Shapes | Off the Air | Adult Swim

[@TrapMusicNow]

Adult Swim is the best fucking thing on tv.

[@squanchy666]

god damn right watch Preacher too though that show is gonna rock the house

[@izzy_the_dead_man3968]

Yessss

[@theskoolmustard00]

+Squanchy Squanchy has good tastes

[@sampollard1998]

Squanchy has squanch tastes.

[@TrapMusicNow]

Squanchy You god damn right it. That premiere was the tits.

[@verbage432]

It kinda pisses me off when people write this off as "Stoner shit" And completely ignore the incredible effort that went into doing this. You don't need to be high all the time to appreciate abstract art, try to think outside the box people

[@Telephantasssm]

It's trippy shit not stoner shit. this show is entirely intended for people to watch while on psychedelics.

[@Telephantasssm]

Like if you talk to the animators behind this shit I guarantee it was inspired by psychedelics and honestly it's ignorant to even think otherwise.

[@alec8904]

+Telephantasssm I don't use psychedelics and I enjoy Dave Hughes' work very much. Off the air has even encouraged me to learn programs such as AfterEffects and FinalCutPro. People like to associate experimentation with drug usage for some reason. I don't think anyone would have the patience to clip together/edit a video while under the influence of psychedelics. Not saying you're wrong, but this show does not only cater to drug users, believe me. Even my grandmother enjoys off the air lol

[@Telephantasssm]

That's fine, it's a work of art and you can enjoy it regardless. But the content of these videos is undoubtedly highly influenced by psychedelic visions and experiences. If Dave Hughes hasn't experimented with psychedelics I would be incredibly surprised. The transitions and even many parts of the videos are extremely reminiscent of closed eye visuals under the influence of psychedelics. I just don't believe he would have come up with a lot of these transitions without having some prior experience with those drugs. Obviously he wouldn't have been able to create these videos while under the influence of those drugs, but many artists try to recreate these visuals in paintings and videos.

[@Telephantasssm]

Stefan Chirica Oh he's tripped enough where he can just make the shit up at this point

[@Seoko117]

6:50 the MOST ACCURATE view on what a dream or nightmare looks like. I can’t even fathom how someone is even capable or how it is even capable at all to get that close of a representation of a dream. You can barely tell what’s going on but you have a visual of the jist of it. Like WOW one of the most interesting and mind blowing things I have ever witnessed, I can’t stop rewatching it

[@defusedhero6561]

I completely agree, that one reminds me of DXM, ket, acid and whippets super dreamstate like and super confusing, yet so beautiful

[@atomchild2619]

And the music too, fits PERFECTLY

[@charly40409]

I hope VR tech incorporates this style into future games. We're ready :D

[@KaleidoscopicVideos420]

GOLDFALCON 117 6:57 I’d love to know if this was intentional but the next minute thirty reminded me of what my k hole experience at a music festival felt like. Has anyone else ever done too much ketamine at a music festival (specifically an edm type event) and experience anything similar??

[@vova48689]

absolutely not

[@LZCOficial]

Trippiest video ever. Thank you.

[@jorgeleon2438]

Gracias por la recomendación chucho ! no me pierdo off the air desde que vi tu vídeo.

[@ruffyl4879]

I know right, ideas about say that

[@ruffyl4879]

I know right, ideas about say that

[@BlissBatch]

If you think this is the trippiest video EVER, clearly you haven't watched the rest of the Off The Air series. (Or the movie Enter The Void.)

[@disfrutalaMOVIE]

Oh por Dios!!! Chucho esta aqui!

[@dianneleslie8538]

if aliens asked me to show them an example of the human imagination, it would be this.

[@TheVintageRomance]

Best one starts at 2:28. So mesmerizing. Leaves me breathless ahh

[@noiiiiivad]

Yesssss I freaking loved it

[@TheVintageRomance]

+Davion Findley i'm glad you feel the same!!!! :D

[@namrevo84]

I always thought cell membranes would look something like this...

[@TheVintageRomance]

namrevo84 same lol. They're majestic ass cell membranes

[@shitfaced1337]

it's tickling my eyes

[@IlluminusQ]

the sequence at 2:28 has to be one of the most incredible things I've ever witnessed in video form...ever

[@LouMurk]

Off the Air is the best show ever.

[@ryansantiagochanneloffun2923]

I know right, it just feels like a show like this is meant to calm you down when you feel stressed out!😄

[@nothingisreal6816]

Hey do you lucid dream much?

[@goofy4188]

Fr

[@joshuabennett5891]

Yeah especially on magic mushrooms.....🍄🍄🍄🤯🦄🤯

[@moviesims183]

I love ofr the air. The amount of effort they put into each of these episodes is amasing. Its also pretty fun to watch while tripping.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Shapes | Off the Air | Adult Swim 31.1.22 1024AM EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE, SIR...

[@CouchLock]

I love so much that they give a bit of closure to every episode. That catching of the balls at the end lets me sort of reflect on the master piece I just watched. I wouldn't be surprised if that single "Thank You" after the credits was from Dave Hughes himself. You Classy AF Adult Swim.

[@Uroste]

somebody asked: what happen's in adult swim creators heads? Here's the answer.

[@Uroste]

something that satan smokes.

[@abemcg3803]

+Tequilafilms Inc. smoke weed everyday

[@abemcg3803]

My brotha

[@hekubanoir]

don't they just cut this stuff together, it's made by other artists.

[@abemcg3803]

+AFULi they do different transitions after each video is shown

[@tacobull7334]

They should bring this to vr to make the experience more immersive

[@TobyWoby]

That would be quite a journey.

[@slash_mcgnarly]

Lol mordecia and rigby at 9:05

[@PhutureCollective]

@ 4:20 : HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??!! We love the innovation. thank you guys and gals so much for everything

[@thedarkercarter]

I need to watch more Off the Air stuff. This totally reminds me of Liquid Television

[@PaquiChipSkylar]

I thought I was the only one to make the LTV connection!

[@XRanmanXx]

Well the creator of off the air did work on Liquid Television.

[@jarryj1995]

+Ranman Speaking of which you guys know more stuff like this?

[@PaquiChipSkylar]

Jarrick Williams Do you mean anthology shows or trippy shows in general?

[@jarryj1995]

Howie Benatovitch Trippy shows

[@WilliamBonka]

I feel like these videos are made to cure depression

[@jellybrown]

I guess they can be used for such thing

[@jellybrown]

Maybe PTSD

[@SWIM5QUAD]

What an interesting uaage. I dig it.

[@guyhoffman3345]

The cure to cancer

[@dannygarza2983]

They are made for the exact opposite reason. For confusion delusion fear. All things I experienced after watching this video. Wish I had never seen this

[@ColynBowman]

Long time fan. Love seeing more. Please never stop making this show.

[@BSIII]

The spinning woman 1:43 ... just completely blew my mind. Just brilliant. Id give anything to make some music for something like this

[@juandelgado464]

Possibly the biggest cameo Space ghost ever had on the Off The Air Series literally. :)

[@Moon_Spear]

i dug the claymation segment it had tons and tons of references GJ :D

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

It was dope, 3 years later, about time for a rewatch eh lol.

[@BabyLambCreations]

(9:07) You know who else enjoys a good blunt? *MY MOM!! WHOOOOOOO!!*

[@steveoscoke]

every single one of these “off the air” videos just shows how amazing and creative the human mind is.

[@cizrek]

6:58 when the drugs kick in at the rave during the mainstage.

[@love_exegence]

I want my future job to be someone who makes these videos.

[@MKG176]

Grab a program where you can do digital animation like this like Adobe Illustrator, Flash, even Unity has plug ins to help do stuff like this and its free. If you start practicing now, you will succeed.

[@chrisdryer]

I would have said After Effects... as there is a lot of compositing, some keying... with the Red Giant plug ins like Echospace,... Photoshop... Illustrator... the glitch stuff... there is a few plug ins for that but you can do it the old fashioned way with free software... geez... Houdini also for the 3D stuff. This is my goal also.

[@rebelincheck]

you're gonna drive a taxi

[@robertseric4453]

Me to

[@3Starinvideot]

your future job is someone who gives me nightmares

[@FearTheWeird300]

The most amazing art I've seen in a long time

[@v00doozz82]

I don’t trip anymore but when my girl and I used to we’d watch these all the time. Idk how but everything felt so intentional. Pure art

[@coultersmetanick5447]

5:45-6:20 is when me and my Bros decide to take mushrooms at the camping trip.

[@ghstwnn]

that weird tentacle brain lookin thing always gets me bahahaha

[@gaskinforeman303]

Not seeing a lot of people talking about the sequence @6:50 its incredibly badass and idek if Im really understanding the full scene after watching it multiple times.

[@wired-up5677]

I just wanna know how TF they got that vocal effect.

[@kathleengrist3962]

Gaskin Foreman it’s trippy af. To me it looks like a concert that’s coming to life and going really bad. As well as possibly an alien invasion or something

[@pressluftrohrreiniger9592]

its made by amnesia scanner

[@SladeBallard]

Fucking alright, now I have something to watch while baked tonight. Thanks Adult Swim, please never stop producing more of this show, this man is a genius.

[@stinkypigeon3287]

man, i hate getting an ad in the middle of one of the segments! i get so caught up in the beautiful animation and then boom an ad. I'll never turn adblock on tho because i wanna support this incredible content :)

[@MessiahSparxx]

Great episode OTA never ceases to amaze me. Whether im tripping or sober this stuff tingles my serotonin receptors.

[@DZrache]

I didn't know what to expect and still felt pleasantly surprised

[@MKG176]

8:24 - I think they are making a statement of the lack of culture of the youth here. Video games,and over-sexualized depictions of women, plus the subtlety of the sex message (the controller becomes a *pussy*) Pokemon characters being slammed into the burger represent the fast food like effect of the shallow commercialism on your mind. The Hypno Toad from Futurama is torn in half to reveal peace. After being "absorbed" in the television the data is corrupted, which sums up the entire piece. As a child of the 80's and 90's, I got like every reference being machine gunned at us, from He-Man to Pee Wee's Playhouse to Hey Arnold. Awesome little animation.

[@nageorgiou2]

Yeah I think you're right. That last part was definitely a messaged aimed at the little ones of the 80's/90's. This is definitely another subliminal PSA, and probably about the youth. I have two theories on it: 1. Mayhaps it's a massive visual commentary on the 60s-90s. Think about it, the beginning started out mellow, with *shapes* which seemed to be a very popular thing back then, the whole geometric style. Speaking about things as simple as ballerinas twirling. Those little blurs used to transition between segments could be a representation of the lines between generations. Then you get to the 80s and 90s, with the children exploding out of the woman, symbolizing the emphasis they still had on how bad sex is before marriage, and then shit gets fast paced. (Looking back at this, this is jumbled as shit. I had more ideas, but I don't have the time to write them all out.) 2. It's Adult Swim's version of "Dead life". Thats all I got.

[@gs325jcbd]

bingo

[@8xRedMonkeyx8]

So in order to correct the youth of today, they make this vid. Hahaha cause this vid will fix everything mentioned above... No, this vid is literally random as an expression of 1 persons mind/feels. Looking beyond that is pretentious and false

[@Dylan_Thomas1]

You could come up with a million interpretations, all depending on what you want to see.

[@100GTAGUY]

+Divided_Kingdom art is meant to be interpreted by both the viewer and artist lol

[@jameswhite9127]

Man, that last scene is some impressive claymation gumby gooey goodness.

[@ktktktktktktkt]

very deep. I'll never see Donald Trump the same way ever again.

[@yimyems]

these videos are weirdly euphoric and have me grinning all the way through

[@Egoblivion]

This video has been amazing. When the Octopus came running out of the badass animation sequence. OMG!

[@thejhonnie]

That editing and composting in the latter half is fucking insane...

[@cleanwater3180]

That part of illusion is amazing, just truly a work of art.

[@Radroach338]

8:20 The most epic shit I've ever.

[@PacificDark]

I saw this last night. Instant favorite.

[@thermalvision203]

I'm too sober for this shit!

[@squanchy666]

get right son what's the matter with ya go cash in some change and score a dime, shit

[@AC444_]

That claymation short was cool and it was awesome when they showed Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show at 9:05!

[@hardybobby]

Regular Show was and still is one of my favorite cartoons.

[@tylercgarrison]

best off the air episode ever. tried acid for the first time and watched this. it was amazing

[@jahnniii]

This is revolutionary. Please continue these productions.

[@DeadChef_]

slowly rising beetsofreen, stumbled across this ages ago, so amazing to watch and listen to

[@giogioscominghome4331]

6:10 - 6:22 BEST MEGAZORD TRANSFORMATIONS SINCE 1987! DISTORTIA MEGAZORD! *applauds rapidly*

[@MenachemSchmuel]

Kicking off this episode with top notch music! And then kinda devolving from there... great visuals as always, though.

[@juneradar]

This simulates insanity so well. Thank you, adult swim.

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

The shorts simulate it better imo, than off the air.

[@gabb-77720]

i just realized i played this on repeat since 9 and its 10 now. this is art man

[@FuNkYFrEsHBoY7]

6:50 looks like someone snuck some footage from outside the matrix.

[@TheNeilDarby]

well that brought it back in a big way.

[@Fishies125]

Lol I know right...especially considering how laid back NEWNOW was.

[@and1lnull]

+Jonathan Russell Music newnow was great because it was so self referential to OTA itself, made me feel all fuzzy inside

[@cvk2407]

2024 and i still watch this

[@TheJameslehr]

1:44: the NECKAR's Concept in Optical Illusions.

[@MCLegoboy]

Oh man, that last bit with television shaping our childhood was awesome. So man references.

[@AnvilPro100]

I love how it ends with stopping the balls from the very start, nice little bookend.

[@charleshemphill6923]

The ending sketch was amazing artwork

[@deloreanized]

The music selection in this show is invaluable. Holy shit.

[@brandonradloff1830]

As I’m watching this video I’m thinking this was the theme song for shapes the whole time

[@damienhernandez3645]

These videos are the answers to life when your on LSD

[@dannygarza2983]

This video can fuck up your whole life on Lsd it is Black Magik at its finest. Makes you feel like your body is being controlled like a puppet it's has happened to numerous people including me and it's the most confusing and scariest thing ever. Fuck the creators of this and their intentions because my life has never been the same.

[@fishoutofwater7743]

So great to see you back guys! I'm gonna watch this while being as high as possible

[@majjinaran2999]

I've never seen / heard anything like it, and my brain appreciates it

[@alcmfld]

start tyler the creators igor album with earfquake at exactly 2:50 and this video at exactly the same time. trippiest shit youll ever see

[@tico_1k]

arxoex everything lines up perfectly!!! Shits crazy

[@MsDeath345]

dropped 3 hits and watched this all night. gotta say one of my best trips

[@medi2153]

7:10 Zorak

[@gusweinstein2339]

I love that this show exists.

[@jarryj1995]

YESSS ANOTHER EPISODE!!

[@JasonSanders]

8:20 melts face

[@savagekid94]

Watching 9:48 and beyond while high fucks with your brain like nothing else. Like being on the front lines of a lazer gun battle

[@TrustYouMe]

Please bring MORE of this show, it's amazing!

[@FirionLeFleur]

Is there an Off The Air dvd? I want to own this physically.

[@fluffyrat4440]

AS is a different kind of creativity tbh

[@griffinmiller3783]

GriffinMM my name is also griffin

[@JohnathanSquarePantsStudios]

This is why I love [adult swim]

[@V1ktorvaugn]

i hope these never stop being made

[@RockyRockstarRINGO]

Watching this while tripping is amazing!

[@wateredkirby]

What an amazing start of the next season. im so glad its back

[@slash_mcgnarly]

Song at 2:27 is "slowly rising" by beatsofreen

[@ihatethistown7446]

some parts of this made me reevaluate my life decisions

[@doulougboe2781]

This is the kind of stuff on adult swim that I love to see.

[@talondominion4267]

I viewed this for the first time on my phone with submerging earphones in darkness. I had drank a bottle of robitusin to incite the efects of DXM with a bowl of pot. My younger sibilings viewed another pschedelic episode of American Dad diagonaly from me as they conversated. I viewed so many dimensions

[@Squanchhyy]

next time I'm trippin sac I'm watching all of these, literally the most trippy visuals I've seen

[@UnrealHotShot]

These are some of my favorite videos in the world! Please keep making them!!! :)

[@notnoone6609]

If Off the Air had its own KZbin channel, I'd subscribe to it in a heartbeat

[@klydemarmasett9403]

So nice to see this in my notifications. Had a great wake and bake to this. :)

[@roger701jimenez4]

Im so high right now. The dancing colors make you feel like youre in the middle of it all

[@calemirou]

My best Playlist in adult swim

[@thereign001]

I find this video to be the best one and the trippiest from Adult Swim

[@aaronjohnson951]

Watching this pre-trip and I'm already tripping off it lmao

[@tb3411]

I was playing this video game. You were like dating ghosts or something. And I was really into it. Played it like 24/7, until this one afternoon, and suddenly, like something broke. It was just like... pixels. The characters onscreen... I felt like I knew them. They weren't people anymore. They were just shapes.

[@SkyExplosion]

7:09 makes me think of a Silent Hill Rave game I want to play.

[@OzzieAstaroth]

This one gets bonus points for having Space Ghost in there.

[@notnoone6609]

All Off the Air episodes have Space Ghost cameos-- you just have to look for them : ]

[@fredrichfernando6798]

+Not No One He's pretty damn easy to find in the Liquid episode tho.

[@matricepeinard7879]

At this point in the comment there's not a single "WTF did i just watch OMG that was so random " there's only a bunch of guys and girls enjoying the show... I'm so fucking happy to be here ^^

[@Goctagon]

That last video blew me away...damn.

[@nateshrager512]

the segment at 6:48 is so well done

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Beautiful, terrifying, mysterious...this gives me faith in humanity.

[@gambit133]

Amazing. Very very well done. If any of the editors are reading this, kudos.

[@sphwsh]

Absolutely amazing. Keep up the good ass work!

[@DoctorDrMd]

Makes two many cooks look normal.

[@aradiati0n]

"This isn't trippy"...said no one ever