There’s something rather poetic about amethar being a storm herald barbarian and saccharina being a storm sorcerer

ONE THING I JUST NOTICED: Calroy's got strings around everyone except for Lapin (and possibly Liam or Ruby in the corner, they're both ranged fighters with bows) which works REALLY well with how he tries (and fails) to get his hooks in Lapin and fails miserably. I love it! Delicious!

Fantasy high entertained me the most, it was a fun party. Sophomore year prepared me for Brennan’s ability to hurt me. Unsleeping city was honestly a master craft. But crown of candy? I wasn’t prepared. I screamed. And when siobhan shouted at the fairy “IF YOU CANT BRING HER BACK WHATS THE POINT OF MAGIC” I legit forgot to breathe. My absolute favourite series by far. They always outdo themselves just when I think it was already at the peak.

I feel like we aren’t talking enough about Calroy sitting on the throne with the dagger

I personally love the 3 frames of theo with lazulli, the war and amethar as he is kneeling, such powerful images

Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never-the-same, totally unique, not-ever-been-done-before

I can’t stop watching this... the fear on Liam’s face while the twins are unaware.... “Do you walk in the valley of kings” & then the split frame of the lollistaff & swirl warden?? Aaaaaaa!! Those frames of Cinnamon growing too this is all really well done

ALSO HOT EVIL HUMAN CALROY AYYYYYYYYYY

Just watched this again and the way the eyes become stained glass at 1:11 is JAWDROPPING!!!!! hot calroy truthers unite!

gonna gush incoherently about this real quick. THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY’S EYES OPENING IS SO FUCKIN COOL. and the jet/amethar being stabbed parallel IS HURTINGG ME. 2:36 is such an epic frame. you’ve managed to visualise the story so well and it feels really natural. hot calroy rise up. tldr GREAT JOB

1:46 I’m gonna go feral is that a FOUR LEAF CLOVER? Post the “you’re so lucky” speech?? God the cinematic excellence!!!! This is SO good wtf

I'm especially losing it over the theo, amethar and lapin frames near the beginning and amethar meeting saccharina with the bright red background GOD. and the amethar and jet parallel?? and the locket??? crying forever

I know the phrase is "this will live rent free in my head." No. This will live rent free in my *soul*

this is truly the best animatic i've ever seen. mind blowing. showstopping. leaving me breathless. your eye for color, lighting, character shape, silhouette, and expression is absolutely insane.

This is one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen...Every frame fits SO perfectly and has so much incredible detail. The Lapin “do you ponder the manner of things” beats made me audibly gasp this is really really stunning

holy shit this is amazing!! almost all of the villain shots were just chilling but jets death???? OW and saccharina's entrance!!! wow!!! this is just impeccable!!

goddamn dude this owns bones

The funniest thing about this is that the characters are very distinctly not made of flesh and bone

booted up my laptop just to do this and i'm so excited. since i can't fit this in the amount of characters it'll take on twitter, i shall SCREAMMMMM about this animatic in this comment instead. but yeah, holy fuck, sam, YOU BLEW IT RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER WITH THIS ONE! starting off with the twins and just going all in with the parallels is driving me insane. from the halves of the heart to the weapons to the tiaras to the linking pinkies. AHHHHH. COLORIZED "DO YOU WALK IN THE SHADOW OF MEN WHO SOLD THEIR LIVES TO A DREAM?" HIT SO MUCH HARDER THAN I ANTICIPATED. someone already said this, but the animation you did of spf's eyes opening to "the dark" gave me CHILLS. the connecting panels of swirlwarden and lollistaff was SUCH a good detail as well. i think 0:55 has to be my favorite panel out of the whole thing solely because it's jet and i just miss her so much. DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE SEQUENCE OF RUBY CASTING FOG DURING THE FIRST COMBAT? THE PINK????? AND THEN THE TRANSITION OF THE CERESIAN EYES TO THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS BELIZABETH WAS WALKING BY?????????? WHEW. i pretend i do not see hot humanized calroy. except that i do. AGAIN WITH "THE DARK." i don't know if you intended this, but using that lyric specifically for the villains in both instances, first with spf, now with the big baddie four, was immensely sexy, actually. THE INTRODUCTION OF RINA AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!! the lightning coming with her slamming the winterscoop into the ground... EXACTLY! SHE HAS THE RANGE! reusing the panel of castle candy at the end, but with the pcs in it this time, was so big brained of you. AND YEAH!!!!! I THINK THAT'S IT!!!!! sorry this is so long, but i think i got it out of my system now. i love this so much and i'm so proud of you for being able to put it together.

I CRIED!!! Hope you submitted this for the art montage for the beginning of the finale!!!!!!!

I know I already commented but this is my like 100th watch and it's the first time I realized that everything loses color when jet dies and color only comes back when saccharina enters... put this in a museum 😔

0:33, 0:44, 1:12, 1:21, and 2:37 ARE SO GOOD LITERALLY WTF HOW?!? AND THE COLOR SCHEMES FOR ALL THE VILLAINS?? UGH YES!! AND THE PARALLEL SHOTS OF SACCHARINA’S EYES WITH THE LIGHTNING AND LIAM’S WITH THE SHADOWS AHHHHHH

The way I screamed at 0:45!!!!! Every frame is an absolutely masterpiece!!!!! This looks so good Sam 😭💖💘💕💓💝🙏

i got CHILLS this is so kickass

Three years later and I'm still watching this. What an amazing piece of work this is, I can't believe you did it in two weeks! Every frame is incredibly dramatic and helps tell the story. Even the scenes walking through the castle hallways add so much.

I saw this for the first time three weeks ago and payed for DropoutTV to better appreciate this beautiful piece of art.

i'd always planned on watching a crown of candy since vaguely seeing all the lapin art, but when i saw the first few seconds of this i instantly Had to catch up enough to watch it in full and it was So Worth It

This is PHENOMINAL I can't stop watching this and pausing to get all the small details you really outdid yourself

Holy fuck!! The artistry JUMPED out!! Your visual storytelling is incredible, and everything fits so well it's as if the song was written specifically for this series. My personal favorite moments are the introductions of Theo, Amethar, and Lapin, and the killer transition at 1:11. Incredible work!

just finished acoc and this captures the EMOTIONS so fucking well i've rewatched it twice having to pause at every frame thank you so much for sharing this

whenever i stop being excited about art again i come back to this to remind me that you can make really fucking cool stuff. thank you for keeping me going

I haven't watched much of CoC because it is Too Intense for my fragile heart, but goodness! This is great! You've managed to hit the Exact Limit of CoC emotions I can handle having at one time before I need to take a break -- with a very well made animatic to boot! I cannot comprehend how long it must have taken you to not just make all these quality frames, but COLOR and SHADE them too?? Truly you are a blessing to this community...

SAAAAMN (this is em) THIS IS SOOO GOOD THE TIMING THE PACING THE ART JUST WOW... THE ENDING.... SACCHARINA'S INTRODUCTION... IT'S ALL AMAZING!! when i saw belizabeth i almost screamed i love the part with the villains omg... i feel like i could watch it a million times and catch more each time its SO GOOD

i wish i could like this multiple times. i'm rewatching acoc for the 5th or 6th time rn and i go back to this animatic every time bc it's beautifully done and the song fits so well. i actually can't hear glitter & gold anymore without thinking about them

Three months later and I have yet to see anything at all surpass this absolute masterpiece it’s simply my favorite thing ever

Alright, it's a month later and I'm still just completely ASTOUNDED by this masterpiece. 😭

there are many great parts here but the three panels of Sir Theobald Gumbar at 0:26 convey his story perfectly in only a handful of seconds. honestly that, Amethar's backstory, and Lapin's backstory are my favorite parts here with how much they portray in so little frames

I just finished A Crown of Candy last night and immediately went to tumblr desperate for more content. I found this and I've watched it 4 times since then. It brought tears to my eyes the first time. This is incredible!

This is an incredible song and I'm convinced it was written precisely to tell this story

Purposefully have been avoiding this cuz I knew it would either 1. Make me incredibly sad or 3. Add firewood to my already burning hatred for Calroy/Belizabeth/Grissini Now you sir, have achieved both, all with beautiful, beautiful artwork *chef’s kiss* (pun intended). You slapped me in the face, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a beautiful hand.

This is quite SWEET,the CREAM of the crop of the Crown of Candy animations,again,this ROCKS.

Holy crud this is AMAZING. The sheer artistry, the work and love that was put into this... I'm floored!

I swear. Every time I watch this animatic, I notice something different. Like this time, seeing the clover by Calroy referring to how he said that Amethar is "So damn lucky".

I literally cannot stop coming back to watch this over and over

WOW This is stunning, and like, the timing, the storytelling of it all, the expressions and the scenes you chose, WOW amazing work!!!

AAh this is fantastiq

This has a permanent tab open on my desktop, just so I can come back and rewatch it when I want that *epic* feeling

I still come back to this video every once in a while. It's literal storyboard perfection! The transitions are so good and just in general everything goes immaculately with the music!!

The parallel start and end shots of the castle exterior, the time lapse of Theo, the split screen of Swirlwarden and the Lollistaff completing each other (and that fact that Lapin and Theo are, quite literally, representative in their power of glitter and gold), the sequence of villain shots, the parallels between Jet's death and Calroy stabbing Amethar, the fade-out of the Sweetest Heart, the statues of the Rocks sisters, the beautiful shot of Belizabeth and the stained glass, the strings reaching from Calroy's fingers to all but Lapin and Ruby...this is truly a masterpiece

This is honestly one of the most amazing animatics I’ve ever seen. The timing is beautiful, the art is amazing. You absolutely killed it. Stunning work.

I just found this but god DAMN it's so good!!! There's literally too much I love about it to be contained in one comment but I'll try: Theo's part at the beginning where he's following Lazuli, then in war, then kneeling for Amethar? Calroy and the chess board! The part showing all the villains to "the dark, the dark, the dark"! How it went black and white after Jet's death until Saccharina showed up and then it was in color again! Saccharina's whole entrance! The transition of Saccharina with cute lil Cinnamon to Giant Dragon Cinnamon! Showing all the villains back at Castle Candy and then showing the Rocks family outside, mirroring the earlier shot of the castle! It was just all so cool!!!

I'm going to go watch this 500 times and cry now. There are no words for how absolutely incredible this is

I just got in the habit of thinking of animatics for my own DnD game when hearing songs, but when hearing "Glitter and Gold" I can only think of this, an already perfect animation. It really shows the epicness, the heartbreak, and the beauty of this whole story.

i am GAGGED

i love your take on cruller!!

Really hope you submitted this for the finale because this got me so hyped up for the final battle

I know I'm a year late, but I am OBSESSED with this. Absolutely amazing.

Can't wait to watch A Crown of Candy so I can understand this art

HOOOOOOOOOOLY MOLY dude this is maybe the best thing i’ve ever seen in my life? THE DETAILS?????? ITS SO GOOOOOD WOW

THEOBALD'S SHIELD MATCHING LAPIN'S STAFF AAAAAAA

this is. SO good. i can't stop watching it, it's maybe the best animatic i've ever seen. truly WONDERFUL. i could go on and on about all the frames and shots and the details i liked about it but i'll just say that is was so amazing, i love it.

I’ve watched this so many times that it’s now always in my recommended and I just…I can’t NOT watch it again 😂

first time I saw this I hadn't seen the show yet, thought it was cool. Now I'm actually watching it and the detail and highlighted moments are just gut wrenching. Well done!

oh this is GORGEOUS i am afflicted by this

this legit sent shivers down my spine

chills

I don't know how many hundreds of times I've watched this since finding ACOC 3 weeks ago

Well now I have a new obsession. It’s wonderful! Your timing is just miiiiind blowing!

Why am I crying? I’m literally crying???

I found and watched this the first time before I even got to the cathedral scene, mostly because I liked the song and I had already spoiled myself on the deaths/twists that the season held. Coming back and rewatching it, I picked up so many more little details in this. The three shots with Theo following, fighting, and kneeling continues to be my favorite, and hits different after the final episodes, but all of it is just a masterpiece. I loved every second of it.

MY GOSH. THIS LEFT ME AWESTRUCK.

This was absolutely incredible to watch but also this song is my ringtone and sitting through this felt like I was ignoring a phone call ashkldjal

I wish I could 👍 this every time i watch it bc I come back to this video almost every day 😍😍😍😍 This is PERFECTION

In the words of Brennan, incredible.

This is insanely beautiful you couldn't chosen a better song for this story

I think this might be my favorite thing

OH MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!! THE EDITING THE ART THE EVERYTHING!!! I'm watching this on loop for forever

the way this animatic has lived in my mind rent free for weeks..... i can't stop watching it

Stellar, incredible. I felt a shiver run down my spine at several shots during this. Great, great job.

0:51 THAT WAS SO GOOD????

I like this ages ago but I don’t think I commented on how brilliant it actually was.

i can't stop watching this

I've got chills.

That was AMAZING. I got whole ass chills

oh my god, i literally have no words... this was so good!!!!!

AMAZING

shivers man!!!!! WTffffFFFFF this is so well done

This is the best! It really highlighted their whole journey. All they’ve lost and everything at stake for all the characters. You’re amazing!

I've watched this so so so many times and it's probably one of my favorite animatics ever. The transition from the eyes to the church windows is so good and subtle I lose my mind every time. Incredible, outstanding, showstopping, never been done before

This is absolutely incredible.

ABSOLUTELY INSANE THIS IS SO GOOD AOSGHJEOWIRGHOWRE NO WORDS

This is absolutely incredible

This animatic is what got me to finally get Dropout so I could watch ACoC! Your animatic was so beautiful it got me to spend money (and it was worth every cent!!) :D

this is absolutely BREATHTAKING!!! I am litterally screaming this is so good!!!!!

Goodness I love everything about this! The one thing I will say is I wish Rococoa got some more representation in her part with a sword and shield or something but other than that this is just spectacular!

INCREDIBLE, SHOWSTOPPING HOLY MOLY- the timing on this is so freaking good!! I already adored this song but this usage of it? OUTSTANDING

every frame of this is so detailed and gorgeous i love itt

Literal tears every time I see this.

HI this gives me FEELINGS It’s so perfect, the way the beginning is lighthearted just like the actual show but shit gets real SO fast with the intros of the adult PCs (which are all PERFECT and amazing. The four statutes + those lyrics??? Theo’s journey in three frames to end kneeling before amethar? SUGAR PLUM FAIRY + those lyrics???) And then the second verse focusing on the villains (and more perfect intros! Calroy + strings esp) and then some scenes of the villains winning??? The songs bridge and the transitional time until Saccharina enters??? ENTER SACCHARINA on her own verse giving color back to the animation and another tone shift so the hero’s are winning??? I would never in a million years have seen it on my own but this song perfectly fits this story and the art ties it together so well I will never hear this song again with out playing these pictures in my mind. Ive watched this at least 10 times by now