Carja

From the Depths of Snake Mountain

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Aug 222012
 

Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-up.

For the last two weeks we’ve been looking at the heroes of Eternia, this week, we start looking at the villains. As I was drawing these, I realized how freaky some of the Masters of the Universe villains look.

First up, is Sassetor…or Skelesass, your pick. Normally, I try to keep the Animus characters’ natural colour, but blue is such a big part of Skeletor’s design, that I gave Sass a blue body suit. I like the shading and the lightning effects. I don’t know that it comes through in the finished drawing, but the idea is that Sass is wearing a Halloween mask.

Next up is Zoë as Webstor. I tried an action pose and while the pose is alright, I feel that you don’t really get a feel for Webstor’s design. Oh well. I gave her a blue body suit too to try to make it clearer who she’s supposed to be.

Next up is Evil-Nek. I’m starting to like playing with shading to make glowing effects. I like how the blue orb in her staff turned out. Not crazy about the dagger. I used pictures of the Masters of the Universe Classics toy line as reference pictures for the other mash-ups, but Evil-Lyn’s body is a straight-up repaint of Teela’s body and I didn’t want to redraw the same body, so I used Evil-Lyn’s 2000 redesign as a reference.

Now we move on to Deema-lash. Of all the Masters of the Universe mash-ups, this was the easiest casting decision to make. Whiplash is a lizard-man with a tail. Deema is a lizard-girl with a tail. I tried something new with the tail smashing the rock action pose. I like the results.

Last for this week is Wrench-Jaw. Cyran’s wrench is glued to his left paw (his left, our right) so I had to switch Trap-Jaw’s mechanical arm from his right to his left to match-up.

So that’s all for now. Come back next week for the remaining Masters of the Universe mash-ups.

 

 

We Got Him!

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Aug 202012
 

Wednesday, August 15th, was my friend Fab’s 40th birthday (I created Big Oonch last year for Fab’s birthday). His girlfriend orchestrated a surprise party for him yesterday. Now Fab is a pretty clever guy and hard to pull things over on, so we had to be sneaky. Sneaky involved holding a fake party for him the Sunday before. The fake party had to be just big enough to make him think it was all we had planned for him without being complicated. It worked as he never saw the real party coming. So Sunday I was one of (I’m told) 80 guests who came down to celebrate my friend’s birthday. He was very moved.

I was wearing my Animus Funnies cast t-shirt at the party and Fab and his girlfriend (whom I created Zoë for) mentioned the site to some of their friends and family pointing to “their” characters. I said that Todrick was my goofy side and Cyran was my insecure side. I’ve been thinking since then of the parts of me that I imbue into each character.

Even though he’s not the most-featured, I consider Cyran to be the central character in Animus Funnies. The heart, if you will. He loves tinkering even if he isn’t very good at it (a metaphor for me and this site perhaps?) and even his friends doubt his abilities (my friends are not cruel as Cyran’s sometimes are).

Todrick is exciteable and silly, as I find myself to be. He’s energetic as I’d like to be. He likes to have adventures even if they usually backfire on him. I’d like to be as brave as he is and not be afraid to fail.

Nektara is my voice of reason. Like me, she sometimes gets exasperated with the craziness that surrounds her. I try to be very careful that she never appears too mean when she’s being honest. I’ve sometimes given lines that I’d originally written for her to other characters for that reason.

Sass’ blind passion for Shinies represents my materialistic side. I collect stuff. A lot of stuff. I can get really excited when something new comes out that I find cool and have a “it must be mine” attitude, much like Sass does when she sees a new Shiny.

Red Rich is great fun to write because he’s charmingly full of himself. At least, I hope it comes off as charming. He clearly loves himself. I can be a little narcissistic myself as I love to share when I do or create something I’m proud of (like this site). Because I don’t think I’m nearly as charming as Red Rich, I always worry that people will get tired of me talking about my projects all the time.

Deema is warmth and sunshine. She just loves everybody. I wish I could be as open with my emotions as she is.

Barnaby is slow. Everybody feels slow sometimes, but nobody likes it when others call them slow. I know I don’t. I just don’t hit people when they do. 😉

What was the point of all this? I guess there isn’t really a point. Just looking at myself through the characters I created. How Red Rich of me!

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