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Spent almost 6 days on this because I'm petty.Tried to keep the style accurate to the limited art that was in newspaper clippings and adverts.Everything was referenced from Official art as well as photos
Please feel free to print out and use this as a coloring sheet
This is amazing, thank you for doing this! If I see the other pages, I’ll join you in redrawing them, so fans can have legit art to color. Show them what real art looks like.
There are literally so many artists who would lovingly make artwork for anything Rock-afire, me included.
TLDR: professional designer rants about the use of soulless AI art, and how what makes most old things special, is because people created it.
AI is lazy, and a lot of the times, it’s used by people who don’t understand art or the principles that go into design and illustration to know why it truly looks terrible. They certainly have no clue why the human element is important within art as well. Art is an expression of the human experience. Take that away, and it becomes soulless.
This fandom does not have an artist scarcity. I love all the artists here, because I love seeing everyone’s unique ways of interpreting my favorite characters.
I’m a professional designer myself. I work somewhere that appreciates artists and at the moment, AI cannot do what I do, and I don’t think it ever will. Everything I do is by hand, my own and my team’s ideas, I put a little bit of me into every project I work on.
Best of all, my work will be some random kid’s nostalgic memory one day. That’s important to me, to give them something to look back at with fondness, not to look back at some half-assed garbage that had not an ounce of humanity in it.
Why do people fall in love with older franchises? Because there is a human element in it, whether they even know that’s why or not. The Rock-afire was created in a time where everything had to be done by an actual person. Every single bit of it was done by people. That’s why we like it.
I am fed up with people and companies who have more money than they know what to do with, cheaping out on hiring a professional. Makes all your marketing and business look unofficial.
Can I say something. I literally do not give a shit if people call mechs “endoskeletons”
None of these names are technical and it just does not matter, that is a name it could be called, it still makes sense. There is literally no reason to be so uppity about it.
If someone gets mad about this, it’s usually a child. I rarely hear adult fans care 😭
Kids are the ones who nitpick every movement of a character, call themselves experts when they’re literally 9, and get personally offended if anyone else likes animatronics lmao.
People have shown interest in wanting to see my Rae children, so here’s one of them 😆
Meet Rolfe! He’ll say he has a lot of money, but will forget the detail that I am the one who gives him said money… to go to the mall, to go to bars, K-mart idk. He says he has to go out to start his career because he quote, “lives in LA now” or somethin along those lines.
But I am completely funding this man’s search to find himself. He does not pay rent, he does not contribute anything whatsoever. So let’s all hope Rolfe succeeds in following his dreams, I truly hope he does 😭
He did tell me about a sign twirling gig he had in the past. Apparently any publicity is good publicity. I mean, sure. Why not.
Also, one more thing. If you click on the tag “Dook’s Dad Photo Archive”, it is all the photos I’ve posted here. Other tags also organize my posts as well like “Dook’s Dad Art”.
I know a lot of real animatronic fans do NOT like FNAF, but as a FNAF and real animatronic fan, I think you just need to know how to separate the two. I love FNAF because it was a huge part in my childhood and I love the stories. I love IRL animatronics like the Rock afire and CEC because its a beautiful art form. It's okay to like both of them
I’m the same, I like them for different reasons. I don’t take fnaf seriously at all, it’s just all for fun.
It’s also completely okay to have gotten into irl animatronics from liking fnaf first.
(One of my favorite YouTube comments is a kid who got into the Rae from a literal fnaf inspired analog horror video, not even Fnaf itself lmao)
Who cares if someone grew up with the RAE vs got into it through an adjacent interest. One does not make you any less of a fan.
There is so much unnecessary judgement of how people got into animatronics. Like who cares. I just think it’s awesome that there are enough people into such an obscure art form, that I am able to make friends from the hobby. I would’ve never guessed I’d make multiple irl friends from a hobby no one knows exists, but here we are.
And I’d be the first to say how annoying kids can be in the fandom. They message me asking for measurements, to sell stuff, where my characters are from, and other nonsense like, asking me why I got into the RAE so late in life as a literal 24 yr old. 💀
But in the end, I think it’s neat that their younger generation is getting into this and hope they can make something positive out of it.
And I love teaching and inspiring kids. I will happily introduce every irl fnaf kid in my life to the world of real animatronics who want to learn.
They’re so young, it’s hard to believe that the setting of fnaf was not an entirely fictional concept. Like woahhh it was based on something that actually existed? That’s pretty crazy and cool!
When kids trick-or-treated at my place last Halloween and were both terrified and thrilled to see animatronic “endoskeletons” just greeting them at the door 🤣
It was fun tho, they kept coming back to show their friends and were very excited that someone in their neighborhood had animatronics.
For the lack of Rock-afire shows on the west coast, I somehow manage to find multiple friends within hangout distance of me who are into this 😭 like we’ll meet online, and then discover that we’re really close to each other.
It’s crazy how animatronics basically include everything. Drawing for the concept art, set design for the stage, voice acting and singing for the characters, sewing to make the costumes, programming to make them move, engineering to make the mech, etc
As someone who didn’t want to just do either engineering or art, animatronics was the perfect blend of both. There are so many new skills to acquire from it.
What's an animatronic that you'd like to own but know you never will because it's virtually impossible to get ahold of one?
Hmm, I don’t have any ‘animatronic wants’ that are unattainable at the moment. I pretty much have the characters that I love, to the point of wanting to own them already. All are Rock-afire characters.
I’m grateful to be in that position, and I know owning any professional animatronic is a rarity, regardless of what it is. But I believe in working for what you have, so I can at least say, that I have purchased every character of mine with my own money. And I am someone who treats them like my family, so they’re in good hands.
There are some characters that would be cool to own for the novelty, but I don’t care if I had them or not. I really only want to own characters that I form a deep connection with, and I haven’t had that experience with anything that’s out of my reach.
My Actual Answer lmao
Owning anything from Disney would be a neat statement piece. I’d probably want a character from Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, or Country Bear Jamboree. And if somehow, the stars aligned, and I had the opportunity to own any of them, I’d take it.
But yeah, I’ll pass the question to anyone else who wants to answer as well.
What’s an animatronic you’d like to own that is just so out of the realm of possibility?
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