CRESCENDO - HOMESTUCK Animated Series Pilot (Fan Made)

Twenty fifth animation of mine.
They called me a madman.
Story following separate four events happening in homestuck, preceeding the CASCADE.
God girl trapped with an unkillable boss. Aliens facing unstopable Joke. Siblings approaching their fate. Hero dawning to start the domino fall.
VOICE ACTORS
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Alice Flare as Terezi Pyrope, Kanaya Maryam and Rose Lalonde
Twitter - / aliceinaltoland
KZbin - / aliceflare
Twitch - / aliceflare
Gemini Renegade as Sollux Captor , Gamzee Makara and Imps
Twitter - / geminirenegade
KZbin - / @geminirenegade9290
CaptainLazar as Karkat Vantas and Dave Strider
Twitter - / capitainjoe
Zachary Allen-Thierry as John Egbert
KZbin - / @zacharyallen-thierry
Instagramm / allenthierryzachary
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With help from
EnergyDrvnk
NewGrounds - energydrvnk.ne...
garbageGothic (voice casting)
Twitter - / garbagegothic
KZbin - / garbagegothic

[@higztv1166]

HOMESTUCK NEVER DIES! GLORY TO ICHELLOR!!!

[@flamingwhy6451]

22 minutes of animation, you're INSANE!!! Must've been a tight race to get this out on 4/13, but the end product was definitely worth the wait! Wishin' both you and the team behind this the best!

[@errorlink2923]

I gave homestuck a brief re-read after watching all your animation not too long ago and suddenly right on 4/13 you come out with this absolutely incredible piece of art, must be the work of goddamn MiRaClEs.

[@lordlawrence9781]

This is literally *the* best Homestuck Day in the entire history of the comic

[@interguy5846]

I said it before, and I'll say it again. Your animations have just the right blend of faithfulness and original content to make this something special. Happy 4/13!

[@adonissantos4383]

I legit thought this was an original series until I looked it up 💀💀💀

[@AliceFlare]

Happy 4/13! We're making this happen. 😎💚☀ Thanks for having me again on another masterpiece! And amazing work to everyone involved with bringing this to life. 👏

[@aaaaaaaaam]

YOU'RE A GODDAMN VISIONARY (the leadup to Cascade? holy fucking shit) I love the animated strife x5 combo (Kanaya cracking her head back into place is so cool, and the Terezi Sollux combo? badass) Rose with Grimdark powers! holy shit what a visual JOHN BOSS BATTLE we're doing this man. we're making this happen.

[@wolfkitty42]

WOW. All the animation in here is gorgeous, there is constantly something to look at! I especially love the borders you make during fight scenes, it really makes it feel like every punch and kick counts. I also really liked the colored overlays when Karkat and Gamzee fight, the visual effect of seeing one character dip into another side of the screen is just really fun to look at! WOW!

[@marcellyrangel5419]

Dude this is so unbelievable well done I am beyond impressed!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

[@goog-p7p]

The Supreme Imps are some of the most hype Homestuck OCs ever, amazing job.

[@perihelion1225]

Happy Homestuck day! I love all of your work!

[@mrserket1264]

Oh right its 4/13. This is a pretty dope ass drop on a day like this, happy 4/13 homie!

[@theidiotsfromplanetzognoid3637]

If I had a nickel for every homestuck animated series I’ve watched I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[@theidiotsfromplanetzognoid3637]

Ok so I got busy and never finished watching this, got recommended this again and was about to comment this again

[@0ceanking]

Fantastic stuff. I always love to see your adapted HS animations. The Dave and Rose banter was PEAK, had me dying laughing. And I love how you portray John with his dialogue. I'm so used to him being portrayed as a complete dumbass that everyone else looks down on so seeing him play the role of competent main character for once was really refreshing. I noticed the Bec Noir model still has the tentacles from pre-Bec prototyping. IIRC in the comic he loses that feature once getting Bec's powers, but could still summon them when he needed to use them. Any particular reason you decided to keep them on? I think he looks more badass without them squirming around passively tbh. But if you think the tentacles are cooler, I respect that! Just wondering if that's a deliberate choice, as you made a lot of other neat changes. My only criticism is that the audio and sfx could use some work. The voice actors are all great for the roles, it just needs some proper mixing and balancing to really make it feel like the sound is happening in the space instead of just coming from the screen, which can be a little jarring especially from the louder characters. Keep up the amazing content!

[@Ichellor]

Hello! Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed writing in this one! Human side seemed to have effect that i've wanted to accomplish! To answer your question in regards to tentacles. Aside from looking cool in my opinion, another reason for that is to keep Noir's visuals affected by each of human's sprites. In original, after green sun upgrade he had lost everything that could be assosiated with Rose, while other prototypings (John - Arm and Eye, Dave - Wings, Jade - Dog Snout) are clear and visible. So tentacles are there partially to keep her as part of that thematic of influence. Also in regards to sounds... They are unfinished. I couldn't finish them before the deadline of 413, and decided to publish as is, fair and square, my fault. I apologize for that.

[@0ceanking]

​​​​@@Ichellor Ah I see, totally understandable. That's a very cool reasoning for keeping jack's prototype features, it's a nice nod to those early decisions and connections in the comic. This was clearly a massive undertaking so I can understand not bring able to finish the audio in time. I'm still amazed at what you accomplished. Thank you for the creative insight!

[@themissingsock2437]

this truly has brought the most amazing feelings of healing watching this, so, thank you for making these, they are wonderful and so amazing and you're doing such a cool and helpful thing, much peace.

[@travisnakahira7320]

I love this, it reminds me of RWBY, like I’ll admit some bits of it are imperfect BUT you get caught up in the spectacle of everything that is happening so much that it’s able to suspend your disbelief. I absolutely adore this animation and how it uses homestuck and its characters.

[@Saefisays]

omg, I got youtube recommended one of these and couldn't stop until I watched everything available. these are amazing-the animation, the voices, the- fffff, it's all so good. Thank you to you and all the voice actors and everyone helping to make these!!!

[@JustSomePasserby]

I love your videos. They are just different enough to make me wonder whether the setting is an AU or a retelling of Homestuck with additional details. As always, the animation and choreography is spectacular.

[@schmorporatefool]

This is such a cool project! Really liking the dynamic camera angles, and the visual style is so unique!! Great work

[@thibaultl1956]

Voice acting, animation, and character designs are all on point. Really really glad that I stumbled onto this side of youtube. I wish more people could see this.

[@evo683]

There are so many amazing shots and visuals in this. It's not just an adaptation, this stuff takes a LOT of creativity and imagination. Like... seriously.

[@perihelion1225]

Absolutely stellar work! You’re easily one of my favorite animators on the platform!

[@perihelion1225]

I think my favorite part was John Egbert fight (was there a sneaky Ultrakill reference there as well?). Anyway, love your content.

[@randompersson]

Happy 4/13!! 22 minutes of stellar animation, today's a good day :D I especially love how you changed things up, really elevates the whole experience!

[@radiation8000]

only 2.8k views?!?! this has to be illegal.. this is so good holy fuck!! great job dude!!

[@skaerkilde]

Woah, cool to see my song used in such an amazing animation! Can't wait to see what else you do!

[@LlyonaFang]

this is incredible!?!?! possibly the best homestuck animation ive seen and i wish i discovered your work sooner! I love the colored outlines and glitchy effects, its stylistically perfect and also kinda reminds me of into the spider-verse Is this where it starts or will you be revisiting and reanimating everything from the beginning of homestuck? ALSO INFINITY MECHANISM IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS

[@user-neonsun1]

damn you inproved in animation ichellor this is actually really good like good job keep up the good work👏

[@Fruz]

this happened to my buddy eric last week

[@GreyOaka]

wow this is amazing!! great work for everyone, the script, the voice acting, the animation, really it's great! have to say, i specially loved rose thank you so much for this

[@TomtenPim]

This was SOO GOOOD! WOW! Keep up the absolutely amazing work Ichellor!

[@awanderingp3rson]

what the fuck. how did i not see this. coolest shit ever

[@Solaris2000APB]

so this a Pilot to a potential Homestuck series? i would love to see more of the most famous moments from the comic animated like that.

[@theghostscarftart7856]

happy you were able to post right in april 13, Happy Homestuck day

[@ZachkTV]

Much love broski, love to see how far you've come over the years; proud of you. Crazy how you have 33k subs now.

[@samk-j6735]

1:50 No intent to harm So this is post-retcon?

[@zacharybosley1935]

Yeah, he had an earlier animation featuring Terezi getting ready to take out her best friend, and we actually got visual confirmation that the Retcon-Powered-Egbert was out and about

[@voidnoidoid]

Damn can't believe i missed this! Youre keeping the fandom alive!

[@RoseBleueDuRosierSec]

Loved the fights, the use of color reminds me of special attacks in Marvel vs Capcom 3, also I love how you depicted Rose's grimdark powers

[@pp4ngkku]

DA CASCADE IS COMING

[@mujoch3079]

Great work! I love your style of animation.

[@turntechgambit]

this is so sick wtf i love it

[@fateisme]

This is like Monty's early stuff and homestuck had a baby and it fucking owns.

[@fateisme]

(And the baby is you)

[@centurosproductions8827]

Awkward movements and poses everywhere and a lot of things lack weight, but this still blows me away. Like a bomb to blow up the sun.

[@pattislordu4502]

i watched every fan animation you made for homestuck i can purely say you have to get more budget they are so beatiful

[@mackenziemanion7186]

Love how yo made John an anime protag.

[@repulser93]

While some of the camera angles were weird, some of the sound effects were missing, and some of the voice acting was off… I gotta say, this was glubbin’ impressive.

[@HOMESTUCK_CRAZY_NEWS]

Your the best of 413, i love what youv changed, i love what you kept, i love what you did. Happy 413

[@tentativeTincture]

from godtier (haha get it) ultrakill content to homestuck... I should probably stop getting surprised by all the talented folk churning out homestuck jumpscares like that. Amazing, simply amazing. another thing I forgot to add was another dose of flattery. My experience with 3D animation has been painful and miserable and you managing to choreograph and actually produce short films based on your favorite fandoms is commendable. Other comments have pointed out that character movements in idle scenes are somewhat unnatural, however I absolutely ADORE the way Aradia is animated. Also Gamzee having pure anime-esque sass in every fight scene is something I never knew would suit him but it did. Late and heartfelt thanks for reading through this mountain of text in case you did, though a certain terrible webcomic probably made suffering through schizophrenic rambling an enjoyable experience.

[@enderfire3379]

Oh my god. I saw that it was a pilot, so i clicked on it. Only later did i realise that it is ichellor

[@Rayneworld]

Sorry I just got to watching this now. I know your view counts on the HS ones aren't as high, but I really love them! It's such a good adaptation. Please continue to make these if you feel up to it! I love so many things about them

[@libbybaker1375]

You absolute mad lad. This is wonderful. I’d like to meet you and shake your hand and the voice actors. I’m sure Hussey would be. Proud.

[@reddraws4261]

HOLY SHIT, THIS WAS AMAZING, NEAT CAMERA WORK! NEAT ANIMATION! NEAT DUB!

[@_catsocks]

Holy shit this is actually so fucking sick

[@anaribeiro5791]

Eu estou revendo tudo denovo de tão bem feito que isso é

[@The_homestuck]

HOMESTUCK LIVES FOREVER

[@JohnVance]

Omg omg omg cascade is coming

[@ZenithAstral]

The fight scenes here were really good. Voice acting was too.

[@St0nek]

Thats so fucking sick, and SO MUCH 5:15 CHUMIMIN

[@Ruesen]

Amazing job to all the team! Dunno why, but John's voice feels vaguely familiar, but i'm not sure from what

[@TheBigH]

only saw the trailer on reddit but oh my gorb this looks incredible

[@gollymimus5261]

I've heard of Homestuck, but I've never been into the series... That changes today after seeing this!~

[@lunatic0verlord10]

Came out on the most appropriate day :D

[@lordbuss]

Amazing video. Some specific design choices i would make differently, but then i'm not making the video. The name pronunciation is weird though. Terizi? Zakhak? 19:48 Scratch saying anything about "Skaia energy" is i think not a good idea. He has plenty opportunity to say "there are important symbolic and metatemoral reasons that make the moon useful for the the success of your plan". 21:21 Missed opportunities to say the misspelling out loud. Pronounce it like "haven".

[@sophialight]

Stunningly, breathtakingly cool.

[@cookie_100_7]

This needs more views 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@incessantAlchemist]

Yes. Hell yes. HELL FUCKING YES

[@somelocalidiot]

you should animate the first v2 fight or the violence layer (7-1 or 7-2) would love to see the mannequins and guttermen in your artstyle

[@mr_jago2850]

Oh yeah, I fucking love your Homestuck animations

[@yoyonolen]

holy moly

[@aimtoart2772]

so a series about the post retcon timeline

[@Moonsong227]

Oh damn I was actually sad when it ended!!

[@Monofett]

not bad. a small request, anything in the works around deltarune or undertale. Jevil or a spamton fight would go hard with your skills

[@SumiYokai]

Hi everyone, I keep seeing people mentionning Homestuclk, from what I understand it's an online comic/series? I'd like to get into it but it looks really big and I don't know how to start, is there an official site or something? Where do I start? ;w;

[@lordlawrence9781]

It's a really old webcomic, but the website is kinda messed up now. Google "The unofficial homestuck collection", it's currently the best (and probably only) way to read homestuck properly.

[@AliceFlare]

Here's where you can start! 💚 www.homestuck.com/story

[@zyum_d]

Install Unofficial Homestuck Collection and just read from the beginning to the end. Official Website currently a mess because of bs with ownership and experience will be worse.

[@rashkasolomon1519]

The Unofficial Homestuck Collection is your best bet

[@taizeen1805]

Homestuck was originally made with animations/interactive parts in flash, and a bunch of them were broken when they tried to update them to work with modern browsers. downloading the unofficial collection is the best way to read it. oh also there are people who've done read-throughs of the comic on youtube (Voice Over Nexus has a pretty good one from what I remember, but I never watched the whole thing and I don't know if they've finished yet.)

[@consensualduane]

13:08 Supreme Imps, huh? I think you're interests are overlapping a little, lol Real talk, really great work! I like all the bits of interpretation you add to Act 5 events, and you have some incredible shots and frames in here! Keep up the good work!

[@touhoutrash2436]

This animated film is amazing my boi!

[@billyrob612]

A young man stood in his bedroom 15 years ago

[@cassettemokarosa5108]

i love that dave looks like he has a bust

[@Eocarcin]

YOOOOOOO THIS IS SO SICK!! :DDD

[@ZIMMER_DASH]

THIS IS SO COOL WHAT.

[@ShockedTaiLung]

Twenty two minutes?!?!?

[@ElderFreeman413]

I hope this keeps up

[@duplicatedIncident]

there's some audio mixing problems with this, but the presentation is alright and the animation's really solid!

[@aquatic_feline]

this is so cool!!

[@brastionskywarrior6951]

not what i was expecting. its even better

[@mackenziemanion7186]

I fuckin love this shit man, keep on keepin on.

[@lovelyfma]

so well done ~

[@caseyjarmes]

This is great

[@gatedgardenhomes]

INCREDIBLE

[@bedwitch543]

Woah

[@Regian]

You deserve a million $

[@Ice-wu8qq]

woah

[@sgorby9832]

I AM SO HYPE RN

[@lavendersiren-sbarg]

HOLY SHIT, YOU'VE OUTDONE YOURSELF!

[@equiuszahhak]

Fuck yeah awesome work!! Geddit Cap >:D

[@higztv1166]

has the style become more... spiderverse-ish in this one?

[@SuperSoldierS117]

Damn, I wanna play this video game.

[@charlesostrum6329]

Whats the song at 18:36?

[@Kymerahx]

Happy homestuck day

[@higztv1166]

Сорри что пишу только сейчас, но, хотел бы отметить некоторые вещи и внести немного критики и да на русском удобнее -Окей, во-первых, мне не нравится то, как в битве с Гамзи снижена контрастность - свет от огня подсвечивает черный фон, и от этого вся битва в целом хуже читается Но в целом светотень плоским цветом и подсветка имитирующая контур на персонажах выглядят клево, кажется в предыдущих видео такого не было -Круто как противостояние Арадии и Бека влияет на события на метеоре, до этого мне всегда казалось странным, как такие мощные взрывы вообще не долетают до троллей Кстати забыл в одном из прошлых видео спросить - а почему Канайя дерется без бензопилы? С этим возникли технические трудности, или это чисто стилистическое решение? -Удар Гамзи пирогом в лицо это чистый катарсис То как эта сцена разрешилась в оригинале, где безумного маньяка побеждают силой дружбы, навсегда останется для меня самым тупым моментом хоумстака, и использование слизневого пирога - это самое логичное и осмысленное, что можно было с ней сделать Кстати только сейчас заметил, что в твоих анимациях до сих пор не было ни одного взаимодействия кидов и троллей Хотя по идее это должна быть чуть ли не главная часть сюжета, без этого пересказ событий выглядит неполным надеюсь в следующих анимациях будет -Бой с мини-боссами это НЕРЕАЛЬНО КРУТО - и дизайны, и хореография, и то, как они взаимодействуют с окружениям, максимально кайфовый бой Но, зачем им столько диалога? Все эти боссы - это же просто, типо, препятствие, которое игра бросает в игрока, чтобы убедиться, что он достаточно силен чтобы запустить царапину, у них не должно быть ничего, чем они могли бы вербально зацепить Джона особенно касается обмена репликами в стиле марвел уже внутри самого боя - они звучат так, будто обе стороны реально пытаются переубедить друг друга, но в этом же изначально нет никакого смысла - им нечего друг другу сказать по существу кроме "just give up" -Как мне кажется, в этом видео слишком много клиффхенгеров - можно было не обрезать сцены по середине, а показать их целиком по порядку, от этого бы повествование ничего не потеряло -У меня есть проблемы с тем как ты изменил сюжетную ветку Роуз и Дейва В оригинале конфликт был в том, что они оба хотели взять самопожертвование на себя Дейв думал, что полетит он, но Роуз его вырубила и полетела сама, и после этого Дейв хотел к ней присоединиться, потому что чувствовал, что это неправильно оставлять ее лететь умирать одну, а она хотела, чтобы он ее бросил и полетел помогать остальным Но в этой версии Дейв присоединяется к Роуз, потому что не верит, что оставаться в сессии безопаснее? Какой это имеет смысл? Бек Нуар к этому моменту творит дичь в их сессии уже где-то около суток, а до Царапины остается ~меньше часа - раз они смогли продержаться до этого момента, то почему в последний час Бек должен стать чем-то непреодолимым? Даже если и так, по-моему это как-то неуместно заменять мотив заботы о сестре на чисто рациональные размышления о том что "нет разницы куда идти, поэтому выбираю ту смерть что покруче" Это уже никак не проявляет его личностных качеств которые изначально у него были Ну, окей, тут подразумевалось, что он все таки заботится о сестре, но не проговаривает это вслух, потому что он стоик и вообще никогда ничего не проговаривает вслух, но даже так, в оригинале он все таки сказал прямым текстом: "TG: but i dont want you to die TT: Help John and Jade. TG: this isnt right" Момент был гораздо серьезнее и чувствовался вес, который ситуация имеет для персонажей плюс, Роуз поменяла свое решение, просто потому что услышала слово "сестра"? Это все, что потребовалось? Короче, в оригинале по моему мнению в конфликте было гораздо больше смысла, и гораздо больше остроты, и мне кажется, что можно было лучше передать это Но огромный респект за то, что ты вспомнил про шахматных чуваков и не дал им взорваться в сверхновой -Куча замков?🤨 Наверное это имеет смысл, раз там летает куча цепей -Арадия как всегда лучшая девочка, каждый раз когда вижу ее улыбку на сердечке становится теплее... В конце у меня вопрос - слово "Pilot" в названии реально то и означает? ТИПО ЧЕ БУДЕШЬ ПОЛНОЦЕННЫЙ СЕРИАЛ ДЕЛАТЬ ИЛИ ТИПО ТОГО

[@Ichellor]

Совершенно верно подмечено. Негативные элементы (Контрастность драки Гамзи и отсутствие спора между Роуз и Дейвом который бы связал все как нужно, для которого даже особо не надо редактировать уже имеющиеся сцены) это то что я и сам уже заметил перед выпуском анимации, но все делалось к жесткому дедлайну и добавить и переделать сцены я уже тут не мог. Не оправдание - ибо полностью на мне и от меня, однако попытаюсь что бы такого более не повторилось. Насчет мини боссов, тут имеется немного другое направление от того что они просто натурально созданные противники для игры, но болтают они чересчур, это однозначно. Что касается Канайи и бензопилы, конкретно в этом сегменте истории я думал о том что бы было более подчеркнутое физическое и визуальное противопоставление Гамзии и Канайи, в виду того какие роли они играют и как их 'способности' схожи. Возможно не лучшее решение, однако я пришел к этому. (А еще очень рад что решение с пирогом показалось подходящим, хорошо слышать что оно такое элегантное как я и думал, лол) Ну, слово 'пилот" как минимум отображает мои намерения достаточно четко. Надеюсь так же четко он обозначает и будущее. Печально что видео не так сильно понравилось как хотелось бы, но любые недочеты это уже напоминание того как их избежать в будущем. Спасибо за развернутый комментарий! Почаще бы видеть такие (Особенно под хомосаком, лол) Спасибо еще раз!

[@higztv1166]

@@Ichellor "Печально что видео не так сильно понравилось как хотелось бы" - чел, то что ты делаешь ОХРЕНЕННО, мне БЕЗУМНО понравилось это видео Я лишь поделился парой мыслей которые у меня возникли, но это не значит, что я не считаю эти 22 минуты абсолютно шикарными и одним из лучших видео по хоумстаку когда-либо!

[@Richard-jm3um]

I so love this ❤