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Building a Scene: It’s over isn’t it?

For Pearl’s song “It’s Over isn’t it?” the scene is about Pearl accepting a loss. As the series has progressed, she’s learned that she isn’t always right, and that there are things about herself that she’s has to reevaluate. This all comes to a sort of climax in this scene where she accepts and admits out loud that her relationship with Rose was never as deep and complete as she wanted it to be or told herself it was. This is where she’s left at the end of the scene, feeling lost and out of place.

In the outline written by Ben Levine and Matt Burnett, this is how the scene looked:

You’ll notice a lot of things ended up changing compared to the final version. Most of that was due to time constraints. When we started storyboarding the episode, all of the rough demos of the songs were recorded so that we had an idea of the amount of time we had between each song (which ended up not being very much). The result was that we had to basically be transitioning constantly between songs, but doing it in a way that felt natural and as gentle as possible.

In addition, Rebecca remembered a part from the 1982 movie “Victor Victoria” starring Julie Andrews that she wanted to use as reference for the feeling of the scene:

Right away we latched onto this spinning 360 degree camera move. I loved the energy and focus it gave to the character and I immediately roughed out a version with Pearl.

If you’re ever stuck during a scene this is what you do: Don’t start from the beginning, find the moment you see clearest in your mind and build out from there. From these rough thumbnails I built the rest of the scene outward. I brought back motifs like her sword skills and her dance style to help evoke the past events of the series, and I tried to give as much time as I could to each shot and make her acting as expressive a possible.

Below are my rough boards set to Rebecca’s demo. At the end, i added a pause for when she throws the Rose into the air. It felt like a good spot for things to crescendo ring out. Deedee Magno Hall’s rendering of this blew us all away when we heard it.

From there clean up was pretty much straight forward. The scene didn’t change much except for tweaking her acting here and there. I’m super proud of how this scene turned out, hats off to Nick DeMayo our animation director and to the team at Sunimin in Korea where they draw the entire episode on paper:

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hey whats up everyone, hows yr summer, what heartbreaking truths has everyone been coming to terms with lately

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so far during the RNC

Steve King claimed that white people have done more for civilization than non whites

Melania Trump plagiarized a speech from Michelle Obama (that’s symbolic)

Trump campaign denies that they plagiarized Michelle’s speech and cites a quote from my little pony 

Alaska yells at Paul Ryan for miscounting their votes

Milo gets his twitter account deleted for abuse right before his gaysfortrump event (haha #FuckMilo)

Chris Christie lead a witch trail 

Stephen Colbert took the microphone dressed as Caesar and claimed that he was starting the hungry for power games and then was escorted off stage but not before he said “I know i’m not supposed to be up here but let’s be honest neither is trump”

RNC security tries to cover up a No Racism No Hate sign with an American flag (symbolic again)

RNC got slammed when Paul Ryan took a selfie with interns, it was just a sea of white people and DNC responded with pictures of their interns who were more diverse 

Donald Trump was announced with “we are the champions” playing which naturally pissed off Queen 

the Internet lost it because  “We Are the Champions” is sung by Fred Mercury, a Bi man who died of AIDs in 1991 and Trump’s VP thinks HIV/AIDs funding should go to conversion therapy 

Laura Ingraham did a Nazi salute for .5 seconds which could have been a mistake (hmmmm)

Ted Cruz refused to endorse Trump and was booed off stage (fuck ted cruz though he’s worse than Trump but damn that took some balls)

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I laminated a paper towel

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side effects of being numb due to mental illness:

not crying for weeks and weeks on end until one day, you’re breaking down over something that isn’t actually worth getting upset about

not being able to tell if your feelings for people are platonic or romantic or if you’re just lonely

instead of caring too much, you don’t care at all about anything

not being able to process anything going on in your life and when you try, your brain stalls out

losing your train of thought every five seconds, so when you try to have a conversation, you have to pause and remember what you were trying to say

word vomiting

mind “static”

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IM HYPE

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it fucking blows my mind when like cp10 Pokemon have the audacity to pop out of the pokeball. what the fuck. you mean nothing to me. get in the ball.

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The UK and US distracting themselves with memes while their countries fall apart.

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One of my favorite posters from yesterday’s Montreal #blacklivesmatter protest ✨

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Squidward literally lives in a deluxe 3 floor loft