Ghostofadragon
Sleeping Powder [wip?? read desc]
updated
STRANGE TRAILS IS MY OC UNIVERSE. YES IT IS NAMED AFTER THE LORD HURON ALBUM. DO NOT QUESTION MY METHODS
MADE IN PROCREATE DREAMS (SWAG) TOOK ME LIKE 3 DAYS OR SOMETHING I WASNT COUNTING
VIDEO INSPIRED BY: youtu.be/8M7SVQSMNMI?si=0TURsV9XHrPUaahx
song by IDKHOW
art by MEEE
sooooo. i boarded this entire thing back in like. 2021? and then dusted it off sometime last month and finished it.
i won't spill EVERYTHING about the story, but the general gist of it is that rot star (green circus man pictured) is a fallen god who runs a menagerie/zoo/carnival based around beasts that he builds from scratch that he calls "little gods". he is very choosy about which of these little gods pass muster, and the ones that don't meet his standards get tossed into the abandoned mine system that the attraction was built on top of. no matter how young they may be.
if you've been here a while, you may recognize rot star (and his cousin trick star) from this video i made back in 2019: youtu.be/pglc6Y3SoTg
i am pleased to say that my art has improved since then.
they gay
characters by dc comics and also [does a little twirl] meeeee. you can read more about them on my instagram @ghost.ofadragon if you want to
this is an animatic about my hermitcraft fanfiction which you can read here: archiveofourown.org/works/41824716/chapters/104939946
art by me
song: eat your salad
characters:
doc as hades, ren as persephone, scar as orpheus, grian as eurydice, bdubs as hermes.
not really intended as a ship thing but i mean, it is hadestown, so if you interpret it that way i can't really say it's unjustified. i'm honestly just in it for the capitalism and divorce though
anyway. i might be a little bit insane. i did this in 3 days. for some reason. season 9 needless dramatization of the ren doc rivalry arc that literally hasnt happened yet and might not at all. has me in a chokehold. someone put these furries in therapy
i got a few questions about me swapping ren and docs place wrt the original narrative places of the song (doc would be a fairer comparison to moses than ren in the context of the plot etc) and really my only explanation is that 1. its been a long time since ive seen prince of egypt and whenever its not fresh in my brain the song just eternally reads to me like moses is lamenting about the attacks rather than calling them forth so when i was conceptualizing the animatic thats where my brain went and 2. in a roundabout partially unintentional way its kind of a reflection of how ren and doc's like. mentalities? are in the animatic? like ren definitely knows he fucked up in some way but is trying very hard to tell himself that he is justified and blameless and that doc is the sole aggressor in this scenario and doc is like. he doesnt think hes in the *wrong* but he is very self-aware of the insane shit he is pulling and doesnt really think of himself in a heroic light despite believing hes doing the right thing
the song is puddles the sad clown & postmodern jukebox's cover of viva la vida by coldplay. characters by renthedog and docm77. hermitcraft by... i actually have no clue who started hermitcraft
song by city and colour, series by grian, etc
i fucked up the lyrics a little bit but its fine it doesnt matter its fiiiine
design is mine.
song: youtu.be/OklSZmIx9-o
original: youtu.be/UMY-WJJSTCk
characters: from my batman au! if you want to know more there's quite a lot about it on my instagram @ghost.ofadragon!
(song is pale white horse by the oh hellos)
the song is a slowed version of hayloft by mother mother, and the characters are from blood of zeus, which is a netflix show
media- marble hornets (youtube series)
will i ever be consistent with my video titling conventions literally ever. the answer is no. its in all caps bc i felt like it
anyway some stuff off the top of my head
-yes i know that alex broke tims leg with a cinderblock and beat that one guy to death with a normal rock so there wouldnt be blood splatter like that if he was holding a cinderblock. however i did not want to draw a rock. gods bless.
-im like 99% sure that alex didnt literally hand jay a bag of tapes like that but the shot wouldnt work otherwise so Ignore It
-i had to go back and fix the one shot of brians face while i was drawing frames bc it was So Bad. it hurt me to look at. frankly its a mercy that im sparing you all from seeing the original frame
-i listened to almost exclusively just this fan podcast while i was making this pmv and you should listen to it if youre interested in marble hornets its spoiler-free and very good
open.spotify.com/show/5D86LNV8PDY9OKUp0YMhBk?si=evtKE8hxQiS6_bbYK6LnIQ
-ill come back and add more if i remember smth but its almost 3 am im going to go pass out now
character: vincent sinclair from house of wax 2005
song 1: tous les mΓͺmes by stromae
song 2: edmund temper by amigo the devil
i made this purely for my own enjoyment don't worry about it
this music does not belong to me!!!!! it's from the loki show soundtrack, which you can listen to here:
open.spotify.com/album/5Wc11R3nufO8ZAFFhvBGEe?si=zAYgiP2MQ-O5eZCw9aaCzA
the art in the background DOES belong to me, and if you want to see the full uncropped image, there's a tumblr post here:
ghostofadragon.tumblr.com/post/655208226574499840/i-have-robbed-a-million-banks-i-have-killed-a
-THIS SONG DOES NOT BELONG TO ME! ALL CREDIT GOES TO BELLSAINT FOR THE COVER AND NINE INCH NAILS* FOR THE ORIGINAL
-I RECORDED THIS OFF OF SOUNDCLOUD, AT THIS LINK: soundcloud.com/byaginc/hurt-la-lumiere-feat-bell
-AND BELLSAINT'S YOUTUBE CAN BE FOUND HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=Xi2Mu9KKA_g
-PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTISTS!
-IF THE CREATOR(S) OF THIS SONG WANT ME TO REMOVE THIS VIDEO I WILL DO SO! THIS VIDEO WILL ALSO BE DELETED IF THERE IS EVER AN OFFICIAL VERSION OF THIS SONG UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE
*nine inch nails made the original version, but this cover is most likely based off of johnny cash's cover! thank you commenter who told me this lol
ITS ABOUT THE SUNGLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!
song- real men by mitski
programs- procreate + imovie
time taken- like a week?
mental illness- yes
song- epilogue by the antlers yes i fucking spelled it wrong in the title card shut up
THIS ANIMATIC WAS SCRIPTED ENTIRELY BY MY FRIEND ZOOM (@Zoomda174 on tumblr) i am just a vessel for his fucking EXCELLENT cinematography please direct all your love at her :] i woudnt have made this if not for them so POGCHAMP πππππππππ
anyway HEYYYYYYYY ITS MEEEEEEEE im into mcyt now please throw your tomatoes
also song- rΓ€t by penelope scott
anyway that being said: i made like half of this animatic in a fevered state in the two and a half hours between midnight and 2:30 am and it fucking SHOWS lets GOOOO
song: the fine print by the stupendium!
unfortunate subject: twitch.tv/Emberglowfox
art by:
cosmic-nopedog.tumblr.com
eeveecat1248.tumblr.com
corvidaearts.tumblr.com
me!
song:
Beef FloMix by Flo Milli
-song is landfill by daughter
-tw for blood, death, and bright colors
-There Is No Source Material :^]
-edit: alright whores its been long enough since i posted this that i feel morally oblidged to admit that its a hunt down the freeman animatic [puts on my clown wig]
original meme- youtu.be/tNVrGr5N6sw
inspired by- youtu.be/ZpXxOfMMkiM
song- an open letter to a ruby-shoed pixie by teddy hyde
-hlvrai belongs to wayneradiotv + crew
-be nice to me is by the front bottoms
-the cringe fail art is MINE
do not LOOK in my direction
a: anyone you please! it's been left purposely vague i'm an opportunist
q: why do the stage curtains keep changing scale?
a: [sweats nervously]
q: why is he biting on a rose/dancing when the lyrics are describing the opposite?
a. he's a liar. he lies!
q: was janus really walking around with a rose in his hat that entire time just for the drama factor?
a: yes. yes he was.
song- biting on a rose by mother mother
song- carmelldansen
TWS: blood, uh. murder?? but like, sexy god murder. mostly just a whole lot of blood
anyway these are some of my ocs :') technically its just one oc
im too tired to type out all the actual lore for them so feel free to speculate in the comments if u so desire!!
SO. clears my throat. this is the first time in my life ever that ive gotten shoulder pain from drawing and its bc i drew this entire damn thing in the space of two days i am not wise
song- disney villain medley by peter collins feat whitney avalon
ANYWAY . notes:
-THIS IS CALLED VILLAIN MEDLEY BECAUSE THAT'S THE NAME OF THE SONG ON GOD IM NOT COUNTING JON AND MICHEAL SHELLEY AS VILLAINS. I WOULD NEVER I LOVE THEM
-this may be a little wonky !! i rushed it a bit because i was very excited
-youtu.be/XqPK3habeMk this isnt relevant to the animatic but everyone needs to watch this video
-YES i did cut the gaston bit out of this its bc i couldnt figure out who to put there and i didnt really like that part of the song anyway
-annabelle cane can can like................ marry me
-this was, at least in part, inspired by youtu.be/xjXAC6uowYM this lovely animatic!! go check it out i love the creator's content a whole lot
-thats all i can think of . i have homework to do now goodbye
tma (the magnus archives) au where instead of burning gerry's page, jon brings him back in a different, semi-stable(er) ghost form and as the title implies, they have to share a flat. gerry is Mad and jon is Regretful but they work out their differences after a while and are soft and domestic
i dont have much else to say aside from 1. i listened to in a week by hozier on loop while making this 2. despite the lack of martin in this pmv martin is Absolutely a part of this au i love him so much 3. yes gerry is wearing fishnets. thats just how he rolls and 4. gerry in this ghost form can only touch people or objects he has a strong emotional connection to!
song- bees by the ballroom thieves
TRIGGER WARNINGS: blood, implied eye trauma, smoking, hospital setting, scopophobia? (lots of eyes, but very simply rendered ones)
OTHER INFO:
-that's not-sasha stalking jon in the tunnels, if it wasn't clear!
-if i forgot to draw jon's worm scars at any point after the first scene, that's my mistake he should have them
-if u think the coloring in this looks neat its because i slapped an imovie filter on almost every single frame
-FUCK elias bouchard
-yes that one frame of jon at the beginning has thicker lineart than all the rest of it no i do not know why
-this took about 3 (?) days to make! plus another two days or so if you count the time i spent drawing the thumbnails
song- as it was by hozier