SCYLLA | Epic: The Musical Animatic (Thunder Saga) some blood and flashes ⚠️

Hi guys! Finally finished Scylla and I’m so excited and happy for this one. I really tried to go all in and it was a doozy but well worth it. Hope you all enjoyed and I’m just loving the Thunder Saga. ❤️🥹

Song: Scylla from Epic: The Musical
Music by @JayHerrans

#epicthemusical

[brittpowwpixel]

Thank you guys for all the love and support! Your comments have me dying 🤣. Sorry for the nightmare fuel but it only felt appropriate. 😄

[zapper]

Giving Scylla that "Awakened Being" from Claymore look really worked out. Kudos. 10/10 would get traumatized again.

[Vampri.i]

I remember seeing in another comment section of a Scylla animatic how Scylla doesn't like to attack other monsters because she sees them as kin, so seeing Scylla approach Odysseus so closely without him giving her a frightened reaction probably makes her believe that they truly are the same as each other despite appearances

[genosho]

Your Scylla is more...human. She's not just a mindless monster that finds joy in killing these men. Her design an movement actually makes it feel like it's something she has to do. And her talking to Ody directly is just bone chilling.

[somethingthatexists]

Scylla just staring at Odysseus but not eating him at the end like yep you can pass you’ve paid your tax is just chills man

[firewalkwithjuno]

The guy crying as he saved Eurylochus was an absolutely perfect touch and I care for that nameless crew member immensely as a result. He knew what he was doing and as hard as it was, he made the decision to save him.

[Wrenzy]

Your Scylla design is phenomenal, and the look on Eurylocus's face as he's standing there holding a torch realising what Odysseus has done only to get shoved out of the way at the last moment is just *chefs kiss*

[Lala-zocw]

2:28 This part brought me to tears. The fact that one of their men was willing to protect Eurolychus only to get eaten is devastating. It makes his outrage at Ody for sacrificing 6 men a lot more personal. Fantastic animatic.

[randomguy]

One thing I've not really seen discussed about this song is Scylla's whole screed at the end, while horrific and can obviously be taken as a threat, it's very easy to read it as everything she had to tell herself given her transformation from nymph to monster at the hands of Circe. That whole backstory being explained wouldn't work well in EPIC, but the song only gets better with that context.

Its why I really like this animatic. Because not only is scylla horrific and terrifying, but it seems like she legitimately found a kindred spirit in Odysseus. Someone forced to become a monster to survive. Someone who understands the pain of living with the horrific things you have to do or else you die.

[riptors]

Really love that Scylla adressed Odyssius in the end face to face in this animation. She fully aknowledged him as equally monstrous to his face

[tinagoli]

having odysseus and scylla that close, , both staring straight into their souls of each other... it gives it such a raw and intimidating touch. nice work!

[The_Lost_Anomaly]

Oh I absolutely love the detail of her looking right at Odysseus when telling him they're the same and he just looks back with no fear... showing she was fully aware he made sacrifices to her to be granted passage by feeding her... and her showing she was only letting him go as a result because with this take- she could have grabbed him last second. Ruthlessness earned her respect...

[bitterflywing]

Eurylochis realizing the heads are attracted to the torches and him dropping his is such genius. Exactly how I pictured what's canon.

[audlyartzy]

Something I really love about this animatic is that each death seems to mostly be tried to each scream in the song. For those who don’t know, six screams can be heard in the song at different times after Scylla appears, one for each man that was sacrificed to Scylla.

[stormsergeant]

I love that scylla looks him in the eye at the end there. It makes it look more plain to the crew that Odysseus has planned that to happen.

[grandpac]

The synchronizing of the screams with the crew getting eaten, Eurylochus being saved by a fellow crewman and realizing Scylla was going for the torches was amazing

But the cherry on top was the Face to face of Scylla acknowledge the Captain, Odysseus, for giving sacrifices to survive 🎉🎉🎉

[joncooke]

"For Scylla is not mortal; moreover she is savage, extreme, rude, cruel and invincible. There is no help for it; your best chance will be to get by her as fast as ever you can, for if you dawdle about her rock while you are putting on your armor, she may catch you with a second cast of her six heads, and snap up another half dozen of your men; so drive your ship past her at full speed, and roar out lustily to Krataiis who is Scylla's dam (father), bad luck to her; she will then stop her from making a second raid upon you."

I love the idea of one immortal calling another immortal 'rude and invincible.'

[GJWarrant]

I love Scylla in this animatic.

That knowing look that she gives Odysseus as if to say, "I know what you did here and I could devour you too, but you sacrificed those men to feed me.

You are a monster of the same sort as me, but a different form, so out of respect, im going to let you go safely from here because we both do what it takes to survive."

This song and animatic is simply BRILLIANT!

[CessDoesChaos]

I love this version where Syclla directly speaks to him which makes it a bigger slap to the face for not only eurolychus but the whole crew

[luna]

One of the scariest Scyllas yet, fantastic job! She feels super imposing as well. I love your choice of having Scylla get so close to Odysseus, it really drives home the theme of Odysseus having become a monster, as Scylla is said not to attack other monsters.