#I LOVE THE ANIMATIC GIGI MADE

[rexscanonwife]

All I wanna do is listen to/talk about Epic now BRO THESE MINI HYPERFIXATIONS HIT HARD

[gigizetz]

Hello Gigi, I love your art and animatics! This morning I watched the speedpaint for the Circe holding flowers piece you made and I was wondering, is using a reference like that to draw a separate character something you would advise for practicing art? I've been wanting to find some portraits for reference to practice my rendering, but as art for me is a way to explore my interests (mostly fandom related) I don't find myself particularly motivated to draw unless it's a character I like. I'm self-taught so I don't really know any artists in person who I can ask this, I hope it makes sense

of course! And I'd also recommend drawing characters you like for practice, that's basically the thing that I used to do as well :D

[ender-cloud]

Epic the Musical Vengeance Saga just dropped so heres my thoughts on it!!

Overall thoughts: A lot shorter than I thought it was going to be BUT, THAT MAY BE BECAUSE OF THE ITHICA SAGA HAVING SO MANY LONG SONGS

Wait nevermind, it’s the next day and I just realized how long the Vengeance saga is I think I was just tired and it just seemed like it was fast

Also very Nerve racking, and I literally sat there eyes wide and mouth agape almost the entire time oh my god it was so fucking cool, the animation??? Like huh???

Now onto the songs before I start getting into specifics!

Song 31: Not Sorry for Loving you

I am not a Calypso fan, normally I don’t like her in any adaptation or original version, but, with that said, this is the first song that really made me re think that. (Still hate her though, but I tried to put in two perspectives)

The way that Jorge made it so you can really see how tragic Calypso is and really feel for her, is it definitely not ok that she kept Odysseus trapped against his will: yes, but really being alone for so long it makes sense.

Wangui really out did herself, the way you can tell the voice change from Love in paradise which is more upbeat and energetic, to this sad, distant voice in Not sorry for loving you, showing just how much she doesn’t want to let Odysseus go but knows its for the best, no matter how much it hurts her to

I feel like Calypso admitted that she did something wrong but yet still saying shea not sorry for loving Odysseus makes the song more in character and more realistic for her

On the other side; her words are trying to make Odysseus stay. She thinks if she can make Odysseus feel bad for her by telling her all this he will stay with her, but Odysseus is tired of this, it probably isn’t the first time where Calypso tried to convince him not to leave with her words. Despite being tired of the island, he still has his wits and knows better to fall for it

Saying “I’m not sorry for loving you” is completely getting rid of the “apologies” she said before. All of the things that she said was done out of her “love” so saying she’s not sorry for loving ody is saying to ignore everything she said before “I’m sorry for making YOU feel bad but I’m not sorry for doing it”

I can talk line by line when it cuts to the animatic but its getting late so I’ll just skip to the one that really stuck out to me which was Ody’s “I love you! but not in the way that you want me to…”

At first, it threw me old guard, odysseus, the biggest simp ever, in love with another woman! Impossible! But than the second part really made me think about how close they might have grown in the last 7 years

Even if it wasnt how Calypso wanted it to go and how Ody didn’t always have the best times on that island; Calypso still took care of him and they were each other’s only company for years, they would grow close as friends and it all makes sense put into that perspective

And Calypso hating that she fell in love with ody also makes sense in this perspective, if she didn’t love him the two had the opportunity to become great friends, truly all calypso wanted was company, and she knows that if she had stopped herself she would have had that company in a friend. Maybe the two could’ve gotten along better than they could’ve ever imagined just as friends, and maybe, this departure would be more sad on Odysseus side and less rageful on Calypso’s side.

Also Gigis animatic for it was just ahshajbshshs god, it was so good

Anyway, with all of that said this song can also be seen as emotional manipulation:D depends on how you look at it because it can be seen as Calypso playing the victim to make Odysseus feel bad and stay with her, It was most likely the intention but I tried to give both perspectives on the situation

Song 32: Dangerous

HERMES HAHAHAH OH I LOVE HEREMS SO MUCH!! FAVORITE CHARACTER RIGHT THERE!!

Something I really enjoyed about dangerous is what it brought back from past songs, the wind bag, the 600 men lines coming back but this time without the crew to back it up, instead theres just silence

And then of course Hermes is there too so thats by itself is bringing back Wouldn’t you like.

Troy’s voice is just so intresting to me and scratches my brain in all of the right places

To be honest hearing Troy sing the plan of the part made me let out a sigh of relief because all I could’ve heard until then was the Carl wheezer version and I’ve now been cleansed by Troys amazing voice

The whole Hermes dancing part while Odysseus fought off monsters was definitely a lighter thing to laugh at after Not sorry for loving you, ALSO THE TWERKING??? I CANT JUST NOT TALK ABOUT THAT, so now, the question everyones all been wondering, is Hermes giving the Winions twerking lessons? Because I mean the man flys and got the wind bag so must be relatively close with Aeolus (they match each others energy) and there for the Wininons in relation also they were his backup singers so!!? Twerking lessons

Anyways back to the song; odysseus part is so good, I don’t know what else to say about except for that but I truly do like it I swear!!

The fact that Athena didn’t even seem to cross Odys mind at the end was shocking to me, yes they had their falling out but Athena was the first person he called out to in Love in Paradise

The fact that he thinks he was ignored and pushes aside by her is heart renching, i do hope they have a reconnection in the Ithca saga (Because Athena is not dead, I refuse it Jorge, your video was a Lie, she is not dead, Apollo healed her, she is ok!)

Song 33: Charybdis

I dont have much to say about this one Annalyzing wise so instead I will say that It’s very Catchy and will be stuck in my head for all time.

I love Jorges voice in it chat its so good, It always is but like the Vocals on this one in particular I cant explain it

Also the animation is really cool.

God I dont know why, I knew Get in the water was coming but I really was happy for Odysseus to make it home, I think it’s how he sounded so desperate and so close and I just wanted to give him a hug, the past two somgs kept my mind off of what was to come and it really came to stab me in the back

Song 34: Get in the water

All I can think of is my friend going “Oh no he’s hot!” To poseidon when he arose from the water to start off the song, it was a little bit of light before the storm that was to come

I’ve been meaning to say this for a few of the songs now but Get in the water has such a different feeling and tone than any other song in the musical, normally Jorge brings melodies back but hearing a completely different sound that hadn’t been in the musical earlier almost breaks this invisible rule in place and its nerve racking

It dosent start with the normal boss music but instead its own original thing because this isn’t just a boss, this is the Boss that is the biggest turning point in Odysseus, this time we truly see Odysseus become the monster, a monster that scares not only mortals, but gods and other monsters as well, he will never let anyone defy him again

Poseidon’s threats to raise the tide were so nerve racking, god Steven Rodriguez’s voice is so calm yet so filled with rage at the same time, so steady but so ready to break the dam down, and the way it escalates to where the anger is more ahown but its not quite screaming, not just yet has Posedion reached the peak of his Anger

Odysseus still trying to reason with Poseidon, one of the last times this reasoning part of him will show as he tries to convince Posedion to give up after the 10 years this has been going on for

The reasoning turns into a faint version of ruthlessnesses melody, the melody playing in the background, not only to lead into Poseidons lines from it, but also knowing just how Ruthless both Poseidon and Odysseus are soon to become

Poseidon powering up WAS SO SICK MAN! LIKE OH MY GOD!!! It was absolutely amazing, my mouth dropped when I saw it and it reminded me of circe and her monster yet this isn’t a monster but an extension of poseidon (Who can count as a monster depending on who you ask)

This is where we can see Poseidon reach the peak of his anger where his power is the strongest and his boss move is set in place, the animation, again, absolutely fantastic. The ocean breaking is so satisfying, and yet the entire time I was terrified of it

JORGE STOP BRINGING BACK OPEN ARMS OH MY GOD I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE, I couldn’t tell if they were pulling Odysseus to his death or empowering him, because Polites just put his hand on Odys shoulder, an encouraging powerful gesture. While his mother is dragging him down and down into the sea and Eurylochus is on his arm

It’s the same thing from love in paradise, the memories make him want to die but then he remembers that; they would want him to live on and fight, to not let them die for nothing, and to make it out alive so he could make sure they were all remembered, every 601 of them (or 602 if you count the baby)

But it could have also been that they knew what Odysseus was going to become and wanted him to just rest and let himself go once and for all, Polites looking at him, knowing that Odysseus cant do that, knowing Odysseus would never just leave his wife like that.

Instead of using this new found encouragement and power in his body to reason with Poseidon he becomes a monster to him instead, the monster thats always been within him but just hidden because of him leading with his heart

Song 35: Six Hundred strike

I forgot who the animator was because it’s the next day but it looked so much like a video game and was so impressive, all of the animatics in this one were just absolutely terrifying, with Odysseus red eyes being like him powering up is so interesting to see

Now remember what I said earlier during Dangerous about the crew not backing Odysseus up because they were gone; this song brings them back after Odysseus saw their spirits, like he had remembered and now the voices may not actually be there but in Ody’s head as a form of motivation for the fight

It’s been a while since we’ve heard Odysseus so angry (Because he’s to busy gentle parenting and reasoning with every monster he finds) but now seeing it against poseidon was such a shift and Ody shifted with it.

Just awesome animation and the instrumental in the back is so cool and high stake. “Almost all of whom were slaughtered by your hand!” Sososo good because when it wasn’t Poseidon it his son and the last part of the crew died under Odysseus’s choice but instead of focusing on this he focused on how he only caused 42 deaths (Elpenor i love you but your death was your fault) and how Poseidon caused more that 500 instead.

In that Light it made what Odysseus would do next more reasonable for him, more justified in his mind

The animation turn where all you could see was the red glowing eyes of Odysseus staring at you before he picks up the trident and starts torturing Poseidon.

Old Odysseus after he defeated Poseidon would once again try and reason with him to stop the storm, but this is a new odysseus, a different beast so to say, he no longer cares about the nice way out, Ruthlessness will become far from Merciful if it means he can finally see his family again.

“You didn’t stop when I begged you! Told me to close up my heart!” I am very much obsessed with the lines in this saga they are so good and just so powerful as well in the moments, its an action jammed pack saga because it has to be the entire journey back but it’s done so well.

Hearing an actual god Call odysseus a Monster is different from anything else that might’ve been scared of him before because Gods are all powerful, they don’t have time to fear mortals, But Odysseus is different, more power in just a mortal than they have ever seen before, Odysseus doesn’t have any godly power except for his wit and brute strength to win his battles and thats absolutely terrifying to see how powerful he is with just being a mortal man

“How will you sleep at night?” “Next to my wife.”

GOD, I dont know what to say about this line except for it is absolutely amazing and delivered so well and is just all in all very resinate of what Odysseus’s goal has been since he started this journey

This saga was all in all very cool! It’s not up in my top 3 but its very very close

[dynasty889]

Wisdom Saga Ranking

Okay, so first off I literally had to sing to keep myself awake during the livestream (started getting tired around the Circe Saga). I still have mixed feelings about this saga but over all I like it.

1. Little Wolf - This is probably my favorite. I loved the animatic for it!! (I think it was based on Mortal Kombat, sorry not the biggest video game geek). I loved the way Athena was reintroduced into EPIC. And also so relatable. You get a great power up but you still lose to the boss.

2. Legendary - The animatic and Argos lmao! 🤣 Anyway, this song turned pretty dark during the suitors’ verse. You can definitely already tell they’re planning to take the throne and Penelope by force. It’s a total bop lmao.

3. We’ll Be Fine - I did hear the lyric changes and I am a little sad Telemachus might not have gone to Pylos and Sparta (like he does in the Odyssey). I love Teagan’s singing in this song but I feel like it ended kind of abruptly.

Uhhh I don’t know where to rank Love in Paradise and God Games.

Love in Paradise: As a story, this song works. As a song just to listen, maybe not as much. I always thought the time dive would be in the middle of the song. I guess not? Gigi’s animatic for the song definitely makes Calypso very adorkable. Im pretty neutral about Calypso’s characterization in EPIC because I think it’s important we establish that Odyssey!Calypso is not the same as EPIC!Calypso (because it’s an adaptation duh). It almost seems to be implied that even though Odysseus was spared in Thunder Bringer, Zeus still punished him by stranding him. Like, it seems that Calypso might almost be influenced by Zeus? I’m not sure how to explain it, but like I’m trying to say Zeus played a hand in Odysseus’ seven year stay on Ogygia (which is why he’s so mad at the end of God Games.) I’m also very glad we still get to see how seven years with a woman he didn’t want messed up Odysseus. I know he’s also got trauma from other stuff, but it’s still good to see that he is barely clinging to sanity because of Calypso. Also, those notes Odysseus sings right before he calls out to Athena. It almost sounds like he’s saying “home” (that’s how I’ve been singing it anyway)

God Games: I think this song is so fucking cool. But it suffers from some of the choices of the gods featured in this song. I will stand by the fact that Apollo didn’t need to be in this song. He’s like the boss that’s way too easy, even for beginning players. Hephaestus’ reason made a little more sense. Also bonus points for being voiced by Jay’s dad. Aphrodite and Ares felt like the actual first boss fight. Their verses were longer and while their reasons may still be a little iffy, we got to see some hesitation from the gods. Hera’s verse was pretty cool just cause of how groovy it is, but she also seemed to be convinced a little too easy. I don’t know. Zeus…oh my god. Jay needs to bring Luke for one more song. He was so badass in that song! Also:

Ares(? I don’t know which god said): “Is she (Athena) dead?”

Also the previous song: “Goddesses can’t die.”

I loved the instrumental and the animatic that went along with it. It really reminds me of the Thunder Saga trailer and that little melody at the end of Thunder Bringer.

Also, Gwendy’s animatic for the end of God Games is just so fucking amazing. It literally looks like an anime. I need EPIC: The Anime after all of these animatics. Jay did so much for the Wisdom Saga and I love it.

[sugar-and-spite]

finally watched the vengeance saga and i am being so, so normal about this. spoiler rambles below the cut. i watched a bunch of different animatics for most of the songs so there will be comments about both the actual songs & official animatics, plus the other fan animatics i saw

not sorry for loving you

first off. CALYPSO. MY GIRL. i'm so glad jorge did her right with this song. i remember adoring calypso in the odyssey, and while epic definitely put her in a more manipulative and antagonistic role than i remember her having, she has a reason. i felt like love in paradise kind of rushed her entire character and i'm so glad she got fleshed out more here.

while she is being manipulative, i definitely don't agree with the people saying she's doing it on purpose. she's been alone for a hundred years, of course she'd be lonely. also like. she's literally never known any other people to know whether she's being manipulative or not, so

also i watched the most animatics for this one and calypso being skinny feels so weird to me, she's at least chubby imo

also extremely funny that jorge got gigi to animate for this one for the stream. gigi being known for having the best circe saga animatics and jorge is like "hm you know who i want to animate this other woman who's manipulating odysseus?" incredible.

and there's this which i said to my bf:

dangerous

"six hundred men, six hundred dead under my command, 'cause i had one goal in mind... [silence]" OKAY YEAH I DIDN'T NEED MY HEART. FUCK.

HERMES IS BACK, BABY!

ximena natzel has the best hermes animatics, the official hermes is good but ximena's is better, if you haven't seen ximena's animatics for "wouldn't you like" and "dangerous" go watch them NOW

they canonized the fluffy winions, i'm not even sure who first came up with that design for them (mircsy was the first one i saw) but they're wonderful and amazing

hermes is just amazing and all of his songs are amazing and this is amazing (can you tell i have a favorite song from vengeance saga)

i love that they also included actual sirens in the official animatic!! the birds with women's faces, those are what sirens actually look like in the myths and mermaid-sirens are more common to see nowadays but it's not The Og, and i'm so so happy they used og sirens (this made me giddy in the same way all the "ruthlessness" animatics with horses in them made me giddy, little-known myth details my beloved)

the callbacks to "keep your friends close"! both musically and lyrically! and the callback to "wouldn't you like" with hermes going "don't thank me" and "good luck!" jorge is always on point with the callbacks

charybdis

took a couple listens for me to really vibe with this, it's kinda filler but that's fine they can't all be bangers

someone pointed out this is the only song we have so far that's 100% solo odysseus with no background vocals or other characters so that's neat

feels like this could've been longer? or fleshed out more? it feels kinda abrupt. but there's gotta be some losers they can't all be winners

get in the water

i need to hear this sung by a woman right now actually so i can be equally bisexual about the original and a female cover.

honestly i don't think i had a single thought in my head through the entire song besides damn. holy SHIT. holy shit this one is good. this is so fucking good.

i lied i had a singular coherent thought (on the second watch): it's subtle, but i think there's a musical callback to the end of "god games" during odysseus's part. when he's begging poseidon to let him go, the music is really similar to when athena begs zeus to let him go at the end of "god games."

six hundred strike

hoooooooly shit. oh my god. what the fuck. not to be bisexual but -

(hottest odysseus has ever been)

he has the power of (the wind) god and anime on his side

with the power of friendship and this jetpack he found -

the callbacks

"you can't kill me." "exactly." HOTTEST ODYSSEUS HAS EVER BEEN

NEXT TO MY WIFE

oh my god. holy fuck. oh my god

anyway this has been rey's (lack of) thoughts about the vengeance saga thanks for joining me i'm so, so normal about this musical

[mlepbean]

CHAT CHAT CHAT CHAT

THE VENGEANCE SAGA.

so i watched the watch party livestream, as you do, and OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST I AM SCREAMING

i'm gonna yap about it so spoilers below the cut

OKAY. SO.

first song, not sorry for loving you. gorgeous amazing i love it, gigi's animatic for it was also so fun , could cry. barbara is an amazing vocalist and i love her. don't have too many notes for this one but it's gorgeous

second, dangerous. i heard the intro with odysseus alone and im like okay girlie we're sad today. then hermes came in and it's disco time. that song is so fun!!!! also when odysseus does a kinda remix of the chorus to prove to hermes that he's gonna be okay?? iconic. odysseus does need to get a single more brain cell to realize that athena is still on his side but whatever. i will say the animatics for this one were amazing, was not expecting a hermes twerk, but yknow, im not surprised

third, charbydis. i haven't heard much from this one, and its shorter so i don't have too many strong opinions but it's so fun. like go girlie go use your strategy!! the animatics were so good as well i fucking love action shots like that

fourth, get in the water. GOD. i've been so hyped for this one AND IT DELIVERED. steven fucking popped off dude, that vocal delivery was sick as hell. ALSO. THE FUCKING GOD POWER OR WHATEVER IT WAS CALLED TO SHATTER THE OCEAN?? COOLEST SHIT EVER. the ending made me sad. again. jorge why do you keep bringing back polites. like the souls of everyone he's lost fucking dragging him underwater so he can join them?? heartbreaking what the fuck dude.

fifth, 600 strike. GUYS. there is a reason we got nothing for this one. this is the coolest fucking shit i have ever seen. for one, the 3D animation??? was so cool??? odysseus literally got a jetpack from the windbag and used that and a knife to fucking beat up poseidon and get him weak enough so he's just chilling on an island, and then when poseidon calls him out saying the storm stops him from getting home, odysseus is like "not anymore bitch" and fucking stabs poseidon with his own trident, knowing he can't die, until he can't stand the pain anymore and calls off the storm. odysseus gives poseidon a taste of the pain he's caused him, and i love it. i mean hey, he did was poseidon told him to do, be ruthless, for after all, ruthlessness is mercy

"how will you sleep at night?"

"with my wife"

LIKE GOD. DUDE. SCREAMING. if it wasn't literally midnight i would have audibly screamed. physically my mouth was agape like oh my fucking god 600 strike.

anyways <3

those are my thoughts for now. i will be having more later, this show consumes my brain <3

[sleepitysleepyspees]

just gonna. be chaotic rq.

FUNNY MUSIC MAN IS ON MY SCREEN

banana peeeeeels

cabbage.

badass senorita 💅

polyamorous femboy moose

🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

Ody try not to dox himself challenge impossible

platonic breakup song let's gooooo

you're too bird 😡

funny music man is funny

Jay's little comments are entertaining

physics... isn't a real thing

ALMOST TO THE SECOND FEMALE

Athena had to leave to make room for the other females

AEOLUS

gigi made me like females

I think KYFC is my favourite song.

so ready for Dangerous to change that, though.

Ruthlessness makes me more excited for Get in the Water

y'know, in a way Poseidon needs to learn what he's teaching. if he had just killed Odysseus rather than trying to teach him the ways of ruthlessness, Ody would be dead.

HERMES SAGA

gigi's Circe making me question my asexuality in a few seconds

HERMES (the one cut song that sounds like a children's show intro)

holy. moly.

Circe~~~~

hey Circe, I lobve my wife

END OF TOAW MAGICAL GODDESS NOTE LET'S GO

I DID IT. I AM A MAGICAL GODDESS TODAY.

this life is amazing, when you greet it with open arms

I'm crying

the way that Ody is a son of Hephaestus (Jay's dad voices Hephaestus) (I thought of this when hearing Jay's mom voice Ody's mom)

WHO

the way that my gc of epic fans is currently discussing backpacks instead of EPIC

I am the monster rawr rawr rawr

SECOND STREAM

WE'RE SO CLOSE TO THE HERMES SAGA PART 2

the second Wisdom Saga release party.

pernerlerperwer

first we slayed 💅💅💅 in our own war

siren banana peels

DROWN IN YOUR SORROWS AND FEARS

gigi is definitely my favorite EPIC animator

Eury really just need to be able to manage his hunger a bit better. that would've fixed everything.

Ody during Thunder Bringer: I have no idea what any of this has to do with us or the cattle, but I'm just not going to question it.

okay. so. we have Wisdom. then we are vibing, vibing, and killing god.

wait. wait. so. theory. in EPIC, the fighting skill equates to singing/music skill. that's why it's okay that Tele's stuff doesn't sit right with me. he's inexperienced in combat, and therefore it is in character for his stuff to not sit right with me.

watch a gonna do about it, champ?

the video game Little Wolf animatic still isn't my favourite, but I love the song.

TIME DIVE

GIGI

the hair in the face so you don't have to draw eyes is so real

"he needs my help" OH REALLY??

GOD GAMES

he sacrificed his uncle hort

VENGEANCE SAGA

I love NSFLY

depression in Dangerous?

HERMES

NOW WE'RE VIBING

wind bag part 2????

the "you very well may die" was funny, but I prefer the Athena reference.

CHARYBDIS

Jay is so talented

GET IN THE WATER

this is EPIC (pun very much intended)

I swear if Ody pulls the wind bag trick again-

600 STRIKE

NO NOT PANCAKES

THIS IS SO COOL

he pulled the wind bag trick again.

THIS IS SO COOL

3D ANIMATION

600 strike is literally just a video game move

OH MY GOSH

ODYSSEUS REALLY DID LEARN POSEIDON'S LESSON

THIS IS SO COOL

how will you sleep at night? next to my wife.

[themildestofwriters]

I hope that, when EPIC becomes a full animated film, they do take into consideration what has come before. There's certain animatics that take what Jorge has created and puts their own spin on it and I can't help but feel it improves it in a way. Like, for example, Gigi's work for "The Horse and the Infant" "Just a Man" and "Monster" are just definitive for me. It's the designs, the symbolism, the visuals. I can't imagine "Monster" without citing Gigi's work, and the reoccurring "Dark Odysseus" imagery feels almost necessary to the entire story. Their take on Odysseus is just canon to me, tbh.

Then there are others. It's off canon, but I can't help but believe Ani Tigerfly's take on "Suffering" "Different Beast" (and even "Scylla") is just... good, no question. It's more brutal, in a way, which I feel was necessary. Odysseus doesn't shoot the Penelope-siren. He convinces her to come onto his ship and then *stabs her* and *cuts her throat*, forcing her to watch as the other Sirens are butchered in front of her as she bleeds out. Like, Holy Shit, that's nightmare fuel, and I love it so much.

Mircsy basically *made* the latter half of the Troy Saga and the first half of the Cyclops Saga in my opinion. From "Open Arms" to "Survive," and even "My Goodbye" hits so hard. The design for the Cyclops is so fucking cool, utter nightmare fuel, and I'd love to see it fully realised, and then there's just the little touches throughout. I love the reference to the Infant in "Survive," the devil horns in Odysseus's shadow in "Polyphemus," the scene utterly drenched in red, with the soldiers and their glowing red eyes. It's just utter perfection.

To top it off — AnniFlamma's "God Games" is just perfection. I love how fluid the gods are, the little touches that tell you a lot about them just from their design. I don't know about you, but that final scene of Athena challenging Zeus is just beautiful, how she shifts and changes under this onslaught of might.

It's Jorge's project, but I hope we see the fan content taken into consideration. There's so many beautiful interpretations of this story I hope to see them codified when this project is all said and done.

[firephoenix2305]

New obsession unlocked, people :)

So I discovered EPIC: The Musical. I may need help. And therapy for some parts (Cyclops saga I'm looking very specifically at you)

But if we just side-step that for the time being...God Damn I love EPIC. It's so awesome, and the songs are freaking amazing; not to mention the animatics (shout-out to Gigi, whose animatics I for the life of me adore).

Anyway, what I was getting to was that I also recently learnt to sew; and since I have rewatched "Open Arms" five million times, welp, this happened:

I made my own lil Lotus Eater <3 (/Winion, I think)

I know he's a little scrappy and that the stitches aren't great; but this is like the third thing I've sewed together in my life, so I'm insanely proud of it :)

And yes, that is Polites' headband. No I will not apologize (still not over that , btw. Probs will never be)

<3

[lorethebookworm]

There are soooo many good animatics, Gigi is def one of the best animators out there, when it comes to overall storytelling for Epic for multiple reasons I absulutley LOVE WolfieTheWitche's designs of Odysseus though, its probably my favorite because wolfies animatics are realllyyy emotionally expressive theres also still a handful of other animators, several (most of them ) of which have by now also been hired by Jorge now for offical animatics for the livestreams I actually do highly recommend animatics because they do give a lot of context to the story than the songs themselves sometimes (eg. polites :"), the baby getting dropped etc) while the artists often do take some creative liberties a lot of them do try to combine offical statements from Jorge with whats known about ancient greece and homers odysee to make it into reallyy amazing animatics, and bc i cant resist im going to send you two playlists ive made, one has my personal favorite animatics of each song so far, so that it becomes kind of a movie to watch, and another playlist with p much every full-version animatic ive found from epic so you can check out some more if you want! ive started creating a playlist for animatic snippets but i havent gotten far with it yet https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aJtnq6T7SnUazf_B9STh5a56HLnm989 Animatics "Movie" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aJtnq6T7SlN1S56Q-Q3kcqwCYsR55Gv All full version animatics i could find so far the only song we dont have a full version animatic by now is Different Beast but Im hoping we'll get one sooon 👉👈 no pressure to watch any of that ofc, but i do recommend them! (it hurts even more that way)

So what I'm hearing is that you are offering me an Epic movie? Like it's nothing ? And you're telling me "no pressure to watch it" ? GIRL I'LL WATCH THE SHIT OUT OF IT THANK YOU SO MUCH AKKSKSKSJJS

I might end up screaming about the animatics in your asks. I might not. I recommend sleeping with one eye open bestie love youu <3 <3

[secret-sageent]

the Hermes PFP has me SCREAMING

he's such a goober

THANK YOU XD Gigi made that Hermes ok god games animatic and I took one look at it, figured it fit my blog’s colour scheme enough, and changed it XD

Could not resist the voices lol

He is the goober ever I love himmmm QwQ

[gigizetz]

Hey! I absolutely love your animations (watched your EPIC ones waaaaay too many times, they’re such a delight, and have made me appreciate the music even more) and would like to kick you a little money as way of thanks for how you’ve contributed to the community and my brainrot. Even if you never made another animation again, the ones you’ve created up to now have a permanent place in my brain, and I know I’m not the only one. I didn’t see a link to a PATREON or a Kofi anywhere on your YouTube or tumblr profiles, but maybe I’m missing something — do you have or want that kind of contribution, even if it’s not much? No matter what, just wanted to say thank you. You’ve brought me a lot of joy.

Thank you so much!! I do link my Kofi in my animatics' descriptions, here it is:

[dynasty889]

Wisdom Saga

I…….WHAT?!!!!!!!! That’s literally all I’ve been saying (I should be part of the what saga)

WHAT?!

Okay so. First off, Legendary was way darker than I thought it’d be. Like once the suitors came in, it was so dark. Next, I didn’t expect Telemachus to lose still to Antinous (loved that animatic btw)

Uhhh third. WHAT DO YOU MEAN ODYSSEUS TRIED TO OFF HIMSELF?! It makes sense but like still. Love in Paradise is so far the only song I’ve had like issues with?? Not with Calypso, but with the pacing. It starts off with the time dive. Which like…alright? And Calypso’s whole love in paradise verse really only happens during the middle but it’s not as cheerful (ehhh…not cheerful but upbeat) as I thought. But umm yeah.

Gigi’s animatic definitely made Calypso very adorkable. I don’t know how to feel about that. I think it’s important to separate the Odyssey!Calypso and EPIC!Calypso and I’m glad we still get to see how much seven years with a woman he didn’t want messed up Odysseus. But still. It definitely gives Calypso the really isolated vibe.

God Games was also…ehhh. It seemed like only Aphrodite and Ares actually seemed to have a problem with Odysseus. Apollo literally didn’t even need to be in it tbh. Hephaestus (loved that his dad was in there). I remember seeing somewhere someone mention he should mention to Athena about him throwing the infant off the wall like how in some myths Hera threw him off Olympus. It’s a better argument than Apollos but still kinda weak.

Hera’s was alright. I like her groove. Zeus. God help. If he doesn’t make one last appearance I’m gonna scream. ALSO, ATHENA MET TELEMACHUS AS A BABY! And then she’s also on the brink of death.

Speaking of, I think I understand Tiresias’ ‘I see you on the brink of death’ means. Because Ody was gonna try and off himself.

Oh shit I forgot about We’d be Fine. I heard those lyric changes, so I guess no exploration for Telemachus (sad face).

I have…mixed feelings about this saga. I like it mostly but I do have some issues with Love in Paradise and God Games. My favorite song is probably Little Wolf