Penwagon's story has some insanely good shot composition, holy moly. The way they use camera movement and center of frame to draw focus... Cinematography on point.

Finally! An excuse not to sleep

What I liked in Penwagon's is how it focuses on character. The older character is in an interesting conflict with being the one to assume responsibility for the other which we gather in dialogue, but they feel pressured and like they won't be able to do what they have to do in this harsh environment. The younger character is much more independent and confident and takes on the role of comforting the older one, but also fails to grasp the severity of the world around them. This sets up a good balance between them. One's strength will be the other's weakness, which sets up room for growth. The animation style and shot choices as well makes this come off very clear with things like the hand shaking, the expressions complimenting their personalities, and the final part of the scene being the two fire the gun together showing they work best as a team and will grow from each other i.e. the first gaining confidence and the second character grasping the reality of the situation.

Penwagon won with that FREAKIN' PHENOMENAL Voice acting and those SLICK Sound effects!! (i especially love those pounding werewolf steps and scratches on the countertop)

I must say, I've sincerely missed Ethan's abuse. The fellow with the knife and broken cigarette. Is he coming back ever?

The death one was GREAT.. it matched what I've always thought about what immortality would be like almost exactly. Gave me chills. Genius.

Things i love about Penwagon’s animatic. 1. It shows the character relationship/dynamic. It’s so specific and done with clarity that you can imagine many situations with the duo in it. Also recently i just realized, how much depth character relationships can add to storytelling, by comparing 2 Valorant championship mvs, “Die for you” and “Fire again”. The storytelling in “Die for you” is so much more compelling than in “Fire again” imo. 2. It got clever humor. The way that girl just casually pulled out a shotgun and gestured towards the gory corpse. It’s fun. And I think the usage of camera movement when she said,” that guy.” really shows the casualness at the moment, then it instantly switches to the nervous character’s perspective on this situation, by showing the gory detail of the corpse in the front, and the nervous character’s expression in the back. Boom, Contrast. 3. The characters change in this 1 minute. The nervous one got bolder with encouragement from the girl. The girl comes from “keeps giving the nervous character more things to stress about”, to “provide the nervous one emotional support, and eventually defeating the anxiety”.

finally, a new ethan art video! i was almost being social again.

Okay replacing the wands in Harry Potter with guns was hilarious. It's also a genius social commentary about how guns and wands in the hands of kids are equally dangerous.

7:44 I love their choice of atmospheric music. It would be a total different experience without it

i love how all art youtubers find a way to trash on kooleen

The steamy innuendo is only grows in temperature with each video. He is becoming stronger…

These are so awesome to watch. So much creativity. 🤩

12:26 simple but effective, love it!

THE CAT PLOP LMAO

13:25 oh my god, that was great. My only critique is to have her twirl her finger skate after dodging the bus to wordlessly show us she had beaten death. The narration saying ''lexi won'' is just a bit underwhelming and even uneeded. But damn, loved the concept of taking the victory and twisting it into a loop. Brilliant idea

Thanks for the roast, Ethan! Great job to everyone who submitted last month :D

i think penwagon won because the last scene that scene was PHENOMENAL how he did that camera work omg it was sooo beautiful and the way you don't know how to feel do you feel horrified or kinda happy or WTF IS GOIIN ON that type of stuff + the slick composition of every key frame

My cat is currently drooling on me as I watch this. 😀👍

7:41 bro just falls down and dies 💀

Ethan's scream is something I never knew I needed to hear

My next achievement: got my art loved by Ethan

Passive aggressiveness is strong with this one

ive been working so hard on my art bc of you

I love your videos they’re both helpful and entertaining!!! ^^

4:12 Simba moment

You see this...THIS is the content I subscribed for No regrets 😌👌

Penwagon's composition was great, but on top of that, I could really feel like the characters were alive and going through a traumatic moment, that little girl has guts 😂

You're so cold blooded for being able to watch the FMAB scene, without choking, holy hell!

That was my first animatic, so im really glad i make it to this video

Thank u for ur videos Ethan my art has literally gotten so good

Man each one have done a crazy work

honestly part of me wants to send in some of my art just so i can figure out what’s wrong with it, but the other part doesn’t want to be absolutely roasted lmao

Everyone’s so talented omg 🥺 someday I’ll have the money to join classes 😫

That Fin GOAT scream was the best oh man goodtimes

does this count as cyberbullying? 😔 clarity is overrated.🏃‍♂

Another lesson where we get roast to learn art

the ending is gold >< somme of those SBs where amazing

the story with the death guy and how it all looped was badass would love to see a show or book based on that idea. I've had ideas kinda like that in the past but that was a much better version, super cool.

@ 16:30 this lotr scene still fucks me up

I friggin loved the last one holy shit!

BRO I READ LELAKENS WEBTOON LIKE 2 DAYS AGO! I was watching and recognized her style from that photo in the plane and the character design

My Favorite was "I'm gonna go home now"- Awesome!!

9:10 Best explanation of evolution ever

He's secretly teaching a very useful life skill in this video

Ur an inspiration

8:12 absolutely love this animation

3:22 Yoink the child yo-yo

Thats actually good

What a way to celebrate the end of my work shift

Radsechrist wins this for me. I thought the tech deck thing was going to be lighthearted, but instead it was a very dark and chilling concept. I’m such a sucker for temporal causality.

Loved your advice but damn you really had to bring out the emotional trauma from that one Fullmetal alchemist scene!😭

Good to see you back

In the name of everyone - we are thankfull

Starting a day with Ethan.

mother , wake up ethan becker posted wake up

Love u man😔✨✨

ok ok very off topic but this vid just showed up in my reccomended and I was like "why not" and withing the first minute I was just ">:0" while looking at your face because you look so fakely pretty in the best possible way. ok that's it

Spileburg baby! The best artists steal or reference or something like that.

I love how you look like a glorious hello neighbour king

YOOO THIS IS ACTUALLY SOME GREAT ANIMATION

17:09 I love this

11:54 Kyaaa

15:16 FMA 03 Ptsd kicks in.

I've learned so much from your videos, but that Full Metal Alchemist scene though, is still too soon.

You inspired me to make art lol

I think Penwagon won because she made every frame very expressive and readable.

Lmao the duality of man 4:13 "Yes. Yes. I like this. :)" 4:32 "D:" *ImmaHeadout.exe* also the one with the yellow and pink cat made me laugh so hard.

So what’s the next contest, these always inspire me and me and my animations would love to juice it up or whatever. The point is I want to put my animations in because these are awesome. I like to be surrounded by folks who live for this shit like me, so what’s the next challenge or did I already ask that?!

50 mins ago? Awesome, I get to be sad and agree that I’m a little baby with a little baby crayon again-

Yay clarity :DD Oh man ye that spooped me oh no

Oh F you for bringing back my surpressed memories of full metal alchemust chimera........

15:28 only psychopaths laugh at this scene 🥲🥲

moral of the story, stay filthy with the tech deck

Gosh ur so beautiful

lov u

I’m thinking that pentagon won because of the ending it leaves it to the viewer to imagine how it ends

16:24 We both got scared at this part lol

Hey I'm not sure if anyone is going to answer this comment but I'm currently learning portrait drawing, when will it be a good time to learn animation or at least gesture for animation

Hey baby what u think about karl kopinski

Yes, twinkling dinkles

Yes

yes

Wow.

I need to become a professional artist in order to tickle in dinkle, I must begin grinding

Top-tier! this makes me want to animate

That dad looks like Dracula from Castlevania 3:17

12:26 my favorite

Penwagon has the most polished storytelling structure and composition but the entire thing is too mainstream Hollywood for my taste even the shots are what you expect them to be.

completely off topic but I just realized that your eyes are so pretty, it lowkey makes me nervous

LMAO

If your anything like me you know good as hell the drawing on the thumbnail is way better then all of your art combined lol

What drawing glove does Ethan use?

I have been wishing I could be in ur class. But my mom doesn't wanna. . .

Hi Ethan how does one find out about animation contests?

Ok so um, you probably won’t see this but I have a friend that loves Kooleen so naturally, I had to force her to watch you. She was complaining about how good your videos were and how it made her want to do art, which I know was your it ultimate goal. Just wanted to tell you 😄😄

Yall can go watch undisputed 2, 3, 4 if you wanna see the best fight scenes in movie history. Or just study Scott Adkins fights

i like your glasses

What’s the difference between 70+ vs Project City?

XD lol I wanna learn !!!