Remade P3 Opening for P3 Reload | Persona Modding | Page 3

dapper sentinel Sep 18, 2025, 2:22 PM

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Glad to see finding that text came to good use

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🙏

sage sail Sep 18, 2025, 2:25 PM

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time to get cancelled because some people can actually read the text now and will see "problematic" words

red wave Sep 18, 2025, 2:26 PM

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Fr*nch😣

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https://youtu.be/cqwcH_WIP-8?si=0DKcU0BJASmXqFzq&t=91

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ATLUS GAME MUSIC

「It’s Going Down Now」from Persona 3 Reload - OFFICIAL MUSIC V...

「It’s Going Down Now」from Persona 3 Reload - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

2024年発売のゲーム『＃ペルソナ３リロード』から世界で大ヒットした曲「It’s Going Down Now」のボーカリストが出演する公式MVが登場。

〈MV Credits〉
ボーカリスト: Azumi Takahashi / Lotus Juice
ギタリスト：小...

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random but this section of the music video goes insanely hard and I want to see if i can pull a few concepts from it

sage sail Sep 20, 2025, 1:33 AM

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you mean the ipod commercial bit?

normal badge Sep 20, 2025, 1:34 AM

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yeah haha

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like shot makes me think about referencing it but have the shadow be tartarus. I LOVE SYMBOLISIM!!!! RAAAAAAAAAA

sage sail Sep 20, 2025, 1:35 AM

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they unironically made spotify covers or something referencing that before (Koro got fucked over iirc)

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theres definitely some transitions and effects I can recreate and see if they work within the project

lucid oar Sep 22, 2025, 5:14 AM

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just caught up on this thread, what I really appreciate as always is seeing how you're putting a lot of care into the changes you make

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definitely got jumpscared by the change from the good BMD to Reload's BMD though 😭

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 5:16 AM

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Calling it good burn my dread is awesome

glad night Sep 22, 2025, 5:24 AM

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but the reload one is good too? 😭

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 5:24 AM

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I tried listening to it while biking

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I can't hear her vocals at all

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I thought it was an instrumental at first

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They really screwed her over on it

lucid oar Sep 22, 2025, 5:54 AM

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the reload one is hilariously bad lol

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 5:56 AM

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The sound team vendetta allegations doesn't sound like allegations with that one

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As for p3fes, they shouldn't have made her try to rap alongside lotus juice

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Think that's what ruined it

river sable Sep 22, 2025, 6:03 AM

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she rapped in p3fes?

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anyways that doesnt really sound like it was the issue

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the issue for me was the poor mixing

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and just the reload instrument library not sounding as good as the original, esp in that song

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the mixing in bmd reload is really bad though

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:07 AM

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Maybe my ass unknowingly listened to the live version tf

river sable Sep 22, 2025, 6:07 AM

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yeah im not hearing her rap in p3fes lmfao

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https://youtu.be/N3g1gNE93bI

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Azumi Takahashi - Topic

P3 fes -Reload-

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P3 fes -Reload- · Azumi Takahashi · Lotus Juice · ATLUS Sound Team · ATLUS GAME MUSIC · 小森成雄 · 小森祥弘 · Lotus Juice · 目黒将司 · ATLUS Sound Team

Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis Original Soundtrack

Released on: 2024-09-10

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sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:07 AM

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Hallucinating while biking's crazy

glad night Sep 22, 2025, 6:12 AM

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sage sail I can't hear her vocals at all

are my headphones magical or something

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i can hear her vocals just fine

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:17 AM

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Can you perfectly distinguish syllables and phrases

glad night Sep 22, 2025, 6:21 AM

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yes?

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:22 AM

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I sure as hell can't even hear her say the V in live or D in sword

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Happens a fuckton

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I lift my fae and run through the sunlay

glad night Sep 22, 2025, 6:24 AM

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sage sail As for p3fes, they shouldn't have made her try to rap alongside lotus juice

i think you're thinking of deep breath deep breath reincarnation reload

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:27 AM

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Wait I get it now

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It sounds like

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She's recording at 2 am without trying to wake up people

glad night Sep 22, 2025, 6:28 AM

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maybe my headphones are just built different or something joeshrug

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i'm not gonna argue about the reload soundtrack for the umpteenth time

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have your opinons about it, but at least have a decent piece of equipment to listen to it on before casting judgement

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:31 AM

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Bro I think if a PC with headphones, a phone's speaker and a phone with some really good earbuds ain't picking things up on one ver but does in the other, I can blame the song

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I'm not that destitute

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Adding to that, the chorus of the reload version's actually clear, it's in contrast to the verses and the last line

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So it's 1000% a mixing issue

river sable Sep 22, 2025, 6:34 AM

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it is, idk why they even mixed it like they did

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the instruments drown out azumi

sage sail Sep 22, 2025, 6:35 AM

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Crackhead theory

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They think the better english will be distracting so fuck it up with weird mixing

river sable Sep 22, 2025, 6:37 AM

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plot twist they just wanted to do an instrumental and then said "oh fuck it" and dropped her vocals in with no tweaks

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Honestly, either I might dabble with like music mixing to make a new version for this project or see if I can commission/collab with someone.

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Because yeah, the reload version isn't it. Its just so off and dissonant from the original that while yeah it "is the same song" it doesn't feel like it lol

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This isn't really a case of "old > new" but genuinely the mixing for reloads is really wack

lucid oar Sep 22, 2025, 4:08 PM

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glad night have your opinons about it, but at least have a decent piece of equipment to lis...

the mixing has been brought up by several people as being an issue though, like it isn't just doors having a really bad setup. frankly if your music sounds almost unintelligible unless you have a "decent piece of equipment", that is a problem in itself. I expect good audio equipment to let me hear extra little details in the song's instrumental or whatever, not to grant me the basic ability to have vocals not sound so muffled

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I have a pretty decent sound setup on my PC and it just makes it even more clear that the vocals are still just really poorly mixed

sage sail Sep 23, 2025, 4:50 AM

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Hey my setup isn't bad

Boo

lucid oar Sep 23, 2025, 2:17 PM

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hey idk what your setup is like lol

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Also Ive been giving it some thought and I may attempt a full 2d animated shot for the main shot of BMD, since its only like 15 frames I feel like I can manage something like that.

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idle tinsel Sep 23, 2025, 9:14 PM

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Based

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did a mockup/sketch of how it would look, sitll have to probably fine tune it to match p3r's look n everything but yeaaaah

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Absolutely love what I did for this shot in 3d butttt im curious in doing it in 2d too haha

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 9:28 PM

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Super excited to see how this turns out altogether cause dude you’re totally killing it

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haha thank you! also your project with the awakening is what inspired me to try my hand at 2d animating a section of this project lol!

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 9:31 PM

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Oml really?

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 9:33 PM

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dont be afraid to trace from the anime cutscenes in game to get the proportions right is my main advice

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makoto has a decent amount of face forward stills. so it should be pretty easy for face itself

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hair is trickier but he has some scenes w hair movement

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id be also happy to help with whatever i can here

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 9:35 PM

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I’ve been kinda busy and I’m not that far along because i’ve had to do corrections on almost all of my references, but if you ever end up wanting to see my notes, I’m more than happy to help

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 9:36 PM

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im not really caught up, whats the project youre working on im curious

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 9:36 PM

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dim swift im not really caught up, whats the project youre working on im curious

Reanimating the protagonist’s awakening in Reload’s 2D style

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I’ve been stuck in preprod and 75 percent of it has been doing corrections on the protagonist’s model sheets naodead

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 9:38 PM

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wait sounds peak..

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do you have a thread or socmed where you post updates?

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 9:38 PM

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I need my own model sheets for consistency reasons so its an unfortunate requirement

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Its a thread on here but since i’ve been busy, it hasn’t been updated in forever

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https://discord.com/channels/746211612981198989/1401781995297574982

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 9:39 PM

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definitely reference the art book’s stuff if you haven’t been already for technical aspects of costumes

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dim swift makoto has a decent amount of face forward stills. so it should be pretty easy f...

also yeah Ive been tracing shots whenever I can to just get practice w/ the general shapes of the faces n hair.

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dim swift id be also happy to help with whatever i can here

will definitely be appreciated! 😅 thank you

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 9:41 PM

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i dont know how much work youd be willing to give but id be pretty willing to help and could prolly get some others interested on this part of the project

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when it comes to animating, im going to need all the help i can get haha! with 3d animation Im a lot more comfortable because ive had years of expierence. but this is my first time doing 2d animation seriously lol

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so im definitely ok with any collaboration in general .

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 9:50 PM

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I would offer to help with animating, but I’ve been super busy lately between projects naodead

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I could maybe help with style references but I don’t know that I’d be much use on the animation side Orz

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 10:32 PM

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i think even critiques would be appreciated in this case

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Yeah definitely

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 11:07 PM

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o7

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Smudging through the timeline it looked a lot smoother but I think thats on my part for messing the timing up

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:32 PM

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i think youre making the sketch too detailed,, anime 2d animation never has “entirely different drawing” for each frame, instead they will either crop or redraw some parts… you should find actual animation from any anime for reference to see how that specifically is applied (for this kind of head nod/tilt, or anything that looks similar). for now, in your sketch just try to get the place of objects and movement right, not the details

normal badge Sep 23, 2025, 11:33 PM

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Ahhh true yeah

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:34 PM

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by the last sentence i also mean propositions, ie just draw circles for eye or you can divide the face into portions. dont fuss on the details of the eye etc at all

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 11:36 PM

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Based just on what I can tell, it looks like it might be in part just a mismatch on timing and perspective

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:37 PM

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having a reference animation here is really important when jinx has said they dont have experience w 2d anim. relying on previous visual library wont work when there isnt a foundation (i mean this in the nicest way possible, its like that for me too)

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 11:37 PM

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The lower half of the face seems to change at different rates and the nose and mouth look almost completely still, which feels a little off with the jawline changing angles

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Recording your own reference footage would probably help too considering how small a movement it is

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If anything I was relying on my 3d animation as reference but its a good idea to focus more on actual 2d references for a 2d anim

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dim swift having a reference animation here is really important when jinx has said they do...

Also yeah. I'll quickly look for a ref

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:38 PM

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tracing the 3d anim to use as a secondary ref is a good idea, but an actual 2d anim ref would be way more beneficial

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there was a website like danbooru for animation but i cannot recall the name

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 11:41 PM

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I’m admittedly not as familiar with 2D anime animation as I am with western, but what I was taught as a general rule is that you want to make sure things are moving together in space to prevent the animation from looking even flatter than 2D already is

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:42 PM

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modern western anim (that isnt puppets) is closer to anine than ever before, so the ideas do apply over

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worth noting though, blinks in anime vs western are actually very different. i do not remember where i heard about it but im sure itd come up with some research

halcyon marsh Sep 23, 2025, 11:43 PM

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Puppet animation mention Orz

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Generally at a typical blink speed, Reload’s blinks happen in 3 drawings

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:44 PM

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ye its like that for portraits too

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:44 PM

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even here though im not if its intentional

normal badge Sep 23, 2025, 11:45 PM

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I did the blink in 3 intentionally like the cutscenes yeah

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Also just found a couple of good vids/ references

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:46 PM

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feel free to share them catyes

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another important thing, do sketch out keyframes first please. for your own sanity

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:47 PM

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this does look like keyframes but its harder to tell lol

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ig i mean it mostly for the hand/arm posing

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also i encourage straight up tracing the gun 1:1

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https://youtu.be/jN2UdQqYovc?si=teYEIjulFkwiEplt

https://youtu.be/nU21rCWkuJw?si=TCd2WVlpHw7mUXO=42

https://youtube.com/shorts/J1ndPtqJgPM?si=SNFQS6tZtl0Zi--h

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Kuzillon

Animators guide to HEAD ANGLES

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│WEBSITE│ https://www.kuzillon.com/

Say you want to animate a character looking up, or down, or any other direction. It can be confusing sometimes to know where each line should move to in order to make this look believable. Luckily, there are some guidelines you can follow that make this a ...

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Menelamdir

Neon Genesis Evangelion (A Cruel Angel's Thesis) Anime Intro Openin...

This is the opening of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion), extracted from the BD release. All credit goes to Gainax and the creators of the theme song "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" ("Zankoku na Tenshi no These" in Japan): Yoko Takahashi (performer), Neko Oikawa (lyrics), Hidetoshi Satō (compo...

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Plainly Simple

Head Animation Guide

Here's what you can expect from our course on Class101. Here's a snippet.⁠⁠

When animating look-down and look-up angles, we have to consider form and volume and how the head behaves in 3d space. The perceived length of the hair lengthens as we look down and shortens as we look up.⁠⁠⁠
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The distance between each part in relatio...

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Lol for eva its at 0:42

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I think i understand i was missing a lot of guiding lines now haha

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dim swift this does look like keyframes but its harder to tell lol

Oh yeah it is keyframed

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Just had those two, (ignoring the body)

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Since the focus was on the head movement

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:56 PM

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yeye

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these are honestly better refs than anything i could find so quickly LOL

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great job catyes

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doing some more research will also benefit for sure

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it really will come down to how the lineart looks in the face itself

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True yeah, going to go ahead and redo the anim with the new tips in mind

dim swift Sep 23, 2025, 11:59 PM

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obv dont rush it

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i try to check this channel whenever i can usually but feel free to ping if you need feedback or smth

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Yeah for sure! If anything just when I get the drive for working on a scene I usually just enjoy being deep in the project as long as I can be.

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Also yeah ill let you know! Again thanks ^^

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https://fxtwitter.com/Menloquezco/status/1957318841026904213?t=Id4S1a-cCBGv3qZqE44CKQ&s=19

Diego Molina (@Menloquezco)

Some layouts of Aegis for Persona 3 Reload
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Bbetter demonstration/ basis of movement

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Might be hard to visualize the face w just the lines but I think I got a perfect movement going that'll look good

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Using the rules from the videos/tips I found, by having the details higher up move more drastically (ie. Eyes nose mouth) than the lower ones (chin)

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@dim swift @halcyon marsh any tips/critiques so far?

river sable Sep 24, 2025, 2:19 AM

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is his face supposed to move up in the last frame

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yea

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having the static neck helps sell the illusion imo

dim swift Sep 24, 2025, 2:22 AM

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esp since his bangs are moving up, the top of his hair should be moving back ( the first video u sent explains this)

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yeah I couldnt tell if i moved them enough

dim swift Sep 24, 2025, 2:23 AM

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also wouldnt the hair be still for the first shots and only be in movement in the impact frame? whether intended or not it looks in motion when it shouldnt really be

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once again just tracing hair directly from 2d cutscene screenshot would work better 😔

dim swift Sep 24, 2025, 2:25 AM

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dim swift also wouldnt the hair be still for the first shots and only be in movement in th...

movement as in like, wind

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fair enough yeah haha, i traced the hair from a screenshot that reminded me of the hair from this shot in bmd

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also yeah it would be wind like indivudal strands flowing

dim swift Sep 24, 2025, 2:26 AM

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there should be some purpose is the thing. hair having wind-like movement on impact frame would sell the impact frame a lot better

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oh yeah thats what i meant sorry haha😅

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like how i did in 3d

dim swift Sep 24, 2025, 2:28 AM

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yaya

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the hair doesn’t look like its “resting” rn is all

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ohhh ok

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i see what you mean

halcyon marsh Sep 24, 2025, 2:29 AM

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A little nitpicky but I think during the closed eye frame, his eye needs to be moved up somewhat? Or his other eye frames need to be adjusted to be moved down some

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naothumbsup

halcyon marsh Sep 24, 2025, 2:30 AM

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Right now his closed eye frame looks like the eye is closing based on the last frame, but it should still move up a little with the rest of the face if he’s tilting his head up/back

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/942162720260763678/1420236592777400500/Animation2.gif?ex=68d4a9e6&is=68d35866&hm=de2fff703614753492dfbe7cffa31440b710bb6ecacf77f0a19d742f31eb73e2&

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I think that should be better

halcyon marsh Sep 24, 2025, 2:43 AM

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Maybe dumb question, is his head tilting straight up in this shot?

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meant to be angled just a bit higher than straight forward

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finally got a frame on model super well so i can go back and clean up the others based on this one cause like...

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Lmfao

halcyon marsh Sep 24, 2025, 3:27 AM

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I’m wondering if its partially a perspective thing that I’m seeing but I’m not 100 percent on that

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The last key looks a bit like the eye shifts towards the edge of the face

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random but heres the full op so far https://youtu.be/hNk4D185E0Y

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Jinx

Burn My Dread Reload WIP

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thought id finally render it out just to see

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halcyon marsh The last key looks a bit like the eye shifts towards the edge of the face

ah yeah your right

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Holy shit you’re absolutely cooking

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normal badge random but heres the full op so far https://youtu.be/hNk4D185E0Y

cooking

surreal phoenix Sep 25, 2025, 7:03 AM

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normal badge random but heres the full op so far https://youtu.be/hNk4D185E0Y

https://tenor.com/view/persona-4-p4-p4g-persona-4-golden-peak-gif-11229309222352318392

Tenor

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normal badge random but heres the full op so far https://youtu.be/hNk4D185E0Y

for some reason the preview was in 240 p and it really felt like i was watching the original for a sec XD

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Got a better draft/sketch going

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teating the effects

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also just timing in general

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all thats left before I can do the actual final version is just figure out how to animate the hair/clothes waving

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plus cleaning up the movements w/ the hand

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cleaning up as much as I can as I go

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https://youtu.be/srduLosvDbA?si=2yFax5FF8IiOKCyV&t=19
basing the hair animation off of the movies (mostly) in terms of how they interact when they summon a persona

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LogoGogo

EVERYTIME someone uses an Evoker in the Persona 3 Movies

There are some exceptions to this, and that is:

1: Takaya, Aigis and Koromaru don’t count, they must be using an Evoker (Koromaru does have an evoker, but im referring to the main types of Evokers)

2: If a character fully summons their persona offscreen, without hearing the sound, or even if they do summon a persona offscreen even with the n...

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halcyon marsh Oct 2, 2025, 12:23 AM

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Stupid question, is this the full length of the shot? It feels very fast

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yeah, its a full 15 frames haha

halcyon marsh Oct 2, 2025, 12:23 AM

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Damn only 15 frames naodead

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yeah for reference I tested how it looked within the animation as a whole

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/942162720260763678/1423095571148836864/SUMMON2.mp4?ex=68df1087&is=68ddbf07&hm=11f7ca7db346c73e03d833f680375fbf64fcdcf87a512cf6a6acb8ea6fc1b89f&

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since in the og it was just two static images flashing, making the rough transition between the two is sort of what makes it feel a bit fast

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which is also why I'm trying to minimize movement since too much movement would make it hard to really understand the shot

halcyon marsh Oct 2, 2025, 12:27 AM

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Yeah Orzz

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It just feels shorter than the 3D version you had in there before

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Which is what Ig is throwing me a little

sage sail Oct 2, 2025, 12:32 AM

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Think a lack of a jerk to the right when it fires is what's throwing me off

halcyon marsh Oct 2, 2025, 12:33 AM

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I’m not totally sure how it would look in sequence with all of the flashing afterwards and you don’t have to do it if it doesn’t fit with what you’re going for, but from a strictly shot perspective, I think it would benefit if you move his body to interact with the evoker closer to how you had it in the 3D shot

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15 frames though….

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Also, personal advice- don’t worry about cleanup right now

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Just focus on timing

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You’ll likely be doing a cleanup pass anyways so timing and arcs are more important than getting it perfect

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/723343821785661547/1430335879238520885/persona.mp4?ex=68f96797&is=68f81617&hm=1f27f564576bcc3ed77c588d96c1c63c36ecb4729338070e4dada14bd7f56bd7&

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halcyon marsh Oct 22, 2025, 1:54 AM

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Looking pretty good so far! I think you could still push the impact after the evoker flash a little more if you adjusted the shoulders and hand to react to the recoil and maybe adjust the timing of that a little?

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It feels a little even and like the head is moving independently of the actual firing as opposed to recoiling from the action, but I think adjusting the body and hand to react to the firing might help with that

idle cobalt Oct 24, 2025, 8:23 AM

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new(?) persona 3 reload art

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it's worth noting you're recreating shots and scenes from fes cutscenes that aren't actually present in reload. i think the shot of the gun barrel is supposed to depict this shot of daddy kirijo's gun, the moment right before he dies, and the blurred streetlight after that is obviously the last thing shinji sees when walking away in fes, his final moment. the meaning of showing that streetlamp is totally lost in the context of reload though...

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I should be able to get it done before then but just in case I have GOT to get it done before then haha

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the idea i have in my head. but idk if having both the pole and the pattern can work

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WOAHHHH THIS LOOKS AMAZING

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(ignoring the clippipng w/ the bg), definitely add some form of bg color, really helps

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sort of getting the bubble shader down, really difficultt to find something that works without being too simple

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transition will be like a water droplet thing, same as all out attack bgs but with some more flair

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also, flattents your fuuka

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all thats left is to just
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Just got this from the bookstore. Ready to study it heavily

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This'll help me so much

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the camera does WHAT to the two of us???

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woahhhh this p3r book looks so cool bc it shows you how they made the op and anime cutscenes throughout the game 😮

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I do know someone who got it digitally when it first released

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woeful valve Jan 5, 2026, 11:50 PM

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Can you try to remove the shine and shadows from the hair but keep it’s drop shadow

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like so?

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woeful valve Jan 6, 2026, 12:30 AM

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I was gonna ask for just that lol

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idle tinsel I really like the new Fuuka stuff but the transition from Yukari to Fuuka and th...

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I was gonna say more Fuuka horizionality but Fukka does move horizionality. I like what ya posted. Still feels like something is missing but listening to it. It syncs up with music and everything so I think thats fine.

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I don’t know how it’ll end up looking, but maybe start the camera animation from slightly closer or pulling back the close up a little?

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I like you you were almost done with this and said "nah I'm gonna redo it" lol

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halcyon marsh I don’t know how it’ll end up looking, but maybe start the camera animation from...

can def try that

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woeful valve I like you you were almost done with this and said "nah I'm gonna redo it" lol

earlier scenes needed a lot of reworking in hindsight

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I looked at the og opening from fes and yeah its basically the same as you have it here. One detail I did notice it that you move Yukaris arm a little while panning up. Og doesnt do that. Her arm sleeve cuff not entire arm does flap around a little. You have to add new weights or use shape keys to make that adjustment tho.

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Makoto walking alone has a bunch of them.

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That can work yeah

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WOAHHH THIS LOOKS SO COOL NOW

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woeful valve Jan 6, 2026, 9:38 PM

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Tint it yellow and put a body in the telephone wires

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Switch between the two when the sunlight passes through them

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sage sail Switch between the two when the sunlight passes through them

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maybe from daytime -> dark hour?

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sage sail Switch between the two!!!

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but i do like the idea of adding something more to her section
(also love the new yukari segment)

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i really like the transformation between OG butterfly and Reload butterfly, so maybe you could combine the two of these in the shot?
use OG background for the panes 1, 2, and 4, and reload for the third one?
i also think the greyscale effect looks kinda odd with the train window style, since the original was kinda film reel/photo series-ish, and using the old vs reload style to differentiate it instead could potentially work better

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have a small chunk of scenes left but going back and fixing older ones

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idle cobalt Jan 13, 2026, 8:23 AM

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Clock it! Yeah i like it :>

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wait i might be crazy but why does it kinda look like thanatos is in sync with the person singing burn my dread like for those few seconds b4 it goes to the next scene

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Peak cinema

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skinwalker looking ah shadow

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excellent. i love this lil' guy's design. i really want to mod in a proper boss fight with him if only he had animations.

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feral aurora Mar 2, 2026, 6:33 PM

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i mean, if he was on his own, yeah, but really, i feel like he'd have been able to hold out with just orpheus until mitsuru and akihiko came up to help. then they'd manage. but, thematically, the full moon shadows represent their inverted arcana meanings, and a boss fight designed around unrealized potential means, you know, a boss that doesn't actually get a chance to fight you.

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opaque shadow i mean, if he was on his own, yeah, but really, i feel like he'd have been able ...

True but you also have to realize it’s really just be Mitsuru and Makoto

opaque shadow Mar 3, 2026, 6:21 PM

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wait, mitsuru is weak to fire... damn, they needed junpei to have won that fight.

unborn meteor Mar 3, 2026, 6:31 PM

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Yeah

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And Akihiko is already at like half hp

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woeful valve Mar 3, 2026, 8:43 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/danhausen-tv-gif-8991970701861465889

Tenor

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https://tenor.com/view/one-peak-one-piece-one-piece-cry-its-so-peak-gif-13413926760013023520

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radiant silo Mar 4, 2026, 2:31 AM

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so based

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going to add some visual minor visual effects but besides that this shots pretty much done

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THREE MORE TO GOOOOO

jaunty crown Mar 12, 2026, 12:21 AM

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cant wait to see the finished product bro, you are cooking hard

kind harness Mar 12, 2026, 1:28 AM

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Atlus hire this man

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and it just keeps getting better and better with each preview/progress on this project 🥹

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https://tenor.com/view/dance-gif-16010637

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pulsar kindle Mar 13, 2026, 6:30 AM

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i think you should slow down ryoji's scarf animation it looks a bit odd with all the other movement but otherwise it looks insane

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Yeah honestly your right

idle cobalt Apr 3, 2026, 2:34 AM

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hell yeah it's looking awesome

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for the shinji shot, thinking of how to update it/ add more focus to him ig.
two main ideas i have in mind

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possibly using the bleeding eye as a background or something could be a cool motif for him in the opening

normal badge Apr 8, 2026, 6:35 AM

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i wonder if the blood on his eye is a shader or a texture they used . . .

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found the mesh for it, but havent found any texture yet

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found it (i think)

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yeah thats pretty much it

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also ik this is supposed to be shinji but the hair always looked off to me haha

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also wonder exactly what his bg is meant to be too..

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sage sail Apr 8, 2026, 6:52 AM

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Got shot and falling

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I thought it was Ikutsuki

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OH

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dot dot dot i think your right

sage sail Apr 8, 2026, 6:54 AM

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Did the storyboard not note it

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the storyboard actually has an entirely different shot similar to the p4 anime weirdly enough

sage sail Apr 8, 2026, 6:55 AM

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Huh....

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actually wait nevermind the sequence of events was just weird here

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but this shot never was used in the original, might be where the anime for p4 got the idea...

"Numbers and letters popping out of the cell phone"

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for the ikutski shot:

"A cube extends from a black pool inside the room as you lie there."

sage sail Apr 8, 2026, 6:58 AM

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normal badge but this shot never was used in the original, might be where the anime for p4 go...

Mfw they used this for a P4 anime OP

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sage sail Mfw they used this for a P4 anime OP

yeah like, clearly this was their idea with it

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uhhhhh well since its an ikutski shot ill hafta figure something else out then.

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possible ideas

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honestly the hand covering the moon is really good imagery but also then youd not be able to see who it is haha

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beyond just doing the shot 1:1 at least something to add onto it at least

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normal badge for the ikutski shot: "A cube extends from a black pool inside the room as you ...

mentions what i assume is the shadow goop so maybe just include that ig

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BANGER idea!

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this artwork but ikutski with the shadow masks

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maybe even just do the tarrot cards similar to the shot of aigis

glad night Apr 8, 2026, 7:15 AM

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the oddest part to me was that it was ikutsuki in the opening fmv but takaya does that pose in-game
laying on the floor with arms out

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normal badge maybe even just do the tarrot cards similar to the shot of aigis

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glad night the oddest part to me was that it was ikutsuki in the opening fmv but takaya doe...

yeah ngl

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even thinking of just incorporating strega or at least takaya into the shot instead

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normal badge even thinking of just incorporating strega or at least takaya into the shot inst...

I mean, Ikutsuki and Strega are connected, so having them in the shot would make sense

sage sail Apr 8, 2026, 7:18 AM

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Mf in the middle, the three stooges as a triangle

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surreal phoenix I mean, Ikutsuki and Strega are connected, so having them in the shot would make...

yeahhh

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some ways i could include them

fallow ether Apr 8, 2026, 12:52 PM

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That's supposed to be Shinji? I always thought it was Ikutsuki

unborn meteor Apr 8, 2026, 3:49 PM

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Same

faint vigil Apr 8, 2026, 3:49 PM

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it is ikutsuki

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when have you ever seen shinji with glasses or that suit

unborn meteor Apr 8, 2026, 3:50 PM

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Yeah I thought the line across his face were his glasses

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fallow ether That's supposed to be Shinji? I always thought it was Ikutsuki

For the longest time I thought it was shinji

idle cobalt Apr 9, 2026, 8:35 AM

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i feel like putting aspects of strega in the scene would be a bit too on the nose
and while he is connected to them, they don't actually factor much into his character arc as a whole
imo recreating the shot more faithfully is the route to go, cuz that single shot is one of the most evocative in the opening and is already kind of busy as it is with fragments of tartarus floating around

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hmmm
the general framing of the original does kind of resemble the entrance to gekkoukan, actually
with the three lanes and a wall

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now just kind of imagining him laying in front of the entrance to gekkoukan, with water covering the cobbles and reflecting the sky / moon / tartarus underneath him

unkempt vault Apr 10, 2026, 3:57 AM

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~~going out of lurk to say~~ Maybe it's Shuji after he ||fell off of tartarus||

Though it also looks like hes on a massive bed (in that screenshot at least)

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unkempt vault ~~going out of lurk to say~~ Maybe it's Shuji after he ||fell off of tartarus|| ...

Yeah could be that too. Also the storyboard notes all it really notes is the room is just an empty cube

idle cobalt Apr 13, 2026, 1:34 AM

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unkempt vault ~~going out of lurk to say~~ Maybe it's Shuji after he ||fell off of tartarus|| ...

yeah that's most likely what they were going for

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unless they wanted to give him a really REALLY big bed

uncut bloom Apr 21, 2026, 10:41 PM

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idle cobalt unless they wanted to give him a really REALLY big bed

They wanted to make sure he was very comfy.

normal badge Apr 24, 2026, 3:07 AM

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finding a good style for ikutski here.

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going to blendshape the FUCK outta the model to make it look less 3d but that'll be hard

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testing out some compositions

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hm id probably have to change it up though to make it match more with the same shadows as the orignal, because the balance is kinda off

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main issue is if i were to just overlay the tartarus pngs over the shadows/dark parts only, its kind of hard to make it out compared to the og where there was more shadow present especially in the corners of the screen

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hold up

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Think i got something pretty good

sage sail Apr 29, 2026, 8:08 AM

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That's the texture of the entrance right

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yea

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school entrance

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something just kinda like this ig

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ill probably mess with the scale of things

turbid lava Apr 29, 2026, 4:12 PM

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I FW THIS HEAVY

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IT LOOKS AMAZING

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 12:42 AM

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Ngl it looks like he turned into a giant and laid down on the entrance for me

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Lmao

unique dagger Apr 30, 2026, 12:48 AM

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I assume the background is going to scroll?

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yea

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 1:36 AM

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I like that idea

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would a blood puddle make things too obvious? in terms of story?

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unique dagger Apr 30, 2026, 3:47 AM

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I think so

red wave Apr 30, 2026, 3:47 AM

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I guess so

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hmm

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 3:47 AM

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Yeah.

normal badge Apr 30, 2026, 4:23 AM

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ill keep messing around with timing and stuff but honestly not much I can really think to add without overly changing it too much

idle tinsel Apr 30, 2026, 10:59 AM

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I think turn the white lines in the brick a bit more muted?

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True

pulsar kindle Apr 30, 2026, 5:07 PM

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Maybe make ikutski and the path move back? Like it’s moving in the scene cause it feels a bit too static

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Like the camera is moving away from him

idle cobalt Apr 30, 2026, 9:38 PM

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I feel the repeated texture of the bricks distracts the eye a bit much.

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Just my take on it but was thinking something like this

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Like a black "light" from inside an abstraction of the school showing the sky on the ground where ikutsuki lies, and the sides open like that just for artistic purposes to match the original

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Cuz the original is very striking

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Also partially mirrors thanatos in the P3R opening

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And nyx avatar

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idle cobalt Apr 30, 2026, 10:57 PM

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...you know, they never did say what happened to ikutsuki's body

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Did it just like
Disappear
Or did mitsuru's family clean it up
Or a secret third option

fallow ether Apr 30, 2026, 10:58 PM

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Imagine a schoolgirl caught a glimpse of his obliterated body before school began

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 10:58 PM

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2nd option easily

fallow ether Apr 30, 2026, 10:59 PM

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Because no way dude fell that high and didn't see a bit of impact

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 10:59 PM

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Part of the thingy they establish is they always cover up shadow related incidents in there

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Like some shadow government type shit about the monorail incident

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And the Ken's mom thing

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Especially the Ken's mom thing

fallow ether Apr 30, 2026, 11:00 PM

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I do wonder how they covered up Shuji's splattered body

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What lie can they string to make it believable

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 11:00 PM

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Midsuru had to stop crying for 2 mins to call the estate and they did the rest

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A lot of the drama cds kinda show she isn't super involved in that side of the business until a bit later

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She only took the reigns after the answer, with the process starting that a bit after her dad's death

idle cobalt Apr 30, 2026, 11:11 PM

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oooh

sage sail Apr 30, 2026, 11:16 PM

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Funny actually

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Ok so

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Her dad has a will written right

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The only thing Mitsuru got was a wine cellar in that document

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Yes it's the same one you see in the movies, the main gesture in that is that Mitsuru has a choice to not actually follow the group and be herself

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Her arc has always been going to do that regardless

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But it's kinda funny she just got

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Oh Mitsuru gets some wine

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Lmao

latent slate May 1, 2026, 1:03 PM

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Pharos has red eyes because he's spiritually actually a girl like Kotone

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idle cobalt

ok. yeah. you cooked there ngl.

idle cobalt May 2, 2026, 8:17 PM

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:D thank you!

idle cobalt May 3, 2026, 1:17 AM

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latent slate Pharos has red eyes because he's spiritually actually a girl like Kotone

The Death Arcana does represent change and transformation as you transition between periods in your life...

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doing some concept art just to figure out any different composition

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Basing the shadow idea off of this shot

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Although tbh I think I do like what I have so far, just have to touch it up is all

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WAIT

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OK i think i figured something out now

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woeful valve May 5, 2026, 9:02 AM

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For contrast have Tartarus move down in the background

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starting on the shot.

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I have one main idea which is to base this shot around either the top floor of tartarus or even the top of Tartarus itself. leaning towards the top floor of tartarus since the non euclidian geometry reminds me a lot of that block.

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the story board notes also state:
"The protagonist runs up a staircase reminiscent of German Expressionism or De Chirico, with the Aegis visible in the distance below."

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*references on what they mean as well