#I took some screenshots for ref reasons

[cosmicheartz]

Pink lev ball Crystal is so real and canon btw

[theillustraitor]

Sorry i havent been doing trio month, my motivation and willpower took a total dip for no reason :']

Ill probably try to do the prompts another time even if it isnt trio month anymore because i had so many ideas and i dont wanna waste them

However something i do have done is a practice with some dp style lining brushes i made! Im slowly practicing my dp style skills(i swear im working on the ref requests-) but wasnt feeling up to doing something too complex, so i traced one of my favorite screenshots! I figured itd be a good easy test to see if the brushes matched the style the way i wanted them to w/o having to draw something new. I think they worked pretty well, so i present hd sad wet cat vlad! I also made a gif with moving rain cause i thought itd be funny lol

Og shot:

[peachiseas]

okay i am very new here, so i need a through introduction to your mcs! like eve for example, pls post his whole biography o(╥﹏╥)o

fr tho, tell me anything and everything :D

TOOK SO DAMN LONG SINCE I WANTED TO DRAW A STEP ONE REF OF EVE BUT ITS GONNA TAKE A MINUTE so here are the sketches,,, Anyways- gonna introduce the main two mcs/ocs you'll see here: Eve Cortez Williams and Aaliyah Dubious

(dont mind my ipad scribbles on the screenshot iofqiowogi) Lemme put this under a readmore actually so yall dont get slammed with a long ass post:

Starting with Eve:

He's my Tamarack MC, but I figured since uh. all my art that was a given

He has a strained relationship with Qiu in step 1 but they become besties by step 2 and by step 3, they are like family to each other. If no one got Eve, Eve knows Qiu got them, amen 🙏

He comes out as transmasc by step 2, and by step 3 he gets top surgery and starts taking testosterone and firmly identifies as a butch lesbian

He's from the southern part of Miami, Florida. He's Golden Grove's residential florida man

He practices martial arts religiously, he's a big fan of Goku and Dragonball in general so he wants to be like his idol

His story deviates a bit from the OL2 generic mc story, he did have a dad! Opal and his dad wanted a kid but they both didn't want to get married and since the two of them were best friends, they decided to have a kid together (or well two but we'll talk about that later)

What's important to note from above is that his dad isn't around anymore because his father passed away a few months ago due to a car accident and Eve was hospitalized as a result

So by the time he's at Golden Grove, he's in anger stages of his grief and he doesn't want to be bothered. Which sucks cause hes neighbors with the two loudest kids on the block

Doesn't help he's a ESL speaker (English as a Second Language) and Golden Grove's population is majorly white so he has even harder of a time adjusting to it

He gets into fights in step 1... a Lot. Someone will look at him funny and they'll get punched in the face

He does adjust but he still doesn't like Golden Grove by step 3 but funnily enough, he moves away at the end of step 3 for treatment but moves back in step 4, crazy how that shit works huh

He has two emotional support bunnies; Bulma and Chi-Chi! He gets them in step 2, Qiu and Eve bond over them LMFAO

As for Aaliyah:

She's my Qiu MC, to the shocker of no one. Tamarack is also her best friend <3

Aaliyah is from New Orleans, Louisiana! She's full blooded Haitian and she has family in Haiti

She's also transfem! She passes for cis in step 1 thanks to hormone blockers and some makeup and then starts taking estrogen in step 2 and onwards

Her being black and transfemme is integral to her character and how she navigates around Golden Grove, she doesn't tell anyone she's trans until near the end of step 1. By step 3, the girl gang and Qiu knows shes trans

^^ That's because she had a very negative experience coming out to her community who previously loved her but flipped on her just as fast

So moving to Golden Grove was supposed to be a fresh start for her as herself but by that point she feels like she has to keep up her "cis-sona" lest she gets bullied again

She still gets bullied for other reasons in step 2 though (being a pretty black girl and the one person who has a crush on her is the most popular kid in school... its rough! 😭)

By step 4 though she is proud to call herself trans and will let people know!

She lovessss animals! And the animals love her back! She feeds them all the time and keeps animal food on her for that purpose when she goes to the park to read by herself, she got a flock of crows and stray cats that like to follow her

She has a cat named Kiki!!! Kiki loves everyone except Qiu though, Aaliyah doesnt know that though-

I hope that was enough of a info-dump! If anyone has anymore questions please ask i have so much lore please-

[satellite-blossom]

NEW ART !? It's more likely than you think !

I've redesigned Léa's Magical form again, but this time around I've actually colored (& shaded) the whole thing ; I'll share more of my process under the read more.

Feel free to reblog this (but it's ok if you don't) !

(Léa use they/them pronouns and are agender)

So this is Léa's old Magical form, or at least the last art of it I had completed before the 2024 version :

I was going for a fancy, somewhat ouji inspired outfit that'd still be comfortable to wear, as Léa Acorn's style is all about being cute yet comfy. Their body saw no change from their regular form.

I think I was already not fully satisfied with this design by the end of 2021, but as time went on my list of grievances kept growing longer. I started to dislike how much of the design was pure white ; it's not really something I like on Magical Girl designs but for some reason I included it here, probably because I was trying to branch out and take inspiration from series like Lolirock & Pretty Cure for once. I also ended up finding the jacket kinda dumb, or at least the way it fit on top of the shirt seemed off. I had no idea how to color the shoes when I drew this design and it was bugging me more and more over time.

But while I fell out of love with the outfit, my main grievance was the staff-paintbrush-scythe hybrid, which was not only drawn poorly but also pretty boring. I couldn't help but try to redesign it just a month or two after completing the new ref, but I didn't want to redo the whole thing as back then I still made my refs in Microsoft Publisher with the help of Photofiltre, which was a slow and painful process I dreaded.

(Léa's Mobian forms 2021 ref, for... Reference)

So between my laziness, art block and the general state of my life I wasn't able to complete any new design before this year (2024). Let's break down this new design, shall we ?

This was my main inspo board this time around :

As you can see I kept the lolita/ouji influence but added some streetwear elements to it. I felt like the previous design didn't do a great job showcasing the mix of preppy prince & comfy fashion Léa are supposed to encapsulate, so I brought up pictures of a character that had only influenced their story and personality so far : Sora from Kingdom Hearts !

It's not something I bring up a lot anymore, but I used to be well-versed in Kingdom Hearts lore and Léa's story was heavily influenced by it ; they were even supposed to fight with a keyblade at one point ! Design-wise, I borrowed the length of Sora's shorts/jumpsuit for Léa's bloomers, and replaced their cropped suit jacket by a short-sleeved hoodie (which also mirrors some of their Sonic.exe world designs). I mixed these elements with lolita items for a cuter look.

Léa share my love of ties, so I've replaced their bow tie by a regular one ; it's somewhat short to showcase their shirt, which is a revamped version of the old one.

For the legwear I took inspiration from some long flowy legwarmers I saw in a few fairy kei coords, and also the shoes from this CocoPPaDolls screenshot I've taken years ago, back when the game was still up :

(I miss this game every day)

And of course I needed the shoes to be velcro LED shoes, because that's just the Léa Acorn way.

The rounded pink heart-shaped gems throughout the outfit were somewhat inspired by Amulet Heart from Shugo Chara.

Talking about gems, time to talk about the staff ! It was inspired by Amulet Spade's paintbrush, some Lolirock items, and a bunch of bootleg Magical Girl wands. Why reference bootleg wands, you might ask ? Well, since they're already off compared to the real deals, they allow me to not design wands that are too similar to ones from well-known properties.

I've been meaning to make Léa's eyes pink in their magical form for years but didn't actually follow through for a while. I ended up making their eyes brownish pink to not make their eyes too light, as I felt like it'd remove some of their charm (I already felt guilty for not keeping their eyes brown in this form). And of course, I had to bedazzle their eyes to hell and back.

Actually all this shininess and sparkling was inspired by the original drawing of Léa's Magical Form drawn all the way back in 2017 and redrawn in 2018 :

For some reason I took a lot of inspiration from Sailor Moon for these despite Léa's role being inspired by Card Captor Sakura (and Kingdom Hearts). Also Wish Gems used to be called "Magical Chaos Emeralds" and look just like the regular Chaos Emeralds, which was kinda dumb. But I loved the energy of these pieces so I've tried to recapture the "sparkly pink magical transformation void" vibes they had ; I hope I've succeeded on that front.

Anyway, thank you for reading this all the way through ! I hope this was an interesting read, somewhat.

[electromignion]

Bridgewater fanart again! (Jeremy Bradshaw in his office)

This is my biggest biggest fanart I’ve ever done so far and let me just say that I’m super proud of it!! There are a lot of details once again 👀 (kudos if you can see the references!)

This is a fanart totally dedicated to @thelaurenshippen , thank you so much for your support on my fanarts, it truly means the world to me, and it isn’t much but it is my way to thank you, as you said that you had a new headcanon as you reblogged my Jeremy sleeping fanart “also: new headcanon I now have vipin started TAing for Jeremy when he was still in undergrad so Jeremy also has one photo of the two of them at Vipin's graduation in his office” so I had to do this: Jeremy’s office where there is a picture of the two at Vipin’s graduation!

Once again as the details are detailing and the headcanon is headcanoning, I’m putting some further explanation after the read more! (And also I’ll tell the refs if you don’t want to search for too long 😭)

It took me 19 hours (I’m slow don’t judge me too much and this is not counting the frame on Jeremy’s desk 😭) so let me just say that a LOT of thoughts went through that little (big?) piece.

First of all as you saw, there is Vipin’s graduation pic on Jeremy’s desk, so here’s a further explanation of it under the post of the art itself (in case you want to see it in a bigger way too)

Then, for the phone’s screen, I did a fake conversation between Vipin and Jeremy which I think totally happened at some point. And here is the real screenshot of it because I don’t think you can see well what is written on the fanart unfortunately. (I also put a little reference to the album “Feelings and Such” by Louden Swain in it which is what Jeremy is supposed to listen to, I gotta say the main reason is because it’s my fave album and group but I would totally see Jeremy listening to that kind of music from time to time, I see him listening to “There’s the Rub” from that album)

Then comes his computer: it is truly the logo of the Bridgewater State University, the sticker from the real merch of the Bridgewater podcast, and the ace flag (because Jeremy Bradshaw being on the ace spec soothes my soul)! It’s my headcanon about Jeremy’s computer, it’s the third time I’ve drawn his pc, and the stickers stay the same no matter what and it’ll stay this way jsksksk

There is little basket of stim toys on his desk too and that’s totally my headcanon: I see Jeremy as a really caring professor, and to me he would have it in his office for the stressed out students coming to see him so they can feel better, or at least his students know he has some to lend! (And I’m nd, I would love to have a professor like that 😭) (thanks for a moot on Twitter for the slinky idea!!)

For the sticky notes on the desk: the one on the papers states “read before 03/24” which is the date the last episode of S2 aired, the pink one “proofread Lauren’s thesis defense date 08/06” Lauren is a direct nod to Lauren Shippen, and the date corresponds to the first airing date of the two first eps of S1 of Bridgewater.

The sticky note it “printer password BSU1976JyBw PS: Vipin I do have a limited amount of copies!” because I thought that printers in the uni might have password deferring from each profs (at least it was like this in my French highschool — as a reminder, I’m from France so it’s really me trying to find stuff on the internet), so BSU = Bridgewater State University, 1976 being Jeremy’s birth year (at least I tried to calculate it and it was 1976? Hopefully I’m right 😭✋ as the show aired in 2021 I tried to assume that 2021 was also the date in the podcast and as Jeremy is 45 during S1 welp), and JyBw is just the first and last letter of his first and last name. Comes my headcanon: at some point Jeremy couldn’t print anything because Vipin had printed too many stuff, hence the little reminder because Jeremy doesn’t want to beg to have more copies 😭

The research paper Jeremy has to read before 03/24 has been written by a certain “J.Novak”! (Totally a Supernatural reference) And when it comes to SPN refs, it’s much more subtle, but I did the same soles for Jeremy’s shoes as Castiel in the episode The End of spn (because the shoes are quite famous for being also identical to the one Dean wears so it was funny and on a funfact Jeremy’s legs and feet posture is bc I saw Misha sit like this so I thought it was fun (I also sit like that so it made me happy))

Behind Jeremy there’s an undone Rubik’s Cube, because I totally see it as Jeremy’s very own stim toy but the catch is that he doesn’t know how to solve it 😭 (thanks another moot for the idea @stillwinchester ily!!).

There’s also a mug, because our man needs to stay concentrated (tea? coffee? Your thoughts, to me Jeremy is more of a tea guy), this is a reference to the X-Files! Big Blue is txf’s Nessie, and the mug is a literal copy of the “real” merch mug you can see in “Quagmire” (3x22 of the X-Files)

For the posters on the walls, the one behind the bookshelves was the main art of an exhibition which occurred “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” and I’m persuaded that Jeremy would have gone to see that! And he would have loved to keep something from it! (But he ended up having to put his shelf in front of it because he had to put his books somewhere and maybe it creeped out his colleagues and students, here’s a picture of the original painting)

Agatha Wojciechowsky (American, born Germany, 1896–1986), and Spirits. Untitled, 1963. Watercolor and crayon on paper. 11 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. Courtesy the collection of Steven Day, New York, NY. Photo: Steven Day

And for the one near his desk, it is an old poster from the American Folk Art Museum, and to me Jeremy would totally be a museum guy, it’s very “academic” after all, plus he would be interested into it as it’s more around people and self taught people and so on, as he is very interested into anthropology, it goes well with the whole vibe.

https://pirtledesign.com/portfolio/american-folk-art-museum/

For the blackboard, the titles are basically what he is teaching in his lecture in S1 EP01 so to me it would be his way to see more what he has to work on for his students (and I think he fidgets his chalks in his lecture because in the same ep as he speaks you can truly hear a lot of chalk sounds which weren’t due to him writing so I understood it that way?), and there’s a little magnet with a “buy cat food!” because headcanon to me but Jeremy owns a cat (a black cat you can see him on his lockscreen on my drawing of Jeremy sleeping) but as he spends a lot of the time at the BSU, I think he would put reminders just in case 😭 (and there’s a little flower drawing made by Vipin! to me he would doodle little stuff from time to time with little smileys to brighten up Jeremy’s day a little)

Then in the bookshelves you can see a little purple owl! It’s to me, an amethyst carved one, as Jeremy had had his esoteric era when he was younger (it was said in S2 that he tried to be Wiccan) he must still have some stone knowledge and as amethyst is supposed to have soothing and good vibes properties, he might have taken this although he doesn’t believe in it anymore, and of course he picked it because it was an owl because it’s better now to laugh about the owl situation 😭

Lastly: all the books are real books! It took me some time but all of these exist, it’s mainly anthropology book, faculty/uni book, research stuff, and there are two books about the Bridgewater triangle! I tried to keep it around Jeremy’s field of course so it’s the occult, witchcraft, the Salem trials, UFOs, beliefs and all!

Thank you so much if you’ve read this far and I’m very grateful for all your support, it truly means the world to me and Bridgewater is very very close and dear to my heart, lots of love to you all! And thanks for bearing with me through my ideas and headcanons 💜🫶

[shitty-drawer]

Hi- I'M HAVING A BRAVE MOMENT, SO, I'M GONNA POST THIS-

I WANT TO Start posting my drawings and my dumb little lore of The Elder Scrolls...it's mostly self-insert with my characters, and playing with the concept of "hi!!! I'm the player and I want to be your friend :D!!!" SO, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT- I'M SORRY XD

Right now i'm trying to make the ref sheets for every character, so it will take some weeks, i'm really slow...

BUT, MAYBE, IF I HAVE ANOTHER BRAVE MOMENT- I'LL POST MY SKETCHES- they are messy D:

BUT BUT BUT if anyone is interested, tysm I love you 😭

I just finnished drawing Valentino (my trans self insert) so, i'm going to leave it here- if you want to see- I'll explain more of him in the future 👉👈

SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKES, anatomy hard 💀

I took a screenshot, so if it looks shitty, that's the reason xd

[toaster-is-babey]

CW: mentions of injury/coping with trauma, toxic past relationships (nothing detailed/indepth don't worry ). Mattie is my vent sona and what not.

Also @z-eddsworld hope yore up for a long read man, finally did a semi-decent ref of Mattie :)

Here is my mad lad Matthew. He is a character from an old au i grew extremely attached to. Though i discontinued the au because i couldnt be arsed to finish the story for it. I am repurposing some characters from the au tho :)!

Name: Matthew Raeburns

Nicknames: Mattie(prefers to be called this, will punch you otherwise), Gingie, Doll face, Matts, freckles, spot, bitch, Mattie-Beear(only by his partners)

Age: 29

Sexuality: Homosexual, demiromantic

Gender: Male/questioning

Pronouns: He/it

Height: 5'5/166cm

Body type: usually pudgy, can be drawn a little slim

Hair : red/deep ginger, very fluffy, curly and soft, cowlick is a must

So i repurposed Him into a kinsona/Oc earlier last year.

He does/will have visible scars in future art. But for his half finished doodle ref I'll probably redo in the future lmao.

He belongs in my and my friends @mrhappypills au

No mercy AU

Mattie is the middle child in his family.

He has an older brother named Fredrick aka Freddy/Fred

His younger sister has yet to be named.

Alfred is Matties father, and they loath eachother. Though now that Alfred is older, he is hoping to somehow through a miracle Reconnect with his son again. Though its fairly tough, as both Mattie and Alfred are hot-headed and fight everytime they see eachother. They both refuse family therapy lmao

Jacqueline is Matties deceased mother. More information will be posted as i redesign her and develope her character more ^^

He is Neurodivergent, he has trouble putting thought to pen, or thoughts to speech.

He is sensitive with what fabric he uses, he prefers soft or fluffy clothes, it calms his nerves. He bruises like a Peach, though he is clumsy so you'll see him with an ice pack or simply a glass of wine(or whiskey) .

In Matthews teenage years, He was edgy, as most teenagers are . Though he did get himself into a lot of fights because of boredom Atleast until he met his first love, A norse-american transfer student, and was very infatuated with him. They dated close to 5 years. Their break up was a nasty one, as Mattie had blinded Tjøstolv. They both started to get toxic towards eachother and often fought, often ending with both of them leaving the house for a night or two.

Tjøstolv had paid for a large part of his boyfriends schooling, he loved his boyfriend to bits and loved how cute his partner looked when he was focused on work. though being in the public eye often, he grew stressed, and tired, causing him to start fights. On another note, Tjø himself doesnt mind simple jobs, like doing IT work, it calms him.

Will post art of this wealthy rat man when i can for now take a screenshot eddit

'nother screenshot eddit. Tjø has heterochromia, eyepatch lad next to him is Delta, which belongs to @mrhappypills

Silly fun fact: matties flesh and blood is a vibrant Purple/fuchsia. No real reason on how that happened just thought it was funky and cool (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◡⁠`⁠)

Heads up, i know nothing really science-y, im taking inspiration from shows i love. As this takes place in a cartoon-y universe, logic definitely wont apply lmao

Mattie was quite the prodigy, and had finished his later years of secondary school, he'd gotten recommendations to some pretty snazzy universities. He studied different modes of transportation, will take apart your car for fun. Though he was dead set on one day to home explore other worlds, it definitely took a long time, but when he had completed his final safety trial, he had somehow ended up in the wild west, in spit-bucket america, seeing a nearly identical man to himself sitting at the bar, he couldnt believe his eyes. An old Timey version of himself and a handsome looking dude being flirty(screenshot eddit by me :) )

Mattie has travelled many worlds,though found himself stuck in one. Not because of technical issues, but a Man. One he's never seen in other worlds. A wealthy business man named William. Though Mattie worked on technology for william, he somehow with his skrunkly charm managed to seduce him. It took William a while to realize Mattie was flirting with him. They're a power couple now though :)

Screenshot eddit of Lucian>Mattie>William

Art of William and Mattie made by my pal orange,

Im so sorry lmao(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

I could definitely go on for hours about Mattie and his life, but I've written enough already (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) Anywho I hope y'all have a lovely day and a happy new year(⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+

[drawnaghht]

oh no problem!! I didn't mean to come off as this mean, I was just genuinely confused bc i thought I missed some new behind the scenes or concept art that came out recently xD

which I honestly... sorta wish it did, just because there aren't any new episodes anymore so it'd fun to see more BTS boards or sketches or anything haha. I think if ppl only google for heights they're gonna get a lot of vague answers and fanblogs etc, so take those with a grain of salt, nothing is canon unless shown in the actual canon (show/comic/series) or behind the scenes production stuff (like with the rottmnt height chart, we can sorta take that as canon)

but also that sorta doesn't matter in fan-stories as much anyway, so it's kinda whatever.

I do think this is a funny idea tho! and it would be funny to see the characters side-by-side in any case lol but cartoon heights are always so all-over-the-place unless someone goes and analyses it more x3

Anyway, I started thinking abt it while replying, and I accidentally wrote this into a longer reply than i meant to so, brace yourself! commentary and thoughts below. Take it with a grain of salt bc it's pretty vague at this time of the day and it doesn't really go that in-depth, just some vague theorizing x3

going by the older concept art we see publicly, by Irineo Maramba (when the show seemingly still had Space Usagi influences) and by Andry Rajoelina, it actually seems that Usagi should be between Chizu and Kitsune's heights, but in the show's final designs it appears he is roughly around the same height as Chizu, if a bit shorter (but their eyes are at different levels). With respect to Chizu, I have a hard time believing he is just as short as Kitsune x3 ...but then again, it would be interesting to know where they decided that in the production process! cuz he does feel like he should be a shorter teen x3

like in these concept arts show on Irineo Maramba's portfolio, you can see that Usagi is a lot shorter than in the final show. Usagi in this screenshot below, even appears a teensy bit shorter than Chizu, and neither of them are wearing flats with heels either, so they're "roughly" the same height. Because of the whole eye-level difference, I've always thought that was the reason Usagi seemed so much shorter to me as well, even though he's clearly not actually as short as Kitsune haha xD Middle of ep 7 for ref:

But then in the same episode, at the start when Chizu pulls Usagi over, she appears slightly shorter, possibly because she is a little bit hunched here while trying to talk to Usagi about something secretive. Is the shot like this just because the camera is tilted slightly upwards, or is Chizu also bending her knees slightly to be more at Usagi's eye-level?

here too, Usagi appears slightly taller when Chizu goes to agree with him to lead him to the Neko Ninja dojo. Chizu is not hunched or leaning towards Usagi anymore, but instead appears to be standing.

But then in the next few shots with them standing together, they appear sligthly reversed, so now Usagi appears shorter while Chizu appears a bit taller. Is it just because one of them is closer to the camera (from Gen's POV) than the other, or is it an accident?

So going by those moments/shots and how much Usagi's 3D keyshapes change during episodes, what probably happened here is that the animators went according to the board (possibly) or animatic, but so much that their heights are also followed, just to fit the poses given in the boards more perfectly. LOL, just one possible explanation for small differences like this, I won't go more into it here, but it's something I thought possible because of how animation works in a TV production with two studios.

also, if I went to compare the two Usagi's in the show and then took the comic as a reference point, I would still be at a certain loss. Because the heights of the characters are different slightly, depending on which issue/story I read - what remains mostly constant though is the heights between the characters. So if I put all the UY characters into a roster/lineup in a character sheet, I might get something specific, but I'd have to refer to the newest publications then. But then there's the whole issue of which Usagi do I compare?

In the show, our two Usagi appear almost the same height. But we only have the one situation to compare from, when they meet in the spirit-realm, lets call it.

It appears that our elder Usagi here is slightly taller than his descendant. So for an Edo-period man, maybe that would make him "taller than average". Which sort of makes sense if we take the movie and real-world versions of Miyamoto Musashi as the inspirations for Miyamoto Usagi. Musashi was a tall man (by many online sources, sometimes even around 5'11'' but most times a whole 6 feet).

If we take this self-portrait as evidence and compare it with the average katana length of 60-80 cm, we would see that he slightly taller than 2 katana. So maybe around 180cm, so roughly around 5'9" maybe. If we take the self-portrait as accurate (I know I definitely don't know how to portray myself as accurately as possible so that's still vague lol). But that still leaves him as taller than the average japanese person around that time, (150-160cm) at least according to general research. (Like I found this interesting graph, "Body height of Japanese man and women, born since 1870" borrowed from the Anthropological Society of Nippon)

But Usagi is an anthropomorphic rabbit. And he is not the actual Musashi, even if based on him. It would make sense that in his first appearances in the early comics, he appears as a shorter humanoid rabbit, because hey, that's a bit funnier if not, and it just fits. In other animated appearances, he appears shorter than the turtles. Personally, I see this mostly as a result of the production teams taking his then-current comic appearances and translating them into their shows, where the turtles are already shorter than many of the other human characters.

and so we get the idea that Miyamoto Usagi is short or shorter than average.

But then in this appearance in the SR show, he appears as "slightly taller than a teen descendant 1000 years from his time". If we ignore that he can change his height and appearance on this spiritual plane, lets say that he is around that same height or slightly below it, so "slightly taller than average". so maybe something like 176cm/5'8''? (once again, feet and inches are so confusing for me lol). Even if people get taller by each generation, that would put our futuristic Usagi at around "average".

So what is Miyamoto Usagi's height in the comic?

Now, if I tried to get the info from any user-made wiki, I cannot take that quite as seriously. As a wiki mod on a different fandom wikia, I know users can just change that sort of info willy-nilly haha so unless I use the UY wiki for example, for just the publication info or things that are otherwise publically available, even that is a bit unreliable for other stuff like age, height etc unless they refer to specific interviews with Stan himself or any reference he has made to their height in any pubblication. So I'd have to go into the books myself to confirm if the wikis don't give me the correct source x3

like for example, if I go into google to search, the first results mine shows are from various TMNT wikis, which... I don't know where they get their info from, but it seems they don't properly link/reference where they get their "character data" x3 which is understandable tbh!! things like character heights or ages are usually never listed anywhere unless it's manga/anime, where we have character books but it's something nice to know sometimes, so it's hard to leave it empty if the info is there somewhere.

And going through the other 1st-page results, it's mostly fan-pages, wikipedia and a tabletop fan-game which lists Miyamoto Usagi as "average height, if shorter than most"

So this is something that is hard to get info on and it's perfectly acceptable to have headcanons about it since there's nothing else to go on but the comic and show x3

I do think it's a choice though, to have made him "that tall" in the SR show. To me it seems that because he had more creative control over his own Usagi's depiction, Stan wanted to give his Usagi in the show, the same impression that we get in the comics. Calm, composed... a little bit intimidating maybe. And by the showrunners' admission, they also wanted to copy Stan's Usagi verbatim from to comics, or as close as possible, because they are also big UY comic fans and wanted him represented in the show. Personally I also think that he just.... "sounds" like a tall man. His VA here, Yuki Matsuzaki, is also relatively tall, at least according to google search? (again, unreliable) But maybe it's something that influenced the show's depiction of comic-Usagi. Now with most voiceover work, it doesn't matter really, because you can be whatever height while the character is a different height altogether. But it just seems from that scene with the Usagis together, that the show crew liked seeing Miyamoto as on the taller side vs the shorter side of the previous animated versions.

in the visdev art figuring out the look of the 2D sequences, he also "seems" relatively tall

While in the actual 2D sequences (we can take these as the Ki-Stone's memories) we really only see that he is around the same height or slightly shorter than the various guards, and that the fake tiger shogun is much much taller than him. So "around 6, or shorter" could be a plausible height.

But then... that would leave our tv Usagi as "shorter than 6', taller than 5 feet" and knowing that's around 180cm something... that is something scary to imagine lol x3 It would also leave Gen a towering 8' or something, which I guess would make sense, since rhinos are on the larger side of mammals when you look at IRL rhinos, but still. Kinda scary? But then again, Gen is big and means to look scary so maybe that's intentional. They're from the future too, so even tho they're all animal-people, it'd make sense some of them are kinda more than 2 meters (extremely tall to an mid-size european like me).

In ROTTMNT, the heights between the characters are kept mostly consistent, Mikey and Raph are always the shortest and tallest, April is almost always a bit taller than Mikey, and then Leo and Donnie are close to each others heights, but Leo is a bit taller, while the goggles add to Donnie's height in a visual sense.

But like with Chizu and Usagi, I've seen a lot of people disagree on their heights, "taller Donnie supremacy!!" "Leo is the taller twin!!!" etc. It's a bit funny to me that it seems to be a similar issue - that Donnie just has such a different body type (long limbs but short torso/body) vs Leo (shorter limbs, but "longer" torso/body), that he appears taller than Leo, even in shots with them together. it's hard to tell, just like with Chizu and Usagi haha x3

In this old graph, it sets early season 1 main cast from 3' to 6' (and Draxum at 6'8") so these sorta make sense with how the characters are drawn and seen in the early episodes. Excluding the 2 adults, the main 5 are teens and it makes sense that their heights would change later on a bit since they start at ages 13-16 (from Mikey, the youngest, to April, the oldest respectively).

In the movie, their heights appear to be "slightly taller", since two years have passed between the series' first episode and the the movie's start, but the differences between the cast are still roughly the same. Maybe the exact numbers sorta don't matter, it seems it could be much easier to have consistent heights if you can imagine the characters next to each other and maintain the consistency through that.

Both in the finale and movie, you can see the characters have changed in some significant ways (at least 1 year has passed by the finale of the Rise series), but their heights still remain relatively consistent.

So maybe to quote SR Miyamoto Usagi... "it's a matter of perspective" haha. It doesn't matter much in the end cuz in fanart and fanfic, we can do whatever, especially if we don't have canon heights x3

also.... all that being said, now I think it would be fun to try and compare all the different Miyamoto Usagi heights and just sorta compare that to the different TMNT iterations too. think i might do this just for fun but also this might help my Usagi crossover in the future :P

If there would ever be a Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles and ROTTMNT crossover, I hope they keep each show's official character heights.

EDIT: Yuichi Usagi is officially equal of height with Mikey, and Kitsune is at Usagi's shoulder level. (Usagi with his ears tied in a top knot is 4'6"-4'7" while Mikey is 4'7").

Usagi and Kitsune meeting Raph is gonna look like this:

[onebizarrekai]

v3′s art is comically terrible for a professionally distributed game in a series: a compilation

in this not-essay I will list all of the mistakes and problems I have spotted in v3′s art. don’t worry, it’s entirely for fun and I’m doing this on a whim, so please feel free to not take this seriously but also it’s hilarious and embarrassing how ridiculous this is like what happened did they speedrun the whole production or what

see, there are some things you can take as meta like “they made it bad on purpose to allude to the downfall of tv shows that have been on air for much too long” but I have a very strong feeling this is not the case due to the nature of some of these errors

disclaimer, the more I study this art, the more I fear that the artists were underpaid and underslept, so if this is in fact the case, I am so sorry to all of them but also I’m going to make fun of the art anyway

anyway let’s get started!

if you study this image for longer than 5 seconds, you will see that kaede is the only one fully shaded and keebo is literally just his normal sprite pasted into the image. every other character is just an ordinary ref, hence most of them facing the exact same direction with neutral expressions on their faces. it looks like a bad edit, and is probably one of the worst pieces of art in the game. it kind of gets better from here on, but my roasting will not.

with that out of the way, here’s the problem that officially bothers me the most and clarifies my viewpoint of “this is not meta and an actual lack of company communication”

this freaking cg, which seems normal at a glance, but some wiseass was like “oh, kaede is a girl, so obviously she’s going to be shorter than the Male Protagonist™” ah, that’s funny. because if you look at the character bios, kaede is, in fact, one inch taller than shuichi and not like 6 inches shorter as she is shown here.

also shuichi’s shoulder is disproportionate and horrendous and he looks vaguely like a jojo character, but I wasn’t even thinking about that until right now.

thanks guys, 50% of the fandom who has never bothered to check these bios thinks that kaede is like 5′3 (did the developers really put so little thought into her to the point where drawing her correctly in the game didn’t even matter??)

also I would like to point out that, even though this isn’t related to the art itself, yes, a character kaede’s size being only 117 lbs is unfeasible, but this applies to literally every character in danganronpa ever and it’s not new news that it’s unrealistic

update: someone in the tags informed me that in versions of the game that use centimeters, like the japanese version, kaede is actually shorter than shuichi, which just adds another thing to the list of weird decisions the localization team made for no reason. that said, after confirming this, kaede is 167 cm in the original, while shuichi is 171 cm, which are approximately 5′6 and 5′7 respectively, but one inch is still nowhere near as drastic as it is depicted above. (in spite of this, I would rather depict kaede as slightly taller, so I’m probably going to keep doing that.)

the journey continues!

bro if you want kaede to have shoulder length hair then stick to it to begin with

you can pretend this is at an angle all you want but they definitely committed the shorter kaede sin a second time

wait a goddamn second.

DO YOU SEE THIS

no………… it wasn’t kaede who shrank. it was shuichi who got taller

speaking of which, can we talk about how shady the perspective is in this elevator pic? look at shuichi and kokichi in comparison to kaede. kokichi, who is canonically 7 inches (edit: or 5, if you’re loyal to the original) shorter than kaede, looks taller than kaede. he’s growing too. what steroids are these gays taking

running into the room, electric boogaloo: I don’t think tsumugi is supposed to be the same height as kokichi

gonta… gonta you’re lookin a bit like a jojo character there

I love how kaito’s head looks kind of like it was pasted onto his body. why is he the same size as shuichi? shouldn’t he be high school bully size or something? his torso is teensy

ah yes, white angie.

I love this cg but why is shuichi’s right hand so much bigger than his left hand

I also love how this cg looks like they literally took pictures of trees and pasted them into the background, especially on the left. the shadows are so weird, especially closer to the ceiling, it’s difficult for me to believe they didn’t do exactly that.

return of Enlarged shuichi

puberty update: kokichi is now taller than shuichi in spite of shuichi never missing leg day. what crimes will he commit

I have to mention it, guys. this has to be one of the worst danganronpa cgs. kokichi’s facial proportions look atrocious. look at the way his face sticks out like his jaw is in the wrong place. his scarf is a pasted texture. that’s it. this moment was so iconic but the cg just looks so… so… off. like something is terribly wrong, but you can’t put your finger on it.

you know what? let’s get into that ‘pasted texture’ thing.

let’s imagine you’re an artist working on a professional game. you’re assigned to draw cgs of kokichi ouma, who has a checkered scarf from hell. sure, it will be terrible to draw, but you only have to draw it once at a time! plus, perspective is pretty important, right? can you be bothered? nah, actually. let’s just copy paste a checkered pattern into the cg, because I’m sure nobody will notice. it’ll blend right in with the other cgs that someone actually put effort into drawing his scarf in, right?

no. the answer is no and I very much noticed. this genuinely looks terrible and I would understand taking a shortcut like that in fanart or even an indie game but this is a full price pc and console distributed game

(an addition: look at kokichi’s TINY HANDS in that last one)

meanwhile, they straight up forgot to color in kokichi’s scarf in this cg.

dude. I forgot about whatever the hell this cg was. anyway look at keebo please just look at him

lovin kaito’s baby arms

real talk, maybe you could argue that he’s missing muscle because he’s deathly sick, but most of his cgs don’t line up with this, and his arms just look disproportionate to his torso size (granted this is a consistent problem across all danganronpa games and a lot of characters have this weird problem, like hajime, but also kaito is bigger than hajime so I kind of have higher expectations of him) maybe it’s his stupid goatee and the way he reminds me of yasuhiro?? it creates this illusion that he’s older than he is and so I keep expecting him to look more like an adult

oh, also rantaro is missing some of his accessories in that video he made–you know the one–but I don’t wanna go back and screenshot it

also you may have noticed that I’m skipping all of the monokub cgs because I literally do not care about them and I’m not even bothering to check and see if they have artistic mistakes in them

JIMMY NEUTRON???

hey um uh kaito you seem to be missing your neck

hey guys do you like my pregame fanart

so, that done, the sprites are also pretty terrible at times. they’re not as interesting to go through, however, and downloading the full sprite sets for every character and studying every single one of them will drive me insane, so I’ll just sum some of the ones I noticed up. I made things for kaede and shuichi before deciding I wasn’t going to get into it, so here are these.

that said, other mistakes include kokichi missing his purple highlights in all of the sprites encompassing a specific pose, stray pixels all over the place on everyone, and everyone also has heavily inconsistent shading, but literally all I think about is how pregame shuichi is unshaded and two of kaede’s pregame sprites have glaring outfit change mistakes in them

anyway, thank you for taking the time to read my ridiculous ramble. in all seriousness, there’s this looming presence of some lack of communication in the development team, like with all the art and design inconsistencies, pieces and sprites that look rushed, stray pixels, and missing basic proportional stuff. these are the kinds of things that you supposedly have to pretty much have in the bag in order to get jobs in professional businesses, so it’s really weird to me that this game suffers from so many of these problems. it’s like they tried to make the art so much more crisp than the other games, but it fell on its face as they realized it was going to take longer to draw everything and they started to rush. it’s weird, because the coloring itself looks normal–it’s just sloppily drawn, and the proportions are a mess once put into the context of perspective. many of the cgs look like they were drawn by different people, and I’m still not over the fact that half of kokichi’s cgs have his scarf pasted in as a texture.

the moral of the story is that if you’re selling a game at full price that also happens to be in a series that has had 3 very good games in it already the stakes should probably be higher than this. v3 has been out for more than 3 years and it’s still $40 (did it cost more than that before? I sure hope not), and the overarching quality of the game is just not as high as the other games. I’m not saying that the other games don’t have any problems with their art at all, they’re just not as glaringly obvious and every artistic choice in those games feels intentional.

regardless, I had a blast roasting the art at 2am, so maybe you got a kick out of all this chaos.

[andrem962]

Journeys Ep 96 Screenshots and Commentary, Part 1

It's that time again, the time when Andre posts screenshots he took of the most recent episode alongside some pithy commentary

Well, I was supposed to post these on Sunday, but I have never followed a schedule before, and certainly won't start now! /self-deprecating

But anywho, on the with the show, and remember:

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 96 AHEAD!

Sophocles has invited our boys to visit a space center in Hoenn, and it seems he's gotten a new pokémon?

Said pokémon, Ampharos, is very clumsy and immediately gives Ash a Hodge-style bruise on his head after bumping into him. Ouch!

Goh: ...I think I'll pass 💦

Sophocles wonders how Raboot is doing, but Goh gives him this incredibly smug chuckle in response before showing him Cinderace. It has to heard to be believed!

(I think Goh has laughed like this in other episodes, too? I'm not sure, though.)

When they arrive at the space center, Ash immediately gets distracted and runs off, like an excitable toddler.

Not helping his case is the fact that he somehow thought the satellite's name, "Fiarrow2" (Talonflame2), meant that there were Talonflames living in space!

Look at Ash's sage expression here, he's so confident. Thank goodness Goh is there!

Ash: I thought they were a new Talonflame evolution... like Porygon and Porygon-2! Goh: Ash, why are you like this 😔/lh

Normally, I would criticize these people for involving children in such a critical and expensive project... but then I remember that this is the pokémon world, where absolutely nothing gets resolved without the help of children /hj

Shout-out to that kid in the bottom with the crazy poofy hair

That's what you get for not catching one before, Goh 😉

Turns out the reason why Sophocles has an Ampharos is because they're doing a collaboration to get kids interested in space by letting them use their Ampharoses (Ampharoi?) to guide a satellite to re-entry. And it's almost about to start, so they head to the command center...

But then Ampharos' clumsiness rears its ugly head and hits everyone with its tail all at once like it's trying to get a high score in Devil May Cry or something /ref

Thankfully this is an anime, so they all quickly recover. Ampharos is placed in this big chamber and starts shining. Will it mess up again, or will things go smoothly this time?

Nope! The machine next to him starts sparking and they're forced to bench Ampharos for the time being. Everyone starts freaking out.

...Well, Grookey might be freaking out, for all I know, maybe it's leaping up and down from excitement. "Ooh, sparks!"

(Continued in Part 2)

[elvendoodles]

Took a break from working on finals to do something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile now, which is a redraw! Top is the redraw (December 2020), bottom are the originals (January 2018).  I did do my best to keep poses and expressions the same

Speech on how I think I’ve improved/what I want/need to work on under the cut

A lot has changed in almost 3 years. I went from drawing on my phone with my finger, to using a computer and bluetooth pen. My understanding of anatomy has expanded a fair bit, although I do struggle with same-face/same-body just as anyone does

I want to say that color has gotten more vibrant, but that could just be because I made myself color-adjusted refs instead of relying on screenshots that have variations in lighting and shadow. Noses have been a definite improvement, although angling is tricky at times. 

My absolute personal favorites from the redraw are Aira and Azari. For some reason Aira has always given me a hard time? Idk why, but I always have to work at her for a little bit to make her look less wonky. Azari’s S3 outfit (at least in the official art) has always been my favorite of her outfits. It’s so bright and pretty just like she is :)

[monkberries]

I mean, that hardly counts as a verified source, it's just the mclennonwasreal blog stuff. There are videos on youtube that show the whole pre-show video, and the photo is nowhere in sight. It doesn't look like it was photographed from a stadium screen either, and how would they know Paul took it in Paris, or that it "hangs in his house".

okay, fine. obviously i tried to answer too fast to get back to the thing i was actually working on and didn’t consider the source as alec baldwin so smartly reminds us to do. happens to the best of us. i deleted the post.

however, i still think it’s probably genuine based on some circumstantial evidence:

-paul has used several different pre-show films/photo reels/what have you. i found three distinct ones on youtube (and one of those was only the post-beatles part of it), from three different tours - one from 1993, one from 2005, and one from 2013. There’s a very short video that shows tiny pieces of his pre-show video from 2019 as well, but it’s literally only maybe a minute or two of very shaky footage. according to wikipedia he has done 16 separate solo tours since 1989. if he has a separate video done for each tour (who knows if that’s true but let’s assume it is) that would mean youtube only has 2.5 out of 16 different videos. (as a sidenote, i don’t know where the “it hangs in his house” thing came from either - i’m absolutely willing to believe that’s one of those things that got added onto it after the fact by the internet rumor mill. i’m also willing to believe it’s not from his pre-show videos at all; it could have come from anywhere.)

-there are a lot of beatles photos we know of where the source has been lost to time. we don’t have a centralized archive (though lewisohn seems to be working on that). no one has everything. there are so many things that have been auctioned off to private collectors that were once publicly available; that video of the beatles in wales comes to mind, and the only reason we know about it is because someone made a series of 4 screenshots of paul in it. there’s only like one photo of john in paris in anthology (at least in the section of the book where paul talks about it, tbf i have not read the entire book because it’s the size of a house); where did the other dozen or so come from? magazines? newspapers? other photo books? auctions? paul’s personal collection? 

-i’ve reverse-image searched several of the photographs from paris. one showed up first online in 2008, another in 2010, one in 2012, another couple in march 2014 and yet another in october 2014 on the same day and page as the john-in-bed photo. because the website is now gone, i can’t check that source. but the other photograph posted originally on that page at that time (this one) is unquestionably genuine.

-it looks like john to me. idk why it doesn’t to you.

anyway, i’m not gonna be able to convince you and you’re not gonna convince me. i think it’s real and you don’t and that’s fine.

photo for ref: 

[shirbertshitposts]

Things you can do to help Anne With An E be Renewed

There are so many different ways big and small you can help in the fight to get Anne With an E renewed. I’ll do my best to compile all the ways you can contribute.

1) One of the easiest ways to let networks know there is a demand for more Anne With an E is to request it on their help page. Request Anne with an E season 4 so they know you want the show to continue. There is also no limit to the number of times you submit requests.

https://help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest

https://help.disneyplus.com/csp

For Disney+ click “Give Feedback” then “Request a film or show” then you can type in Anne with an E season 4

2) Watch Anne with an E on Netflix. Just constantly stream it in the lead up to the season 3 premiere. When the show premieres Jan 3rd make sure you stream the new season that day and in the days after. Not only do we want Netflix to know that the new season has a big audience, but we also want as many people watching at the same time for the show to make it to the “Popular on Netflix” category. New people may be attracted to the show if they see it is popular on Netflix.

3) Write emails to Networks. Netflix and CBC are not the only options when it comes to Networks that could renew Anne with an E, since it seems that the rights to the show are currently owned by Northwood Entertainment the production company behind Anne with an E. Many other fans have done the hard work of compiling lists of emails of network executives. I will provide links to various tweets I have seen with important emails. (of note, most will probably not check their work emails again until after the holidays, so you can draft emails now and send them out after Jan 1st) Also below is a google doc that includes emails of many network executives.

https://twitter.com/LeaOux/status/1205485569691680768

https://twitter.com/KindredsParty/status/1208518970002870272

https://twitter.com/KatVal11/status/1206141522820976640

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1StN_dHgHjhPhYkfgS_7AbeMbmu0KXhrtJW1ytAASUaw/mobilebasic

Template for writing emails and email addresses to send emails to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nkEu-ZyIiBkCABleKRBLU21T8lRSwRxwWXuVDZ7cxeo/mobilebasic

4) Write emails to magazines, newspapers, websites, etc. Any form of Press about Anne with an E will draw attention to the show from people who may not have heard of it before. You could write emails to ask them to cover the news of the show's cancellation, to review the new season, to discuss certain topics the show addresses that set it aside from other shows and more. Anything that you could dream up that could be an article that could be written about Anne With an E you could pitch the idea to someone to write about. 

5) Appealing to other fandoms with similar interests. Two big movies that are about to drop that have an audience that may be interested in a show like Anne With An E, would be Little Women and P.S. I Still Love You (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before sequel). Little Women is also a period piece with a feminist heroine, so you could point out the similarities in the stories’ themes to appeal to fans of that film (which premieres Dec. 26th). For P.S. I Still Love You, the big connection is that in the third book of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, Forever and Always, Lara Jean,  Lara Jean states that Gilbert Blythe is her ideal man. Screenshots of this quote have been going around all over tumblr and twitter since the P.S. I Still Love You trailer dropped. The selling point could be that if you enjoy the films and relate to Lara Jean then you should check out the stories and adaptions of those stories that Lara Jean considers peak romance. ( It also helps that the premise of the films relies on love letters and AWAE season 3 features love letters as well). When entering into other fandoms tags to recommend Anne With An E make sure you are always being RESPECTFUL and don’t just spam the tags with Anne promotion. You could always create side by side edits of the two programs to demonstrate how similar they are. Basically, make sure your posts in their tag don’t seem like a blatant promotion for AWAE.

6) Rate Anne with an E on IMDb. (Note: It is listed as Anne(2017) on IMDb). Right now Anne is listed in Top 250 TV Shows, but it is toward the bottom of the list at #248, with an average show rating of 8.4 stars. If enough fans rate it, the show could move up on the list, which may attract new people to watch the show. You can rate the show overall, and rate each episode individually. Plus you can leave a review. 

7) Watch the Anne With An E Netflix trailer and share it with others. The more views on the trailer the better. The trailer is available on Youtube and Instagram. On twitter, people are organizing trailer boosting parties for Dec 23rd - Dec 30th. 

This calendar shows when trailer boosting parties have been planned detailed descriptions of what those events include with links to tweets and posters

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=potatolightbulbs%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York

8) Sign the petition for the show to be renewed and get anyone you know who likes the show as well to sign it as well.

https://www.change.org/p/netlfix-awae-fans-renew-anne-with-an-e-for-season-4?recruiter=916548586&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

9) Recommend the show everywhere. On twitter search “What to watch on Netflix” or “tv show recommendation” and reply to any of these tweets with Anne With An E and maybe a reason why you recommend the show. If someone has already recommended Anne With An E don’t recommend it again, we don’t want to spam or annoy strangers. This can also be done on reddit search “What to watch” , “Netflix recommendations” , “Period Piece” and comment on any of the relevant results with Anne With An E.

10) Tell EVERYONE you know to watch Anne With an E. A great way to spread the popularity of the show is by word of mouth. People trust the opinions of people they know, so your friends and family are more likely to listen to your recommendations than strangers on the internet (but there is no harm in trying #9 anyway). 

11) Continue to be your amazing creative selves. Gif sets, fanart, video edits, memes, etc. All of these can help attract new fans to the show, so continue to create and post things related to Anne With An E.

12) Make bookmarks or small promotional posters and leave them in public places. I have seen a trend of this on twitter and it's not a bad idea. One amazing fan even took it to the next level and made tiny posters that have QR codes on it that when scanned takes people to the Anne with an E trailer or the show on Netflix. Below is a link to tweets showing what those looked like and how they dispersed them.

https://twitter.com/itsMaeWithAnE/status/1208618422768033792?s=20

Here is a tweet thread with templates for the posters if you want to print them out yourself:

https://twitter.com/itsMaeWithAnE/status/1208816797555671040?s=20

13) Buy official merchandise for the show and wear it around. You could be a walking advertisement for the show if you want (and can afford to). There is different merch available on the official Anne With An E shop website and on Amazon.  Also sales of the merch may be considered by networks when they consider whether to renew the show. 

https://shopannewithane.com

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/A8C18641-8ECE-4892-A276-6A0A952A125C

14) Join the r/Anne community on reddit. There has been some encouragement to grow the size of the community on this thread because it shows a static number of how many people are apart of it. This number could be used to approximate how much interest there is in the show. It currently only has 2.5K members. Even if you’re not very active on reddit, joining the subreddit would be helpful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anne/

15) Donate to the campaign to have a billboard to promote the show. Details can be found on the gofundme page.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/renew-anne-with-an-e?sharetype=teams&member=3295372&rcid=r01-157601384514-6d847f2ab5bb49bd&pc=tw_co_campmgmt_w&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet

16) Donate to campaign to run instagram ads for Anne With An E. More details on the gofundme page below.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/anne-with-an-e-season-3-ad-campaign

17) Let’s Make Some Noise Campaign. Some fans are encouraging people to write messages on white rags, like the ones the avonlea students use during their protest, and sending them to various streaming networks or Northwood Entertainment, the production company behind the show. Details can be found in the tweet below.

https://twitter.com/kindredsparty/status/1206624186342559745?s=21

18) Rate and review Anne With An E on Rotten Tomatoes. You can do this for each season. Currently there are a fair amount of negative reviews so it would be incredibly helpful to explain why you love the show. Good reviews would attract new potential fans to start watching.

19) Vote Anne With An E up on Ranker.com lists. This might attract new get people interested in the show if it consistently ranks high on lists of best shows.

https://m.ranker.com/list/the-best-new-original-shows-on-netflix-hulu-and-amazon-of-the-last-few-years/ranker-streaming?ref=also_ranked&pos=2&a=0&l=85370943&ltype=n&g=0

20) Take care of yourself. THIS ONE IS MOST IMPORTANT. Don’t sacrifice your health in your efforts to get the show renewed. If you need to take a break please do. Also don’t feel guilty if you need to step away or you can only do one or two things on this list. Every effort counts and is greatly appreciated.

I’ll try to update this as more stuff comes up. Good luck with all your efforts Kindred Spirits!

Remember “Dreamers change the world”

[stevewiththeweather]

caution for longass post ahead. it’s my (summer of) 6th grade sketchbook

thank you, past me, very cool

theres a fuckton of deh in here and most of it makes me want to dump a bucket of cold water on my past self’s head, so be warned

chibi harry potter. this one’s not awful

this was also back when i liked mlp. i was a derpy stan

harry potter again. this one actually looks worse in the photo because i took it at a bad angle. i liked it at the time but noted the hand was a bit small. lmao

this was also the same year i rediscovered avpm! so many things happened in that year in terms of fandoms

lauren’s draco. the one on the bottom right (the actual screenshot, not the drawing) was my profile picture for the longest time

quirrelmort. the one ship i don’t hate now because it was like. canon

this was from like. a year later also @ past me you absolutely did not

i remember angrily drawing the line across her neck because it was a “good drawing” but the neck was too long. lol

i sort of wanted to be one of those kids that drew cats. as you might be able to tell, that didn’t happen

ah yes, the precious baby bean modern!john laurens

i don’t know. something to do with pride

some elf girl

attempted redesign of elf girl from a year later. i cut it out but it says “oh god no come back in 10 months” and i think it’s been about that so challenge accepted

hmaliton

lmao very cool. on the side it says “idkkk lol”

tfw you were chosen for the constitutional convention

john laurens stacking turtles. haha turtle boi

redraw from 2019 probably. iactuallykindoflikethisjgkfjbhsdvs

you will Literally never guess who this is

ham chart. 

the top ones were drawn by a good friend.

we stan a problematic king. or something

HAMILSHARKS

expressions practice. fun fun fun

this one’s kind of good. there’s nothing too cringeworthy here so that’s a plus

foh doh doh dee doh

this is probably the best one. i used to think jared was funny hahahaaahahah g

dear evon handsin

masterpiece

sjskdfavf,,, i remember being super embarrassed of this at the time but i didn’t want to throw it away because i spent ages on it anyways rip eliza

uh.

thanks, i hate it

thanks, i really hate it. this used to be inside the plastic on the outside of the binder, which makes it even worse

ew ew ew but the backstory behind this is that my friends shipped me with jared kleinman. i drew this in response being like “nope i’m just a lesbian that fetishizes mlm relationships for some reason and also jared is gay”

haha seabury gay

haha modern!seabury gay

hahahah whatre you reading there pal

modern au kingsbury antics. what a couple

hahahahahahah more lams i drew myself and a friend poking our heads out on the side saying kinky kill me please

tried to draw a japanese schoolgirl and failed. i didn’t know references existed back then apparently

leggy best hamilton ship

modern kingsbury ref sheet

modern kingsbury ref sheet

modern kingsbury ref sheet

my friend’s old oc

vent. i shrunk it so you can’t really read it but it was all worries in the form of questions. i went back in 2019 (i guess) and highlighted the things that happened. a few more have also happened since then. i really hate the “LMAO OK Drama bitch” i wrote in 2019 though

this is from 2019 i guess. wow what a master comedian

ebon honschen

alana but shes blue daba dee daba die daba dee daba die

genderswapped gared gleinman

“nope” first of all, mood

this one was ok. modern teabury again

tried to do those aesthetic-looking doodles but ran out of Things 

piss

haha cause it’s dEER EVAN HANDSEN GEDDIT D EER HAHAGAHGSDAHJ

deer evan hansen: good edition

anxiety is so adorable amirite

angel connor. in terms of drawing alone this one’s actually not bad. also WE’RE ALMOST AT THE END

some cool badass knight princess or something

im pretty sure i stole that phrase. also look at that hair haha

i thought i was a fucking genius for coming up with this

GEORGEFAYETTE OTP ALSO WE HAVE REACHED THE END!!! PRETTY SURE ABSOLUTELY NO ONE IS GOING TO READ THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING BUT CONGRATS IF YOU DID I GUESS

[jeramiahsental2]

How is he always so... confident? No, that’s not the right word. Optimistic.

Here are Jeramiah the Mudkip (me) and Cinder the Cyndaquil of Rescue Team Overflow, my team in PMD: Blue Rescue Team!

Coming in as the fifth Pokémon drawing I’ve ever done, and the fifth one this year, I can say with certainty that, holy crap, I’ve made a ton of progress this year. This is by far the most complex anything I’ve ever done art-wise, and I’m honestly really happy with it. Except for that rock. I don’t like that rock.

Anyway, as per usual for my drawing, have a look below the “Keep reading” if you want to see some info about the drawing and my thoughts on different things about it!

Start date: 10/9/19 (October 9) End date: 12/18/19 Total # of days: 70 # of days I spent working on it: 24

For comparison with other drawing I’ve done: Amber the Fennekin, my first ever Pokémon drawing, took 54 days. The headshot of my Pokésona that I used as my first icon took 24 days. The drawing of Dusk, which is the most recent picture before this one, took 20. And the “group photo” with Typhlosion took 78 (56 if you only count days I worked on it).

This is the first time I’ve drawn a background. At all. Yes, I had references to look at and it wouldn’t have been done nearly as quickly if I didn’t, but still.

I probably should’ve zoomed this in before putting it on Tumblr.

Paint Tool SAI has a layer limit of 256. How many times did I hit it? Well, let’s just say I didn’t keep track, but\ that little error box popup made itself known at least 10 times. It made the shading stages... interesting, to say the least.

Both characters were at different angles when I started this drawing, though Cinder changed more than I did. He was originally lying down, but I can 100% understand why his sleeping sprite in the Rescue Team base is him sitting. Drawing a Cyndaquil lying down is weirdly difficult.

As is drawing Cyndaquil at all. I swear, I struggle more with the simple, easy designs (Cyndaquil, Typhlosion, Chikorita, Fennekin) than I do with the more complicated ones (Cubone, Mudkip, Zorua). but! I’m happy with how he is now, and that’s what matters.

How did I draw the map, you ask? Well, first I drew the base, with the curled edges and the kinda parchment-y color. Then I traced the map in Rescue Team. The entire. world map. It only took a couple days. Not entirely sure it was worth it, but it looks like a map, and that’s what I was going for.

The Mudkip ref I used (the official art from Bulbapedia) had a tail that I didn’t like the look of, so I drew my own! Side note: I scrolled up to the point something on my screen was right in the way of part of its outline, so I thought I missed a line break. nope! thankfully.

All of the outlines (except my mouth and a lot of the grating) are colored! Most of them are really dark so it doesn’t look too out of place and they still look and act like an outline, but I like the look of it better than the omnipresent pure blackness!

That weird plate thing that hangs on the grating looks like a face in game. I didn’t like that, so I drew a line on it that kinda reminds me of a cursive capital L now that I think about it and flipped it so the design was symmetrical. I think it looks pretty good! I might make it the emblem of this Rescue Team, or something like that.

This is the first time I’ve done shading to this extent, and with multiple light angles to boot. I think it looks pretty good for my first attempt! and on the topic of shading, the characters’ shadows were a lot easier to get down this time around compared to Dusk and Amber! Having a definite source of light definitely helped, and I think they look better when they’re this transparent.

I don’t like that rock. It looks flat and out of place, and I could not figure out how to get its perspective right. So I blurred everything in the foreground. (...I was going to anyway, but that rock gave me another good reason to.) side note, gaussian blur is my friend. Holy crap it makes such a difference for literally shifting the focus of the picture.

I drew four trees then copy+pasted them to fill in the rest of the “Outside,” though I did try to at least make them look different. I shaded them based on distance, too.

I had to delve the depth of Google Images to find an anime screenshot of Cyndaquil looking at the camera with its mouth open to get the right colors. Blocking sites directly from your search is your friend, because Google’s Safe Search certainly isn’t.

And that does it for drawing #5, and probably my last drawing of this year. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the drawing!

[markteare]

Fallout 4: Nuka-World DLC

Nuka-World trailer featuring DLC cover art by John Gravato.

It has been a while since I have had the time to post and I wanted to get something up about Nuka-World. Rather than hit all of the details in a bunch of smaller Nuka-World posts I decided I would cover as much as I could in one overview post. While re-watching the trailer recently, I was reminded of just how many different aspects of that DLC I got to work on as the art lead. Highlighting my work from the trailer felt like a good way to run through my efforts, so take a look at the trailer linked above and then read on below.

Nuka-World screenshot I created for marketing.

My general responsibilities began with creating the pitch for the DLC. The two design leads, Justin Schram and Alan Nanes, and I started developing a series of ideas for the DLC. After one false start, we came in with a stack of new ideas as one-sheets and started the pitch meeting with what was then called “Raiders and Rides” as a working title. Todd accepted it before even hearing the other ones. I was very happy about this as it was my favorite pitch of the group.

Nuka-World screenshot I created for marketing.

As the art lead for the project I was responsible for overseeing all things art-related; art direction, pipeline, etc. Since this was a DLC for Fallout 4, much of the core art direction was established by Istvan Pele, the art director on the base game. My job for the DLC was to create a reason for players to want to come back to the game for more. I also wanted to test some of my ideas for improvements to the pipelines and the smaller scale of a DLC was a great place for that. More than anything I wanted to use my additional influence on the DLC to give the players loads of memorable fun and value for their money.

My Nuka-World key art based on the original Fallout 4 key art.

One of the first things I did once the plan was greenlit was to create the key art. I used it in all of my slides for internal and external presentations and to set the initial tone and pillars of the DLC for the team. More detailed post on the key art here.

My original Bottle & Cappy slide art turned into Nuka-World coffee mug art.

A key contrast built into the DLC from the start was the mix of horrible, violent, raider gangs with the fun, lighthearted, theme park. To add that contrast into my slides I created a closing slide featuring who I imagined the park mascots to be. Bottle & Cappy were born as a way to incorporate a fun note as my closing slide. As the DLC progressed it became clear we needed to use them in the park and then in the marketing. Post DLC they have joined the permanent Fallout lore in other titles and in merchandising.

Nuka-World screenshot I created for marketing.

As the first artist on the project, I started by sketching key broad strokes of the DLC into the engine to guide the art team toward my vision. I added in the first-pass landscape and weather to get the environment feeling like I wanted. Then I started blocking in key landmarks of the park in grey boxed art to get the layout started. I added sub leads for the park environment art (Jason Muck) and the landscape (Andrew Barron). To help build enough new geometry to fill the park, I prototyped some park assets using the color remapping I developed for the base game. This workflow would allow faster park asset creation allowing us to build a larger environment with a smaller team.

Nuka-World screenshot I created for marketing. 

Once the environment team was going I shifted focus to characters, creatures, and weapons. I knew they going to take much more hands-on work from me duse to the small team size. We had one character artist (Charles Kim) and one weapon artist (Dane Olds) in house. Concept art and the bulk of the non-environment art was planned to be outsourced. Raiders were the main focus for the DLC and I knew they would take up the majority of the resources. Inspite of that limitation I also wanted to get the players as many new creatures as I could. I came up with a list of easy but dramatic creature ideas to test to maximize reuse but feel new to the player. I did fast "proof of concept" tests for each idea to determine which ideas would work in-game. I repeated this same pattern to fill out the weapon list with cheap and fun additions at a minimal cost.

Nuka-World screenshot I created for marketing.

The raider gangs were the main feature of the DLC but due to the volume of work they required, and our lack of staff in those departments, the decision was made to outsource all of the raider concepts and the models. I knew outsourcing the concepts was going to be tricky since the outsourcing group was in China but I had no other option. I supplied lots of ref and photo bashed some quick collages to get something for them to start with besides a written description. This method yielded a few good designs but nothing good enough to move forward with alone. Luckily for me, John Gravato (concept artist) stepped up and took on wrangling some of the design revisions and additions in his spare time. Ray Leder (concept artist) also knocked out a few additional helmet designs. Leveraging their stellar support and iterating with the team in China I was able to arrive at the armor sets that defined the three raider gangs and could combine for massive variety for the player.

My trailer directorial debut: the Nuka-World E3 teaser.

For this DLC, in particular, Todd's plan for us was to market it like a full game. This meant we would work with marketing on screens, a teaser, a trailer, a theme song, a Bottle & Cappy trailer (similar to the SPECIAL videos for the base game), and a physical park map. The Bottle & Cappy trailer was handled by an outside vendor which took most of the load off of us except for lite direction and feedback. The rest was up to myself and a handful of people on the team. Animator Neal Thibodeaux did a lot of the heavy lifting on both the teaser and the trailer which were both made in the engine. Artist Natalia Smirnova created the logos and artwork for the map and we worked very hard to make it accurate to the park and have that authentic theme park map feel. Not only were we going to use it to guide people around the park in-game, we were also putting a physical version in Game Stop as a preorder bonus.

Bottle & Cappy trailer.

Nuka-World park map pre-order bonus.

One of the things that got me the leadership role on the DLC was my history of adding all kinds of content to the game in addition to my role as a VFX artist. I don't like it when a good idea dies from a lack of resource time. Over the years I have learned all of the workflows in our engine to find clever ways to make my ideas come to life without additional help. This often includes sourcing existing art for kitbashing new work from in order to save time. Unfortunately, this is the kind of work that has often proven hard to teach and or delegate. Having the lead role allowed me to incorporate it more than ever before into our pipelines, but throughout the DLC I still had to do a lot of the work myself.

Below is a breakdown of all of my work in the trailer which turns out to be a good cross-section of all of the additional things I did on the DLC.

00:02 Direction and feedback for outsourced Bottle & Cappy video.

00:15 Unique models and editor setup for Nukatron. Flipbook port of B&C video for in-game Nukatron and Nuka-Cola machines.

00:20 Water VFX for the landscape. Art direction for the five themed areas of the park.

00:23 Ported mannequin models to animatronics and animated them. Created all Nuka-World mannequin outfits as texture swaps or new meshes.

00:24 Set dressed and captured trailer footage in-game.

00:26 Developed efficient color remapping pipeline (CRP) for the fast creation of park assets. I built fake western mountain rocks for themed park area.

00:28 Created a quantum variant for all 6 Mirelurk creature types. Created the water and VFX for the Quantum river.

00:30 Concepted and built the armor for Porter Gage the main companion for the DLC. Modeled and posed Bottle& Cappy park sculptures (using CRP). Built the Fizztop Mountain asset for the main landmark for the park (using CRP).

00:40 Technical assistance on execution of the intro train ride.

00:42 Created park color guide and prototype weathers for DLC color direction.

00:43 Concepted and built Nuka bottle Protectron (using CRP). 

00:45 Art direction for park map and then execution of in-game navigation via map kiosks.

00:48 Created all of the painted feral ghoul DLC variants.

00:51 Created the Gatorclaw death claw variant model. Created a Nuka-World specific lunch box player prize system from my lunch box system in the base game.

00:52 Created the Brhamaliff models. Planned a high-level melee tree with art assets to supplement a limitation of the base game.

00:56 Created the unique robot meshes for Nuka Spray Mr. Handy

00:57 Designed the damage structure for weaponized Nuka-Cola flavors.

00:58 Created all of the western clothing meshes.

01:00 Prototyped the original sandworm concept in-game to test viability. Created the Sandworm VFX. Trained the character artist in kitbash modeling to add Acid Soaker. Created all of the VFX for the acid soaker.

01:03 Art directed the raider factions. Designed all clothing as armor/under armor for maximum mix and match. Cleaned up all outsourced outfit meshes for maximum compatibility within the armor system.

01:04 Created all texture variants for raider underclothes. Brought the slave collar from Fallout 3 and rebuilt for Nuka-World with power on/off functionality.

01:07 Added motion to some Bottle & Cappy statues.

01:09 Designed trash pile loot system to add the feel of overflowing trash at a theme park and add a new loot system to the park.

01:13 Concept and design for paddleball weapons and mods. (see other post)

01:18 Art direction for raider gangs.

01:19 Ported alien mesh to animatronic enemy for the park. Revised the Fallout 3 alien blaster as playable weapon (not shipped).

01:20 Built the Overboss bumper car power armor. Worked with design to create the plan for the opening boss fight with squirt gun mechanic (see other post). Built all of the electric VFX for the boss fight.

01:21 Original concept for spider cricket hopper enemy.

01:17 Tuxedo mesh for Kiddie Kingdom boss ghoul.

01:23 Flying swarm as a single enemy proof of concept. All ant variant meshes.

01:28 Shot this shot setup and set dressing for the teaser.

01:33 Original Bottle & Cappy idea and concept painting.