Alexia Hyena

They/them • Lvl 20 • Furry artist • LOVES Trigun/Beastars/Billie Bust Up/TADC • Autistic • Bilingual (🇺🇸/🇨🇴) (Learning 🇯🇵)

[alexiahyena]

Charles in cargo pants - definitely loving this outfit!

Had this idea some weeks ago, and although I'm extremely busy with a uni project, I just could NOT get him out of my head!! Plus, I wanted to practice different outfits, cargo pants are an interesting choice for digitigrades/unguligrades!

Close-ups and more:

[amelya-007]

Paper Dolls tadc animation

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Some saved stuff from the process

[nouverx]

I'm a 3D animator, and I've been working in the industry for approximately 4 years in the same studio. As everyone may know by now, the industry is more or less in shambles, between the streaming platforms cancelling animated projects left and right, the theatres not doing as much entries as they used to, generative AIs putting our jobs at risk and the TV channels not being as popular amongst the younger audiences with the rise of YouTube tiktok and other streaming platforms. Many studios in Europe are struggling, mine included, and others are closing. My contract ends in May and they won't have any job for me until at least October 2027, which leaves me with no option until then and I have no idea what I'm gonna do.

And in a way... I feel weirdly relieved.

My job hasn't been very creatively rewarding for the past year, and even though I worked on animated movies and I felt very proud to see my name in a film's credit in theaters, I couldn't help but feel a bit defeated since I didn't LIKE the finished product. It's weird to love what you're doing and putting so much love in a character's acting only to be disappointed of the finished product to the point of being ashamed to mention I worked on it. Mostly because of the writing. It's not interesting, it lacks depths and creative ideas, and in general it just wasn't impactful in any way.

To give you a small taste in one of the movies I worked on, the female love interest literally decides to give up her dreams of travelling back to her native country she was forced to leave as a child, just to stay with her current boyfriend, the male protagonist, who acted like an awful "nice guy" archetype towards her the whole movie... And this is the message they're giving to little girls. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about the writing of this movie despite how much I enjoyed animating the characters.

I want to animate, yes. But I also want to be able to tell stories that I find meaningful and impactful and doesn't make me ashamed of what I'm doing. I want to find meaning in my art again, and right now it's lacking and making me so sad.

Recently, indie animation like Glitch studio are giving me a lot of hope that it's still possible to make smart and high quality animation series, and it's so inspiring to me right now. The Amazing Digital Circus fascinates me for the quality of its writing, and to think that it's a free indie series available on YouTube blows my mind when I see how much my studio struggles to get investments from TV channels. I don't know if people realize how alien this is to the industry.

I truly believe indie animation is what we desperatly need to change the industry, because right now it really lacks bold creative freedom more than ever.

I don't really know why I'm making this post, we just had a meeting with our boss today to discuss the gloomy state of the industry and it made me a bit nervous for my future. But I guess I needed to write this to remind myself of the hope I feel for my dream despite these difficult circumstances. Art isn't dead, I will find my inspiration again and tell more meaningful stories one day 💫

[alexiahyena]

"El Muchacho de los Ojos Tristes vive solo y necesita amor..."

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The Funny One(s)

Process under the cut:

[alexiahyena]

"Let's chase stardust and renew our promise. Let's set out on another journey today, beyond the light" 🌌✨

Inspiration and process under the cut:

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Now let the sheep take care of his shepherd

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To celebrate that Beastars' Final Season (part 2) is coming in 2 days, I made this scene in my artstyle 🐆🍈

I drew this in the wrong paper, so heavy coloring made the final result look strange 😵‍💫

Unedited version w/o flash:

Andddd bloodless version. I feel like this one looks better, but I cannot CTRL + Z the final result lol

Reference:

[alexiahyena]

The most divine of all muses, my inspiration to create art 🩶✨

Fun fact about this artwork: I started it around 10 months ago, but got stuck trying to figure out the hand, so I dropped it halfway. I've been working on improving my hands recently, so I decided to pick this up again and actually finish it!! I'm so happy on how the hand turned out :3

I also created a moodboard for this one. I don't usually make those, but I wanted to organize all my refs and inspo in a single place

Happy Valentine's Day! Even unrequited love can create something beautiful ;)

[beastars-dump]

Who ate it? Beastars x Park and rec crossover.

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W. I. P.: The Funny One(s)

Don't mind me, I'm just projecting my thoughts onto a scene of one of my favorite shows...

Planning on redrawing this digitally and printing it so it looks like an actual Polaroid, but I've been feeling really burnt out and tired so it'll be staying like this for now.

Jax is just like me fr 💔

Reference:

[alexiahyena]

Happy Stargaze Saturday!!

To celebrate that Trigun Stargaze just came out, I wanted to share with you this AU (? thingy I made some time ago. It's mostly a Trigun Stampede x TADC crossover, but it contains elements from the OG anime and the manga.

Featuring: Kinger the Stampede, Pomni Stryfe and Jax the Punisher

I'll be working on the other characters, hopefully I don't lose motivation halfway there 🙏

[3hkowalski]

No matter how hard you try, you’ll never fit in.

He isn’t the missing piece,

he’s the extra one no one needs

[For those comments who discovered that Caine fits next to Kinger: YES you're right! His only place was there at the edge, left out. Because Kinger is too kind to push him away.]

[alexiahyena]

Christmas Jax and JaxBox wish you all a Merry Christmas!!

I made these as a Christmas gift for my mom. She hasn't watched TADC, but I told her about Jax, and she loves him! (Mostly when he's having a bad time)

W.I.P.s and more pics under the cut:

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Done with an unfulfilled life with distant dreams, studying a career they don't like, a shitty social life and living with the weight of not fitting anywhere they go, ??????? decides to play some VR games to wind down a bit and forget about their problems... They just wanted to leave everything behind and free themselves from their agony, but never expected they would ACTUALLY leave this world, and be born in a completely new reality.

A new character has entered the game: Mowaz.

Finally! Here's my TADC OC reference sheet, plus a relationship chart

[alexiahyena]

Didn't plan on posting again so soon, but I definitely HAD to join this trend!!

Meet my TADC OC, Mowaz!

Some old sketches under the cut:

(I'll properly introduce Mowaz soon I swear)

[alexiahyena]

"Streets are empty and all of the children are fast asleep

And I’ve got you and you’ve got me

I take you up, you take me in

Let’s take forever and a little bit"

(Inspired by this song)