Animation vs. Addiction is the eighth installment of the Animation vs. series. It premiered on March 15th, 2025.
Synopsis[]
No, this episode is not about nether wart.
Plot[]
Blue is seen walking on a gray landscape until he sees a pink button. He approaches it and thinks about what might happen when the button is pressed. Either a flower will pop up or the button will explode. When Blue pressed it, it didn't do anything at first, but then the landscape changes color to pink and Blue starts floating. While he enjoyed flying, there was a time limit and the effects started to loosen, also changing the environment back to the grayish colors. Blue decided to push the button again to do some tricks. After the effects faded again, Blue had another thought to run back and press the button again, but suddenly it was already on his hands, since he grabbed it while he was thinking. After Blue pressed the button again, the effects started fading more and more with Blue trying to keep himself flying. After landing, the pink button became heavy and it didn't work anymore.
Blue then found a dark blue button and while it changed the landscape, it didn't make him float. Blue thought of getting another button until he saw he already had another yellow one. He pressed both of the buttons making the landscape color a mixture of blue, yellow and green. Blue started flying again but these buttons had a time limit as well. He saw a button in the distance and tried to fly to it until the dark blue and yellow button started losing their effects. Blue starts crawling to the red button since the rest of them left him weak after their effects faded. While the red one didn't make him fly, at least it was able to help him get back on his feet. Blue wanted to collect as many buttons as he could find to fly again. While he searched and pressed more buttons, the landscape became more foggy and Blue started getting weaker, but nonetheless, he continued.
While Blue was crawling, he found a cyan button in the distance, but he bumped into his friend, The Second Coming. He saw that Blue was out of energy and trying to get to the button. The Second Coming tried to help his friend get back up but Blue didn't let him and he accidentally let go of the buttons he held into a cliff. The Second Coming managed to get his friend back on his feet until Blue realizes he lost his buttons. He wanted to get them but The Second Coming tried to stop him, resulting in him pulling Blue in an embrace. While Blue came back to his sanity, the landscape became clearer and he started standing up again. When The Second Coming walked away, Blue had to make a decision. He could get back to his buttons or ask his friend for help. Blue chooses the latter and runs up to The Second Coming, begging for help, which he accepts.
The two reach a part of the area and The Second Coming had Blue sit down. He asks him to do some meditation, breathing deeply in and out. They started taking deep breaths but Blue was struggling with his thoughts about the buttons. A small montage ensues, of Blue trying to meditate but constantly relapsing and trying to get a red button in the distance while The Second Coming is trying to stop him. When he was pulling Blue back, he got punched by his friend. When Blue looks back on The Second Coming another thought appears, which shows Blue being shackled by a button and his friend breaking the chains. He got back and apologized, but The Second Coming will still continue to help him.
The Second Coming put a blindfold on Blue and let him meditate by himself. A small variant of Blue appears on a gray thought pop up above him. The thoughts about the buttons start popping up and Mini-Blue starts kicking and hitting them only to come back. The Second Coming went up to Mini-Blue showing he doesn't have to fight any thoughts and just let them go by. While Mini-Blue starts calming down, his thoughts start fading away slowly. A thought Blue starts pulling Mini-Blue from one thought to another, until The Second Coming grabs him, reminding Mini-Blue to focus and putting him back. Mini-Blue rejected and ignored the thought Blues' offers, making them fade away too. Blue ends up letting his thoughts come and go, while also self-reflecting.
The Second Coming helped Blue get back up and when he took off his blindfold a change in the landscape was made. It was much brighter and while it still had the gray color, a rainbow colored shade effect was seen as well. Blue hugs The Second Coming and the screen zooms up to "The End" text in the sky.
Credits[]
Writer[]
- Alan Becker
Project lead / PA[]
- Sammi Alea - https://sammialea.com/
Animation[]
- @mekatokwa
- @ARCpersona
- @eds7236
- @doumaki4501
- @effie2095
- @Ellis02Media
- Exceld
- @favfaris4714
- @n8sterAnimates
- @tjb7345
- @ichasedacrow
- @NotSoProishNoob
- @ablerai
- @tetr0mations
- @SimpleFox1
- @Spacedoughnut
- @kayalartwork
- / @lunsar
- @frankyofl
- @Fordz
- @Hexalhaxel
- @DonnieBoots
3D[]
- https://x.com/magicalotter46
- https://undermineblox.webflow.io
- @Ellis02Media
- @tjb7345
Concept art[]
- @Fabian_Banu
Sound design[]
- @dan_loeb
- / e_soundwork
Editors[]
- @dan_loeb
Music[]
- @ScottBuckley
Line producer / PM[]
- @hatena360
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
Errors[]
- In the scene during Blue's meditation where Mini-Blue was supposed to leap from the pale green frame to the cream-colored one, the Negative Blue from the pale green scene leapt instead and henceforward replaced the original Mini-Blue whom he left behind in the green frame.
Trivia[]
- Alan has said that Animation vs. Addiction was considered an Animation vs. Education episode during production, but it is not on the AvE playlist.
