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(OML I JUST REALIZE I FORGOT TO TURN THE LAYER BACK ON FOR HIS HEAD TUFT ON THE FULL BODY-OOPS 😭😭) Since Seasonal posted their quick storyboard of Scylla I thought it was appropriate to share the character designs of Ody and Eury (+ the palette design for Odysseus bc unfortunately we don’t have a full color full body of Eury yet (we have his palette design but it hasn’t left the “base” stage yet))

(I didn’t include Ody’s scars for various reasons- primarily bc I’m dumb and forgot. Ody also looks slightly different depending on what point of the story it is) If you’re wondering why Ody has so many notes and not Eury, that’s because I did Ody first. Half way through the notes I realized “wait, what am I doing?? This isn’t for anyone outside of me and my twin?? Why am I meticulously trying to find space for notes me and them already know of??” So I decided to save myself the time and energy by not adding notes for Eury. I think these are both down for some revisions, but these are generally what they look like!

Here’s Odysseus’s palette design! The sketch was originally made by @seasonalmoss (a bit ago, so it was definitely before his character design was made). I did everything else! (His scars were adjusted a bit after this) gosh I probably should go through my thought process over this designs- I’ll try to list a few!

Odysseus being all droopy was a design choice made from the start (we joined this fandom in July 14TH 2023). We wanted to capture the weight of his guilt and sadness in some physical way. It also just makes him look more sopping wet. His fur use to be super sharp in shape, and his ears use to stand tall! This was to show how bold and out there he was! Between Just a Man and Survive his ears were simply kinked a little. For the entirety of act one his fur was incredibly round in shape. To show how he leaned a little bit to much on the mercy side of things.

A lot of the design choices regarding his palette design was with three things in mind. 1. Telemachus was actually designed first (bc Seasonal designed him and she didn’t procrastinate for over a year on his design)- so I had to make sure he looked related to his son (Ody being a tabby just made sense to us) 2. I really wanted to reference owls- as he is a trainee of Athena. 3. Odysseus is a very warm, loving and sweet guy (when not pushed into corner) so I really wanted to capture that with his design!

We really wanted him to look well-built and a little broad-shouldered- while still looking a little scrawny in some areas (as he just felt like he was weirdly gangly and scrawny as a kid). Hence the tapering of his body! It also just adds more visual interest. (Though I probably could’ve exaggerated these a little more)

Ody actually has these weird square shaped striped pupils- which isn’t properly shown in his palette design (I’m not sure why- ask @seasonalmoss since it was their idea. But I think it looks cool)

Catified EPIC: the musical Storyboard

Making an EPIC animatic 😤 anyways quick kinda low quality storyboard! Eurylochus now has a design BTW! Which isnt really shown here, but he was designed by my twin! @thequasarwinds (I’ll allow her to post it) his pallet design however (so his colors and patterns) were by me! I used a base so im not gonna show it here!

Snippet for the early and rough boards for a Little Wolf animatic! (Catified)

Okay these are very very rough! And do not accuraterly display the designs! There’s a lot of things I plan on changing in the final animatic! I plan on animating this bit all the way to the end! (If you’re confused the cat at the end is Antinous! I don’t think I made him confused enough)

the original boards! (THE LAST PAGE IS A WIP)