No Looking Back, Jonny Boy

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Happy holidays folks, please have this little (longest animatic I’ve ever made) something I’ve been cooking up for the last month. It was a fun little personal project and I’m pretty happy with it, so I hope you enjoy!

CW: comic style gore, implied violence, death, blood, and a bit of eldritch body horror. Canon typical scary activities.

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forgetting your headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving your sword behind in medieval times

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I Died For You [A Malevolent Animatic]

Voice acting and audio by @malevolentcast , who very generously sent me this audio file to use for this animatic. Thank you for creating such a beautiful show.

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I began this animatic early last year after finding the audio on TikTok. Once I heard it, I was immediately struck with the thought of how those first couple of weeks in the Dark World would be for John immediately after Season 2. It seemed perfectly fitting, how John might be tortured by his guilt and uncertainty if Arthur was even still alive, and that torment would only aid his regression to his more… Kingly qualities.

I began to draft the thumbnails of the animatic in my sketchbook before transferring it to my digital workspace, which was incredibly intimidating at the time. This was my first independent animatic. In last year’s InvictusCon, Harlan popped into my stream as I was explaining my animatic thought process to my viewers, shaking with both excitement and terror. I was stunned when he offered to voice it himself. The next day, he sent me the audio file. To this day, I am still stunned he spent so much time and effort to create something. It was the encouragement I needed to finish a longer-form animatic. It may be only a minute and some change, but this is a whole year of my life condensed - my obsession, my adoration, my passion for not only this podcast but for art in general, both visual and audio.

It’s by happy accident that I finished this right at the cusp of the Season 5 finale. It almost perfectly slots in. So… let’s all pretend that this animatic took me a month to do rather than the year I spent sweating on my couch and complaining about the number of times I forgot Arthur’s wooden finger.

Are they in therapy? God knows they need it

Or, my favorite flavor of podcast protagonist: traumatized

[ID: Three animated gifs of podcast characters, followed by stills from the gifs. First is Jon Sims, a long-haired man with glasses, crouched on an office chair with a tape recorder in his hand. Behind him, a disembodied eye periodically opens and closes, bathing him in green light. Second is Arthur Lester, a stocky man in a suit and long coat, sitting with a bundle of something in his lap. Behind him, a shadowy demon periodically appears, and his eyes turn black and yellow when it does. Third is Doug Eiffel, a skinny man with loose, curly hair, wearing headphones and a jumpsuit. He is free floating against a background of stars and has just dropped a cigarette. End ID]

Thank you fot the ID @genderfluid-druid

Oh my god it’s the eye guy