from Rooster Teeth. He was the one who created "Haloid" way back in OG TH-cam and was a god tier animator. The first 2 seasons of RWBY were worked on by him before he passed away and the fight scenes in those seasons are crazy good with amazing OST to back them up. Definitely give the show a watch sometime or even do a reaction to it.
The problem is that this took 3 years to make, and it’s a single fight. But what’s even harder for anime is that this has not much details apart from movement and little effects. Animating real characters, facial expressions, clothes movement and area details is sooo long that it’s quite impossible to have that much quality for an anime, or you’d have to wait more than a decade.
It didn't take 3 years to make, more like months considering jhanzou said he'll stop animating for a while after a lot of hates received for copying Naruto's animations, the second part has no copied but more like inspired, although aside from that you're right, doing stickman animation is easier than a detailed character fighting
Only till Combat Gods did people realise how cool these stickfigure fights are. I still remember the haydays of Stickpage and seeing individual projects like Killing Spree, Shock, and etc. Then all the Hyun's Dojo people pinning their oc's together and these animations were always so good - choreographed so well and this media is being recognized by more and more people. To those interested in this, check out animators like GildedGuy or just look at the collabs and animators participating under Hyun's Dojo.
Alan Becker was probably the guy you watched originally and the series he made is called animator vs animation. I really recommend watching it all from start to finish.
I honestly have no doubt if this Combat God was only an intro for an actual one with actual story line. But instead it will be more focused on Red and not Yellow, and we will get to finally see why Red desires to Get something from the higher dimensional beings(Gods) through his fight with Yellow
the creator took scenes from various anime and basically cut and pasted the fight sequences and chained them together. he admitted to this in another video and apologized. since then he has made a second original video that is also impressive.
i think i got a theory about Jun (the red one) notices that Jun after winning doesnt looks hurt its because he can give the pain to his clones because everytime he got damaged he used his clones to give the pain to the clones, Jun is a genious and about shinji (the Yellow one) he cannot heal himself because he cannot create clones like you see after he defeat Jun on the 1st combat gods video he walk out wounded not like Jun
Actually Red didn't kill Yellow's family and clan, basically wrong Red Fighting but with only hatred usually hard to win against someone who have better reason of fighting
A bit off topic, but Neil Kaplan did an amazing job with Madara's "reality" speech, and just as Madara in general 🔥🔥 Madara, The Ghost of The Uchiha, is *HIM*
I love the redemption, the animator totally made up for it on part 2, but knowing part 1 was traced makes the things said so much funnier. Let me be clear I love all of this persons work. The controversy was more than made up for.
alan becker has stickman vs animation the main time line(main canon), the shorts timeline(second canon) and the vs that is its own canon (vs math and vs physics are examples)
stick fight of the old man with the red and blue katana was the first awesome stick fight i saw, it is very old and i don't know why he did press the self destruct button at the end, rip.
As soon as you heard the instrumental for "Red Like Roses" kick off, you had to know it was going to go crazy.
RWBY is mid (I used to be a fan) but the music is so fucking good
Same with supercharger, that song is just legendary
That's what happened in my head when I used to play with toys
relatable
Fr man literally when I play toys I imagine it in my head like jun and shinji
This guy is a master at impact frames, you really feel every hit.
Now imagine , incredible VA , and a story with emotion on the side , it's a testament that animation can be "simple" yet world shattering
That would be awesome
nothing about this animation is simple. animation takes incredible time and skill, even with simple character models. One thing I hate most about the anime fandom (not saying you do this) but they act like animation is easy somehow. Even this animation with simple character models is incredibly difficult and requires a life time of experience.
@@FlingGibstopper I typed "simple" with the " " on purpose , it's just like the guy say in this video th-cam.com/video/RB5jhvmeRb4/w-d-xo.html
This has already been proven true by alan becker. Who knew stickmen could express more emotion than most hollywood films?😂
That’s just Naruto at that point
14:13 i never imagined madara's speech its incredible
Madara voice acted innit
because it's so "simple" , there is a lot of clarity and smoothness of the action , it flow and it doesn't get overwhelming in a sense you get bombarded with colors and blurs, but by motion and intent , a thing that kinda make me think some anime just feel high quality but in truth it's just a sensory fog that make you unable to process and make you think"Wow it's impressive" , sometimes it work well and make sense, like when you want to give the feeling that what you are seeing is beyond your ability to perceive, but at time it just feel bad and short cutty
It's exactly the reason why JJK changed artstyle for season 2
Also in "Combat gods" the camera angle mostly stay the same in the view that would make the fight easier to consume
Stickman era when I was younger was wild. I was on stickpage 24/7 😭🙏
Yessir
No kidding I also did that in school😂
It's cool to see so many Naruto references. The choreographers at Studio Pierrot were crazy good!
did you know? people hate this back then because of the references didnt get credits.
@@Choi_seon_jae hmm, havent they put them in the description?
the part 1 didn't put credits in the desc and people started blasting hates to it@@UNKNOWNL3G3ND
The problem is that part 1 wasnt just references but straight up 1:1 copied. Almost everything was copied from different anime and other stick animations. But he more than redeemed himself with part 2 which was all selfmade with a small team.
@@eggsbarte7446 i guess that valid, though ig it's okay to use inspiration in sort of small projects, atleast till u acknowledge that
MY DAY JUST GOT BETTER I’M SO HAPPY HES REACTING TO THIS LETS GOOOO🔥🔥🔥🔥
At 4:45 you just explained demon slayer tengen vs gyutaro, which is one of the best fights i have seen without actually anything understandable happening in that, its just colors and flashes bit woth the music it was epic
bro wait till you find out the most used word phrase in that whole season was "flashy"... said by tengen
Compared to King vs. Zoro's fight, Tengen and Gyutaro's fight looks clearer. 😅
It’s so funny that Nick is hearing madaras dub va at 14:20 and doesn’t even realize
he realizes, he's playing dumb so he can fake his reaction when he gets there
he's reacted to madara's theme and cjdachamp's madara video late last year
@@AStixMatism Alternatively, hey may in fact also just be forgetful or dumb as you say. It's not unlike him to forget things to be quite honest.
he even say he dk who tf madara is🤣🤣
I never expect him to react to this masterpiece, this is like something I never knew I needed.
4:24 "I understand what you mean; it's called martial arts choreography. You'll find it in the anime Naruto; in other anime, the fights are more like discotheques, colorful but lacking martial arts finesse, relying solely on superpowers without any martial arts artistry."
That's why I prefer Naruto over One Piece or Bleach; in terms of martial arts choreography, Naruto is God tier
Was* I prefer bleach cause it has more nuance and Naruto fell tf off later in shippuden@@ans5516
The focus the animator has for sound gives me fire force vibes
them using madara’s voice and speech was amazinggg🤲🏽🙌🏽 you’ll figure out who he is soon nic
With Nick talking about fighting animation being fluid and the RWBY OST. Makes me want to see him react to things Monty Oum has been involved with. Haloid, Dead Fantasy, and of course RWBY. RIP to the god animator that was Monty Oum.
Add Red vs blue to the list too.
I thought I heard red like roses!
Dead fantasy, absolutely. That one is phenomenal, albeit a bit "controversial" and incomplete.
"As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist." I don't know why, but that line hits unbelievably hard.
When I heard Madara's speech in this video, I got chills
Crazy how yellow got a whole flashback and awakening and still lost the second time
this animation sucksss(im trynna save him from mappa)
I’m deadd😂
Keep him from that promotion
True, the animation is soooooo bad.
I read the first half and I was like "wtf?" Then I read the rest and, I totally agree, this looks like something drawn by a corpse, don't hire this man
agreed
13:21 i like how Nicholas just timed that with the bang😂😂
this is pov the guy who only max agilty vs the one who max all stats
This is fucking INSANE 🔥
I always think about how much cooler this would be if he made a Japanese dubbed version along with English in case people want eng dub
4:05 " stick wick "
Bro 🤣
There's a TON of animators who do this kind of thing and they're amazing
Ooooooh! Epic video yay
Also backstory voice is madaras english dub from naruto
This whole animation makes me wanna go super saiyan
5 seconds in ...
*YAP* *BEGINS*
3:14 is actually a reanimated madara vs the shinobi alliance, thats why he made combat gods 2 because people were shitting on him for "not being able to make his own animations" then he cooked and proved them all wrong
Now I need to see his reaction to Red Like Roses 2.
Found it.
@@Victim-Twowhere is it
Someone should recommend Nick the...
"Fog Hill of Five Elements, Xuan and Jing vs Shanchu".
That fight was dope
On second season of fog hill of five elements,animation is pretty sick🫴🍷🗿
That, the bridge scene, eldest uncles vs Sanchu, or Xuan vs Wrath would all be gas. Lin Hun is easily the best action animator alive rn when it comes to choreography and pacing.
If you like the OST used throughout most of the fight it's from a show called RWBY, created by Monty Oum from Rooster Teeth. He was the one who created "Haloid" way back in OG TH-cam and was a god tier animator. The first 2 seasons of RWBY were worked on by him before he passed away and the fight scenes in those seasons are crazy good with amazing OST to back them up. Definitely give the show a watch sometime or even do a reaction to it.
I watched this shit with "you say run" from MHA playing background, and it was one of the most epic things that i've seen in my life
if you find THIS amazing just imagine how blown away youd be if you didnt pause every 5 seconds...
This is what I have been expecting for months finallyhhhuhuhgfddvsc
it is a fight without a story , imagine what will be the backstory
That wolf fang fist scene was my favorite
3:02 he was for like trowing up gang signs preparing for the "BURNING ATTACK!"
The problem is that this took 3 years to make, and it’s a single fight. But what’s even harder for anime is that this has not much details apart from movement and little effects. Animating real characters, facial expressions, clothes movement and area details is sooo long that it’s quite impossible to have that much quality for an anime, or you’d have to wait more than a decade.
It didn't take 3 years to make, more like months considering jhanzou said he'll stop animating for a while after a lot of hates received for copying Naruto's animations, the second part has no copied but more like inspired, although aside from that you're right, doing stickman animation is easier than a detailed character fighting
Yes finally this reaction is here, i love the stickman fights are to epic
If you like this ,try watching 'Imitation Collab', the fight sync with the music is top tier in that
"shout out to Bruce Lee, is he in here?" 😂😂😂
POV : When john wick hears about someone killing a dog
bro finally i had recommend this to you soooo long ago multiple times
Only till Combat Gods did people realise how cool these stickfigure fights are.
I still remember the haydays of Stickpage and seeing individual projects like Killing Spree, Shock, and etc. Then all the Hyun's Dojo people pinning their oc's together and these animations were always so good - choreographed so well and this media is being recognized by more and more people.
To those interested in this, check out animators like GildedGuy or just look at the collabs and animators participating under Hyun's Dojo.
The Stick man you probably saw as a kid was "Xiao Xiao stickiman fighting" I remember that to as well, specially the cool gun and knive play.
Basically the fight you make up in your head according to the song youre listening to
"Yeah bro, I'm twelve" love it 😂
Alan Becker was probably the guy you watched originally and the series he made is called animator vs animation. I really recommend watching it all from start to finish.
I honestly have no doubt if this Combat God was only an intro for an actual one with actual story line.
But instead it will be more focused on Red and not Yellow, and we will get to finally see why Red desires to Get something from the higher dimensional beings(Gods) through his fight with Yellow
About time he reacted to it
This is exactly my reaction when I first saw combat gods:
Watching the fight with all the clones and having it match the Free Bird’s guitar solo is an eargasm
SpongeBob when he takes some change for himself
Mr. crabs:
damn i remember watching those again and again years ago, also you should watch the trailers for backstory as for why they figthing
The music is from a show called RWBY and I highly recommend checking out its OST. Nearly every so g is a banger
The rune circle the totem comes out of is the same rune circle in the dark magician artworks from yugioh
I hate how the comments are basically hating on this guy. He spent years making this, it’s not like you could do better.
Is the OST Red Like Roses from the RWBY trailer but just a cover?
yeah it is 🔥
Damn,my boy been watching all the classics on TH-cam 😂
BRO I NEVER KNEW RED LIKE ROSES WAS USED FOR A SONG IN THIS
“yeah bro, im 12.” LMAO💀💀
We've gotta get this guy to watch da sassy owl kj fight lol
the creator took scenes from various anime and basically cut and pasted the fight sequences and chained them together. he admitted to this in another video and apologized. since then he has made a second original video that is also impressive.
sorry wrote that without properly reading the title of the video. Combat gods II was the second video and came out a few years after the first
6:52 was cool
did I make you look?
There is a Chinese animation out there that has many scenes very similar to this video called
Fire Vs Ice | Fog Hill Of The Five Elements
the fights in link click r also 🔥🔥🔥
The red one is trying to save his brother and the yellow is trying to save his trip
if you like this, you should watch the kj series and also the red guy has a character in a roblox game that's based off him
The people working at mappa seeing this: 👁️ 👄 👁️…… FIND THIS MAN NOW!
i think i got a theory about Jun (the red one) notices that Jun after winning doesnt looks hurt its because he can give the pain to his clones because everytime he got damaged he used his clones to give the pain to the clones, Jun is a genious
and about shinji (the Yellow one) he cannot heal himself because he cannot create clones like you see after he defeat Jun on the 1st combat gods video he walk out wounded not like Jun
Actually Red didn't kill Yellow's family and clan, basically wrong Red
Fighting but with only hatred usually hard to win against someone who have better reason of fighting
i just realized they were playing red like roses omg
'fight happening, too much stuff happening and you cant see it '
almost every fight in jjk shibuya
I think the two stick that you saw is Shock 1
A bit off topic, but Neil Kaplan did an amazing job with Madara's "reality" speech, and just as Madara in general 🔥🔥
Madara, The Ghost of The Uchiha, is *HIM*
2:08 wait…the move that yellow guy hit the knife, just like kakashi and Obito ‘s fight？？
Mustard vs Ketchup
There was also stickman animation, but Counter Strike. Me.and my homies bing watching them when we were still in elementary school.
Now look at some of Shuriken255. In-sync collaborations. So satisfying
0:47 AvA is so peak can’t wait for tomorrow
I love the redemption, the animator totally made up for it on part 2, but knowing part 1 was traced makes the things said so much funnier. Let me be clear I love all of this persons work. The controversy was more than made up for.
Sounds were on point the whole time though
you should watch "Fog hill of the five elements" the fight scene just god tier
The only thing about the OST is that I doubt the got the rights to use music from RWBY.
alan becker has stickman vs animation the main time line(main canon), the shorts timeline(second canon) and the vs that is its own canon (vs math and vs physics are examples)
Well, if we're talking about stickmen fights with story, you should watch Apocalypse Day
I've looked moves from anime shows and some do work effectively in a actual fight
this is the type of dude not to bring to a movie night
"Shout to Bruce Lee, is he in here?" bro what 💀
It's like your lego character from childhood animated
3:00 Jun doing a handstand
Yoo Nick is the stick figure you watch when your a kid has a tournamet of fighter ?
stick fight of the old man with the red and blue katana was the first awesome stick fight i saw, it is very old and i don't know why he
did press the self destruct button at the end, rip.
Now he gotta watch Animator vs Animation
Ps: Madara ( the guys who did that wake up to reality speech in the second one) was the main villain of naruto
When i watch this Naruto just flows at the back of my head😂
Because they are mostly copied from naruto shippuden
Shit that happens in my head while in school:
I love watching people react to combat gods but do watch it myself…
I need anime thats animated like this