'Made of Stone' Animatic (The Hunchback of Notre Dame Musical)

[@finleyforevermore]

ARE WE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE STATUE "CRYING" AT 2:25??? Fr though, this is excellent!!!

[@whatshernameagain69yearsag63]

This is so EMOTIONAL.

[@rowenfowler5638]

Not me actually thinking this was commented 69 years ago 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@commandofox6801]

Why isn't this blowing up?!

[@jacobbelow]

Well, it's on the verge of hitting a thousand views by next month. If you leave it a like, it has a chance. Also, feel free to give a like to some of my other animatics.

[@jackthethespian]

I was one of Quasimodo’s talking/singing statues when my high school did this show my sophomore year (we were one of the first high schools in the country to acquire the rights to perform it) and this was my favorite of the six scenes I was in (I didn’t have one of the three solos towards the end of it, but I did join in when all the statues sang, “We just thought you were made of something stronger”). You can really feel the pain in Quasimodo’s voice as he sings that last part of the song, especially when he belts out the G3 at the end of the song. Great job with this animation!

[@jacobbelow]

Thank-you for the compliments! And that's very cool to hear! It warms my heart to hear how many people who have seen my animatics have starred in their own local production of 'Hunchback'!

[@haxozr0]

WHAT. THIS IS INCREDIBLE?

[@imhere9034]

This is my FAVOURITE song from the musical!!!!! The anger, the despair, the helplessness he was was feeling everything you captured so well. The water effects were awesome too. The way you drew him shackled is beautiful. Everything about this is perfect ❤️❤️❤️. Maybe if you have time you'll do the Finale next?

[@jacobbelow]

I did an animatic to a segment from the finale, with the "Top of the World" reprise.

[@Garvyle]

the way that the ending gives a shoutout to the last moment of "out there" made me TEAR UP this is INCREDIBLE

[@petarmilich8684]

The song says Quasimodo has “one human eye,” but you animated him with two eyes.

[@Woodlander256]

Thank you for giving us a high quality Made of Stone Animatic. i been Waiting for one to pop up. And Its awesome.

[@jayjacob3789]

Your shot composition is so surreal and amazing Exhibit A 1:54 Exhibit B 2:04 Exhibits C-Z. Everything else

[@jacobbelow]

If you loved this one, please go check out my other 'Hunchback' animatics!

[@abbeymotzer4060]

i love this song and i love the ending when i first heard the high notes it was so beautiful i had no words ❤

[@majorknight859]

OMG. This is some serious god tier animation. You understand the tone and mood of every note making the performance as natural as it should be. And using the famous Quasimodo with the popular Michael Arden's Voice. Bruh if this doesn't get more views I'm gonna riot my way through every disney fandom till they watch this

[@jacobbelow]

XD Thank-you! Your praise means a lot to me! I hope you'll give a watch to some of my other animatics as well!

[@majorknight859]

Sure thing ✌️

[@couragecoachsam]

I’ve seen recordings of stage performances but it wasn’t until seeing this connected to the animation (him being chained up) that the frustration and anger really hit for me 😭 beautifully done

[@Jesperthecook]

You are a very talented individual and I assure you, your work is amazing. Just all the different ways you use to make such engaging animatics is fantastic. I love the water effects you used that flowed from the statues!

[@augustblack2156]

So gorgeous. God this is so incredible you're so talented with all the shots and GOSH never stop

[@RainbowEssence-c3w]

Damn this is really really good, seriously it's crazy how well you matched the original style of the animation to this song! Poor Quasimodo, also wtf Gargoyles? "We just thought that you were made of something... stronger." Way to kick a guy when he's down! Lol, but I mean I get it he did kinda tell them all to fuck off and I guess it was one of those "tough love" situations but... damn, what a thing to say to a dude who's already having an emotional breakdown.

[@blackhagalaz]

The gargoyles/saints are so eery, I love it! The shots are so cinematic and quasi's emotions are displayed so well. Great job!

[@jacobbelow]

Thank-you! All of these compliments mean so much to me!

[@cannypie0]

Beautiful! One of my favorite songs from the musical.

[@jacobbelow]

Thank-you very much! Don't forget to check out some of my other animatics to other songs from the musical!

[@rantsofaroach]

THIS IS GOLD

[@FredericaTommo]

I've shown this video to at least 10 people in my life. once in a while you really do stumble across actual pieces of art on youtube. this is one of those times. your art is amazing

[@clairegolder3683]

This is seriously awesome! You should be really proud, and I am so grateful someone has finally turned this amazing soundtrack and show into something so amazing! Thank you!

[@JoshMuveeProductions]

This would look so BEAUTFUL animated!!!😍😍😍

[@jacobbelow]

Part of me does like to imagine what it would be like if one of my animatics got enough views to inspire an animator (or even a team of animators) to make one of my animatics into a fully-fledged animated sequence, like how there was that one case with an animator who did a KZbin rendering of Scar's confrontation with Nala from the Lion King musical. (Or even better yet, have a newly-added animated scene to a future home-media release of the movie based on a song from the musical, like Beauty and the Beast did with 'Human Again'.)

[@demilad225]

That was so awesome!!! Gosh, that high b flat at the end always gets me. Both when I’m listening and when I attempt to sing it. This made it so much better.

[@StevenCrosio]

Hopefully if this movie gets a live version this song gets to be in it!

[@Grace-ir8er]

OH MY GOSH THIS IS AMAZING! How does this not have a million more views?

[@jacobbelow]

I always love these sorts of compliments! I'm glad that this video is as popular as it is, and I always value people who share it around and help it get more and more popular! (BTW, just recently we got the 25th anniversary of the animated movie!)

[@queenjada7856]

This should have been in the movie 3:38-3:51

[@thealmightyki]

it keeps throwing me off seeing animated quasi with michaels voice😂💜

[@rachelle5169]

The art in this is beautiful !

[@cartoonking1789]

How do you not have more views?! This is amazing! I Love the direction you took. :D

[@jacobbelow]

I am very pleased to see how it's viewership is picking up momentum more and more. Liking and sharing the video does help out a lot.

[@annikadunlap461]

Ah!!! It's so exciting to see an animatic for my favorite song!!

[@RAINBOWGIRL7075]

I love it! Thank you for making an animatic of my favorite song in the musical :3 the added detail of the rain is beautiful and works so well with the song. Amazing drawings

[@carlottarobbins7005]

Beautiful animatic - stumbled across this by accident and fell in love with it!!!! Makes me wish that this scene had been in the movie! :D :D :D :D

[@bethanyhaffey975]

This animation is beautifully done! Makes me wish that this was in the disney movie itself!

[@rickymoranjr9609]

this is exactly how i pictured this entire scene/song in the Disney movie

[@tearoses9940]

THIS IS SO GOOD OMG

[@jacobbelow]

Thank-you. Don't forget to look at my channel for some other animatics I've done!

[@StoryStoneoffical]

This is absolutely beautiful! Well done!

[@DawnOfDragonz]

Beautiful!

[@nat.1086]

nicely done!

[@jacobbelow]

Thank-you!

[@rebeccaschneider5223]

Wow well done! I wished this could be added to the Movie

[@jacobbelow]

Danke schön! Ich sehe das du bist Deutsch! Uber cool! Ich bin deutscher Abstammung!

[@katieh.1084]

So powerful! I love this animation!👏👏👏

[@edentzur1504]

Amazing...

[@dragonvideos5667]

Ok...How come this song wasn't put into the movie?! It should've!

[@sillywombat]

Its so beautiful- oh my gosh! ❤

[@JaySmily]

Awesome job

[@antoniogirgenti9738]

Amazing!!!

[@AlexJunior-bn9zw]

perfect!!!!!

[@penguin_yay1]

This is absolutely amazing 😍

[@jayjacob3789]

Hey, i dont know if youll respond to this, but i was curious if i and a few friends could try and animated the shot at 1:52 credit where credit is due of course

[@jacobbelow]

If it's something you want to do, go right for it! I've watched a few videos where you showcase your animation skills, and you are indeed very talented!

[@jacobbelow]

Just let me know whatever you've animated, once you're done, so that I can get a chance to see the results!

[@jayjacob3789]

@@jacobbelow thanks man

[@hannahlynn8028]

This is *amazing*

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

Good animatic.

[@sabinascherman2723]

Wish it was in the movie.🥲

[@jordyngreenawalt5170]

I feel bad 😔

[@minhtuan-fj3ig]

WOW

[@seanlynott9033]

Whoa

[@juliejames4901]

It still 2023

[@abbycollins4820]

Cool

[@treymcclure4645]

i wonder notre dame have a statue of joan of arc

[@sgauden02]

In your opinion, where does this song fit in better? Before or after the song "Someday"?

[@jacobbelow]

In my honest opinion, I think the song is a better fit before "Someday". In that manner, it really gives you the sensation that Quasimodo has just given up and shut down, and that there's no one who can save Esmerelda. And when he finally snaps out of his torpor, it's not words of encouragement that does it, but just his undying love and devotion to Esmerelda that ultimately nothing can crush. It just comes back as more impactful in the climax. And as it so happens, Dinsey's earliest stage adaptation of Hunchback (Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, which ran in Berlin from 1999-2002) does put "Someday" after "Made of Stone" as the 11 o'clock number. Both songs are worth a listen for their arrangements and orchestrations that differ from their modern iterations, like this one for "Made of Stone": kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWmpoHidqqlqe5I. As for "Someday", the version in that one is longer and has a more anthemic feel, as it is set to Esmerelda being marched to here execution: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p33ak2psdr6agKc Not that I think less of the modern versions, but the original Berlin ones are just so beautiful and powerful to me!

[@sgauden02]

​@@jacobbelow Yes, I've seen the German version of the musical here on KZbin. They do sing "Someday" as Esmerelda is led to her execution in that version. And I do agree with you. "Someday" is more impactful if "Made Of Stone" takes place before it. If that live action Hunchback Of Notre Dame ever gets here, it'd be nice if they included both songs.

[@jacobbelow]

@@sgauden02 It would be nice. I always envisioned that they do the anthemic version of "Someday" with Esmerelda, Phoebus, and the Romanees all being led to Notre Dame square, in a march that strongly resembles the way they used "I Know Where I've Been" in the film version of 'Hairspray'. Unfortunately, the news involving the remake said that it likely wasn't going to be using material from the stage versions. But I hope they don't entirely rule out the possibility. If nothing else, they could do a cover of the songs from the musical(s) as promotion for the remake.

[@sgauden02]

@@jacobbelow Yeah, I think they briefly used an instrumental version of the song "Home" from the Beauty And The Beast Musical in IT'S live action film.

[@jacobbelow]

@@sgauden02 Uh-huh. It also had a promotional cover of "If I Can't Love Her" by Josh Groban.

[@TheAngelmisa]

This is beautiful it made cry:( I could feel Quasimodo's pain:(

[@rickymoranjr9609]

Isabeau same here, this should've been in the movie

[@disneyvillainrocket1]

Same here

[@victormeyers1860]

Is this Michael Arden?

[@jacobbelow]

Yup. It sure is.

[@joshualowe959]

You never animated the Sanctuary scene

[@jacobbelow]

They stuff that I upload on my channel is stuff of my choice and largely contingent on if/when I have time to do it.

[@maxxmanzi3116]

Do a guy like you

[@m.l.kow1998]

Better than anything Jorge could do with Epic. He deserves not nearly as much praise. THIS is actual art, real skill

[@helenakoerner5536]

Jorge is not an artist for Epic, he is the composer. And I’m not a fan of people who compare any artist, composer or otherwise who start out on TikTok unfavorably to composers who have more experience on Broadway.

[@rachelle5169]

The art in this is beautiful !