✨ 23 y/o | She/They | Autistic | Sapphic ✨ I love music, enjoy drawing animal stuff, i really like Wings of Fire, Stranger Things, TMNT, animatronics and Cats.
Never-before-published model sheets for canned Amblin Cats movie 🐈⬛✏️👁️
Hi all. As promised, I am sharing a comprehensive .PDF of model sheets that were created for the Amblimation Cats movie that never saw the light of day. Most of these model sheets have not been published or posted anywhere on the internet as far as I'm aware. I'm going to get ahead of some questions for the good of the order:
Are these real? I certainly didn't sit and create all 117 pages myself for the sake of an elaborate hoax!
How did you get these? I work in the animation industry. A senior coworker caught wind of my cats obsession and said he had the Xeroxes and asked if I wanted him to bring them in. Internally, I flipped my shit. And then I digitized his hard copies.
How did your coworker get these? They were found in the library of the university he used to go to. (Not super unusual at an arts school in southern California.) He made photo copies back then and has been holding onto them. The thing is he knows nothing about CATS; isn't a CATS fan, never seen it, etc. I guess he just felt it was something worth holding on to!
Can you upload better quality? Unfortunately what you're seeing as good as the quality gets. These are scans of photocopies from the 90s. There is nothing to be done for the crunchiness.
What about (missing characters)? I'm showing you everything I was personally given!
Which character is (nondescript drawing of a cat)? If the image isn't labeled, your guess is as good as mine! I put all the misc./unlabeled cats in the back of the PDF. The only exceptions are ones that I felt were abundantly obviously supposed to be a specific character.
Who are the artists? Unfortunately, there's no way I can tell for sure. None of the sheets are signed. I wouldn't even go about guessing because many concept artists can perfectly emulate more "well known" illustrators whose styles were sought after. My coworker said he might be able to figure out who the draftsmen were; until then it's a mystery! If I find out, I will come back to this post and update it with that information.
Are these all the model sheets ever? No! In fact, there are model sheets that have been posted online that are not in the bundle I was given. I have no idea of the sum total of model sheets in existence.
more artfight attacks!
characters in order:
https://artfight.net/character/2288172.investigator-gadjit
https://artfight.net/character/3615953.celescopio-gallego-del-rio
https://artfight.net/character/3145562.drago
first three attacks, friendly fires and defenses from ArtFight!
characters in order:
https://artfight.net/character/3017652.frappuccino
https://artfight.net/character/687215.liatris
https://artfight.net/character/3208511.cockclock
[ ID: A digital drawing featuring Peril, Qibli, Winter, Moonwatcher, Kinkajou and Turtle from Wings of Fire on a simple background, that vaguely looks like a cave. Everyone, besides Peril, are cuddling in the back of the image, while Peril’s head is visible in the front with a displeased expression. In her speech bubble is a screenshot of a tweet that says (in all caps): “The reason I’ve always felt so outcast in my friend group is bc apparently they’re all in a polyamorous relationship and I didn’t fucking know”. End ID.]
You know how Peril feels kinda left out of their friend group and she’s like only friends with Turtle? Yeah, I think I figured it out /j.
Was thinking about this ship more jokingly at first, but now I kinda like it :]
Close up and more thoughts under the cut:
[ ID: A close up of the cuddling dragons from the drawing above. From left to right: Qibli is sitting happily with closed eyes. Winter is right next to him resting his head on Qibli’s, smiling and looking in the direction of Moon. She wrapped one of her wings around Winter and Qibli, and one of her paws is resting on Winter’s and the other is holding Kinkajou’s. Moon is smiling at her, their snouts touching. Kinkajou is grinning with her eyes closed and wrapped one of her wings around Moon while the other around Turtle, who is leaning on Kinkajou’s shoulder with eyes closed and a peaceful expression. The rainwing also wrapped her tail around Turtle’s, while Moon wrapped hers around Qibli and Winter’s. All the tails are resting in front of the group and all slightly touching in the middle.
Qibli, Winter and Moon all have a gemstone earring, signifying their relationship. Moon also has a flower matching with Kinkajou and Turtle, given by the rainwing to symbolise their relationship to her.
They all drawn with slight blush and small pale hearts around each dynamic. The second image is the version without them. End ID.]
So my favourite ship is Qinterwatcher, but I like Moonjou too.. and I think Turtlejou is kinda cute. So this is a possible solution lol
Btw you can interpret this drawing with different combinations if you want, or even them all in a relationship or a QPR.
But for me I think:
Qibli x Winter x Moon definitely!!
Moon x Kinkajou is very cute :3 as platonic besties or a QPR they’re nice too!
Kinkajou x Turtle mixed feelings, but I kinda like, maybe more Queer-platonically even…
Kinkajou and Qibli ; Moon and Turtle - definitely besties!
Kinkajou x Winter - this one is kinda funny and I like it quite a bit!! I think they don’t quite know if it’s romantic or platonic so it can be a Queerplatonic, with fluctuations between purely platonic or a bit romantic maybe?
Winter x Turtle is nice, I think I like it is a QPR :]
Qibli and Turtle I like as friends the most, but Qibli will probably flirt occasionally lol
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