MD Intermission: Scene 9 Thumbnails

These thumbnails are way less detailed than usual, but tbh this is how thumbnails should look anyways. I'm just extra as hell.

I also wanted to talk a bit about this scene from Intermission which is my favorite one of the entire episode. You know when you write a story and there's one scene in particular you really want to get to? This one the one for me. This scene was an exercise of being able to convey an exchange between two characters with as little words as possible. Scripting this scene was especially hard because I kept having to try to figure out how to write a silent conversation. Eventually I gave up trying to script it.

Instead, I sat in front of my bedroom mirror and just acted with myself. You can't talk, so try to get your sentiment across only with your body language and expressions. I think as an artist it's really useful to watch yourself and how your body moves when trying to express feeling. There were some things my face would do that I didn't notice until I started watching myself. After I acted out that whole thing by myself, I sat down and drew what I saw from myself.

I believe silent moments are just as important as ones with dialogue. Especially here where I have two characters who don't know how to talk about their feelings very well, if at all. I wanted them to talk, but I also knew there's no way they healthily could've had a full-on conversation. So instead, they sit in silence and have a tacit exchange with the only words they say to each other being "I'm sorry".

I'm happy this scene was received so well. It was my favorite to board because it carries so much emotion.

Also in the initial thumbs I have V standing off to the side rather than being included in the group hug when N finds them both. The reasoning behind that initial choice was V's guilt. She attacked someone suffering the same pain as her, and she snapped at N. She was going to exclude herself from the hug in a "I don't deserve it" sort of fashion. I decided to scrap that idea because N loves BOTH her and Uzi. To show him leaving out V that way feels like it'd betray his core value: his love for his friends.