Invincible's Animation Has VASTLY Improved

Let's dive into Invincible's new season, and how Skybound North was been able to VASTLY improve the quality of this hit TV show on Amazon Prime! Animation is a treacherous medium with countless pitfalls, let's see how Invincible's animation holds up as we head to the film room.
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[@jomothanmo]

season 2 definitely went beyond drawings

[@doobz6447]

(Beyond drawings theme plays and cuts him off)

[@youngs912]

Bro hasn’t watched anime

[@Kitty_KangKang]

Blud needs to see the animation in animes

[@Choppa773]

Bro hasn’t watched xmen 97

[@GimmeSomeChicken]

Well the reason why it took Omniman so long to squash his head in was because it didnt actually, it was just a shot of how Red Rush has experienced it since he is so fast and for everyone else it was nothing more than just a second

[@HeWhoTookADumpOnAPorcupine]

@@MiiPunchythat’s exactly what they said

[@GimmeSomeChicken]

@@MiiPunchy what 😂

[@brainloading5543]

​@@MiiPunchyyou got understanding issues

[@1don]

💯

[@Courier_Seven]

Short and sweet; omni man crushed his head in one second. once he grabbed his face we were seeing red rushes perspective.

[@secretlydadumbest7427]

3:24 the death is so slow because it's through Red Rush's POV who says a couple minutes earlier that everything he experiences everything vastly slower than everyone else.

[@Haydon.F.]

Which in turn is fucking terrifying when you realise Red Rush was potentially feeling that shit for hours

[@secretlydadumbest7427]

@@Haydon.F. Exactly, it's such a damn good scene the more you think about it

[@brodee0]

​@@Haydon.F.and he could do literally nothing to escape

[@CasualCat64]

@@brodee0punch more

[@villain9482]

@@Haydon.F. nah, he uh. He wasn't feeling it for hours. Omni man crushed him immediately. at most he felt it for a minute or two

[@megatron4466]

S3 has the potential to blow both S1 and S2 out of the water

[@killme9534]

I think season 3 being made around the same time as season 2 will probably mean the animation quality will be about the same. At least I think it would be 🤔

[@n3lsonog694]

​@@killme9534damn you were faster

[@megatron4466]

@@killme9534 I don't see a problem tbh S2 had pretty good animation, and with all the stuff they did while making S2 + the 1 year before S3 they could cook something well above the quality of S2

[@SlagerMajsudhfjdo]

Especially if conquest comes in

[@emmettturner9452]

…because North Korea? They unknowingly outsourced Season 3 animation to North Korea through a Chinese front company. Now that we all know, this is probably going to throw a huge monkey wrench into things due to US sanctions against NK.

[@lesgrossman6332]

Mark might not be dragged across the screen, but immortal sure as shit was😂

[@chadmed6804]

Fr

[@yazidefirenze]

Me going out of fly mode after holding space for five minutes in minecraft creative

[@noobmaster6843]

I know the space scene was goofy but there’s not much you could really do with it

[@chadmed6804]

@@noobmaster6843 yeah there is

[@noobmaster6843]

@@chadmed6804 then tell me how would you do it

[@Seno_was_taken]

They got a little nostalgic in the scene where immortal returns to earth

[@Krispy-Klips]

what else are they supposed to do? frame by frame animate a guy slowly moving forward through space?

[@Seno_was_taken]

@@Krispy-Klips no just draw another frame and switch between them Not just move a png

[@BeyondDrawings]

“They got a little nostalgic” 😂😂

[@CutWat]

​@@Krispy-Klips I mean they could've had his legs and arms move slightly as if he just went entirely limp due to his emotions

[@elco-coisoriginal]

@@CutWat that would have been way more hilarious

[@PiersonButler]

3:30 actually, that scene was in slow motion, you can tell from how the glasses fall slowly, I think it was to emphasize how fast he was punching or smthn

[@televisioner1033]

it was in slowmo because earlier in the show, Rush said he experiences time vastly faster than everyone else. So much so that seconds feels like hours to him, so basically he felt being crushed for several hours

[@badliquidyawn]

@@televisioner1033minutes

[@hungrymidget3896]

also with nolan in the thraxan cave

[@sammyc3720]

Here's my two cents: I think there are good qualities in both seasons. Season 1's animation had better/more detailed fight scenes, more emotive facial expressions, and higher highs. Season 2's animation had better lighting, the character models (Mark especially) looked more polished, not as many CGI people, and it never was as bad as S1E4. However, the character models sometimes looked REALLY inconsistently drawn in S2 (Eve particularly imo) and they still dragged PNGs across the screen.

[@dillanikobe495]

I really don’t understand the inconsistency with this show😭. They should take their time and make each episode at least decent, and not flat and choppy on most episodes. Was all the budget spent on just S1’s first and last episode?!

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

3:24 It's drawn out because it's from Red Rush's POV

[@Zen0_8632]

Ironic how the fastest human alive dies the slowest death

[@DisneyStarWarsSucks]

@@Zen0_8632not really he dies in like one second

[@aduckwithayoutubechannel]

Bro what? The Red Rush death scene was in super speed. Why did you think his punches were so slow but still breaking his hands?

[@animator049]

Red rush's death was in slowmo, that was why it seemed to take so long when it only took a few seconds.

[@Changed.User100]

3:34 this is from red rushes perspective. Of course from everyone else it would look like omni man squashed him instantly but from his perspsective even that takes ages.

[@ursidae97]

Sandra Oh as Debby is so much fun to watch because she's being written with the depth and nuance and care of a hero character that civilians never get Even the better examples, despite having no powers.

[@insectostrich4407]

Especially when compared to the comics. Not saying she didn’t get better over time, but Robert Kirkman seems to have used the show as a second chance for his writing of the comics.

[@thiagotaubman7505]

Good video my guy. Red rush's death took so long because it was in slow mo tho

[@tm0410]

exactly its showing us 1 second of his head getting squashed sanded out over 10 seconds so we can see red rush's attempt at fighting omni man

[@thiagotaubman7505]

@@tm0410 yup. I love the detail of his hands breaking as he attempts to hurt nolan

[@Saulgoodman233]

BUT! In season 1 they went crazy when Cecil hit Nolan with the laser

[@derekfurst6233]

And when omni man obliterated the flaxans. And the face animation and character acting is in episode 8, especially with omniman was great. He was a little off model that episode but in a good way

[@kainepeterson6638]

I feel like the reason they had Red Rush's death take so long is LITERALLY the scene before they were talking about how his speedster powers are never "off" and even "a conversation is agony" because they take so long for him. "Real time" from our perspective, Omni-man probably did squish his head in an instant and Red Rush probably landed every one of those blows in that instant, but the show creators purposefully drew it out to slam that point home that his death might be instant from our perspective but from his it took eons for his lights to finally blink out beneath the strength of Omni-Man''s crushing grip. But it also slams it home that Omni-Man KNOWS what he's doing and KNOWS Red Rush is suffering, he just doesn't care. He doesn't feel ANYTHING giving this man one of the worst death's imaginable, having your head crushed in an agonizingly slow way in a vice until you brain finally pops.

[@SatongiFilms]

the reason red rush death scene was long was because it's in his POV. everything happened fast, but for him, it was very slow death

[@blisssyy]

FINALLY A VIDEO TALKING ABT THIS 😭 so many people saying it got worse

[@antismo9998]

The quality really flip flops between better and worse

[@modernwarrior24]

​@@antismo9998agreed. Take the last 2 episodes of season 1. The animation especially the facial animations and acting are incredible. But season 2 last 2 were eh..

[@antismo9998]

@@modernwarrior24 Very true. The scene where Angstrom broke Debbie's arm especially. He's supposed to look deranged, but the way his face was drawn made it seem like he just saw his dog piss on the carpet

[@Yechmon]

The slow motion of red rushs death is supposed to represent how slow things sre for him since everything moves so slow for him so omni man taking forever to squash bros head was red rushs POV while everyone else saw red rush die in a instant.

[@NedInYaHead]

At the end of the day, they only have so much time and budget, and I personally think they allocated it quite smartly. I don't care how it looks in a particular frame or a single isolated clip - if it portrays the right feeling and communicates the necessary information when viewed as a whole, they've succeeded. I also take particular issue with the flying criticisms; if you're in freefall, there's no gravity, and you'd be weightless anyway. What are they supposed to do, wave their arm the whole time? They used a lot of animation budget in the establishing flying scenes, and they know that unless we're looking for it, our mind will fill in the details for us, so they focused their attention on more important, closeup moments. To me, it looks like the average viewer found out how the sausage was made and decided that the most logical option was to swear off sausages forever. Just enjoy the show and stop being so sniffy, istg.

[@dulow1047]

THANK YOU! Somebody had to say this, the amount of people who say that S1 has better animation is craazy.

[@lordsosa2687]

i was watching this video and didnt expect u to only have 600 subs i expected like 300k plus this video was really well made, keep going mad trust your gonna make it one day

[@sloosh2188]

3:30 that was less than a second. It was in EXTREME slow Mo. lol.

[@sloosh2188]

Sorry I just realized every person on the planet has commented this but I will not be deleting my comment

[@KOMPACHANNEL]

Imagine if the season had the same animation as the teaser. Bro, that'll be so cool.

[@Idontwanttoknwo]

Nice video dude cant believe you only have 746 subs

[@EBAiguess]

Great video! You earned a sub

[@ssharkiggo6432]

The head crushing probably lasted seconds, but it was in the perspective of red rush. Which emphasized how painfully slow his death was for him.

[@worldlinezero4783]

Your point about line thickness and cleanliness is like, the exact reason why One Piece animation has been so fucking good lately.

[@user-vt1bv2ke5e]

I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU MENTIONED ZUKO VS AZULA

[@Telikott]

dang bro i thought u had 556k subs but it turns out you only have 556 bro, good quality for a 556 youtuber, keep up the good work

[@ssharkiggo6432]

the entire season 1 budget went into the laser scene

[@jordanrichardson2367]

One of the rare times nowadays where they turn peak into more peak

[@pper_5985]

1:36 bro made the Arthur's Morgan voice 😭😭💀

[@oldreaddy3341]

Bruh ever since someone pointed out the 3d background characters it now sticks out like a sore thumb, I literally can't unsee it💀

[@akira8935]

pinwheel forest in the background made my head turn

[@matttaylor1996]

3:26 is from red rush's perspective. thats why the punches seem so slow. red rush like the flash has incredible speed physically and mentally. it kind of is a necessity for speedsters. The immortal and omniman as well as other viltrumites for that matter don't have the same bullet time like vision otherwise red rush would not have been able to keep moving guardians out of the way from nolan's attacks. if nolan COULD have that slowed down perspective relative to his own speed he would have killed the entirety of the guardians before anyone besides red rush landed a hit.

[@imreallybadatgamesonps4]

1:37 bro sounds like he's trying to impersonate Arthur Morgan 💀

[@jackambrose2762]

4:26 That Mark v. Anissa fight was something else. Like it was taken straight out of DBZ

[@nerdcuddles7731]

The ground breaking was well animated in invincible when mark hit the ground, its just the other stuff was rushed. Amazon momento.

[@celeste1013]

Season 1 was actually really bad but the story carried it

[@BombasticCatman]

Thank you, genuinely I don't understand why some people said Season 2 has worse animation than Season 1. Did they completely forget all the CGI crowds and like...ALL of episode 4?

[@areakastudios6704]

They spent most of their time on the gore and fight scenes. In season two, they started doing more of everything else.

[@amongstreality3487]

3:29 the scene was this long, because Red Rush was beating Omni-Man at superspeed, and the scene was from his perspective

[@shadowguarder2857]

3:28 it was in slowmo.

[@pourplecat]

^

[@SebastianPargaPaints]

@@pourplecat yeah but it still took a long time? omni man could have crushed him instantaneously, also its irrelevant because hes not talking about in universe hes saying it took a long time to add suspense, regardless of "how long it actually was"

[@pourplecat]

​@@SebastianPargaPaints yeah they definitely made it seem like there was some resistance to red rush dying though since it took a while for his eye to pop out of his head, and then his head exploded. Instead of it all happening at once. I dont really know what youre talking about with the suspense thing as if it was bad. Sure its illogical if you think about it (like every single other thing in the show) but it served beautifully in making the sequence as convincing and good as it is

[@pourplecat]

This kind of a stretch but maybe you could argue that omni man intentionally wanted to see red rush dying slowly for fun or somethinginstead of simply doing it all at once. But that doesnt really seem like something omni man would do. his intentions were to kill the guardians quickly, so it doesnt make sense why he would purposefully take more time killing someone than he would need to

[@timeblade]

1:59 thick omni man jump scare

[@luroma2814]

Well, that 2 sek avatar scene just changed my schedule for the next 2 days

[@aouyiu]

It did only take a second for Onmiman to do that to Red Rush. If you notice in the scene (also in this video), it's played in slow motion, red rush is hitting so fast it looks like normal speed whilst in slow mo.

[@1don]

How do you miss that it actually took one second to kill red rush they were just showing it all to us in his point of view… look at the scene where they were running full speed to him while his head is being crushed but it looked like they were jogging

[@mrmelonman2893]

vastly improved is a strong word

[@mrmeleemushroom]

Yea, I feel season 1 had choppy animations at times but the animation peaks of s1 are better than the peaks of season 2. I was rewatching a few episodes of season 1 and was amazed at how well animated some scenes were, specifically in the beginning and end of the season. Such as Mark and Eve flying around the city and the satellite laser beam hitting Omni-man. We didn’t really get any moments that stand out like that animation wise in S2.

[@jackthecommenter2768]

@@mrmeleemushroomI agree bro especially with season 1 episode 8 that was just INSANE compared to the conclusion of season 2, and I get season 2 is just a setup for the future arc but it lowkey didn’t live up to anything

[@noahpilarski]

1:22 this bit was really funny "you just had to ask"

[@fewsnow]

I thought you had more subs with the video's quality 😭take my sub

[@TTSP907]

Cool video, bro.

[@friedchickenchessemilos2687]

I always realized seasons 1 jankynezs and moving pngs when watching i just tried to ignore it, but i realised the improvement a d was waiting for a video comparison!

[@Equilate]

3:25 It's because we're seeing it from Red Rush's POV. It would've been excruciating for him, assuming his mind speeds up with his body.

[@theonlybigsmoke]

I felt like it was alright but it's definitely gotten better over the course of the seasons

[@Terrorfy21]

I get it, but I can't ignore that the fight between the Viltrumites vs Mark and Omniman felt like a slideshow for a moment

[@fortnite61911]

3:28 the scene for the other member is like 1 second but because red rush is so fast it is slowed and omniman crushes him in an instant

[@lightningboltt5437]

Make sure to thank the north koreans for their hard word as well

[@derekfurst6233]

Btw, there's a name for when you drag a subject across the screen during compositing rather than animating new frames. It's called "tweening" in animation

[@johntheanimator4317]

dude ur gonna blow up

[@krisr4285]

3:36 I believe this scene was one second, but more in Red Rush’s perspective

[@goldenguy7470]

The animation in season 2 is definitely better than season 1, but then you remember X-Men 97' exists

[@svaucyi]

great video

[@chandleralves698]

You know it didn't actually take long for Omni-Man to kill Red Rush, right? You can see the blood floating in the air, it's in slow motion from the perspective of a speedster.

[@rotemegozi1044]

Can't wait for season 3

[@JackAndP]

Last two episodes of S1 were animated phenomenally. The part where Omniman beats the shit out of Mark looks way better than when Mark beat the shit out of Angstrom

[@hotpufff123]

Pain fight is objectively really really really well animated. From the effects, to the character and background animation, it was all great, but people still clowned on it because "unorthodox movement = bad" and because of that its now made out to be horribly animated. Real sad fact is that the director of the ep and some of the other animators are now working as lesser directors and ka's on unknown animes.

[@closersdci]

The first conquest fight will gauge whether or not the animation has improved between season 2 and 3, its either they do it all or hide it in distance shots lol

[@konstantine4817]

My only problem with the new season animation is the faces. Either I can't get over how different they are or they actually feel emotionless at times.

[@Bap-lt4ms]

Angstrom’s face looks so basic compared to the comic

[@user-xj8qi4tu7q]

i saw that "You Won't Last One Second" Ass Ad💀💀💀

[@greg-ih4sw]

the shot with red rush is not drawn out its just slow motion since red rush is fast idk how you missed that

[@cerb1221]

true but the final fight didnt have the sheer violence of mark vs omniman.

[@thenullduck]

0:31 Hate to break it to you, but OPM s3 was confirmed to be animated by JC Staff like a month ago

[@Frost59]

I watched Invincible with my family the other day And the entire first episode my mother seemed pretty bored but when it got to the massacre scene there was just a look of pure horror and dread on her face I didn't even notice it until my dad quietly signaled me to look in her direction and it took the strength and will of the GODS not to laugh.

[@guaranteedtopwn]

yep aside from the Thraxa fight which seems like it had to have the time allocated to it been cut down for production schedule? the filler 3d characters in s1 looked so bad haha

[@lightningpoweredfilms]

A lot of the time, the lack of movement of the chin is, yes, to save money, but also because it makes it easier to dub for other languages because it isn't as exact.

[@ChiggnNumgets]

now imagine if it had season 1 one punch man lvl animation

[@samankucher5117]

a dancing mouse.... thays insane thats crazy .

[@MrHappymanx]

Im glad to see some positivity, I watched a video which was the opposite of this saying season 2s animation was bad. IDK I think both seasons are amazing and things like cut corners I never notice until pointed out.

[@emmettturner9452]

Get ready for some more negativity now that it was discovered that some of the animation got illegitimately outsourced to North Korea.

[@justpassingby298]

And remember, people actually are pissing their pants that S2 took so long, and that S3 isn't instantly after S2.

[@TheoF1]

Honestly i didnt have a big problem with the S1 animation, it was decent, the fights were great and had more time and detail imo. But i'm not huge into anime or have a huge standard on the animation, but i did notice the improvements for S2 and i was happy about them. I do hope we get the kind of level of animation like we had for the S2 trailer, it was more detailed, smooth, and just overall nicer to look at

[@gavsterplasterstudios4529]

Look at immortal when he goes away after fighting Allen tho he just floats downs

[@Sha-walter_goated]

5:08 W total drama reference

[@jamal12313]

the reason it took so long for red rush to die because it was red rushs prespective

[@EmilLehmus]

3:24 it did take him like one second, the clip is obviously slowed down by ALOT.

[@waffles905]

Something that I think people never take into consideration is knowing the difference between western animation and Anime. Both are so different yet people argue like they are on par with eachother

[@rustyshackleford020]

The comics start the same way it's the artist Ryan Ottley's style, where he increases the quality of the art as the story progresses. Just look at invincible issues 1 cover and then look at the final issue 144 cover.

[@irisdaniels2318]

I don't think you realize that red rush percieves everything around him much more slowly. thats why his death is so drawn out.

[@overthehedge7591]

the intro💀

[@brenothelast]

the problem with this video is that it ends

[@BeyondDrawings]

This just made my day 🤣🤣

[@mawrak]

They went away with the bad 3d models, but the animation is still very inconsistent. S1 had terrible shots and amazing shots, S2 shots are all mid to bad. Some scenes are still very laughable (that episode where they joke about bad animation - I'm 80% sure they put that joke in to soften the impact of that episode's actual animation quality). Its especially bad because now they clearly have funding since the show got super popular.

[@FallenRhythm]

Red rush was killed quickly, could you not tell that it was in slo-mo?

[@dud5606]

It had definitely improved quite a bit but I'm still sad the style from the original S2 teaser didn't persist. I love how that one looked, especially the lighting. It really got me hyped for the new season but unfortunately it ended up being pretty misleading. Also, shoutout to XMEN 97' because the animation in that show is absolutely superb. Really made me sad Invincible doesn't reach quite the same standard of quality,

[@Choppa773]

Bro said vastly that’s cap

[@PatrickHemmes]

You see this in many animated shows were the first season has significantly lower quallity of animation, probaly buget or time related, you see the same in Spongebob, attack on titan or in ATLA

[@dek5775]

Their jaw moces too in season 2

[@albertcoreas5162]

Tbh. I don’t really understand this take. The show virtually looks the exact same. The only differences between seasons is that CGI is used less often for season 2 and Mark has added wrinkle lines under his eyes. Looking back I felt the previous season had more interesting fights and scenes of animation (Omni man vs the Guardians and Mark). Even though the cgi was definitely unpolished, I felt like there were still well done moments like Omni man killing the Flaxans and Cecil’s weapon being unleashed on Nolan. My biggest issue with the animation this season is that I don’t feel like it compliments the voice acting. Steven Yuen pours his heart out in his performance yet Mark has the same angry facial expression he has throughout the entire show or purposefully not show his face because they don’t have the time to animate detailed character acting (Mark killing Angstrom). That’s why I really enjoy Ryan Ottley’s art for Invincible. His art is so detailed and expressive, I never feel bored reading his era of Invincible. If the animation doesn’t improve next season there’s going to be a lot of comparisons being made since the material they’re covering has Ryan’s art reach its peak. I like Invincible, I really do. But, after reading ahead in the comic and watching X-men ‘97. It really feels like Invincible is lacking in presentation.

[@TheePotatoFarmer]

red rushes scene was so long because it was in perspective of red rush himself he was using his speed to try and overwhelm omni-man the actual scene itself was about 1 second

[@zayy4440]

i completely disagree the animation has barley devolved whatsoever especially considering the trailer blowing literally evrey scene in the show out of the water

[@themutupoguy]

Great video! Dude, I HATE how "clean" invincible looks. It feels so robotic