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inbarfink · 3 months

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After all these years, ‘I Remember You’ is still one of the great highlights of Adventure Time Storytelling. And not just in the basic ‘what???? Silly children’s cartoon does something SAD??? HOLY SHIT MIND BLOWN’ way. But with the execution of that Something Sad. How it manages to pack so many Complex Emotions into just 11-minutes of television. And especially the way it utilizes the basic Adventure Time format for that purpose.

So Adventure Time is a Board-based show. Each episode has an outline pitched and written down by the writer’s room, and then this outline goes to a team of (usually) two Storyboard Artists who develop that simple outline into a full story. And with the show’s art-style deliberately eschewing staying perfectly ‘on-model’ in favor of having the animators take direct reference from how the different storyboarders draw the characters

And the show being generally extremely versatile in terms of themes and tone - AT has allowed a lot of their Storyboarders to really express themselves and their unique artistic vision as part of the Big Collaborative Narrative that is Adventure Time.

Now, the Boarders who worked on ‘I Remember You’ are Cole Sanchez and Rebecca Sugar. These two were a Storyboarding Duo from the start of S4 and until Sugar left the AT Crew during S5, and they always struck me as a curious combination. I think really from all of the individual boarders working on AT during that time, these two really are the closest to having like… Totally Opposite Artistic Sensibilities as boarders.

With Sugar favoring a style that is very loose and sketchy and also very rounded. Focusing on expressions and subtle body language and lighting. And being famous for going deep in depth into Big Moments of Emotional Catharsis

And Sanchez having a very clear art style that emphasizes strong silhouettes and clear lines that suggest flatness. Focusing more on major poses and the character’s positions in the space. And having just a really great eye for AT’s brand of silly humor.

Like, I almost kinda suspect these two were paired together so they can each cover for the other’s “weakspots” in writing ‘Adventure Time’.

And there were a few episodes that did some really interesting stuff with this very contrasting pair - ‘Jake the Dog’ is another example. Giving most of the Farmworld scenes to Sugar and most of the Time Room scenes to Sanchez both plays to their personal strengths as storyboarders and helps to emphasize the strong emotional contrast between these two scenarios.

And ‘I Remember You’ is actually kinda unique among Adventure Time episodes cause… Most episodes will have the two boarders alternate between working on the episode throughout it. Like you’d have Boarder A draw a bit and then Boarder B and then Boarder A again… But “I Remember You” is divided between Sanchez and Sugar… basically perfectly in the middle.

So the entirety of the first half of the episode was boarded by Sanchez

Until Ice King pushes Marceline and then leaves the room in shame.

And then, Sugar takes over.

And, like, even if you don’t know anything about the Behind the Scenes of Adventure Time or who Cole Sanchez and Rebecca Sugar even are - the Shift is noticeable. The shift in tone, in narrative focus, in the subtleties in which the characters are drawn.

The entire first half of the episode has this thin veneer of just being a Silly Goofy Ice King Episode. Sanchez’s talent for Adventure Time’s brand of comedy is on full display… but there is also this underlying feeling that Something is Happening just under the surface. And these hints of the Big Emotions of ‘IRY’ expressed via Sanchez’s kinda goofy style really create this balance between putting the audience into a false sense of security that this is just a Very Normal Episode about two characters hanging out and the Tension constantly brewing in the subtext.

And then it all comes to a blow.

And then the Shift happens. And now we are in Sugar’s court.

And this subtle shift in the artstyle and storytelling also coincide with Marceline finally openly expressing her feelings and the Reveal of Simon and Marcy's shared past. The episode changes focus from Ice King's silly antics to Marceline's feelings. Everything changes, everything in the first part of the episode gets recontextualized and... even on the most basic level, the episode is now Noticeably Different.

I would almost say that Sanchez’s half of the episode has Ice King define the tone, while Sugar’s half of the episode has Marceline define the tone. But more than anything it’s the catharsis. The reveal and release of those emotions that were building up so expertly through the Sanchez half of the episode. All of the Sugar-boarded scenes in this episode are really heartbreaking on their own, just through the tragedy of the story and Sugar’s expert knowledge of howto convey emotion in the visual medium - but it’s so enchanted by what came before it.

“I Remember You” is truly a great testament to how ‘Adventure Time’ could use every aspect of its medium to tell a great story in such a short time.

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riodoesstuff · 26 days

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me when I have to actually search thru my sketchbook to see if i have any decent drawings sinve ive been too busy with college to make new ones

#martins art #simon petrikov #at simon #adventure time simon #adventure time #adventure time prismo #prismo the wishmaster #fionna and cake #fionna and cake simon #at prismo #at ice king #ice king

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ponshroom · 5 months

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(12/8/23)

i fucking love sitting

(DO NOT REPOST/CLAIM/USE MY WORK)

#adventure time #ice king #at fanart #adventure time fanart #simon petrikov #adventure time ice king #at ice king #ponart #doodle

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fredziofazmis · 8 months

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on one hand i know simon will suffer if he becomes ice king again but on the other yay silly guy!!!!

#hes such a fart #adventure time #adventure time fanart #ice king #the ice king #at ice king #simon petrikov #at simon #fionna and cake #digital art

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clearmarinaa · 6 months

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i'm sorry but he was so hot when he got mad like this

pic of my friend jade insulting winter king as a bonus.

#ice king adventure time #adventure time simon #ice king #you know he was hot in general #my boyfriend with dementia ice king #simon petrikov #ice king lactating google search #fionna and cake #adventure time #at ice king #the ice king #CUNTER

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mcnotok · 5 months

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Here you go, @jikazuki-chan! While I’m at it, there’s also this post

#my art #fionna and cake #adventure time #simon petrikov #ice king #adventure time simon #adventure time ice king #adventure time fanart #adventure time fionna and cake #fionna and cake simon #at ice king #at simon #at simon petrikov

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freakinglegs · 6 months

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My dear friend @rustyemporium tempted me with a mgs Adventure Time au and I love it a lot actually

#adventure time #metal gear solid #solid snake #otacon #otasune #at betty #at ice king #magic betty #ice king #mgs at au #fandom #fanart #digital art #artwork #my art #whiteboard fox

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zerosocialskillz · 8 months

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The Simon Petrikov tag is filled with depressing shit, I even shed a couple of tears. And then there’s the top post on that tag as of this writing: a lighthearted OC post about a sock puppet princess that the Ice King wears on his hand.

#attempts at socializing #adventure time #simon petrikov #at ice king

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lordcringe · 7 months

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Yall gonna hate me for this but im kinda glad Simon and Betty didnt end up as a couple in the finale LMAO

#adventure time #adventure time fionna and cake #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #ice king #at simon #at ice king #betty grof #at betty

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misteria247 · 7 months

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Rewatched the episode When I Don't Remember You and FUCK IT STILL HURTS EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS DUDE