Modern History of Europe Pt.1 - Countryballs

3 and a half months in the making, and its finally done! As you can see, within this 3 months I have improved alot, and as you may notice, some of the earlier scenes looks like shite compared to the later ones.
- Because drawing a piece of art is so time consuming, I had to exclude most of the 1848 revolutions 💀

Music used (in order + timestamps):

Corrections / extra info: (thanks to the comments that pointed it out!)

-Russia burnt Moscow, its capital is St.Petersburg, not Moscow.
-The lost of Napoleon was not directly caused by "General Winter". in fact, Russia's weather wasn't even at its coldest when Napoleon and his troops left Russia. The deaths are mainly caused by disrupted supply lines, Russian assaults, the lack of forages(food), and diseases.
-Prussia wanted to unite all German states, not all German speaking countries. Unifying all the German states was called the "Little Germany solution," while unifying the German speaking areas was the "Greater Germany solution." Prussia didn't go with the Greater solution, because that meant annexing Austria, Czechia, and Slovenia, which will tip Europe's balance of power, and thus turn other European countries against Prussia.
- I forgor the Crimea war 💀

Time spent: 264 hrs 17 min
(just on animations. doesnt include researching & editing time)
App: Krita, Final cut

This video includes the history of the napoleonic wars, revolutions, Italian unification, and German unification.

[Clico]

This takes "Every frame a painting" to a whole new level. Your video quality is unmatched anywhere else on youtube

[Yo-Me]

The fact that France actually stood a fighting chance against the entirety of Europe astounds me

[FRGBalls]

4:58 dude italy is S O C U T E

[USSFFRU]

I love how the transition of France to a Republic and the reaction of Europe can be a meme format

[Netizpossible]

No one is mentioning it yet, but I love how the song used for France is the song about Austria not getting any onions.

[theoliveoilboy]

what you do differently from all other countryball channels is you give the balls their own physics even though its animations, they all feel as if they were actually balls and they physically behave like them. its so unique and i love it

[dapizzasnake]

4:51 note: austria thought Italy fought the war so badly they wanted to ceade their territory to France instead of italy as they thought Italy didn't deserve it.

[Tuplapukki]

0:52 the way France just slapped Austria felt like a lvl 1 challenged a lvl 100

[Li_tells]

“Guten Tagging time” is actually a very very accurate description of Europe history going forward. Loved the video, this animation is so great!

[WarAnimations]

French🇫🇷 Revolution 0:00-0:15
War Of 1st Colition 0:16-0:32
War Of 3rd Colition 0:33-0:45
Battle Of Jena-Auerstedt 0:46-0:48
Peninsular War 0:49-0:54
French🇫🇷 Invasion Of Russia 🇷🇺 0:58-2:01
War Of 6th Colition 2:02-2:16
Vienna Congress 2:17-2:45
Hundred Days (7th Colition) 2:46-3:11
Revolutions Of 1848 3:12-3:16
1st Italian 🇮🇹 War Of Independence 3:17-3:28
Signing Secret Treaty Of Alliance 3:29-3:36
2nd Italian 🇮🇹 War Of Independence 3:37-3:59
Annexation 4:00-4:03
Expedition Of The Thousand 4:04-4:07
Italy 🇮🇹 Unification 4:08-4:15
2nd Schleswig War 4:16-4:27
Austro-Prussian War 4:28-5:02
German 🇩🇪Unification 5:03-5:08
Spanish🇪🇸 Crown Crisis 5:09-5:20
Franco-Prussian War 5:21-The End

[shenglinqiu]

I love the part when russia says "can I have Poland" and the other countries says: "no" immediately

[KageTheDanish]

I am genuinely at a loss of words, each and every single little part of this was so amazingly well done, and it covers this part of history with a perfect balance of accuracy and humor!

[PossessedPotatoBird]

4:50 i love how much effort and research you put into this, and I thought it wouldn't get any better after seeing the animation

[olhaoball]

Love how Portugal was the only one noticing France slowly transforming to normal France flag
Also great work 👏👏👏👏

[pitioti]

Just for those that don't know, France experienced between 1800 and 1872 7 different regims (2 Monarchy (Restauration and July Monarchy), 3 République (2 of them being victime of a Coup d'État by a Bonaparte) and 2 Empire (Napoleon the First and Napoléon III))

[AyangStudios]

The animation quality keeps getting better.
Epic efforts and love put into this, keep it up bro! You always inspire me

[AussieBall-Animations]

The animation quality is unmatched to any other animation. This is so smooth and great!!

[Justsomerandomdude]

If I was a history teacher, I would 100% show this to my class

[doolerz]

4:18 was the best part in my opinion, just the music and sudden appearance was enough for me to burst out laughing

[tkegamingrb]

The fact that Italy is doing nothing but 'eating' land that France got from Austria is actually kinda cute. Good job!