A new Official Homestuck Animated Pilot has been announced, being animated by Spindlehorse's sister studio Spindleroo staring Toby Fox as John Egbert.
You can find the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2NtQjXS-gGY
I think Homestuck would work better as an animated series. I'm not a big fan of Homestuck's "iconic web-comic charm"; Commands, wordy dialogues, intermissions, Act Acts, typing quirks, gameplay segments. "Multi-media project" be damned, these are flaws! They aren't inherent to the story being told!
...Not very relevant to the pilot, which looks great, I just wanted to talk about Homestuck's supposed "un-adaptability".
I strongly disagree that gameplay and typing quirks are flaws. typing quirks make the characters feel like they have unique voices! It's just that, like, we can also use voice actors to communicate that feeling. Or subtitles! I actually think the comic's creative formatting will lead to a more interesting animated show. From the 30 seconds I've seen, I'm really excited. Unpopular opinion, but I do think the wordy diologue is an issue. I think that some of the iconic dave rants (for example) would actually be funnier if they were more concise. I'm curious to see how hussie will change parts of the comic that came off in ways she didn't intend, or that aged poorly. For a minor example, according to hussie's commentary, she never pretended to portray Equius as a sexual predator (just a pest lmfao), but a lot of people viewed the heart robot incident that way, or they view the meowrails as abusive. I wonder if Hussie will change parts of that comic to stay more in line with how she views Equius. Will feferi change? Will Guy Feiri still be satan? I'm excited to find out.
I really hope this show completely deviates from the original story, I think there would be so much potential to do something completely new and exciting
I am Gaster
I fell into the core
I agree there's a lot of possibility to do something completely unique but the main thing I think is that it's NOT like scott pilgrim in that homestuck isn't as ubiquitous, the ideas being pitched for that I think are implying Homestuck is CURRENTLY in its heyday which it obviously isn't. I think this series is going to be fairly regular and get people interested in homestuck as a concept first.
Personally I'm really excited for this pilot. My boyfriend who has never been near homestuck wants to watch it with me and my wife, and hopefully he'll even want to read it.
- Livvy, she/her
