a bard’s lament | critical role animatic

audio from campaign 1 episode 85!!
words cannot describe the emotions i felt when i watched this scene for the first time….. emmy award winning sam riegel how do you do it…
SCANLAN SHORTHALT I LOVE YOU. literally cannot wait until this is animated by people who actually know they’re doing. anyways. love you all, thank for watching!! :-D
also: sorry about the total inconsistency lol my art is just like that :’’)

[@michaelawhite568]

My best friend of ten years, rest his soul, was so excited to see this part animated in the show. I wish I could send him this cause I know he would have enjoyed it!

[@brainjuice167]

This is great, it's atrocious how little traction this is getting

[@fishtrift]

i'm just glad i could actually finish an entire (short) animatic lol, and i'm so happy some people seem to like it! thanks for commenting!! :)

[@m-rj.8332]

The angles the choice of when and how to cut the EXPRESSIONS. The red soaked memory. Holy shit I'm sending this to all my Critter friends they gotta see this

[@nickioleary8577]

I’m surprised there hasn’t been an animatic for this scene already (that I can find), and the first one definitely did not disappoint! The look of last ditch desperation at 1:21 was especially gut wrenching

[@fishtrift]

i know!! i couldn't believe that no one recreated such a memorable scene, and i love drawing expressions so i was like why not lol. i'm glad you liked it!!! :-)

[@queenidragon4489]

I can't believe I haven't seen anyone comment on how amazing of a decision it was to have Scanlan's hair down for this scene it makes it even more impactful because even physically he isn't even attempting to keep up appearances

[@MajestDick]

Yeah I was thinking it's perfect cause he just woke up from being dead, so his hair wouldn't be back in the ponytail

[@rubynights]

I'm so mad KZbin didn't recommend this one to me for three entire months but this HURT MY HEART. Seeing everyone go from confused to upset as Scanlan's rant got angrier and angrier was super good. Hell yeah.

[@pattygadzina425]

good LORD i love scanlan angst, i need more of it he's such an underappreciated character imo

[@theultrasceptile]

I felt the emotion from every illustration :(

[@3rdDayfan777]

This is heart-wrenchingly beautiful. It may only be an animatic, but your skill and detail at drawing facial expressions makes this whole scene a punch to the gut. The pain on all their faces, anger, frustration, dismay, it's all so excellently drawn. Amazing work, I hope we get to see more like this from you!

[@undeathghost5627]

When this hits the animated acreen for real in LoVM its going to break so many news fans hearts... Great animatic btw.

[@dalikolo]

I am ashamed that even tho I love Scanlan, as someone who can't really watch the full campaign and is show only, I did not know that he even had a mother

[@yaboyfuze6193]

I think they're planning to make it a surprise, a callout both to VM and to the viewers. To show his point even more, tbf in the actual campaign it comes up at the very start and is basically never mentioned again until this point.

[@dalikolo]

@@yaboyfuze6193 Damn… GIVE ME THE NEXT SEASON I NEED IT!!!

[@blorbo.consumer]

This is so good!!!! I can't believe youtube didn't recommend me this sooner

[@SaintBigfoot]

This is awesome! And god when it hits I’m the animated show it is gonna *hit*

[@ethanharris6226]

Favorite scene probably in all the campaigns, and what solidified Scanlan as probably my favorite character. Amazing art dude, excited to see more of your stuff! P.S. Personally think that the gang's reaction to Scanlan's return was kind of unwarranted, particularly from Pike and Grog who gave him a really hard time. And unless I'm forgetting something, there wasn't really ever like an actual cap on this whole debacle. Like sure Scanlan apologized for leaving and being an asshole, but there was never any restitution/admittance about the points Scanlan made about their imbalanced friendships. It's an interesting issue because the gang is sympathetic since Scanlan never really shared these feelings he had. That's what explains their initial confused and frustrated reactions - but, again, kind of feel like they should've had an aside where they talked things out again and acknowledged Scanlan's feelings and such. Would've wrapped up the whole emotional (and awesome) roller-coaster this plot point was, imo.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

Maybe they’ll fix it in the show

[@Teal_.]

@@stingerjohnny9951 yea improve roleplay is hard i hope the show can be more tightly written in this department

[@flysai5126]

THIS IS GREAT

[@sweetpatate2729]

That scene will break me everytime

[@TimjanThyme]

Yo this is so cool!! and THE EXPRESSIONS-

[@fishtrift]

thank you so much!! :D

[@carlotacosta9193]

BROOO this needs so much more attention HOW AM I ONLY SEEING IT NOW

[@marvelerful1]

INCREDIBLE!!! I hope the team at Critical Role sees this

[@VORTEX399]

Still hits like a truck everytime

[@jacobpalitsky32]

I’m actually surprised, there aren’t more animations about this scene in the critical role dnd game, but regardless of that, this is incredible

[@bondvabond]

The algorithm finally pushed this to me about 4 months late, and that's so unfair. This is brilliant, much better than MANY other animatics out there and an actual popular clip, and it doesn't get traction? So dumb :( The drawings are gorgeous, you nailed their expressions!

[@shadowelii]

WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE VIEWS THIS ANIMATIC HAD ME COUGHING UP BLOOD I am In shambles over this and I haven’t even watched this campaign yet (I plan to, I don’t mind spoilers). Incredible work 👏👏👏👏👏

[@OrangeCoconutt]

Still heartbreaking all these years later 🧡🧡 Amazing animation!! You nailed the emotion(s)

[@twdnerd]

One of my favorite moments ever. This is so incredible!

[@stargazer1778]

God this cut deep 😢

[@chunkocheese]

this is insanely good

[@KunKunGun]

Great Job! Love your expressions.

[@ssweetmilkk8494]

Ouuuggh this is too good

[@delicoast5407]

Lol i totally do that too. Make the expressions on my face that I'm drawing on my characters! XD

[@Quon_the_Destroyer]

DAMN GOOD

[@imanuelofthelions5518]

I was here before this blew up.

[@starvingartist733]

oh wow :0