(this is gonna be a long post since I spent three full-ass days drawing this instead of studying for my midterms, so I got a lot to dump)
I was at work on Saturday and "Blame It on the Boogie" by the Jackson 5, and I've been disastrously fixated on Epithet Erased these last few weeks (I straight up joined the Patreon last week and binged a ton of stuff on there. Huge props to Jello btw for having one of the most bang-for-your-buck Patreon's content-wide of any Youtuber I've seen.)
Thus, my brain put it in the AMV-making machine and spit out an animatic I now need to make, with characters tied to the song's chorus.
Breakdown:
Don't blame it on the sunshine: Giovanni
Don't blame it on the moonlight: Lorelai
Don't blame it on the good times: Naven
Blame it on the boogie: Yoomtah (probs gonna be yoom and naven roller disco-ing it up)
(Then for the second half the chorus, it'd go Phoenica, Trixie, Rick, then Molly. I'm yet to design their outfits.)
So, more compelled to make a proper real-ass goddamned animatic than ever, I started with "I need to design their disco outfits!!!"
And then drew the most animation-unfriendly outfit for Lorelai like oh my god what was I thinking (I did a good job going off reference with it but.....fuck me man....) I also said fuck off to consistency, so that's why yoomtah and giovanni are basically the same height here lol
Anyways, the animatic would basically follow the beats of Prison of Plastic, but instead of getting into fairytale-esque fantasy beforehand, Lorelai listened to the Jackson 5 for two days straight like I did while I was drawing this. (I was in a call with a friend while drawing Giovanni, and I kept stopping his train of thought by singing "Blame it on the boogie~~~" lmao)
further thoughts:
Giovanni: most normal outfit here, since i drew him first. also looks the worst because of that. compared to the rest, he's very early-70s instead of the late 70s-80s look everyone else ended up with because they're neon bitches. he also ended up with his Banzai Blaster neck scarf as a Fred Jones-ass ascot because I make the rulez
Lorelai: I'm not afraid to say it, I fucking cooked with that dress. I went off of the photo reference there heavily (I wish google image search or fuckass Pinterest was better so I could know where that image is from but lo...) I zhuzhed the reflections to be more pastel yellow-purple to match her Hare-idan design for funsies. sad I couldn't incorporate more bunny elements in :(
Naven: I kept trying normal-70s brownish-greens for the suit pieces until I gave up and muted his normal palette. I am also so so proud of the shag and sunglasses, even though they're not that far from his normal hair and glasses. Also he and Yoomtah are in roller skates because of @euniearts's post that I have referenced on Yoomtah's individual screencap. They were both already in flares. They were made for the roller disco.
Yoomtah: I gave up a little here. Her color palette is intact because I ran out of good disco references and also, it's a killer color palette??? It's too good to change tbh. I tried to incorporate more of the yellow, too, but it just didn't work. It's not pictured, but I also referenced @clottedscream's many full-body drawings of yoomtah. I added the robot-seam-line thing she draws on her midriff. I love this robot gremlin teehee, I need to draw her more.
I also doodled some comics while I was doing these
1st: Giovanni in a Skirt (i felt bad putting him in pants but that's just the way the cookie crumbles...)
(me too, lorelai, me too. I'm such a sucker for feminine boys who aren't cookie-cutter femboys, so long-haired skirt-wearing giovanni critical hits me. also why did i draw her afro like peridot what)
I love how the Enterprise got destroyed like 6 times and theyre on the Enterprise-F or whatever but our beautiful happy spoon Voyager gets to be preserved as a museum for all her hard work ✨️💖✨️
