Exactly! Like Reeve Carney said sometimes our emotional walls manifest in physical walls. It's so inherent for people to divide and separate themselves from what they see as "the other" when they themselves don't realize how they've othered themselves and built walls around their hearts.
NO BECAUSE WHEN THE POVERTY MONSTER CAME UP AND THE WALL PAINTING AND THEN EURYDICE LOOKING UP AT HADES AND THEN THE HOLE IN THE GROUND THAT HADESTOWN AND THEN-
THE FACELESSNESS/BARE FEATURES OF THE WORKERS CONTRASTED THE CLOSE UP OF HADES' MOUTH REALLY MADE IT FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A GREAT POWER DIVIDE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND AUGHHHHHH IT'S SO GOOD!!!! THE BACKGROUNDS ARE JUST *MWAH*
@@sealbatross AAAAAAAAAA I’m pretty sure I’ve been following you since your Wait For Me II/How Long animatics and the growth from then till now is ASTOUNDING!!!! :DDDDD
The amount of times I've watched this animatic, I just realized that Eurydice says the final "Free" along with the workers and the absolute irony of it known to Persephone and us the viewers. It's beautiful.
My personal theory/head cannon is that Hades was originally fair to the souls of Hadestown when his marriage with Persephone began, but then she started not only being lenient on souls but souls who didn’t always deserve it(like Sisyphus in the Greek myth). And also maybe Hades became paranoid that someone from the outside world would get into Hadestown to have their way with Persephone or steal her away(like Adonis or Pirithous). And so Hades turned Styx from a river of water to a river of stone, and made it impossible for anyone in Hadestown to achieve any social mobility where before people could rise through the ranks based on merit(like how Asphodel, Elysium, and Tartarus work). Now that Hades has become cold and hard and paranoid, now all of Hadestown is Hell, it makes no difference anymore
This is truly beautiful. The poverty skeleton monsters are just so beautiful and haunting. The colors and lights just *chefs kiss* your vision matches the story and music to such an incredible degree. It makes me so happy
The painterly pitch black shadows contrasting against the detailed roiling backgrounds, the way the part between hades and Eurydice feels so intimate in between the scale of everything else... DUDE
I swear you have to be among the most talented storyboarders I've seen. Every bit of your work is so expressive, distinct, dynamic and memorable. The world needs to start a kickstarter campaign for an animated Hadestown movie and have you do literally all direction in the art department.
the backgrounds and set design and the wide paintings AGH IT'S ALL SO GOOD!!! the Vibes are so strong and they fit the song so well! and the moment at the end when Eurydice joins in and it zooms all the way out,,, Perfect
I also have forgotten how much I love this song Wow though, the colors, and expressions of Hades’ mouth and hands, and the change in style in the chorus, you can really feel the power of Hades and all the workers, and how much Eurydice can feel it too when she gets there.
Oh my god, the animatic its here and its just ✨amazing✨, i absolutely love the part where eurydice arrives and sees hades and persephone standing there, and then she sees at the workers, and then the enamey its poverty, and then thats why we build the wall we build the wall to keep us freeee its all just **chef kiss** ✨✨
Absolutley criminal how no one in the comments mentions the final frame. I get so much goosebumps everytime that final line comes and it just zooms out to show them in a hole and how it lingers just a little bit on that imagery as the song ends with that. Perfect way to convey the irony of them claiming the wall keeps them free. SUCH A FUCKING GOOD ANIMATIC
I love how evocative Hadestown the place is in this. All of the shots of the empty buildings and tiny people in the instrumental at the beginning and then the cavernous high ceiling and the smog and the colour use with red and grey and white and I am losing my damn mind over here-
I love❤️❤️ how you drew this animatic and how you fit so much symbolism . When the workers sing you have these shots of them like your walking with them(on a personal level) but with Hades, for most of the song, you can't see his eyes like your beneath him. OR!!! How during the large shots the town is covered in blinding lights (splendor) yet the workers have almost no colors(barren) . I've absolutely fallen in love♥️♥️ with your hadestown animatics!!! P. S. If you don't mind could you tell me who was saying 'free' near the end, 3:48 , I think it's persephone but I'm not sure.
HoOoOly sHOOT! This is incredible! I love the contrast between the dreadful workers chorus to the hopeful brief optimism of Eurydice. It's chilling, like she doesn't know what she's getting into yet. Great work! 👏👌
This is one of my favorites songs, but I nevet get to imagine how it would seem like in an animatic THIS IS SO BEAUTUFUL OHMAIGAD IM SPEECHLESS, I LOVE IT SO MUCH
The colors and shading that you used really captured what the piano and the guitar of this song sound like. I really don't know how to describe it, but it just fits!
the audacity of this song to be so catchy that i be singing it and making my friends go "HUH" LMFAOOO but really, i love this, the way you paint and the colors you used here as well as the scene with hades hand curling into a fist, that was probably my fav part, i love how you animated it
every animatic you make gets better and better!!! the environments and backgrounds in this one are stellar! Taking the time in the opening entrance for all the establishing shots of hadestown really builds this tired, oppressive atmosphere. I love the cutaways to the monsters outside the wall and to eurydice's journey to hadestown. the quick shot in the beginning with eurydice on the train was especially impressive, i love the way you made the animation jitter to convey that the train was shaking and in motion!
Aaah this is an amazing thing to watch first thing in the morning sjdhfgs First of all the environnements ?? They look like paintings ? The light, the colours are gorgeous, and the contrast with the representation of poverty is amazing. My favourite part is when we see poverty clawing at the wall before it takes up the whole screen in warmer colours, the angle you painted it in is very interesting. The whole section where we only see Hades' mouth moving and the workers working is a good show of the power dynamic? Like an all present voice speaking over them. And i love Eurydicie's arrival (Persephone looks so done with this shit hahaha, and Eurydicie looks embarrassed to have to admit she joined her in the underworld) I'd never pictured Hades singing this softer part to Eurydicie but i love it, and then when the song kicks back in, it's an amazing show of power and ooooohhhh when Eurydicie mouths the word "free" and she's bathed in red light WELP WE LOST HER. Im glad the instrumental part at the very start was used to assert the environment and context of all of this, and it's interesting that at the end we zoom out to see the wall, but also that theyre really just in a hole in the ground... The bright yellow light, the visible brush strokes, the red and warm colours (that are probably reassuring to some but i find them threatening), it's all eye candy. That's how I'd describe it, eye candy
This is sooo gooood please keep it up there aren’t enough animatics of hadestown which is weird because it’s such an amazing show that really paints a picture and has an amazing story can’t wait to see what else you’ll do would love to see more Orpheus and Eurydice songs
every thing about this is amazing i love the lil shadow guys outside the wall, like whats going on there? are they the dead, those who diddn't choose to come to Hades town? and for so much of this video you dont even see hades eyes almost until the end where we see a golden glint in them and then soon we see that golden glint in eurydice's eyes as she joins the chant, also theres no bedrock keeping things from falling into the void?
Thanks for watching! Haha I don't want to spoil speculation, but in truth I intended them as speculation and tall tales. As for the void I'm not sure what you're referring to?
This is, possibly, the most wonderful animatic I've ever watched. The cinematography is *glorious.* You've got a fantastic sense of timing, scale, and dramatic position. Every moment hits as hard as the one before, and some of them hit even harder than that. Amazing job, seriously, just *amazing.*
There is so much I love about this - the perspectives, the lighting, the world building, the transitions, the expressions, the flow, the vision - just top notch and really adds a whole new level of depth to this song~
Beautiful work! I really love the zoom-out at the end, showing all Hadestown in its hole in the ground (an old manhole, one could say...). It's a beautiful way of summing it all up, kind of, and putting perspective to the setting. Free to spend eternity... where?
I was in awe the entire animatic but that moment in 2:21 with the gigantic clock is just so chilling?! It’s looming over everyone like an inescapable reminder of power - absolutely haunting. It’s like their version of the sun. And I’m not even done with watching!
I don’t know if this is intentional but at first it seems like the monsters are in the shape of people, like, they’re _people_ and anyone can still see a person even if they’re the enemy, but then in the next second they _mutate_ and they turn into actual, bloodthirsty monsters. It’s like the people singing the song thought of them as human before but in that moment they weren’t thinking of the enemy as another human like them, they just think of them as incomprehensible monsters that only want their pain and destruction! Hence they turn into animals, and they’re not human shaped anymore! I just thought that was really really cool!!
@@whiskeredwolf4861 thank you! The sun and the poverty yes! I’m so glad you caught those And like wow, exactly,, there’s a link to my thoughts/process on making this in the description in case that interests you! (There’s a tiny section on poverty haha) Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment
The transition of the workers to masters was really cool! I really liked it, and for the scene where he grabs nothing, I rewatched it like three times. Very nice animatic, thank you for sharing your work :)
holy shit holy shit holy shit this is so good!!!!! Literally everything about this animatic, perfection. Hades' hand movements were great, and how you drew his eyes! Most of all, hot damn 2:24 with the black shadows (dogs? humans?). Also I love the clock tower! And how you drew Eurydice, and Persephone. Everything is pure gold, 1000000/10
Wow. I discovered this channel today and I've been bingeing all the hadestown animatics, and they're ALL amazing. Like on every single one I watch, I'm amazed. The symbolism and lighting and character design are just SO GOOD.
I've been waiting for an animatic of this song since I discovered the musical like two years ago?? Thank you so much for this, is even better of what I could have ever imagined and the transitions are so fluid!! And the colorsss and how tired Persephone looks I love everything
I haven't watched it all im literally just 20 seconds in BUT I know, I *know* it's going to be amazing and I'm already screeching. God i'm so obsessed with hadestown thank you for your glorious animatics GOD ITS 4 MINUTES LONG! Glorious *shakes you* edit: *flings self to the floor* aaaAAA THAT ENDING!! Her mouthing along to the word 'free' THE IMAGES! The claws clawing at at the wall from the other side. The images of how those outside are some evil creatures that should be feared or kept away AAAAA I LOVE THIS The fact the town itself if looked at from a certain angle looks like the wall itself *flips* your backgrounds, THE COLORS! THE REEED the literal hole in the ground that is the underworld i love this so much, i cant stop gushing
Animation is one of my favorite art forms and I think it's still full of untapped potential. Hadestown is really special to me on a personal level, and a beautiful piece of art. Your animatics make me want to watch a whole hadestown movie animated and directed by you. I absolutely love how you use colors, perspective and composition to convey what you want to convey. Thank you for giving me the hadestown feels today.
YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF WITH THE BACKGEOUNDS THIS TIME! MAN! Your growth with each animatic is just phenomenal I love how abstract your frames sometimes get, so distinctive and cool! At this point you're gonna make the whoem musical, you madlad!
BUT WHEN EURYDICE SAYS "FREE" AND THEN HER EYE TURNS GREEN AND THEN WE SEE THE GREEN OF THE CITY AND ITS AS IF HADES HAS BRAINWASHED THE WORKERS AND FINALLY EURYDICE HERSELF AND HOW THE SOFTER VERSE IS SPOKEN TO HER BUT ECHOED IN THAT BRILLIANTLY FRIGHTENING WAY AND AHHH THE CHILLS-
I'm shaking!!! A friend showed me your animatics just a couple days ago and we were both so excited to see this. Those layouts and camera angles were all so telling- I'm definitely going to rewatch this one a lot. Thanks for your hard work
HOLY- HOLY- OH GOD OH MAN GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS SO LIT I CANT EVEN- I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THIS BUT THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING I STAN THIS AND YOU TO THE END OF MY LIFE
THIS IS PURE BEAUTIFUL AND WELL DONE, I LOVE IT, THE TRACES, THE COLORS, THE SEQUENCE AND THE MODULATION OF HADES WORDS !!! AAAAAA OMG THIS IS BRILLIANT !!! your hands are miraculous
I couldn't help myself....listen I have no excuse - 1:26 - Can't make a better metaphor for prison than fucking barbed wire I love 2:12 - 2:15 - The hand movement aaaaaaah! The fact he even feels the need to emphasize what he says to himself is pretty telling if ya ask me KEK (or maybe he's just dramatic~) 2:19 - THIS FUCKING CLOCK. Listen I love red shit, red glows and this clock *this clock though*. It's gorgeous, red, huge ominous, just hanging there over the town forever visible. "Shifts? What shifts? You're workin 'round the clock for eternity and that's that!" 2:23 - *sings more praises for the background because I love them all to death* (hah get it.. death? I'll see myself out) 2:26 - God I love how they were first recognizable humans but are now turning into monsters that growl and attack showing the workers' fading memory the longer they stay at Hadestown *I love* 2:36 - I said it before I shall say it again! The city looks like the wall here and I love it and also The street in my head is the *crack* in the wall and you can't change my mind! 2:43 - She is precious, I love her. Baby 2:49 - I feel so bad for Persephone but her face makes me laugh so much. She's so done, but also lowkey resigned in a way. UGH it breaks me. And then she *glances* at Eurydice and *Eurydice* looks away embarassed at being caugh staring XDD I love this. But also wow that cliff she's walking on looks scary as hell, watch your steps girl. WAIT this means the traintrack is built over a fkin CHASM!? Bruh, scary. 2:57 - Okay so I can't help my brain here telling me this frame looks like Hades' legs turned into like factory chimneys. You know those big long ones BFBGDFJ 3:15 - *gasp* Wait i just realized! Is the light in his eyes reflecing the workers' head flashlights?! 3:25 - I LOVE YOUR BACKGROUNDS *FLAILS* I love these stills so goddamn much 3:29 - This too, just everything just so gorgeous fuck! And it kinda lowkey looks like a throne in my mind's eye BHJDFBDF Hades and Persephone at the bottom of it. Hades has made a kingdome far too big and terrible for his own good even *he* can't sit on this throne BGHDFBGJD 3:31 - *lord* have mercy with your backgrounds. And the clock like some big red sun bearing down on everyone. Showing how *hot* it is down there. I love i love i love 3:43 - The wall tattoo glowing! So anime indeed but how can ya not love it~ 3:46 - I fucking love this big imposing man. 3:48 - *wheezes* I can't. I'm sorry I can't. Persephone looks like she's about to fall asleep BHJGFDBHJDF In her head all I can her thinking is "So fucking dramatic, goddamn I need a drink." 3:50 - And the glow is in her eyes as well now plus the color warming up! Sharing Hades's delusion that this town is perfection and exactly what she needs. Both of them looking through rose tinted glasses oh how I LOVE this fucking animatic 3:54 - Do I gotta say it? No. Will I say it again? Damn right your FUCKING BACKGORUNDS! Looks like a fire!
AHAHA Hades is just smoke on top of two smokestacks I LOVE THAT. He thinks he's a wall but he's just smoke and mirrors on his last legs... 3:15 YES. Can't believe you caught that. HAHA making his throne too large to sit on, what a fitting metaphor (wasn't intentional but by god I love that) "Both of them looking through rose-tinted glasses" AGH YES!! now that just brings up the image of both of em trying to peep through the same pair antagonistically I take all your excuses away, thank you so much for taking the time to share your perspective on these shots in such detail! Have a wonderful wonderful day :)
@@sealbatross " now that just brings up the image of both of em trying to peep through the same pair antagonistically" *wheezes* That's such a hilarious image I can't. Hades and Eurydice dynamic is just them constantly bickering and Eurydice giving him lip for every decision he makes XDDD
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Also, I love how Hades eyes are not shown until he’s talking to Eurydice. He is not personable. He is not there for you.
That's a good way to put it!
Like a lot of big capitalist magnates. *cough* disney
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I love how you made the workers imagine outsiders as these abstracted monsters
That really is how it goes sometimes
Exactly! Like Reeve Carney said sometimes our emotional walls manifest in physical walls. It's so inherent for people to divide and separate themselves from what they see as "the other" when they themselves don't realize how they've othered themselves and built walls around their hearts.
That's pretty cool how the angles go from the wall to Hades arm showing his brick tattoo
Ohno the anime is showing
i like that it glow in blue on his arm brick tattoo
NO BECAUSE WHEN THE POVERTY MONSTER CAME UP AND THE WALL PAINTING AND THEN EURYDICE LOOKING UP AT HADES AND THEN THE HOLE IN THE GROUND THAT HADESTOWN AND THEN-
AAHHAHAH WE BUILD THE WALLS TO KEEP US FREEEE
@@sealbatross TO KEEPS UP FREE FROM POVERTY
THE FACELESSNESS/BARE FEATURES OF THE WORKERS CONTRASTED THE CLOSE UP OF HADES' MOUTH REALLY MADE IT FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A GREAT POWER DIVIDE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND AUGHHHHHH IT'S SO GOOD!!!! THE BACKGROUNDS ARE JUST *MWAH*
YES HOLY CRAP SO GLAD THAT CAME THROUGH thanks for watching!!! I’m overjoyed at ur comment seriously
@@sealbatross AAAAAAAAAA I’m pretty sure I’ve been following you since your Wait For Me II/How Long animatics and the growth from then till now is ASTOUNDING!!!! :DDDDD
Your eyes will look like that someday :)
@@lulujay5866 ok i got the notification and i didn't know what you were commenting on so i felt extremely threatened for a good 5 seconds dhhdjdjd
@@kino9643 XD don't worry, similar things have happened with me 😅
Also, sorry for the accidental threat _XD
The amount of times I've watched this animatic, I just realized that Eurydice says the final "Free" along with the workers and the absolute irony of it known to Persephone and us the viewers. It's beautiful.
My personal theory/head cannon is that Hades was originally fair to the souls of Hadestown when his marriage with Persephone began, but then she started not only being lenient on souls but souls who didn’t always deserve it(like Sisyphus in the Greek myth). And also maybe Hades became paranoid that someone from the outside world would get into Hadestown to have their way with Persephone or steal her away(like Adonis or Pirithous). And so Hades turned Styx from a river of water to a river of stone, and made it impossible for anyone in Hadestown to achieve any social mobility where before people could rise through the ranks based on merit(like how Asphodel, Elysium, and Tartarus work). Now that Hades has become cold and hard and paranoid, now all of Hadestown is Hell, it makes no difference anymore
This is truly beautiful. The poverty skeleton monsters are just so beautiful and haunting. The colors and lights just *chefs kiss* your vision matches the story and music to such an incredible degree. It makes me so happy
I am so incredibly glad you feel that way. Thank you 🙏 sincerely
Why does "poverty skeleton" sound like a meme?
@@metaforth because our generations have made anything to do with skeletons irrationally funny
i love that visual in the end where it's revealed the wall they're building is literally just digging a hole deeper into the earth...
"Do you by any chance have a match?"- The Arsonist, Philosophy tube.
The painterly pitch black shadows contrasting against the detailed roiling backgrounds, the way the part between hades and Eurydice feels so intimate in between the scale of everything else... DUDE
DUDE
I swear you have to be among the most talented storyboarders I've seen. Every bit of your work is so expressive, distinct, dynamic and memorable. The world needs to start a kickstarter campaign for an animated Hadestown movie and have you do literally all direction in the art department.
awww im so flattered! i think im going to go melt into a puddle. Thank you
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
the backgrounds and set design and the wide paintings AGH IT'S ALL SO GOOD!!! the Vibes are so strong and they fit the song so well! and the moment at the end when Eurydice joins in and it zooms all the way out,,, Perfect
so glad that last part hit! man its been so long.... need to start making moving stuff again. Thank you, it means a ton!
I also have forgotten how much I love this song
Wow though, the colors, and expressions of Hades’ mouth and hands, and the change in style in the chorus, you can really feel the power of Hades and all the workers, and how much Eurydice can feel it too when she gets there.
Oh my god, the animatic its here and its just ✨amazing✨, i absolutely love the part where eurydice arrives and sees hades and persephone standing there, and then she sees at the workers, and then the enamey its poverty, and then thats why we build the wall we build the wall to keep us freeee its all just **chef kiss** ✨✨
*chefs kiss back* so very glad you like that part, tis mine favourite as well
Absolutley criminal how no one in the comments mentions the final frame. I get so much goosebumps everytime that final line comes and it just zooms out to show them in a hole and how it lingers just a little bit on that imagery as the song ends with that. Perfect way to convey the irony of them claiming the wall keeps them free. SUCH A FUCKING GOOD ANIMATIC
*falls on the floor crying because I legit just can't point out every single thing I love about this animatic even after the third viewing*
*is already on the floor crying beside you I legit can't believe you watched it 3 times*
Having this video coming up in my playlist while working overtime at Midnight hits differently.
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I love how u drew poverty as how the workers see it. Evil and terrifying and after them.
_A weapon to keep them bound._
This is so good! Love how at 3:48 Eurydice mouthed the word, "free." It was such a cool detail.
Bruh few seconds in but that lighting and the SHADOWS french chefs kiss barvo
This is utterly amazing! The lighting, the colors, the set, the expressions--everything is awesome!
Ahhh HI thank you!!
Powerful animatic for a devastating song. I weep for my own complicity as a builder of "the wall."
We have been blessed today
Hades reminds me a lot of President Snow and I am LOVING it
I love how evocative Hadestown the place is in this. All of the shots of the empty buildings and tiny people in the instrumental at the beginning and then the cavernous high ceiling and the smog and the colour use with red and grey and white and I am losing my damn mind over here-
Okay, but seriously, the colours in this.. *chief's kiss* beautiful
Thank you
I love❤️❤️ how you drew this animatic and how you fit so much symbolism . When the workers sing you have these shots of them like your walking with them(on a personal level) but with Hades, for most of the song, you can't see his eyes like your beneath him. OR!!! How during the large shots the town is covered in blinding lights (splendor) yet the workers have almost no colors(barren) .
I've absolutely fallen in love♥️♥️ with your hadestown animatics!!!
P. S. If you don't mind could you tell me who was saying 'free' near the end, 3:48 , I think it's persephone but I'm not sure.
It’s Eurydice mouthing free at 3:48 :)
And thank you for the wonderful comment (I think I just learned something haha)!!
YES OMG THIS IS BEAUTIFUL ABSOLUTELY STUNNING I WANNA CRY AND I LOVE THE WAY IT WAS PLOTTED OMG IM IN LOVE
IM SO HAPPY YOU LIKE IT IM ;A;
I love the environment!!! It’s so cool to see Hadestown so literally instead of a set
HoOoOly sHOOT! This is incredible! I love the contrast between the dreadful workers chorus to the hopeful brief optimism of Eurydice. It's chilling, like she doesn't know what she's getting into yet. Great work! 👏👌
This is one of my favorites songs, but I nevet get to imagine how it would seem like in an animatic
THIS IS SO BEAUTUFUL OHMAIGAD IM SPEECHLESS, I LOVE IT SO MUCH
AGH IM GRATEFUL, sorry for implanting images in your brain >:)
Anyone else blown away by the casual G1 near the beginning?
Eurydice's lil face at around 3:09 is so pure
This song is so full of symbolism and I’m SO HAPPY that someone finally captured all of that through beautiful art. This 👏 is👏amazing 👏
sYmBolISM is my will to live. Thank you for watching!
The colors and shading that you used really captured what the piano and the guitar of this song sound like. I really don't know how to describe it, but it just fits!
And that's even touching on the poverty monster, which is chilling in it's own right. Amazing work, seriously!
Thank you so much! I can't describe it either, but tried my best to fit the feeling of the song
Hey wtf I didn't know I could get chills from visual art
This animatic is insanely underrated. Youre so talented!
the audacity of this song to be so catchy that i be singing it and making my friends go "HUH" LMFAOOO
but really, i love this, the way you paint and the colors you used here as well as the scene with hades hand curling into a fist, that was probably my fav part, i love how you animated it
every animatic you make gets better and better!!! the environments and backgrounds in this one are stellar! Taking the time in the opening entrance for all the establishing shots of hadestown really builds this tired, oppressive atmosphere. I love the cutaways to the monsters outside the wall and to eurydice's journey to hadestown. the quick shot in the beginning with eurydice on the train was especially impressive, i love the way you made the animation jitter to convey that the train was shaking and in motion!
Thank you so much! For this song painted scenes were essential. Jittering - essential icing P:
Aaah this is an amazing thing to watch first thing in the morning sjdhfgs
First of all the environnements ?? They look like paintings ? The light, the colours are gorgeous, and the contrast with the representation of poverty is amazing. My favourite part is when we see poverty clawing at the wall before it takes up the whole screen in warmer colours, the angle you painted it in is very interesting. The whole section where we only see Hades' mouth moving and the workers working is a good show of the power dynamic? Like an all present voice speaking over them. And i love Eurydicie's arrival (Persephone looks so done with this shit hahaha, and Eurydicie looks embarrassed to have to admit she joined her in the underworld) I'd never pictured Hades singing this softer part to Eurydicie but i love it, and then when the song kicks back in, it's an amazing show of power and ooooohhhh when Eurydicie mouths the word "free" and she's bathed in red light WELP WE LOST HER.
Im glad the instrumental part at the very start was used to assert the environment and context of all of this, and it's interesting that at the end we zoom out to see the wall, but also that theyre really just in a hole in the ground...
The bright yellow light, the visible brush strokes, the red and warm colours (that are probably reassuring to some but i find them threatening), it's all eye candy. That's how I'd describe it, eye candy
Always happy to provide some sweet eye candy. And thank you so much for the amazing comment! Glad the hole in the ground came across too!
This is sooo gooood please keep it up there aren’t enough animatics of hadestown which is weird because it’s such an amazing show that really paints a picture and has an amazing story can’t wait to see what else you’ll do would love to see more Orpheus and Eurydice songs
There aren't enough! And thank you!!
it always amazes me how deep his voice is and this animatic is AMAAZZIINNG AHWDKHDCBDFIVBDJB love it!
oh man you've basically made the whole musical into an animatic
every thing about this is amazing i love the lil shadow guys outside the wall, like whats going on there? are they the dead, those who diddn't choose to come to Hades town? and for so much of this video you dont even see hades eyes almost until the end where we see a golden glint in them and then soon we see that golden glint in eurydice's eyes as she joins the chant, also theres no bedrock keeping things from falling into the void?
Thanks for watching! Haha I don't want to spoil speculation, but in truth I intended them as speculation and tall tales. As for the void I'm not sure what you're referring to?
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I really need to watch hadestown. your style fit this song really well!
Glad to hear it! And please do, it’s a wonderful show
this was absolutely stunning! Your environments are amazing! This was awesome!
Thank you!! Try :’)
Got literal shivers from the final five-pointed star overlook. The amount of details in this is just amazing, as is the song.
THE USE OF COLOUR, THE IMAGERY OF THOSE OUTSIDE THE WALL, THE FACELESSNESS OF THE WORKERS! IT'S ALL SO AMAZING
This was incredibly moving and well done. Please keep creating.
This is, possibly, the most wonderful animatic I've ever watched. The cinematography is *glorious.* You've got a fantastic sense of timing, scale, and dramatic position. Every moment hits as hard as the one before, and some of them hit even harder than that. Amazing job, seriously, just *amazing.*
There is so much I love about this - the perspectives, the lighting, the world building, the transitions, the expressions, the flow, the vision - just top notch and really adds a whole new level of depth to this song~
I'm glad it does! thank you for watching :)
Beautiful work! I really love the zoom-out at the end, showing all Hadestown in its hole in the ground (an old manhole, one could say...). It's a beautiful way of summing it all up, kind of, and putting perspective to the setting. Free to spend eternity... where?
oh my goodness this is amazing.. i have no words im so blown away at how expressive this is
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YES THIS IS SO GOOD MUY BUENO UsJFJSEFSJ i love so much
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THIS IS AWESOME!!
Your animatics are always 110%, like they're so polished and creative and you have such a good understanding of angles and shots and AHHHHH
AAAAA thank you!!
I was in awe the entire animatic but that moment in 2:21 with the gigantic clock is just so chilling?! It’s looming over everyone like an inescapable reminder of power - absolutely haunting. It’s like their version of the sun. And I’m not even done with watching!
2:25 A FEW SECONDS LATER the monsters (poverty!!) glitching out on the screen and how it zooms into their TEETH-
I don’t know if this is intentional but at first it seems like the monsters are in the shape of people, like, they’re _people_ and anyone can still see a person even if they’re the enemy, but then in the next second they _mutate_ and they turn into actual, bloodthirsty monsters. It’s like the people singing the song thought of them as human before but in that moment they weren’t thinking of the enemy as another human like them, they just think of them as incomprehensible monsters that only want their pain and destruction! Hence they turn into animals, and they’re not human shaped anymore! I just thought that was really really cool!!
@@whiskeredwolf4861 thank you! The sun and the poverty yes! I’m so glad you caught those And like wow, exactly,,
there’s a link to my thoughts/process on making this in the description in case that interests you! (There’s a tiny section on poverty haha)
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment
IM LOSING MY MIND!!! WHAT!! yOUR enVIrONMENTS and STORYTELLING,, RARGHH!! amazing.
*loses mind right back*
The transition of the workers to masters was really cool! I really liked it, and for the scene where he grabs nothing, I rewatched it like three times. Very nice animatic, thank you for sharing your work :)
Jesus Christ... This song was always good to me but I’d never listen to it that much- you just made it one of my favorites😧😭
Awwww best effect possible😭 now don't go building too many walls you hear?
Every shot is so beautiful and cinematic! This is fantastic
Thank you! This song deserves the Big Shots
It never stop amaze me how powerful this music is, it's almost 10 years old and seems made for now
This is so good
This animatic was everything I could've wanted and then some. Thank you so much for this incredible work of art.
Thanks for dropping in the stream! Glad you enjoyed!!
holy shit holy shit holy shit this is so good!!!!! Literally everything about this animatic, perfection. Hades' hand movements were great, and how you drew his eyes! Most of all, hot damn 2:24 with the black shadows (dogs? humans?). Also I love the clock tower! And how you drew Eurydice, and Persephone. Everything is pure gold, 1000000/10
*WOAH*
The *painting-y parts* and the *poverty-monsters* and *Eurydice’s arrival* and *Persephone* and *Hades* and *everything* is just *!!!*
!!! glad you enjoyed!
OM THIS IS BEAUTIFUL BYE-
NO WAIT COME BACK-
Wow. I discovered this channel today and I've been bingeing all the hadestown animatics, and they're ALL amazing. Like on every single one I watch, I'm amazed. The symbolism and lighting and character design are just SO GOOD.
awwwww i'm glad ;-;
Literal chills watching this... amazing
I've been waiting for an animatic of this song since I discovered the musical like two years ago?? Thank you so much for this, is even better of what I could have ever imagined and the transitions are so fluid!! And the colorsss and how tired Persephone looks I love everything
Thank you! Me too, honestly, kept waiting... Glad the transitions are to taste! Seph is so done 😌
you never cease to amaze me! AND WHEN PERSEPHONE SAID FREE TOO AND EURYDICE'S SHOCK!? AHHHH
AAAAAAAAAA (thank you ;_;)
3:29-3:31 i LOVE these shots! also I love how you added the poverty monsters, really added depth to the song
thank you so much! i was very happy those worked out so well :) (both the shots and the monsters haha)
0:53 that one deep "why" hits like a semi truck
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Wow, this animatic gives me chills.
I have never seen an animatic of this song ,and it's stunning!!
This song deserves more animatics
amazing animatic! I love the detail of the train shaking while eurydice is inside
and that ending! the panning out, and the atmosphere..woah
I haven't watched it all im literally just 20 seconds in BUT I know, I *know* it's going to be amazing and I'm already screeching. God i'm so obsessed with hadestown thank you for your glorious animatics GOD ITS 4 MINUTES LONG! Glorious *shakes you*
edit: *flings self to the floor* aaaAAA THAT ENDING!! Her mouthing along to the word 'free' THE IMAGES! The claws clawing at at the wall from the other side. The images of how those outside are some evil creatures that should be feared or kept away AAAAA I LOVE THIS The fact the town itself if looked at from a certain angle looks like the wall itself *flips* your backgrounds, THE COLORS! THE REEED the literal hole in the ground that is the underworld i love this so much, i cant stop gushing
AAAAAAAAA IM SO HAPPY YOU CAUGHT ALL OF THAT no really, your comment makes me so happy,,, I'm just. * is shooketh *
@@sealbatross *flails* it's so perfect. Don't be surprised if I comment again one day LMFAO because i'm definitely looping this
@@cheshireshadow518 dawww
Wow this was actually so cool-
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAW IN MY BRAIN WHEN I HEARD THIS SONG! Beautiful.
haha glad! thank you
Animation is one of my favorite art forms and I think it's still full of untapped potential. Hadestown is really special to me on a personal level, and a beautiful piece of art. Your animatics make me want to watch a whole hadestown movie animated and directed by you. I absolutely love how you use colors, perspective and composition to convey what you want to convey. Thank you for giving me the hadestown feels today.
I guess we share those two loves in common. Thank you, I am very flattered, and very glad that you enjoyed :)
chiiiiiiiiiills the atmosphere of this is so GOOD
the art style fits so perfectly i love it
Bless you for animating this! The artwork is stupendous; you have masterful usage of shading and color all through out your works
Ahh thank you!! Bless you for watching :)
YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF WITH THE BACKGEOUNDS THIS TIME! MAN! Your growth with each animatic is just phenomenal I love how abstract your frames sometimes get, so distinctive and cool! At this point you're gonna make the whoem musical, you madlad!
Thank you!! Haha that's the subconscious plan I try to hide from myself... one step at a time
BUT WHEN EURYDICE SAYS "FREE" AND THEN HER EYE TURNS GREEN AND THEN WE SEE THE GREEN OF THE CITY AND ITS AS IF HADES HAS BRAINWASHED THE WORKERS AND FINALLY EURYDICE HERSELF AND HOW THE SOFTER VERSE IS SPOKEN TO HER BUT ECHOED IN THAT BRILLIANTLY FRIGHTENING WAY AND AHHH THE CHILLS-
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!
They're literately working just to work.
I'm shaking!!! A friend showed me your animatics just a couple days ago and we were both so excited to see this. Those layouts and camera angles were all so telling- I'm definitely going to rewatch this one a lot. Thanks for your hard work
I'm so happy you like my stuff! And that it's rewatchable!! Thank you
Came running the moment I saw a notif and you delivered once again!!! 😆❤
HOLY- HOLY- OH GOD OH MAN GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THIS IS SO LIT I CANT EVEN-
I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THIS BUT THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING I STAN THIS AND YOU TO THE END OF MY LIFE
AHHHHHHH POLLYYYY IMMA CRY THANK YOU
I LOVE how cinematic your animatics are! The imagery you include makes the scale of the story so much larger. And the use of colors!! Great job!!
Thank you! Hadestown is big big big, so glad I didn't diminish it!
I don't have enough words to describe this masterpiece.
Every color, detail, transition; it's simply divine! I Love your work
I'm blessed by your comment, in a way I feel I don't deserve. Thank you,, thank you
SO. MUCH. TALENT. WOW
these backgrounds are so stunning omg
THIS IS PURE BEAUTIFUL AND WELL DONE, I LOVE IT, THE TRACES, THE COLORS, THE SEQUENCE AND THE MODULATION OF HADES WORDS !!! AAAAAA OMG THIS IS BRILLIANT !!! your hands are miraculous
AAA thank you so much!! Hands in general or miraculous
Dude the colours in this are insane, they're gorgeous!!!
Thank you!!
this is actually incredible
I couldn't help myself....listen I have no excuse
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1:26 - Can't make a better metaphor for prison than fucking barbed wire I love
2:12 - 2:15 - The hand movement aaaaaaah! The fact he even feels the need to emphasize what he says to himself is pretty telling if ya ask me KEK (or maybe he's just dramatic~)
2:19 - THIS FUCKING CLOCK. Listen I love red shit, red glows and this clock *this clock though*. It's gorgeous, red, huge ominous, just hanging there over the town forever visible. "Shifts? What shifts? You're workin 'round the clock for eternity and that's that!"
2:23 - *sings more praises for the background because I love them all to death* (hah get it.. death? I'll see myself out)
2:26 - God I love how they were first recognizable humans but are now turning into monsters that growl and attack showing the workers' fading memory the longer they stay at Hadestown *I love*
2:36 - I said it before I shall say it again! The city looks like the wall here and I love it and also The street in my head is the *crack* in the wall and you can't change my mind!
2:43 - She is precious, I love her. Baby
2:49 - I feel so bad for Persephone but her face makes me laugh so much. She's so done, but also lowkey resigned in a way. UGH it breaks me. And then she *glances* at Eurydice and *Eurydice* looks away embarassed at being caugh staring XDD I love this. But also wow that cliff she's walking on looks scary as hell, watch your steps girl. WAIT this means the traintrack is built over a fkin CHASM!? Bruh, scary.
2:57 - Okay so I can't help my brain here telling me this frame looks like Hades' legs turned into like factory chimneys. You know those big long ones BFBGDFJ
3:15 - *gasp* Wait i just realized! Is the light in his eyes reflecing the workers' head flashlights?!
3:25 - I LOVE YOUR BACKGROUNDS *FLAILS* I love these stills so goddamn much
3:29 - This too, just everything just so gorgeous fuck! And it kinda lowkey looks like a throne in my mind's eye BHJDFBDF Hades and Persephone at the bottom of it. Hades has made a kingdome far too big and terrible for his own good even *he* can't sit on this throne BGHDFBGJD
3:31 - *lord* have mercy with your backgrounds. And the clock like some big red sun bearing down on everyone. Showing how *hot* it is down there. I love i love i love
3:43 - The wall tattoo glowing! So anime indeed but how can ya not love it~
3:46 - I fucking love this big imposing man.
3:48 - *wheezes* I can't. I'm sorry I can't. Persephone looks like she's about to fall asleep BHJGFDBHJDF In her head all I can her thinking is "So fucking dramatic, goddamn I need a drink."
3:50 - And the glow is in her eyes as well now plus the color warming up! Sharing Hades's delusion that this town is perfection and exactly what she needs. Both of them looking through rose tinted glasses oh how I LOVE this fucking animatic
3:54 - Do I gotta say it? No. Will I say it again? Damn right your FUCKING BACKGORUNDS! Looks like a fire!
AHAHA Hades is just smoke on top of two smokestacks I LOVE THAT. He thinks he's a wall but he's just smoke and mirrors on his last legs...
3:15 YES. Can't believe you caught that.
HAHA making his throne too large to sit on, what a fitting metaphor (wasn't intentional but by god I love that)
"Both of them looking through rose-tinted glasses" AGH YES!! now that just brings up the image of both of em trying to peep through the same pair antagonistically
I take all your excuses away, thank you so much for taking the time to share your perspective on these shots in such detail! Have a wonderful wonderful day :)
@@sealbatross " now that just brings up the image of both of em trying to peep through the same pair antagonistically" *wheezes* That's such a hilarious image I can't. Hades and Eurydice dynamic is just them constantly bickering and Eurydice giving him lip for every decision he makes XDDD
@@cheshireshadow518 damn right. Who is the cat and who is the canary..
Holy shit this is incredible!! The imagery and symbolism and the way everything is so well-conveyed and aaaaa its amazing!!!
aaaAA thank you!
This is amazing! The colors are beautiful and everything fits so well