#no i didn’t become hyperfixated on the alvin and the chipmunks franchise

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Alvin and the Chipmunks redesigns! I wanted to adapt their designs loosely from the original puppets, and also incoorporate the live action movies’ two toned fur. I have such childhood nostalgia for them, but their main 2d designs are a lil too humanoid for me. Don’t get me started on the nickelodeon series.

I gotta ramble about their outfits and implied characterisations in their original christmas song performance. It’s so fascinating to me. The cute straw hats Simon and Theo wear!!! And the bowties!!! It gives off professionalism and preparedness, contrasted with Alvin, who doesn’t seem to wanna abide by dress code, so he’s sporting a breton cap and striped sweater with a defiant capital A on it.

He also showed resistance towards being made to perform the song, to the point of almost hitting a guy with a mallet. So, not unlike future portrayals, he’s very against adhering to authority. But this Alvin deviates, by being more driven my impulse than ego — modern Alvin wouldn’t have tried to stop their performance. Also, Simon and Theodore were rather indistinguishable, but driven by the same childlike flightiness as Alvin, that they all ended up beating up David Seville to let them sing the song again.

Anyways!!!! Gonna do a group watch of the halloween movies and Chipmunk adventure tomorrow, so if I draw these guys again, 50/50 they might change.