The final celebration on the open desert….🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

They could've made El the final shot of the season, but it ended on the whole group, with MIKE and WILL in the center of the frame:

It's fair to believe these final images (which have no dialogue) foreshadow season 5 and that Mike and Will's relationship is central to s5. They even breathe in sync. Mike and WIll "being a team" against Vecna was hinted at several times in s4.

The Duffers have said that Season 5 is Will-centered... If the new episode titles are legit, we now also know one of the Wheelers will "vanish" (I'm guessing Holly) in episode 2. Will's memories of his own kidnapping and his connection to Vecna can be key to rescuing whoever goes missing.

The Duffers have said s5 will return to s1 themes. Mike and Will's closeness was established from the very beginning, and was central to s1 and s2.

Mike and Will WILL team up somehow, just as Mike shyly asked them to be back in California. A Wheeler will likely go missing. Just as Jonathan and Nancy grew closer looking for Barb and Will together, Mike and Will will grow even closer than they already are.

I do have this sneaking feeling that THIS could well be the “FINAL” shot.

for this task, due to being unable to finish my full animation, I took three action frames for each character within my animation and rendered them fully. I'm extremely happy with how the background, characters and overlay as a whole came together within the frames.

my initial idea for my animation was to do a video game character select screen, where when a character is selected, they would do a idle animation of their move sets. along with the character, the character stats and name would also appear on screen with a drop down menu and select bar overlay/s, each being unique to the character on screen. the statics indicate what character is good at, with the four standing for defense, speed, offense and magic. i also reused my pervious icon designs from graphic design to create the select bar imagery, with a small icon fitting the characters theme and a silhouette of the character with their name together.

I saw her one last time.