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𝒰𝓃𝒾𝓀𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓎! 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒾𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 8 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝑔𝑜 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝑜𝓃 𝒞𝒶𝓇𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒩𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀!!

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Dusting off this art blog to post some fun updates - Thelma the Unicorn is out and I'm so excited that it's finally ready for the world to see!

I got the chance to PA and help out on Production which was a blast to say the least.

These are some "fanarts" I made while I was working on the show; all the characters have a special place in my heart.

If you can, please check out Thelma and her friends on Netflix! It's full of music, fart jokes, and embracing your true self!

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Thelma the Unicorn (2024)

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[comparativetarot]

King of Wands. From the COSMOS Tarot & Oracle Deck.

"Ophiuchus + Serpens" by Lynn Wang

Ophiuchus and Serpens are often depicted together in the sky as a man grasping a snake. The man depicted in the Ophiuchus constellation is Asclepius, an ancient, skilled healer from Roman mythology. Asclepius discovered the secret to restoring the dead to life after observing one serpent bring healing herbs to another. Though Asclepius’ findings were extraordinary, his efforts to bring his findings into mainstream medicine were promptly shut down. Jupiter, enraged at the concept that someone might change the natural order of life and death, struck Asclepius down with a bolt of lightening to prevent him from using his findings. Asclepius was placed in the heavens to honor the many good deeds had contributed to in his lifetime, though his last efforts seemed to be his most controversial.

This card references the fragile relationship between knowledge, power, and ethics. Upright, this card indicates that a person may know more than most, and is interested in testing the abilities that come with their expertise. In most cases, as in science and medicine, there is a code of ethics that establishes boundaries. It is a card of caution, careful consideration, and thorough analysis of the boundaries a person can push in the name of progress.

Reversed, this card signifies ignoring ethics in order to get ahead. Though the division between ethics and progress are often blurry, this card reversed symbolizes the more controversial path. It signifies ignoring certain ethical codes in order to push an agenda or choosing to act in the name of progress regardless of any potential backlash.

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Nearing the end of @disneyanimation‘s Star vs. the Forces of Evil (so far), I’d love to shine the light on @cheyennecurtisart (as well as @lynnvwang) for the amazing, graphic character design. This photoset focuses on Star Comes to Earth, the first episode’s scene when Star gets her first wand.

I brought all of this up as I found that Season 1′s art directors, @joshparpan & @justinparpan (as shown above in the SvTFOE episode “School Spirit” with storyboard revisions girl @kat-ketchum), were currently art directors for Cartoon Network’s @victorandvalentino, of which I tweeted.  The Parpans gave such a unique design to this @disneyxd original that it stood out, and it doesn’t exactly look like Disney to me. I compare that season’s art direction to the works of @crackmccraigen, regarding character & location design (and creator @daronnefcy worked on Craig’s Wander Over Yonder as a storyboard revisionist), and, speaking of Craig’s works, the Parpans’ art direction on Victor and Valentino resembles the Nick Jennings/Bob Boyle episodes of The Powerpuff Girls (makes sense as creator Diego Molano wrote and storyboarded many episodes).

Like the works of Craig McCracken, certainly the animation of Mercury Filmworks gives to Star and her friends this very goofy, bouncy, lively expression; Mercury also animated Craig McCracken’s Wander Over Yonder and Paul Rudish’ envision of Mickey Mouse. There’s so much detail in the character & prop design, animation, and effects, that SvTFOE visually never looked better than this. I prefer traditional animation (and it does look good in later SvTFOE episodes, particularly the more emotional/serious ones), but SvTFOE eventually helped me see the humorous beauty of model-rigged animation.

Since Season 2, the show no longer feels the same... almost as if it began to look more like Gravity Falls, due mostly to different character designers. I think that, at least for the more comedic episodes, Mercury should still contribute, or at least uncredited lead animation supervisor @littledigits, who animated Wander Over Yonder also at Boulder Media.

The brunette doll in the background here, Hope Hadley, is actually created by Cheyenne Curtis herself, and I’m very interested in knowing about this particular character in respect of Cheyenne Curtis and her work. If Cheyenne ever does a cartoon show (as she tweeted about a potential), then (as I tweeted) perhaps she could do a show about Hope--a potential spin-off of SvTFOE; in that case I hope that she’ll reference an IMDb list I made to help introduce amazing talents like those of Genndy Tartakovsky & more Spümcø to Disney (although Bob Camp storyboarded on Suburban Daredevil) and also bring back the art/storyboard/Mercury team back to Disney’s greatest franchise yet.

As of May 19th, 2019 A.D., the character designers of Season 4′s finale are @aniramiart and Devin Taylor, who began on the Season 2 opener. True to the standard designs (mostly in Sugarcube episodes compared to Rough Draft’s), but it still feels more like Gravity Falls than SvTFOE Season 1.

Tweet version here.

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Always LOVE seeing these cure designs in the show. <3

[mikyapixie]

7 years ago today Unikitty! premiered on Cartoon Network!!!

I really loved Unikitty, I was so super sad to see it go!!!🥹🥹🥹