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[waffleboyy]

happy new year!

[dannyphantomrpg]

Visual Aid: 10 Years Later, Part 1

So here’s a thing I did tonight. Instead of, you know, polishing Jack’s faceplate to post this week or starting on Maddie‘s (or, I dunno, working on one of my backlog of fics lol) I decided to make a visual aide of...

Butch Hartman’s 10 Years Later video!

Yay...?

I did this mostly for personal reference sidequests FTW. Since I don’t watch online videos too often, I always find it easier to have a still-picture guide. And, you know, I don’t have to keep giving Butch YT views now~

So, enjoy everyone!

Hey guys, it's me, Butch Hartman. How you doing? Thanks for watching my channel this week.

This week, I'll be drawing the Danny Phantom characters as if it were ten years older. Check it out.

Tucker: That's the cool thing about your powers, man, there's no downside. Give me five! *blasted into booth* I'm ok!

(Ignore the Pause display - I forgot to hide it for this image) First, we'll start off by drawing everyone's favorite tech nerd, Tucker Foley. It was funny when I was first creating Tucker, it was back in the days when the movie Rush Hour was out. Chris Tucker was a star of Rush Hour, so ok, that Tucker could be his first name. I always loved Eddie Murphy in the Beverly Hills Cop movies and his name was Axel Foley. So we took Axel Foley's last name and combined it with Chris Tucker, so that's where Tucker Foley came from.

Now, it's time to update him a little bit. Start off by giving him a bit of an updated hairstyle, updated glasses, and even an updated hat. Maybe more of a Rastafarian hat kind of thing, dreads that stick out of his hat and a little soul patch of hair under his lip there. Of course the hoodie and of course he'd got a much more updated phone. I add a presidential pin because he was the mayor of Amity Park at the end of Phantom Planet so I figure, hey, maybe he's running for president - maybe he works for the president. You know, another route for the character of Tucker I was thinking as I was drawing all these, I think he'd be a modern-day Steve Jobs. I think he's so smart and it meant so many things, I think Tucker is a huge part of either the Apple Corporation or of - or the Foley Corporation.

Now, I thought I'd start off with giving Tucker some tech this time, if Tucker's going to help Danny fight ghosts. He's going to have a drone cause he's gonna want to fly like Danny. Instead of giving him glasses, I gave him some goggles that are going to be kind of high-tech he could see like targeting devices inside the goggles that help him control the drone with his own eyes maybe. But this new design of Tucker I've completely changed his clothing colors you can see. I did incorporate the old colors from the old Tucker into his hat: the green pants, the yellow shirt, and the red cap are all incorporated into this new Rasta hat. Old Tucker enthusiasts, there are the colors for old Tucker right in there.

Sam: Goth haiku. Despair without end. *whisper* There's a ghost. *shouting* Utter blackness, nothingness. *whisper* There's a ghost. *shouting* Dora is a ghost.

The character of Sam was tricky because we wanted a girl on the show and we wanted - we almost, at the very beginning, I thought I wanted to give her a psychic power. We were gonna go in with a psychic power where she could, like, mentally talk to Danny all the time but I'm not a big fan of psychic so we got rid of that idea really quick. We decided to make her goth-y because back when Danny Phantom was created, Goths were very big. They were - they were all over the place. They were sort of the hipster of the early 2000s. They don't take everything for face value, and then Sam would be someone who would actually believe in these ghosts that Danny was fighting so we thought that'd be kind of a cool aspect of her character.

Same thing with Tucker, I'm going to just do a few experimental drawings of Same here. I'm going to age her up ten years and see how that feels. I've never drawn her ten years older so let's see what happens. So this version here of Sam, I thought Sam is sort of Danny's sidekick. A lot of the movies that have come out lately - out of the comic book-based movies lately that have come out, you know, one of my favorites is Captain America: Winter Soldier. I love The Avengers movies, and I thought it'd be pretty cool if Danny Phantom was basically Captain America, Sam would probably be Black Widow. So I decided to give Sam kind of a uniform, like a Black Widow crime fighter outfit where she helped Danny fight ghosts with her arsenal of awesome guns and machinery. By this time, Danny and Sam and Tucker have been fighting ghosts about ten years so they really know what they're doing by this point.

We're going to try another version of Sam and we're going to try and update her into a more hipsterfied because, again, her clothes, just like Tucker’s, are more early-2000s, kind of 1990s but this sort of Sam, just kind of - I guess, a regular everyday life ten years older. Put her top knot coming through her hat. I do like this version, but I prefer the superhero one a little more.

And for this version of Sam, I was just having fun and goofing around, still experimenting. I decided to keep old Sam, age her up a little bit, and add a jacket.

This Sam looks outright horrifying. Seriously. That face will be in my nightmares

Now, I thought I'd really go to town and kind of give her the full-fledged superhero thing and giver her some ghost fighting armor. And just really see what she would look like if she took it really, really seriously and became kind of a Lara Croft sort of a ghost fighting gal.

Now here is Sam - it's kind of a mix of a bunch of versions of Sam. It's kind of the Lara Croft meets the Black Widow meets Sam ten years later, and I was just having so much fun I decided to really do an iPad sketch here on the iPad pro. I use the Procreate program which replays your drawings back. She's got weaponry, she's got Maddie Fentons's goggles on her head. I tooks Sam's original colors and I just kind of switched them around a bit. I added her, like, Matrix leather jacket. I took the purple circle off of her chest, incorporated it into the jacket and I gave her a Danny Phantom logo because she's on Team Phantom. IO figured by now she and Tucker are full-time ghost fighters and they are just all on Team Phantom and I think maybe by this time in their life the Danny Phantom logo's become a franchise since everybody around the world knows it.

*Danny Phantom Theme plays*

Now it's time for the man himself: Mr. Danny Phantom. It was going to be Danny Phantom and the Specter Detectors - was be like a Scooby-Doo type of show and they were going to be Ghostbusters-like with packs on their back and stuff but then I decided to make him just: super hero, and have him have the ghost powers himself, you know. And I was even going to give him like an owl, like a white owl named Spooky, and at the time Harry Potter movies were just coming out and Nickelodeon had said you can't give him an owl, Harry Potter's got an owl. I was even going to give him a phantom motorcycle to drive around in and I thought that'd by cool, but he can fly so he didn't need the motorcycle. So what I did was, later on in the show, I couldn't give Danny a motorcycle but we gave one of the ghost villains, Johnny 13, a motorcycle. So that's sort of a backstory on Danny Phantom.

He ages up and his costume ages up too. I think over the years he's been experimenting with different forms of armor, different forms of jumpsuits, you know. Who knows what's been going on for the last ten years in the Fenton labs. He's always got the Fenton Thermos with him. Like he's got it on his hip now instead just having it randomly - be carrying it, he wears it like on his utility belt. Attempt number one!

So this next version of Danny is more like if he was in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I looked at some pictures of Captain America and just some other characters like Ant-man - things like that, and just trying to update his costume a little more. He's ten years older, he's got a ten year older body, he's like 25 years old but he's really in shake cause he fights ghosts all the time. And so this is more of an armor version of Danny. Kind of getting more to an updated - sort of a sleek sort of look.

I wanted to incorporate elements of Dark Danny in here now, not that this Danny is a bad guy. But I do want to age him up and I thought some of his ghost-y traits would kind of maybe - he would enhance them a little bit. He kind of is embracing his ghost side a little bit so he maybe make his hair a little and have it flow, you know, even giving him a cape. This belt I'm adding is a belt I'm borrowing from one of my very first original concept drawings of Danny Phantom from years and years ago - an homage to that old drawing.

Here's an iPad pro sketch incorporating all the elements that I just showed you and I also thought it was really cool to add some of his dark Danny-ness with his hair. It really was bugging me, the Fenton Thermos, you know, to catch ghosts with. I've always loved the Fenton Thermos because he has to, obviously, catch the ghosts, but it's always been kind of cumbersome and he kind of has to hold it  in his hand. So a friend of mine said, hey why don't you just build it into his glove - build the thermos into his glove, or the technology into his gloves, so Danny's going to have a Fenton Glove, actually, power his suit whenever he sucks up a ghost he gets power from that ghost which continues to power his suit so he can catch more ghosts so you could see the power coursing through his suit, through the D, and through the belt and even through the boots and the gloves. I think that's really a cool idea and, who knows, you might just see that actually animated someday.