Runaway | One Piece AMV Animatic

Runaway by AURORA: A Nico Robin Animatic! Hopefully the video speaks for itself, but here are my thoughts behind my little project: In the beginning of this year, my brain was filled with AURORA music from Sky's virtual concerts and One Piece from my manga and anime binging. One day, listening to this song, something clicked: it was Robin's song, telling her story perfectly--searching for something, constantly on the run, even from happiness, and eventually finding a home with the Straw Hat crew. Months later, I sat down and decided to draw the animatic, and it's finally here. This animatic is a retelling of Nico Robin's story up to the conclusion of Enies Lobby, a mix of images that came to me as I listened to the song and canon scenes from the series that found their way into the boards because they were so iconic, embedded in my memory. It has been my longest storyboarding project so far, in terms of both project duration and animatic length, and I had a blast making it