Hurricane

     There are several animation communities on YouTube. Some focus solely on collaborations to silly videos to even serious, long animations. On all that, there are also these videos called animatics that typically entail the main points of an animation without much of it (like storyboards). Within the musical/animatic community, they tend to focus on Broadway musicals or even simple scenes from a random artist or comedian. For this one, I'm going to discuss CherryGarden's "Hurricane" animatic, featuring Alexander Hamilton from the hit Broadway musical Hamilton: An American Musical.

     This seems to be one of the most detailed YouTube animatics that I've seen so far, with nice touches of brief animation here and there. The colors bring emotion with the pained expressions in Hamilton's face as he recounts his past. I appreciate the metaphor at the end, as it really describes how his main passion can either be his rise to the top or demise (or even both). Below is the animatic for those who want to see it.