Just a Man [ EPIC: The Musical | Animatic | Remake ]

Hello! I'll be keeping up my old animatic, I just wanted to make a new one that followed a similar art style to the rest of the animatics haha, and with a more canon ending. disclaimer i was using antiquity vases as reference for the armor but it may have been inaccurate? I think it's more roman leaning whoops dgshfkdg armor my beloathed

Also the woman is Andromache!

Song: Just A Man

Mine:

[WolfyTheWitch]

A fun iliad fact is in book six, hector went to hold his son Astyanax, but the baby was scared of him because of his helmet. So he laughed, took his helmet off, and then cradled his baby boy

So it isn't Quite in character that astyanax is smiling and laughing when Odysseus holds him, but I like to imagine that the thought process is

Helmet = dad
Dad = nice
Helmet = nice?

But he's definitely more at ease when Odysseus takes the helmet off

[fluffycat]

I like how at least in my eyes that he’s asking both the infant and its mother to forgive him. And maybe himself too.

[lorimadison]

The fact that he takes his helmet off when he’s talking about his family, holding the child and playing with him, but puts it back on and only holds the baby by the blankets just kills me. He’s physically going from soldier to father and back, and he creates distance between him and the baby, no longer cradling, almost like if he holds the baby it means he cares. Plus all of the emotions in his expressions! I am in love with this animatic!!

[uf_hQ]

This is the first animatic I've seen that shows the baby's mother and the baby's death is already heart breaking but the thought that his mom had to witness it makes it 10 time worse

[eldritch_izzy]

This was so emotional and heartbreaking. I wasn’t expecting Andromache to show up but seeing her trying to run to her infant son in vain, after already loosing everything and everyone around her, that was painful. And seeing the tiny detail of Odyssey’s wedding ring, really made me think of how in the name of getting back to his family, he’s taking the last of Andromache’s away from her. This animatic is as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching, and I applaud you for always making the songs in Epic truly come to life, even in its darkest moments.

[potatofairy]

I didn't think it could get any better than the original, but omg-

The way it shows his humanity and the baby's innocent and then how he tries to distance himself emotionally towards the end by the way he lifts the child. And then the baby's mother trying to rush to defend it!
It's heartbreaking and beautifully done!

[xathia]

WHEN I SAW ANDROMACHE I LITERALLY GOT GOOSEBUMPS, HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME?! 😭😭😭

[PeerlessPeach]

GOD GOD THIS IS SO GOOD. Even though Odysseus is at the precipice of the chaos, and everyone pauses to look up and him and what he’s been forced to do, it feels so personal, so isolating. Even as he begs the child for forgiveness and his resolve steels, it’s just him and this baby, the chaos of war is merely the backdrop. YOURE SO GOOD WHAT THE FUCK

[sumomo]

This just about killed me. The baby reaching out and laughing at a stranger because all he'd known in his short life was safety and love, but then, when the soft touches and taken away and he's dangled like that by an unsmiling man, he looks so confused. TT_TT It was amazing the way Odysseus's expression hardened after he remembered Penelope and the reason he was doing all this. And you even included the baby's mother, you really did a great job showing the horror of what Odysseus had to do.

[okdude]

Omg when Odysseus asks "when does a man become a monster" and he holds the helmet up in front of the baby, like he knows that if he let's the baby live he will grow up into a monster. That was so heart-wrenching, well done Wolfy!!

[wizard-lizard]

I like how much like at Athena Odysseus looks like with the helmet, and then takes it off when he says he's "just a man" so much detail!! 😍

[AlexMunz-bgbc]

Really captured the “I really don’t wanna kill this kid”

[tiffanykay]

Love the difference from the original! It's so fast paced and you can feel Odysseus' panic as he forces himself to come to terms with the inevitable. We also get to see more of baby Astyanax and the sheer chaos of the war. Both are great in different ways, one is more emotional the other is more chaotic, it's just, *_chefs kiss_*

[minorii]

oh boy a new epic animatic! hope no one gets thrown off or anything!!

[Lemonsherbertzzz]

Babe wake up, WolfyTheWitch just posted the most heartbreaking, heart shattering, heart wrenching piece of visual art that has ever been posted on the internet.

Also, Andromache showing up broke me I swear to god. Like she literally just lost everything and now she has to watch her infant son be dropped from a building and die and there is nothing she can do to stop it.

[katriaseven]

You know what happens most often when you throw children onto a matress? They will laugh while falling. And this hurts me. Very good work.

[dangernoodle]

Whenever ody sings 'close your eyes and spare yourself the view' I feel like hes telling that ti himself as much as he is to the baby, trying to spare himself the pain

[griffinwittum]

Looking at that last couple of frames I'm drawn to a line from "Warrior of the Mind."

"Have you forgotten to turn off your heart?"

No, Athena. He didn't forget. Its just that after ten years of slaughter and being forced to kill a baby in front of it's mother he's tired of doing it.

[fpe-art]

Holy shit. Listen, the song itself is already intense but GOD. Your visualization of it gave me chills. How the hell you manage to bust out these phenomenal animatics one after another - on top of your regular drawings and your casual 200 figure studies - is just beyond me. But damn. Mad respect. I'm freaking honored to call you an inspiration, Wolfy.

[v_yun]

How. Could. You.
When I thought this couldn't get more emotional, than it already was, YOU HAD TO SHOW ANDROMACHE??? HOW DARE YOU BREAK MY HEART LIKE THIS 😭😭😭
Congratulations, you made me cry, I hope you're proud of yourself
No, really, you should be proud of yourself, this is absolutely incredible!!!
Seriously, the level of detail, the amount of frames here... It's almost a full animation at this point!
I absolutely LOVE how you showed so much more of Asty and Ody's interaction, the flashback to Penelope and Odysseus' look after that... I can't count the amount of heartbreaks this animatic gave me 😭💔
Thank you for making this masterpiece, you're skills are out of this world, you're amazing ❤❤❤