#toontown field office

[rainbow-choco-cookiez]

The Boiler Fanart! 🔥

[misguidedlavender]

😏

[bbhq]

this is what happens in the boiler room while you're not there

[the-boiler]

boiler/field office shelf!!! i hope to add more merch soon 🔥

[conceptrewritten]

Concept art of the Cog Promotion animation utilized during the Boiler fight.

[toontown-corporate-confessions]

Sorry for a bit of a long one but I am VERY normal about the Field Office NPCs. Not the ones featured in the taskline for the Field Offices in Rewritten, but like the ones that were introduced when they released back in TTO. The SOS Toons got overhated even if they are admittedly pretty terrible. Phil Bettur's trying his best, Bea Sharpe is sounding her heart out, and Anne Ville couldn't afford any actual anvils, okay? The caged toons that would show up if an office occupied a building with no assigned NPC are great too, and I'm kinda sad that they didn't get brought back in TTR with the SOS toons somehow. At least those guys got to act in new roles for the Field Offices, the caged toons got left behind! Personal favorites include; Dewin Tymme, Ima Cagedtoon, and Lemmy Owte (also fun fact, the TTO wiki lists three toons that are a part of this group; "Prys O. Ner, Capt. Ured, and Anna Cage", but. Those toons don't actually exist in the code last I checked?)

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[chiprewington]

imagine brute forcing yourself to learn blender just so you can modify toontown models to look more like your vision

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

-OUR FOUNDER-

⚙ THE CHAIRMAN ⚙ OF COGS INCORPORATED EST. 2003 ---------------------------------

So I've never talked about this on here before, but Toontown was one of my absolute FAVORITE games as a kid (despite never having membership so being locked out of 99% of the actual game jlkjfsakj) Like it was absolutely formative for me, I drew the cogs a bajillion times and they inspired a ton of my own stuff later on (and still absolutely do) Then the game closed and Rewritten came out so I could actually play the whole game for the first time (haven't gotten anywhere close to getting to the end though) To this day I have an on again off again interest where once or twice a year I'll suddenly get absolutely smitten with it again haha

So, if you're also into Toontown, you'll obviously be familiar with the mysterious, unseen overarching villain The Chairman This is my own take on his design that I came up with a few years back ^^

We don't have much to go off of from the original game for what the Chairman might've been like, so I had a couple of different inspirations

Obviously the giant head in the Sellbot Factory, since those old Chairman pics with that head pasted onto a cog body were absolutely what I was most exposed to as a kid, but it's also not a 1:1 lift

In some of my earliest sketches trying to come up with the ideal design I tried making him look like he had the giant robot from the old installer video underneath his suit, so he had like lanky, cartoonish proportions, toonier hands, etc It looked really bad though and I couldn't do what I wanted with the head since it would've had to fit over the shorter, wider robot head, so I just ended up scrapping it (i do take some inspiration from the video for my vision of Toontown's story, but i've just scrapped the robot entirely) Oh I also gave him the eyes from the Field Office since I thought that could be neat, but it looked out of place so I simplified them to what he has now (they're still stylistically similar to the eyes on regular cog buildings, so i don't think i'm really losing any of the meaning behind them at least)

By far the biggest inspiration was when the FY11 plans got released

Holy FUDGE did this blow my mind when I saw it for the first time All those years as a kid of the Chairman not even being ACKNOWLEDGED except by the CEO's final words and a couple odd references in obscure magazines and whatever Desperately speculating and grasping onto all those tiny pieces of some mysterious, horrifically evil entity behind everything And then this??? This awesome, ominous silhouette?? Plans for something huge??? Seeing it is what drove me to go and draw him in the first place, it still gives me chills just looking at it

So yeah, I wanted mine to have that same aura of cold evil, that striking silhouette, while also having a bit more character to him Like most cogs are frozen in the same screwed up scowl, where there's not much room for expression If I could, like, make an actual model for him, I'd want him to have the same sort of capacity for different expressions as the toons have (even some you wouldn't expect from the head of the cogs)

He's ruthless, calculating, doing everything he can to maximize the profits and efficiency of Cogs Inc and expand their operations to the entirety of Toontown, with no regard for ethical business practices or the wishes of the people he plans to subjugate (But does it work? Is he happy?)

I'm absolutely gonna do an analysis of the cogs as a whole at some point (as long as my interest doesn't plummet for a little while longer), there's a ton of stuff I wanna get into about my interpretation of them as villains because oh my god I love them so much

OTHER STUFF - He's not as massive as the other boss cogs, but he's still absolutely huge (iirc the highest level cogs are all canonically like 8ft?? and he's got a LOT of height on them) - He's drinking oil in the pencil drawing - I happened to watch this video where one guy talked about the way the villain in Tarzan held a glass of wine and how it left a huge impression on him, so I just arbitrarily decided to emulate it in my drawing XD - Oh yeah a big reason for the main drawing in the post was that I really felt like I was getting too attached to a single style in my digital stuff (literally just using the same default pen tool for everything, never changing the size), so I wanted to force myself to try something new - I drew the frame myself, just kinda winged it so it's. not as good as it could be but it works fine I think

[organictoonup]

I was wondering what the Sellbot Field Office (and The Boiler) reminded me of and it was Kirby (the Vacuum) from The Brave Little Toaster Series.

[lagworks]

Cooking up something

[lafflanes]

holy SHIT

[toontowmlocations]

Location: Silly Street, Daisy Gardens, Kaboomberg District

Universe: Toontown Rewritten

(Source: Toon HQ Takeover - Toontown Music)

[bbhq]

gifs i've built up from porting field office stuff to gmod

(you can download the add-on here)

[the-boiler]

trampoline

[conceptrewritten]

Brief footage of an early iteration of the Cold Caller Cubicles mini-game, shared by @joeyzio in 2022.

His Backstage Toontown post, offering some insight into the development process, is sourced below.