There Are Other Ways | EPIC: The Musical - Animatic

“Never once has he cheated on his Wife.” Oh my gods Athena was telling the truth the whole time.

“He learned from Hamilton and said no to it” PLEASE 😂😂😂

My cats when I spray them with water: "The god of tides is out to end my life"

I love Hermes there at the end all happy like "that's my great grandson, I made that"

I love how Circe stole the knife and was ready to stab him as soon as his guard was down

I never heard the end of this song until today and frankly it makes me happy. Instead of leveraging Circie's belief that she can read Odysseus through... Intimacy. It ends with her having genuine hope in both odysseus's journey and the world. Her outlook is a little bit brighter.

According to Homer, the Trojan War lasted 10-years. “The Iliad” recounts the tenth year. “The Odyssey” covers another 10 years. Therefore, Odysseus was away from Ithaca (and his wife) for 20 total years. 12 Long Years here is perfectly accurate, if you consider his Journey up until this point has taken about 2 years from when he left Troy. Later on he will be trapped with Calypso for 7-years, leaving 1 final year for the remaining events before he returns home.

It’s nice to finally have Polites’ philosophy finally work out. So often in the musical the characters Odysseus comes across make it hard to believe in mercy and not giving into one’s wrath or dark desires and you think Circe will be another example of never trusting anyone or having to compromise one’s morals to do whatever it takes to get home(even calling back to Just a Man when Odysseus almost gives into temptation to save his crew). It’s especially clever because those who know the original myth know Odysseus does make the deal with Circe and cheats on his wife. So it’s refreshing to see in this musical the better nature of Odysseus and Circe actually win out

3:30 Truuuee! Hamilton could learn something from Odysseus on the topic of loyalty 😂

The P on Odysseus’ outfit when she talks about showing acts of kindness is such a good detail oh my gosh! Edit: typo

I love the fact that you have her heal her wound (And showing Ichor and how she's a goddess) during "There's no puppet here", as even though he's not a "puppet", he's very much at a disadvantage.

I love this animatic!!! You gave more variety to the nymphs (plus possibly a shot representing the nymph who had been hurt and killed being laid to rest) and showing the aftermath and them working and planning together. Just, Yes!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚

A bit rough but so fun. I love your depiction of Circe with golden eyes , her expressions, and a height to rival lady dimitrescu. I liked how you had her ready with the knife and her confused expression after. I adore that circe just has a tapestry poster of Tiresias.

Circe really told Odysseus to go to hell lol

i like the shot of hermes happy at the end. i do wonder why hermes was so eager to help odysseus send a message to circe esp when odysseus was mr. bad times for a whiiiile;;

I love how at 1:12 you can see a picture of what seems to be Helios, since he was her father.

You added a flashback with Scylla and Glaucus omg yeah!!! You are great!

I love it! Your art style is so adorable ❤ I really liked how you presented the scene of the almost stabbing and Odysseus rejecting her, it was funny. There's genuine tenderness in Circe's expression after she understands Odysseus was being genuine, I liked that. The detail of an imaginary Penelope hugging Ody when he was talking about her was so beautiful! And I liked the ending with the Nymphs helping and Hermes making a cameo, I may have screamed a little, I just loved Hermes little smile so much.

I love how in the credits the chimera is just a cute little pet ❤🥰

the desc lmao so true 😭 he said no to it 🫡