an ice cold beer topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. lying on top of the ice cream foam is a salted peanut. this is the angel. around him are sprinkles (his tears). this is "the angel's lament", my new cocktail
That’s what’s driven me with this movie the whole time, is making something about kindness. It is about kindness and goodness more than hope to me. It’s about being loved more than about hope. Hope is something outside of ourselves. We have this belief that maybe something will change in our lives. It almost denigrates the present moment, hope. And it’s not about that. It’s about being loving, being kind, and how that compassion is really the answer to everything. That’s a basic human need.
i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.
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
Rare Goncharov poster from Czechoslovakia by Luboš Frištenský, a less known but still prolific movie poster artist that disappeared in 1975 under mysterious circumstances.
Probably THE most notorious piece of Goncharov art to this day, less because of the art itself and more due to Luboš Frištenský’s extremely eerie disappearance
We’ll probably never know what really happened to Frištenský, but this haunting poster is testament to the genius of his work
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