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[thedenofravenpuff]

Completed a fresh new commission for ReelSneakyFrogg!

Her and @zal-cryptid's characters being scouts and earning new badges!

Do enjoy

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[dnpanimationstudiopaigeb]

Made this for @zal-cryptid for Artfight!!!!! I just love these two, I can’t wait to see more of them together💖💖💖💖I love how much Holiung dotes on Flo💖

What do u think? I’d love to know💖💖💖

[auntbibby]

@zal-cryptid accepted my toyfolk submission!!!!!!!

Toyfolk Submissions - part 48 by Zal-Cryptid on DeviantArt

Toyfolk Submissions - part 48 by Zal-Cryptid on DeviantArt

heres the original:

Sam (toyfolk submission for @zal-cryptid) by UncleBibby47 on DeviantArt

Sam (toyfolk submission for @zal-cryptid) by UncleBibby47 on DeviantArt

thank u zal!!!!!!! ur a very talented artist writer & ur very beautiful & ur cool!!!!

edit: i sent u a present on kofi!!!!! merry christmas

[kevotheamazo]

I made a character submission for a comic she is making called misfits in toyland. @zalCryptid

[gargusscp]

Obviously the toyfolk cast of @zal-cryptid's Misfits in Toyland have a full range of expression available, being as they're both magically-animate playthings not bound by the usual limitations of felt and plastic, and feature in a visual medium that requires easily-read acting to emotionally function. This said, I'm thinking some about the possibility toyfolk might need to learn physical overacting as second nature in order to properly express themselves.

The fine nuances you get from typical microexpressions are gone when transferred onto a new material lacking traditional muscles and nerves driving their movement. A painted porcelain face can only slide its features about a two-dimensional plane. Plastic molds don't twitch and wrinkle very well. Felt folds upon and rubs against itself in weird ways even when one doesn't MEAN to shift the look on their face. If you furrow your brow, quirk your lip, twitch your eye, adjust your neck, any of it with the small movements natural to a flesh and blood body, the action might very easily get lost in your materials' limitations.

So they've gotta go big to make their feelings known. Bug their eyes harder, open their mouths wider, throw their limbs and neck and back into expressions that wouldn't otherwise require full physical movement. Everything's gotta be the work of a giant ham milking an invisible cow to make sure the other party gets what's running through your head. Like amateur community theater actors shoved onstage at the most prestigious opera house in the land and drawing on their worst instincts to ensure the cheap seats two-hundred feet away can see and hear clear as life.

It's a bit of a frightening prospect, and makes quite a few of them feel stupid, but so many of them spent so much time hiding from themselves that they wound up here in Toyland. Is going big, loud, and excessively honest not part of the healing process? They can act natural when they're better.