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Rise of the TMNT (S1): End Game

I’ve been working on this show for almost a year now and it’s been the wildest ride of my life! Huge shoutout to all my peeps at Flying Bark and the crew at Nickelodeon who’s dedication for this show is unmatched, as well as a BIG BIG THANK YOU to the fans!! Your support means the world to us! ♡

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I’m too tired to write a thoughtful description but Splinter loves all of his kids so much you guys

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TOTTMNT INTRO GUYS !!!!!

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IDW is not going down without a fight because whoa.

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They're my little guys. My good time pals. Just a couple of goobers.

They are also menaces to society, but that's besides the point 😁

Moar of the Rise sillies [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

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40th Anniversary ROTTMNT Farewell Chapter Spoiler below!

Dang Splinter. Way to throw you arch-nemesis/fellow dad/it's complicated under the bus at the very last second. You know he totally did that on purpose just to annoy poor Draxum and fortify his top spot as best dad for all eternity.

Been holding off on posting this image for days to avoid spoiling people too early on. People have been asking for my opinion on the special and I have to say I absolutely loved it, but will probably wait a few more days to properly discuss.

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second day of school

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that one Laios meme but with the 12 bros, saw the rise one and got inspired <33

(don't tag as t-cest)

original under the cut!

Original by @/sweepswoop_ on Twitter

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The Orange Blossom Special

*points at username* of course i named it after a fiddle tune

It was originally a dip pen test, with a bit of gouache for the orange. I love how wobbly the lines are and how imperfect it turned out (●'◡'●) inking traditionally is so much more enjoyable than digitally.

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On Splinter and Colors

I know we all joke about Splinter giving the red-eared slider the nickname Blue and I agree that it is indeed a peak troll dad move, but consider-

This is what we see of the baby turtles in Goyles Goyles Goyles

And this is the same picture put through a colorblind filter showing protanomaly, or red deficiency

Through deuteranomaly, green deficiency

And through protanopia, total red blindness

Yeah, makes sense why Leo might be Blue.

(there's green blindness and blue deficiency/blindness as well, but Leo's eye bananas still looked red in those)

If you haven't gotten to high school physics yet or have forgotten that lesson: we have three cones in our eyes that respond to light of different wavelengths, perceiving the color red, green, and blue respectively. All the colors you perceive are a mixture of these cones receiving light and yelling at you. (except for purple, purple's kind of weird) (as is black and white, and magenta, and-there are a lot of non-spectral colors, actually) Color blindness occurs when one or more cones is bad at its job or not working, resulting in the eye having difficulty perceiving that wavelength or not being able to see it altogether.

Now, considering he did give another child Red, he most likely can tell some shades apart. So I doubt he's completely red-blind. But it's very possible that he's red-weak or green-weak colorblind and literally saw Leo as having blue stripes as an infant, because they were in a shade he had trouble seeing.

This could also explain why he wore yellow-tinted glasses. They might have literally helped him see better by filtering everything to a wavelength he could see more comfortably at.

But, you ask, why didn't the name 'red-eared slider' tip him off? Splinter's not a native English speaker. He's fluent, but it's his second language and it is very different from his first. English is a confusing and often contradictory language, so even if he realized that red-eared was meant to refer to the markings around their ears that were red-well, what does he know? English came up with all sorts of weird, misleading names for things. The black mamba isn't actually black, goldfish can come in all sorts of colors, and there's a frog called the mountain chicken. Who is he to argue?

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yo, yo, yo!

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imma do draw her properly soon….

happy 40th anniversary guys!!!

Scene redraws

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So... Frida, huh?

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even the strongest of warriors will fall to his charms

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let's be real, splinter is all of us.

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DONNIE

Idk about this one guys

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they got the goods

nice now we are ready for the apocalypse