CAPTAIN YAJIMA

[@therojowo]

The dilemma of desperately wanting more Captain Yajima, but also wanting Worthikids to make whatever his bizarre and insanely talented heart desires

[@Fethos]

i still want mor big top burger

[@Willowo98]

@Spencer Neucks (student) he’s said that he’s probably gonna do a season 2, he’s just taking a break because he has so many other ideas he wants to do

[@kylehayden3113]

I'm still waiting for season 2 of Big Top Burger

[@sleepCircle]

@@kylehayden3113 i have faith we will see it, some day

[@jamj4r]

The true duality of man. It's enough to cause M A D N E S S

[@bloopdeboop1707]

One of these days Worthi is just going to go "Aw whatever" and make a 2 hour long disney film.

[@gamzeelmao1157]

IVE SAT HERE FOR 2 MINUTES LAUGHING AT THIS IM DEAD💀

[@ibear2554]

I super hope so

[@TheSilverDiego]

As if Disney could even match this quality

[@bloopdeboop1707]

@@TheSilverDiego Extremely valid point good sir

[@yoruneko34]

Specifically not Disney

[@QuestionableObject]

I swear Worthikids has the power to make the smuggest looking characters possible

[@QuestionableObject]

@Ahmed Malaki If I had a twitter I would

[@NukaColaLight]

He’s on insta as well

[@natrius8219]

It's the lip curls

[@kumquatmagoo]

His Yoda smug face is the best ever

[@xfabkwood9321]

the astronaut rolling their eyes after yajima says "archrival" is so great

[@PleiadesRuby]

This is my favourite show by far

[@LeoTheMonts]

immediately followed by the cut to Yajima's framed photo of her archrival hanging on her wall. Because who doesn't do that with their archrival.

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

@@LeoTheMonts gotta have the fucker's face fresh in your mind

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

@@LeoTheMonts| I mean, how else will you let people know??

[@kruggsmash]

I want to have grown up with this

[@c1nnamodoll]

me too :(

[@shrimpshreds2361]

ay krugg!

[@RatsofaFeather]

Yo it’s Krugg!!!

[@2112thesmith]

all of us are still growing with it right now

[@bijtmntongaf]

krugg!!!!!!!!!

[@susannaaaa]

I feel like this was the first episode of the second season, where the studio had realised that Zoga was the breakout fan favourite and needed to find a reason to make her a member of the main cast

[@Javer80]

This would definitely happen. Zoga a cute.

[@purpleblah2]

They also keep saying it’s featuring Professor Genius, implying that he has his own series, or is popular enough to get his own billing.

[@preciousyoung357]

@@Javer80 Right? he's like jack spicer

[@TerraSleet]

Turns out 3 episodes in that Rude Motorcycle guy is a good guy who's desperately on the run from Emperess Kujin, the big bad of the season.

[@varsonn5677]

Well, Zoga's my favourite anyway

[@ZaGorudan]

The blown out audio, the yellow subtitles, the fact that you can see wires, god this is so authentic.

[@rustystealberg4198]

Where's a moment you can see wires?

[@saadvon]

@@rustystealberg4198 6:38

[@ZaGorudan]

@@rustystealberg4198 Towards the end when they're flying into the warphole. You can see them reflecting light.

[@TheAzerath]

@@rustystealberg4198 literally all throughout. You watching on a phone?

[@importunoproducoes2318]

@@ZaGorudan What a catch. That was great.

[@hexagonalpineapple3846]

i would love it if in future episodes the truce just... never ends. like zoga is just an unofficial part of the team and yajima says they hate each other but they just never... do anything

[@bjtgaming]

So vegeta?

[@jonrogers1497]

This constitutes as the start of a romance in the fanfics I've read.

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

Then we’ll get an arc where we find out the two are sisters…. Or the same person split into 2 parts

[@IaMaPh1991]

She's definitely the Doctor Smith of the group, if we're going by classic sci-fi standbys

[@Delta-ei7im]

...enemies to lovers?

[@user-kb7kf4vu2u]

This man straight up went to an alternate reality and downloaded a single episode of the show for us.

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

Yeah Also Tim ?

[@megapixzel]

I like how despite being a copy of a completely different medium you can still instantly tell that captain Yajima was designed by worthikids, thats good style

[@changeqe7228]

The facial expressions are a sure tell for me

[@AwesomeAutismHC]

I think it’s the tired eyes. That’s a very Worthi look.

[@bashubash]

The professor's lips and eyes are absolutely the Worthiest imo

[@MarMarVibes]

It’s still the same medium. He’s just that good

[@megapixzel]

​@@MarMarVibes i know it was all made in blender. the correct term would have been "pastiche" but it feels so pretentious

[@ForlornCreature]

I've made stop motions for years and this looks 100% real. Your attention to detail is fucking incredible. The hair boiling, the tiedowns, awkward posing, uneven spacing, the camera bumps. My jaw is on the floor.

[@soaringtrident]

Wait this ISN'T stop motion?! How even...

[@VerbenaHA]

Flawless recreation!

[@Keenath]

​@@soaringtrident Apparently, everything Worthikids does is actually 3d-modeled CGI in Blender but he uses a wide variety of filters to make it look like claymation/cel-shading/hand animation/etc. But that means a lot of attention to the details of those different kinds of production!

[@leahcarson1822]

Making it look as authentic as it does had to have been so tedious it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it,it’s amazing

[@oz_jones]

@@soaringtrident it literally says animated in blender at the start

[@nilsniemeier5345]

I feel like this is a real show that exists in an alternate-universe that we've only been privileged to see one episode of. Bravo, Worthikids, this is incredible.

[@StickMations]

Worthikids really just said screw it and made an iconic 80's stop-motion cartoon series, he's too powerful

[@endel12]

His power is maximum

[@hyrapower]

In blender

[@ronethegreat9]

he must be stopped before its too late

[@TamerBayouq]

@@ronethegreat9 Only captain Yajima can stop him! But he will have to animate the captain in such a way that he is utterly defeated by his own animation. My mere mortal mind cannot comprehend how it would be done. But there must be a way!

[@kirbking8074]

I thought worthikids was a team

[@HenhousetheRed]

He got the people who dubbed Bigtop Burger in Japanese. Amazing.

[@DoodleWill]

THATS HOW HE DID IT. AMAZING.

[@marhepto]

@Tin Watchman I mean he probably just got someone to translate it from an English version of the script. Presumably the same people who dubbed it, given that they translated the Bigtop Burger episodes into Japanese of their own accord.

[@nibblrrr7124]

@Tin Watchman Description says "Translators..........Hanai Chihaya, Hanaue Shoichi" ;)

[@Carcosahead]

always open the description box in a video, you don't know what things you can find ;)

[@torymiddlebrooks]

We all appreciate the animation, cause it's incredible, but MAD fucking props to the voice acting team. I've never heard of RASH A1M but they fucking knocked it out of the park

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

Fun fact, they actually did a Japanese dub of the Big Top Burger episodes.

[@josharmstrong8813]

@@SilverHairedFreak25 noice I'm guessing that's where they get some of their inspiration

[@k.morningstar7983]

the voice acting just SLAPS so hard

[@stabbykinz1446]

@@SilverHairedFreak25 OH shit, was a fan dub initially? Either way, they sure as hell brought their A-game to this particular work.

[@Mike14264]

This was honestly some fantastic work a theirs! Every voice fits each character to a tee!

[@XandraMeltphace]

As a Japanese man I really appreciate the accurate Japanese. A lot of KZbinrs use google translate and call it a day not knowing that what they just said is the Japanese equivalent of “Engrish”. This animation was great, would love to see more.

[@TheWinjin]

In a different thread they say that RASH A1M are the Japanese dubbers that dubbed the whole of Bigtop Burgers!

[@Sircrapalot7696]

I was wondering about this and I’m glad a native speaker can confirm!

[@jakd.rabbit]

I think it'd be even funnier if there were another version of the same video with a Voltron: Defender of the Universe or Robotech quality of "so bad it's good" English dub of the video but I can understand why that isn't in the budget and appreciate the video being so good as it stands.

[@skunkgrl]

except for them all having 4 fingers instead of 5

[@SuperCatfire]

i mean. i assume its just actual people that know japanese

[@KakashiRoyal]

Dude, the fact they got the random displacement of hair where animators have to move the puppet’s head blows my damn mind.

[@xLoveandLightningx]

thank you so much for pointing this out; i hadn't noticed until i read your comment!! my awe has ratcheted up like 40%

[@uniworkhorse]

These blender nodes are crazy

[@daniperez8074]

Can you please point it out?

[@ccube2456]

Hell yeah, in stop motion that is called “chatter”

[@lelandrb]

Also the fishing line you can see at 6:39. Outrageous

[@crumb.crumblet.S.crumbington]

how does it feel to be the most talented person ever

[@MonkeWizerd]

Skilled* :)

[@milkman2994]

Like a God

[@thedocumentarian7259]

This is a Donald Glover level genius.

[@MossyGirly]

@@MonkeWizerd was about to say just that. Haha.

[@clayton332]

CRUMBBB

[@southpole1022]

This is the type of show to have 93 seasons or get canceled after this episode.

[@assortedcapability4578]

Hope it's the 93 season one this is great

[@thesexybatman263]

It's an 1970's japanese show, so it probabaly had 52 weekly episodes with moderate ratings, a buttload of merch, and suddenly dissapeared the next year when the next big thing hit the screen, and 5 years later was dubbed for broadcast in LatinAmerica and/or Europe.

[@alejandrogamezsierra7438]

*yes*

[@c0sm1cher04]

This anime definitely only existed for a season, and only 1000 VHS tapes were ever made. They sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay and there's a ravenous fanbase of 200 people. There's also a small con in Iowa where they get anyone who worked in the building this anime was made in to host panels.

[@MilkshakesandSodomy]

shut up

[@svolochoff1575]

I am from Russia, I grew up on Soviet puppet animation and this whole cartoon is insanely similar to it. I don’t know if this was done intentionally or not, but thanks for the opportunity to experience those feelings from childhood.

[@suptcic]

А я думала, что же это мне напоминает)

[@illuminati1866]

Есть такое, хотя не только с советской

[@jaysonklein6018]

It's very similar to the Rankin/Bass style of stop-motion animation, but with a 70s Japanese flair.

[@Mr_Mimestamp]

As someone who’s never used Blender, the fact that someone is able to make something that looks so much like stop motion is mind blowing.

[@silgon8705]

@@youngandfreemaine NOPE

[@dboot8886]

@@silgon8705 waitaminute waitaminute... this was ALL Blender? And he did it this way just... because?! ... fucking madlad.

[@dasawkem]

​@@youngandfreemaine Worthi has done other blender works involving imitating stop motion stuff, and he breaks down his work on such things pretty often, so you'll probably see the VFX breakdown of it all soon! The dude's fantastic in doing blender works meant to evoke and imitate stop motion

[@silgon8705]

@@youngandfreemaine He has ones for his other projects like Dried Up Old Bones and the Hatbox Ghost which use similar techniques

[@carlosfred8673]

The thing that impressed me the most was the Strings he animated on the models whenever they got kicked into space. Such a small detail but really sells it as one of those old stop motion cartoons.

[@E_blanknamehere]

We live in a world where worthi can just make a Japanese stop motion 70's show

[@luicifiero]

I feel like a kid on a saturday morning watching this

[@r.j.tammaro8383]

The craziest thing is that this was made in blender

[@dboot8886]

I refuse to believe this was Blndr, it looks too real, like real models.

[@oddlouli]

In a 3D animation Software

[@kevincrawleyart]

damn we really did get the best possible reality

[@wayneradiotv]

this is in a class of its own. how the hell are you this talented?? absolutely incredible

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

is that Wayner A. Diotv?

[@ASpookyFellow]

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 No, it's their brother, Way Nera Diotv

[@theaxolotlgod1204]

Didn't expect to see you here

[@Burgerplants]

*When*

[@Zadamouse]

Howdy wayne

[@emememememememememe]

a seedy bar called the bell pepper... nothing can ever top that joke

[@testchannelplsignore8509]

Everyone: Born too late to make iconic 80’s animes WorthKids: Hold my clown nose

[@neinherman9989]

A pittance for you my boy!

[@matthewsteinmetz729]

No one's going to talk about Worthi letting us listen to his self performed new song in an entirely new genre of music, Space Metal?

[@Jaggemonkey]

I just wanna know when the full version will go up on the music channel??

[@matthewsteinmetz729]

@@Jaggemonkey guy's probably got an album finished already

[@surrealness]

wasnt i believe in a thing called love by the darkness space metal????

[@Zomboinie]

If I may: Timeghoul, Demilick, Portal, Diskord, The Chasm, Sulphur Aeon, Cosmic Atrophy, Mithras, Wormed, Gigan, Darkspace, Alrakis, Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore, Midnight Odyssey, Progenie Terrestra Pura, Beherit, Arcturus, Oranssi Pazuzu, Inquisition, Voivod, Oblivieon, Vektor, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Nocturnus, Crystal Age, Artificial Brain, Bal-Sagoth, Kalisia, Oxiplegatz, Cynic, Wicked Innocence, Demigod, Stargazer, diSEMBOWELMENT, Thergothon, Ras Algethi, Fungoid Stream, Dolorian and Esoteric. What, you can't dump lists of obscure genres on a whim?

[@JDoe-um7ex]

@@Zomboinie i'll be coming back to this comment...

[@ME6ATURTLE]

Halfway through, I literally forgot this was CG animated. I started thinking “I bet having real puppets really helps with lighting... *wait a minute.”*

[@bloodynoses9693]

t-this is animated....?

[@abesto4576]

Wait, what?!

[@beterotato6757]

@@abesto4576 this is cgi, entirely created in blender

[@jacobchandler3649]

Yeah it says it right there in the intro. That being said... I would buy figures of them is they are ever made as merch or something!

[@long_chin_man]

i refuse to believe this was animated. thats impossible. literally theres no way thats crazy

[@YukaAkemi]

I was so convinced the voice acting was ripped straight from a 80’s retro anime, audio compression and everyThing. but no, I clicked the description to see all the voice actor info’s, that’s insane, it’s so well done I couldn’t believe this was all original !! Outta this world!!!

[@NolanEgbert]

You know what's really going a long way to sell the whole aesthetic that no one is talking about? The VHS style aspect ratio! Makes it feel like like someone dug this out of their basement and had it transferred for KZbin and I love it

[@Squirtally]

I agree!

[@BenjaminRound]

Not just the aspect. Also the slight jittering of the frame you get with film, and the random scratches or holes.

[@darkhorseman90]

decades from now, generations will (hopefully) see this and think about how it looks so retro 80s and then be surprised that this was made in 2021

[@BenjaminRound]

@@darkhorseman90 Lol, yeap. Also just realised the sound is really well done and old sounding

[@minhaj_khan]

Pretty much every single detail is crafted to utter perfection

[@tigrex62090]

YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE LITTLE STRINGS AS THEY ARE GETTING KICKED THIS IS AMAZING

[@Jos3jmsfkl]

This is like the Lego movie when it came out, no one could tell if it was stop motion or computer-animated.

[@tenbeat]

It's a documentary.

[@JohnGottschalk]

Ummm, people could tell, but yeah this is good stuff

[@oneshot8109]

@@JohnGottschalk Yeah it was essentially just dropping the frame rate in the Lego movie. This adds so many other details to really sell the clay-mation effect.

[@baitposter]

@@oneshot8109 Well, probably more than a couple animation tricks, like low frame rate + animating in twos instead of ones Plus the miniature camera effects, superior color grading previously unmatched (thanks to ACES), and a superb attention to detail.

[@oneshot8109]

@@baitposter yeah that was a bit of an oversimplification on my part. I certainly didn't mean to imply the Lego movie wasn't well animated, for all the reasons you mentioned.

[@squad1416]

Looking back on this after watching the Rankin Bass reviews with Worthikids, it's truly a wonder how hard it must have been to follow the animation principle that irked him the most with the modern homages to this art style: The top mouth should never move. In fact, it should be in this odd perma-smile that can be interpreted into a variety of mouth shapes. It's the limits that make the style, and Worthikids nail it.

[@pingwingugu5]

He breaks that at 3:15. The top mouth changes.

[@Crimsontalor]

@@pingwingugu5 at first you should follow the rules but to really know your craft and own it is finding WHEN to break the rules.

[@berrim26]

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." Also the rude alien has a crazy grin on his upper mouth piece

[@sirpuffball6366]

I love how they just have a framed picture of Zoga on their spaceship, presumably for the sole purpose of reminding Yajima who her arch-rival is supposed to be

[@avolan_]

It's obviously because they're in love

[@uhoh7545]

Everywhere at the end of ばか

[@PKSkyler]

@@avolan_ I mean, love and hate are just two sides of the same coin. One can't exist without the other, yet they both need one another to survive.

[@ichangedthename]

I love how he animated fake wires in this as if it were clay animation even though he made this in blender

[@avolan_]

@@PKSkyler Just like the dynamic between The Joker and Batman, absolutely brilliant

[@sarnicholas4053]

I'm just glad they could put aside their differences for once to unite against a common foe. Been waiting like 9 seasons for this.

[@evanholt1752]

Is this the beginning of Zoga’s redemption arc?

[@swallowsbreath]

the Zoga x Yajima shippers finally eating good

[@withlessAsbestos]

Why is it that the best shows are one offs?

[@josharmstrong8813]

@@withlessAsbestos just shows of what he's capable of the true chaotic neutral of the internet

[@Graneka]

Season 3 really lagged imho, but those new writers they hired have REALLY been earning their keep!

[@TheRaymanFan]

JUST... THE WAY THE CHARACTERS HAIR MOVES LIKE AN ANIMATOR IS ACTUALLY PHYSCIALLY PICKING THEM UP AND MOVING THEM IS JUST TOO PERFECT

[@Necro_Hexual]

Holy shit....

[@zenogias01]

God tier animation.

[@Nothingseen]

Watch the captain's collar. It's amazing.

[@ginker4658]

You would care about the hair Rayman

[@jimjamjones5335]

6:43 I cant believe he even animated in wires as if you really were to suspend your puppets in real stop-motion. His attention to detail is amazing.

[@vt_973]

congratulations on capturing the exact energy of 80s toku that's had decades of yuri fanfic (100% complimentary)

[@paperhat_boi]

Huh?

[@adriansmith2639]

Worthi has such a specific taste for aesthetics and humor and it is perhaps one of the most well-developed things I've ever seen. IDK how he does it.

[@rudeboyspodcast]

He makes behind the scenes stuff over on his Patreon so you can actually SEE how he does everything.

[@runeshelton3826]

You could create an entire holiday special, release it to the public as a "lost Rankin Bass film" and no one would doubt it.

[@NicoDoades]

You right. This here already looks like if Rankin Bass made Japanese sci-fi shows

[@superchroma]

No man should have all that power.

[@noodlefunny]

How are you so damn good at so many different types of animation. Calm DOWN

[@zote8602]

SAYING WHAT WE'RE ALL THINKING

[@xenwall]

In your defense Noodle, um.... Shit we're in the presence of a virtuoso here. Your shit real big boy good too though. Makes me wonder what life would have been like if I'd pursued art all those years ago. I'm just grandstanding in a senpai notice me moment at someone whose work I live vicariously through. Sorry. Have a good day! I'ma gonna go watch Adaptive Music again.

[@manny27392]

First, he drew. Then, he blended some Blender into his drawing. Finally, he became good enough at Blender to go beyond. Learning things separately from one another is always worse than using everything together in projects.

[@brutusthebear9050]

@@manny27392 Agreed. Integration and generalization are what humans are best at, yet we've fallen for a lie of specialization. This is a good example of how understanding one art allows for a stronger understanding of other arts. It's the same for many things. Music, science, history, etc. Integration is key.

[@TheGhostTypist]

Cant stop wont stop, never slow down!

[@Blue_Avatar]

Zoga has such "became a fandom favorite so powerful even the creators weren't expecting it" energy 😆

[@annoyingkid48]

I mean obviously, just _look_ at him!

[@sitron7224]

Worthikids is out here being reverse LAIKA, instead of making stop-motion so seamless people mistake it for CG, they're making CG so seamless it looks like stop-motion

[@tirlio]

Yeah, I can't believe it's not stop motion. On another note, I kinda dislike that modern stop motion looks 100% CGI most of the time. What's the point? I want rough animation, dang it.

[@sitron7224]

@@tirlio I mean, you're allowed to have that opinion, but like, I can't think of any modern stop motion that goes for that look other than LAIKA (who granted are behind most stop motion films these days, because there just aren't a lot of them). I mean most other modern SM productions embrace the handcrafted feel of the medium, just look at Isle of Dogs, the SM scenes of the Little Prince, and My Life as a Zucchini. Besides I would argue that even if the films have a polished look and merge CG with practical effects, you can still tell that it's hand made. It just has this realness to it that's impossible to achieve with CG (unless you're worthikids apparently)

[@tirlio]

@@sitron7224 yes, you are right. Isle of Dog etc. does it better. I only had Kubo in mind which looks great but it was too CG-like for my taste.

[@mashburnedead21789]

this isnt "laika" material lol-

[@sitron7224]

@@mashburnedead21789 I literally said this was the opposite of LAIKA

[@l.w.a.3398]

Worthikids might literally be the most talented yet diverse animator on KZbin, and there are tones of great animators here

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

He is like the aphex twin of animation Each of his pieces are different yet they all feel like they were made by him

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

Agree but what makes him stand out (just like aphex twin honestly) is his diverse rang of medias and how will he managed to perfect them

[@r0m3r07]

8 MINUTE ANIME STYLED VIDEO BY ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANIMATORS-FUCK YES

[@nickatnight9671]

Lesss gooo

[@juanvaldivia8001]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Silver_Sonic_23]

I love this

[@flecca7522]

An 80s anime style in claymation made in blender, even! God i love worthikids

[@Herve-bx8iq]

無料リンゴから来ました。 まさか全編日本語だなんて、感謝しても仕切れない！！！大好きですworthkids！！！！

[@mehtapkorkmazer5580]

Me 🇹🇷

[@RushGarcia]

Other dimension's better be filled with clowns.

[@men_del12]

And that food truck must serve them burgers

[@inspectorjavert9868]

@@men_del12 I thought they sold rocks

[@theblandcharlie822]

@@inspectorjavert9868 I thought they sold guava fruit

[@ladycavalier]

Loool

[@resuteru502]

What if these clowns were high on a wire? Remember... it would be a long way down for Captain Yajima and crew.

[@silverwis3603]

If the “strange dimension” ends up being a universe where all the characters have some wacky new art style my life will be complete

[@Sir_Crow]

I swear if like it ends up taking them to the world of Bigtop Burger or Wire I will scream.

[@silverwis3603]

@@Sir_Crow zoga joins zomburger? spoiler alert

[@foreverknight66]

*gasp* A worthkids cinematic universe!

[@zenogias01]

See, I'm imagining them landing in a dimension where they are done as incredible shitty 1980s CG . . . using incredibly good 2020s CG.

[@tharsis]

Good god, you even nailed the detail where the clothes get ruffled as characters move, as if they were posed by people between frames. This is some dangerously good talent.

[@everythingisfine8635]

This is not stop motion it was made in blender

[@fortidogi8620]

@@everythingisfine8635 thats what theyre saying

[@tharsis]

@@everythingisfine8635 Yeah, that's what I mean. He absolutely nailed the stop motion look in Blender

[@deathnightANIMATED]

Did you see the clear line after they got kicked, its a pretty cool detail

[@micha5200]

Hmmm. But what if it was really done that way, and we have been bamboozled?

[@bramslamm]

I was halfway through thinking to myself how impressive these clay models were before I remembered that this isn't ACTUALLY claymation. Your animation is phenomenal!

[@piroshi3rd]

OMG... He hired the Japanese fandubbers of Bigtop Burger. that's so cool and sweet.

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

Holy shit?? That's awesome. Good for them!

[@KORIBLADE100]

Now that's rad, had no idea

[@melskunk]

Now we need an English fandub of this. Someone get SungWon on the phone for Professor Genius

[@nanolathesteel]

And I thought "Dried up old bones" was spookily realistic. This deserves to be noticed by someone, and everyone.

[@TheWerecatboy]

It blows my mind how this one guy has more talent than entire animation studios.

[@davidwickline9710]

I think it has less to do with him having more talent, and more to do with him having more artistic vision than average, and enough talent to realize that vision without needing to bring along others who will stifle that vision

[@anxiousrobot82]

@@davidwickline9710 yeah he doesnt have to deal with shitty CEOs/producers of a huge company stifling anything

[@TheWerecatboy]

@@davidwickline9710 This 100%. Just so much raw creativity.

[@sarahbelle81]

This is a passion project, its not like he's on a deadline or anything

[@comeradecoyote]

Now imagine what he could do with the budget and resources of a full blown studio.

[@matthewbandersnatch1381]

We absolutely need a whole season of Captain Yajima! At the very least, one more episode...please?

[@UnclePaul1995]

Did the Cliffhanger worried You?

[@Coyoteari]

The slight hair shifts between frames, the weird random little light blips that I never understood, & by gods the fucking *_LIGHTING_* I literally can’t force my brain to see this as anything other than old school claymation/stop motion it’s beyond incredible

[@potaterjim]

I can't even understand how he did it, _and I mess with blender_ For the animation, I guess he could use some really choppy, stepped interpolation, and the faces are easy enough to change with shape keys, again with a constant interpolation. But the lighting is too good even for blender, those materials are absolutely spot on, and as you said, animating the hair just slightly on each frame would be pretty amazingly time consuming, I have no idea how to automate that. And then the composition of the shots, somehow making it look all blurry and low resolution like a true, vintage claymation show. The compositing alone makes my head spin

[@Rotem_S]

@@potaterjim I think this is actually animated one stop motion frame at a time

[@potaterjim]

@@Rotem_S oh god, you think he manually posed them for each frame?

[@Krystalmyth]

@@potaterjim The only "flaw" I can see is the lack of some of the common flaws with claymation like seeing the actual modeling tracks of their fingers on the clay, they're almost too perfect, but that was something they managed to arrive to in claymation over time themselves, so it's not a given.

[@AsAboveISoBelow]

THE STRINGS. HE PUT IN FREAKING STRINGS FOR THE FLOATING STUFF!!

[@Inkyblack11]

Imagine having all of space to drive around in and still getting pissed off that people are in your way

[@hanger9083]

Ive never thought about it that way, might just be the best part of this short 😂

[@Stowneyo]

Well you see this alien is....very rude

[@chanteshante]

Lol, fr

[@fidzschool2941]

I like how you don’t pigeon hole yourself into a single series and are always expanding you channel creatively. Much love Worthi.

[@fredrickreloaded4488]

worthikids was like two videos away from becoming the clown animator lmao

[@keacig3754]

I've lost count how many times I've watched this, but I only JUST NOW realized worthikids also animated wires/strings for when they get launched into space, that's so sick

[@Mr_Mimestamp]

I’m convinced Worthikids is a time traveler that found this unreleased anime and is here today to share it with us.

[@zarkflappysheep]

dude just...thank you. i cant express how happy this makes me. i was wondering if you could even top WIRE but my god this is a whole different kind of amazing. i love u and i love this

[@AsherLogan129]

Truly, this person is one of the many blessings in KZbin animation.

[@jillmont3342]

Why do I see u comment on every video I watch green haired onion boy

[@speeddecline160]

it feels like all his videos are different kinds of amazing

[@devinwilkey8063]

Woah I get to bear witness to one animating LEGEND commenting to an animating GOD. What a time to be alive!

[@AsherLogan129]

@@devinwilkey8063 really dig your profile pic!

[@PogieJoe]

This might be the best “retrofied” animation I’ve ever seen. It’s uncanny how great it is.

[@Sporadicus1976]

If you like this, you need to check out Otaking77077

[@danielchannel8801]

RETRO UNCANNY (im sorry)

[@iMugBabies]

I love the annoyed look on the astronaut as Yajima proclaims the biker as her archrival and dismisses Zoga. It’s the little details that make your animations shine.

[@muellerbones]

"I SHALL CARRY HIM ON MY POWERFUL BACK" is like one of the most anime things to say

[@chickuna7854]

“Babe wake up Worthikids uploaded”

[@VoxVenatoris]

Lol we made the same comment at the same time

[@fluffyzuffy]

wake s up epically

[@thequ6503]

ok babe

[@stupidblin0995]

LET'SA FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@catboynestormakhno2694]

@@VoxVenatoris lol me too haha wtf

[@Aztrosist]

you are amazing

[@sinsoftheswamp8346]

Oh course it worthikids!!!

[@hannibalburgers477]

simp

[@stupidjojofan6515]

Bro shut dont call them a simp for BEING NICE TO SOMEONE

[@edwardzhang1297]

Yo Aztrosist you watch worthikids too?

[@hannibalburgers477]

@@stupidjojofan6515 siiiiiiiiiiiiiimp

[@takuto9102]

すごい完成度！まったく新しいのに懐かしく感じる。

[@Torakosama]

Worthi even made an effort to animate the strings that would have hypothetically been on the puppets. Truly a man with a strong passion for stop motion.

[@divinitaazteca]

I really didn't see them, but you're not the first mentioning them. Can you please tell where you can see them?

[@bensterzdashrimp1496]

Following. I don't see them either, but I would like to.

[@hazeyvoice3913]

@@divinitaazteca 0.54

[@jamesthelass6331]

Every time the spaceship model flies on screen, you can see the strings “holding it up.”

[@bmorlok1]

@@divinitaazteca check when they get kicked at the end

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

My sibling and I are FURIOUS at how good this is. Nigh-perfectly mimicking stop-motion animation in a digital setting, translating your artstyle to a whole different aesthetic, and getting the whole thing voice-acted in Japanese??? Ridiculous. Also the gag with the sweat beads is just brilliant.

[@RavenTheVelociraptor]

the most incredible, mindblowing, brain spattering detail of this entire show: THE HAIR in between each frame, the hair shifts around AS IF SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY MOVED IT WHILE ANIMATING THE PUPPETS 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Dogerta]

Nah the most mind blowing part is it’s made in blender

[@runed0s86]

Wait... This isn't stop-motion?!

[@proffapoluga2573]

@@runed0s86 rewatch up to the third shot my guy. Worthikids is the master of the RankinBass aesthetic in blender

[@dboot8886]

@@proffapoluga2573 BULLSHIT this CANT be ALL Blender those are puppets! Those are real, tactile PUPPETS!!

[@Octopi_3]

Wicked Zoga is already my favourite anime character ever.

[@valentine-br1ok]

literally BEGGING you to bring this back at least for one more part

[@thememeestfilmbuff]

*The weird portal dimension is probably leading to New York City or Tokyo,* so they can have a live-action movie.

[@Me-wx1mt]

Why do I see you everywhere?!?!

[@oneviaenthusiast3006]

@B00B13_B1RD as a new yorker, i wont blame you for mistaking us for creatures from space. we all come in peace.

[@Kimpanter]

Which of course will also be actually just animated by worthkids, who mastert photorealistic rendering and perfectly mimicing actuall people in blender in his spare time. If anyone could do it it would be this madlad.

[@zenogias01]

Nah, it'd be the same puppets filmed over obvious screens in the background with pre-filmed human actors reacting to some dude just off screen, and it'd look so terrible it'd be retroactively amazing.

[@seraph4911]

This man better have a 6 figure job, he’s too talented

[@Necro_Hexual]

9 figures. 12 seasons and movie trilogy.

[@uhkingdom]

@@Necro_Hexual 4 seasons of 3 unique shows and a movie to cap off each, at least. But he’d have to teach whole teams of people how to animate like him and idk if that’s possible

[@explolsivecake2045]

Captain Yajima really just said ‘Friendship ended with Zoga, Motorcycle Alien is my new best friend’

[@blooberri666]

zoga got promoted from archrival (romantic) to girlfriend

[@Introbulus]

@@blooberri666 Girlfriend(angry).

[@wrenmacneil7703]

@@blooberri666 glad to see I'm not the only one who felt it

[@PlagueOfWasps]

This satisfies a sense of nostalgia that doesn’t actually exist and I can only beg for more. I could really watch this on a loop until the heat death of the universe just to feel this way.

[@bellarose1562]

I love Yajima’s design it’s so freakin cute she’s like a space pop star

[@Frugthereal]

Yeah it's awesome! I love how in the intro she looks all tough and then does a lil pose!

[@DominicGo]

If it wasn’t for the blender logo at the start, i would be 100% convinced this was stop motion haha

[@twistedbus344]

I'm still not convinced it isn't lol

[@Fillardmillmore]

Wait it wasn't 🤨 Sorry I knew blender was a program for Animation since I looked at it for my pc but I didn't know if it also had a different purpose. So how did they achieve this look?

[@SuperWiiBros08]

I love how it really looks like stop motion with the vintage look, messy dirty models and the strings on some parts. It would be funny if there's a next episode with literally a new dimension, which means different art style and such

[@alandank3830]

Damn that´s a really good idea

[@ThatManOverThere]

like, forget realistic people, realistic people always look weird in like 3-4 years, going for stuff like stop motion with all its imperfections and copying them perfectly makes me infinitely more excited about where animation could go. Like seriously, imagine if they made a whole game that looked/acted like this again.

[@SuperNova_6801]

@@ThatManOverThere I would buy it 50 times over and make it my entire personality

[@Maddenzie]

@@ThatManOverThere like skullmonkeys or clay fighter?

[@matthewjohnson1415]

I have no idea how he makes blender look so much like stop motion / claymation but it is super impressive.

[@KimchiiKnight]

6:45 the visible string!! I can't!!! This attention to detail is mind blowing!!

[@dorkusandahalf6611]

okay but I would unironically watch this entire show

[@kylieschuttloffel1261]

you know that thing where gay girls idolize female villains. yeah i wanna be zoga. tho tbh with zoga they're pretty androgynous and i find myself wondering what gender they are if any

[@dorkusandahalf6611]

This whole video radiates pure lesbian energy. Good luck sorting things out, gender is like sexuality squared in terms of figuring out.

[@kapmando]

Same, dorkus and a half.

[@ThePuppyLover1000]

100% would watch this show as it came out

[@airplanetowardsthesky3265]

I have to constantly remind myself that this is all animation and not actual stop motion. Incredible

[@hotelmario510]

blender animation you mean. stop motion is animation

[@aeronbridgess7991]

Huh, I thought it was clay

[@kiliankl4167]

Theres actually strings when they're floating, this is insane!

[@kiliankl4167]

6:38

[@mechajesus948]

I really hope there is a second episode. The mystery of the motorcycle alien is kicking my soul.

[@Shezmen88]

Sheer genius and talent!

[@Mangasama]

*Professor* Genius and talent

[@thehermit8618]

I find incredible how can make something wholly digital look so analog

[@Shezmen88]

@@Mangasama XD

[@EpicBeard815]

God, I want to live in the Worthikids universe where all of this stuff has 1000 episodes each and multiple video games.

[@OperatorDrewski]

what can this man not do?

[@jjayala5512]

Ur mom lolol

[@TrainerNomed]

@@jjayala5512 You underestimate his power.

[@nobody5333]

Make something below perfect

[@jjayala5512]

@@TrainerNomed can't undo a mom, even with his

[@yaboi8er]

He can't disappoint us, for one thing.

[@thesoffgengar]

i come back to this from time to time but i never get over how cute captain yajima is, she looks like a pop star

[@FrinkZz]

My man even animated THE PUPPET STAND MOVING INTO FRAME AT 4:19...... The attention to detail is actually out of this world my brain can't handle it

[@AppleIPie]

The weight on that cape is *incredible.* I know it's CG but i still cannot convince myself that there isn't a real Zoga figure with a little 6 square inch felt cape.

[@AppleIPie]

@Rational Fanatic It's all made in blender. It's unbelievable.

[@RavenTheVelociraptor]

NO! It's little models! They're real! Such raw talent and gift is impossible!!!!

[@amaulana090]

@@RavenTheVelociraptor digital models that is! It was made clear from the start that it is complete CG but somehow it was done to perfection

[@RavenTheVelociraptor]

@@amaulana090 "Noooo!! That's not true!! That's IMPOSSIBLE!!!"

[@ABW941]

@@amaulana090 Maybe that was a lie.

[@RedHatClub]

Worthikids is a genius, can someone just give him a show already, funding or something because this guy's creativity and talent is beyond amazing.

[@Gospel-xm7vd]

I say he already has a pretty sweet gig with his Patreons and with quality videos like this he won't be short on people willing to throw money at him

[@ZamrayzRayzoray]

He gets sponsored by adult swim sometimes I think, along with Jack stauber

[@paladinfoxx6574]

Adult Swim has been pretty cool and let him make bumpers for their commercial breaks.

[@Max25670]

@@paladinfoxx6574 adult swim should just give a show already

[@missmingles]

I can’t help but think this would have a popularity boom if the thumbnail featured the characters faces! You were SO authentic, I can’t help but think a lot of people are mistaking this for a video on old media/anime in their recommended pages!

[@pingwingugu5]

I can confirm that. I always ignored this one when going thru Worthkids videos. Today it just auto played on me and it is amazing.

[@flowerbloom5782]

I sure thought it was stop motion

[@squiredan1435]

Now some say that worthikids sold his soul to get these skills. But it's obviously a mixture of hard work, hard work, and the souls of hundreds that makes him this good.

[@sleepCircle]

yes, he didn't 'sell his soul' that's dumb he clearly SUCKED IN THE SOULS of countless artists, like a huge black hole of skill he is now well below the schwarzchild radius and his soul mass is growing we're all doomed but at least our doom will be *fabulous looking*

[@MoikaloopTV]

Everytime you upload an animation I get so inspired and motivated. I love your work

[@glaglelolba6279]

Interesting seeing you here, I liked your recent elevator short you did

[@Skizzum]

saaaaaaaaame!

[@Charon-ky5vr]

I love you 😏😏😏 lol nah but all seriousness you work is awesome as well really enjoy it

[@MoikaloopTV]

@Vincent Start simple, you don't have to make big steps in the beginning. Baby steps, take it from there and you'll get somewhere far in the long run.

[@joegun4259]

@@MoikaloopTV susage

[@madikken5363]

This is one day old and Zoga is already an icon

[@nathanlininger7515]

It’s just… criminal how underrated your work is. It actually makes me upset that you don’t have tens on millions of views on each post. I love your work!

[@JackHammer503]

Professor Genius has to be the most huggable 6-armed space slug I've ever seen

[@blackoutsampler9993]

This looks so goddamn real it's disturbing. Like, Worthi somehow dug an old VHS of this series out of his basement and just sent us the footage. Not only that, it's such a charming short as well. Yajima is just so cheerily upbeat, and Zoga is such a drama queen. And Professor Genius is totally deserving of his own show.

[@LimeyLassen]

I sometimes have dreams about finding lost media from alternate realities and here's worthikids just legit producing it

[@BritneyT.]

Professor Genius feels like the Ms. Frizzle of his planet

[@evagineer9165]

@@LimeyLassen lmao

[@Mike14264]

I love how, even tho the whole thing is animated in Blender, he still added details to make it look like it's all stop motion, like the wires on "floating" objects!

[@Brasswatchman]

Arguably, this IS his own show. If anything, he seems to be the Doctor and Yajima is the companion. He just lets her be the face because she sells the most among humanoids.

[@nicklewry3854]

It’s crazy how even though this is an entirely different medium than you usually do it is still immediately obvious that it’s your style by looking at the faces

[@casualtr4sh]

I still can't believe this isn't actually stop motion

[@Crimson365]

It's.... It's still Blender.

[@shumeiyang1024]

I could be wrong but I think I heard this from a video worthi made? That his 2D animation is basically rotoscoped 3D models they made on blender

[@randomperson11111123]

Worthi has been using Blender in videos for years though. Hell, BigTop Burger was entirely Blender.

[@sarafontanini7051]

actually, nope, this is the same medium he's been using for like almost all of his shit, he's just so SKILLED with it you can't tell it's 3D CGI rather than Puppets

[@Emicatmon]

I would watch a series of this over and over and over and over I'd even buy a DVD or something I love this so much

[@Nagoragama]

"I was doing a different thing my astronaut disguise." I don't know why but this makes me laugh every time. Zoga's life isn't all about you Yajima, she has her own stuff going on!

[@StevenCasteelYT]

"Zoga's life isn't all about you Yajima, she has her own stuff going on!" That's cute. It's the little "real" moments like this that add a lot of character to storytelling.

[@aw3707]

everytime i am reminded that none of this is actual stop motion my socks are blown off so hard that they crash into mars

[@spacekitt.n]

whattt?! this is 3d animation?! i just watched this whole thing thinking it was stop motion lmao

[@jumbopaulo]

@dstar pyro you're not stupid, this is just REALLY good 3D animation made to look like stop motion

[@oblongLogin]

When I realized it wasn’t stop motion I got kicked to mars

[@majorgnu]

It literally says "Animated in Blender 2.92” at 0:12 lol

[@1dadall37]

...that’s insane.

[@blakechildress944]

The artists and animator behind Worthikids is a modern renaissance man. He's able to be a jack of all trades and pull it all off with flying colors. He's bound for greatness.

[@killercards7733]

The man can make fire music. Crank out amazing and entertaining animations in a few months.

[@SoulSukkur]

... Ian Worthington? yeah he's p cool

[@railimarotto2561]

I hope there will be more episodes of this. The character designs are so unique in stop animation. I NEED IT!!!