#One of my love languages is animatics

[tapakah0]

@somerandomdudelmao, happy day of birth, Universe

[anniflamma]

"Waiting, waiting... Ooooh!"

Here comes a proper concept illustration of Odysseus’ wifey!

Since Penelope is very underdeveloped in Epic, it’s hard to pin down what her personality is in the musical, so I’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from the original Odyssey and added some of my own ideas. Initially, I liked the idea of portraying her as a graceful queen, someone who always smiles despite how rudely the suitors treat her. But then I realized I really liked using visual language to show how Odysseus remembers Penelope from his sweetest memories.

Because of all the trauma he experiences on his journey, Penelope becomes more of an "end destination" for him, a symbol of hope. To Odysseus, once he gets back to Penelope, everything will be fine. In his visions or memories, Penelope with a warm smile, little bit soft on the edges. But the real her, the one we meet in The Challenge, looks tired and constantly angry, except, of course, when she thinks about Odysseus. This contrast helps the audience see that she has changed as well, both in how she looks and how she acts, compared to how Odysseus idealizes her.

I also really like the idea that the reason Penelope didn’t kick out the suitors wasn’t out of respect for some tradition that puts her in a position of servitude and compromise. Instead, it’s because Zeus himself came down and told her that if she kicked them out, he would smite Odysseus or Telemachus. That interpretation does fit how Epic the musical portrays Zeus so.....

This puts her in a position where she endures all of this to protect the ones she loves, rather than just following a tradition that don't even respect her due to she is a woman.

Also, funny thing, my first drawing of her was that reveal shot from the Thunder Bringer animatic!

And of course, she gets a veil! Similar to Hera and Circe! This choice is rooted in the tradition where married women wore veils, or at least something to cover their hair, when male guests entered their home. If Penelope walked around without a head covering in front of the suitors, it would signal that she was available, which is literally the opposite of what she wanted, don’t you think?

That said, I think I’ll design her veil a little differently. The one I drew here is kind of just a test.

[mircsy]

I have a challenge… A test of skills… EPIC!Athena Draw This In Your Style, as promised🙂‍↕️

Use #AthenaDTIYSmircsy so I can see it if anyone decides to draw this beast of a drawing LMAO

NO deadline (and doesn’t need to be the exact same pose)

And something else…

EPIC: The Musical is the example of what people are capable of if they work together with respect, understanding, love and support. With these aspects people are able to build the world Athena wonders about if it would be possible to ever exist.

The fact that one person’s dream, Jorge’s, could grow and keep blooming is majestic and mind-blowing, and the project had great impact on many many many people already, including me too.

Throughout the three years I’ve been following the amazing process and releases, EPIC gave me plenty of memories, knowledge, better understanding of others and myself, and a direction where to take my future thanks to this rare opportunity to work on official animatics for songs, which I am so deeply grateful that there are no words for it in any languages. This musical truly pulled me out of a deep, dark pit…

But that’s not all. Thanks to EPIC I got to know many incredible people, starting from some of the cast members, to other composers, to other artists, to people who like the kind of art I do, to true friends. Every second with these people is a bliss and pleasure.(I wish I could tag you all but you are so freaking many😭🫶)

Again, I’m just grateful we can experience this together! See you in future projects, since with the Ithaca Saga released, the journey truly begins now…

[essycogany]

Can I give a shoutout to this animatic right here?

They made me like the Sonic Frontiers scene 100% more than I already did. The original is still great but there’s a sense of… naturalism from this one. Like the bickering from Tails, the bluntness from Sonic, and the way Sonic humbles himself a bit near the end. I don’t know. It just feels a bit more like a natural progression. I also enjoyed how imperfect Sonic is as a mentor here. I’ve been feeling like Sonic has so much more attitude here, and I enjoy it so much! There’s a sense of swag that isn’t gone, but has kind of lessened. This animatic brought it back for this scene and I appreciate it.

It also helps that the body language was better. I believe Frontiers has improved the way Sonic games have been animated because of how much smoother it is and you can tell the animators did their best, but this storyboard has moments that probably couldn’t have been displayed as well in the original or in 3D. The fluent moments, the sly and sassy way Sonic moves, while Tails is more closed off. Also, Tails starts crying too which makes the moment feel more intense and real. It’s SO GOOD! Not to mention their hug warmed my heart. Sonic’s grown to like hugs and it shows.

Tails was characterized amazingly too. It felt like he was holding these emotions for a long time. The emotional break down is near flawless. Also, the way they give attention to Sonic’s corruption is ridiculously great. You can tell the guy is holding back so much pain. I love it! It reminds me of some old, lost Sonic stories from the past. If you know you know, but anyways this was great and I think anyone can be inspired by this.

[antwuzhere]

Guys if you liked the mean gills one, I’ve got even more angst for you.

Pspspsppspspsps

My favourites <333 I wish they would stop hating eachover for just a moment 😖

Luring all the life series fans in with my pretty colours and lore

And better yet - pretty designs

And plenty of Martyn and Scott because I managed to gather all the majorwood fans. Their love language is fighting. Unfortunately

Ooooo isn’t this enticing. Don’t you want to go watch this fully colour animatic and support this little guys YouTube channel???? Please please please please

[etanow]

MASTER POST

The Experimental Monster Laboratory, or Monster Labs, is a TADC AU where the cast is in the physical world! Sorta..

C&A Research Facilities is one of the cornerstones of the science and medical worlds! They do everything; funding research, manufacturing equipment, and research into the known and unknown in an effort to understand everything. To the public, that is.

They experiment heavily in everything, from hiring literal Gods on earth to manage the more ..sensitive divisions; mixing machine and magic, technology and the supernatural, genetic experimentation, you name it, they’ve probably done it! The world outside may not know anything of the advancements they’re researching but there is little C&A Labs won’t allow in the name of progress in understanding and cataloging everything in their universe. Our story takes place in one of the more private residencies deep in C&A, belonging to Caine; a minor God with mysterious origins, unknown limitations, and boundless enthusiasm for learning everything he can about his little science friends.

╰┈➤ Content

╚═ Unnamed fic (Coming soon...) ╚═ Bubble can cook?? .

╰┈➤ Asks

╚═ Does Pomni act like a zombie? ╚═ Is Zooble's Demon Snake Leg happy? ╚═ Gangle is in a Situation.png ╚═ Gangle's temperament ╚═ Has Ragatha ever shocked anyone? ╚═ Gangle love RAAAH ╚═ Do Caine and Ragatha fight over Pomni? ╚═ Why did Gangle summon a demon? ╚═ Why does Pomni wear a bell collar? ╚═ Kinger's eye ╚═ What if there was a baby crying? ╚═ Death trauma [Gangle and Pomni] ╚═ Kinger has ONE hobby outside of Bugs ╚═ Is Zooble protective of Gangle? ╚═ What happens when you touch Pomni's brain? ╚═ JAX DATED SOMEONE?? ╚═ What does Jax do? .

╰┈➤ References

╚═ Intro Cards ╚═ Height Chart Lineup ╚═ Zooble Demon Snake Leg Intro Card /j ╚═ Queenie ╚═ Gummigoo ╚═ The Sun Room ╚═ Logo .

╰┈➤ Arts

╚═ First ML AU Post ╚═ Second, exploring outfits ╚═ Design sketches part 2 ╚═ Pomni + flower language ╚═ Showtime + Ragapom doodles ╚═ Jax not practicing lab safety ╚═ Abstragedy cuddles ╚═ Raga doodle ╚═ Ragapom doodle ╚═ Jax and Meadowsweet ╚═ Pomni staring out a fake window.png ╚═ [Gives pomni flowers] ╚═ more doodles ig

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╰┈➤ Misc.

╚═ Caine Lemon Rant [Animatic] ╚═ Zodiac signs?? ╚═ Caine gets called a Tumblr Sexyman and cries ╚═ Bubble Looksmaxxing ╚═ Jax wants to take ketamine with you (Romantically) ╚═ Caine eats a lemon [Animatic] ╚═ BUNNYSUITSSS ╚═ Magma doodles ╚═ Magma doodles part 2

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╰┈➤ Pomniverse

╚═ Wonderland and Zombni are friends :D

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╰┈➤ Boundaries / Q&A

╚═ Any story plans? I'm not sure yet, currently writing a fic and several comics on the way.

╚═ Any boundaries? None, so go crazy! I am OK with gore, NSFW, angst, violence, etc, just be sure it is tagged/TW'd appropriately as not everyone is OK with that content. I'd also like to see please LOL

╚═ Can we create fanart/fics/content? Can we dub or fancam? Yes of course!! Please tag me, I'd love to see all of it! I'm tracking the tag #TADC Monster Labs AU for other's content

╚═ Is NSFW allowed? Yes, both art and fic, so long as it's marked appropriately I'd very much love to see!

╚═ Can I ship the characters, self-ships, or OC x Canon? Yes, ship away! Just be aware the only au-canon ships are Caine/Pomni, Ragatha/Pomni, Gangle/Zooble, and PAST Ragatha/Jax.

╚═ Can we make OCs? Go on ahead! Here is a PSD file for the blank template and the PNG can be found here.

╚═ Who are you?

✦✧ Hi I'm Audi! 26, she/they. Full-time office worker, I do art in my free time. ✦ My current interests are TADC, RWBY, Looney Tunes, and Trolls. ✧ I draw using a custom PC, a Huion Kamvas 16 (2.5K), and Adobe Photoshop. Currently learning to use Procreate. ✦ I do not RP and this isn't an ask blog, asks interacting directly with characters will probably not be answered. ✧ Asks are not guaranteed to be answered, sorry if yours isn't but please don't spam/send multiple times! ✦ Commissions and requests are not open at this time, thank you. ✧ My main tumblr is Audi-art. My Twitter is Hammerspaced.

[majoryeager104]

You + me = three

Summary: Headcannons of Touya with a pregnant partner 🥹👍

Touya/Dabi x fem!reader

Warnings: language, and general wholesome behavior (these hc’s are my therapy atp)

Telling Touya you were pregnant was a worrisome task to say the least 

Because even though you both worked to be as emotionally available to each other as possible

This was a subject that you had no idea how he’d react to

Because pregnancy wasn’t something the two of you had talked about, even in your late night discussions of what you wanted your futures to look like, a child was never mentioned 

He knew that he was barely alive as it is

And I suppose he thought that the trauma his body had experienced would probably put the possibility of being a father out of his reach. 

he would be lying if he said that this saddened him, if only a little

Because even though he never mentioned having them

He thought about kids with you

A lot. 

Because currently he was in a relationship with the only person he’d want to start a family with

But as mentioned, he wasn’t really sure if that would be possible for him

So you’d bet that when you decided how you’d tell him

And you took him out for dinner at his favorite soba place

And those two momentous words left your mouth

He was beyond shocked. 

He’d stare at you for a long moment, his eyes drifting from yours to your belly, over and over again, while a wide smile spread across his face

“You serious?”

And when you’d confirm? It was like there was a light at the end of the long tunnel he’d been stuck in since the night he’d burned up

Something to look forward to, beyond the repercussions he’d wished upon his father

A family with you, something to go home to, hell, a home in general

Because he’d make it happen, now. No matter what. 

Because that light at the end of the tunnel, that glimpse of hope in the flames he’d been burning in for so long

Made him feel alive again. You, and the little one you currently carried, were his reason to exist. Beyond his revenge, beyond the dark clouds overhead

Because he now had the privilege to be a father

To do for you and your child what his father had never bothered to do with his own family 

To give to your child something he’d never received from Enji

Love. 

After he’d finally stopped grinning

And the two of you were walking back to your apartment 

He made sure that you wanted this, too

He wanted to be absolutely sure that you wanted this child

Especially if it would be with him

And dammit the smiling confirmation from you once again

Sent his heart soaring. 

He had to stop himself from smiling too much to make sure he didn’t pop his staples out. 

He was absolutely elated

He’d be such a great partner during the pregnancy 

He’d act annoyed when you woke him up for snacks

But secretly when he’d turn over to look at you when you nudged his shoulder and quietly requested it, he’d be on cloud nine just looking at you

Because just look at you 

His beautiful girl, and his future beautiful girl

Because he was secretly hoping for a daughter

The least he could do was go get you your chips from seven eleven

He’d constantly be rubbing your belly too

Like “holy shit there’s actually a baby in there? And it’s mine?”

Like I said, cloud nine. 

And the first kick? He was already cuddling you when it happened, so you best believe he felt it

If he could cry, he would have been 

Because that little kick cemented the entire thing for him

Like, this was it. This was gonna be the best thing in his life

And he’d be damned if he wasn’t gonna be there for every second of it with you. 

So he decided taking revenge could wait

Because he was a father now, and had better priorities

This is one of my favorite songs and it reminds me of Touya often, but I found it through my favorite Attack on Titan animatic (here but spoiler warning if you haven’t finished the show), and the LYRICSSS 😭🙏

Banner Creds to @ Buttonheart 🙌🙌🙌

[cokoweee]

My ass is back, and I'm gonna do another take on analyzing your shit. Take 2 on analyzing things!

So BEAR WITH ME!

First off I know the lyrics of the song literally say what those two feel. But I'm more interested on how your genius mind made Donnie act. So we ignore the lyrics and concentrate on his body language and expression.

Even if that animatic made you feral, there are really good frames. In literally every frame it is clear that Donnie unconsciously or even instinctively searches for Kendra, already in picture one( yeah I call them like that), he is already following, his arm is lifting up. And his face shows wonder and maybe some slight uneasiness because Kendra moves away.

Then homeboy literally starts to turn his full body where Kendra just went, his expression just screams slightly fear, that Kendra leaves(*ahem*like his brothers). Maybe it can already be interpreted that he doesn't want loose Kendra. And he works through that in that dream.

What makes this absolutely great is, Donnie is the one who reaches out. He is the one who stretches his arms to HER. He may looks like he does not want anyone near him, because boy is traumatized, but his unconsciousness doesn't want to be truly left alone. We can see how he also leans his body forward, really wanting to get to Kendra. And again, he reaches out.

In the frame before this, he once again reached out to her, gave her his hands, which she gladly took. What makes this also great, he now PULLS her to HIM. In his dream and maybe in his deep deep unconsciousness he wants to get her closer, wants her to be near to him.

I could add more frames but I think then it would become an essay. What the essential of this shit was is, I like how you made his body language instinctively yearn for Kendra, him reaching out, him walking towards her. Showing that he wants to let her in, but is scared. He knows it is logical to not let her in, because what if she gets hurt again? And what if she doesn't recover like last time? Will she die like my brothers? But despite that he is already deep in, we can see it in the last frame when he wakes up, when he realizes what he just dreamed and what he wants deep down, but doesn't know if he should act on it or just push it away.

Well! That was my analysis now I'm gotta go and hide because who knows what the hell I just wrote👁👄👁

Just woke up so it took a few tries to read this but IK FUCKINNH LOVE WHEN ANSLYZE

Got me lookin goofy all laughin an shit. U a smart cookie cause blah blah at some point during this I was like “subliminal messages” without even knowin wtf it is. YOU THO getting shit that’s hell yeah! Oh damn I’m tired just I LOVE ANALYZE ASKS y’all cool u cool nom nom nom nom

[two-clowns]

appreciation post to bamsara&lt;3

hi :D We are only 2 friends who have followed the work of @bamsara from the shadows (English is not our first language so there may be incoherence in this text xD) it has taken us time but finally we are encouraged to publish our small works inspired by the great work of Bamsara as a way of thanking them for sharing their great talent

clown1 : Solar lunancy is a fanfic that me and my friend love a lot and well for their birthday I wanted to give them the bound fanfic as a present, however as English was not our language I took the time to translate the fanfic to Spanish. I planned the gift 5 months before clown 2's birthday and the translation took me about 3 months, I read the fanfic several times when I was translating it and even so it had several mistakes because time was running out, but I had a lot of fun reading and translating the fanfic, and the emotion on clown 2's face was worth it.

clown2: after the beautiful gift from clown one (who introduced me to fic and bam's art) I decided to go all out and make the y/n solar lunacy jacket it was a somewhat chaotic process because I decided to dye the fabric myself, hand paint it and put the jacket together but after a few months and a lot of trial and error I think I managed to do justice to the design bam made and since I had some time left over I decided to make the freddy ears to complement the jacket.

(I had also given her the name tag as a gift a long time ago, so the cosplay is complete)

two clowns in cosplay waiting for the fnaf movie to start.

clown 1 : I met bam when I entered the Invader Zim fandom thanks to his fanfic "Cryptids, Emotions And The Possible End Of The World" I loved and still love this fic for how funny and cool it is, being this fanfic the first one I read in the fandom as well as being one of my favorites within it. However, just after bam wrote "A moment" I decided to make a small animatic drawing several scenes from the fic. The process was fun, as such I really like to make small animatics (although I don't have the same time as before). I made the animatic some time ago but after I made it I couldn't bring myself to send it until today xdd (I never knew if bam saw it).

clown2: a little fanart I made of zim and dib from Cryptids, Emotions And The Possible End Of The World as a gift for clown1's birthday

bamb also dragged us into the colt fandom lmao

clown 1 doodles :

clown 2 doodles :

[yayasvalveplay]

I'm back now with my dinner :> I come and I see and update on the DW AU .... I see a mention of Wheelie HATING the shockblurr kids—

I I AM SITTING UP YAYA BECAUSE WHAT IS WITH THESE ANONS READING MY MIND YAYAAAAA AHHH TO THAT ANON(S) SHOW YOURSELVES

BECAUSE I LITERALLY HAD THE SAME THOUGHT BECAUSE FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS IVE BEEN THINKING OF THIS SONG CALLED ITAINO ITAINO TONDEIKE

Its such a good song and the basics of what it's showing is a girl experiencing her rough life after being abandoned by her mom while the next side shows the life she could've possibly lived if she wasn't abandoned and stayed with her mom. I don't wanna go into too much detail since the comments do it more justice and the song IS SO GOOD PLS IF YALL HAVENT WATCHED IT WATCH IT

BUT ANYWAYS THIS IS AT MY SONG FOR WHEELIE IN THE AU, I've been imagining for a while, a little scene based on the song I EVEN HAVE A SKETCH HERE— with Wheelie possibly heading to a city or returning to the pit after an important errand in which made him so tired, in disguise because there'd always assholes who wanna bother him outside the pit for different reasons.

Wheelie is just at the corner of the street, tired and holding his bag, waiting to cross. Until he hears talking. Someone is next to him waiting, seemingly talking on their comms link, at first- he thinks nothing of it; he's tired and aimless at the moment. Wheelie turns to the side to see if anyone else is coming. Simple right?

His optics immediately see who is next to him and he freezes. Ever since the takeover; his processor... whenever he wasn't thinking of his carrier, he was thinking of Shockwave, every single detail... to kill him, his antlers, his single optic, his claws. Everything...

Wheelie isn't stupid. The bot who is standing right next to him... is one of Shockwave's children. It is almost laughable for this to be a coincidence yet the bot is doing nothing but talking, aloof body language. Sharp antlers wiggling as three optics blink and sharp digits tap as they discuss with their comm link partner on stuff Wheelie could care less about.

Until they mention the simple word of carrier with barely noticable... but Wheelie notices... a warm smile...

They leave before Wheelie can even register that they've crossed the street. Wheelie's grip on his bag had tightened so hard that his digits have dug into the metal of his palms...

I LITERALLY GOT A SKETCH IVE BEEN CHIPPIBG AWAY I hope you can tell who I've been giving more attention to lmao 😭 with of course my own shockblurr kid that I haven't drawn yet ahdhh

I LOVE THAT SONG SO MUCH BECAUSE I CAN SEE AN ANIMATIC WITH THAT. The better happyer side is Wheelie with Blurr, Autobots won and it's just happy, while in reality he is suffering.

And then OHOH And then he is just minding his own buisness when he sees Shockwave- No a Shockwave kid, someone who he HATES and he doesn't know/ care what he is saying until he hears Carrier and sees that smile side by side.

Wheelie is tempted to follow, just to get a glance at what the bot is doing. Will they take him to HIS carrier? He has to know, but by that time the bot is gone and he is left with a sour taste in his mouth, He wants revenge, and he wants it now.

He wants his carrier back.

[lordtraco]

ISAT Thoughts and emotions:

It feels so weird having finished the game in the way that I did, that it's almost like I've blurred the lines together.

IRL I compulsively played the game until well past midnight for 4 consecutive nights, with Act 5 being completed in a state of utter exhaustion and a mess of emotions. Just like Siffrin.

Id looked up how many acts there were to the game, I knew the end was coming, and as that slow walk to the Head Housemaiden ticked by, I had a thought nagging in my head.

"Who will I be once this game is done? How will I fill the whole that is left here? When I can no longer talk with Odile, laugh with Isa, depend on Mira, and keep promises to Bonnie? When all these characters, this family, are characters in a play and I can't ever see more of them?"

And then.

And then Siffrin made that worry clear. That wish, that absolute ache, the worry and guilt it all came rushing out and everything was new, everything was kind, everything worked out and had a forward path.

Not a script, but a path.

And I...

I had a role to play in the morning, but I was ravenous. I had to find more. I needed them back. I ran here to look at fanart, found a fanfic through one, and ended up giving myself only two hours of sleep on a work night.

I still played my role, but every spare moment I spent theorizing, if not creating. Crafting, if you will. Sketches, needle felting, songs on eternal loops to properly envision an animatic, and writing. So much writing.

So much... Probably bad, inconsistent writing as I just pleaded with the universe to give me more people to talk with about this hole in my soul because nothing would fill it. Why does nothing fill it?

Did I take too long to play it? Did the fan base all move on? There's one I can talk with, one who reached out. Heh, does that make them Loop? But then, shouldn't I take that to mean I need to reach out to other people, to my friends to help me through these emotions?

Spoilers.

If I want to allow them the courtesy of a fully authentic experience, I can't spoil what happens. I can't talk to them. Like Siffrin, I can't talk to them, can't ask for reassurance or touch or-

And I'm so tired. I spent a day crafting and posting every little thing I could. Here. AO3. Someone. Please.

Like reaching for stars I know not the names of, people who might understand. If only I could speak the right language, craft the right piece of art or writing and breathe my wish into it, then surely, surely I might not feel this lonely anymore. Right?

And if I'm still lonely, then I just didn't do it right. I didn't write it well. I didn't take the time to clean up my drawings. The ritual is important.

But if this game taught me anything... It's to breathe.

I may feel like going back to normal life is the agony of a lonely timeloop, but it isn't. They may not share my experience with this rollercoaster of a game, but my friends are my friends. And I love them.

And for all that life is crappy right now, I love living it. I love that I might live to see a better one. And failing that, I'll at least keep those close to me knowing that they are loved and appreciated.

And trusted.

If this fatigue hurts me, if these emotions sour, I will be brave. I will ask for help, just as I wished Siffrin would every single loop.

So uh.

Yeah.

Silly joke!! Me = Siffrin! More likely than I think!

[sillyandquiteawkward]

I love your 'Debt Collector' Mouthwashing Animatic so so much... You helped me find a total banger of a song that's gonna stay in my playlist forever!!! I'm not even gonna get INTO how the lyrics you assigned the three perfectly match their characters either, cuz my god, we'd be here all day if I did that...

I really like how you characterized everyone in your animatic too. Anya emotionally and physically at one of her lowest points, holding her hands to her mouth to muffle her crying is so uwhwuah :( Curly holding up two fingers, trying to ease Anya with his body language, letting her know he'll be riiiiight baaack is SUCH a Curly thing to do too! And Jimmy smiling while his eyes drift to the ceiling, making peace with dying if it means he's "the hero who fixed it" also lives rent free in my brain lol

ALSO ANYA'S FACE LOOKING SO JAUNT AND SAD WHEN SHE BANDAGES CURLY AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! THAT'S HER FACE RIGHT THERE, those down-turned eyes and high cheek bones are Anya!!!

jhariah makes such good music!! found them thru risk risk risk and its just banger after banger. if u have ocs or love to rotate characters in ur brain jhariah is the musician for you they got something for everything.

its always really fun to make lyrics connect with different characters. and you said u dont need to go into it but i will talk a lil about it. hehe. of course, anyas was really easy to choose, her speaking towards curly in his position, and polle speaking to jimmy of course. but trying to figure out the split between what jimmy and curlys lines. they share a very close mentality, curlys sense of responsibility vs jimmys desire to blame others. my original pass of text colors was way different and i had to tone down the sheer amount of color switching that was going on LOL. less is more!

i think anya holding her hands up towards her face is a really great touch put into her character acting. really good nervous tick to touch her neck/chin/cover her mouth. im glad it was something included in game. its fun to draw and can be really loaded.

curly and his two finger comfort thing was something i always imagined he did. the feeling of anya is in a really bad spot, but jimmy is his priority bc he knows damage control is important in the moment, but not wanting to leave anya with nothing but he has to go Right Now hell be Right Back Dont Move. his heads running a mile a minute.

dont have much to say about jimmys bit there, just wanted to capture his like. pathetic desperation as he figured out his solution. raaah

anyaaaaaa 💔 i really liked the perspective for this frame. always such fun to play with pov and bring it down and up with the sense of power. curly standing over anya, anya and jimmy standing over curly. good stuff.

[anniflamma]

AnniFlamma, we all love your fanart and animatics of Epic: The Musical, please don't let a few shitty people demotivate when 100x those people love and adore the stuff you make, along with all other animators!

Stay safe and take care, we will always be here and I can't seem to repeat this enough but we love your art

Thank you and everyone for reaching out to me. I will be honest with you all that what happened did upset me a lot, but I am very lucky to have people to go to for support. I will even blame some of them for making me cry, my friends, I mean, because if I am upset and if someone asks me if I am okay, I just break down. 😅 But I used our little server as a ground to vent, and right now I feel much better now.

But I will still be honest that I meant what I said that my interest in making Epic fan content has reduced a lot. I still love Epic, and I still really want to do the whole Ithaca saga, but I have also realized that posting content about it has caused me to feel anxious.

An example is when I finished The Challenge animatic, I felt an extreme wave of anxiety when I was going to press the upload button. And the worst thing? My anxiety confirmed the fears. I have gotten tiktok comments saying that I am a freak for drawing Penelope nude despite it being in a non-sexual way. Apparently, I have to be constantly reminded that female bodies are icky and the world hates women. Aaaaaaand then to get hit by that TikTok video of thousands of people shitting on me, Duvetbox, Gigi, Mircy, Neal, and so many more…

If you have noticed, I have posted less, all types of content for Epic. I don’t do my headcanons anymore, I never wrote that full review of Epic, I feel less keen on drawing fanart, let alone joking about shipping here online. I remember when I made a joke about shipping Aphrodite and Athea because they were the only female characters interacting with each other (ignoring Hera), and then I took it as a critique that Epic failed the Bechdel test. After that, I got plenty of anonymous messages about how I am an evil person for shipping those two goddesses… Just say that you don’t know what the Bechdel test is and block me... 😑

I also hate how my first negative experience with the Epic fandom was pure homophobia toward my Bible animatics. Like, they used negative language toward gay people to tell me to make Epic content instead. There is this weird obsession where people expect me and other artists to only do one thing, which is Epic, and if we dare to do something else, we get punished or infantilized, like we didn’t have any say when Casper commissioned us for Stories of Styx. Don’t get me started on how fucking awful people were to Casper and Teagan….

I hate how people easily tell others things, only for them to unquestionably believe everything said about me. Like the amount of "Anni made Ody/Circe porn, uwaaaa!!" And then, the moment someone questions them and forces them to realize I never made such a thing, they double down and say that I shouldn't have made Circe nude in the original animatic "cuz female bodies are icky" or the classic "Well, I haven’t seen the porn video, but someone told me it existed, so I’m going to believe it exsits." Like, you could tell these people that the sky is green, and they would believe you.

Then there’s that whole "Anni supports rape" or "Anni felt bad for the suitors and wanted Penelope to get raped" insanity. Those quotes stems from ppl was crashing out when I made a post criticizing Epic’s way of addressing the topic of rape. In that post, I was suggesting that I would like the story better if Odysseus were actually morally ambiguous when killing the suitors. How could anyone even think Ody was in the wrong for killing the suitors because he wanted to protect Penelope? How can he be a monster after that? I don’t know, I support a husband protecting his wife from gang rapists, but I guess that was the worst thing for me to ever say, huh? Like, how dare I criticize their almighty Jorge…

It’s insane that I have an easier time handling hateful Christians compared to TikTok Epic fans. 😅

Oh well... I’ve had so many bad experiences with the TikTok Epic fandom over the past two years. And eventually, you just want to log off.

I’m thinking of stopping posting Epic content at all on TikTok as a first step. If TikTok Epic fans hate my fanart that much, then I’ll do them the favor of never seeing it from my account. I will, however, continue posting my Bible animatics there. And if I continue working on my Hold Them Down animatic and if I ever finish it… I will only be active here on Tumblr and on YouTube.

And so, at this moment, I will take a pause from Epic. It probably won’t be that long because, despite everything, I love that musical. But I also have to remind myself that, despite there being so many negative remarks toward not only me but the other artists, there is a lot of love from you actual fans. I have about 138K subscribers on YouTube. That’s 138K individuals who love my work so much that they want to see more of it. THAT IS TOTALY INSANE! And I will never forget that! And I am so thankful for all of you and your support. Thank you and I love you guys! 💕

I’m also planning on making a better-formulated post about this another day. All of this is just me ranting and want to take a short break, focusing on something else.... Maybe... Venice the musical? 😅

[angezny]

I love this fanfic and I couldn't help but make an animatic, this won't be the only one I make. (according to my plans) It occurs to me to make some scenes from the fic if I have time.

I hope with many i'm really looking forward to the next chapter. This is just the sketch, I will clean it up and upload the final result.

My main language is not English so I use a translator, sorry for the errors.

I hope you like it and understand it.

[prussianbluepuppy]

(May or may not make an animatic for these two taking over my thoughts)

Do you think Kremy taught Gideon how to dance? At least dancing with structure?

During the reception dance in episode 15 Mace holds frame and I can’t think of any reason or time he would’ve had to learn ballroom dancing while imprisoned on the train, and probably would’ve been too young before that to have reason. But afterward—

Afterward, when traveling with a well-dressed crocodilian who plays the game of people in fancy casinos, seems like when he’d have time and reason.

Most beginning ballroom dancers stare down at their feet a lot, and count steps audibly to keep on time. Neither do either during the reception, which hints at both of them having enough dancing experience to move confidently, for Gideon to be a confident enough lead to not stutter in his movement, and for Kremy to be comfortable enough as a follow (even if perhaps uncomfortable with the atmosphere) to move where he’s directed without words—while this could speak to their individual skills as dancers, it could also be that they’re just that in tune with each other. Long-time dance partners are typically extremely aware little bits of body language with each other that others aren’t.

Before losing his rhythm, Gideon expresses a great love for dancing, and the Darkling mocks this by having a dancing puppet take it from him.

It might’ve been the first fun he’d gotten to have as a free man.

I’m only on ep 30 so maybe this will or wont age well, but—

Imagine back when they first started traveling together, Gideon tells Kremy at a lively bar after having turned down several offers that he doesn’t know how to dance. He teaches something simple, hustle maybe, and gets to watch him go have fun. The next time they’re relatively alone, at least with way fewer people, Kremy offers to teach him how to dance at length. It’s a little awkward at first, but in the good way that leads to lots of giggling and dramatic dips.

Later, jobs cons at music-filled taverns and their ilk see these two intermittently enjoying some swing together.

These two absolutely feel like people who would play up dancing together to have one propose on the floor or at their table to get a free dessert.

After losing his rhythm, Kremy starts counting for Gideon. Low, not loud enough for anyone else to hear. Loud enough for Gideon to hear and trust when Kremy tells him to step. Maybe the alligatorfolk is also back-leading a bit, but that’s their dance and no one else’s.

Maybe Kremy leads sometimes, and Gideon doesn’t have to worry because Kremy moves first and he simply responds.

Maybe, down the line, a free spin leads to Kremy turning back to his partner, and finds Gideon on one knee, asking if he’ll maybe dance with him the rest of their lives, and marry him unironically.

Maybe their second reception dance is a giggling arrhythmic mess.

[biblicallyaccuratecrow]

rambling about songs my brain associates with isat (pt. 1)

[woe, spoilers be upon ye!]

i have a 250+ song isat playlist. I am unhealthily obsessed with finding new songs to put in it. Here's a few that make me go absolutely batshit insane.

I've already rambled about this one on my art account a while back, but this song is so insanely loop-coded....

I'm standing on a stage Of fear and self-doubt It's a hollow play, But they'll clap anyway

You could give me any song that has some kind of reference to plays or theatre and I could probably find a way to make it about isat. but specifically this makes me think about twohats and how loop views their place in the world as a performance, a pawn, not even a character but a plot device... yeah

I'm living in an age That calls darkness light Though my language is dead Still the shapes fill my head I'm living in an age Whose name I don't know Though the fear keeps me moving, Still my heart beats so slow

I probably don't have to break this one down for you, but yeah, Island North of Vaugarde, the forgotten language... "still the shapes fill my head" has always in my mind referenced the stars and constellations, and how they're familiar but foreign...

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thanks to @/ricecaqes and their trust ceremony animatic, this song lives in my head rent free. Even just as a whole this song is SO isat for me. literally from the first fucking lines:

Will I know when I’ve gone too far? Or frozen myself in time? An impossible brain with impossible wants Lost and astray, with impossible thoughts

like. it really can't get much more nail on the head than that?

then you got this:

So cold, I’m freezing Every piece of praise and sign that I’m believed in Solid in a crystal ball It bends the waves of the light to mend the rest of my life

and literally the first time I heard this song i paused it and said, out loud, "OH FUCK." Because. it's act 5 siffrin. Like, the slow descent into despair followed by the determination that the only way to perserve the life and the family they love is to keep them with him, to do the exact same thing the king did...

Do you also see your future starting with the farthest part? Live your life to close the space between the end and start And when it’s hard, do you hang onto any chance That you might be in control? That you’re the one who owns

For one, once you reach the end of act 2, you're constantly aware of the head housemaiden being as far as you can go, and then you're planning around it the entire time.

And then, you have. siffrin grasping for any kind of control they can have over the situation, desperately. and failing repeatedly because they simultaneously think that they are undeserving of getting what they ultimately want... yeah...

i won't go into the rest of the lyrics because honestly it's pretty well covered by the animatic but. yeah trust ceremony my sweet beloved.

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rest in peace siffrin no middle no last name, you would have loved the mountain goats.

yeah uh. this one is also pretty high up on songs that make me go "damn that's siffrin alright".

I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam And no one in her right mind would make my home her home My heart's an autoclave

i think for me it's the idea of siffrin feeling like they're nothing, and even if they are something or someone, they are bad, worse than bad, worthless. also referencing homesickness.... yeah...

When I try to open up to you I get completely lost Houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn And there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn

I mean, this one is also pretty self-evident. siffrin losing hope while being stuck in the house... wanting to connect with the party but being completely uncapable of doing so out of the sheer terror of being left behind... act 5, with the house literally warping...

I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls And the dream went on forever, one single static frame Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name

siffrin feels responsible for the loops, every aspect of them. their deaths, their party-member's deaths, their failures, everything. and in the end, all they really wanted was for someone to truly see them? to have a family, to not be left behind and forgotten by the world.... the importance of names and siffrin's name in particular in the story also makes this hit home for me.

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for brevity's sake i'll just start with these three- if people are interested in hearing me justify my insane music choices i'll probably do more.... for now, see ya!