Open Arms - SWAN animatic (EPIC: A Troy Saga)

characters: Keira and Cailín, belonging to moi, from a very old story of mine that I've been revamping lately (they are both faeries)
song: Open Arms from EPIC: A Troy Saga by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
IMPORTANT NOTE: the context of this song and the context of the scene are kinda different things lol. the general vibes fit though so that's why I used it as a backdrop for my OC nonsense. it's not canon to the plot of their story, just a little au I wanted to play with for funsies! the context of the scene: Keira (the one in the ruana) is looking for Cailín (the singer) in a magical memory dreamspace, but instead of finding her, she finds a very old memory version of her. in this current moment of the story they have had a falling out, so when the memory of Cailín acts like they're besties Keira has trouble dealing with her feelies about it since they presently do not like each other and have not even smiled at each other since they stopped being friends
fun fact, I did the entire thumb pass of this in three days; I started shortly after 6pm on a Friday and finished around 4:30pm on Sunday. thank you audhd hyperfocus. it would then take me much longer to do revisions and clean it all up lol
life has been so like...heavy lately idk how else to put it lol not even necessarily bad it's just been so intensely good and also so intensely stressful BUT despite everything (or actually it's more like BECAUSE of everything) I finally managed to board something that I can use in my portfolio that isn't sealed behind an NDA!! wow!!!! imagine that!!!!!!!!!!! hopefully I will make another one before the year is over!!

[@randomstorykeeper]

Dang, why did my heart sink when Cailin faded away at the end? This is really well done!

[@catnippackets]

thank you!!!

[@fatherted776]

I love how Cailin has pronounced canines since she's a selkie, and has seal-like traits. It's a neat little detail I enjoyed.

[@NarutoOndoFan]

Catnip!!!! This is amazing, you've grown so much as an artist and your animatic is absolutely breathtaking. The movement and flow, the expressions??? It's amazing. I love how you portrayed it all and then promptly broke my heart with that ending. Ah! I could go on forever so I'll leave it at this, beautiful animatic, beautiful work

[@noahrode_1775]

This is SO WELL DONE!! And heartbreaking 😢😢

[@TurtleCano]

OUGHHHH SO GOOOOD!!
amazing use of camera angles and the different perspectives you decided to use in general, really brought this to life!
this is way underrated and i hope it gets the credit it deserves!!!

[@Bigblueberry5330]

Open arms the song just brings chills to me every time when I listen to this I want to cry and also the animation on the faces and the actual animation itself is fantastic good job on ITIT looks lovely Keep up the great work Can't wait to see more in the near future👏😍💙💚

[@yikes9539]

So incredible!! I love your style so much

[@squishies4life123]

Ahhh your storyboarding work is so good !! So expressive

[@HarmonyTRE]

Oh my gosh this is beautiful!

[@basilsaurus1311]

I love this so much 😭

[@nikkidoodless]

YOU DID A BEAUTIFUL JOB! 💖 your environments look absolutely fantastic and I love your style! Keep up the great work!

[@Jackie-McCann]

2:40 I love that little Lotus Eater going “That way!” 🤭

[@cheebaleeb]

aaa beautiful work my friend

[@catnippackets]

thank you!!

[@teamoss7044]

Oh no.... Just don't say that this red bun will finish or has already finished like Polites....:(
I don’t know what kind of characters these are, but I’m already too sad and hurt because of the ending

[@bluej.studios4523]

This is SOOOOOO COOL!!!!

[@meaganlongley618]

Loved this!!!!

[@catnippackets]

[@poutinepush7863]

Damn where you been

[@kiutyluna-wi2iq]

Loveeee it
But you used the audio Frome Epic there's nothing wrong with that