On June 5th, 2015, a magical animatic was uploaded to YouTube. The video involves a necromancer named Leopold who is able to control otherworldly beings with music and Luca, a demon assigned to look after Leopold. In the video, Leopold summons an orchestra of spirits which in turn bring a ghost in the form of a demon. For those wondering about the term "animatic", it is an animated storyboard which is produced before the final piece for a sense of pacing. It can be used for any sort of film, but it is typically for animated ones.
I love this animatic as it has such a nice flow with the story and song. Every beat is considered important and one can tell a lot of effort was put into it. This was originally going to be fully animated with a crowdfunded campaign, but due to legal issues with the band's manager, the artist, yuramec, was unable to obtain permission to do so. It could be possible that since Mystery Skulls was already associated with another series of animation, Magic was not able to be cleaned up and finished. Regardless, the animatic is still enjoyable to watch and it brings me joy to find out that yuramec will bring back these endearing characters in a webcomic called "The Necropera" in the future.
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