The Horse and The Infant | Epic: the musical Animatic (FLASH WARNING)

my original plan was to only make an animatic of the part where Odysseus is telling everyone the plan (Diomedes will lead the charge...), but when I finished that I got too excited to do the rest of the song, so here we are lol

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The Horse and The Infant | Epic: the musical Animatic
Music by Jorge Rivera-Herrans @JayHerrans

[gigi]

ALSO I created a Ko-Fi! So if you want to
buy me a coffee I appreciate it very much!

[bcfb]

“Sir I think the horse is singing”
“I ThInK tHe HoRsE iS sInGiNg do you hear how stupid you are soldier?”

[nowayjose]

I really like your choice to depict the child as a monstrous, beast-like thing when he grows up. Like Odysseus is trying to dehumanize him to justify murdering him....

[i_do_stuff_ig]

The gods telling someone to kill a child and then cursing them for it is such a Greek gods thing to do

[Samyueru]

I absolutely will always love the double meaning behind "A foe who won't run, unlike anyone you have faced before." and how it foreshadows in a way that Odysseus has to kill an infant.

[Les]

Zeus saying “this is the will of the gods” is the ultimate gaslighting moment

[arcanegamer]

"um sir the giant wooden horse is singing about how to take over the city, " some random trojan solder to his commander.

[HyacinthFlowers]

Odysesus: Having a crisis
The baby: Vibing

[kikio]

Neo being a psycho covered in blood...that made the name finally click. It's Neoptolemus. Loved the dynamics of that rap. and the whisp that's the vision

[Tank]

"The blood on your hands is something you won't lose
All you can choose is whose"
That hit hard

[YaLo]

you can't convince me that they just didnt want him to do it for their entertainment cause, "The gods will make him know" is crazy

[Zephirite.]

Imagine you’re a sleeping Trojan and you get woken by some Greek belting his heart out inside a wooden horse.
I guess the acoustics must be good.

[chimera]

What I think is very ironic is that Odysseus offered to raise him as his own (valid plan imo) but Zeus said the gods would "make him know". So the gods would inform the child of everything probably just to fulfill thw prophecy. Cause they're mostly divine garbage bins with bad temperments.

[Soli_strawberry]

You know it hits differrent when odysseus is telling the soldiers to fight so they can see their families agian and realizing they never get to.😢

[strawberbeee]

THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL. THIS IS ASTOUNDING. The feeling you can see in Odysseus, Zeus being in the clouds, the preview when Odysseus is assigning jobs to his men...wow. I'm always so impressed by your work but this..holy hell. Another beautiful production gigi.

[Random_Kelsey]

I'm just going to focus on how adorably cute and hilarious little Ajax is, otherwise I'll just be bawling 😭🤣

[red]

Please I am OBSESSED with the way you handled 1:47 because this actually shows why Odysseus would say 'WHO was that?' instead of 'WHAT was that?'

[kpsmorera]

Every time I hear Zeus say: “This is the will of the Gods…” I remember the words of Pathos Verdes III: “Once a faithful servant of the cruel and uncaring gods…”

Also, how Odysseus steps back in sheer horror at 3:03 when Zeus tells him: “if you don’t end him now, you will have no one left to save…”

[adeleaslan]

Obsessed with how you had Odysseus take his helmet off to look at Asyntax, when in the Iliad he didn't recognize his dad Hector because of his helmet

[NoName-insx]

knowing what the myths already had, i actually teared up when seeing little Astyanax
he was just a little boy