Now you may ask; what is going on there? Well, after a failed first attempt at getting in contact with the penguins with funky brows (which caused long life trauma, see there's one having a nightmare about Bepo's very existence. Very bad. He might get insomnia no I'm not trying to find a way to tie it to the prompt shhh) It was decided Penguin shall try infiltrating them. It's going well already, though one of them is questioning his presence here and another has found plan B: a bucket full of fish that was meant to serve as a bribe. At least one of them was temporarily distracted by the almighty hat. Very fluffy. Very interesting to explore. Most fashionable penguin ever.
(You may wonder; why would anyone need to infiltrate a bunch of funky eyebrows penguins? Let me ask you this: why WOULDN'T you want to do it? They're funky eyebrows penguins.)
Also maybe I should stop just going straight bic pen to paper but also it's kind of fun to just draw and deal with the outcome of my own laziness. I could get up and grab a pencil, maybe even add colors, but sitting down wins out.
I had to fight my tablet for about an hour before it worked but I've succeeded :D
Woo animated gif!
Bonus still frames under the cut!
This gif is basically all I had planned for heart pirates week I'm totally winging everything else including yesterday's quick sketch lmao
I've never drawn this dude before and likely never will again until next year's heart pirate week. I've been watching videos of people removing barnacles off turtles, so that's what he's doing.
absolutely everyone in this pic is feeling anxious lmao this could be for Jean-Bart: Anxiety instead of aid
I don't think people truly realise how Qstudio's response to the revelations has been and still is extremely unprofessional. Ghosting people you exploited for a year because you're what, scared of leaks? Is unacceptable behaviour.
(Angry rant below)
Like, to be clear, it is obvious to me that they haven't recruited any Human Ressources yet because this shit wouldn't fly in a normal workplace.
You have a lot of exploited ex employees left on read, asking for a private DISCUSSION for 2 months now.
All the somewhat relevant announcements were made thru public streams, in a language they know not all their ex employees understand.
They relied on volunteer labor (the fans') to translate their official annoucement instead of, you know, doing it themselves (and not just in english but all the language they prided themselves to have included in the project)
And even then, the announcements are so vague and unhelpful that we might as well not have them.
Let's be real. They don't consider these ex employees as such. They consider them formerly privileged fans that are now ruining it for everyone. People they think are a pain in the ass and would rather not deal with for now. At least, that's the message their behaviour is sending.
This is an extreme caricature of bad management, except it's in real life.
Their only saving grace is that Quackity, his friends, and the project are beloved by fans. If it were any other company, i can guarantee you that there would be zero support because they objectively don't deserve it after this much shit.
Tbh at this point I'm only waiting for Solidaires Informatique to actually go ahead and start their own legal situation so we know there really is one and it actually is about the real problems (worker abuse).