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[neurohazards]

this idiot just turned 1. can you believe it

[doobledabbadoo]

Hii! You fucking ate with the TDI redesigns and it wanted to know if you'd make a guide as to how you mimicked the TDI style?

hihi !! tysm !! glad a lot of ppl like em !!

as for the style guide, i am far from an expert at replicating art styles, but having a neo-UPA inspired art style really made this easier for me, even if i did struggle on getting used to some design choices.

DISCLAIMER: I do not condone tracing over other people’s artwork to claim as your own final product. I only trace the shapes from the total drama characters to break down and analyze the art style for educational purposes.

IN GENERAL

total drama’s art style is heavily stylized and takes inspiration from clone high and many UPA-inspired cartoons in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. it uses very thick and bold outlines to define its characters and their individual shape language. a lot of designs use a variety of sharp angles, straight lines, and curved arcs to achieve a balanced character design that works in the total drama universe.

because the shape language is very geometric and simple, it’s surprisingly easy to recreate the total drama art style & reimagine some of your favorite characters in the universe!

BODY TYPES: THE “TYPICAL” WOMAN

a lot of the women in the show follow this base, even more than the “typical” male body type. compared to the men, the women of total drama have cat-like eyes, stylized lips, skinny necks, an hour-glass figure, longer and thicker legs, and pointy fingers. head shapes & features may vary depending on character and/or ethnicity. not all women in the show look like this, though! there’s a decent handful of women with very unique body types, such as beth, macarthur, & emma from the 2023 reboot! it also helps to reference characters from different seasons to get a better idea of the shape language in the show’s universe!

BODY TYPES: THE “TYPICAL” MAN

the “typical” body type for men isn’t as well defined as it is for the “typical” woman, so there aren’t as many examples of what defines the “typical” male body type. However, based on the handful of characters we collected, we can determine that the “typical” male body type in total drama is top-heavy. compared to the women, many of the men have broad chests and shoulders, thicker and longer arms, thicker necks, thinner waists and hips, and shorter, thinner legs. they have flatter, more boxy fingers comoared to the pointy fingers the women have. head shapes and features may vary depending on character and/or ethnicity.

BODY TYPES: THE PLUS SIZED WOMAN

plus-sized women follow some of the same rules & principles as the “typical” woman does, from more cat-like eyes to sharper fingers however, in contrast to the more common body type, these woman have much thicker body proportions and use rounder, smoother lines to emphasize either fat or muscle. head shapes and other features may vary depending on the character and/or ethnicity.

BODY TYPES: THE PLUS SIZED MAN

there’s a pretty good variety when it comes to drawing plus-sized men. while some of them, like ripper, follow some similar principles to the “typical” man, others offer a new, unique design base to work with. their features are generally rounder and wider to emphasize their weight. head shapes & other features may vary depending on character and/or ethnicity.

BODY TYPES: THE LANKY MAN

unlike the “typical” man, the lankier men don’t usually have the same broad shoulders and chest. their limbs are much thinner, & they sometimes don’t have any pronounced calves. it’s more common for the lankier men to have their feet facing in the same direction as opposed to the other, though the latter isn’t an uncommon design desicion either. head shapes and other festures vary depending on the character and/or ethnicity.

BODY TYPES: THE BEEFY MAN

Of all the body types presented to the male characters, this one is the closest and most similar to the “typical” male body type. the difference is that the broadness of the shoulders and chest are exaggerated more, and the shape of the arms can vary between being wider to having more lumps. head shapes and other features may vary depending in character and/or ethnicity.

HAIR STYLES

a hairstyle can tell people a lot about a character. theres a lot of different ways to draw hair on characters, though in general, the appeal to total drama’s art style would be the simplicity and angularity in its shape language and character designs, so you don’t have to give your character thousands of spiky hair strands to make them appealing.

im not good at explaining how i replicate art styles so i really hope these help!!! also im sorry this ask took forever to compile lol i just wanted an excuse to study the shows art style more. heres another helpful video to help understand the process of character design !!

i also recommend checking out harry gold’s channel. he does a lot of art style replication videos & this one explains art style replication exceptionally well!

tysm for ur ask & tysm for ur patience!!

[transingthoseformers]

How do you think a meeting between Sunder and Tarn would go?

In a strict 1v1 Tarn would win, but I feel like Sunder's definitely going to get some advanced psychological damage in before that point

Ohhhoh Tarn's seen a lot of shit in the decepticons I bet, he's BEEN a lot of shit in the decepticons, but Sunder is still a shock for how unique a foe he is

Ough though if this is an alliance like the deal with Getaway or the Autobot Megatron Murder alliance, there's s lot more opportunities for little digs at one another, especially if Froid is still working with Sunder mmmm

Sunder would affirm all of Tarn's previous thoughts about the autobot faction (negative)

[mjrtaurus]

Man’s got them fucking paws

[skyward-floored]

I want to go to this it’ll be fine and it’ll be good and it WILL be okay—

[squishosaur]

cater from music video shots i just have ✌️

[filthyprotozoan]

thinking about jonny sims voicing jonathan sims and his mother voicing gertrude and his father voicing jurgen leitner. which like, doesnt matter, really, i know they were just trying to find people who were available and they all did a really good job voice acting and it wasnt a choice made for narrative parallels. but it still hits how gertrude & leitner were both jon’s predecessors in various ways, archivist or librarian, who had assistants, and who sent all their assistants to their deaths. from leitner who literally did not give a shit how many of them he killed, to gertrude who thought she was sacrificing some for the good of many. sending michael into the heart of the spiral so that she could tear it apart. too busy saving the world over and over to notice one of her assistants experimenting on another. (only to learn none of it even mattered, none of the rituals would have worked anyway.)

jon who, of the three of them, is the only one who transforms into something not human, who doesnt get to die a human death, who is forcibly made into an apotheosis. jon who questions and struggles and doesnt ever know what path to take or what genre he’s in, and while he hesitates other people die, or while he takes action he unknowingly frees the monster. jon was the one who said “i may not be able to trust my assistants by i won’t lose them.” jon had to listen to leitner say he “lost track” of how many innocent people he got killed, but jon never forgot anyone he lost, even his childhood bully.

and then both gertrude’s and leitner’s voices are stolen and warped in the unknowing. like. the stranger uses what are essentially jon’s narrative parental figures to degrade him for the choices he’s made, to mock him for caring about human life. do you understand me. he just never stopped caring. he put a knife in jonah magnus’s throat and he said “this is for tim and sasha.” guy who’s 100% heart and feeling and love but he was formed by people who are cold and calculating and ruthless. i have to lay down.

[rivangel]

“I’m not a religious man, but sometimes I think god made you for me.”

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