Our Spellbinding Lies / Episode 1: PILOT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2023
- Lies, vast or petty, have been persecuted by the death queen, Violet. When the universe is nearly free of dishonesty, a group of convicted liars steal Violet's daughter, Celeste. Who better than the queen's quirky girlfriend to fix this? But the rebellion isn't as pure as it boasts; their 'heroes' have dark secrets of their own...
Based on the web novels of the same name, episode 1 (pilot) explores moments mid series. Should the animated pilot succeed, we'll rewind to the beginning...you'll learn that long story Violet mentioned...
Welcome to Our Spellbinding Lies: Animated! We're a small indie animation team working hard to adapt the titular web novels into an original animated series.
What's Our Spellbinding Lies, though?
Our Spellbinding Lies (or OSL) is an original webseries that follows Violet, a quiet sorceress whose mystical skill is matched only by her hatred for liars. In her mission to purge dishonesty, she causes carnage, suffering, and much worse.
OSL features villains as its main characters and explores mental health, familial ties, and the effects of lying. Glue it all together with magic and gore, and you're in for something shocking!
Please support indie animators and indie artists! We're a very small team with very big dreams, and we need your help to make this a full series! Thank you for joining us on this quest.
CREDITS:
Written & Directed by RedBalance
Based on the 'Our Spellbinding Lies' web novels
Vocal talent:
- Heather Invidoak - Jelzyart
- Violet Xavierras - RedBalance
- Amber Xavierras - RedBalance
- Aldous - Anonymous
- Child Celeste - cainwyn
- Jewel Xavierras - Ava Hauser
- Ship Pilot - Cougar MacDowall Va
Storyboarded by RedBalance
Character design by RedBalance
Animated by
-RedBalance
-Patience "buffy" Rosaline
-Katrinci
With coloring assistance by K.Day
Background artists:
-Elise Drennan
-Eduardo Andrés Paniagua
-RedBalance
-Thegallerypiece
Compositing and editing by RedBalance
Made with Paint Tool SAI and Adobe After Effects
With audio assistance from Epidemic Sounds and Darren Curtis
"Bow For Me" by Brooke Ellen
Thank you to God, for giving us the strength to complete this, for giving our fans the patience to wait for it, and for everything else. Amen. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Based on the web novels of the same name, episode 1 (pilot) explores moments mid-series. Should the animated pilot succeed, we'll rewind to the beginning...you'll learn that long story Violet mentioned...
We've worked ourselves to the bone making this, so please share to your socials and support IF YOU WANT MORE! 💙💜💗
Patreon: www.patreon.com/RedBalance
Donate: ko-fi.com/redbalance
YOU GUYS DID SUCH AN AWESOME JOB!!! CONGRATS TO EVERYONE THAT WORKED ON THIS!!! YOU’RE ALL AMAZING!!!
Interesting
Woah
To any new fans here. This pilot is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Our Spellbinding Lies! The full story is amazing! Especially if you’re a dark fantasy lover like me. This series has been like crack for me for around 3 years now and my only regret is that I didn’t discover it sooner. 😂😂😂
The story has me so confused but I haven't read the story yet, and I'm excited to see more!!! If the animation continues to be this good I'm just here for this glorious content ☕️☕️
@@MissdermeanerJ The description provides some context! So does the opening monologue. But we're glad that you're curious to learn more 🙌
@OurSpellbindingLies i will read into it!!! I'm super invested now lol. Great job!!! So impressed with the love you're giving your characters in animation
You had me at dark Fantasy 😂❤
Thx for the heads up!
The animation looks very good. The pacing however is awful.
Events go one after another, there's no tension, nothing that lets you experience the mood and empathize with the characters. The writing is lacking too. The protagonist runs through the dungeon screaming for Celeste, yet nobody guards it and nobody hears/sees her but Amber noticing the paper is off? And of course she's gonna stand around like a doofus and let her finish the speech that will turn her daughter against her. That's illogical, it makes the characters and writing look weak and unappealing.
There's another thing where we introduced to the wolf character for the first time, and suddenly he's talking speeches about love, weakness and sacrifice. And then just dies. That death I suppose was meant to evoke certain feelings in a viewer, but it does nothing because we've only just been introduced to this character and don't understand and empathize with them. This is probably a bad transfer from the book series, but it could've been done better (with flashbacks for example, to give some story of the relationship of these two characters).
tldr; great animation, mediocre writing, plot holes.
I think this problem would have easily been solved if the pilot took place at the beginning of the book series rather than in the middle of book 3 (or 4??). A shame because seeing such an impactful scene with a clearly semi important character producing no emotion from the viewer unless you've read at least 3 books feels counterproductive to the point of a series
The first part of the pilot with the Violet montage is like seriously breath taking. It's so smooth and Violet looks SO AWESOMEEEEE
Right? It’s so pretty and haunting at the same time! The blood forming into buildings and junk was so cool!
The raw emotion in Violet's ”I love you“ nearly made me tear up. Fantastic line delivery right there
I don’t know why this hasn’t gotten more attention
How is the view number not in the millions
Here's everything I have to say:
I didn't expect Red to also voice Amber XD
I loved Jewel's voice/voice acting
The animation was smooooth
The intro was so good i especially loved the part where the buildings appear in front of Violet
AND THAT IT'S FINALLY HEREEE THE PATIENCE WAS WORTH IT XD
But if thats okay I also have two "negative" things to say :( one being that some stuff might not make sense to people that know nothing about OSL and this is their first touch with it, so they can't connect that much to the characters (for example Aldous, he appears and a bit later apparently dies. Or how we didn't know Jewel had a husband and what their relationship was like so we can't connect as much to that either when we find out what Amber did to him (that's at least how I see it)
And the second "negative" comment is about the music in fight scenes, I think it's too low, when characters aren't talking and are fighting, the music usually is louder (Also gives more suspense, since it becomes the main thing the viewer has to listen to and feel)
Hope my comments made sense 😭 still wish you all the best and for the pilot to succeed and get more episodes!❤
Giving valid criticism is based
Valid comment. The amount of work red did alone before she even got a small team is amazing in itself
And hey every work deserves criticism because that’s how we improve!
@@LazEden07 yes of course! It's still very impressive. I just noted some stuff that could be improved for future episodes ^^ I still shared it with people and told them to give the pilot a watch!
animation and art is gorgeous! For a newcomer though very confusing and I wasn't sure who half the people where. While starting where you did definitely gave you more epic moments I think it also made it more confusing
I was confused about it too. The beginning monologue felt like it was the start of something but the rest looks like it had other build up to it.
Honestly the series has some potential, i like the artstyle! the animation is pretty well done, only massive complaint is the voice acting, no offence to the....like 3 people who voiced act this entire thing but it seriously reads like everyone is just reading a script in slow motion, i cant say they made no effort in their roles far from it, but it can take you out of...pretty much most of the story xd
I'd disagree the Voice acting was good, the SOUND DESIGN and spacing of the lines and action is what lacked refinement. Audio goes a long way
Forgot to mention the lack of Ambient Sounds and Music
That "Death Queen's brat" and "reward: Not Dying" made me laugh so hard. Didn't expected Heather's opening scenes being so quirky, but in other hand it makes good mood whiplash when she suddenly starts coughing with blood. Also, I remember that pterosaur-like guy in the beginning also had Liar Brand in the animatic?
Also really loved the scene when Heather mocks Amber. And when Jewel snaps on Amber at the end. That voice acting nailed. And didn't expect you Red voicing Amber too ;)
Idk why but I love the Dino guy so much. The missing person drawing Heather made was hilarious lol.
This is really good I love your work it reminds me of Murder Drones so what
The opening scene with the monologue is great. Then you see that animation and completely fucked up voice acting or a plot and character's personality from a bad fanfic, it's completely un-serious and goofy.
But the scenery is worth appreciating, really.
congrats on getting the pilot out! little celeste is so cute 😭 love all the backgrounds too, theyre beautiful 🖤🤍
Thank you so much!!
I don’t really know anything about the story this video is about, but what I do know is that the werewolf guy’s confession made me cringe a little.
Our Spellbinding Lies!!! I have some tips for you.
1. Add more music that will make your viewers understand the vibe you are going for.
2. No offense but some of the animations are a little choppy so I think you and your team should make those animations more smoother. (Like the door!)
3. Spend more time to make the animations. The more time you are spending on trying to make it as best as you can the more it looks good.
4: Use some different words like when Amber (sorry if i spelled her name wrong) says "this is not a game" she should say "this is not the time to joke" this makes it more smoother.
But overall I really like the vid you made. I am not trying to be mean and trust me I am making my own animation so I know whats it's like. Have a good day!😁
I had no idea what this was walking into this, (still admittedly don't quite know what the story is about) but I can say I will be sticking around to see more. I'm a huge fan of the character design and artstyle.
Thank you very much for checking it out!!
I'm so happy it's out
it's really good especially in the animation department, the biggest criticism i have in the voicing, our main character here sounds a bit strange, everything else is cool
-the world is interesting
-enjoyable humour
-cool character design
-cool story
keep it up lads
I have no idea what's going on in this episode but the characters look pretty.
so glad i got to be present for yet another pilot for a promising series, i don't really know the story or anything so far and it was definitely an interesting choice to start it off mid-story, but not in a negative way, quite the opposite actually. love the designs and i'm already attached to the characters, i really hope this goes somewhere, best of luck to the team!
Thank you!!!
I don't know what is happening, but the animation is fantastic!
Congratulation on your pilot! The art style is sleek.
As much as i respect the team to make a 10-ish minute animation, god this was incoherent.
To someone completely unfamiliar to the series it was clunky, confusing and the voice actors (as much as they probably tried) failed to engage. Too many charactes and too many plot points canot be crammed into this amount of time. And this is without mentioning the INCREDIBLE amount of plotholes or conviniences. Ths stand off at the end was just...so confusing. These people had like 30 second of screen time, what husband? What ritual? And most importantly, where is the place i should care about any of that? Then the wolf ex machina turned up, with the dialog which was so repetitive i couldnt help but find entertaining intead of dramatic.
This dosnt veiw like a pilot, more like a love letter to people already in the know how of the story.
On a bit of a positive note, the animation was actually solid. A little more location shots and surroundings though. But seriouslt impressive work in that regard.
Good luck to the team in the future.
I agree I felt like improvments could’ve been made with voice acting a lil bit of the plot but I was still able to enjoy it a lot
I'm so happy to have been part of the osl community for so long and to have been able to witness its evolution all the way to an animated pilot!! Thank you to everyone that supported this pilot but thank you Redbalance for bringing it to life and everyone that worked on it! I really hope this gets the attention that it deserves and become an actual show, so please if you haven't, share it around as much as you can!!! ⁽⁽ଘ( ˊᵕˋ )ଓ⁾⁾
This Show Has Alot Of Pontential, I Would Love Episode 2!
I'm a new fan here, that's here because someone mentioned this series to me. While looking at the description I see that it's based on a visual novel. Not gonna lie that the Pilot is very short to me and I already feel hyped up for the next episode, just like with Murder Drones! The story looks promising to me and I can't wait for another episode. Keep up the good work 😊
Thank you very much!
F in the chat for the poor pilot, he was an honest man. 😔
The most tragic OSL character. Rest in peace my guy. F 😔
he was indeed a pilot of all time
Pilot? I feel like I'm watching the last episode of season one. Other tht that....this was fine.
AAHHHHHHHHH It's out!!!
I've read the novels and I've watched Redbalance and her animation memes, I just love the voice acting she did with Violet
I seriously hope the series animated can continue, but I'm so impressed as the animation is outstanding, there's only like 6 people on the team that did this!!
Also I just lost it at Heather and her "Death Queen's Brat" drawing
OSL Team and Redbalance keep up the good work I'm looking forward to everything you do
Holy hell this popped up in my recommendations and this seems interesting.
Yoo epic, though can be kinda confusing
It's pretty interesting
OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS IT ACTUALLY CAME OUT?!?!?!?!
WAKE UP BABE NEW INDIE ANIMATION JUST DROPPED🗣🗣‼️‼️
I FREAKING LOVE THIS MAN indie animation series are killing these days and i get more and more inspired it's a win win
Well, that was a lot to take in. Guessing it makes more sense to a reader of the source material?
I sat on it awhile so here is my thoughts. Animation stunning but with 10 minutes and 7 important characters it gets confusing. Aldous is alluded to with the paw prints at the start but suddenly shows up and confesses his love to Heather than dies. Same with jewel Heather just addresses her, Love her V.A I know its based off the books. In the books correct me if i'm misremembering there is a scene with Jewel pittying Celeste because of Amber that could be used. I think that scene and the scene of Amber actually cutting a chip off of Celeste's horns would have helped with both Aldous and Jewel. As well as hint why Amber kidnapped Celeste. There is a few other small cut scenes that ideally if not for the sake of time and money would have helped alot of the pacing and flow. Once Heather is off the ship she asks a guard where Celeste is and he brings up Aldous and heather frowns at his name. When she finds the spell paper she also finds Pierce sleeping in his coma by it Instead of it being in it's own room on the floor, though It's weird how Jewel wouldn't notice the spell page maybe if it was more hidden like with Pierce's belongings. Where Jewel would be too sad to look through, Maybe under a pair of scissors. Instead of just seeing it Heather can decide to snoop on the deity's stuff and is drawn to the paper.
The fact that Aldous bit right into Ambers chest and she didn't even bleed a bit... Chest made of steel.
He bit her jacket, not her body!
A little hard to discern since it was fast paced. I've seen the same. Thought he bit her chest in that frame. TwT
the animation looks so professional and clean! can't believe this is so underrated
GIGGLING AND KICKING MY FEET EVERY TIME I SEE SOME OF MY WORK THIS IS AMAZING
You did an amazing job! GIGGLING AND KICK AWAY!!!
6:13 JEWEL MY BELOVED!!!!!! Ava Hauser did such a good job on her :)
IT EVEN HAS ACTUAL SUBTITLES LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO
YOU KNOW IT
A corpse arm rising from a lake of gore is a hell of a way to start a pilot. Would I be able to read the novels without buying them? I unfortunately am kinda strapped for cash right now.
They are available for free on Wattpad, RedBalance doesn't sell them!
I’m pretty new to the series in general, so I don’t know much about the lore of it but I think the pilot does a good introduction to the characters
I am a new fan of your work and I was surprised coming into this pilot as it didn't have as many views but I'm glad I stuck with it as I enjoyed the pilot and the interesting plot points within it.
I'm so happy about how far this series has come, from animation memes to web novels to a whole animated pilot. This better get like 3 billion views or something because we NEED more of this like LOOK AT THAT ANIMATION. Especially the part where the blood forms into the palace around Violet (i see you with the symbolism there) and all the parts with Aldous.
Also I didn't even notice that Red voiced Amber as well as Violet until I read the credits, woman is not only godly with animation but voice acting too
Edit: almost forgot to make the obligatory "christmas came early" joke
They just left that Royal pilot there :0
THE WAIT IS OVERRR
3:29 *man I sure hope nothing bad happens :(*
I love this! The animation is beautiful and the lighting really compliments each scene so well! And the backgrounds are absolutely gorgeous!!
Thank you so much!!
I loove the animation; the art style is very unique, and the colors are gorgeous.
However, there are a lot plot holes.
Initially, we are introduced to a being that controls the whole planet and is some kind of god. Still, she sends only two people to rescue her own daughter from a place occupied by rebels that hate her. (Isn't she concerned about her lover's well-being? She may trust her, but isn't it smarter to send more people in case something goes south?)
They land on the asteroid, and no one notices the huge flying ship in orbit, even though they literally parked just a few meters from the village. Heather instantly finds a piece of paper that tells her what to do to cross the barrier and enter the village-convenient. So she sacrifices the pilot, the only person able to fly the ship. How will she get back with Celeste?
The single guard doesn't comment or ask who she is and lets her in-convenient. Also, we never see her doing any kind of research on this place. Does she even know if she's in the right building? So, she just starts yelling for the missing daughter. Is there no one guarding this place?
She finds Celeste, gets her from her cell, and flees the building. Some strange exchange happens. This is just my personal opinion (I didn't read the novels, so this exchange may make more sense in the context of the novels).
Heather accuses Amber of hiding something, and Amber just confesses? Even though she seems to know that the rest of the rebels may find this revelation conflicting and possibly not want her as a leader anymore? She could've lied or denied the accusation. Heather didn't show any evidence to back up her claim. The exchange felt really unnatural and too convenient for the protagonists.
Also, Heather seems too confident in herself. "Yeah, big girl, just confess and ruin your image because I said so." They start to fight, Fox guy appears, does a speech where he confesses love to Heather and dies seconds later. Heather does nothing. (Isn't she supposed to be some kind of powerful mage? Why didn't she try to help him if she clearly cared about him? Never explained.)
They enter the ship, realize the pilot is not going to pilot. Some other conveniences happen, and Heather manages to find some tool to destroy Celeste's collar and teleport both of them back.
Verdict: 10 minutes is too short to tell a story this complex. Most of its problems can be solved with more dialogues, interactions, and establishing shots. I believe that the novels may be excellent in terms of plot and characters but this pilot is not it. It needs revisions.
On the other side, I admire Rebalance for putting all the effort into the pilot. A lot of work was put into the whole thing, and it shows. I'm really excited for what comes next and wish best of luck with future episodes. ✨🎉
Thank you so much! Many of these grievances are explained in the novels that this is based on; much of it makes more sense with that context. But we made the risky choice to base the pilot mid-series, so that's on us! Hope you'll stick around to see how we improve!
A little amatureous and rough around the edges but a solid start!
I'm not even 20 seconds in yet and my God does this look SPECTACULAR already.
Mamma Heather giving Celeste a kiss brings me so much joy
Interesting. I have mixed feelings about showing events from mid-series as a pilot, as a few of the things that happen would have more of an effect with context. But I am curious how this will turn out.
The voice acting is AWESOME?? everyone did an amazing job with the characters and the emotions feel so real! I can't help but think Amber was also voiced by Red? If so that's SERIOUSLY impressive
She was also voiced by Red!
@@OurSpellbindingLies some amber love question mark
First and foremost THE ANIMATIONNNNN holy shit there are shots in here that are SO SMOOOOOTH Like CRIMINALLY SMOOTH. I absolutely loved the shots of Amber
Really digging the effort you put into your characters' expressions, and I'm super impressed with the backgrounds too! It's clear how much you love your characters. While the story so far is insanely confusing (I haven't read the story yet), I am quite excited to learn more! The effort you've put in is clear. I'm so excited to see more! I need answers dammit! Lol
I like how it seems like there's some revealing to go before one determines who, if anyone, are the good guys or the bad guys
IT'S HAPPENING, OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING
I’M FLIPPING OUT OH MY GOD IT’S FINALLY HERE 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏😭😭😭
I felt genuine sadness when I found out that heather isn't named "The gremlin".
I’m sad too now dang
this is so underrated for how good the animation is omg
Also came back to say that I love the easter eggs. Nova's dad was mentioned on 2:27.
I noticed that too! Wonder who the other guy on there is? I don’t remember him being mentioned anywhere before. Also the fact that there’s only two of Violet’s upper rank guys really shows how protective she is with Celeste. Since only people super high up got to know about her and all that.
VIOLET’S LITTLE I LOVE YOU NEARLY GOT ME CRYING
They love each other so much. Would be a shame if something happened to Heather, who knows what Violet would do!
Would be a real shame. I’m sure nothing will happen and that Violet will be completely rational and normal no matter what.
@@OurSpellbindingLies TOXIC YURI FTW /j
@@aceofjacks7071 LMAO YES 😂
i wanna help promote but idk howww this is so good and needs attention. this mustve taken so long to make. anyways, great work! the intro was so cool
6:20 this made me giggle btw lol
The best way to help promote it is to suggest it to review/react channels! Plus just sharing in general! Thank you SO much!
Jacksfilms has a google form you can fill out so he can review stuff like this. I don’t know much about him, but that should help a bit.
Just shared the heck out of it, left a comment on people that review animations/series, shared it to a big discord server im in and sent it to my best friend telling her to give it a watch :D
THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!! Ive always loved seeing the animation memes of these characters, so seeing a WHOLE PILOT was such a pleasant surprise! The animation was so breath-taking to watch.
This was really good. i hope that it keeps going and we get more longer episodes soon... We need to spread this around and get the views up...
this just popped up on my recommended and WOW this is amazing!
Can't wait for this to get more fame!❤❤❤
rip the pilot he needs more love
yess!!!! the pilot is here! me and my friends read the books and we love them!
This is amazing! Hope you make more!! Love this :)
Thank you!
Another beauty to admire?! GIMMIEEE!!
Yo, this is a f***ing work of art. Everyone on the internet is gonna want to watch this.
Yay! More indie series!
😮omg the animation is Soo pretty omg I also love the story can't wait for the Next ep
Most popular vid in the channel let's fucking goooo
Oh my god this is sick!! It's only at 8.2 views so far but I hope it garners more attention soon, I was smiling the whole way through
The shading and smoothness on these frames is crazy good. I knew this pilot would be great, but this animation is professional level. Amazing job all of you, and I hope there will be another episode soon! 👏
Oh, I think I'm falling in love for this
Oh my it's beautiful! Hope to see more of it !!
Also Merry Christmas
Happy holidays! Thank you!
You guys sacrificed a pilot for the pilot LMAO
It's finally here!! You guys did an amazing job and it really shows your love for this series, Ill be looking forward for more animated content and I really hope this gets lots of attention and feedback
While I can't say this is my favorite piece of media, it was certainly a pleasure to watch. Thank you for making this!
Some criticism I have for the pilot. I feel like you should’ve started from the beginning instead of like halfway throughout the story, so new fans like us can understand more about what’s going on and I feel like you made it a little too short I feel like you should’ve made it a little bit more longer.
This is awesome!! Remember me for a voice actor for the next episode!
here before it goes viral🙌
Woah! The animation is really impressive! You really didn't have to go that hard. Some of the scenes here are just breathtaking. I would be surprised if any of the artists still have working hands after this. Clearly there was a lot of passion in this project to get this far in the first place. I hope you see some measure of success, if not for your own sake, than for the sake of indie animation in general. And if you don't, at least it is a good advertisement for your web novels.
As far as the story itself, I have some reservations about the protagonists. I kind of expected the rebels to turn out to be right, or at least somewhat right. Maybe it is hard for me to really root for a ruler that is very much implied/framed as a villain. I have some doubts about how exactly she allegedly purged all these liars she's referring to. It felt very sus... and sort of makes me want her to fail. But you may be leading up to some kind of twist later, I'm not sure what you were going for thematically here.
Let none of that take away from the accomplishment that is finishing this pilot at all, though.
Thank you for saying all this! If we get more episodes, we will be going back to the beginning and clearing up a lot of the confusion! Perhaps then you'll know who you wish to side with 🙏👀
This is cool, good luck to you.
WOHO WE MADE IT
So worth it! And if you havent read the books yet, I would recommend it too! I hope the pilot takes off and the teams reaches the success they're looking for.
The books are so freaking good!
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!! AND OMG JEWEL!!!! I love Jewel so much honestly, seeing her animated is so ahhhh. Seeing ALL of them animated is so amazing!!! THIS IS GREAT!!!
I will put this video on repeat every night before going to sleep.
Wow! This was absolutely amazing, I loved finally seeing it all come together after seeing the trailers and the glimpses on patreon. The pilot was wonderful and you did an outstanding job Red! It was amazing seeing your characters come to life in this, everyone did such wonderful jobs 🖤
this is the epitome of taking a book and turning it into a show/movie, this is some Harry Potter type of stuff here where they take the ready-made source and turn into a show/movie and it's actually epic omg more people gotta give this a watch and read ❤❤
I’m shocked about how short this is but despite that, I think this is a great pilot episode and introduces us to the characters set up their personalities and sets up some pretty interesting conflicts
Thank you!
Hope to see more episodes from you.
Way too late for me to watch this right now, I'll watch it later when it isn't 1:48am.
Holy SH*T, this is a awesome PILOT EPISODE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I can’t wait to see more 😊
THIS IS SO COOL I LOVE THIS