Keep Your Friends Close | EPIC: The Musical ANIMATIC

see you in Ruthlessness ;)

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Keep Your Friends Close | Epic: the musical Animatic
Music by Jorge Rivera-Herrans @JayHerrans

[mrj]

The way Telemachus eyes are blurred because Odysseus doesn’t know what he looks like is SO TRAGIC!😭😭😭❤

[Silvia-oohw]

Aeolus turning from a child sized wind sprite to a storm sized wind blower gave me chills, I love his design sm

[aztecemperor]

I really appreciate how the moment the cloud sprites say "It's treasure" he knew he got played. He thought it would be easy but the delivery of that "what?" made you feel his anger and sadness.

[Quinton_ovo_]

I love how you drew aeolus. Spinning around the ship while floating on a cloud is giving mega superpowerful innocent child vibes 😂

[WitherHuntress]

I just realized how much your Penelope design reminds me of your Hera design and I was like "Aww, Odysseus sees his wife like a goddess"

[booksandmusicals]

I never pictured Aelous themselves blowing away Odysseus's ship! I always thought they were just watching without doing anything (like in the myth), but this is a great choice!
Animatic is 100% pure perfection, just like always!

[curestarlight]

Little things I loved:
Aeolus scratching Odysseus' beard.
Odysseus' face palm at trying to explain to his crew they can't open the bag.
The flinch at the mention of Polites.
Odysseus cuddling into Penelope.
❤

[biancabrooks]

Aeolus is adorable, like a child playing and not really understanding that for these men it’s life or death. Which is perfect for a god. ❤

[No-qbme]

0:39 I like to think when they say “I give the fire enough to stay burning” it foreshadows the future. When they say not to let the crew open the bag but they instigate the crew to do so. They are fueling the fire of desire to open the bag to the point where they know for a fact the crew will open it because of not only of their own curiosity but also because of the small whispers Aeolus sends them to keep them curious.


Basically Aeolus is a D1 instigator

[Merfolk_]

In the original mythology, correct me if I'm wrong, Aeolus gave Odysseus favorable winds to aid his journey. The Bag of Winds was given to him containing all of the winds except the West wind, which will help them sail back home. They sailed well for 10 days, but the crew, in curiosity and jealousy thought the bag contained treasure their captain was keeping from them. They opened the bag whilst Odysseus was resting. The winds kicked up a storm that brought them right back to Aeolus but he didn't help them anymore, thinking Odysseus might be cursed by the gods.

[billcipher]

Aeolus has one of the best designs PEAK

[Mr.Bobble-]

Nobody seems to be pointing out that when the crew points out "Everything's changed since Polites" Odysseus tenses up, because he's still in mourning over the lost of his friend, and it's weighing down on him pretty heavy. It's such a heartbreaking but small detail

[cinderrose]

This might be your best work yet, that camera movement is unreal, and Aeolus looks really good. I cannot wait for how you do Ruthlessness!

[controllerfreak]

Aeolus being both playful and deadly is such a good representation of a god of winds. Especially to a culture where seafaring is as important as ancient Greece’s

[katterwaul]

The part where Aeolus is flying around the ships with all the spinning perspectives is STUNNING. You didn't have to go that hard but you did and I'm so impressed

[wannabegaymer]

3:03 I like to imagine even though he has fall 'out of favor' with Athena she is still trying to help him. When Penelope yells at him to wake up I think it could be seen as Athena using his dream to warn him about the crew opening the bag

[nikicervena]

Now that the Thunder saga is out and we know that Eurylochus is the one who opened the bag makes this whole song much more tragic.

[ja-melvinson]

This has so much good stuff in it, omfg. Aeolus and the Winion’s designs (I love that they’re clown-themed), the little gusts of wind telling Odysseus to wake up, Penelope’s form being in it as the storm happens, the CAMERAWORK, just…this is so phenomenal. This is my favorite

[andreabonilla]

I really love how Aelous looks so soft and playful, that you just feel lulled into trusting the windy god's game that you forget the God is a God. Always enjoying making the game more trickier for their own enjoyment

[RavenSutcliffe]

Aeolus in the beginning gives off Aang vibes (the movements and mannerisms, the childlike appearance, the cloud and Aang's ball of air etc) and I love that design choice! Very suited to a trickster wind god