(DEAR EVAN HANSEN ANIMATIC) SO BIG/SO SMALL

Thank you guys for such a warm response to this video. I'm grateful it touched many of you, and reading all the positive comments make me so happy. I drew this as the Evan before Heidi sung this to him, hoping to understand and become the Evan at the conclusion of the song. I guess we are all Evans.

Moral of the song: Trucks are evil

"Is there another truck coming to our driveway?... A truck that will take Mommy away..."

Me: Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, "Your Mom isn't going anywhere." Me: SOBS UNRESTRAINEDLY I'm gonna get this song.

Anybody Have A Map: Parenting? I don't know her. So Big/So Small: Parenting? I know her.

If I was acting and singing in DEH they'd fire me because I wouldn't be able to finish any song without crying

I WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE WRITER OF DEAR EVAN HANSEN CAME TO SPEAK AT HIS OLD HIGH SCHOOL (MY CURRENT SCHOOL) AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE PROCESS OF PUTTING SONGS INTO HIS WORK AND HE SHOWED THIS ANIMATIC IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL. I FELT LIKE YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW THAT

I... I gotta call my mum...

WHAT ARE THESE SALTY LIQUIDS FALLING OUT MY EYES

I saw a uhaul truck after I watched this and I cried

On my birthday my mom took me to see DEH on Broadway. When this song came on and she listened to it she grabbed my hand. I will never forget the look on her face. It was one of the few times i've seen her cry in my life.

Jesus Christ that's powerful. As a child coming from a divorced home life that whole song coupled with the beautiful animation this hit home for me. The song really shows how much a divorce can hurt. For me this song just touches on every single part of a divorced household ranging from how the kid doesn't understand to how the mom knows she will fall short. And all that stuff is hard to stomach but this animatic brings along a sort of Beauty. Thank you for making this 😭❤️

as a person who is very dependent on their mom this made me bawl due to the one lyric "is there gonna be another truck that is gonna take mommy away" this is by far the best animation I've seen for this song.

When u distract yourself by reading the comments so u don’t cry...... AND IT DOESNT WORK.!!!!!!!

wow, okay... This is the first animatic that actually brought me to tears... It's just... This really is close to home... My dad left my mom when I was way smaller than Evan, and my mom was struggling with depression while taking care of a 4-year-old, and just like Evan's mom, she... She tried. A lot. We don't talk much now, not like we used to, but... This animatic left so nostalgic about that days of my mom being my whole word and the gap between us. The expressions was just amazing and i'm still sobbing, omg...

What I mean: WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO DRAW OLDER EVAN CRYING, AND THEN GOING TO LITTLE EVAN BAWLING HIS EYES OUT?! AND WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO DRAW THIS PIECE OF ART THAT DOESN`T EVEN HAVE 100,000 VIEWS YET?! AND JUST LOOK AT THOSE GHIBLI TEARS, LOOK. AT. THEM!! What I`m saying: I wish I could draw!

fun fact: this song in the musical is where heidi is asking evan how he actually broke his arm. but he replied by saying "you'd hate me" i'd like to think this is a song about how she finally understood what he meant by that, realizing that he tried to commit suicide and this is her message as to how she loves him no matter what and wouldn't leave him like his father did. now go get a tissue box

Try Not to Cry Challenge: impossible version

oh my god this fucked me uuuuuuupppppppp. This song always manages to turn me into a baby and it did the same here. The line "a truck that will take mommy away" always breaks me down because Evan is just a tiny kid at that point and all he has to worry about is chicken nuggets not being dinosaur shaped and girl with cooties and he just doesn't understand what's going on. his dad is just leaving and he doesn't know why and he thinks his mom is gonna leave him too and holy shit it kills me

I'm crying actual tears, you really captured all the emotion in this song :')