Word To The Wise - Hadestown animatic

It's finally done! Word To The Wise was one of the first songs I wanted to make an animatic of but I've never got to that. But last month I finally got to see Hadestown on West End and got the motivation to draw the thing. The whole thing took me little less than a month and a looooot of drawings. You can see me giving up and getting tired by the end because who could have known but having a lot of characters in the frame is rather exhausting!

The whole thing is drawn in ToonSquid, so far it's the most convenient app for me to use.

I'm pretty happy how the whole thing turned out and I'll appreciate you watching and commenting. Your comments give me the motivation to invest yet another ungodly amount of hours to make new animatics.

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[cheshireshadow]

OOOHHH I LOVE How playful the Fates are with him! And he's so annoyed because this is such a serious decision for him but they're treating it like playtime! Showing Persephone being the one saying "heartless man" lyrics is *CHEF KISS* really was an impossible situation for him in that moment

[klausoshaunacey]

I love how this is the first time the fates turn on a god. It shows that even Hades, the most powerful deity we see in the show, is not immune to the effects of fate and consequences

[sealbatross]

he looks so innocent 😭😭😭😭 very lovely omg

[cosmiccookieart]

THIS IS SO AMAZING OMG

THE SPOTLIGHT WHEN "whole damn nations watching you" WAS ICONIC

also omg persephone mouthing some of the lyrics and him getting so anxious was SO WELL PORTRAYED
i think this might be the best 'word to the wise' animatic ive seen on youtube!

major kudos!!!

[massy]

Hades' face is so expressive, kudos!!! ❤❤❤

[ohmystars]

Also, folks, I've added some of my "director's cut" notes in one of the English subtitles, check it out if you like that kind of content!

[Frogg_Gremlin]

this is so good!!!! the fates dancing around is so smooth!! and you can see the emotions hades is feeling so well!! I love it <3

[doodlefawn]

Ooooh, this turned out so good! I love the depictions of blood on his hands and the wave.

[cosmosmercury]

IVE BEEN BINGING ALL OF YOUR HADESTOWN ANIMATICS FOR THE PAST WEEK OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PERFECT

[orangegrapesoda]

I love the spotlight imagery! It’s such an interesting take considering how important the technical aspects of the stage production are to the story

[PrinceDamienOfDarkness]

Very Golden Age of Disney vibes and I love it

[Jemeysontaylor]

The expression, personality and style of this is everything to me!!! 😭🥹

[sejsuper]

yesss i've been starving for more hadestown fanart/animatics!!! this is so good!! i love how smug the fates look

[cookdacookie]

THE WAY I CLICKED ON THIS SO FAST!! I am simply amazed at how you capture each of these characters so accurately and consistently!!

[mayyonness]

AHH! I LOVE hadestown and this song is one of my favs. Genuinely didn't expect that someone would animate it. Thank you for gracing this amazing work upon us! :D

[ellastevens]

The EXPRESSIONS the SYMBOLISM the DYNAMIC CHARACTER MOVEMENTS AND POSES we are FEASTING

[ItsOrpheus]

OMG THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS I AM IN LOVE

[MissMerryGold]

THIS IS SO GOOD THE EXPRESSIONS THE ANIMATION OH MY GOD

[iliketea]

Idk what's triggering all the new Hadestown animatics but I love it! Thank you for making such a great animatic for an extremely underrated song !

We really need more animatics for underrated Hadestown songs (like where's my Way Down Hadestown [REPRISE] animatic, animators?! I've been waiting for years and still nothing!!!), so thank you for your service.

[rahele]

Words can not express how much I love this! You are so talented!❤️❤️❤️