zendaya is old hollywood personified: the return of the god-like movie star. we’ll still talk about her decades from now because honest to god? no one has a more impressive run. z is playing the whole industry like a violin. queen was swinging from the ceiling right into zac efron’s shook ass face, had bruno mars serenading her pathetically, was kissed by hunter schafer and jacob elordi, bisexualized two tennis players, married actual spider man, was mugler’s muse, stunned the met gala, bagged a pattinson wedding movie, became nolan’s athena, and had enough game to be cracking lisan al gaib all across the whole damn desert. call her tashi duncan the way zendaya scores. playing 3D chess since the beginning y’all this is generational range
and it's finally done! this one was quite a bit out of my usual comfort zone, but i managed to finish it! :D
anyway, as per usual stills & some cut/behind the scenes stuff from the animatic can be found below the cut ^^
behind the scenes/cut content:
these 2 are both stuff i cut from the final. where the line goes "i'll do whatever it takes" i was initially going to draw phil in the first pose, but i ended up scrapping that bc i didnt like how it looked. second one just didn't work out in the animatic so i removed it entirely.
...speaking of phillip:
here's some practices i doodled of phil bc zac efron's hair is really hard to draw. i love phillip but i absolutely hate drawing his hair (i still have no idea how to draw it)
these were the final storyboards/thumbnail sketches i used for the later half of the vid (ignore the fact that they were drawn at 3 AM), but actually there were two versions of this sequence!
the original sequence i first thought up for this scene looked a little more like this:
but i ended up changing it to focus more on the circus fire in the end.
the animatic would have also ended a bit earlier if i used this plan instead haha
this was the color reference sheet i used for the most part!
also, some color symbolism notes for some colours that i used a lot in the animatic :DDD (this was my fav part to plan haha)
lastly (before we move on to the stills lmao), this is some of how i plan out the colours in each scene. just a single block for the background, and then another block for the foreground+the characters to have an idea of what the final will look like
animatic stills:
it'll probably be a while before i do another animatic this long + this detailed lol
but there's definitely some more parts of the TGS characters that i want to explore, so i'll probably be making some smaller animatics for them :D (barnum especially, there's one part of his character that i also really want to make an animatic about aside from his dynamic with phil. that's probably going to be next.)