The Muppet Odyssey

Hey, I'm PJ, enby classicist, novice animator and big old nerd working on creating an animated muppet movie inspired by the odyssey. Open to all suggestions :) you can also find me on Instagram @ the_muppet_odyssey, but lets be real, ill probably be most active on here

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How would Cyclopes do eyeliner??

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Just remembered that I’m going to need to make a score and probably musical numbers as well. We shall see if my GSCE music and love of music theory comes in handy……..

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And I have to decide what instruments to use. My heart wants to do period accurate instrumentation. My non-existent budget says otherwise. As does the point that is a muppet affair. But I can dream

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Just remembered that I’m going to need to make a score and probably musical numbers as well. We shall see if my GSCE music and love of music theory comes in handy……..

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Genuinely don’t understand how this has happened but I made an Instagram account to go along with this one. I hadn’t got around to posting anything on it yet because I’m lazy

And yet somehow the account got deactivated??? I appealed it but apparently I was still in violation of community standards?? I’m so confused

What have they got against the muppets?

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So I’ve kind of finished Kermit-Hermes

I’m still not sold on the show situation and the colours are still super flat, but I am putting it to the masses…

What looks better? Shoes or no shoes? Because I’ve decided against wing ankles

Because they are gross

Shoes or no shoes?

Shoes

No shoes

Horrible winged ankles

Voting ended onJan 26, 2025

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I did this to myself

Fuck

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So the background is obviously rubbish/ non existent. But Statler and Waldorf as Scylla and Charybdis have been actualised. I gave Statler the red body to harken back to red figure vase paintings of Scylla rather than have his body match his suit.

Given that Charybdis is a whirlpool, Waldorf was a little trickier. But a lot of sources talk about the island above her, and how it was a smaller island with a fig tree growing on it. So l've gone for that instead. Although I do feel like that will have to be a bit of a meta moment, maybe something about budget cuts?? Given that he is just sitting on the island rather than embody embodying Charybdis as it were. Not sure yet. But I'll figure it out.

Also I did think about putting them in Hellenic clothing. But I thought it was funnier if they were just anachronistic beyond belief

I’ll chuck the Timelapse under the cut if anyone is interested

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I have no idea who Odysseus should be, any of the human cast members really

Part of me wants to make all of them muppets. But I feel like that would make Kermit Odysseus and that just does not fit to me

I don’t know what I’m doing

[someone-pretentious]

Sam eagle is zeus

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I am so glad someone is on the same page as me. He just makes the perfect Zeus in my head

[someone-pretentious]

My sister thinks Kermit should be Hermes, because the names sound similar.

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Honestly, I hadn’t thought of that, and I can see it so clearly in my head. I may be stealing that if that’s alright……

[flawlesslogic5]

Kermes?

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Genius.

If he ends up being Hermes, that is the only thing he’ll be known as

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Inspired by @duck-life-is-not-an-option here is a buff Beaker. I haven’t finished his chiton becuase I’m about to get off the train, but you get the vibe

If Beaker is Achilles, this may be the vibe. Although Beaker as Helen is still calling my name. I’ll have to do both and compare the two I think

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Okay so Kermit looks insane with shoes on

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So as loathe as I am to admit it, if Kermit is Hermes, he’s going to have to just have wings on his ankles

Like Namor the Submariner

I’m going to keep working on it because ankle wings is not the vibe I’m wanting

[mcpro229]

Crocs with heely wheels, with wings. Thoughts?

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Give me a figurative five minutes

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Please excuse the terrible editing.

Is this what you were envisioning?

[the-muppet-odyssey]

So I’ve kind of finished Kermit-Hermes

I’m still not sold on the show situation and the colours are still super flat, but I am putting it to the masses…

What looks better? Shoes or no shoes? Because I’ve decided against wing ankles

Because they are gross

Shoes or no shoes?

Shoes

No shoes

Horrible winged ankles

Voting ended onJan 26, 2025

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Okay so Kermit looks insane with shoes on

[the-muppet-odyssey]

So as loathe as I am to admit it, if Kermit is Hermes, he’s going to have to just have wings on his ankles

Like Namor the Submariner

I’m going to keep working on it because ankle wings is not the vibe I’m wanting

[mcpro229]

Crocs with heely wheels, with wings. Thoughts?

[the-muppet-odyssey]

Give me a figurative five minutes

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Pro tip:

Don’t look up Kermit closed fist on Google images.

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Okay so Kermit looks insane with shoes on

[the-muppet-odyssey]

So as loathe as I am to admit it, if Kermit is Hermes, he’s going to have to just have wings on his ankles

Like Namor the Submariner

I’m going to keep working on it because ankle wings is not the vibe I’m wanting

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Okay so Kermit looks insane with shoes on

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On a train for the next couple of hours, hoping to get some drawing done

I cannot reach the very low tray table in a sensible way, so we’ll see how it goes 😬

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also i dont think i ever shared my initial very shitty storyboard. i might chuck that up at some point later. who knows

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i cant remember if i mentioned this on here already, but its still circling around my head

Odysseus and Aeolus

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Muppets travelling by map

what if, when Odysseus meets Aelous, rather than just giving Odysseus the winds, he gives Odysseus a map to travel by map with, so we can just do a map transition to the crew nearly at Ithaca (obviously visible in the distance) and then someone, I'm currently picturing Fozzie, decides to take the winds as in the original text

if the person who takes and opens the winds is Fozzie, I feel like he was probably attempting a fart joke or something...

but with the winds open, they, of course, get sent all the way back across the Aegean, and they could lose the map as well when they are ripped away from Ithaca by the winds, explaining why they have to effectively go the long way round, rather than fast-travelling like they can in other media