Lunatic 🥚 [Undertale Animatic]

My take on Gaster's story.
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Notes:
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I was inspired to make this video on a sudden whim after hearing this song and imagining this story play out. You could say I was in a state of determined lunacy when making it *ba-bam-tss*. (Since I spent 4 days working non-stop to complete it.... Workaholism is a double edged sword for coping I guess... but I hope the urgency makes the emotion all the more translatable.)

The sketch style was based on the idea that Papyrus drew a lot as a baby bones, and the theory that the "Don't Forget" photo found in the skeleton brother's house was of Sans Papyrus and Gaster, or that it was a drawing one of the brothers did to remember Gaster when proof of his existence was removed. You can find various doodles left by Papyrus on Gaster's chalkboards and work piles throughout the video.

Some of the side characters, like the guards that notified Gaster and captured the first human (the one that wore a dusty tutu) to be experimented on, were characters that ended up scraped from the official game, to stay on the theme of the forgotten and non-existent. https://undertale.fandom.com/wiki/Cut...
Since Sans and Papyrus use blue magic in their battles, I thought it was apt that the soul involved in this video was the blue soul.

I decided for this story that the creation Gaster fell into was the soul extractor, rather than the core. I always thought it was ominous how the room that had the skull like machine was hanging over a void, and seemed, unfinished. Perhaps at one point there were railings there. Perhaps it wasn't unfinished, but had fallen apart, and what Frisk comes across in the True Lab, are the ruins of an experiment gone wrong.

This would be my 3rd animation completed for this channel. I've never done animatic/storyboard stuff like this before, so it was a fun challenge. This was made completely in ClipStudioPaint.
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The song is:
Ramblings of Lunatic - by - Bears in Trees.

Check it out!
Song:    • Ramblings Of A Lunatic (Official Music Video)  
Bears in Trees Youtube channel:    / @bearsintrees  
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4dAQ5...

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You can find my progress on the video on my Twitter.
https://twitter.com/mylcreates?lang=en