'Blue Lies' | Clock 0ut Animation

Hi! This one's a bit shorter than the other two. It took quite a while to finish, but I get to learn other aspects and styles of animation and visual storytelling :D

The artist of this song, Trickle, was kind enough to remake clearer version of the music. I am very greatful for that ^^

Song: Ghost Town / Trickle【Original Song】

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[Trickle_Official]

Hello, I am Trickle! It is such an honor to have my song, Ghost Town, used as the music in this incredible animation! SAD is such an amazing artist, and I am so happy to see creativity bloom in ways that I never thought would happen with something of mine. Thank you, SAD, for this honor, and thank you to the wonderful fans of animation for watching! I hope that you enjoy 💙 God bless!

[wisteri_]

0:54 the fact that SAD subtly included that giant swing-jump from Yellow Zone here. the attention to detail is insane

[hellgazer]

Let us all never forget that the chat kept calling Stanley and The Narrator "BBG", that was the moment in history.

[TyphlosionGirl]

I've watched this a couple times now and I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the fact that The Narrator blows up and for a moment Stanley is mortified-- its so perfect the emotions are so palpable.

[purpledragon]

Oh my goodness, the fact that even the watermark moves when he grabs the screen border... that's some next level fourth wall breaking right there. Amazing.

[ShugoKnightFairy]

Shows even in a narration, the narrator can never truly leave Stanley Parable.

In the actual game, only stanley is ever really capable of leaving. And it shows as the narrator constantly resets to the time Stanley returns to the office. Its kinda sad to be honest. Narrator doesnt have a story without Stanley. But he is crossed when his world hurts him. And so he chooses to let him go. It was still terrifying to be eaten by code and still painful to watch Stanley leave, but he accepted it. And Stanley kept his choice firm to want to leave the parable and go home. Even if he felt bad for allowing the narrator to disappear.

[JordanIsAHuman]

The way you made use of the black bars and had Stanley actually interacting with them throughout the animation was absolutely incredible. Your animation style never fails to amaze and the work you put into these always pays off, incredible as always Sad-ist :)

[loonywolf_art]

this person is responsible for keeping the fandom alive

[livingangrycheese]

Ok this is my theory: Yellow Zone shows Stanley stuck in a time loop, trying to escape and dying each time. These are not the only times he's tried, it just shows the final couple attempts, the last of which has Stanley realising where the Narrator is controlling the defences from, and turning from the exit to instead attack the narrator himself. He breaks the watch causing the world itself to begin to decay as seen in Blank Decay.


Here Stanley and the Narrator have teamed up to survive in the decaying world against the glitch monsters. The Narrator still has some power to control the world, which he harnesses by absorbing the glitch monsters as they attempt to fire, but this clearly seems to cause some corruption to himself. Upon Stanley dying it becomes clear that the Narrator actually really cares about Stanley, and harnesses the power to remake the clock and turn back time to resurrect him. Upon turning the time back, moving from Blank Decay to Blue Lies the Narrator has left his control room to see Stanley in person - it's clear he's given up on trying to stop him, perhaps after all the time they spent together in Blank Decay.



However, Stanley is angry at being resurrected, perhaps because of the trauma of dying repeatedly and slams the narrator against the wall, taking the watch. It's clear even in Blank Decay that the two argued a lot, with my interpretation being that Stanley blames the Narrator for the world becoming this way because he had to break it to escape, while the Narrator believes what he did was right. It's not really clear at all why the Narrator has been stopping Stanley from escaping. Perhaps he believes he's protecting Stanley in some way? Or perhaps Stanley escaping would kill the narrator? Either way, as Stanley goes to escape in Blue Lies it shows his clear trauma from dying repeatedly. Then, the world begins to break, revealing that he is in fact trapped within an animation. His past death from Blank Decay watches him from the mirror and then reaches out to him from the film reel. I'm not entirely sure what this is meant to represent, perhaps his trauma or my favourite interpretation - his predetermined destiny of dying in the animation. Using this interpretation, as he tries to escape, the animation tries to close the bars on him, changing scene, perhaps to his death, but he physically grabs the bars, leaping through, creating his own destiny. As he finally reaches the doors he looks back seeing the narrator he's left behind. He hesitates for a moment, as despite his hatred thanks to what the narrator did to him, in Blank Decay he did begin to care about him. However, he dismissed the thought, and goes through the exit door, taking him to the bedroom at the end. Throughout the animations Stanley is the only one who attempts to reach the exit door, and when seeing the exit in Blank Decay Stanley seems excited while the Narrator is not. It seems the Narrator either can't leave or doesn't want to. The falling glasses towards the end of this animation seem to imply that Stanley leaving is killing the narrator. I do not think this is the end of the series, partly because "it was all a dream" is a disappointingly boring and lazy ending so I hope that's not what SAD-ist is going for. I have a few theories about the ending: one is that this is not the real world, and Stanley has woken up either into the opening scene of Portal 2 or woken up in Superliminal. Another is that this IS the real world, but he truly was in a simulation and is going to go back to try to save the narrator. In the Portal or Superliminal scenario he might also go back for the narrator and work with him to escape this new simulation too.

[karoAps]

On the technical side, from the Dream SMP animations to now everything has really gotten a lot better. The way the animation flows is extremely hypnotizing

[sarcastichamsandwich]

Sad literally slingshot me right back into the Stanley Parable community and I'm HERE for it. It is so insanely cool to watch their animation style grow and develop, and I'm so FASCINATED to see what happens between Stanley and Narrator. I could not be more excited. Thank you so much for making these, Sad.

[peta]

One thing I don’t see talked about enough is the incredible use of colours! It’s clear to me that Narrator has the bright yellow and Stanley the neon pink (which I adore as contrasts), and where in the first animation the backgrounds were more yellow and the cameras had the yellow lights, now everything has the pink tinge instead. Also, in the first one we see that Narrator has completely yellow eyes while he has control of the clock, and when Stanley takes it off him, his eyes become normal again, showing that the clock itself has some kind of power over them. Now that Stanley has the new clock that Narrator had to make to save his life last time, he’s struggling against that power too (the evil reflection with the completely pink eyes), but he manages not to give in just long enough to escape- without Narrator.

[moi]

The story continues! I cannot wait, this has been your greatest achievement so far, it’s very inspiring to see how far you’ve come!

[vvgirl]

God i love how this is storyboarded, if it even was in the first place.

How it's constantly changing and moving with peerspectives and motion.

Nothing is the same and it blows my mind by how good every second of this animation is.

[theresakunkel]

To be completely honest, this would take a LOT of work to animate to perfection with that big action scene where hes running on the tapes and doing parkour and shit so yall better appreciate the creator

[Tsusagi]

I’m confident that Sadist jumpstarted a whole entire trend with their original concept

[pinkiys]

I am absolutely delighted!! I have so many questions: Was it a dream? Or some alternate reality? simulation???
anyway, your work is amazing!! the animation is smooth, energetic and pleasing to the eye. the songs are appropriate, and all the animation goes with them to the rhythm, which makes viewing easy and organic. The relationships between the characters and the plot are otoically revealed and understood without words. it is a masterpiece💗

[toastytam]

Did anyone notice her logo move with the animation? It’s small things like that that I appreciate in animations. Keep up the good work Sad-ist!



Edit: nice

[imaymellow]

The Narrator's gone... Crab Rave.
No but surely we'll come back to him somehow, right? Anyway this animation is really fluid as always. I like how not only did you capture the creepy vibe of the many other versions of Stanley who died, but made the appearance of apocalypse Stanley the most impactful. The idea of Stanley finally getting away and going to real life thinking he'll be happy only to have the realization that, once again, the end is never the end... Ugh this is so awesome, I'm so invested. I just hope they'll be okay by the end of this.

[BZs_Dice]

I've been waiting for 3/4 months and I KNOW it'll pay off. I've been hyper-fixating on this series and even joined TSP Fandom Because of it!