#zoes analysis

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I have drawn Blitz many, many times, but I haven't studied how to draw him in a long time. I wanted to take some time to learn how to draw him on-model in the shows style to be able to draw him more accurately.

Helluva Boss' style is very line and shape based. Movement, flow, elasticity, expressiveness and appealing drawings are favoured over form and consistency. This is something great for the show! The characters being able to survive being off model is great for the animators, aswell as for fan artists and generating fandom. But, makes it really hard for me to learn how to draw the characters! During this exercise I constantly struggled with discerning Blitz' proportions and his graphical lines and shapes, because there is very little consistency in the show. For example, Blitz is supposed to be about 4 heads tall, (minus his horns) but he can range from 3 to 5 heads tall! That's about this much difference:

That is huge! Most shows wouldn't allow that type of flexibility. So as I was doing this exercise I was like, what shape is his torso? I don't know. How long are his legs? I don't know. What shape are his boots? I don't know. His proportions are just vibes. 🏖️ Compare this to Knights of Guinevere. That show values form, consistency and quality drawings over more frames. HB and KOG have opposing animation styles, but that's because their are both very different shows with very different tones, and their animation reflects that. Anyways, this was a really great exercise. Learned a lot, especially about line in character design. I was wrong about a lot of things, particularly the graphical shape of a lot of his body parts.

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❤️❤️🌟❤️❤️🥳❤️🎊🎊 Helluva Boss Mission Zero Stolitz Office Sex Scene Analysis WOOO! ❤️❤️🎉🎉❤️❤️🎂❤️🎊🍰✨💫🌈

Hi!

So Mission Zero came out recently. I thought it was really great! I really enjoyed it. The writing, animation and art direction was all really fantastic. It's amazing to see the improvement over the original pilot and how far Spindlehorse has come.

Something that confused me about the episode though, was that I was really struggling to interpret Blitz’ motivations for having sex with Stolas, and his hesitancy in accepting the transactional sexual relationship with him.

I spent a lot of time rewatching the episode and trying to analyse it and come up with different interpretations.

My first interpretation was that Blitz doesn’t like Stolas very much, and was afraid of him because he's a prince and he stole his book. Blitz was just having sex with him to appease him and get him out of his office. Blitz wasn't thrilled at having to continue to have sex, but was willing to do it because he really wants the book.

But that interpretation didn’t make sense to me? In the show, Blitz is never scared of Stolas (except briefly in 201 when Blitz is caught trying to steal his book), and is never afraid of saying no or talking back to him.

Blitz: Ugh, look I just had a chemical peel, so you’ll have to find someone else's face to plant that feathered ass! (102) Blitz: I’m not fucking you tonight, ok? (107) Blitz: I can’t today (204)

Blitz never tries to appease Stolas in the show because of his authority as a Prince. Blitz is often really disrespectful and rude to him actually.

Blitz actively disrespects authority, and is very confrontational and fearless. He is impulsive and petty and vengeful, and often puts himself in non ideal situations because he couldn’t help but start a fight. He also does things without thinking about the consequences of his actions.

Blitz gets into fights like all of the time, in every episode! And isn’t Blitz’ ability to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and not care what other people think, a really important part of his character?

Millie: Until I met some knucklehead who never gave a fuck about what anyone said he could or couldn’t be. He made me believe he could be anything. (210)

Blitz just isn't the type of person who does things he doesn't want to do.

I was leaning towards the interpretation that Blitz was just having sex with him to appease him and for the book, until I was rewatching the episode and saw this shot and I was like, "Oh I think he’s in love with him."

This is a shot of Stolas from Blitz' pov. The music is very romantic and gentle. Stolas looks beautiful! He looks gorgeous. His voice is soft and soothing, almost parental. It’s a very intimate shot. It's the type of shot that you would use to communicate that someone is in love.

I then had the question of... Is Blitz afraid of Stolas because he’s a prince? Or because he's afraid of intimacy?

I then decided to rewatch the episode with the interpretation that Blitz actually likes Stolas, but is afraid of appearing to be into him and having a relationship with him because he is afraid of intimacy.

(EDIT 26/10/25. I should have been clearer here when I first wrote this. I'm not actually suggesting that Blitz is IN LOVE with Stolas in Mission Zero, but that perhaps Blitz has feelings for him. Its just that my inner monologue when I was watching the ep happened to be, "Oh I think he's in love with him.")

I don’t believe this is the only way to interpret this scene, or it is the ‘correct’ way to interpret this scene, but I will be making my arguments and hopefully you find them interesting and persuasive!

Let's go through Mission Zero!

Blitz: Satan fucking damnit I’m trying to plan a hit here, this better be go-AAAHHHH! Wha?!

Stolas: Hello Blitzy!

Blitz: Hey, Stolas, what are you doing here?

Stolas: You said you were busy at work so I decided to make work a little more… fun!

Blitz: Wow, ok, not how I thought my day was going to go. Look, your majesty, there are other people here, coworkers! And I don’t, I don’t want to make a scene, ok?

So of course Blitz is really shocked and surprised! He is quite nervous and uncomfortable and overwhelmed. He doesn’t really know how to navigate this situation! You could argue that he is also very flustered?

This episode does contain multiple moments that subtextually communicate that Blitz is uncomfortable with intimacy, such as when Millie and Moxxie flirting with eachother here and here.

Millie: Hey! He ain't no virgin. I should know. Blitz: All right, guys, come on!

And also here. Blitz is annoyed when Millie and Moxxie start having sex, derogatorily calling it ‘filth,’ but still takes out his phone to film them and enjoys watching them. He is then annoyed when he is pulled away from it.

Blitz: Oh fuck, here they go again. Loona, sweetheart, I need you to avert your eyes, this is a horny married couple and you don’t need to see this filth.

This subtextually communicates that Blitz finds intimacy uncomfortable and annoying, and puts up a front of disliking it, but he still enjoys it and wants to partake in it.

We know that this is a very consistent character trait of Blitz throughout the show.

I've seen the argument being made that Blitz sleeps with Stolas here to distract him from taking the book back. But I would like to argue against that, because the book holds no importance in the cinematography (until after Blitz sleeps with him.) There is this shot which focuses on the book, and you can briefly see Blitz looking at it (he could just be looking at the candles) but the book does not show up as anything important in the sequence again.

This is unlike the scene in the circus when Blitz is trying to steal Stolas' Grimoire. The cinematography is clearly focused on and places a lot of emphasis on the book. It’s very clear in this scene that Blitz is flirting with Stolas to get the book.

Also, after they finish having sex and Blitz is getting dressed, he has his back turned towards it. It's like he forgot about it.

So, Blitz is likely not having sex with Stolas or nervous because of the book.

So, is he nervous because Stolas is intimidating? He doesn't look intimidating at all! He looks like a harmless cute little kitten melting in your hands. Complete dork. Like a school girl with a crush. No thoughts, head empty. 🥰 I love him.

Compare that to this scene from Hazbin hotel ep 4 Masquerade. Valentino is very intimidating! He is moving towards Angel, invading his space, entrapping him, overpowering him, dominating the composition. He is aggressive, physically berating him, and threatening him.

Stolas never moves closer to him or horde his book, all he does is lie seductively on his desk lol. Infact, Blitz moves closer to him! I would argue that Blitz is uncomfortable here because... well this is extremely unexpected, but also because he is uncomfortable with intimacy and public displays of affection, not because Stolas is a prince or he's intimidating or because he's worried about the book. Something else that could be relevant here, is that Blitz has a hard time believing anyone could actually love him, that may play into Blitz' hesitancy here. Blitz: "You don't hate me?" (210)

Stolas: Mmmmmm, you didn’t mind making a scene the last time.

Blitz: oh yeah.

Flashback to ‘the last time.’

Now this moment is very interesting!

I think it is implied that Blitz cuddled with Stolas all night and only left when he had too. Blitz could have left right as Stolas went to sleep, he could have left earlier, but he decides to stay all night even though he was originally going to do this "real fast."

Also by how difficult it was for Blitz to remove himself from Stolas, it’s implied that he held Stolas very tightly.

In the original pilot, Blitz is characterised as being mischievous and cocky (ha) when he steals Stolas’ book. But in the remake, he is characterised as being very nervous. 

Is he nervous because he is stealing a magical artifact from a powerful prince? Or is he nervous because he really enjoyed that night with Stolas and formed a connection with him. But it terrified him because he's afraid of intimacy and getting too close to people, so now he’s trying to run away like he did with all his previous exes.

Moxxie: Why do you push your friends away? (106) But you don’t want to do things alone Blitzo! You tried the solo act, it didn’t work out so well! Yet you still shove away anyone who gets to close until they resent you for being a selfish shitty shit fuck! (106) Stolas: Are you afraid to love people Blitzy? (106)

Blitz: If by “crushes other people's feelings” you mean end shit before it gets serious than bingo! I’m doing everyone a favour, because relationships are boring! (209)

Relationships are not actually boring, he wants a relationship so bad! Verosika: How do you think I felt? When the fun guy I was dating decided to just bail on me because I made the shitty mistake of saying ‘I love…’ Guh! (209) Blitz: Stolas, you are better off without me, kay? You deserve so mu- I don't even know why you want to be with me. (209)

We know that Blitz is terrified of getting too close to people because he imagines himself as some kind of poison who can only cause pain to other people. This comes from his childhood trauma of... well... killing his mum and almost murdering his best friend.

Millie: You’ll never stop fucking peoples lives up. When was the last time you loved someone without hurting them? (210) Blitz: Don’t touch me! I destroy everything, everyone. I make everyone's lives worse! (210)

Blitz: She’s still not mad about that is she?

Stolas: Extremely : (

Blitz: Yeesh, oof. I’m so sorry about that.

You can interpret this moment as Blitz appeasing Stolas. But you could also interpret it as Blitz genuinely feeling bad for him and sincerely apologising for causing Stolas to get caught cheating.

Stolas: Aw, how about you Pump me full of “Sorry” right on this Desk?

Blitz: Uh, I just cleaned that de- All right, you know what? Fine, you win, clothes off, let's go. Holes out, poles out, lets get this done in 5 seconds!

Can I tell you that this scene is hot as hell? It's genuinely really erotic and horny! The things I have seen people say, and the fanart I saw... This show is taking me further from god.

Like jesus christ Stolas, this scene made me blush so hard. I was so flustered! Which leads me to my next point. I think Blitz had sex with Stolas... just because he wanted too. Like, he's hot. 🤣

(EDIT 26/10/25. I failed to make the point that I originally intended to here. I meant to argue that the directional choice for this scene to have a light hearted, comedic, sexy tone I think is important to factor in on how you are supposed to interpret this scene.

You could interpret this moment as, Blitz is like..  Problem: rich, powerful guy is in my office who wants to bone. Solution: have sex with him and then he’ll go away.  But Blitz doesn't try to do anything else. He could have left the room, he could have told him to go away, he could have given an excuse, he could have grabbed the book and dashed outta there, he could have killed him, idk. But he folded and slept with him so fast under zero pressure. Stolas only had to ask once.

Like in 10 seconds Blitz spread open Stolas’ legs, undid his pants, took of his belt, opened his jacket, climbed on top of Stolas, ran his hands down his thighs, up his body to his collar, pulled him close, grabbed his arm, flipped him over, held his arms behind his back and pulled his hair. That's way more extra than he needed to be. It's almost comedic how quickly they fuck LOL. 🤣

Throwing away the candle over his shoulder (even though it was still lit and a fire hazard) could be interpreted as symbolic for Blitz throwing away his inhibition and caving into his desires.

There's also an interesting moment where, at least to me, it looks like Stolas is about to kiss Blitz, and Blitz literally shoves Stolas’ face away from him. Having sex with him is fine, but kissing him would be too intimate for Blitz to feel comfortable with.

(EDIT 26/10/25. I disagree with myself here. I don't think that what's going on. My shipping brain just got very excited 👀)

Only when Stolas can’t see him, does Blitz smile. To me, this communicates that Blitz doesn’t want Stolas to know how badly he’s into it. He only feels comfortable showing how much he enjoys having sex with Stolas and how much he wants him when he’s not looking. : (

Also the writers are showing that the dynamic of… Blitz is really rough and aggressive during sex because he is afraid of intimacy and being vulnerable and gentle with someone. To the point where, even while he is HAVING SEX with someone, he still has to put on a dominating, charismatic persona to be comfortable engaging in it. 

Blitz: Moxxie, I'm a fucking top! (helluva shorts ep 2) It reminds me of the classic Stolitz portrait from Ozzies.

To me this image communicates that Blitz really likes being with Stolas and wishes this were a real relationship, but he is afraid of intimacy. Only when Stolas is asleep does Blitz feel comfortable letting his guard down and expressing how much he enjoys being with him.

Stolas: [moans] Amazing… You are so much stronger than you look.

Blitz: Yeah, well, I’m pretty sure your bones are hollow so…

Blitz is vibing. He looks quite relaxed. He chose to cuddle with stolas and share a cigarette with him and stay with him after they had finished having sex, but I do notice he stops himself from fully reciprocating.

Blitz could be hugging him or nuzzling into him, or he could have just immediately left when Stolas came. But he chose to stay, share a cigarette with him and snuggle with him, but doesn’t allow himself to get too close and be too intimate with him.

(EDIT 26/10/25. Something that I neglected to say here that I think is really important is that Blitz is deflecting. Blitz isn't emotionally reciprocating, and doesn't trust Stolas enough to believe his compliment. This could be because Blitz doesn't like Stolas and doesn't trust him because he is a Prince, so of course he wouldn't reciprocate the compliment. Or it could be a manifestation of Blitz' self loathing. I know that I sometimes don't believe compliments that people give me, and don't trust peoples intentions when they are friendly to me, because of my own low self esteem. For example, one of my classmates at uni who I'm not particularly close with would sometimes wave to me and say, "Hi Zoe! How are you? Great to see you!" And I'm just like, "?????? You couldn't possibly be that excited to see me. You must be faking it." I just struggle to believe that someone could actually like me and be happy to see me. And this is something that Blitz struggles with as well. Blitz: Oh, ok, alright, your fucking with me! (208) Blitz: Oh sorry, this entire time I assumed the worst because I was convinced a Prince could never love someone like me... (209) Blitz: How could you ever actually care for an imp? Me? (209)

When he notices Stolas is going to take away the book, then he rushes in to stop him.

Stolas: I’ll just be taking my grimoire and-

Blitz: Or - or… how about this. You could let me hold onto it for a little while. Please? There's this spell I have been wanting to try, and did I not just plow you on company time?

Blitz is like… oh shit, he's taking the book away! Quick, improvise some sort of excuse! "uhhhhhhh, you could… let me hold onto it for a little while!" He's clearly just coming up with this right on the spot.

Blitz knows that Stolas doesn’t know that he stole his grimoire. And Blitz doesn’t want to confess to stealing it, so he is trying to keep the lie going.

He is of course nervous because he does really want this book, and he is lying to and manipulating a powerful goetia!

(EDIT 26/10/25. I actually now disagree with myself here. Someone who responded to this post pointed out that they thought Blitz only began to realise how powerful Stolas really was in truthseekers, and Stolas' power as a goetia likely didn't influence Blitz much here, and I agree with them. I think my first initial interpretation of the scene accidently bled in here.)

An interesting thing to note, when he is flirting with Stolas here, his body language is open, he is leaning towards stolas. He feels comfortable enough to tug on his collar. I don’t think Blitz is afraid of stolas here, he seems pretty relaxed and confident in his presence, he's just nervous because he's trying to manipulate him.

Stolas: Oh! Well I suppose as long as you have it… we’ll be sure to see each other again! Now won’t we?

Reiterating what I said earlier: The music is very romantic and gentle. Stolas looks beautiful! He looks gorgeous. His voice is soft and soothing, almost parental. It’s a very intimate shot. It's the type of shot that you would use to communicate that someone is in love. They could have used any shot they wanted too. It could have been framed as a business exchange, or Stolas could have been intimidating, or they could have highlighted his power as a prince, or make him comedic... But they chose THAT shot. That's the thing that breaks Blitz’ composure here and makes him nervous. Not because Stolas is a prince, not because he doesn’t want to have sex with him, but because Blitz actually likes him and has feelings for him, and it terrifies him.

Maybe Blitz in this moment is like, "FUCK!!! I"M AFRAID OF INTIMACEY AND GETTING CLOSE TO PEOPLE!!! I GOTTA RUN!!!!" He turns to run away but finds that he can't because he needs the book. So now he can't avoid having a relationship with this guy. Verosika: How do you think I felt? When the fun guy I was dating decided to just bail on me because I made the shitty mistake of saying ‘I love…’ Guh! (209)

Blitz: I [sighs] yes we... I guess we will. And also the specific word choice of ‘to SEE each other again,’ not, ‘have sex with each other again.'

Like, sex isn’t the issue for Blitz. Blitz just had sex with Stolas twice and enjoyed it. Blitz frequently uses sex as a tool to get what he wants. For example Chaz in ep 203, and the bouncer to get into the club in 107.

Blitz: Millie, I have spent too much time, energy and holes into setting this up for us to entertain your bullshit! (210)

Blitz uses sex to escape from his emotions, such as in Ghostfuckers and Queen Bee.

Sex is the easiest thing for him to do, but intimacy, relationships, and feelings! To continue to SEE someone again. Those are the most difficult for him.

Blitz: Goddam son of a bitch.

And Blitz is resentful towards Stolas here because he managed to claw himself into Blitz’ heart, and now Blitz can’t run away from his feelings, and he now has to have a relationship with him.

And I think, my interpretation of the story, that is ultimately the thing that allowed Blitz to fall in love with Stolas. Blitz couldn’t easily leave the relationship with Stolas like he did all his other exes, because they were tethered by the book.

Also, with this interpretation, it gives this first episode and the last episode a strong narrative arc of Blitz overcoming his fear of intimacy and relationships. Going from only being able to be intimate with someone by being sexually aggressive, to being comfortable being attentive and gentle.

I would be very interested in hearing any of your guys' thoughts on this little essay. If you agree with me or disagree? I would love to discuss this further if anyone is interested. This scene still genuinely still really confuses me, and I'm struggling to interpret it. I don't even totally agree with this interpretation and I keep flipping between different readings. I'm driving myself insane, please help. If you disagree with this interpretation, that's fine too. I don't fully buy it myself, but I do think it is a justified and compelling interpretation of this scene that fits with the characters and narrative of the show. I would like to thank @artyphex for this TikTok, it helped me in this analysis! Thank you for making until the end! I know it was a lot haha! Hope you enjoyed this! Love you <3 -Zoe (I have made edits to this post, btw, if some of the reblogs have slightly different text, that's why 😊)

(EDIT 26/10/25 You know, looking back at this post I definitely agree with a lot of what I said, and disagree on other things. My thoughts on this scene have largely settled. I think that this scene is intentionally written to be ambiguous. I think it's purposefully unclear how much Blitz likes him, how much he wants him, how much he cares about him, his real feelings and motivations... because for the first season of the show, it's also unclear how much Blitz likes Stolas too. There's definitely a lot that I originally excluded from this post that I should have mentioned, and some new realisations that I have made since that would be interesting to discuss. Maybe this post deserves a follow up : P Anyways... Mission Zero is finally up on youtube! Now I can watch "I'll bring the horses 'round! I know you like that. Oh now your horsing around" in HD! Yay!)

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Studying how to draw Stolas on model in show style! 🥰 

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💬 0  🔁 18  ❤️ 47 · I have drawn Blitz many, many times, but I haven't studied how to draw him in a long time. I wanted to take some time to

I also wanted to study how to draw Stolas on model in the show style as well. It was quite difficult for the same reason that studying Blitz was, which was that there is a lack of consistency in the show, and it was beginning to really frustrate me.

How long are Stolas' legs? Nobody knows, I'm not sure even the animation director knows. 😂 (I don't mean this as an actual dis btw)

But I'm really happy with what I achieved, I think the final drawing really looks like him! I definitely discovered a lot of things that I hadn't noticed about his character before, like his neck is wider at the top, like a V shape. The point in which his waist sinches in is a little below 1/2 length of his torso, and his chest protrudes quite dramatically from the side, to name a few.

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Here, I was studying how to draw Loona. I was using techniques I learned in Kevin Chens CDA class Figure Invention for Animation. Kevin Chen is almost a folklore figure at my uni. He's the grandfather of anatomy! <3 Very cool amazing dude, he's great. Some interesting observations about Loonas character design: - She's really chonkey. She's quite wide and boxy, but she has a small neck, arms and shoulders to balance out her proportions. - Her nose doesn't match the perspective of the rest of her face. I think the animators purposefully break the perspective and cheat to camera in order to create a more appealing drawing. -Her waist creates a X shape instead of a ) ( shape, which is how I normally draw torsos. - The line quality is like this:

The lines and shapes are all very purposefully designed. Each line is curved and changes gradually. They have roughly about a maximum of 2 curve changes. To avoid the style being too visually busy with all of all the sharp points, the lines are very long and can sweep up to the whole length of the figure. Character design is very nommy.

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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Helluva Boss Full Moon Composition Analysis PART 2!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Click here for Part 1!

So what is the line that I illuded to in my previous post? It's insane! It absolutely blew my MIND when I first noticed it!

So basically, if you are making a show, that being a tv show, film, or even something like a comic book, or whatever. Something that you can do is you can invent a visual motif that is symbolic of an idea, or theme, or character, or whatever in your story, and use it in your show to visually communicate the story along with the script.

And then what you can do is repeat that motif throughout the show, subtly transforming it each time, each instance building on top of eachother and adding meaning and sentimentality! Its so cool! There's this visual motif - a diagonal line present in the composition of most of the shots in this sequence. It is often reinforced by multiple compositional elements in the shot, such as the characters eyeline, the perspective, the characters movement, the camera movement, often literal lines in the artwork, ect ect.. This line is symbolic of the hierarchal disparity of power in they're relationship because of they're class difference, and how that causes conflict and disconnects them in they're relationship. Stolas is to the right and above Blitz, and Blitz is below, being looked down on. This is representative of the conflict between these characters in this scene and also in the show.

Its present in all of these shots, but you can particularly see it in this shot where Stolas walks away and Blitz runs forward after him. The storyboader purposefully chose this perspective and this camera placement in the scene to emphasis that line.

This shot and moment is very much about the the power discrepancy in their relationship. Stolas appears large and in control, and Blitz is small and powerlessly chasing after him.

But then when Stolas confesses his love and tells Blitz how much he cares for him, the line flips. Stolas moves his body to flip the line. This is symbolic of stolas trying to connect with Blitz and reaching out to him to break down the barriers in theyre relationship, by giving up his power and passing it along to Blitz. Stolas in this moment is also freeing Blitz from the deal and himself by giving him the crystal, giving Blitz his autonomy back.

And it is emphasised by the huge camera movement, and the strong compositional element of Blitz and Stolas' arms.

Then here, the line becomes flat, symbolic of them becoming equals in power, and them further breaking down the barriers in they're relationship.

But then when Blitz and Stolas reject each other, the line comes back! Blitz is posed so that his body purposefully recreates the line again!

And it is emphasised by this big camera movement up, and the blocking of Stolas standing up. This is symbolic of they're relationship breaking down again, and them reverting back to they're original dysfunctionality and power imbalance and disconnect.

As Blitz moves forward the line grows stronger, Blitz now dominating over Stolas. This is when the characters relationship is at its most dysfunctional in this scene.

You can see how the storyboader purposefully set up the perspective and placement of elements in each shot to create this specific effect.

When Stolas breaks down crying and Blitz realises what's actually going on, and runs to reach out to Stolas and apologies to him, the line flips again!

And here the line becomes flat again! This is symbolic of Blitz genuinely aiming to repair they're relationship in that moment as equals. But we all know how that went haha! There are so many, so many cool things that I discovered when I did this analysis, so heres just a little of it hehe! 😋 Shoutout again to Samantha Ames the storyboader of this sequence, and the rest of the amazing creative team at Spindlehorse! What I would give to sit down with one of the directors and pick they're brain...

I have experienced this scene so many times, 100's of times, that it's literally just white noise to me now lol! All emotion and meaning is gone and it just feels like the characters are going through the motions. Fun fact! When I was working on this analysis, Youtube would always open the video on the gag where Blitz was jerking off and he came, and Stolas yelped suggestively. Then I would immediately click forward to Blitz kicking open the door and chasing Stolas down and abusively yelling at him... and the tonal dissonance was very jarring lol.

If you are interested in other analyses of The Full Moon, may I recommend TB Skyens video reacting to this episode! I love this guy, his reactions of Helluva Boss are really fantastic. He really understands the show and meets it where its at. He is also really thoughtful and insightful in his observations. @ohnoitstbskyen

Also shoutout to Sideways for introducing me to the idea of leitmotifs, and repeating motifs in artwork to represent the evolution of how the themes and characters and in an artwork change and grow over the course of the story.

Thank you for getting to the bottom of this truly MONSTER of a post. I hope you guys found this interesting and maybe it got you to think about things you hadn't before. I am a verbose nerd, and I love to share my knowledge and what I find interesting with other people. See you next time!

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Hi! This is from December of 2023. The Just Look My Way music video had just come out and it absolutely emotionally devastated me! I wanted to figure out, why so I did a deep dive visual analysis of it. I referenced the book 'Picture This: How Pictures Work' by Molly Bang, which is a fantastic book that I learnt so much from. It's a short and easy read but contains knowledge that I think every artist should know. I also used knowledge that I learned from Bill Perkins CDA class "Style Development for Animation," that I took that year, as well as things I had learned from my mentor at uni. I learnt so much from this exercise! I grew a greater appreciation for the music video and the artists who worked on it. Shout out to Samantha Ames who storyboarded it, as well as all the other artists at Spindlehorse who created it!

You can try reading my illegible handwriting if you want to understand my analysis, haha! I really did learn a lot from this exercise that I still carry into my artwork today. It was very fun! It feels really good to lift up the metaphorical hood of the car and seeing how the engine works. It really ignited my spark for storyboarding and Keyframe illustration, and visual storytelling. If you are interested in art or filmmaking, storyboarding, storytelling, I highly recommend this exercise! The aim of this exercise is to try to observe how the artist used the arrangement of shapes in the composition to communicate the story and meaning? What was the purpose of this shot and what visual techniques did they use to achieve it? What visual language did they use? How did they implement symbolism and metaphor...? Ect... I don't really remember what I learnt? But I do remember pulling my classmate aside at a party and talking to her for an hour about the compositional and visual language ideas present in the music video! 😂😂😂😂😂 And I used to be in denial that I was Autistic! 😂😂😂😂😂 Anyways, hope this is interesting! I find it very interesting! I am a huge analytical nerd, both for Helluva Boss and for Animation and film making! See you later! <3

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Oh boy, time for the big one.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Helluva Boss Full Moon Composition Analysis PART 1!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is from July of 2024. The final scene from The Full Moon is one of my favourite scenes in the show. And I think one of the best, if not THE BEST scene in Helluva Boss. It's extremely well written, and I think really wholly encapsulates the themes and the heart of the show. That being, how unresolved childhood trauma and abuse echo into our adult lives and relationships. If I could only show someone ONE scene from Helluva Boss, I think it would be this one. Obviously a lot of love and care and time and attention was put into it to get it just perfect. The storyboarder was clearly given a lot of time to play around with ideas, which i think is why this sequence has such a rich vocabulary and deep use of visual language. Shout out to Samantha Ames, the storyboarder for this sequence, and the rest of the artists who worked on this episode and this scene! It really takes a village to create an animated show. I did this study because I had waited like 9 months for this episode to come out and I was gonna milk it for everything I could lol! I also LOVE! This stuff... SO MUCH! I love symbolism. I love cinematography, I love visual storytelling. This scene obviously had a lot of care and attention put into it, since it is such an important scene, so I felt I could learn a lot from studying it. During this exercise, I was specifically looking at the:

Composition

Storyboarding

Cinematography and editing

Creation and implementation of visual language ideas and how it communicates meaning, themes and story

usage of Parallels, Symbolism and Metaphor

This is a soft sequel to my Just Look My Way composition analysis, which further elaborates on the principles surrounding this exercise. You can try reading my illegible handwriting if you want to read my analysis, haha!

I remember this was a huge undertaking! It took me a few weeks of consistent work to get through the entire scene. I would hyper fixate for hours at a time and forget to eat, and when I wasn't working on this analysis I was thinking about this analysis haha! I'm extremely proud of this, and I learnt so much from it! I learnt so much about storyboarding and visual storytelling from this exercise that I continue to apply in my work to this day! You can see me applying what I learned in this illustration! I totally recommend this exercise to everyone who wants to learn more about composition and storyboarding and storytelling. You don't have to go this crazy with it, I'm just not normal. The art direction in Helluva Boss is genuinely fantastic! The team are so incredibly skilled and really know what they are doing. When I was analysing this sequence, I had so many, "HOLY SHITTTT!!!! WHAT THE FUUUUCKKKK????!!!! THATS INSAAANE!!!!!" moments. I did this a long time ago, so I don't really remember everything that I discovered, (you can read it if you are interested) but I can tell you about THE LINE!? What is the line??

Find out in PART 2!

(I ran out of image space haha!)

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I am an Artist currently studying at CDW studios. Hope to become a Keyframe Artist in the animation industry. ✏️ This is my side blog dedicated to my favourite show and special interest Helluva Boss! 💥 I'll be uploading Helluva Boss illustrations, sketches, comics, as well as reblogs and analyses. 🤓 I'm naturally very shy but I think it's time I get more involved in the Helluva Boss fandom and upload my artwork online. Let's see how this journey goes! ❤️

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