The Lion King II: Simba's Pride - Nuka's Last Words - Fully Animated (FANMADE)

As a way to celebrate 23 years of Simba's Pride, I decided to bring a deleted scene to life in full color and shading. I used a scene that I consider one of the most important scenes that shouldn't have been left out, as it adds so much more depth to the tragedy of Nuka's death. Though the "didn't I?" that was left in the final version of the movie still makes a little bit of sense as it fits rather seamlessly to "I'm sorry, Mother... I tried...", the addition of "I finally got your attention, didn't I?" fits just as well, and makes the final "...Didn't I?" sound like a desperate, repeated need of confirmation and acknowledgement from his mother. Also that gulp in between the deleted line; when I animated that and listened for the audio over and over, it made me wonder if Nuka had been swallowing back blood, which just really adds to the graphicness of what those logs did to him when they fell on him, just further slims those chances that he could've survived. The mediums used for this animation are GIMP (for the drawings and shading) and Adobe Animate CC (for pacing/syncing the frames and added camera effects like panning and zooming). The keyframes and breakdowns are replicated from the footage, but I added in-betweens to a few places that looked choppy, so only the in-betweens are original drawings by me. Background is also from the movie. The reason I'm using Bandicam is because Adobe loves to export things all blurry, so I had to capture footage from the program, itself with a different recording software. In order to not get Bandicam's watermark in the footage, I had to adjust the picture so it'd be outside of the frame. I apologize that we don't get to see the animation in fullscreen glory ;n; I tried to mimic the style of the movie as much as I could to bring this scene to life. There may be a few parts of the frames that might look inaccurate, as I couldn't quite make out some of the lines in the blurry footage of the YouTube upload I saw of the rough animation. The final result may look a little jumbly because of this. This animation took about a year because of many breaks (school, moving houses, and other art projects), starting production on October 17th of 2020 (with the ridiculous ambition of getting it done by the 26th of that same year). Another reason was the struggle with the tedious, repetitive process of drawing/coloring frames. I'm glad I took my time with this in the end though, I started off a little hasty when I first worked on it and it didn't come out right. A year of learning as I go was worth it ^^ If you want to use this in an animash or edit or what have you, you should definitely credit me. Crediting me would avoid confusion as to where the footage you used came from in case someone asks you. Speaking of credit, the animation itself and the audio belong to Walt Disney TV Animation. I merely cleaned up the shot by coloring it.