Animation Students React to: Shelter by Porter Robinson & Madeon

[@AniValleyReacts]

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[@yumeneeko]

I was pretty annoyed to see animation students just not getting the messages in the animation. Good animation is not only summed up in beauty and good technique, but it is important to convey the story through the smallest details. I wonder if they are studying just to make something beautiful for the eyes and not the heart.

[@Nekomata1243]

me too, i feel the same way😮‍💨

[@vertyisprobablydead]

They're brainless SJW students not surprised at all.

[@parit579]

Really agree with you 😮

[@Warglein]

ye... that's some real important part by art for me.

[@rosenmael9724]

They did understand that though? Idk why you assume that they don't. They absolutely understood and saw the heart in the video. However, they focused mostly on what they were learning in class. Looking at the different techniques, discussing animation weight, run cycles, how a character runs will tell you a lot about the character, indicating that time has passed by changing the camera angle and the placement of the character, mentioning timecharts, etc. I"m sure they want to be able to convey heart in their work. Nobody goes into animation, with that much of a workload, and doesn't place heart or any messages into their work.

[@Meatrose]

It's absolutely mind-blowing to see people currently studying the subject be so completely oblivious to it.

[@liammcfarlin3923]

I'm kinda suprised they didn't get it. I don't think I've ever seen anyone miss the point of the music video and I definitely didn't think people studying to be animators would be the first.

[@conchi4228]

I love how they thought the Dad just put her in space and not knowing that the worlds was about to end.

[@DschungelKatze]

I don't even understand how little attention you need to pay to not realize that

[@Warglein]

@@DschungelKatze i think as good as no attention

[@rosenmael9724]

@@Warglein I've watched a couple people react to this and miss that detail. The detail that the world is ending is very easy to miss. It's on screen for like, a couple seconds then it's gone. It's very easy to miss small details like that when watching something like an AMV :/

[@aSSGoblin1488]

EVERYBODY DEADD

[@bradyp8868]

​@rosenmael9724 okay but it's shown so many times in the video that you have to be willfully not paying attention to miss it that many times.

[@XeonAlpha]

So this is the translation of the message Rin gets on her tablet at the end. To Rin From: Dad There was far too little time left after you were born. I wonder how much love I was able to show after your mother passed... Seeing you cheerful and well gave your old man courage. It really would have been better if we could have gone together, but I couldn't make it work. I thought I wanted you to forget everything and go forward...knowing you, you'll be okay. You'll realize your loneliness, and surely remember me. I believe that you'll grow strong and read this letter. I wish we could have made more memories. I'm sorry. When you were little you probably didn't understand well, but now you should. I'll say the words from that day once more.

[@AniValleyReacts]

thats so wholesome

[@az639]

@@AniValleyReacts The words he said to her are the same words she says out loud at the end after reading the message.

[@laurenbee6676]

One of my favourite music videos of all time. And the music is fantastic too. Brilliant animation, story telling and music is a very potent combination. Great react video all!

[@AniValleyReacts]

100% agreed

[@bigo93]

You really do have to watch this MV several times. Am surprised these animation students missed to much! Such as how they are celebrating her birthday and xmas at the same time. How he's doing all the things a father would do all crammed into a short time. The obvious that the planet is about to be destroyed by colliding with another runaway planet/moon. How the father, whilst trying to spend as much time with his daughter, is designing and building the space capsule and rocket her will later send her into space with. All this speculates that her birthday isnt on xmas day, nor that it's actually her birthday or xmas day on the day they are celebrating, cos they dont have time. How she likes drawing and he designs the OS and tablet to create environments based on her drawings, and him teaching her to use the tablet. That she's been alone in VR ever since she was launched into space!

[@aldin.2714]

fr. i was expecting for all of them to catch on quick but the other person was so confused or their just way too focused on the animation rather than whats it telling.

[@yumeneeko]

I was pretty annoyed to see animation students just not getting the messages in the animation. Good animation is not only summed up in beauty and good technique, but it is important to convey the story through the smallest details. I wonder if they are studying just to make something beautiful for the eyes and not the heart.

[@rosenmael9724]

@@aldin.2714 Of course they're going to be focused on the techniques more than the message 😭??? Both are important, but they were specifically here to look at the animation. Just like bigo93 said, you have to watch this several times to fully understand and notice everything. I've watched this several times and never caught onto any of what bigo93 said, and I'm teaching myself how to animate. I only saw the main story element of a father sending his daughter off to save her life when the world was going to end. I wish people would give these animation students some slack :/ You have to learn the basics of how to animate before you can even begin to start including small storytelling elements into your animation.

[@Mr187Dag]

We underestimate our brains. We compare her digital world with our world and say " Her world seems kinda boring" . Well lets think about what we have dreamed of so far. People with character, different worlds, weird creatures , etc . We even dream about events we dont know the outcome and are in shock to think about it afterwards. So we wake up and ask how that could even be possible. In our dreams we feel every emotion. Lust, sadness, happyness, fear etc. Maybe we are already in an virtual world and this is your dream you dream just now. If you think about it that way, that can only make you stronger and there is no one ahead of you because its your world you live in. The deeper you sleep the more realistic become the dream. So how deep do you dream right now? This song and video is strong in every aspect !

[@eisenschaf1787]

Comfortable beds should always be counted. So we know if we have one for everyone. 🐏

[@AniValleyReacts]

Bee saw this comment and is verry happy about this comment hahahah

[@BergsArt]

here’s one if anyone wants it. 🛌

[@mitrikgaduk347]

Honestly there's so many small details but also some heavy stuff. Like how the lyrics of the song relate to the narrative of the video. A fun fact is that when this premiered it was shown live in Shibuya, Tokyo on a massive billboard. Porter Robinson gave a small speech which had Japanese subtitles, the crowd was wild. Porter is also a massive anime fan, so this was an incredible opportunity. Rarely do we see events like these happen, Porter is an American Producer, Madeon is French, working with one of the top Japanese Animation Studios, it was completely unheard of at the time. ---- Some thoughts on the video and the story ---- (A bit about the video) So the message is an interesting detail, the idea is that the world is already gone, so the messages she's been receiving have been scheduled prior to her launch. So the idea is that her Father left those messages for her when the time was right. My assumption is that her father didn't want her to remember what happened, not at least until she was mature enough to handle it. Note that when she was sent away she was around 5 years old (again, my assumption). She seems to be around the age of a teen in the video itself due to her stature, not uncommonly seen in many high school-centric anime. So due to it all happening when she was a kid, she probably forgot about what happened, which is why remembering what happened had such a traumatic effect. If he scheduled the messages to be delivered too early, she would've been worse off, if it was too late, she may have resented him for it. In all these years, I've wondered what he could've possibly told her, the idea of inspiring hope in someone who is all alone in the vacuum of space, hoping that someday someone or something out there will find you, it's honestly inconceivable. It's why I think her reaction felt all the more heartbreaking. To be honest, it reminds me of Superman's story. A world on the brink of extinction, two parents who will do anything to make sure their child survives. I'll leave with this last tidbit.. Where's her mother? There's a single moment in the entire thing where you see her mother in a family portrait holding her when she was a baby. I've always had this feeling that she died early on in her daughter's life, note that her father is found in his shop, he isn't a deadbeat either, he basically a single parent, it's shown expressly that he's very involved in her life. It's a possibility that he fought as hard as he did to give her a chance at survival because of the loss of his wife. It's likely that there was nothing he could do to save his wife but there was something he could do to save his daughter. I kept questioning why she wasn't there and the portrait, why show the portrait? Notice that he builds that ship by himself, he designed it, you can see the area where the ship is at 4:35 (Official Video), it seems to be a shed of some description (also note that she does walk in on him working on the schematics for the ship, this points to the fact that this was done by him personally). Honestly, it truly is one of my favorite songs, the way the story and the music come together is rarely seen even now. It's crazy to think it was released in 2016, 6 years ago.

[@spartapros2120]

There is a translation for the timed message that the father sent her.

[@az639]

Her mom died shortly after giving birth and she is at least 7 years old when the dad sends her away because in one of her memories she is wearing an elementary school backpack.

[@mitrikgaduk347]

@@az639 I never got to see the translation to what Rin's dad said in the message until around a few months ago. Mind you, I saw the video when it first came out, and back then not many people were talking about that tidbit let alone posting translations. "TO RIN FROM: DAD THERE WAS FAR TOO LITTLE TIME LEFT AFTER YOU WERE BORN. I WONDER HOW MUCH LOVE I WAS ABLE TO SHOW AFTER YOUR MOTHER PASSED… SEEING YOU CHEERFUL AND WELL GAVE YOUR OLD MAN COURAGE. IT REALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF WE COULD HAVE GONE TOGETHER, BUT I COULDN’T MAKE IT WORK. I THOUGHT I WANTED YOU TO FORGET EVERYTHING AND GO FORWARD…KNOWING YOU, YOU’LL BE OKAY. YOU’LL REALIZE YOUR LONELINESS, AND SURELY REMEMBER ME. I BELIEVE THAT YOU’LL GROW STRONG AND READ THIS LETTER. I WISH WE COULD HAVE MADE MORE MEMORIES TOGETHER. I’M SORRY. WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WELL, BUT NOW YOU SHOULD. I’LL SAY THE WORDS FROM THAT DAY ONCE MORE"

[@az639]

@@mitrikgaduk347 I also saw the video on the day it came out. I saw the translation to the letter about 2 years later.

[@dragaodechuva]

Okay... I cry again in this. Love your animation analysis, thanks for the work.

[@AniValleyReacts]

thank you for watching and leaving a comment :D

[@FRANCO-cm7ol]

felt like some didn't get that a whole ass planet was gonna collide to earth lol

[@rosenmael9724]

I've watched Shelter so many times now and I literally never noticed that. I thought it was big because that's just how things were. I just knew the world was going to end, but never knew how or why. Give these animation students some slack. :/

[@lazyman2451]

the scene where shes in a tub and all around her is destroy is her father whose showing her glimpses or hints as to where she came from, the dad program the tablet to draw and show her glimpses of all of what just happened throughout the days when shes old.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Wow, that's really cool. Never looked at it that way :D

[@amyss]

Absolutely a masterpiece

[@lilylaw7631]

Jo‘s dentist anecdote is hilarious XD totally been there

[@scizor285]

I love this idea already! And it had to be the shelter animation to be recommended to me.

[@AniValleyReacts]

hihihi the algorithm gods blessed us

[@chrisdobson2730]

Talked so damn much throughout that none of them noticed the fact that the planet was impending doom?

[@blakeolivieramadeus8939]

The story is so sad.... I can't explain it well but basically This person (rin) who lives in a virtual place in space that is the last of her kind ( humanity) with a tablet which allows her to create her own worlds to have fun and learn things but one day when she became 17 she found a tree a Tree she didn't make after touching that tree it showed her memories of years ago when she was younger but she realised that her father made a space ship for her to live on in space until something happens The message she got in the end is her father who made a pre-made message before he died So that when she become solder she gets that message The message was her father telling her about life and she ha sto move on( more details I can't tell because I don't remember. Best to go to the original video and find a person who translated the message) And she Starts to cry but also happy because she knows that she isn't alone( even though she is) Extra details. Jupiter was crashing to the earth making people have little time left before going instinct so her father ( whose dead now) made a ship for her to live on Her father also wanted to join her but it just didn't work so he sacrificed himself so that his daughter lives Trully one of the saddest short films ever.

[@NCore_._]

5:04 lmao not a nice dad... I hope u guys watched it again or at least someone told you what the story is. Coz this "Not" a nice dad sent her to space in that pod so she doesn't die and at least live here childhood even if virtually and alone but have the power to somewhat change it through her creativity since it's virtual. While he suffered and died on the planet you called beautiful because a meteor crashed into it 4:34. 5:36 And tbh one would feel sad than hate for their dad doing this coz all the dad wanted was for the kid to live out her young days in anyway possible and then know the truth.

[@AniValleyReacts]

yeah no definitely, the ones who saw the video for the first time got an explanation from caro after the reaction ahahha emotions are so complicated, and shelter is such an interesting video to look at from a moral point fo view :D thanks for that super interesting comment

[@konekochill8218]

Yeah! I got frustrated that they didn’t get that the meteor was going to crash on earth and that’s why the father send her to space.

[@AniValleyReacts]

@@konekochill8218 hahah intresting that you say that since only 2 students didn't understand that in the reaction but caro explained it to them before the analysis and they still had the same opinion. All the other ones understood the story and still also thought he was a horrible dad xD i think it's just a moral question of do you want to die together with your dad or do you want to be forever alone in space, i think i'd hate my dad for doing that to me even if he wanted to save me. But again this is such an interesting moral question to talk about :D

[@NCore_._]

@@AniValleyReacts Well it's also about from what pov you see. His dad wanted her daughter to at least live out her childhood according to her because of which he made the AI that helped her daughter do anything and was only limited by her creativity... and her loneliness. But then he made it such that she would come to know of the truth when she's 16 and decide if she wants to live any longer or die.

[@blueg3027]

"I would hate my dad for doing that" wow, im sorry for every parent that's sacrificed their life for their child

[@atxada2072]

you know her dad is handsome when someone mistaken him as her bf

[@darwinprime]

I hope heaven is animated, and it's this beautifully animated.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Me too, me too

[@NCore_._]

I didn't want to click on this video coz Shelter is one of those videos that made me cry so much and pushed me into a state of contemplation for days. And so watching it here again would just again make me go down that hole.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Oh no, i hoped our commentary was at least a bit distracting from the sad feelings hahaha

[@renatashp]

This Channel is amazing!!!!!

[@AniValleyReacts]

thank you!

[@SSJGengar]

Y'all didn't even pay attention to the reason the father sent her to space, he died. So ofc he couldn't message her bruh

[@free383]

hmmmm i wasnt planning on crying to this again... welp!

[@AniValleyReacts]

Ahhhh I'm sooorrryyy

[@詹健助-j5y]

Do you girls really understand? That father sacrificed himself to help his daughter make a one-person skyship to stay on the planet destroyed by planets. Do you have eyes? Are there two characters in the song? news segment?

[@kurokishizx]

God i return to this masterpiece every year

[@AniValleyReacts]

Saaaamee

[@inkoinfinity2]

Nice,one of them managed to relate the lyrics to both the video and story

[@trymetime]

I really felt Isa's vibe listening to this song again. Depression and then sadness 🥲 It's a great AMV and A-1 Pictures keeps getting better!

[@thatBRYAN]

8:50 well, we already got that with NVIDIA Canvas

[@sarahveien8541]

i recommend ya'll react to mob psycho 100! teru vs. shimazaki?

[@AniValleyReacts]

I was think of maybe looking at the opening but yeah i fight could be fun too :3

[@sarahveien8541]

@@AniValleyReacts oh yeah both openings are fire for animation, however the second one especially showcases the beauty of animation itself though, but I recommend both openings. The fights are really, really good too. There’s just so many !! :) Great show I highly recommend!

[@AniValleyReacts]

Thats so true. Well cori is a die hard fan so we will defenitely look at some mob psycho at some point, stay tuned :D

[@xiongray]

I like the different perspectives~

[@keais4513]

Gosh, it made me a lil bit pissed when they said they hate the dad W DAD

[@Vin.6564]

ME TOO!

[@taryth.]

I wish the info section gave more information about the story instead of just the animation studio.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Great idea, I'll implement that in the future

[@Arlan171]

Que video bom, brasil ta aqui assistindo, continuem

[@Alex-ho9rk]

yasemin and livia clearly are the best students for sure 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lewismackay9533]

These are future animators? Who can't even see a story in animation that 99.9% of everyone else saw? God help whatever studio they work at.

[@blu20O2]

I love to watch animes , and I know how much mangaka and other people put effort in making the anime. We judges everything easly A1 studio is great studio. I want to know which anime or animation these reactors make.

[@eggnorman]

"nonono... nonono.... he's _dead_ " *_OoOOHHHhhHhHHh_*

[@grielsraven1727]

Watch Garder of words Anime it was a very realistic animation my mind gone blow up when i watched the animation of that anime

[@yoohootube12]

Wow they didn't get the story???

[@AnonymousKev]

What program being used for the analysis??

[@AniValleyReacts]

its a website called syncsketch

[@OriginalPerception]

They didn't even really understand the story in the video. Someone had to tell them afterward. Any Animator ill always react to the Animation before the Story and then say dumb conculsion before they understand the Story. Piss me off people who go to the conculsion before even knowing the full Story.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Dude chill they watched it for the first time while having to commentate over it and are forced to listed to my commentary from behind the camera The other two groups understood the story, why are you nitpicking?

[@romandimitry13]

Kinda disappointing they never understood the story of the music video. Gotta dislike this one out of all the reactions about this video I've watched.

[@philippaul6039]

I think the idea is there's a natural disaster coming and he shot his daughter into space to save her from complete destruction lol

[@chillymusicischill]

bruh they didn't realize the guy is her dad

[@williamlittle4630]

I’m surprised they haven’t done demon slayer

[@Seissmo]

The key moments are full of spoilers.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Will come, we cant record new videos at the moment but as soon as we can we will do demon slayer, promise x3 watch out for a survey you can vote on which fight :D

[@The_Rising_Dragon]

Ooh, can you guys react to Mushoku Tensei at some point? :)

[@Seissmo]

Haven’t actually seen this one.

[@AniValleyReacts]

Verry glad to have shown it to you then :D

[@fpsshotty7445]

Please please please breakdown tengen vs gyutaro

[@AniValleyReacts]

We will at some point :D

[@aruanmello9320]

life of your average 3D artist

[@ChimkenRiceNuggy]

1 year

[@leolord1]

Lol Keep watching the pillows not the story 🤭

[@sandro.silva.nex99]

Essa animação é triste pena que não continua

[@maxserrano3798]

Que alguien les diga que el planeta fue destruido

[@SGTBizarro]

Attention spans and observation skills sorely lacking...

[@rafaellago8788]

react to "call of the mountain" league of legends

[@EnderKauki]

Not to hate, on the students and their way of the viewing the video, but I wonder how many dislikes this video has.

[@Aeternum30]

La lesbianas menos estereotipadas v:

[@magic_potato1375]

Boooo