#Animated show

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Morry Concept Art - Final Part

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[cacturnia]

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was reading official character profiles for an animated show, the only profile I remember was for an old man with devil horns that read: "He may hold legal authority here but good luck getting him to act on it. Before now he had a peaceful, quiet life, and he would like to return to that peaceful quiet life as soon as possible."

[toodrawtothink]

First episode of House on the Outlands just dropped! A show I designed, wrote, storyboarded, lead animation, etc on!

[uwudonoodle]

Whoever runs The Dragon Prince's Insta needs a raise.

[studioflimpo]

HELLO TUMBLRVERSE!

This is Studio Flimpo (FINALLY) broadcasting to your dashboard!

You may know us from our Insta/Tiktok/Twitter, but we figured it was about time we broke into the Tumblr sphere! If you don't know us, hi! We're Studio Flimpo, an independent animation studio founded by Reid Sandlund, Ren Abueg, and Milo Ferguson out of our basement!

We hope you stick around, cause we're gearing up for production of the pilot for our new series MANDELBROT HALL. You can view the trailer HERE:

That's all for now, flimpos! See you soon!

- Reid

[televised-uhhh-nerdistry]

Cartoon rec of the week:

Craig of the Creek

I haven't seen enough people talking about the show, so I'm mentioning it here. Absolute 10/10 cartoon. Just three kids, running 'round, making friends, running their own semi-sustainable community in the forest (there are some concerns about how much trash they leave there but ultimately they're better than most adults). Literally such a dream. they encourage each other to be emotionally healthy and they protect each other from "danger". Like they'll help each other achieve their dreams as they come (and new dreams show up pretty often because they're young kids).

And they're so funny! Like genuinely these kids are so earnest and intelligent and incredibly humorous and full of heart! They have full lives and they live them to the fullest out in nature after school, on the weekends, and in the summer. It's one of the best representations of found family I have ever seen in a cartoon, and I absolutely love it.

Also several of the writers behind the show are POC and queer (I think the head writers are all Black but I could be wrong), so you know that it was written well and the representation is awesome like I know that it should absolutely go without saying, but representation is much more than just showing BIPOC people on screen, and in terms of cartoons I haven't seen that many shows understanding that fact except maybe the Proud Family, Fat Albert, and a few others whose names will return to me once I've taken my ADHD meds. But the point is that Craig of the Creek gets it right. Most of the characters throughout the show (from what I've seen) are BIPOC, and you can tell that there are caring nods to BIPOC communities (primarily Black American communities), and more than that, that the writers know what they're talking about and are deeply familiar with and are a part of those communities. Craig, the titular character, is a young Black boy, and his family are middle class and ultimately very successful Black people. Kelsey (one of the main characters) is Jewish and Polish, and written with more complexity than having a one and done Hanukah celebration. The Creek's main business, a trading post, is run by Kit, a young Black girl with a love for economy and business. And many other characters are racial or ethnic minorities as well, and it warms my heart to see these characters done justice time and time again.

There's great subtle queer rep too, and you can tell it wasn't written just for the sake of representation, like it was thought out and intentional, and it worked beautifully. There are queer witches, and there are no labels applied to them, they're just allowed to exist with no explanations, happily in love with one another. There's a non-binary character later in the series (I'm only like 10 episodes in so I haven't met them yet but I've read amazing things about them). Kelsey also apparently identifies as a lesbian later in the series (I say "apparently" because I haven't done much reading so as to avoid spoilers, not because I am discounting her identity). On top of that, JP (one of the main characters) has a sister who is dating another girl.

There's also a significant amount of body positivity in the show, at least far than I've seen elsewhere. Not only do they openly say "all bodies are beautiful" and follow up on that by defending one another, there's also very little need to defend one another, because there's a very unspoken and deep respect in the Creek for things like body type, skin colour, disabilities, and so on. The kids of the creek, and their grown ups, are all different body types, and given their penchant for community and uplifting one another, it's no wonder they all seem confident in their bodies.

Not to mention the disability representation. There is a character later on in the series who is Black and deaf, and he not only speaks in Sign Language, but in Black American Sign Language. In addition, though unconfirmed, many of the kids in the creek embody aspects of various neurotypes. For example, the three main characters, Craig, Kelsey, and JP all come across as neurodivergent, with special interests, neurodivergent ways of thinking, and so on. Some have speculated that JP has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which is a disability often comorbid with ADHD. Not to mention that all the kids in the creek embody different special interests, most of which would be considered weird or frowned upon in everyday society, but that are given the opportunity to shine and flourish in the Creek's accepting culture.

Take the Horse Girls for example, a small clique of girls who roleplay as horses in a pasture near the Creek, and of course many of their behaviours are played as jokes, but ultimately they are accepted and involved in many adventures because of their unique interests and abilities which are ultimately how they aid the rest of the Creek. Every kid is a useful and accepted part of the Creek, with the exception of the ranger scout kids, who are essentially the same as cops, who are often exploitative, rude, and disruptive to the community as a whole.

Ultimately, the show is one of love, friendship, community, and acknowledging differences as a natural and helpful part of life. On top of that, it's not copaganda! What more could you want?

[littleviviv]

Musa - Winx redesign

[noonewilleverknowistealkneecaps]

Back at it again

The Little Vampire(2017) mentioned🗣️🗣️🗣️💥💥💥💥💥

[r4d1shhh]

@sm-baby i love drawing these two

i havent drawn my tadc character Jernut in a while

[starrydoesdoodles]

I miss you The Hollow…

+these freaks in the bg if you missed it!!

[heyitsrink]

Scavenger's Reign has entered my brain like an alien parasite. Here's a gouache and pen study of my favorite background from the show.

[queen-of-paradise]

yeah yeah the whole series is great and all and everyone's iconic and shit but NO ONE is allowed to EVER forget Zuko's first date in which he ping-pongs back and forth from being amazing to fucking it up the ENTIRE TIME. And, by extension, Zuko with his hair slicked back by Iroh.

[scarlibis]

Been seeing a ton of negative comments about lego monkie kid s5. "This has to be fake." "How could the animation get so BAD." "This show is completely ruined." and all that bs.

Was skeptical about how reasonable these comments really could have been, so I watched the trailer myself, and it's REALLY clear:

You're all just really damn spoiled.

The quality drop is EXTREMELY negligible. Major scenes are still animated incredibly well for a studio that's touching this show for the first time, trying a style it's probably never replicated before.

You all need to have some damn respect for what Wildbrain must have endured to replicate and carry on the style of the show as well as they could have. Especially with the time crunch they might have been faced with.

You still don't even need to like the changes. Nobody is forcing you to. What you do need to do is stop being so dramatic and hating the studio for the smallest drop in quality ever. It really could have been worse

Plus, we're in a time where shows are being canned left and right, or written off and deleted entirely. ESPECIALLY animated shows. So, please,

Appreciate that this animated series is continuing even with this kind of challenge. Many shows that face similar circumstances don't make it nowadays.

Do you prefer a show with a little less flare to it, or no show at all?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Butch Hartman fucked up so bad that the rights to Fairly Odd-Parents were disintegrated and 3 different networks ran their own version of the show.

[hethress]

What do you mean by that? 🤨