The Stanley Parable Elevator Animation

hi im jim
wow i started this on 6/18/22 and meant to finish it last year but so much happened and i took a lot of unnecessary breaks
i wanted to thank my partner and friends for being so supportive and giving me the motivation to finish this thing so thanks guys ^_^
and thanks for watching me stream the process and keeping me in check
its kind of cool how you can see how comfortable i got with drawing the narrator,, i love this game but i am never going to animate lineless again
programs: toon boom, clip studio, after effects
happy birthday stanley

[@seannawatters]

His suit slowly growing larger from all the elevator music he’s soaking up

[@kidsto2612]

Someone else noticed!!! I was legit comparing shoulder to head ratio and the anatomy stylization halfway through the video and i started to notice his body became much wider near the end lol.

[@opera_ghost8504]

oh now I can't unsee it

[@mint_marigold1229]

that's a visual representation of the narrator's ego /j

[@SpammingY-pp2ru]

Wait... (Rewinds video, skips forward, rewinds, skips forward) *YOU'RE RIGHT*

[@RaiBlu10]

@@SpammingY-pp2ruoh hey recent commenter ^^

[@Freakbone]

I like the depiction of the Narrator as some old English teacher, fits him very well

[@the.fictatory]

I like that his glasses are purple like Kevan's. Because yeah, the actor does wear glasses. Purple glasses.

[@nectarkenni]

seems like a history teacher in looks to me, it's always the best type!

[@f.ottogunther]

crying. both of them here looks like the two of my english teachers, stanley looks like my teacher whos co-teaching while the narrator looks like my og/main teacher but with greyer hair

[@noodlepudding3464]

“This is what this mass of shapes or disembodied voice looks like as a person” is my favorite fandom trope. I love how many people agreed that the big evil pink guy from Just Shapes And Beats wears heels. Because theyre right. He does.

[@DreamtaleEnjoyer]

This is also now how I am going to picture Stanley & the narrator from now on. Fandom truly is the wildest hivemind :)

[@Sprocket_hazagunlul]

OMG I WAS LIKE 'WHAT YOU MEANIG HE WEARS HEELS' BUT IT MAKES SENSE WHEN I THINK ABT IT

[@Daycore_lovers]

And my personal favorite Cecil Gershwin Palmer from Welcome to NightVale, there is SO many version of him including but not limited to: -some guy in suit with purple tattoo and third eye (sometimes extra limbs like tentacles) -same guy but with ATROCIOUS fashion sense -literally the nightvale logo (giant floating purple eye)

[@OrangeFishie5]

jSAB MWNTION aHAJQIXJJWUWHAO

[@sufferdude0537]

I actually found your comment on the jsab animation

[@toricybernet]

The two genres of “just doesn’t care anymore”

[@ViscoChuu]

999 likes, nice

[@Yerofey_KhabarovsiocmpJKAShmri]

abouy

[@ALEXTHECAMELEON]

"Stanley! Look I'm hitting the gritty!"

[@handsoapjack7456]

“Oh don’t give me that face Stanley. Im just keeping with the times, I must stay relevant some how. It not like kids these days are running to the video store and buying The Stanley Parable in droves. Its just marketing when you think about it.”

[@kyupiangel90]

I read both of this sentences in the narrator's voice. Damn imagination is a big thing😂

[@dragonqueen1294]

“Oh Stanley! I’m getting sturdy Stanley! Isn’t this so lit!?”

[@Oiki_chan1221]

​@@handsoapjack7456 i cant even do a birtish accent. How the fuck can i read this out loud with narrator's voice

[@Foxtail_valley23]

Stanley: -.- -._-. Narrator: >0< 🕺🕺🕺0v0🕺🕺🕺 :D🕺🕺🕺 ^q^ 🕺🕺🕺🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵

[@ICITRONSI]

K Y N?

[@user-zy8nw2lc9r]

Tbh as Stanley I start dancing to the tune too. 💃🕺

[@ruier6705]

@@ICITRONSI What the hell does KYN mean? I've tried to figure it out but nothing makes sense, My best guess is that ether the "N" is "Self" or the "K" is "Can". So I'm not really sure if this is a death threat, you just want to stop or something else. Hope to hear back, thanks!

[@yoalie]

​@@ruier6705 it's the "Stanley:" faces(?) interpreted as morse code, the underline being 2 dashes. -.-(k) -.--(y) -.(n)

[@Pain_train_wielder]

@@yoalieit’s an abbreviation of a popular LowTierGod quote

[@aroot3756]

He evolves from the doofenshmirtz voice actor to detective gumshoe

[@jayr5728]

Nah, no way you called Dan Povenmire the doofenshmirtz voice actor 😭 /lh (he's the person behind the whole show)

[@aroot3756]

@@jayr5728 I DIDN'T KNOW HIS NAME I JUST KNEW WHAT HE LOOKED LIEK😭

[@colbyboucher6391]

Famous hypnospace detective Gumshoe Gooper?!?

[@radiowlet]

oh my god he DOES have the gumshoe hair

[@underpaiddefenseattorney]

HE DOES LOOK KIND OF LIKE GUMSHOE OH MY GOD

[@Sn34ky_x3]

Why did he slowly expand like an orbie

[@sourcat]

this comment is so funny to me

[@Pink_Ruby]

This is unironically the funniest comment I've ever seen.

[@Artificer_]

he was absorbing the elevator music

[@ultimatequeenofdeath666]

what do you mean by that

[@Sn34ky_x3]

​@@ultimatequeenofdeath666he gets bigger and bigger from 1:59-4:00

[@HowDoUspellMyName]

love how stanley is just... unphased LMAO

[@Place_Your_Order_Here]

He's been through a lot.

[@aarasko]

he’s used to it by now

[@CEDEREL]

no thoughts

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

He yearns for the bucket.

[@Calamity25]

Uhh 2:28 ???

[@sufficientframe]

2:29 - Ooh, Stanley reacted!

[@viro_the_sheep]

Noicee

[@saquebutte]

✨Loving that melotron✨

[@paigewessel9233]

I adore this narrator design, he looks like if Ford from Gravity Falls were slightly scruffier

[@X-SPONGED]

If Ford was just a slight bit as scrappy as Stan was

[@redpepper74]

Stanley seems like he’s so done, but nah he’s enjoying the mellotron as much as the narrator :) They’re so cute haha

[@Squirl7504]

+

[@TheSunnyS1deUp]

IT'S JIM, WE DID IT WE FOUND JIM HI JIM

[@Yormunzumr]

[Button Press SFX] "Jim"

[@andreahardin7521]

HI JIM!!

[@e1221]

🔈Jim 🔈

[@adora_was_taken]

🔈Jim 🔈

[@duuuumb]

JIM OH MY GOD!!! HI JIM!!!

[@minifye]

I like how the TSB community has just accepted that the narrator looks like Dan Povenmire Ok, I understand that he’s meant to look like Kevan Brighting, but imagining him as Dan Povenmire is funnier in my book

[@echothefreak9396]

The Stanley Barable

[@brook6944]

Respectfully, nuh-uh.

[@minifye]

@@brook6944aw :[

[@animal_gal_adventures9885]

Oh god i'm not gonna be able to look at him the same way.

[@Timeddoesstuff]

A office worker? STANLEY THE OFFICE WORKER?!

[@didimentioniplaythetrombon3454]

THE “LOVING THAT MELLOTRON” PART IS GIVING ME LIFE DHUEBDJWBDMFNRIDN (This is literally a representation of my two brain cells on a daily basis)

[@andreahardin7521]

Hehehe

[@Sn34ky_x3]

2:28 for the people looking

[@ZillaYT.]

Why did you spam your keyboard are you okay did you die??

[@didimentioniplaythetrombon3454]

@@ZillaYT. I am, in fact, very dead.

[@reknah]

i heard "nothing but mental trauma" 💀

[@Mellaya_Creations]

I love how he goes "Getting bored now" only to go "All together now!" Just a bit later lol

[@trashcantdomuch1596]

The Elevator Easter Egg but the Narrator slowly gets wider

[@thelonegoomba3782]

Stanley is very well animated

[@txaianapm8378]

We can only imagine how excited this person was with the "Jim" button.

[@hellolithy]

The music genuinely gets on my nerves but watching the Narrator dance to it was worth it. The animation is so smooth, and it looks so good.

[@clockwork3494]

I still love the fact that almost everyone to ever make something related to TSP just unanimously agreed the Narrator would look like a guy in his mid-late 40's with short brown side swept hair, a greying beard, square glasses and a very fashionable brown business suit jacket. Never have I ever seen a community silently agree on something so openly without debate until The Stanley Parable.

[@bell4166]

I love when the narrator follows the rhythm and dances hahaha

[@ChGamesOrg06]

I love how every depiction of the narrator is different, some see him as an old timey English man, some as an ethereal looking person,and some as just a dude and they all feel right. Great animation btw, feels canon.

[@yousseftamer4943]

Look! The narrator H e s l o w l y E X P A N D S .

[@IndieLove77]

i love when narrator is actually an older gent

[@echothefreak9396]

I LOVE YOUR WAY OF DRAWING THE NARRATOR SO MUCHH IM GONNA CRYYY THE LINELESS STYLE IS SO VISUALLY PLEASING TOO AND THE WAY YOU DRAW EXPRESSIONS AND ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS LIKE HIM FIDGETTING WITH HIS COAT AND ALL THAT I JUST. IT’S TOO PERFECT WHAAAAAHHHHH🥺🥺🥺

[@MiIIiezz]

Watching the Narrator do his little jig in itself is such a gem.

[@kermit_fan5059]

JIM, YOURE IN THE GAME

[@_obsessedescapist_]

My serotonin: 📈📈📈📈

[@Hydro_Waterbottle]

oh this is quite brilliant. you’ve absolutely captured the elevator easter egg, well done!

[@adora_was_taken]

read this in the narrator's voice

[@Hydro_Waterbottle]

@@adora_was_taken ohh i’ve done it again

[@emaleighw]

Jim i think youre singlehandedly curing my short attention span thank you 🙏🙏 this video must have taken ages and its really great!!! Very impressive animation you should be really proud of yourself!!!! :DD

[@campbell_soup517]

this is so goofy and underrated as heck

[@EAZZEE]

i love how he just gets w i d e it's so silly 🥰

[@GrimblyGoo]

2:10 his little grumbly noises >.

[@kjzlstuio_]

I THINK I ONLY SAW A CLIP ON TUMBLR SO HAPPY THERE'S MORE YYAYAHDHHSYA

[@FangsMcGee]

2:47 I love how they incorporated Markiplier's cabbage patch dance moves after he says "all together now!" What's even funnier is Markiplier does it before the narrator speaks and then yells "OH! did he just say all together now?!"

[@Gurtopolis]

it's so funny how he goes from an old frail man who would break his arm trying to pinch me, to a big burly guy who could throw me from the ground floor up to the top floor of a skyscraper. i love this animation though, its impressive how on model most of it is, and to even dare doing lineless animation is a feat I could never amount to.

[@seemoonkey]

i love the timing of every little movement it feels so natural and fun

[@beets_and_rice]

the narrator is such a mood lmao

[@RadioNyxx]

“DID SOMEBODY SAY ALL TOGETHER NOW?” -markiplier

[@nightcatssketchbook]

I love that he just couldn’t keep himself from dancing

[@cyphersantiago5377]

i love how he gets excited then bored then excited and etc. i love the narrator 😅

[@douggydraws]

I WAS HERE I WAS HERE 🎉 AWESOME JOB JIM!! Narrator looks so fluid and dynamic. I love his little dances

[@ciphersupurass]

i will play this on loop for 37 hours rn i love them sm theyre so silly and i love ur narrator design hes just a Guy

[@Solars_Adopted_Son]

the entire elevator part is my brain when I'm left alone in my house for more than 2 minutes

[@tealares]

OH MY GOD IT'S FINISHED??? IT'S HERE?? I REMEMBER SEEING IT WAY BACK WHEN. ONE OF THE STANLEY PARABLE ANIMATIONS EVER . EVER!!!!! THANK YOU JIM

[@k1ng_chicken]

This elevator music actually is pretty dang whimzitastical

[@jennyduong2466]

I genuinely thought this was gonna be an animation of Markiplier dancing to the elevator music. But this is just as fantastic!

[@P4ST3L_BUN]

They're both chilling in their own ways :)

[@MattyHutsell]

That is the most adorable old man disembodied voice ive ever seen.

[@ThirdyMeowy]

THIS IS THE ART STYLE I ASPIRE TO FR OMGG THIS IS SO CUTE

[@ThinkyBoi42]

Stanley and the Narrator are definitely work mates that meet up at the bar and talk gossip when you're not playing

[@muffin_crow]

I love how his shoulders got progressively wider and wider

[@octo5042]

and this is why i love youtube animations, bc a big budget animated series would never get away with 4 straight minutes of this

[@stabbycat748]

I half expected this to be the Markiplier “I’m 100% off my ADHD medication” dance

[@Doctorrr_]

I'm stuck in a car, hungry and hot, so this was the perfect thing to watch while I waited, lol. What lovely art!!

[@Ebehp]

I could listen to narrator basically verbal stim all day bro, IT'S SO CUTE

[@quarantinedcorbin3744]

I love how you draw the narrator

[@Schweppes.]

Fck this is so cool. I don't even know where the characters are from but gosh the animation is just gaaaahhhh

[@PKLuver944]

A video game called "The Stanley Parable", where you play as Stanley, and The Narrator narrates you! Or gets annoyed depending on how well you follow his instructions >:)

[@JustCallMeEmily]

I love the subtle amusement that's on Stanley's face 🤭

[@mutatedpiranha4589]

I love that this implies stanley is just standing in the elevator for MINUTES, desperately waiting to reach the location… and the narrator is over here being silly lmao

[@AlyonaWolf]

Woah this looks so lovely and very impressive for a lineless animation! The Narrator is so goofy

[@defolajofficial]

Me the entire time looking at Stanley being unphased* 2:29 Me: *GASP* Stanley!

[@trash_goblin998]

Someone needs to add the Video of mark danceing to the Music to this omfg-

[@hurricanejaney]

i like how so many artists simplify Stanley’s soul patch into three lines

[@notplair]

this music would fit great while going to mars in a elevator

[@user-pg4on8de8t]

Под конец видео, Рассказчик полностью ссутулился и перестал скрывать от Стэнли свое пузико.

[@raindeer9787]

I love how the narrator basically looks like Stanford Pines, so it feels like he could sing this to his brother!

[@ewoklord-726]

I love the way the narrator is drawn (and animated) here, it’s just too perfect!

[@GenBenREAL]

WHEN I FIRST WATCHED THIS I FELT LIKE NARRATOR LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE AND I FIGURED IT OUT. He looks like Matthew Lillard (specifically when he was in the fnaf movie)

[@Indigooey]

YIPPEE YIPPEE YIPPEE JIM YOI DID IT ITS SO GOOOOOOD

[@Yerofey_KhabarovsiocmpJKAShmri]

he grew up from 15 to 30y in 4 minutes

[@Diamonddragon275]

Stanley is a neurotypical person and the Narrator is neurodivergent, you cannot convince me otherwise.

[@boredom936]

I find the thought of the narrator just being a guy following Stanley around hilarious

[@powdereyes2210]

It looks like the narrator grew in mental age by 20 years At first all giggidy and excited To tired and sick of it To accepting that it won’t change and just trying to roll with it

[@xtoasty2317]

im watching this on loop to keep me from going insane while playing the 4 hour baby game. wish me luck pals u_u

[@sodapopbuoy2749]

AAAH JIM IT'S SO COOL TO SEE THE FINISHED THING !!! i still remember seeing the first few frames of it way back when,, this is so genuinely amazing, every little movement the narrator makes is so soothing to look at it's incredible ALSO ITS SO NICE TO SEE ALL THE SMALL WAYS YOUR STYLE CHANGED WHILE WORKING ON THIS AAAH!!! AMAZING WORK !!!!!!

[@jameshoeft6755]

I wish stanly joined in and danced with him

[@AndieBanandieBell]

Bro went from being Stanley’s amount in width to detective Gumshoe’s

[@Online28_JStr78]

Never thought I’d ever see a Stanley parable fan-animation ever come out on my recommendations

[@contexterased]

“I was AFK, whadidimiss?” 🤓

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

That's actually exactly how I'd imagine the narrator to look.

[@KageTenshiiRyuu]

I love that the narrator looks a bit like an older version of Stanley.

[@chromaticrain8047]

They are sooo innatentive-ADHD and hyperactive-ADHD coded

[@hilton_chloe.e]

Ever since I’ve played/ watched the Stanley parable which has been roughly 5 - 6 years now 😭I can never unhear “Stanley Stanley” when hearing elevator music LMAOO

[@FPBRM23]

I personally considered the narrator to be a small stickman with a beard floating on Stanley’s shoulder

[@tealares]

i will never forget this oh my goodness. am i overreacting maybe but art is art . this is beautiful this is so soft and gentle and you didnt need to make this but you DID and the world is ever so happier for it

[@stanislav_the_orphan]

I love how he’s slowly getting wider as video goes on

[@potatoplant9770]

i looovve jim animation yayyy

[@theg4zeforeal]

Just acknowledge that a real person breathing in our realm had to voice act this

[@SmattestBobbie248]

This kind of reminds of the idle animations on 90's kids computer games

[@NobleRanger]

I love the fact that the narrator in this animation looks not all that far off from how the voice acter looks.

[@eldragoyt9992]

* narrator walks in* AND THE CROWD GOES WILD

[@Iwanttobreakfreeplsfreddie]

I thought it was david Tennant and Michael sheen for a second

[@raxmax1421]

You're design for these two is absolutely my favorite, this animation is so cute

[@Slushi-Bug]

He’s so cutiecore I love the narrator

[@kristy4662]

I've listened to this for hours and now the narrator is in my head

[@epochgd]

this is SO good. You absolutely NAILED matching the sound of his voice with the expressions he makes lol

[@yaboiadam6809]

Is that, THE Jim?

[@Barrington_cider]

The narrator humming to the elevator music is so him thing to do xD And Stanley just being completely unphased