#action cartoon

[deepdreamnights]

TyrannoMax: CivitAI/Vidu Opening

I managed to squeak by and got an entry together for the CivitAI/Vidu Contest... well, I actually wound up doing several, but this is the big one.

If you want to vote for it, here's the hoozit.

Jibba Jabba and process under the fold. I am in Vidu's Creative Partner Program.

The contest required using CivitAI for the base image generation and the use of Vidu's Q1 model. My usual photo-manipulation, editing, and multi-model shenanigans were at play, of course.

This is an alternate universe version, as nobody's on model, but I'm treating it as a sketch for the eventual "real" opener, in 4:3 and using the standardized, non-CivitAI character models. My goal is only to have the usual 1980s tv cartoon levels of inconsistency for that one.

The T-H.E.X. (Terrestial Hostile Divorcement eXplorer) 6-wheeler tank is new, having been invented for this project. I think I'm going to keep a revised version of it.

Yeah... I'm gonna have to engineer a version of that that gets up into a pseudo T-Rex type position.

Because of the contest restraints, I was working with unfamiliar tools. My experience with LORAs and the like has been largely theoretical, and not having the time (and certainly not the dosh) to build up a massive amount of credit to train one through CivitAI for the project, I had to improvise.

Mostly this involved mixing various 90s cartoon aesthetic LORAs with whatever Dinosaucers or Extreme dinosaurs LORAs were available. Triceratbruce (because of his Spikez-style frill) and StegoJack are the most glaringly Extreme in this setup, whereas their real character models are less so.

Stegojack also kinda wound up looking like Cheesasaurus Rex.

In a week, I'll have something much more on-target for the dinoboys to show you.

In the mean time, thanks for reading the full post.

[hypatius-of-eden]

In the First Season of the Mid 2000's Disney Show, W.i.t.c.h. one of the episodes involved the Sheffield Institute receiving a "foreign exchange" student and half the school getting infatuated with her except for the main six.

And by nature of the episode's premise, a couple foreign dubs took liberty in how they wanted to portray this student.

Spoilers ahead, so I suggest you watch the episode first, it is Episode Seven: Divide and Conquer.

In the Original English Dub, the Fraud Exchange student is called Sandra and has the audacity to say she comes from Swizerland, after charming almost every guy at school, the girls gather to vent their frustrations:

1) The fashion designer in Hay Lin is deeply offended by Sandra claiming that she makes her own clothes.

2) Cornelia and Elyon comment how she seems to have based her terrible Swiss accent off of watching Haidi movies.

3) Taranee has her blood boiled by how Sandra feels inherently superior to her because she read all of War and Peace in *Zhe oRhigiNal RhuShian* while Taranee didn't.

4) Irma just complains that the only reason Martin isn't bothering her is that now he has Sandra to simp for. She can't stand him, but she can't stand seeing someone take advantage of him even more.

5) As for Will, she dicides that Ice Skating out of Spite is a Good Idea if it means she can make sure Sandra will keep her Fraudulent hands off of Matt.

But if we go to the French Dub, it would appear that the people in charge realised that a self absorbed, attention seeking twat would not dedicate enough time and effort to pretend to know French, German and Russian, let alone convince half a school, so they decided to call her Sandy and make her an American, because "Only an American can attain all the aforementioned Qualities" so thought the French Dubbers.

So now Cornelia and Elyon are convinced Sandy got her accent by watching Terrible Westerns.

And Sandy brags about how she read all of Shakespeare's plays in "L'anglais Originale"

I would have made a comparison between the English dub and the Russian one, since War and Peace is Russian, so I thought the Russians will need to localised it in a way that makes sense somehow, but sadly, I don't speak Russian. French is all I could look into.

Hope you enjoyed this little Dubbing Exchange.

[seeksstaronmewni]

What a way to start an episode, huh?

Tweet version here.

[detentron]

Donatello, The Genius in Purple...

[cyberfairyblog]

Two pics of an OC i drew for the criminally underrated Alpha Teens on Machines (or ATOM). Her name is Rosslyn Smith and she functions as the medic. Unlike her teammates Ross is very down-to-earth & likes to take things slow. She basically represents the kind of young adult that would be more comfortable at Starbucks or yoga than extreme sports. No she isn't an old lady I just suck at drawing highlights lol.

[alecherongraystairs]

Action Cartoon Logic #1

Aang: I do not kill. I will not kill. I can’t physically kill anyone.

Sokka: Let’s see, you destroyed many Fire Nation warcraft and occupied structures. Not to mention the many Fire Nation soldiers you’ve killed by your bending. Oh! And the many people you kicked off a cliff and let them fall 1000m or into freezing ice old water where they have no chance of survival.

Aang: Well... I spared the Ozai. *Awkward smile*.

[hypatius-of-eden]

In the second season of the mid 2000's show W.i.t.c.h. The creators decided the episode titles should incorporate the whole Alphabet "A is for Apple" style, but have the "is for [Blank]" part reference something in the episode.

What I wanna talk about is how one particular dub manage to flip my whole perception of an episode just by taking liberty in how they localised the title, the dub in question being Spanish.

Obviously Spoilers are ahead for the show and specifically Season 2 Episode 8. Here is a link if you want to watch it.

So the episode's title in English is "H is for Hunted" and in it one of the main characters, Will Vandom, irresponsibly made an Astral Drop Clone to do her chores for her and left her unsupervised. Through the scheming of a Sorceress, things escalated to the point that the Empty Headed Astral Drop became a Free Thinking Altamere [since she deserves a name, I will call her Altamina] that wants nothing but to live through this wonderful thing called life, and she was manipulated to think that if she does not kill the one who made her, she will come find her and destroy her. So the title is referring to how Altamina is being Hunted by W.i.t.c.h. for not complying to orders as an Astral Drop should, and vice versa since Will is being Hunted by Altamina who doesn't want to be erased back into oblivion.

As for the Spanish Dub, the title says "H De Hermana" making it into "S is for Sister" shifting the focus from the characters searching for eachother in the later half of the episode to their actions through out it under a sisterhood lense. Will revealed her mistake to her friends and although they do reprimand her, they still prioritise helping her, just like sisters. And more importantly, Altamina confessed to Will her fears and why she wants to keep living, and Will comforted her without judgement while assuring her that she wouldn't erase her no matter what, effectively becoming sisters.

Add to all that the ending and you get a punch to the guts. The Episode was sad as it was, but let me tell you this, having the Spanish title reshape how I looked at it simply broke my heart beyond repair.