SHELTER FROM THE STORM - A Frostpunk animatic

first of all, please, please, please go check out The Stupendium's channel. They are the guy who made this song, they are crazy talented, (This dude does music, editing, props, and acting and is somehow killing it in every area, I wish I had half the talent they do.) Im leaving the link to their channel bellow!

in any case Frostpunk is one of my all-time favorite games, so when I found this track I had to do an animatic for it. As you might notice it looks kind of different from my other animatics, that beacuse I realized that I couldn't draw snow on a white background, hence the greyscale. (Big, BIG mistake, this took forever to draw.)

Lastly, since Frostpunk doesn't have an actual story (or sort of, but it will vary a lot depending on how you play) I've taken a lot of liberties here, but it's loosely based on the "new home" campaign, but I also made the only thing a little less sad and dark, so if you don't think I'm keeping close enough to the soruce material then you're right bucko.

Song: SHELTER FROM THE STORM

If you like my videos then maybe you'll like my webcomic ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

[TheStupendium]

This is so wonderful!

I'm SO sorry I didn't comment sooner! I was travelling when you sent it to me and I noted it down to check when I got home but it totally escaped me!

This is really awesome, I love your take on the narrative themes of the song! Thank you for making this! :D

[katanakidgaming]

Bruh I love the story of this. A leader trying his best to not only lead his people to survival but also making them happy. He made hard choices which he knows will stick throughout the city forever. As he makes the choices his people become more and more angry with him but also happy. So at the end when he’s finally executed everyone is happy and the city thrives. But now he will go down in history as a villian.

[audacioustabby]

I thought the last frames where he smiles & the temperature is high was to symbolize his sacrifice. Not his execution.

[axios]

"Someone had to make the hard choices, the ones that would save us, but we couldnt allow those choices to define us once the storm subsided, thats why I allowed myself to become the villain, so a hero could lead us to a brighter future without the shame of the price we paid for survival... You are that hero now. May you give this people the happiness I couldnt."

[ChrisKetcherside]

“I made sacrifices to keep London alive . I made to many I compromised to much I kept us alive let my sacrifice never be forgotten as you take over. And be the good steward the people need.” The final message from the captain of new London to the steward before leaving new London

[TheCorrodedMan]

Sometimes the world doesn’t need another hero. Sometimes, it needs a new kind of monster; someone willing to make the hard choices, and take the fall

[TheFoxfiend]

I like that last scene. That smile that shows the weight of responsibility falling off his shoulders as he lets the next person take over, and use his execution as a moral boost so the city may continue. It's a smile that says "I've done what I can, I can move on and let the next in line take over". It's a smile that says "I don't blame you, do better than I could." Frick, after all that they had to go through it is a smile with so much behind it and I love it.

[The_Sharktocrab]

The captain watching the new londoners leave and all he sees is skeletons, thats a hard image

[gantzllat]

This game has a way of meddling with your morals. Is easy, at the first stages, to stay on a moral path. Give education to the children, give more rations to hard workers, bury our dead and assure not only survival, but a humanitarian lifestyle. But then the true winter arrives. There's no food, the temperature goes lower from the stable -20 to -40 and -60 there's never enough coal to make it trough the night and every little piece of resource counts. Then, then after several failed attempts, your heart hardens. You begin to take harsher and harsher measures, you begin to work every citizen to the death and use them even after death. The city must survive.

[BattleUnit]

That last smile, he knew exactly what he was doing and the consequences but he also knew if they were to survive it would have needed to be done. He accepted what he become and his fate knowing full well that the others will live on

[christopher_graffam]

2:59 I like how there aren't any negative signs in front of the temperature readings. It gives a sense of resignation to the new state of the world, that temperatures above freezing aren't going to be experienced again so why bother writing negative signs?

[natalie]

I’ve never played this game, but I absolutely ADORE this animatic. It’s beautiful.

[CT--fpse]

That smile at the end, knowing hes facing a terrible death and yet....seeing that all the evil choices he made to keep his people alive worked made it worth it.

I finally played the game and when my first time through a new home i was seconds from ending up in his place before the storm finally broke. Hundreds died and id had done every terrible thing just to keep us going but we made it.

[Huhwhut]

CHILLS and not the cold kind. This song is incredible but its thanks to the animatic that I understood it more. Im super intrested in this Frostpunk now though.

[finnguttery]

Frostpunk is one of my fave games and this ended me

[jacksonlee]

I've always wondered if Frostpunk had any animatics, but now I've finally found one!

Anyways when Frostpunk 2 comes out I hope to see it take over the internet for a day!

[athingwhichexists]

Snowpiercer: RiCh PoWeRfUl PeOpLe BaD
Frostpunk: The city must survive, but how far are you willing to go to make sure it does? Will you become a tyrant to save the people? or will you risk annihilation just to cling on to your morals?

[kreept]

Only watched a narrated let's play of the game and damn, that let's play and now this amazing animation ? Guess I have to buy it now
I really liked the greyscale in this, it fits really well with the story it tells, plus we can see you worked hard on it

[nataliapatolamoosmann]

Bro I’ve been watching your stuff since the taz animatic days and I love how much your style has evolved with Going Home and now THIS!! Honestly amazing

[RaspBerryPies]

I knew him from the Doki Doki song but woah! This is so amazing the song and the animatic like gosh the facial expressions and the lighting are so fantastic and work with the song and theme so well! I was captivated the whole time couldn't look away