The Box - Animator vs. Animation 10

PLEASE don't treat DJ's nicknames for the mercenaries as the official names: https://youtu.be/-YKn-grvBYY

I only just realized the burning of Alan's cursor was a reference to Alan's logo, a flaming cursor. The detail is insane, man.

DUDe the fact Alan and his team REDREW EVERYTHING FROM A FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE IS INSANE

Every one wondering for the next episode, it is unfortunately coming in the end of this year. But it is a really big project, so be ready for ART.

15:08 I can only image Victim thinking "We just printed all those papers for nothing!"

I like how each big villain is different: Dark Lord is a thrill-seeker, Purple is someone who wants to prove himself, King Orange is driven by tragedy, and Victim is just spiteful.

The quality, The history, the victim's revenge. I'm so excited for Episode 3

I like how Alan Becker secretly added TSC’s powers, when the eel was in distress, some of the electric shocks were green.

Without technology, Victim is really nothing.

can we take a second to appreciate the backgrounds in this episode? they’re so dynamic and some are only used for a few seconds

Is no one going to talk about how well that last scene with RGBY displayed their personalities? With Red and Green being the combative ones, jumping straight into action to defend the other two and Blue being the more passive one who’d rather surrender if it meant the the others wouldn’t get hurt. Also how you can see Yellow’s cautiousness and how it disappears the moment Green and Red are knocked down. The attention to detail is amazing

6:48 Casually Sleeps

Anyone notice how TSC's drawings coming to life is awfully similar to how Alan's stick figures came to life when he drew them?

13:35 this part has to be one of my favourite scenes in the entire series. Just the moment of realisation on Victim’s face that The Second Coming, the friendly, cooperative stick figure, was able to kill The Dark Lord in a matter of seconds with his own unique power. And then, The Second Coming glances up to see a screen of him shooting a mega laser at The Dark Lord, a laser more powerful than anything The Chosen One could do. The way he looks to his hands, the shock that flows through him, that he could be one of the most powerful beings on the entire internet. This part truly gave me chills. And this scene is only a few seconds long!

The idea of TSC's drawings being sentient is kinda scary. The way the eel shows immediate distress at the thought of being erased and immediatly attempts escape was the highlight of this episode.

on frame 8:08, you can see that this is a reference to the first animator vs animation from 17 years ago, where all the stick figures make themselves weapons, the ninja star, the chain, the hammer, the sword, and the rope.

i love how TCO and victims both share trauma from the same source but went in two completely different paths. Narrative foils are always amazing

I love how much TCO adapts to the situation. Some weirdo decides to attack him but he isn’t that strong? Grab him and push him away without hurting him. His enemy is getting too strong? He fights faster. His enemy gets a speed boost? He tries to grab his opponent. His enemy wants to grab him? Use ranged attacks. He can’t use fire? Freeze himself so as to avoid damage. His enemy has a leash around his neck and clones himself? Use the clones’ weapons to cut the leash. His fire blasts are firing backwards? He aims away from the target so they’ll still hit. His memories are being read forcibly while he’s tied to a chair? Smash his head on the floor to either knock the memory reader loose or at least give himself amnesia. Not only is he naturally stronger, faster, and more powerful than his opponents, he’s also more cunning and seemingly more determined to not give in than Victim is.

10:52 Aww, the way the eel just suddenly nuzzles against TSC after just being created makes it cute and friendly

a bit late but i have a theory: how much trauma each character has (the hollow-headed ones) determines their powers, TSC was never really “‘mistreated” and his friends are really close to him, so his power activated when they got killed, TCO was always hurt, so he can use his powers on command. Victim was deleted when he was created, so instead of using powers, he relies on the technology that “‘rocket” has. Edit: also a little side theory is that wanted and therefore ava take place in the same universe king used to live in,so did purple. In episode one, TCO is running in the city from rocket’s main four. Also in ava 5 we see that there are some grasslands. In episode 30 of avm, where did king live? It looked like a suburb of some sort, maybe the suburbs of the city we saw in wanted episode