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KPop Demon Hunters storyboards/early & scrapped scenes/pitches & concepts

I posted this on the KPDH discord, but I figured I could repost it here too. Here's a list of links to various storyboards, early and/or scrapped scenes, and pitches & concepts shared by the various artists who worked on the movie.

Prologue & backstory

Prologue - Mingjue Helen Chen

More prologue paintings - Mingjue Helen Chen (check out her IG for a lot more production art)

Hunters through the ages - Mingjue Helen Chen

Young Rumi - Mingjue Helen Chen

Concepts of child Rumi - Scott Watanabe

Celine & child Rumi, Rumi practicing controlling the Honmoon - Simon Baek

Early days of Huntr/x - Darren Webb

Opening

Plane fight story pitch - Jed Diffenderfer. More at his website and also check out this post that has a video with an early voice track and an early version of How It's Done, & storyboard comparisons. The original Vimeo upload was DMCA'd (I think it was a bogus claim...) but you can download it from the previous link. If the video there is deleted too DM me and I'll share a link. Credit to this post by gkqtjdsbql, though sadly the video was deleted there too.

Different version of the opening - Nagi Koyama

Early skydive scene - Ryan Savas

Different intro battle (with lots of dancing and choreography) - Alicia Chan

Weapon summoning exploration - Alicia Chan

Early version of Jinu's intro - Sooyeon Lee

Golden

Golden storyboard initial pass - Darren Webb

Golden storyboard + early version of Golden - Bridget Underwood

Bathhouse

Gear up scene video - Hye Lynn Park

Longer bathhouse scene video - Josh 'Hat' Lieberman Storyboard

Jinu vs Rumi bathhouse battle sequence - Alex Chiu

Takedown montage, fansign, dates

"Meet Ugly", first encounter with the Saja Boys - Jed Diffenderfer, website

Derpy & Jinu's letter story pitch - Jed Diffenderfer

Zoey's notebooks - Stephen Neary

Slaying demons (plays during the Takedown montage), with funny Mira reaction & Zoey with a frog hat - Alicia Chan

Zoeystery - Ryan Savas

Idol Star Athletics Championship (replaced by the fansign scene) - Bridget Underwood

Train scene while arguing about the tonics - Alex Chiu

Aquarium date - Marion Bordeyne

Another Rumi & Jinu kiss pitch - Charles Hilton

Rumi & Jinu date at Woljeonggyo Bridge pitch - Laura Price

Jinu, temporarily stuck on the demon side, meets Rumi at the market - Bridget Underwood

Climax

3D Draft version of Takedown scene (Youtube)

Early version of Rumi's breakdown (with even more ANGST) - Sooyeon Lee

Lighting keys for breakup sequence (with Mira protecting Zoey) - Wendell Dalit

Rumi confronts Celine sequence - Jessie Wong

Another confrontation ("Celine... why did you kill my mother...") - Simon Baek

Confrontation continued - Simon Baek

Rumi goes to her mother's grave & Celine and Rumi flashback - Simon Baek

Rumi's transformation sequence - Andrew J. Ross

Climax ideas - Ryan Savas

Gwi-Ma attacks Rumi, Zoey, Mira & Jinu's reactions, Rumi's patterns are gold - Bridget Underwood

Rumi figthing Gwi-Ma - Bridget Underwood

Jinu gives Rumi the hat ending - Hanna Cho

Various

Storyboards - Stephen Neary

More storyboards (most of these made it into the movie) - Ray Xu

The Art of KPop Demon Hunters - Official art book

Other pitches

Golden MV teasers ideas (very short vignettes) - Alex Chiu

Jinu summons Derpy concept - Mingjue Helen Chen

Different Jinu cards - DaHyeu Celine Kim

Rujinu moment on a bridge - DaHyeu Celine Kim

Baby Saja writing - Wendell Dalit

Concert confrontation idea - Mingjue Helen Chen

Demon arm Rumi - Mingjue Helen Chen

Huntr/x reunite to save the world - Simon Baek

Artists' web pages

Simon Baek

Featuring (besides the above):

Honmoon weapon explorations.

Huntr/x winning the Idol Awards (2017-2021).

Palace design.

Phone case designs.

Another version of the Takedown scene.

Scott Watanabe

Costume designs & early Mira and Zoey.

Rumi, Zoey and Mira expressions.

Bobby explorations.

Gwi-Ma & demons designs.

Jeannie Lee

Demon designs.

Huntr/x, Saja Boys and side characters designs.

Laura Price

Restaurant layout.

Seoul & buildings designs.

Green room layout.

Henry Wong

Penthouse layout explorations.

Idol Star Athletics Championship.

Rumi loses her voice.

Rebecca Shieh

Environment visdev.

Food, stickers & snacks.

Han Clinic.

Huntr/x recording studio.

Saja Boys Soda Pop branding.

Charles Hilton

Beautiful color scripts.

Restaurant scene variation.

Unused funeral scene with Celine & Rumi.

Bathhouse & variety show studio layouts.

Huntr/x fighting demons throughout Seoul.

And lots more, check out their webpages for more!

[kinschi]

Huntrix on the hunt

[puppyrumi]

The local gremlin is on the prowl again ᵕ̈ I've been fighting art block and trying to do more art studies but I AM ALIVE.

[rumiras]

original

[quentims]

Mira portrait practice

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anatomy practice (@ kerosine_cereal on twitter)

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Version with Mira's eyes open, before i changed my mind

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Rain kisses

[seadeepspaceontheside]

당당하게 어둠 앞에 다가서, 다 무너뜨려 

[dremenec]

romeo + juliet (1996) but make it zoemira

lunchbreak spent looking at screengrabs from the movie and trying to reverse engineer romeo's armor from that one party. I LOVE the costumes in that scene.... they're so cute and make them seem so young and naive, it's lovely. The costume design in general just kills in that movie generally

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Post Workout Zoey (Heejin as reference)

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When your half-demon girlfriend is hungry

[0nkret]

show me (how to love you) by @honestground

[0nkret]

Rumi: Damn, Nari was right, we look great! Zoey: (red as a tomato) Totally! Rumi: Hmm... Mira: Something wrong? Rumi: My stomach feels funny when I look at this. Maybe it's because of the ice cream I had yesterday? (walks away) Zoemira: How can she be so dense!

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Reposting these fluff doodles because the last one got sniped by the fun police :’)

Here’s the “🌶️ fun times” right here again and that is all I’m gonna acknowledge of them cuz idk what set it off last time

(If you want the images sans ‘depressing bar of modesty’ DM me and I will give you the spicy sandwiches in full because I believe in feeding the people unlike the water bottle website )

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Some more rough polytrix doodles because y’all ate up the last one and drawing them is like prescribing myself free serotonin

Bonus: redraw of a pic of the VAs I liked

(I met May Hong at a convention back in August, and I can confirm, yes, she really is that tall)