Ratboy Genius Animatic: Galactic Superheroes, Episode 1 [2020]

After looking at my animatic from a year and a half prior, I felt it needed... a lot of improvement. So I redid the thing from scratch.
As said before, the audio from the original video is by Ryan Dorin, who really needs to upload the audio to BandCamp at some point in time.
Like the previous version, this was done in pencil because I don't have a drawing tablet, and I added a few scenes to make the pacing and events more coherent and less convoluted. Unlike the original, however, the artwork is actually decent.
Enjoy.

[@ratboygenius]

Great job!

[@gobert.]

I love seeing all the different interpretations for the character’s designs. This is clearly more comic based and kinda like earthworm jim in contrast the the work Theomax_Art does to the characters on instagram. His are all rubber hose and cartoon like

[@leapingfriend1681]

Indeed, interpreting the simple yet distinct characters was the fun park of making this, as well as the reason Ratboy fan art has a special diversity to it. Didn't have Earthworm Jim directly on the brain at the time (I was going for more of a Zeurel thing), but I see the resemblance now... Huh.

[@Icheasea_T]

Bless this Fred.....and the others too I guess. But mostly Fred

[@MankanChayor]

Wow, that Old Fingerhead design is clever!! The octopus look works perfectly with the way his head is already shaped, and you can already kinda interpret an octopus' head in those two different ways depending on the intent...so cool!

[@leapingfriend1681]

Yeah, I always kinda imagined the "fingers" being tentacles, so I expanded from there. It already fits with the "Space is an Ocean" trope that Starship Genius would expand upon, and it also helps that he's a fish catcher, octopi having a fish-related diet. Old Fingerhead was definitely the character I had the most fun making sketches of.

[@hodek333]

i cant believe i've never seen this,, i love it sm 🥺🥺

[@pixelraster9588]

Commenting to bump, great work!

[@atomiccompiler9495]

Amazing character design :D

[@a.gonzalez610]

This is so good

[@dataq1745]

I wasn’t expecting the fun pun at the end so when it hit I died laughing. A also like the little nervous comic fish at the end too! Great job on this animatic!

[@dataq1745]

Fin* pun not fun pun sorry lol

[@leapingfriend1681]

It's a reference to an animation test from Ratboy involving a Fish Legion comedian. twitter.com/ratboygenius/status/764320828120903680?s=20 He was on my mind when I was making an earlier version of this animatic, so I phoned him in.

[@CraniumMaddoo]

Oh my god I adore your art style. You rendered the characters in such an interesting way! It feels like a real sci-fi adventure!

[@moomaniac2932]

Please finish this! You're doing gods work!

[@jeffreyberling2401]

This is awesome! I especially like the George model you made. Thank you!

[@leapingfriend1681]

Thanks. George's redesign is a definite step up from my 2018 version of him... Not sure what I was thinking back then.

[@XuKyDeJoTa]

I've watched some of your videos long ago, and wow, you really improved a lot! Your video "Happyman on the Red Planet 2 but it's in Microsoft Paint" was quite fun to watch, but the drawings here are so much better. Keep up the good work!

[@Ace_the_Yoshi]

Excellent work!

[@LieutenantRancid]

BRUH this is so good.

[@topazich_main]

👍👍👍