Odyssey Design

The Odyssey
An Animated Epic
ANIM310 F2 Ryan Kendrick | ryankendrickanimation.com
Production Design Fall 2022

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Story
T
o return to his wife and kingdom means facing
monsters, magic and even the wrath of the Gods. Is
Odysseus, cleverest of the Greeks, up to the
challenge?
Ryan Kendrick | ryankendrickanimation.com
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Story
This is the story of the 10 year long journey of Ithacan
King , Odysseus after the T
rojan War
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Events
Arrives at Phaeacia alone and tells his tale to King Alcinous

Leaves the shores of T
roy with his
fl
eet to return home to Ithaca

Raids a near by town, loses a couple of men in the raid

Arrives at the Isle of the Lotus Eaters

Arrives at Polyphemus’s Island. Is captured then blinds the
cyclops. Is cursed to never reach home unless all his comrades
die along the way

Meets Aeolus and is gifted a bag of winds

Almost at Ithaca when his men release the winds, blowing them off
course

Begs Aeolus for aid again. Is denied

Fleet is destroyed by the Laestrygonians (giants)

Arrives at Circe’s Island. Men are turned into animals, Helped by
Hermes and they stay for 1 year

Voyage to the land of the dead. Meets ghosts of his Mother, Achilles,
and Agamemnon. Encounters Persephone
Spends the night on Circe’s Island. Is warned of the Sirens, Wandering Rocks and Scylla and Charybdis

Passes the Sirens

Choses the straights and loses 6 men to Scylla

Stranded on Hyperion’s Island. Forced to eat forbidden cattle and sheep

Zeus Destroys his ship killing the rest of his crew and leaving him stranded at sea. Faces Charybdis
alone

Washes up on Calypso’s island and is held prisoner for 7 years

Builds boat and sails back to Ithaca, Poseidon wrecks his boat and is washed up of Phaeacia.

Phaeacians offer him a ride to Ithaca. Abandon him on the shores. Polyphemus’s curse his lifted

Athena visits him and disguises him as a beggar. Stays with his former Swineherd.

Reunites with his son and plots to over throw the suitors that have disgraced his home.

Penelope holds archery contest for the suitors to win her hand in marriage. None of them succeed.
She retires and Odysseus reveals himself

Odysseus and his son slaughter the suitors

T
owns people try to take revenge for their slain sons and brothers, Zeus and Athena put an end to the riot
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Format
Style: Millenium Graphic

Setting: Ancient Greece

Medium: 2d animated Series. 30 Min Episodes

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Odyssey Design

Odyssey Design

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