I've been waiting for this work since last year. I’m 55 y.o. old man. But I can't stop crying as I remember myself 40 years ago. Thank you and Congratulations on your graduation!
"Maybe we should stop being friends". That moment of being hurt by a situation and the only feeling you have is to make things worse by spiting yourself. That hit too hard.
The biggest compliment I have to give is that you're amazing at creating atmosphere with colours, and you know just the right ones to use for lighting.
This broke my heart into tiny pieces and then proceeded to duct tape it back together again. (This animation is amazing the colors are so vibrant like a childhood memory❤)
I've been waiting for this, and boy was it worth it! This is amazing! The story, the animation, the music, the voice acting are all so well done, and Kai and Leo's dynamic is so wholesome and adorable! I especially loved that little teaser at the end! Giving us assurance that they reunite when they're older! I would absolutely love to see more of these two!
Can't believe it's the same two from your other film! It's a bit nostalgic seeing Kai and Leo again after all this time, it feels like growing up with them a bit xD Glad to see they're still in each other's lives, no matter what.
OH MY GOSHHHHHH THE LAST TWO SHOTS PLEASEEE OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THE BABIES ALL GROWN UP i've fallen in love with these characters. and this art feels like a warm summer afternoon in childhood, so so extremely strongly. and i'm just obsessed. such a great job. such incredible work.
In another video which is a little older, we see Kai was dreaming of the other boy (I forgot his name) and there are lots of little hearts around!! So yes, I think that too 🥹💕
I get what your saying, and I’m not claiming to know what the creator(s) had in mind, but don’t you think people should be allowed to care deeply for another person without that feeling being romantic? I have seen this with both straight and gay pairings in media where the fandom or show ships two characters just because they care about each other. It happens in shows, like star verses the forces of evil. Where characters share a connection with each other and people mess up the relationship by making it romantic. I believe regardless of age and gender that people should be able to share a deep connection with another person without it being romantic. Sorry if this got deep, this really is a cute video regardless of the meaning behind it. 😅
Yeah I kinda agree with your point but in an older video Kai was dreaming about the Leo guy and there were hearts and butterflies and everything around Leo’s face 😭😭
@@LazyBoatAnimatics have you seen.. what theyre talking about like he was daydreaming about him and it seemed to be.. very romantic like th-cam.com/video/yM1X-njGl6Q/w-d-xo.html
This captures such a real and intense feeling that I personally and probably many others have felt. The ending, to me, somehow adds a dimension of time to it as well - as intense as it feels, to be separated from a friend by distance, especially for the first time, it can also be such a fleeting fear as the friendship grows into something that even geography can't shake. This was both heartbreaking and healing to watch, thank you for sharing
I remember watching Summer Roads and loving the plot and art style, so when I saw this was a continuation of those characters and their story I was so excited to watch this! Amazing work once again!!!!
This feels like weaponized whimsy (im using whimsy instead of childhood because i believe these emotions can happen at any age and im not using nostalgia cuz nostolgia is a bi-product of your memory making the past seem better than what it really was like.) The background music is calm The colours feel pure The relationship between the characters is so close This feels like the anti-thesis of stressful, polluted shallow-bonds life. This feels like the idealisation people think back to with nostolgia That investment of course then leads to the audience being invested in the climax The only thing i can comment on about the climax is that im interested in how it wasnt a problem that had to be solved, it waa a problem that had to be endured. And thus we were see these characters lives change. We were seeimg these characters gtown and live their lives
This happened to me and my best friend. God I was so sad, and she promised to keep in touch. But she did and now years later, we're even closer than we were growing up.
i loved the weather matching the moods of the scenes and the lighting and the time skip at the end made me so happy bc i was rooting hard for them. simple and likeable characters ate and left no crumbs
Beautiful work ❤. I love the little beat at the end. An acquaintance once told me “adult friendships are so hard to navigate.” And it’s so true. That’s why I don’t have any. But I loved this short film.
surprisingly managed to pop up in my feed again!! i really love the story and relationship between the two, and the art makes my heart feel so light and warm
i knew this was something familiar from the first film, two kids on a bus and goes on adventures together. Im so glad we get to see more of them. Love this story and the animation ❤
We all have been waiting for this and Im really happy. I love your work so much. I hope Leo's and Kai's story will continue with all the emotions. You worked hard, and every single person who worked on this. Was worth waiting, thank youu💗💗
I remember watching "Summer Roads" when it just came out and it touched me a lot. It made me wanna explore the world and make new friends. I'm not that much older now, but your films reawaken the child in me. I love the atmosphere of all of them, I hope you make it far someday
Man, this hits so hard in the feels, especially now as the weather warms and summer nears. The background scenes were so pretty! I can see how much love was put into it. It really takes me back to the summers in the early 2000s when our main sources of entertainment were reading books and playing outside LOL. I started thinking about my friends who I used to play with in my neighborhood before I moved away in elementary school-some of whom I’ve been able to reunite with and some of whom I don’t think I’ll ever see again-and I lowkey started tearing up thinking about how quickly time’s flown and things have changed, haha. I loved the attention to detail and symbolism in here so much too! The sound design was so good!! Like especially the sounds of nature and the clanking of their footsteps as they climbed the plane. I noticed that the plane was the same as the one Leo had as a toy in one of your prior short films too! That was such a cute callback, haha. I’m so glad I finally got around to watching your film after work today. 🥲 THE WORLD IS SO MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL WITH YOUR ART IN IT. 😭 I’M SO PROUD OF YOU, TIFFANY!! CONGRATS ON GRADUATING!!! ❤️
Thank you for peeling away my many years, I got to go back to the magic of boyhood and the feel of a best friend. It touched all my senses somehow even the smell of his room. For me keeping my boy alive and close by has made life richer especially as I watched my own sons growing up often piled in a heap like pups. Kia and Leo are tender creatures, I'm glad you introduced me to the boys and their beauty.
OMG this is genuinely amazing! The intention behind the characters is incredibly well portrayed, the story and emotions are realistic and super well-handled in general, and the use of space and color is just fantastic!! This is genuinely really really good, you should be proud!!!!
i just found your channel today and you're already one of my favorite artist ever. i've fallen in love with these characters and the cozy feeling of your animations ( i watched this one today and immediately went to watch your other videos). you're way of storytelling has captured my heart. this has made my day, truly it has.
this was so beautiful and the emotion conveyed through the story was incredible! it has such a ghibli esque feel to it that is really comforting. great work!
this is so special. ur an amazing storyteller and i’ve enjoyed all ur animations of these two throughout the years! congrats on graduating and i hope u will continue to share what u will make next :]
Such an elegant and simplistic work! I really like the colours and framing here, and it's also cool how you accented Kai's loneliness and isolation with the spaces where they ran and laughed, now being empty And the story is nice too, im surprised but it actually brought a tear to my eye, in such a short time Great animated movie!
Im 26 years old and i usually dont get emotional over fictional stuff but as someone who moved around alot growing up due to my parents job and losing many friends because of it this made me cry. Beautiful work, thank you for creating this.
i never expected one of my favourite TH-cam animations to get a sequel, I've literally used the first one as animation/stylistic reference in my digi arts class
This is giving me some ghibli and luca vibes, and I think thats a good thing... :) Also the sound design?! Voice acting?? Its amazing...🥹 Something about your animation is just comforting and beautiful. ❤
STOP. STOP BC THE TEARS WERE ALREADY FALLING. AND THEN YOU HAD TO HIT ME WITH THOSE LAST TWO SECONDS. IM AUDIBLY SOBBING. this is so beautiful. thank you 😭IM SCREAMING AGRFGRGR
This hits super hard for me because I'm also moving soon and yes I know me and my friends can still keep on touch on out socials but I just wanna sit with them, eat lunch with them, laugh together with them and just be together... And I know that can't happen and I'm scared we won't keep in contact but all of my friends are hoping we can eventually meet up again in the future when we're older so I guess it'll be fine. Thank you for this it's such a nice animation!
Wow i remember watching summer roads 2 years ago, and this vdo suddenly came in my recommendations! This is really so beautiful and nostalgic! loved it✨
STOPP IM SOBBING. I got to 2 minutes and was like “this is pretty happy” then realized there was 5 minutes left still lmao. Knew it couldn’t stay happy 😭. My hearts in shambles. I love this 💖💖💖💖💖
i teared up big time while watching this, wow. ive only been the one to move away, so i havent experienced something like this, but i can still feel how heartbreaking a friendship can get in situations like that. im so glad they reuinted!!! good endings make the world spin 😭💗💗💗
I've been waiting for this work since last year. I’m 55 y.o. old man. But I can't stop crying as I remember myself 40 years ago. Thank you and Congratulations on your graduation!
awwww. :)
This made me really happy for some reason
aww
As a 32 year old, I hope that those tears are a good thing!
And if not... Well, there are a lot of us like that out there. :]
Aww, thats so cute :(
THE END PART AAAAAA OMG
ThIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR SHARING ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL FILM!!
wait, does it mean they actually separated until they met one another again in the future? ;--; so they didn't have contact? that is so sad...
"Maybe we should stop being friends". That moment of being hurt by a situation and the only feeling you have is to make things worse by spiting yourself. That hit too hard.
The art look so cute but why do I fear it's going to end up being sad?
Welp
I hope that doesn’t age well
The biggest compliment I have to give is that you're amazing at creating atmosphere with colours, and you know just the right ones to use for lighting.
Soooo beautiful
This broke my heart into tiny pieces and then proceeded to duct tape it back together again. (This animation is amazing the colors are so vibrant like a childhood memory❤)
This feels like ghibli and vewn + a little smth extra. I adore it!
I've been waiting for this, and boy was it worth it! This is amazing! The story, the animation, the music, the voice acting are all so well done, and Kai and Leo's dynamic is so wholesome and adorable! I especially loved that little teaser at the end! Giving us assurance that they reunite when they're older! I would absolutely love to see more of these two!
Can't believe it's the same two from your other film! It's a bit nostalgic seeing Kai and Leo again after all this time, it feels like growing up with them a bit xD Glad to see they're still in each other's lives, no matter what.
OH MY GOSHHHHHH THE LAST TWO SHOTS PLEASEEE OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THE BABIES ALL GROWN UP i've fallen in love with these characters. and this art feels like a warm summer afternoon in childhood, so so extremely strongly. and i'm just obsessed. such a great job. such incredible work.
@xxrprincess249 they said "gosh" lmao
After seeing "running," I def think Kai has more than just friendship feelings
In another video which is a little older, we see Kai was dreaming of the other boy (I forgot his name) and there are lots of little hearts around!! So yes, I think that too 🥹💕
I get what your saying, and I’m not claiming to know what the creator(s) had in mind, but don’t you think people should be allowed to care deeply for another person without that feeling being romantic? I have seen this with both straight and gay pairings in media where the fandom or show ships two characters just because they care about each other. It happens in shows, like star verses the forces of evil. Where characters share a connection with each other and people mess up the relationship by making it romantic. I believe regardless of age and gender that people should be able to share a deep connection with another person without it being romantic. Sorry if this got deep, this really is a cute video regardless of the meaning behind it. 😅
Yeah I kinda agree with your point but in an older video Kai was dreaming about the Leo guy and there were hearts and butterflies and everything around Leo’s face 😭😭
@@LazyBoatAnimatics have you seen.. what theyre talking about like he was daydreaming about him and it seemed to be.. very romantic like th-cam.com/video/yM1X-njGl6Q/w-d-xo.html
This captures such a real and intense feeling that I personally and probably many others have felt. The ending, to me, somehow adds a dimension of time to it as well - as intense as it feels, to be separated from a friend by distance, especially for the first time, it can also be such a fleeting fear as the friendship grows into something that even geography can't shake. This was both heartbreaking and healing to watch, thank you for sharing
This is actually so cute and emotional. I will be always waiting for next parts, no matter how long it might takes. I love them.
I remember watching Summer Roads and loving the plot and art style, so when I saw this was a continuation of those characters and their story I was so excited to watch this!
Amazing work once again!!!!
何年も待ってました、とても嬉しいです🎀
The continuation of summer roads is so fun!! and they stayed friends as they grew up!!! Congrats on your thesis! And thanks for sharing it with us!
My best friend moved away when the summer before 6th grade and this made me think of her, I hope she's doing well
7:15 THEN I SAID THIS IS CINEMA" 🖐️😭🖐️
i remember seeing summer roads a couple years ago and was delighted to see a sequel! beautiful work, i love the nuance and beauty of it!
AHHH The progress from Summer Roads!!
This is AWESOME!!!! I KNEW staying subscribed was a good idea 🤩
Congrats on graduating!!!! 👏👏💃🥳🎉
This feels like weaponized whimsy (im using whimsy instead of childhood because i believe these emotions can happen at any age and im not using nostalgia cuz nostolgia is a bi-product of your memory making the past seem better than what it really was like.)
The background music is calm
The colours feel pure
The relationship between the characters is so close
This feels like the anti-thesis of stressful, polluted shallow-bonds life.
This feels like the idealisation people think back to with nostolgia
That investment of course then leads to the audience being invested in the climax
The only thing i can comment on about the climax is that im interested in how it wasnt a problem that had to be solved, it waa a problem that had to be endured. And thus we were see these characters lives change. We were seeimg these characters gtown and live their lives
This happened to me and my best friend. God I was so sad, and she promised to keep in touch.
But she did and now years later, we're even closer than we were growing up.
The opposite happened to me sadly 💀
Omg I’m moving to a new school and separating from my best friend of 8 years ☹️ I’m gonna miss her sm
AHH!! i knew i recognized these two!!! such a sweet film, one of my favorites this year. keep at it man!
Might just be one of my favorite films ever, this was beautiful
i loved the weather matching the moods of the scenes and the lighting and the time skip at the end made me so happy bc i was rooting hard for them. simple and likeable characters ate and left no crumbs
i felt like crying lol. this is really good
edit: btw the voice acting really sold the emotions, a lot.
This is so heartwarming. The whole animation smells like summer. It's gorgeous. Thank you for making this and sharing it. Have a wonderful day.
Beautiful work ❤. I love the little beat at the end. An acquaintance once told me “adult friendships are so hard to navigate.” And it’s so true. That’s why I don’t have any. But I loved this short film.
Deceptively simple, but beautifully paced. And such a poignant, upbeat final scene... thank you. I wish you every success.
I would watch a whole series of this 🥹😭💕
Definitely not crying right now… this was so beautiful ! thank you for creating it you are an amazing artist and creator in general
This made me cry, I experienced this too many times as a kid
OMG HIIII
IS SO CUTE THW ANIMATION ILOOVEEE
MAN IM CRYING WITH THE END 😭😭😭
What a wonderful film. Thank you for sharing and reminding everybody how important friendship is.
This had me sobbing, smiling, and laughing the entire time. This is such a good short film, it’s so beautifully made, such beautiful emotion. Love it
surprisingly managed to pop up in my feed again!! i really love the story and relationship between the two, and the art makes my heart feel so light and warm
i knew this was something familiar from the first film, two kids on a bus and goes on adventures together. Im so glad we get to see more of them. Love this story and the animation ❤
We all have been waiting for this and Im really happy. I love your work so much. I hope Leo's and Kai's story will continue with all the emotions. You worked hard, and every single person who worked on this. Was worth waiting, thank youu💗💗
I remember watching "Summer Roads" when it just came out and it touched me a lot. It made me wanna explore the world and make new friends. I'm not that much older now, but your films reawaken the child in me. I love the atmosphere of all of them, I hope you make it far someday
THESE ARE SO PEACEFUL AND CALMING AND SUMMERY I LOVE IT
Man, this hits so hard in the feels, especially now as the weather warms and summer nears. The background scenes were so pretty! I can see how much love was put into it. It really takes me back to the summers in the early 2000s when our main sources of entertainment were reading books and playing outside LOL. I started thinking about my friends who I used to play with in my neighborhood before I moved away in elementary school-some of whom I’ve been able to reunite with and some of whom I don’t think I’ll ever see again-and I lowkey started tearing up thinking about how quickly time’s flown and things have changed, haha.
I loved the attention to detail and symbolism in here so much too! The sound design was so good!! Like especially the sounds of nature and the clanking of their footsteps as they climbed the plane. I noticed that the plane was the same as the one Leo had as a toy in one of your prior short films too! That was such a cute callback, haha.
I’m so glad I finally got around to watching your film after work today. 🥲 THE WORLD IS SO MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL WITH YOUR ART IN IT. 😭 I’M SO PROUD OF YOU, TIFFANY!! CONGRATS ON GRADUATING!!! ❤️
Bro I’m literally crying 😭😭 everything is amazing the art style the story EVERYTHING !!!!
Thank you for peeling away my many years, I got to go back to the magic of boyhood and the feel of a best friend. It touched all my senses somehow even the smell of his room. For me keeping my boy alive and close by has made life richer especially as I watched my own sons growing up often piled in a heap like pups. Kia and Leo are tender creatures, I'm glad you introduced me to the boys and their beauty.
OMG this is genuinely amazing! The intention behind the characters is incredibly well portrayed, the story and emotions are realistic and super well-handled in general, and the use of space and color is just fantastic!! This is genuinely really really good, you should be proud!!!!
i just found your channel today and you're already one of my favorite artist ever. i've fallen in love with these characters and the cozy feeling of your animations ( i watched this one today and immediately went to watch your other videos). you're way of storytelling has captured my heart. this has made my day, truly it has.
Finally got around to watching this.. Oh…… The last shot got me crying.. Wonderful little film!
this was so beautiful and the emotion conveyed through the story was incredible! it has such a ghibli esque feel to it that is really comforting. great work!
this is so special. ur an amazing storyteller and i’ve enjoyed all ur animations of these two throughout the years! congrats on graduating and i hope u will continue to share what u will make next :]
Such an elegant and simplistic work! I really like the colours and framing here, and it's also cool how you accented Kai's loneliness and isolation with the spaces where they ran and laughed, now being empty
And the story is nice too, im surprised but it actually brought a tear to my eye, in such a short time
Great animated movie!
The way you animate the storytelling and the colors everything is nostalgic can’t wait for the next part
I'm a 64yo lady who is now discovering digital art and this short film has got be crying. It's so well done. Respect!
Im 26 years old and i usually dont get emotional over fictional stuff but as someone who moved around alot growing up due to my parents job and losing many friends because of it this made me cry. Beautiful work, thank you for creating this.
This is amazing!! I LOVE IT!! It gives me ghibli studio vibesss!!!
Gosh I wanted this continuation sooooo much! Thank you! The animation is so cute and the characters too! ❤❤
I love your films! They are so sweet and a little sad. Looking forward to their next meeting! Thank you for your hard work. ❤
Большое спасибо за такую замечательную историю!
i never expected one of my favourite TH-cam animations to get a sequel, I've literally used the first one as animation/stylistic reference in my digi arts class
This is giving me some ghibli and luca vibes, and I think thats a good thing... :)
Also the sound design?! Voice acting?? Its amazing...🥹
Something about your animation is just comforting and beautiful. ❤
your animations become better and better!!!! PLS DONT GIVE THESE SERIES UP I LOVE THEM
Please don't stop making animation please I'll be always here & always appreciate your work
like a ghibli film lmao I love this sm
Your animations will always have a place in my heart.🙂❤
I just found this… I never knew I needed this film. I’m writing this in tears with how heartfelt this is😭😭😭
I love their story so much and I hope you will continue making short films for Kai and Leo
This is so cute and oh my god the ending I think there will be another episode for this 🥺🧡
this reminds me of My Neighbour Totoro for some reason, :> the artstyle is so cute and the backgrounds are so gooddddd
the miazaki vibes feel so good thank you
really really good story telling
its so adorable. I absolutely adore the way u portray sunlight
I can't describe how many feelings I felt watching this. It felt like I was there 🥺
This genuinely looks and feels like a studio ghibli movie
Thank you for creating this world :') ❤️
the animation, the storyline, everything is perfect
STOP. STOP BC THE TEARS WERE ALREADY FALLING. AND THEN YOU HAD TO HIT ME WITH THOSE LAST TWO SECONDS. IM AUDIBLY SOBBING. this is so beautiful. thank you 😭IM SCREAMING AGRFGRGR
I wish I lived in a world like this.
One of the most beautiful animations I have seen currently
AHHH IM SO HAPPY IM SO HAPPY IBE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW KAI AND LEO VIDEO 🩷 THANK YOU
I WANT A FULL EP OF THIS ITS SO CUTE
Such a beautiful film , it makes me wish I could experience this type of friendship :,)
The whole feeling of this reminds me so much of ponyo/studio ghibli, I love it
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!! how can you make someone so attached to characters in literally 7 minutes?!
Been looking forward to this more than the next Marvel movie, lol.
A lot of Indie films are better than Marvel nowadays, cause it has heart and not greddy-money creators.
This hits super hard for me because I'm also moving soon and yes I know me and my friends can still keep on touch on out socials but I just wanna sit with them, eat lunch with them, laugh together with them and just be together... And I know that can't happen and I'm scared we won't keep in contact but all of my friends are hoping we can eventually meet up again in the future when we're older so I guess it'll be fine. Thank you for this it's such a nice animation!
Live laugh love Summer leaves. I'm so glad there's another one of these films!
Wow i remember watching summer roads 2 years ago, and this vdo suddenly came in my recommendations! This is really so beautiful and nostalgic! loved it✨
Pleasee tell me there is gonna be a next part! I loved this short movie so much and i need more!! 🍃🌸
THEY MAKE ME SICK/POS
I really want to see more of these guys 😭 they've come to mean so much to me
STOPP IM SOBBING. I got to 2 minutes and was like “this is pretty happy” then realized there was 5 minutes left still lmao. Knew it couldn’t stay happy 😭. My hearts in shambles. I love this 💖💖💖💖💖
This needs to be a whole movie
i teared up big time while watching this, wow. ive only been the one to move away, so i havent experienced something like this, but i can still feel how heartbreaking a friendship can get in situations like that. im so glad they reuinted!!! good endings make the world spin 😭💗💗💗
THAT'S story illustrated two boy in love 💗😘😘😘😘
That makes my life better, thank you
I’ve been waiting for this for so long!!! Congrats on getting it done and graduating!
Absolutely beautiful the tears are RAINING
such a genius title and touching film. god i wish i were a kid again, and you captured this perfectly :')
this got me emotional i lost many friends due to me moving around lots growing up, the art was beautiful as well as the story got me in tears
It remimds me so much of sudio gibli and ponyo specifically 🥺
Cried over this, the art is so nice, the voices sound lovely, awesome work
The ending made me cry 🥹 this was so beautiful!
Glad i stumble upon this video❤️