Theatre of the Unaligned

Happy Valentines Day from JTTQ!

An early Valentine's day treat for our JTTQ audience! Ooh we got a little bit of spice goin on ohohoho

quick note, to be clear, these are not screenshots, we are not making a JTTQ dating sim (unless...? unless you'd want that??). I (Jay) just have an infatuation and obsession with Visual Novels and thought this would be a fun format~ What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with ...

Happy Valentines Day from FtG!

An early Valentine's day treat for our For the Gods audience! Ooh we got a little bit of spice goin on ohohoho

quick note, to be clear, these are not screenshots, we are not making a FtG dating sim (unless...? a bit less likely than a JTTQ one BUUUUT?? if u WAAANT that...). I (Jay) just have an infatuation and obsession with Visual Novels and thought this would be a fun format~ What bette...

[Holiday Special] Journey to the Questmas

Happy Holidays, wonderful patrons of TOTU! (it u)

We're bringing you early access to our very special Holiday Episode!

Oh THAT'S what I've been up to.

We're real proud of this one. It's obviously our longest episode to date, and I'm extremely proud of our attempt at wide screen. The final publicly available version might have some audio fixes (and will include our sponsor), bu...

[JttQ] Questmas Special Sneakpeek!

Since we're on a mid-season break, you've probably noticed the lack of, well, anything JTTQ from us. Sorry about that! We're in the throws of prepping for the next steps of fulfilling the Kickstarter (we're so happy it's such a big task, everyone who supported the Kickstarter in any little way from donating simply to watching our promos is beyond outstanding!). That includes Visdev for the next...

[JttQ Bonus Ep] Jackson - Turn Away

it's a working title ok

the FINAL of the special Backstory Bonus series, Before the Quest! OF COURSE it's Jackson. Who else could it possibly be?

Jackson's definitely has the most story events put in, so I had a lot of unique shots to make! it was a fun challenge to montage through his life, connecting the pieces in a way we hope best show off his journey from his initial f...

[JttQ Bonus Ep] Rayne - Passing

Grief is just love with nowhere to go. What's that like for an elf?

It's the Raaaaaayne short, baby! Unlike the other two bonuses, I had absolutely no board or layout reuse in this one, which offered a genuinely fun challenge with time constraints.

It's true Rayne lived a relatively charmed life in comparison to the others, so we wanted to put emphasis on how long it's been and what...

[JttQ BONUS EP] Pepper - Listen

This one doesn't have a content warning but it DOES have an Itty Bitty Pepper

BABY PEPPER. she's too smol. she can't see in the window. itty bitty.

We wanted to explore Pepper's bardic origins while also setting up a bit of her character motivations for the next season! I think it's easy to overlook how a bard becomes a bard or what unlocks their appreciation for music. For me anywa...

[JttQ BONUS EP] Mara - Forward

CW: Depiction of severe burns. These are a little bit dark lately, huh.

LUCKILY it doesn't stay dark! This one's a bit more uplifting. Yippee!

We wanted to focus a bit on Mara's journey from the worst day of her life to the person she's become. While we know what drives her emotionally, we wanted to show how exactly that fire burns and how it's changed over the years! It was really ...

[JttQ BONUS EP] Elliot - The Test

Content Warning: Depiction of Attempted Suicide. Viewer discretion is advised

Sorry this one's so late in the day, y'all

As we ramp up to the Kickstarter's launch, we wanted to fill the time between the end of the season and launch with some special extra-short episodes. We figured now would be a great time to flex our animation chops and explore the more dramatic elements of our ch...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 39

The season's wrapping up, folks! But it is not the end...

The storyline may be over until season 4 starts, but we're not done with season 3 juuuust yet! We're planning some specials to keep up that JttQ hype train for just a little longer! (I dare say it's some of my finest work already)

This episode has one of the most complicated backgrounds for literally no reason. Foster said "s...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 38

Haaahahaha you thought we were DONE HERE?? HAHHAHA

back to back to back to back romantic ANGST... and we have a riiiival naaaame

Special thank you to the voice of the mean half-elf -- sorry, PRIMROSE, Taylor's Tavern Tales!

Jackson's been relaxing a bit too long this season, if you ask me. When...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 37

I'm not crying, you're crying

FUN FACT I actually did tear up reading the script. Dez and Nara absolutely nailed it in my humble opinion. Twas magical to be in the booth, witnessing them~

Our obligatory behind-the-scenes look: Dramatic animation and compositing continues to be one of the greatest, yet welcome, challenges this series affords me. I think this is the first episode to h...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 36

OH. OKAY. THANKS, THAT DOESN'T HURT MY HEART AT ALL.

These two, man. These two are breakin' my heart.

This episode's backgrounds kicked my butt a little bit but I had sooo much fun figuring it out. Nara and Dez absolutely killed it in the booth, too! And don't worry, y'all, this isn't the only episode we're spending on this problem. Even though that cliffhanger devastates me.

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[JttQ Animated] Episode 35

OBJECTION

let's take a break from the doomed yuri for a moment to appreciate what an absolute goober Pepper is and what an absolute chad our Minotaur friend is for stepping in to the best of his abilities

no terrifying implications about Elliot here, no sir, none whatsoever

AND EVEN MORE SPECIAL, let's give a round of applause for our phenomenal guest star, the ever-incredible...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 34

Family dinners are always a little bit awkward, huh.

ohohohoh we got some DRAMAAAA

Special thanks again to our boy Brendan for pulling triple duty on the voice work this episode, good god. We were very excited to bring back a beloved character from season 1!

Also this really is the season of unique outfits and unique backgrounds, huh? New fits for Rayne, Mara, Elliot AND Peppe...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 33

Oh, dear, this is going to go about as well as I think it will, won't it.

Aug. 10 EDIT - Link to the Kickstarter [here] !

Huzzah we're back from Gen Con and we're workin' hard t...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 32

Dads, am I right

At the time of posting, we'll be at Gen Con 2025 (I know, we've been so subtle about it)! In fact, if everything goes according to plan, this should be uploading a few minutes after our panel's begun!

If you're watching this during that time, or are even waiting in the audience right now due to some kind of unforeseen delay, then we here at Theatre of the Unaligned ...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 31

OHOHOHO THE PLOT THICKENS kinda

special thanks to the recurring voice of our friend Brendan, who you may know as the guy who voices Gary, the Minotaur, the prison guard, the town guards, and the Mummy Lich guy.

I'm not letting go of the beach designs juuuuust yet. Gimme a few more eps with them :3

I love designing characters, and I LOOOOVE designing their parents. Big fan of t...

[JttQ Abridged] Episode 30

IT'S A BEACH EPISOOOOOODE LET'S GOOO

Listen, if you have seen my (Jay's) instagram, then the fact I like to draw attractive people in swimsuits is not a surprise. It was really fun figuring out what everyone's swimsuits would be based on their personalities and base designs!

Also Jackson is absolutely ripped for no reason and I think that's very funny

Feel free to make art of ...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 29

What a way to deal with a cliffhanger, huh. Whomp-whomp.

I meant to upload this earlier in the day, so I'd like to apologize for that! This one's my personal fave of our shorts so far. I had an absolute blast with the backgrounds and The Stand-out Scene of the short.

The new palette's also been giving me a chance to actually improve my background work since it was pretty hard to ma...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 28

Yaaaay PJ time! PJ time's the best time to discover why your tiny friend is lugging you and your weird new friends across the kingdom.

I'm so happy I got to update the PJ character sheets colors. Mara's bunny slippers have finally debuted too! Episode 13 (where she debuted her PJ design) was too serious to have them. Fun fact, Pepper's PJs were the only ones I hadn't designed until this s...

[Podcast of the Unaligned] Ep 1 - Dez

THE ORIGINAL UPLOAD FAILED IM SO SORRY let's try that again

HEY GUESS WHAT YOU GUYS GET AN EARLY LOOK AT A THING WE'RE DOING

Nara is outstanding and put together this incredible lil podcast-style show we wanna do more of, and we wanted to give you lovely folks a first look! We, uh, also don't know what to call it, so we're accepting name ideas. We're so sorry we still can't bring yo...

[JttQ Animated] Episode 27

OH HOT DIGGITY DANG, PATRONS, WE'RE SO BACK

EDIT: updated the thumbnail for a funnier, stupider title :)

New season, new color palette, and, uhhhh, well the characters are the same. There might be new characters later though!

This is a fun new step for me, Jay, your table artist, personally since it's given me a chance to make some new backgrounds and fully step into what we'd...

[JQ Abridged] Season 2 Compilation + BONUS

i'm calling it JQ thats what i'm calling it, it's short for Journey to the Quest, but i'm hip and trendy so it's JQ

WHOA WAHOO WE'VE GOT THE COMPILATION FOR EPISODES 14-26 and we wanted to give yall early access to it! This is the version we'll be releasing to the public in the coming days, and (just like Season 1) it includes a special bonus episode exclusive to this compilation!

W...

[DnD Abridged] Episode 26

SEASON TWO HATH COME TO A CLOSE and wowee what a ride of a season!
Can you believe they all have names now?! CRAZY

The keen-eyed among you may have noticed we have a title for the series now! After we let the title sink in a bit we're probably going to backtrack and change all the episodes to the new name (naturally you guys are more than welcome to keep calling the series "DnD Abridg...

[DnD Abridged] Episode 25

I really wanted to get this one out way earlier in the day, so I'd like to apologize for the delay! I won't lie, it's a miracle I was able to get the animations done even a day ahead of our public posting schedule... your patience moves me to tears, I swear to Gods. If there are any sound or subtitle issues, I am so sorry!! I'm posting this immediately after finishing it.

The season 2 fin...

[DnD Abridged] Episode 24

OH SO MUCH happens in this episode. We have a grand total of 11 characters featured if you count the egg and the druid's fucked up little crow, which I do, so that's a record amoutn of characters for us so far. WOO!

Speaking of all those characters, let's give a very special thank you to our guest cast members! The Human Druid is portrayed by 2025-05-01 06:05:46 +0000 UTC View Post

[DnD Abridged] Episode 23

REUPLOAD, I FORGOT SOMETHING IMPORTANT AT THE END, a lil musical play-out for yall~

Reunited and it feeels so gooood~

It's been a hot second since the party's been together, hasn't it! Good to get them all in the same place again. Missed them. And we have the return of The Stinky Snake from episode 14!

Another blast with this one! Though I had some complications behind the sce...

[DnD Abridged] Episode 22

We figured we oughta take a step back and check out what everyone's been up to with all these back-to-back heartbreakers! Than you again for your incredible patience, y'all~

This one has the most unique shots we've had in a while, with technically only one scene reusing any shots at all (that being the exchange between Mara and the rival-ish Paladin). It was really fun to animate the open...

[DnD Abridged] Episode 21

Episode 20 was a pretty big act to follow, so we did something a little bit special with our Bard's story here!

Some backstage prattling from your table artist, this episode was very nerve-wracking to make since it features Jay (that's me I'm Jay) singing! It's unaltered, so I'm a little, uh, musically unsupervised in terms of pitch correction, but I still had fun with it. A very special ...