Souvenir Waltz | Russian Empire and Tsardom of Russia | Countryhumans

FINALLY JESUS CHRIST WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG- I started this on June 30. Previously, I was struggling with a severe art block and didn’t feel like doing ANYTHING. I had given up on several previous projects and most of the ideas I had did not spark motivation, Except for one. I’ve had this idea for at least a few months, if not more. I’ve always wanted to do something with this song, since it’s one of my favourites. The vibe I got from it was someone losing their mind without even realising it. I was planning to save it for when I believed I was good enough to create the vision in my mind, but I was desperate.  (GENERAL OVERVIEW) I’ve also (semi) recently had the headcanon that the Tsardom of Russia had schizophrenia, which is what this entire animation is based around. How did I come upon this idea? His flag… Let me explain! In my headcanons, if there is anything with wings on the flag of a CH, they will gain those wings. Turns out, I missed a pair of wings when I created my design for ToR. They were the wings of a dragon being stabbed by a spear. So did I fix my mistake? NOPE. I created a whole new alter-ego thingy for the Tsardom of Russia and made him have schizophrenia, that caused him to see this version of himself with the wings of a dragon! FIXED.  While making this animation, I was originally only going to do the first half. Then I decided to give the Russian Empire schizophrenia as well! (Since it can be genetic). I made his part the second half of the animation (which was a lot less fun-) (THE PROCESS) Creating this animation was… rather simple in theory. I simply drew all the key frames in IbisPaintX, imported the audio in CapCut, created two separate animations in FlipaClip to merge together in CapCut, then started putting the key frames into FlipaClip for animating! I started out with sketches and worked on whatever I felt like. It was all going smoothly! Until IbisPaintX crashed… Five. Separate. Times. And normally that isn’t a problem in my normal drawings! I can just use the playback feature to restore it! EXCEPT THE DRAWINGS TOOK 20-40 HOURS AT THAT POINT, SO I HAD TO WAIT HALF AN HOUR JUST TO GET MY DRAWING BACK ARGHHHHH- You probably saw me complaining in my community posts… they were rough times. But I managed to finish with a total time spent (on IbisPaintX alone) of 48 hours and 53 minutes! That’s not counting the time spent getting IbisPaint to work again, or animating on FlipaClip, or editing on CapCut. F U N. There are also about 500 layers total on two separate drawings (no wonder IbisPaintX was crashing-) and 2800 total frams in FlipaClip And that's the end! If you have any questions about my headcanons or parts of the video, let me know!  Sadly, I could not fit everything into the description, so I'll put the detailed explanation in the comments :) And I would just like to say again THANK YOU (*checks notes*) FOR 550 SUBSCRIBERS!!!!!!  Have a good day! Original -    • [20K] SOUVENIR WALTZ / TEMPTATION STAIRWAY...    Song (Waltz Version) -    • METAROOM - WALTZ VARIATION (SLOWED + REVER...