#nealillustrator

[bigidiotenergy]

SHOW HER I'M THE JUDGEMENT CALL THE ONE WHO MAKES HER KINGDOM FALL. (ft @neal-illustrator's zeus)

[anotherbummer]

@nealillustrator’s god games animatic ending changed my life everybody

[musicallygt]

I love watching Epic theMusical animatics and finding the ones where the gods are portrayed as giant. Feeds my brain

[sloanslone]

Posting these two now because I'm busy with school.... 😭

Poseidon and Zeus rkgk

Designs belong to @nealillustrator 🩵🤍

[ratsinatrenchcoat29]

Posting this edit I made here because TikTok keeps taking the audio down and I had to use and audio that made it offbeat on tiktok😭😭

ANYWAYS

Animatics are by (gigi, wolfythewitch, Mirscy and NealIllustrator)

My tiktok is: @_OdysseusofIthaca_

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Lydia the Bard's Princess Villain Songs – Animatics, pt. 1

[links + artists under the cut]

[ Pt2 ]

Lydia the Bard's Princess Villain Song Playlist || Spotify

Cinderella's Villain Song - So This is Love?

video || artist: sarahsworks

Moana's Villain Song - How Far I'll Go

video || artist: MaepleTea

Belle's Villain Song - Tale as Old as Time

video || artist: luck_buggy

Mèrida's Villain Song - Touch the Sky

video || artist: LeAnn Schmitt (as NealIllustrator)

Meg's Villain Song - I Won't Say I'm In Love

video || artist: MaepleTea

Anastasia's Villain Song - Journey to the Past

video || artist: Bugsmitten_

Anna's Villain Song - For the First Time in Forever

video || artist: MaepleTea

Rapunzel's Villain Song - Mother Knows Best / I See the Light

video || artist: sacredhyacinth

Mirabel's Villain Song - We Don't Talk About Bruno

video || artist: Bugsmitten_

[capsizedskeleton]

epic the musical live review over a few days ft. getting high during storm saga

TROY SAGA thunder bringer was one of the first songs i heard so going to the horse and the infant and hearing don't make me do this please don't make me do this!!! i didn't know that was a callback reminds me of pathologic is great and here's why, where hbomberguy points out child murder is such a taboo and it's that game's opener (depending on the character) here it's the musical's opener fffuck okay ruthlessness was also one of the first songs i heard so "600 men under my command" after i know it will become at least 43 then 0 is hghhhhh. esp when they're similar melodies, the first time the number is mentioned in full speed ahead

CYCLOPS SAGA so i watched a few animatics of these as well before troy saga just bc mmm animatics and oh recontextualized w the last two songs of the saga thats. hm. IIIIII AM YOUR DARKEST MOMENT all the uses of die with the last sound stretched out emphasizing the eye sound oough remember them. remember us. remember me OOHHH ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT THAT. ARE YOU SURE

STORM got up to the first few animatics i ended up watching. by now i might be able to categorize the animators? gigi as Action, Cinema, wolfy as a few lines seeming delicate and shape so solidly, nealillustrator as the GOAT (ok im biased they've only got thunder bringer but it's really good and i know them from bnha animatics ok), ximena as line. color. solid expression fav things from various ruthlessness animatics: poseidon being a shadow horse with front-facing eyes, a spiky merman but tentacles on bottom, literally water that could form into different things, only his hair being water, a horse, a guy, the stageplay version, everyone having different amounts of frames and different styles, like every!! time i watch an animatic i spot a new good take, beauty in everryy style, all the goregous water animation, capturing odysseus, submerging him, putting him in a whirlpool. that man is now a truly soggy cat am i insane or is there wind blowing in the last verse of that. after what have you done. maybe ive just had shit earbuds before. brutal

i got caught up in listening to done for even though that was skipping ahead. i am going to eat gigi's animatic whole. the corresponding basslines for each character how ody's replaces circe's?? now watching there are other ways. the two together as a beautiful story in 6 minutes is amazing

CIRCE normal now i like done for and there are other ways a lot more than puppeteer. this seems to be a pattern in which songs i like in each saga eury's bit leading up to "a woman" reallyyyyy sounds like hamilton wouldn't you like beat drop??? done for and there are other ways are fucking brilliant they're a whole story like i said before. ill say it again. absolutely entrancing. love the take that circe's about to kill ody before he rejects her and starts going on about his wife. also the transition after "that prophet is dead" bungggg and then the backing track hghh i am going to eat the melodic motifs i am going to swallow the chords whole AAAAGHHH

underworld again. weaker start, but oooh full speed ahead a bit of a reprise moment there and ody's mom i did not expect that. left for too long wandered too far gods REPRISE OF I SEE A SONG OF PAST ROMANCE HELLOOOO halfway into no longer you and OOOOOHHHH FUCK this shit HITS despite everything it's NOT you

NO MONSTER THE SLIP INTO CORRUPTION gigi i would die for you and this sequence. you know the one

THUNDER suffering is so good (normal sentence) i love the back and forth the you know im too shy the tone change at the lair of scylla listened to different beast on the train (first time listening to a song w/o animatic at first) and oooh the switch up!!!! we're in it now! DIFFERENT BEAST NOW HE'S A DIFFERENT BEAAST NOWWWWWW scylla.... oho the harmony. mutiny ok the opening i fw but why tf is eurylochus upset about the six men sacrifice when he was the one who suggested with circe that they just leave the men behind. also luck runs out callback i love my reprises why is helios lowk brushed over like i wouldve expected odysseus or eurylochus to talk about heyyy dont anger the gods like we did before thunder bringer slay. we already know. the bumping beat from the horse and the infant we knowwww. it's a little funny mutiny is RIGHT before thunder bringer like. hey crew you just stabbed him you should be a little less surprised he chooses to sacrifice yall. not even chosen. not even zeus was surprised by odysseus' immediate reaction

MISC. THOUGHTS

talked to a few friends while making this, wrote the sentence "i can feel the old greek mythology elementary/middle school neurons firing up again" because i CAN feel them god and it's also like watching musical animatics after school except im not 13 and deeply lonely this time. decided to write a fic of what happens between each saga and in a bit of wondering for that decided to look up the actual story of the odyssey (shmoop is not perfect but it is decent) and wow that's a lot of changes made from the original that contribute to a well-characterized musical! god it's such a good time. is this what dracula daily people felt like, reliving an old (relative to present) story and relishing in the Themes?

FAV SONG(S) FROM EACH SAGA

the horse and the infant

survive, remember them

ruthlessness

done for

no longer you (the OPPOSITE of that undertale quote)

different beast, thunder bringer

TLDR

excited for wisdom saga !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[teatimetea]

you watch @nealillustrator animation of god games (on youtube), watch it at least twice the attention to detail is amazing and i've been watching it so many times because its so beautiful. some frames are hard to catch but their still so good

[runic-dreamer]

Reading about ancient greek ships

So, you know the feeling of watching a competetive baking show à la the great british bakeoff, and beginning to have opinions?

Like, Linda really? You think chocolate and oranges is an unique flavour? And what is this? The cake is dry, no clear cross section in the baked whatever.

Yeah that feeling. When you read/consume enough things you get opinions.

On a really fun note I've been reading about the Olympias reconstructive project in the early 90s, for a university class. It's about experimental archeology,.. anyway:

This paper "Trireme Olympias The Final Report" edited by Boris Rankov (free on the internet to find if interested), is literally a collection of all the writings about this reconstruction of a 5th century (BC) trireme (athenian warship). Of the 257 pages, I've read about 60 now. And I am begining to get that feeling. That I know enough about a topic to have opinions feeling.

I was reading one of the papers, where one author (wood technologist) cites a classics professor about how caulking ships was impossible for 2 reasons. One of the reasons the wood technologist agreed with, about the other thing ( The wooden planks would be to thin to caulk), this man had opinions.

And I was right there with him. I was like: yeah you tell him, that caulking works even with really thin planks! And that there are other methods of caulking, like that other paper talked about.

Ancient ships were fascinating. And experimental archeology is as well. Especially the way that most things that the reconstruction does, just opens up more questions for the remains we have of the time. Like what direction in realtion to the bow-stern line was the grain of the tendons holding the planks together.

Also fun fact: you needed to dry out your boats, sorry I mean triremes (is that the plural of trireme? I don't know) regularly. Or else the water will soak into the wood causing all manner of nasty things to happen, including the bow and stern drooping down (which is called hogging. What a funky little term). The other reason is shipworm. So far it has not been described further than that name. All that water damage could lead to problems with acceleration and agility.

This is all so fascinating. I might make a follow up post once I've finished reading.

It is also not helping my epic obsession, like what ships did they have? (I kinda want to now design a proper ship for ody and do animatics for all the fun ship songs in the ocean saga)

How much do you want to bet that between mutiny and thunderbringer they actually properly beached their ship? Which would then take them about 10 minutes just to get it back into the water, after cow murder happened.

And Ody's "we're to late" or sth (I don't know lyrics of the top of my head) is because he knows they won't get away from the island fast enough? That would also be a fun explaination for NealIllustrator's thunderbringer animatic, where they are still on the island.

Ships are fascinating.

[neal-illustrator]

Here is my super late “meet the artist” thing!

Enjoy and consider commissioning 

[potofpositivity]

neal-illustrator needs to be mentioned right up front for the wonderful, beautiful art done for the fandom. Requests taken, and just gorgeous things. A lot of my favourite YGO fanart is taken straight from this blog.

> melvin-wants-hugs

[sloanslone]

🤭 @nealillustrator on yt🩵

[florence-midknight]

Lists of any senpais here on tumblr?

(All of them

It’s so difficult to list. I believe I’ve done this before but it’s probably changed since then so I’ll list the top five unlessIgooverboardandrambleonsoIapologiseinadvance:)

destiny-be-damned

My forever lady and the Atem to my Bakura. This perfect person here converted me from a hardcore thiefshipper to a darkshipper in a matter of months. She is without a doubt the best Atem out there in the community in my opinion. She is straight forward and honest and is kind to those she likes. If you don’t follow her do it now. You will not be disappointed. From angst to comedy to romance, it has it all. And anyone that fucks with her will answer to me. Seriously, no one give her shit.

marikofthedesert

Julia, the most amazing fantastic and wonderful woman out there. Sweet, kind, talented, beautiful. And she is a fucking fantastic Marik. The most IC Marik I know, and her abridged is off the charts amazing. I miss getting to RP with her on Skype, but I love her and am excited that she puts up with me and still wants to be my friend. Also another person that if you don’t follow, go do it now. No joke. Go. Now.

banditkingakefia

I’ve only just gotten to start RPing with them, but I have followed them for a while and always loved the way the write and the character they’ve built up. I love the Underground and all the relationships and I just really really am excited to finally be able to RP with them!

cards-have-no-heart

While I haven’t had the pleasure of getting to RP with you via Tumblr, I enjoy talking to you on Skype and I envy your writing ability. They way you portray Seto is fantastic and I don’t even think that Kazuki Takahashi could have done a better job himself. Plus you’re beautiful, sweet, kind, you are there for me when I need to talk and you are always willing to RP when I don’t deserve it, love. You are amazing.

officer-ryou-bakura

Perhaps one day I’ll have the pleasure of being able to RP with them. I would certainly love to. They are in my opinion the best AU Ryou that I follow. I miss having Ryou and Bakura interact but you can’t help people’s availability. Still, someone I will never unfollow and hope will remain on my blog for ages.

neal-illustrator

Look, this woman has talent, alright? More talent than I’ve got in my left pinky. And she’s younger than me which just makes me feel like I need to step up my game. But she is also so super sweet. Doing this amazing works of art for no charge or anything is so just…Gah! Words cannot express just how much I love Neal and her blog and her art.

shadowgodling / starbrightbakura

Eyo, my fellow Bakura-muns, man. You are fucking fantastic, alright? And Bakura loves Godling so much. I know I’m always late with replies to you and I apologise so so much! But it’s wonderful to know that you always reply back, and keep wanting to reply. But back on topic, well written, well played, OC, and just all around good at each point that our muses have met.

(Alright so I cheated a lot but people deserve some praise. Still, everyone here is a person I would follow forever and want to remain friends with, or make friends with. And that’s that! Thanks for asking, grey face!

Also thepharaohinleather and exquisite-torture belong here, but I was already making such a long list that I couldn’t fit them in. Still, mama loves her beautiful daughters!)

[pabakura]

[A gift for neal-illustrator for being so awesome. Thanks for taking all of our requests, friend. You are an amazing person.]

[crashlikelightning]

✔

SCREECHES

[jekyllryou-hydebakura]

So the lovely neal-illustrator draws me so much amazing art for my blog and I just had to do something in return. I figured it's time she gets a drawing back!

Here you are Neal, you as a Victorian lady <3 I hope you like it!