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
Other pitches
Golden MV teasers ideas (very short vignettes) - Alex Chiu
Anthy Himemiya & Utena Tenjou - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire
The two pieces brought together. I got a bit lazy and reused some framing elements I’d already painted for another rgu fanart. I’m calling this one “The Armor was a Lie.”
returning to my roots with more huntrixgenius as a birthday gift for my friend @frogsnfungi203 !!! can you tell i'm weak for zoemira getting pattern tattoos of their own? :')
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