The Underworld【EPIC：The musical｜Animatic】

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EPIC：The musical by @JayHerrans
Animatic：@user-yl4qn4pl7d
song：The Underworld
伟大的音乐作品……

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

I'm sorry for any misunderstandings caused to everyone! Firstly, due to the time zone, this song was released a few hours earlier in our country. Secondly, I was already drawing part of this song when only a few clips were publicly released, but later I organized them. Thank you very much for your liking. I created it with great excitement, but of course there are many flaws. Please forgive me!🥺🥺💗💗💗💗

[@dominiqeu11]

Still impressively fast to finish off the rest

[@alexanderkamado504]

Light is fast but our fandom's animatic makers are faster

[@steampunksloth0059]

AND YOU MANAGED TO MAKE A WHOLE ANIMATIC IN THAT SHORT TIME?!?! ARE YOU A GOD?!!?

[@AlliB33tle]

No need to apologize- this is amazing!

[@user-ve5xv9pd3n]

I love your interpretation you are so good

[@kikicogger2284]

Polites gets me every time. What hurts so much is that according to Jorge, the lyrics are what the spirits were thinking right before they died. So Polites STILL believed in kindness as he died. That makes Monster- where Odysseus turns his back on kindness- hurt SO MUCH MORE. Now not only is Polites dead, but the part of him Odysseus was carrying is dead too.

[@MelodicBerry]

OH GOD. I'M SOBBING EVEN MORE

[@kikicogger2284]

@@MelodicBerry I KNOW RIGHT?! I had finally gotten to the point where I could *almost* get through the song without crying. Then I watching this animation again and started crying my eyes out again.

[@suziegonzalez2261]

This also makes the mom's part more sad 😭😭

[@JustABubbleTea]

​@@suziegonzalez2261because his mom kept thinking of him before she died

[@Violinvi]

Nooo is that true?? 😭 Polites deserves to go to Elysium!!

[@estebanmartia8698]

God dang it. 558 men died under your command hit hard, hearing Polytes messed me up more, and then hearing Odysseus' mother died waiting broke my heart

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

😭😭too sad...

[@teancumhorning4317]

Ya God games is going to be a slap in the face when it comes out.

[@jaqjaq101]

I know The story of odessyus is not really a happy one is it I think polites was someone he needed to hear from

[@aikoushi7288]

his mother killed herself. she thought odysseus died so she thought there was no reason to live

[@SeerOfTime577]

I cry every tiiime.

[@Owlbear26]

Thank you for feeding us!! The devil works fast, but EPIC animators work faster 😂

[@annablaze4577]

Faster then Hermes?

[@Sunnyuyuy]

​@@annablaze4577 Yep

[@That_1GayTheaterKid]

Dang it! I was gonna make that joke!!

[@nyx1016]

FRR

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

LMAO 😂

[@bunnylover2070]

It's not hearing Odys mother that makes me sob. It's him realising that she will not be there in Ithaka to welcome him and died waiting for his return ("I took too long")

[@ShinoriDelfrim]

Yeah. 😭

[@Violinvi]

😭

[@foolslayer9416]

In the Odyssey, she died of a broken heart because she feared she'd never see her son again.

[@mirimeerkat2087]

@@foolslayer9416I thought she drowned herself because she saw the storm hit his ship

[@bbcinc.2298]

Fun fact it’s Jorge’s actual mom that voices her

[@treesandwich4360]

3:19 is such a sad part because in the Odyssey it’s said that Odysseus tries to reach out and hug his mother three times but every time he fails because she no longer has a body

[@GleamDrawz]

Oh NO, that's actually heartbreaking. When I was imagining the animations in my mind while listening to the underworld I imagined (taking from one of the animators) that polites threw him an apple that he tried to catch (symbolizing asking him to be kind) but it fazed through his hand. The fact that he tried to hug her THREE TIMES is just… 😭

[@treesandwich4360]

@@GleamDrawz what’s extra sad is that Odysseus didn’t know that his mother died while he was away fighting the war, he thought that she was till alive and only found out when he saw her in the underworld

[@adamharith782]

And the fact that she cant even see him is even sadder (the dead cant interact/talks to the living withought drinking sacrificial blood"

[@GleamDrawz]

@@adamharith782 new lore unlocked for me lmao

[@Carols989]

its amazing how after thousands of years, this is a feeling not only we can perfectly understand, but hasn't changed at all. The loss of your mom, and the pain of a mom waiting for her son to come home from war

[@yourlocalbarb2018]

The fact that Jorge’s REAL LIFE mom voiced Anticlea (Odysseus’ mom) breaks me EVERY TIME 😭😭😭

[@breerex4957]

I cant stop thinking that one day (hopefully very far ) in the future jorge will listen to this song just to hear her voice again 😭

[@yourlocalbarb2018]

@@breerex4957 STOP THATS SO SAD

[@aaishaismail5717]

It fuels me that his mom hugged him, and that polities sees that he has his headband

[@LunamFlore]

Seconded, I teared up ;o;

[@annablaze4577]

Odysseus: don't worry I will make sure a part of you gets home

[@AnimePal-Z]

"Odysseus, when you come home, I'll be waiting" The way she says Odysseus Also, the fact that Jorge’s mom voiced Odysseus’s mom is so wholesome. Wanda Herrans(Jorge’s mom) has a beautiful voice and I we all love her

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

😭😭💔

[@Duck-bo7wb]

His irl mom voiced her!

[@chouchou778]

@@Duck-bo7wb WHAT how do you know?? :o

[@NilouAndLumineMyBeloveds]

Cause he mentioned it in the livestream yesterday

[@giuliannapesce2910]

@@NilouAndLumineMyBeloveds she's also in the credits :D

[@rakimion]

I kinda feel like Polites came to him to try one last time to soften his heart. It's even more heartbreaking knowing he failed.

[@Illier1]

I think in the overall scheme of things he succeeds in a way. Odysseus will have his crew turn on him in Act 2 after he refused to protect them from Scylla and realize being a callous asshole all the time doesn't make you right either. He will learn from Polites that you should always welcome the world with kindness but learn from Poseidon do not hesitate to do what needs to be done if you're given no choice. There is a middle ground that he struggles to find.

[@soleil6343]

@@Illier1 beautifully put!!

[@apexvoices174]

Imagine how heartbreaking it would be to find out that your mom died THROUGH THE UNDERWORLD! This poor man set out for war not knowing his mom died of heart ache .

[@TheCyancheese]

This song is what PTSD feels like.

[@lilydragon2129]

This song *is* ptsd

[@JustABubbleTea]

Literally

[@alakazamlover4908]

@@lilydragon2129 what does that make "monster"?

[@MegaBeast6854]

​@@alakazamlover4908 A bad-ace character build-up song!!

[@DudeGunman]

@@alakazamlover4908 A face turn

[@livonsaffron8874]

The fact that it was Jorge's mother who sang 😢

[@TailsFan]

I feel like she put her actual love for her son into her performance, it just felt so real and so intense. 😭

[@kirin1230]

Who's voicing her? She sounds so much like Calypso but I doubt Jorge will double cast anyone since he hasn't so far for the concept album.

[@troytanner5853]

@@kirin1230 they just said it was Jorge’s actual mom

[@godofthebirds3915]

​@@kirin1230 Wendy Herrans. Mother of Jorge

[@HectorFigueroa-ee2zw]

Bro, as a person that’s lost one of his best friends to suicide and a mother to a brain and aneurysm in one year this is really close to home and honestly is an artistic masterpiece

[@snowy4everalways719]

Is that best friend Polities? I’m trying to make sure, but he didn’t commit suicide. If it’s someone else I’m wrong (If it’s Polities he died in the song Survive, he got crushed by Polyphemus. He was the crew mate that said captain… with the cracky voice.)

[@niapurdue230]

He's talking about himself here, not the characters in the context of the musical

[@RSiB-22]

The way Jay confirmed that polities and his mother final thoughts were these is heartbreaking

[@alexeysimushov4971]

Great and emotional song now I am crying and the fact that Jorge’s mother sang as Odyssey’s mother hit me harder. And of course there is Polites who absolutely broke me. 👻 😇👩🌊

[@brimcdougal3937]

Bruh I’m gonna throw up I was already crying over this without knowing that 😭💖

[@Violinvi]

2:02 Oh my olympus... that scene... when Odysseus sounds so happy when he said the first Polites ... Ahhhh I'm sobbing... and then Polites cradled his head and then when he said Polites again he sounded so freaking heartbroken... But Polites voice! He sounds so peaceful or smth!!

[@owlishwillow7242]

The fact Odysseus also shows polities his old headband too

[@soleil6343]

I personally feel like Polites came in right then to comfort Odysseus, and to let him know that he forgives him,, the first time I heard the Open Arms reprise in there (last night lol) I couldn't stop myself from crying 😭

[@user-kq9wx9eq9f]

The part where "558 men died under your command" Really hits hard

[@francesleones4973]

I admire your dedication to put this together so soon after the song was released. You kept Hypnos at bay with a ton of coffee and energy drinks, didn't you? 😅

[@Fruity_one]

+ 1 like for Hypnos reference (such a forgotten god)

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Haha, I'm sorry I don't have the habit of drinking coffee and sports drinks. If there's anything that drives me to complete this work so quickly, it's my love for drawing and this musical.☺️☺️💗💗💗

[@teancumhorning4317]

​@@user-yl4qn4pl7d❤❤❤too pure❤❤❤

[@Myrtilos_Waffle]

Odysseus’s “I took too long” gets me EVERY TIME. Istg I’m cryinggggg 😭😭😭

[@owlishwillow7242]

2:16 odsiesses showing polities he still has his head band is so heart warming

[@nobodyshekatonchires7981]

I knew Anticlea would be singing, but it hurts more than I expected

[@CutePo1son]

Holy shit, you're so fast!! I love how you animated the dead soldiers coming out of the water and forming into Poseidon, genius! The bit with Odysseus and his mom was so beautiful. Also great ending with Tiresias watching them. I hope you do more animatics from this saga!

[@jaqjaq101]

I agree Tho Poseidon would have no power over the river styx She is her own deity

[@CutePo1son]

@@jaqjaq101 Yes, but i'm pretty sure this was a reference to Ruthlessness and how the soldiers died.

[@SuperSonicBlur]

So about Polytes... As has been mentioned, the spirits are singing their last thoughts and memories. Recall that Polytes' last words were a struggled "Captain...". After everything that happened, his last thoughts were a hope that despite his death and the pain it causes at the hands of Polyphemus, all he wants is Oddy to keep trying to greet the world with open arms... Ima go cry some more now...

[@torno99]

Dang, the part with his mom left me teary-eyed.

[@JoseCruz-tn3bx]

The mother part hurts make me teary eye 😭😭😭😭

[@leandraleo281]

Hits me right in the ouchie

[@coffee-isgood965]

2:34 nah!!! man this has me sobbing.. it’s 2am!!! that’s crazy💥

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Due to the time zone, the new song was released a few hours earlier in our country🥺🥺

[@coffee-isgood965]

@@user-yl4qn4pl7d still!!! given that you were so quick and The Art is so beautiful dude I’m sobbing it’s so good, -and I was already originally crying over the song!! but just something about visuals just hits harder!!!💥

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

@@coffee-isgood965 Thank you sooooo much！！！！！🥺💗💗💗💗

[@ShinoriDelfrim]

Man the part with the mother made me cry during the listening party…

[@drawing_for_views326]

Not me sobbing on the school bus because Odysseus is seeing his mom is dead

[@Zolia]

i literally was thinking that i needed an animatic of the underworld and here you are

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

☺️☺️💗💗💗💗

[@Zolia]

@@user-yl4qn4pl7dthank you ShiQing

[@familyinspace9600]

Hearing the soldier's hurt me, hearing polities broke my heart, hearing Odysseus's mother shattered my soul Do i listen to this song specifically over and over? Yes does it hurt? Also yes🥲👍

[@TowardsTheMoon880]

"Waiting.. Odysseus when you come home, ill be waiting.." ❤

[@TheAdrestio]

The imagery is sick! Especially the use of green for an animatic is genius! Well done

[@pilloeglade5463]

the ship turning upside down to get to the underworld is awesome.

[@ClawedAsh]

Oh my God, the part with Odysseus mother and her hugging him, this genuinely made my tear up and cry a little

[@Fruity_one]

HOW DID YOU COOK THIS FAST?! IT'S BEEN OUT FOR LESS THAN 2HRS! (unless it released earlier for your country) still, this is amazing❤ and heart breaking💔

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Hahaha it has been released a few hours earlier in my country due to time zone reasons! Thank you for liking it. This song is really heartbreaking💔...

[@Fruity_one]

@@user-yl4qn4pl7d It's crazy how you got to do it so fast, tho! Wait- this song is heartbreaking? REALLY?! NAH! It's not like it created a whole river out of Winions tears... including mines... (Ody's mom's part makes the end of 'The challenge' so much sader..)

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

@@Fruity_one Very charming stories and songs... it's hard not to be attracted to them...Thank you☺️☺️💗💗

[@scarlettclarke8357]

It ain’t out for me 😢

[@the.mushroom.faerie]

this may be weird but i love how drippy you made the ghosts!!! its a river of souls so to see them be semi liquid makes a lot of sense

[@blakegreengrass8146]

I love your transition of them going to the underworld!! Almost identical to how they jack did it to escape Davy Jones locker

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Yep！！Actually I am a big fan of this film.☺️☺️

[@The_National_Cougher]

An animatic already??? the saga just came out today!

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

🥺🤲💗💗I've been working for a long while...

[@The_National_Cougher]

@@user-yl4qn4pl7d Health to you.

[@aegri1847]

God, this is such a wonderful masterpiece. The souls look beautifully majestic and creepy. The part with Polites and Odysseus's mother has already been sad but your rendition of it drives a knife through my chest. 10/10, will definitely think about it when I lie awake at night and stare at the ceiling.

[@belleneon9071]

HELP I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

It's my honor to receive such praise😭💗💗💗

[@scmarshtacky]

"I took too long." Man, that hits me in the feels so hard every single time.

[@martinvicentefabregas7240]

MÉ TOO

[@jumpscare4688]

DAMN NOT THE MOM 😭

[@ilyte1]

Fun fact the singer is Wanda Herran. Mother of Jorge Herran: the songwriter behind this whole thing and voice of Odysseus

[@nureinbaum2125]

1:58 I love the detail of eurylochus (and another sailor) tring to comfort Odysseus during his flashback/vision and then at 3:54 eurylochus watching with concern, that feels like nice foreshadowing of his later doubts!

[@ShinoriDelfrim]

Yeah I love watching people animate the songs and adding details like this.

[@sebbithegreat2400]

The part where he held up the bandana to Polities made me actually sob, and I don't cry easily😭💔

[@duck4357]

I balled my eyed out listening to polytes part and his mom I couldn't stop crying

[@Waffily78]

Same

[@jemimaaleeyahdelacruz4370]

I cried when Polites sang then cried even more when his mom showed up and I can't stop crying now😭😭

[@Slothgreedenvy]

1:56 😢 Oh so beautiful, you matched those devastating beautiful and sad lyrics with great art

[@randyelnino4]

I recently lost my grandma last October… and hearing the mothers part in this song… it helps me grieve so much… i feel so much guilt for not being there in her last moments all because i needed to sleep… so thank you for portraying the way you did…. It helps alot..

[@alicgonzalez6253]

I feel like this song would make a great dark Vader video

[@Gabby111]

I was crying and yelling “no”when I was first listening to it!! Especially when he realizes his mom is gone…😭😭

[@L.W.74]

The imagery of the ship capsizing so as to enter the Underworld is so satisfying and captivating to watch honestly, I just think it's a great idea

[@matty8014]

Okay, I think I caught a really cool detail at 00:30 That feminine figure that appears right before the main part of the song, in the Odyssey text, when the crew is in the underworld and spooky stuff starts to happen, they suspect is Persephone's doing, as she in ancient Greece was widely feared as a very scary queen of the dead type, I wonder if this feminine figure is a reference to that If it is this is very very cool!

[@martinvicentefabregas7240]

I thought it was Circe

[@matty8014]

​@@martinvicentefabregas7240 Could be, multiple interpretations are cool

[@Slay-the-III]

The ship turning over Pirates of The Carribean Reference was awesome :]

[@un--known4149]

I'm not sure if I perceived the scene correctly but when you turned his crew into Poseidon wow that was jusr AMAZING ❤❤

[@Renatrovert]

I really love how polites was depicted as kind despite being in underworld

[@EdwardsArena625]

The underworld isnt hell

[@ilyte1]

​@EdwardsArena625 still sucks ass. Then again he can only be who he is regardless of where he is

[@DrZero686]

i simply love this series and animation if all myths were resembled like that everyone would be a history nerd

[@fredrick5509]

the devil works hard but the epic fandom works harder

[@lucalaser2360]

The infant part gets me each time! Damn I just wanna enjoy my meal but shit I gotta cry XD Also damnnnnn that's a peek animatic! Your shots are Hella thought through and creative, it's really amazing

[@shamegames1228]

This song hurts. Odysseus was forced to relive all the deaths from during his voyage. The finale thought of all those who died. When we hear Polites, it hits my heart heard, especially when even in his final moment, he still holds his beliefs of peace close to his heart. Then, immediately after, we found that Odysseus's mother passed while she waited for her son to return home. And after his mother vanishes the rage of "all i hear are screams!" Is the perfect show of his resolve and desire not to lose everything. It's a beautifully crafted song and an absolutely amazing emotional rollercoaster. Thank you for this animation!

[@Animefan24]

Damn it I am traveling and I decided to watch this. When his mother appeared I just broke down

[@mentalrebllion1270]

Dang, I cried for sure with that mom part 🥺

[@cube3648]

The boat flipping for going to the underworld is so cool!

[@froggyvibes3020]

I swear I’ve never seen animators work so fast and produce such high quality content as EPIC fan animators. It’s really impressive!!! ( If someone is reading this in the future for context this video was posted 20hrs ago and the song came out yesterday)

[@ryouichi4164]

I am sobbing ;-; the song is so powerful, and then polities just comes flying in UGHHH UGLY CRYING

[@ghaidaa5128]

Dude, that was so fast yet so beautifully made and cool. 🔥🔥🔥

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Thank you soooo much！！😭😭💗💗

[@SharminRahman-vz6hl]

Bestie had this animatic locked and loaded lmao Naw fr like this was soo good

[@juliar6714]

Having lost my own mum a few years ago, this really gets me every time. And the fact that it is sung by his own mother... my god

[@artsarefound]

"I took to long" almost made me tear up...

[@Creaturexblaze]

Holy shit this was fast and it looks so good?????? My god (immediately added to my Epic animated playlist)

[@paigeparty]

The mom has me CRYING

[@conors4312]

If anyone needs another reason to cry, Odysseus’s mom is actually being played by Jorge’s real mom

[@conors4312]

Probably common knowledge by now but figured I’d say something anyways

[@argbarbosa]

How dare you, and also thank you for this😭😭

[@cutiegurl3214]

2:43 when he says, "...Mom?" absolutely broke my heart (I'm a momma's girl)

[@Juvelian1]

I'm not crying over fictional characters...... Someone is just cutting too many onions!

[@QueenCreeper08]

This incredible oh my goodness!

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Thank you！！！！！

[@glowbug4322]

I have listened to this song so many times. How did I JUST realize that when he said "I took too long," he meant she was ALIVE when he left for war and he didn't get to say goodbye when she passed, bc he wasn't there.... I've cried three times today, I can't keep doing this 😭😭

[@ja-melvinson7994]

God this is so good in so many ways! Anticlea’s part in the song has always made me cry and you’ve made it so much worse (this is a good thing. It hurts more) The visuals with the soldiers coming out of the water (especially when they FORM POSEIDON) is just so awesome and creepy!

[@Albertelol]

HOW?!?!

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

I stayed up late to make this video...☺️☺️☺️

[@hieuoan7766]

damn, within the day?? Epic fans don't have to wait (unlike Anticlea)

[@ocarinagirlandthestories648]

I mean, I expected this song to be good, but not THIS GOOD. You did a great work on this animatic, especially considering how this came out the very same day as the song.

[@johnboshoff4317]

Lord, of all the things that I've felt throughout this song that scene with his mother hit me right in the feels...

[@kjam9085]

My god the part with his mom broke my heart. Great animation😭😭

[@MrKittyhead]

I’ve never been so excited for the artists to make animatics of a saga

[@twannieboy827]

0:30 That is Persephone right?? And that you are able to make an anemetic in such a short time while the quality is still AMAZING is just AMAZING!!!

[@dragonleoleehuaguang7675]

No ic circe

[@twannieboy827]

Oh ofc bcs circe sends them to the underworld! Ty for clearing that up for me!

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

thank you☺️☺️☺️Sure it's Circe but that's ok！

[@Mathew-cj7yd]

That would not be surprising considering that, in the odyssey, she is responsible for basically flooding Odysseus with the spirit of his dead comrades

[@carleytimmerman6451]

I will forever be amazed at how fast artists work. Thank you for feeding us!

[@neotakehaya]

The part with Odyssey’s mom always finds a way to pull at my heart, such a beautiful flow of imagery

[@bookbutterfly6613]

THIS IS INSANE OH MY GOD?!

[@AtsukaWolfcat]

This was beautiful! I love your take on this song! I am sure this took a while, but wow the song just came out and this is already out beautifully! Jorge did us dirty by adding his mom into the song, I was completely UNPREPARED!!!

[@amandamihalco697]

I love the boat flipping to the underworld... the only other representation of that transition to the underworld is in Pirates (of the Caribbean) but it's so fitting for Epic

[@kiratheusagiisworkshop5266]

This is so good! And I love the transition from the world of the living to the underworld!!

[@user-yl4qn4pl7d]

Thank you！！！！

[@HeriocAce]

Wasn't this released today? Damn, impressive work.

[@TheWurstBrat8179]

1:39 scratches my brain so good!

[@Fandom_Fanatic2011]

He's in the River Styx. The boat filled over into the river styx. Wow. Btw i love the animatic

[@Japanlover79]

This song is probably the best one in this saga

[@brycevo]

2:01 This part breaks my heart

[@angelinapetersen7422]

Polytes and his mother didnt make me cry hearing it but seeing it animated? I'm destroyed

[@pandaavintage2698]

whoa beautiful

[@ninamays418]

You definitely did your thing with this song ❤ thank you!!!

[@acekuma-ao1314]

Finally had the tears flowing after listening to this i dont know how many times 😂 you did a wonderful job mad props 😊