Spreadsheet with credits for all participants is in the comments and shared in the channel's "About" section until this account gets verified.
This project was a multi-animator endeavor to animate episode 4 of The Adventure Zone: Balance, a podcast made by the McElroy family. It was started in 2017 and has over 150 participants!
PARTICIPANT CREDITS LINK: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cgYIntn4CvNElxd9efDeGtnsDteG-oXYTMOllamX6BM/edit?usp=sharing
There's no time stamps and the segments seem to be random lengths T.T
Time stamps would be very helpful!!
Are there any more eps planned and how do animators sign up?
This was worth the wait. This was great to watch 🧙♂🪄
I remember seeing little bits of this year's ago. That it was only finished 8 days ago is crazy lol
I love how Taako is serving cvnt in every art style, through the pure audio medium everyone's mind was connected to know this as fact
I'm pretty sure you can say cunt on here
Which would you say is your favorite serving? For me its gotta be the one at the 3:15 mark Edit: Nevermind 9:58 wins for me
the constant changing of art style is just such a vibe for the unhinged chaos of early TAZ
I love going back to those early episodes specifically for that chaos
Oh my gosh! This was SIX YEARS AGO?? I remember finishing my part 20:36 as a wee babe on my Nintendo 3DS... and now I'm a big big man! What a treasure we've made!
Your part was so cute 😍
omg matt
Not me just starting from the beginning this month and am already done with the suffering game
Hi Matt 🥺
Woah that was cool!
Merle’s “I feel like I don’t know you guys. I feel like we’re grown apart” hits different now 😭
OOOOF
LITERALLY
wait why, someone explain to me
@@greasyweeb massive spoilers for the ending of TAZ they are all immortal space travellers that knew eachother for centuries before starting the adventure but lost their memories
@@chaolinpescain oh okay, I knew this, I was worried something had happened to our collective dad clint.
This whole thing is incredible, but that scene with Magic Brian using Magic Missile was really something.
Animated by the legendary Rustnuttie, I’ve replayed that section over and over catching all the small details
Griffin’s dialogue really vamped into that wind-up, too. That is a masterful 26 seconds all the way around
Yeah my jaw dropped when he did the magic missile like that looked so good.
I love how everyone draws Taako in this it’s so fucking funny
I love how everyone, unanimously, agreed mentally that Taako and Magic Brian ooze fashion and magnetism. Throughout all art styles, all forms of animation, all renditions of these characters, Taako and Brian are peak 👌✨
I remember listening to this episode in my first year of high school math class like 6 years ago, having no idea how dnd worked, not a clue who anyone was, constantly didn’t know who was talking, but there were just some of those special moments that had me trying to hide my snickering that got me hooked. I’ve been keeping up with this animated project since it was announced and it’s just so amazing to see it all together and so obviously full of love to the series. 💛
Well to be fair, neither does griffin
Before anything… I guess I understand what adventure zone is but who are the guys behind it?
I love the rapid shift between skin tones, it really shows it doesn't matter what colour a character is, you can easily recognise their attributes.
i love how well justin’s impatience with their pace translates into taako’s constant impatience with his companions 13:07 “griffins oc DO NOT STEAL” im WEEPING so cute
the segment that starts at 28:29 is credited as "anonymous" so I just wanna say if the animator of that part is reading this I loved the comedy and motion you put into it. especially Taakos head tilts at the last words "15 points of damage taste"
they're anonymous for this? HUH! i actually know the person who animated it, and their animation of this bit was what got me to even listen to the podcast in the first place (which was what got me into d&d!). and then a little bit later i ended up playing in a game with them! it's one of my favorite animations of the entire podcast tbh, and for the reasons you mentioned.
@@gwenhyfarbeati i didnt check the spreadsheet (since it's kind of hard to figure out without timestamps) but the video credits does say anonymous! idk if they just wanna be unnamed or maybe there was an error. either way its super neat you know them
@@tinac6508 they probably want to be unnamed if i had to guess, as i don't think it'd be hard for the person/people who put it together to find them. i think so! we don't really talk much anymore but i still follow them on twitter and such!
everyone who is credited as anonymous was done so after they requested it specifically. it's one of the things that comes with a project that's been ongoing for over 5 years, I think. for each of them, their art has changed dramatically and they didn't feel comfortable associating with this old work anymore
@@gwenhyfarbeati it's such a shame because it was one of the parts that i went back and watched over and over (as well as sasha mutch's) because of how great and funny it is, and i watched the credits to find them again and was like oh whoops lol. but i get it! i just hope I'll be able to find them (if they're still active which it sounds like they are) and give em a follow
TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Ollie Scott 0:09 Beth Witchalls, Geoff King, Sonia Naqvi 0:40 Emilie Kelleher 0:58 Alexander Watts 1:04 Bianca Mansani 1:11 Jaxks 1:30 ChrystalChameleon 1:33 Darcy Morgan 1:48 aikaikaik 1:57 Kaitrin Snodgrass 2:29 Neil Dittbenner 2:37 ChiaraIsLily 2:41 Sylladexter 3:03 Mandersdoodle 3:11 Em Stema 3:33 Ally Schroy 3:37 Brittany Arnold 3:49 Allen Martsch 4:03 Josh Roth 4:11 Nifaux 4:21 Marco D’Anna 4:36 Kichi 5:05 KyleeKayport 5:13 Hayes Chambers (Gilwing) 5:23 Ciara Tyrrell 5:28 Andobiki 5:42 Kaitlin Sutherland 6:05 Pete Wickham 6:16 Eli Ramos 6:38 Snuffysbox 6:46 Tori Richards 6:52 Rachael Kleban 7:12 Alexis Austin 7:20 Zoe Wervty 7:28 Jessa 7:33 Laura Frick 7:47 Mennelaos 8:12 Emma Merrick 8:33 Apollo Avery 8:39 Von Muren 9:08 Tony Vu 9:26 Anonymous 9:37 Sydney Jones 9:52 Kelly McCarvill 9:56 Spec 10:06 Clabon 10:22 Juckport 10:30 Becky Jenkinson 10:34 Jess Brown 10:53 Trinity Quintanilla 11:12 Monica LeBeau 11:19 Rowan Mae 11:29 Morgan Hillebrand 11:40 Andobiki 11:50 The Dink 12:10 Melissa Wolfert 12:20 Carly Auyong 12:32 Amy Terry 12:43 KelCasual 13:09 Yugo Limbo 13:12 Mosu Äijälä 13:27 Sandra N. Andersen, Darragh Herlihy, Helga Kristjanna Bjarnadótti, Donna McAvoy, Sonia Naqvi 13:49 Jessa 13:57 Benjamin Mansur 14:15 Ari Barton 14:32 Kieran Quigley 14:44 Patrycja Cmak 14:54 Johanna Hagstrom 15:00 Cassie Urban 15:04 Emma Friend, Kimberly 15:07 Nathan Fredette 15:12 Murphy Allen 15:48 Sam 15:56 Jess South 16:01 Hijinxx Art 16:06 Tyler Crowley 16:12 Sasha Mutch 16:26 Aristrocratic Bunnies, James Amatus 16:34 Rebecca Knott 16:39 Hannah Justinen 16:47 India Swift, Michael Doig, Tibbs, Lynn O’Reilly, Claire O’Reilly, Jennifer Daly 16:56 Andy Bella 17:14 Scott Hoch 17:42 Sleepyautumn 17:57 Shannon Talbot (Shannondraws) 18:03 EAT 18:17 Heidi Nat Holmeaa 18:30 hammegandcheese 18:38 Leannimator 18:56 Yvonne Kwok, jaden_mangrum 19:09 Ciara Tyrrell 19:18 Catherine @dogdownloader 19:31 Mads England 19:50 Chanseay, Musical Sushi, Jen 19:58 Anita Gaughan 20:18 Kimberly Gouge 20:36 Princewelcomematt 21:10 Shay 21:27 Nathan LaJeunesse 21:40 Shawn Overend (smovs), Kat Curwin 21:56 Phoebe Lewis 22:21 Ryan Boyes 22:27 Emma Friend, Rebecca Knott 22:34 Kat Michaelides 22:48 Clabon 23:11 Jacob McCaw 23:40 Pauline Grassi 23:47 Rebecca Beimers @RebaMedia 24:04 Rustnuttie 24:26 Sarah Tlabot (Sebbdraws) 24:31 Jey Pawlik 24:49 Nathan LaJeunesse 24:05 E.P. Hardy 25:15 Anonymous 25:52 Jan Shaffer 26:29 Morgan kerkhoff @purplechug 26:39 Thomas Poole 26:51 Matthew Margerison 27:03 kenz (kentrl_z) 27:16 Kieran Czyzyk 27:33 Ellie DeSautel 27:51 Katie Elle 28:04 Maplespyder 28:11 Billy Mpetha, Katie Barry, Tim Bentley 28:29 Anonymous 29:02 Anna Starkova 29:14 Tony Vu 29:22 Shawn Branden 29:30 Mecha Bunny 29:39 Jess Brown 29:47 Kalvin Kulz 30:02 LandsharkRAWR 30:06 Jack Sherry 30:21 firefly 30:31 Lime Robertson, Hailey McLaughlin 30:34 Magaly Flores 30:41 Adrienne Bazir 30:48 Anne Birk 30:52 KelCasual 31:01 Cameron Woodard 31:05 Chris Costello 31:13 Rosa Cortez 31:24 Caitlin “Quinn” Sharpe 31:46 Kaja Krzysiek 31:57 Steff Egan these oughta be mostly accurate, cross referenced the end credits with the participant spreadsheet (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cgYIntn4CvNElxd9efDeGtnsDteG-oXYTMOllamX6BM/edit#gid=0) Huge round of applause for everyone involved!
thanks for your work! upvoting and commenting so maybe it'll show up under "top comments" for others
Do not bury this treasure arrrrr
thank you so much for doing this!
31:13 to 31:24 are all Rosa Cortez, and 31:24 to 31:46 is all Caitlin "Quinn" Sharpe. Thank you for sorting through these!
@@tazanimated thanks, added the correction. impressive work from them both!
So glad to see this finally completed!!! Great work everyone ♥️ I animated my part at 10:23 back in high school and I'm already out of college 🤯 time flies!!!
your part is really cute! I love the lil spin you animated
Wild to see so many folks showing this level of talent in high school.
HOLY. FUCK. I want to cry? Yeah. I'm gonna cry. This is the most incredible thing. I've been re-listening to balance for the first time in a while, and it hasn't lost a thing. There's something so magical about what Griffin and his family created. This? This is... exactly what the whole story was about. How many people, how much time and effort, all went into creating this... unbelievable work of art. There aren't really words. Just. BRAVO!!
ME TOO WITH THE RE-LISTENING TO BALANCE!!! What perfect timing!!!
I'm the artist that did the scene at 30:34! im no longer afoxinwonderland c: I'm so happy i got to participate in this project!! it was so worth the wait
The beckoning that Taako does at 3:24 is literally so perfect 😂
This is crazy to see; I remember having an idea this project was going on because I kept seeing individual clips posted on youtube, but that was forever ago! So many of these shots are familiar, and I'm so happy to see them all together. One of my favorite things about TAZ is seeing everyone's different designs for the characters, and this video is amazing for that; I'm so glad there weren't any limitations on the character designs. Also shout out to the person who did from 21:45, because I LOVE that Killian
I loved the whole thing, but the timing on the part where Magic Brian is falling down the hole and he wipes the tear off of his face with a dramatic sparkle is PERFECTION.
11:12 that's so cool how they made the dice talk!
Right!? I thought that was quite clever :)
That was me! Thank you. ☺️
What an incredible feat! I remember when the first call came for animators for this project way back in 2017. Everyone has done an absolutely amazing job!!
Good shit, well done y'all. Especially impressed by the huge Disney vibes at 5:46, the great VFX work at 24:11, the neat 3D mech at 26:11 and whatever the hell I'm looking at at 17:14.
SO SO GOOD and so worth the wait!! Brian's death is 10x funnier with these visuals
Magnus: fixes every broken door with carpentry, my character: fixes everyones shoes with cobblers tools.
Whoever animated 5.40 in on some next level classic Disney level shit! Super expressive.
I have discovered TAZ listens best while you are near deaths door bein sick AND fresh out of a scalding hot bath/shower. Being clean while having a fever is the perfect setting to listening to this podcast. Trust me, I've done this a dozen times over the years. Currently listening again while having hand/foot/mouth disease...thanks my literal children ❤
I remember when I first saw people posting their parts for this project, I'd constantly check the progress and was always thrilled to see it come together piece by piece. This was everything I hoped for and more, I can't believe how many talented folks came together to organize and create such a huge passion project. Very much worth the wait, much love and thanks to everyone who made this possible
The artist RustNuttie really killed it with their amazing magic missile cast for Magic Brian. Spectacular work!
Props to all the artists that worked on this, the final result is well worth the wait! Also the shot at 15:00 is beautiful, I did look at the credits list to see who did that part but unfortunately I’m not sure which part that shot lines up to
If it was Magic Brian, it was Johanna Hagstrom, and if it was Taako, it was Cassie Urban!
taako is devastatingly beautiful
@@liazawiska4114 Thank you so much!! I’ll check them both out
That magic missile animation at24:00 was fucking phenomenal.
Holy cow that magic Brian magic missle scene was SO CLEAN, RustNuttie you absolutely KILLED IT!!!
Oh. The Brian magic missile animation was so damn good. Gave me goosebumps when paired with the audio
Dang I almost forgot about this project. I remember the first posts announcing the project. Really proud of everyone who was involved in this, good job guys!!
11:46 you can see the fucking monocle in Davenport’s shadow and I almost cried. Like you can’t do this to me my dudes
DAMN! This hit me with the feels. I only started listening to Taz in 2020 so I don't have as much nostalgia as a lot of other fans but holy shit this animation was incredible!
I started in 2020 as well! But in a weird way I feel super intensely emotionally attached to it, because it was a lifeline while teaching and designing theatrical costumes remotely and panic learning procreate to do so. I was working on a show which is partially set in a DnD game, and I had just zero context for that. So TAZ was both escapist delight and a way to experience ttrpg while designing dnd stuff. And then… I just never stopped listening. But TAZ got me through 2020.
@@thebadpoet That's amazing! I feel the same way, Taz also got me through some tough times and it still is a big part of escapism when everything becomes a bit too much. Funnily enough I was also learning how to use procreate in 2020! probably not to the same capacity as you, but still it's a cool coincidence!
Griffin said it best at the end. "That was great shit!" This was a wonderful project and it was great to see so many different art styles and takes on the characters.
17:15 got a serious laugh out of me, never even considered that someone would go that direction. I love the whole vid! lots and lots of creativity ♥️
Ahhhh!!! Yes!! I'm so proud of everyone! This is incredible!! Thank you so much for organizing this project! It's been a delight and I'm so happy to see everyone's work together!! My part is at 26:25 and I'm still proud of it, I learned so much while making it :D
Oh I love your style!!
@@MoaisNotmyname Aw thank you! I'm pretty proud of it!
I know it's a small thing but I appreciated that you edited the sound so that Merle attempts to minister about Pan rather than Marthammor Duin, you can really tell the attention to detail!
My uncle showed me this podcast and introduced me to TAZ and I fell in love. This podcast has been with me since the beginning of my high-school years. I'm not graduating and I've finished the podcast and almost cried. These characters and story was amazing and inspired me to go on and write my own D&D story. Thank you guys for animating this and thank you for the laughs, tears, and gasps.
VERY FUCKING BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS GIFT
The inclusion of animating the DM makes this so much better IMO, adore this
I love group animation projects so much, this is so wonderful! The only downside is getting attached to a particular artist's style and having to adjust to the next lol
These designs are INSANE. Some of them are SO good. The Black Spider looked excellent in so many of these styles.
Magic Brian's magic missile is sweet, gj to the one who animated that
This is the most wonderful thing I’ve seen in a long time - TAZ’s Balance arc holds a special place in my heart, and this work of love has made my day.. no, my *year*
this is so fun. thank y’all for putting this together
OH SNAP I DIDN'T KNOW THIS DROPPED I've always loved going through playlists of peoples' parts in this and watching the snippets, it's all so beautifully animated and I enjoy seeing the different takes on the Boys and co. So so excited to see this completed! Thank you all for hosting and participating and bringing the fandom this thing of beauty. Edit: And THANK YOU for including subtitles! Edit 2: WOW. Just finished it and laughed the whole way through. Almost felt like experiencing the episode newly all over again, looking for details and seeing artist interpretations of the characters, jokes, and action. Loved the animations as I said, but also the sound editing and the references to other McElroy content was fantastic. Some of the parts were so unique and all of them were creative and fluid. As Griffin said, that was primo.
This is INSANELY well done, what the heck! I absolutely loved seeing so many different styles and interpretations, and yet be able to so very clearly see that they're all of the same characters. Absolutely amazing, I can't imagine the work and love that must have gone into creating something like this. Thank you so much to every person who worked on this!
WOAH!!!! talk about throwbacks!!!! so glad you guys kept at it, crazy to see all these clips I had seen years ago threaded into the coherent episode. worth the wait!
This is an amazing effort! Thank you so much for your hard work!
AMAZING work and a huge congrats to all involved!!!
Congratulations on the project! I loved seeing animators whose work I've seen before and seeing new ones (to me). You all were amazing!
This is fantastic! What an amazing effort from all of the animators, editors, and others who brought this to life!
This was incredible, never watched or heard anything from you guys before this, but will deffo keep you on the radar now
All the styles! Love seeing everyone's interpretation and the talent to put this together.
Honestly I'd sacrifice a pinkey to get a TAZ animated series
This is amazing!! The love that went into this is so evident. Thank you everyone that participated and created something we could all enjoy. ❤❤❤
I love this! Enjoyed how all the aspects of the rolls were added to the visuals. Thank you all for this wonderful work of art!
holy crap!! this is so amazing, congrats to everyone for completing this. what a wonderful project!
All of these animation styles are so good! I love this!
amazing! been looking forward to this for so many years! thankyou everyone involved!
This is such an incredible accomplishment! Huge congrats to all of the fantastic animators and project organizers!
Incredible use of animation for everyone! Honestly so impressed with the way each animator captured their scene.
This was *amazing,* every style is so pretty and interesting!!
I've been following this project since it began, it's amazing to see it as a fully realised creation! Amazing job to everyone involved!!
It's so exciting to see this finally - everyone did an amazing job!
So glad to see this finished after all these years, congratulations to everyone involved! 👏
this is truely incredible, and just watching this has taken me back to a simpler, happier time in my life. congrats to everyone for creating this!! i cant believe im finally watching this after all these years! thank you everyone from the bottom of my heart for creating this labour of love
Lovely work all-around. It's great remembering this campaign and the fan effort surrounding it.
Oh My GOD this is such an incredible labour of love holy crap. Incredible job to all the animators, and even more incredible job to the production team who kept the whole thing organised over SIX years!
SUCH AN AMAZING PROJECT!! Thank you and congrats to everyone involved, you did a great thing, such a joy to watch!
Love love love love the huge variation in art styles and artists, love seeing everyone's head cannons!
It's always amazing to see collaborative efforts and also intetesting to see the similarities and differences of the characters from the artists!
This turned out soo great! I remember seeing some of the rough animations wayyy back. SO cool that it's finished!
hilarious, thank you for this all who participated. if you guys do more, im in, i was laughing so hard the whole time.
I’m so happy this is finally finished, I’ve been seeing parts of it for years and I’m so excited!
Amazing work!! I first listened to the podcast 2 years ago and actually started to re-listen to it last month along side with my partner.
Oh this is fantastic, good job to every artist who participated!!
WOW!! I remember seeing individual parts of this project here and there over the last few years and the final product turned out absolutely incredible! Congratulations to all the animators who took part, this is really something special!!
I honestly had completely forgotten about this project but seeing this in my suggested videos just made my freakin day. This was such a phenomenal video and I was grinning the entire time. Congrats on this project, everyone did such a fantastic job.
Hey wow, incredible tops for getting this all together in the end and sticking it through the years!!!! Endlessly cool to see the end restult.
This turned out great!! Everyone did a great job, there was clearly alot of love put into this
What an amazing collaboration, it's been so long since I've heard any of this outside of the pit scene. Really amazing job, hats off to all of the animators and the editors who put this together.
Kudos to the hard work put in by everyone over the years!
Its so amazing to see this come together!!
This is all I could ever ask for 😭 thank you all for your hard work!
Thank you to all the amazing people who have worked on these incredible animations! Seeing so many iterations of the same lovable characters transition so well is just phenomenal. I remember watching some of these already years ago and so many more I have never seen. I love this so much!
that was so so very amazing thank you all who must have done ridiculous amounts of work to pull this off. I LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!!
omg I can’t believe it’s finally here! this really had me reliving those wonderful moments as if it were the first time. :-) amazing work everyone!!!
this is absolutely incredible!! i remember seeing clips of these back in like 2017 and it’s so wonderful to be able to see the finished product! y’all are amazing!!!
Absolutely incredible work of everyone!!!!!1 the different art & animation styles made this SUCH a fantastic gem! Wow!!! Gonna keep rewatching this so many times! Thanks for all the work to every artist participating!!! (I have so many fav moments but the counter-magic missle by magic brian was INSANE!)
This is an absolute masterpiece. Kudos to all the incredible artist and animators. What a giant work they did. This really sent me back. Balance gave me so many laughs and feelings and it was amazing to experience it again!
This was amazing! I hope more are made!
This was amazing!! Good job to everybody involved!
This was delightful :3 I loved whenever animators would animate the characters or players laughing
I'm late to watching this, but this is INCREDIBLE!! Amazing work EVERYONE involved. This is truly astounding stuff, from the animation to the editing, just everything.
I’m so glad to see this all come together! It looks amazing! Kudos to everyone for such a great project 💖
This was a joy to watch. I can't say how many times I laughed out loud at a creative design or animation choice or simply because I recognized the artist. Thank you so much to everyone who gave their time and effort to put this together.
I'm so happy to see them all together!