Me at every party, sending beer flying everywhere as I gesture wildly: “I don’t think you understand. They have *muscles* where the muscles *shouldn’t* go.”

The imagery of strung-out academic / misunderstood genius Travis throwing the papers and kneeling in awe at his own realisation about animals with abs in 90s popular culture is so, so choice.

@veshengri

7 ай бұрын

This is pure and true.

@DimT670

7 ай бұрын

The funniest part is most of the characters he mentions have no abs

@Bluecho4

7 ай бұрын

It's a miracle of animation, too. Goddamn, that shot had to take a lot of work.

@douglascoonfield2525

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@DimT670which ones don’t? Street sharks, battle toads, biker mice, all pretty abbed up. I don’t think Mighty Ducks or WWCOWBOMM all wear shirts that don’t show abs, I think, but they could be in there.

@Phriedah

6 ай бұрын

it goes so hard and I'm here for it instead of studying for midterms

1:33 Justin's "... his brain does not function like many other popular brains you might be aware of" is my go-to description of neurodiversity from now on.

@seanmorgan1759

6 ай бұрын

It's not like the brains you see on TV or popular commercials, obviously. A _bespoke_ brain.

@GiddyGarlos

5 ай бұрын

Same 😂

@QuikVidGuy

5 ай бұрын

@@seanmorgan1759 an indie brain

That pan across the projector with the beam pointing at us... that was genuinely incredible. My jaw dropped.

@MsDianagentaToYou

7 ай бұрын

Yes! And the rendering of the film! Heck, even the idea to use film for that dialogue. Wonderful.

@LadyMossdown

6 ай бұрын

I went right to the comments to see if others appreciated that masterpiece

@andyk5467

5 ай бұрын

yes!!! its gorgeous!

I'm so glad this is taking place both at MIT and Harvard simultaneously

@startush

6 ай бұрын

hehe just like the movie 21

@rynwrd

5 ай бұрын

@@startush lol, and the interior classroom scenes were shot at Boston University, across the river

This really captures the absolute ADHD chaos god Travis is

@strangeacelegume

7 ай бұрын

So real, and also he’s me fr fr

@vee8101

7 ай бұрын

Travis understands us

@gnarwhale

6 ай бұрын

@@vee8101 Thank Travis for Travis.

The dramatic imagery of him leaving the campus and casting his work into the wind like fallen snow is perfect. Hahah

The microexpressions in this are unfathomably good. Just, holy shit, how did you seamlessly turn this audio into an epic tale of a tortured genius?

@startush

6 ай бұрын

i was so excited to add microexpressions!! thank you for noticing! i think i learned the concept from an episode of “lie to me” or even the Mentalist and the idea never left me

Justin's pointed look at Griffin on their way out of the lecture hall is giving me life

She did it. And it's every bit as good as we could've hoped for.

@startush

7 ай бұрын

😊 thank you anavnaj!!

You’ve really elevated the source material with the academic setting

Them following Travis out of the lecture 😂😂😂

This is legitimately breathtaking. Your brain doesn't function like a lot of popular brain I might be familiar with, because I couldn't get inspiration like this from abnimals

Not the infamous Zootopia comic on one of the floating pages 😂

@justkelly2

7 ай бұрын

Damn, good eye!

@startush

7 ай бұрын

as a researcher and a highly distinguished professor it’s important that Travis considers ALL the ramifications of the abnimals craze

Incredible stuff love the idea of Travis as a haunted academic studying the dark mysterious of 90s animals with abs cartoons

I love how you depicted Travis getting frustrated by lack of understanding, packing all of his reference material hastily into his briefcase, throwing on his overcoat, and Storming out of the building. Only to be tempted to passionately dive into discussing his hyper-fixation throwing all his research into the wind in a dramatic epiphany moment. What a genuine masterpiece

From now on i will be referring to my ADHD almost exclusively as “my brain does not function like many other popular brains you might be aware of”

you are already one of my fav mbmbam animators but you’ve thoroughly outdone yourself here!! incredible job!!

I appreciate how much the style of the animation brings to mind Hergé's Tintin series, it makes the contrast to ANIMALS WITH ABS stand out even more

MIserere mei. In a meme animation. Love it. Can't stand it. Love it. (Also the story you created visa context in the animation shows absolutely OUTSTANDING sensibility for story through animation!)

you are just... by far the best mbmbam animatic creator. and yall know dbi and geo kick so much ass but like. even if you weren't already a great animator, your creative decisions in all of your videos are just so powerful, ive never seen someone run with source material so hard like this

This is the best tribute to Travis' mind I've ever laid eyes on. I hope he sees this soon!

I am absolutely speechless! this is such a stunning animation - and also one of my fave recent bits by the boys. This is so glorious that I can foresee myself watching it a hundred more times (this week)

I don’t know how you managed to capture Travis’ ADHD gremlin energy in those facial expressions but you nailed it

@startush

6 ай бұрын

it’s the empathizing ✊😔

i love your ability to use frames for the animatic and like... real time tracking(????) for the film projection and griffin looking at the film. it's incredible and i don't think i've seen it done before

@quertie420

7 ай бұрын

also how it has the same effects that film would (travis going out of focus is a big one) it SOOO real

@startush

6 ай бұрын

thanks! i incorporate some SFX tricks picked up from watching Captain Disillusion and lighting/layering effects OpenToonz has FOR FREE!!!

This is so goddamn well done 😭😭

This looks so great! Especially him putting on the coat. And the papers falling around him. And everything!

that paper shot at the end was extremely impressive. the projector bit too. you sure you're not the second coming of don bluth?

I suggest you make a playlist of all your mbmbam animations so that we binge them all and get those view counts up. A win win for both of us.

This was a religious experience

oh my gosh this is AMAZING animation!!! i came for silly mbmbam but i couldnt even focus on their words i was just too focused on admiring the art!!! fantastic work

Man, the lip sync at 0:15 was so smooth that I had accidently unplugged my headphones while watching this and could still hear Travis saying "abnimals" by reading his lips.

I am on my 7th (and not last) time though this for the first time starting watching it... While listening to the original bit, I was in stitches, but your animation/animatic style and the homages smattered through just add so fucking much to an already all-time hilarious bit for me that I can't stop myself. Fucking BRAV-O! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

❤ INCREDIBLE ❤ Your animation is BEAUTIFUL!

I subscribed solely for the beautiful bit with the falling leaves of paper at the end. So ethereal

Literally the best thing I could’ve woken up to

it is rare that i see an animatic that is this genuinely compelling as visual art, and not just an addition to a fun audio. you earned this subscriber :)

absolutely obsessed with how you depicted this bit. perfection. chefs kiss.

THIS IS FANTASTICALLY ANIMATED HOLY SHIT. Finally a travis-centric animation!!!!!!

I was not prepared for this to be so beautifully animated. Amazing work!

Oh, you finally finished it! I saw this one in an "incomplete animations" compilation you posted a while ago. Glad to see it in it's full glory!

THIS ANIMATION IS EVERYTHING I can't express how much I love it

jdfgkjdhfkjshfs the miserere coming in at the end absolutely sniped me, i'm dying over here, you're a genius

God all your animations bring me such joy they're so fun to watch, the body movement is so GOOD

Incredible storyboarding demonstrated for this shitpost, I am seeing and admiring your craft

YES! Been praying you would do more. Love your style. Very appropriate for the McElboys

@startush

7 ай бұрын

thanks Namisar! i always have one or two videos percolating but it just takes me for fucking ever to finish them :S

Amazing! So proud to be a citizen of TravNation

Your editing and special effects for both this video and your latest video are incredible. The amount of talent is so surreal because it's combined with a simple art style one would use for an animatic, and yet you've done all of these special effects and such that feel purposeful and based on a lot of animation/film knowledge.

This is incredible! The idea of him walking out as a professor was perfect

This is, unequivocally, one of my favorite interpretations of a MBMBaM clips I've ever seen. So well done!

I'm so glad you finished this one, it is just *chefs kiss*

travis is TRULY my philosopher. He can see into my mind

Wow you are such a talented animator. The use of space, creating the scenes out of the silly audio, the sheer creativity to turn abnimals bit into a college proffesor on the brink of either duscovery or madness. Wow, just really impressive

This is, of course, excellent.

i have never more quickly thought "Wow this is my new fav mbmbam animation ever"

This is the most beautiful Mbmbam animation out there

Abnimals will always be a favorite no matter what, but pairing it with the beautiful mind references is just 👩🏻‍🍳💋

"i'm not on trial here" really got me for some reason.

Okay but why is this FUCKING GORGEOUS??? Especially the last shot like god DAMN.

Absolutely insane animation in the best way, 11/10

Knowing you give a big smooch to your patrons unironically triggered a twinge of jealousy in my soul and now I have to sit down and unpack that

Babe, wake up...new startush just dropped

This is so insanely well-animated. I'm having the time of my life, frankly

@aristat

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I DID loop this 7 times at once, how did you know?

Obsessed with the fact you put them literally in the Harvard yard.

why is the composition of every shot so good.. it's just a mbmbam animation.. and it's so good..

@startush

Ай бұрын

thank you, i tried very hard ;]

@hollowbasket

Ай бұрын

@@startush I can tell!! Are you making more?

@startush

Ай бұрын

@@hollowbasket yeah! i hope to have the "tight two" intro from ep 265 finished in a month or so 😙

I ABSolutely (hehehe) love your style, and Travis' design in particular!

Thank you, this is without a doubt my favorite Mbmbam animation of all time

this is so genuinely incredible

This seeps atmosphere out of every pore, goddamn dude

holy shit I didn't know there was a finished version of this; it's absolutely glorious

this is exactly how it feels to have a hyperfixation i love it

How DARE you make an animation this high quality and creative?? The absolute GALL to make something so funny EVEN FUNNIER!?!? Oh you've really done it this time. I just subscribed and you're going to have to live with that.

This animation went so many fun places, loved the design of the brothers, loved the location changes, the ending really tickled me. Awesome job!

okay everything about this is so high quality and high concept (more so than just an animatic where its a vague space with simple shapes) ... but like can we talk about how the part where Griffin holds up the tape reels to look at the images of the cartoon?? Thats the part that made me go "WOW. this took a LOT of time"

this is phenomenal! love the character designs and close ups and especially that ending sequence of Travis and the papers

Absolutely amazing

Everything about this is so choice oh my god the way they leave the building killed me

this is so impressive bc it was already a hilarious bit and this animation made it somehow funnier?

comments made me go back and pay attention to the actual animation itself beyond the bit, and damn, this is so fucking good. the different shots and the pan across the projector + the lighting was all super cool. this felt cinematic kinda bc it like. felt like a whole story. like good will hunting but abminals.

2:04 GHJDFHD THE ONE PANEL OF THE ZOOTOPIA ARBYS/ABORTION COMIC

This is so well-animated, it's INSANE! Like, the drama at the end! Holy shit😮

this is criminally underated, fantastic work! love how you set a whole scene and transition locations

jaw-dropping work, my god. I've never related to travis more in my life either

The funniest thing is he's 100% right about the abnimals, every cartoon I watched as a kid (and even the power rangers, for some reason they adjusted the sentai suits to give them abs for the movies) are just X with Abs and 90's teen 'attitude' (read: mall shopping, pizza and roller skates)

Honest. Insightful. Gripping.

I really love your style, just wanted to say, it's brilliant.

@startush

5 ай бұрын

aww thank you!

THERE'S JUST A WHOLE BOOK OF DEVO

Not me procrastinating getting ready for class and then being hot over the head with the boys superimposed on my campus

Its been a minute since one of your animations found its way into my algorithm... subbing now to remedy that, sorry bout that... but this was stellar.

I'm so glad you finished it, this is amazing!

It blows my mind that the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott is named after a moo mesa character

This is incredible. I hope the boys see it.

omf i love the way you draw them this is so damn great

ANOTHER BANGER BY STARTUSH, BY JOVE THEYVE DONE IT AGAIN

This is just a wonderful animation, thank you.

I did not know I needed Professor Travis in my life

I loved this bit, I knew it would be one of your greatest from the title

Simply beautiful, a fantastic rendition of this scene

having a brain that does not function like many popular brains you might be aware of is my life

Goddamn fucking incredible. I can't get over this. The drama. The fluidity and detail of the animation. Truly a masterpiece