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Teen Titans – Group Picture

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May 142014
 

Here’s the group picture of the Animus cast dressed up as the Teen Titans. People who showed up at Zone 51 on Free Comic Book Day were able to walk away with a free postcard of this picture.

The observant amongst you will have noticed that Nektara is looking in the opposite direction here than she was in her picture by herself. The original way made it look like she was looking totally elsewhere than the rest of the crew. Those of you who aren’t observant will have noticed because I just told you.

Teen-Titans

For comparative purposes, here’s the picture of the real Teen Titans that I based this shot on. For those wondering, Nektara’s hood is down because I wanted her face to be visible. I don’t think the picture would have turned out well if I had drawn the hood up anyway.

TeenTitansOrigThat’s all for this week. New theme next week!

Teen Titans – Starfire

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May 142014
 

Heyhey folks! Sorry I’m late with today’s mashup. I had a hard time getting up this morning and since the roads were still wet, I chose to take the bus so I was short on time. But better late than never as they say!

Today we conclude our visit with the cast of the Teen Titans. As always you can click on the picture to enlarge it.

I like to keep the character that I’m most looking forward to drawing for last and it’s funny how often that happens to be Sass’ character. Here she is as Starfire. I did something with the tail that I like. It’s nothing really special, it’s just bending forward at the tip, but it adds depth and it makes drawing Sass’ tail easier for me. I need to remember this.

Starfire

Stay tuned for the cast picture coming within the next few minutes.

Character Facts

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May 122014
 

I don’t know what to write about. I started writing something about some things that have influenced me creatively, but is how much I like Disney’s Robin Hood really what you want to be reading? Well, it’s not what I want to be writing. Suffice it to say that there was a time that I could recite practically the whole movie by heart. I can still speak all the lines along with the characters when I watch it now. I’m that kind of obsessive person when I like something.

And yet I can never remember if I paid the electric bill or not.

Anyway, facts you may find interesting (unless you’ve read through everything on the site, in which case, most of this is just repetition).

  • Todrick’s name came from Todd, the titular fox in The Fox and the Hound.
  • Constable Copley’s name came from Copper, the titular hound in the Fox and the Hound
  • Todrick is an archer because I like Robin Hood
  • Todrick is a fox because I like foxes because of Disney’s Robin Hood and The Fox and the Hound
  • Nektara is a bear because she couldn’t be an Ewok.
  • Deema is a lizard because she couldn’t be a Trandoshan
  • That makes Nektara and Deema Star Wars Sisters
  • I used to think Latara the Ewok’s name was Nektara.
  • Nektara plays a flute because Latara played a flute
  • I regularly forgot to draw Nektara’s flute and had to go back to draw it because it was going to be important in a later gag.
  • Since that gag, Nektara has almost never carried her flute.
  • Cyran’s name came from Cyrano. I just dropped the O. I didn’t add an R to Cyan.
  • Red Rich’s third colour is green because yellow was already the secondary colour in his blue costume
  • I like Blue Rich’s colour scheme better than Red Rich’s but Red Rich sounds better
  • Big Oonch is named after my friend’s cat
  • Zoë’s name comes from my friend’s obsession with names starting with the letter Z
  • Barnaby was originally going to be named Barney
  • I was not thinking of Christmas when I named Crismus
  • I forgot after one strip that Horvath was supposed to have a goatee.
  • Sass was not named after Sass Jordan
  • The name Tomaw comes jumbling the letters in the name Mowat
  • Ardebast Raconteur was going to be the name of a historian in another fantasy setting I was working on.

That’s all for this week. Have a good week folks!

Flashback Friday – Major Bear

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May 092014
 

Good morning. Enjoying your Friday so far? Great! Here’s a flashback to make it even better!

I’m changing up the scheduled order of my flashbacks. You’ll find out why next week. For now, let’s delve back into the ranks of Cobra’s high command. As always, you can click on any picture to enlarge it.

Colour-wise, Barnaby isn’t a great choice for Major Bludd, since his fur is brown and Bludd’s uniform is brown as well. I tried my best to make the two colours distinct. The helmet gave me a surprising amount of trouble. I can’t really figure out why.

Barnaby-Bludd

Continuing the tradition of designing the complete action figure card, here’s Major Bear’s.

Major-Bear-on-Card

And here’s the comparison to the original piece. Do you know that it was only when I put the two pictures side by side that I realized that I totally forgot to give Barnaby the eye patch the first time around. How embarrassing! 🙂 I did a much better job of posing his legs this time around so it doesn’t look like he’s just dangling in mid-air.

Cobra-Barnaby-TaN

Next week, you’ll find out who was originally scheduled for this week. I’m sure you’re all dying to know who and why! Have a good weekend trying to figure it out!

 

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