#caricaturing animals

[deathstardroid]

The Hell of It

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I've been watching the adventures of tintin 1991 with my sister and were watching the blue lotus part 2 and when Chang showed up I literally sat up in my chair and pointed at the screen like he was a famous actor. He has entered my brain forever, and I have you to thank for it.

for a character that popped up for only two adventures he left quite an impact on me too. I can imagine he'd make quite an impression when staying over in Belgium and making some appearances in the paper!

my sister was studying the opium trade and its links with colonialism so we were watching the 1991 cartoon episodes for The Blue Lotus and The Crab with the Golden Claws. I remember a) cringing every time Mitsuhirato appeared b) cringing at the voice they decided to give Chang and c) my sister turning around and looking at me every time a Chinese Musical Sting™ would play (we're Chinese)

[ultimateinferno]

I've been thinking about Falin vs Laios on making friends. Laios being concerned for Falin's isolation and his excitement for making a friend of his own.

[danicalzone]

How to be a Human Being (p2)

(p1)

[mkdoes711]

Cat & Mouse - noir, buddy cop detective adventure (idea from @/danny8bit) https://twitter.com/Danny8bit/status/1741916457842479565

[mastomysowner]

A Giant Rat Chases Scientists

by Jason Patterson

[jojoseames]

Commission from Tucson Comic-Con! Herbert West, from "Re-Animator"!

Ink & Watercolor, 6 x 9 inches JoJo Seames, 2024

[shivroy]

"fallen so far from his tree and still kicking", my mother said about a baby bird when we found it dying, and later, she said, "he's fragile"

[ducktracy]

The Ducktators is a fascinating little cartoon, though not a particularly enjoyable one. It’s very hard to watch nowadays but your review makes its strengths as animated propaganda very clear. As always, a very nice review. Also, sorry to bring him up, but I always thought the racist stereotype Japanese duck was supposed to be Hideki Tojo (Hi-duck-i Tojo?).

THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS!!! that really means a lot! absolutely, it's not a short i revisit for obvious reasons, but i'm almost glad for that "fresh pair of eyes" point of view because it definitely allowed me to view its directorial strengths much more clearly. in terms of pure cinematography and directing alone, it really shows that Norm McCabe had a lot of potential to be a great director if he wasn't bogged down so much by shoehorning topical references (ie propaganda) into his cartoons! like, this is a crazy shot

it is an extremely fascinating watch to see how they play on the psyche and psychology of the audience. cartoons are manipulative! i know this from working in them! i don't mean that in a bad way, but objectively: cartoons manipulate emotions of the audience and inspire them to laugh, to cry, to be scared, to be triumphant, they manipulate where you're supposed to look or how you're supposed to ingest--or NOT ingest--the information. it's almost comparable to a magic trick. even the most inconsequential, silly, stupid, "nothing" cartoon you can imagine has some sort of subliminality in it dictating how you are interpreting the information on screen. i'm being hyperbolic with my wording and i swear i don't mean this in a Dale Gribble conspiracy theory way LOL. it's just a fact! and it's so fascinating to me! and propaganda cartoons are really at the zenith of seeing how these subliminalities and playing on the psychology of the audience works. obviously, not always (and really, seldom) for the better, but it's very neat to study and see how that is accomplished. it makes for a very fascinating deep dive

I HAD ASSUMED FOR THE LONGEST TIME IT WAS A TOJO CARICATURE TOO.. i've gotten some conflicting information. cartoon wise, i plucked the voice credits from Keith Scott's book, who bills him as a Hirohito caricature, Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald's book just labels him as "a Japanese duck"--i've been getting a bunch of conflicting research, and it evidently seems that historians themselves are in conflict as to the extent of Hirohito's role in the war. i assumed that for the purposes of the cartoon, the duck was Hirohito since it seems he was considered one of the leaders of the Axis Powers, which is of course what the short hinges on. that, and that he was Emperor, whereas Tojo just reported to him. the general consensus seems to be that Tojo took the majority of the blame (obviously, given that he was hanged)--the website of the National WWII Museum points out that Douglas McArthur and Harry Truman seemed hesitant to charge Hirohito with war crimes since they were scared of a retaliatory uprising, given that he was the Emperor, and so publicity instead fell on Tojo.

I TYPED ALL OF THIS OUT BUT I SEEM TO BE PROVING YOUR POINT LOL Tojo seemed to be much more active on the militant side and received more publicity, so i guess that technically would make him a candidate... but given that Hirohito was at the very tip top and considered the reigning Axis leader for Japan, my assumption was that it was him for the purposes served by the cartoon. it'd probably make more sense for it to be Tojo though if he was more directly involved on the military side... that, and it's clear there's a little bit of a divide in power between the Tojo/Hirohito duck and the Hitler and Mussolini duck, but i also assumed that was a byproduct of the clear resentment directed towards Japan, and was just them jumping at any chance they could to belittle and humiliate them. riding on the catharsis of making such a big figurehead seem small and weak and easy to pummel and all that. (it also doesn’t help that the extent of caricaturing is “uhhhhh Japanese people have squinted eyes and big teeth right?”, both Tojo and Hirohito wore glasses and so that’s really the only visual clue… but i guess the duck also has a military cap that probably would be most associated with Tojo)

any historians who are obviously much more equipped to answer this, i welcome any corrections! it's obviously been a bit since my last World History class and i am genuinely embarrassed i can't give a more concise answer :')

[barrycoganart]

Ready to Break stuff.

When people hear the name Nimona, they can regale you with tall tales of every kind, but almost all have one thing in common. Her mischievous antics, her rebellious nature and powerful ability to change into every animal imaginable. So here she is simply contemplating her next move. Enjoy!

[georgeivsexpiredbrandy]

Hetalia PETA Au

So we all know that PETA is like the greatest thing ever (totally) and they once had a knack for making parodies of popular IPs to spread veganism.

HETALIA PETA PARODY GAME:

First proposal — the game

In the game you play as England (because PETA is uk-based) and attempt to help everyone see that eating animals is wrong by feeding them yummy vegan scones

The enemies include

• China, consumer who gets converted to veganism by the end of the first world

• Russia, who sees the wrong in his ways of animal cruelty and decides to go vegan

• America, who will be a recurring villain in the next game so he doesn't get reformed

• France, the final boss, who butchers innocent baby chickens and snails for fun

The game itself is half RPG-maker and half platformer and each time you win or fail a level you get a video of different kind of animal abuse (common animal abuse like cows and such for wins and really obscure ones like pilot dolphins for loses) and has 3 worlds. At the end of world 3 England is doomed to lose but then god answers his prayers and France is wiped off the map

HETALIA PETA WEBSERIES

Second proposal — parody anime

So the anime is a direct adaptation of the game

Everyone has the same roles except the axis now help advocate for veganism even though they never appeared in the game

It's a bit of an episodic series excluding character development episodes and the plot is typically one of three tropes

• France endangers a poor animal, england/the axis have to save it and show everyone a video of animal abuse including that same animal

• England shows us how to make yummy vegan recipes but is interrupted by the League of Butchers

• England schizophrenia episodes

At the end of a series god answers england's prayers and France is wiped off the map which frees all of the poor animals he hurt. Once the country is wiped off the map France himself slowly dies and his death scene is 70 minutes long and has flashing images of animal abuse

DESIGNS FOR ENGLAND AND FRANCE

Vegan Saint England

• Constantly praying for animal rights

• Good soul = Tiddy in this au

• Is kind and wants everyone to be vegan and happy

• Slightly mentally unstable

• British JUST LIKE PETA!!!

Gooner Butcher France

• EVIL

• Eats an egg after every sentence

• Final boss of the game/Main antagonist of the series

• Smells bad

[artstationable]

Gabriel Soares • "The Mask - 3D print statue"

Concept Artist & 3D Modeler at WB Games

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[littlemisspinky]

hi popcross studios fandom. im the person who designed kiko tsukino. just felt like drawing her again n i figured i could post her original design as well.

[damian-lil-babybat]

There's this kind of hybrid artstyle in comics lately that I wanna learn how to do (i just wanna stare at them coz its too pretty). Would it be an insult to call it hybrid? Hybrid in a way that its more anime-ish/cartoon-ish...but still very much in comic artstyle. It's very stylized too, and it's more softer and expressive on the face, and I love it.

I don't know if its a real thing, or I'm just seeing things in my fave artists in comics

Jorge Jimenez (Super Son Vol. 1)

Simone di Meo (Robin 2021 #16)

Belen Ortega (Batman 2016)

Yasmine Putri (Robin 80th Anniversary)

For chibi, theres

Dustin Nguyen (Lil Gotham 2021)

Juni Ba (Boy Wonder 2024)

Other notable artists that I like: (1) Patrick Gleason for giving us RSOB & for drawing kids who look like kids; (2) Joelle Jones for lineart; (3) Christopher Mittens for inking and panelling; (4) Otto Schmidt for character dynamic & fight scenes; (5) Gabriel Picolo for nostalgic DCAM feels

[mimir97477906]

what 😂

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