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We ALMOST Had Lost TGS Media…

Sage’s Confrontation animatic has been RECOVERED!!!

Original description:

" This is a little storyboard challenge I set up for myself. :) I wanted to board something to music, so I decided to go with the track that originally inspired my obsession with the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was in highschool.

My overall thoughts on the musical are . . . elaborate and complicated, but Anthony Warlow's recording of Confrontation has always been the fan favorite. I've had the song memorized for some eight years now, which actually accounts for some of the weirdness of this assignment. The thing is that I've had it memorized so long that I don't actually listen to it much anymore, and I hadn't recalled just how deep Warlow's voice is, especially as Hyde! XD In the years since I had developed my own adaptation of the original Jekyll and Hyde story, which calls for rather different designs for the characters (i.e. Hyde is tiny! tiiiinyyyyyyy) which I fear do not match the voices nearly as well as I would like. :|

Also I'd forgotten just how SLOW the pacing is for this song early on! Please try not to fall asleep! "

Details of the recovery under the cut!

In 2013, Sage uploaded the animatic to Vimeo. There it stayed for a few years until it was linked in the description of Ch 2, pg. 33, where the scene on the page was said to be a partial remake of that animatic.

Around the end of 2024, the link stopped working. The rest of Sage’s work was still available, but the animatic had been completely erased from the site for seemingly no reason.

My first thought was to use the Wayback Machine archive, so someone in a Discord server tried it and managed to get a link! Unfortunately, the site was slow and you could only see the cover of the animatic.

But by MIRACLE, someone had saved it to their phone for years! As of Jan 14 2025, the animatic was recovered in full!

Special shoutout to @jekylls-crippling-depression for her service to the TGS fandom! Thank you! 🙏

unfortunately The Character has now lived rent free in my head for so long they can claim squatters' rights

Panel redraw of Erin from Aurora

Original panel below the cut

more people need to consume media how dedicated comics fans consume their media of choice

"There are no principles a mortal can hold fast in the face of eternal, unending hunger" and it's over a panel of Falst and Dainix??

Falst's mom attacking him "it wasn't her anymore;" Dainix holding fast the ideal of hunting monsters to protect people- it being the only thing he could hold on to in the arena; "I can keep you safe! But I can't do anything if you don't shake off the Void;" "To the Dragon, hunger is fundamentally selfish... it doesn't even know what it's so desperate to have... when you hold the essence of hunger, stripped of pretense and pride- I wonder if you'll recognize the feeling;" "...you did it"

sorry I was rereading and saw this and got excited. These two guys have seen and felt principles and ideals destroyed in the face of the insatiable hunger of void corruption. And yet.

Look I think there's a short essay I could write here but currently all I've got is my brain going, "IT'S ABOUT DESIRE" and screaming.

kind of unrelated but I think it's also neat that Kendal and Alinua are with "you will break and then he will use you to break the world" as that also feels related to the chimeric plague and what the collector hopes to achieve by unraveling Vash's soul. I don't have a good connection with Tess so you get these two sentences instead of a post about that.

2.4.12

And that’s two more boxes crossed off

at this point my brain just looks like this

Got myself all prepped for the next Aurora chapter

Drew this yesterday testing out how streaming works from iPad. Got a pretty good grasp on how to do it :> I'd like to stream drawing comic pages since that's what I draw mostly anyway, obviously those who don't want to be spoiled shouldn't tune into it. But those who don't mind too much, it could be great!

Widdershins panel redraw be upon ye!

(Golly this my first time posting my actual art on Tumblr…)

From Widdershins by Kate Ashwin, Original panel below the cut