#and bonus story tags...

[pine-niidles]

POV: you took a wrong turn and found yourself at the sad gay knight convention

#sketch #oc #knight #wlw knights #it's all my knights! I've been looking for an excuse to draw them side by side #I want to do a proper body type comparison at some point just for fun #but for now I'm enjoying this #from left to right it's #eclipse #ursula #nigh #olive #and bonus story tags... #duel kingdoms #rose garden #second chances #which is my new tag for Priscilla and Ursula

[officialrocketjumper]

HOWDY EVERYONE- so excited to FINALLY be able to show off my piece for this year's Bumbleby Big Bang!

Unfortunately no accompanying story as of yet- but I really hope you guys get to read it someday! The premise involves Yang cursed to be trapped inside a sword, which was an idea I KNEW I had to make move.

Details and development stuff under the cut!

Lots of fun collaboration with the author, Celeste! We worked together to find the look-of-picture, Blake's outfit, how the Grimm look, the style of the sword, the whole shabang! I'm really happy with how it all turned out!

When I first saw all the prompts, even before claims opened, I got to work on a handful of exploration pieces based on some of the summaries, to decide which of the stories I was interested in would be the best fit. Here's the initial idea for this one I put together over a lunch break:

After showing Celeste, we got to work finding the look we wanted! Went back and forth a bit and found this great look for Blake! Also shoutout to Pinterest boards for visdev inspiration I love you Pinterest boards.

Just about everything stayed to final anim, with the simplification of getting rid of that purple cloth hanging from her belt, (since I already had the rope ends to think about working with), and the light purple strap across the chest, since leaving it out would simplify the linework on her chest.

The sword also went through a bit of change! Celeste had the idea of Yang making the sword catch on fire, which I LOVED. I went with a split design so we can see the fire more clearly start from the hilt and grow to cover the whole blade.

And from there we brainstormed animation ideas! I went all over Youtube for video reference of sword work (that would be complex enough to be interesting, but short enough to be manageable). I found something we liked from Motion Actor Inc., a channel I've used LOTS for both personal and professional work (I work in 3D Animation, for those who don't know). I edited this together, to see the action from multiple places at once, which gave me the idea for that camera move that's in the final anim!

Now for the fun part! Make that badboy MOVE. For the cam turn, the first frame she's in the air I'm referencing the top left video, and the frame she lands I'm referencing the bottom left one. While she's airborne I'm just inbetweening that! No reference for the Grimm, just wanted it responding to her attacks, but I end up tweaking the roughs later on to make the block feel stronger.

Then from there we had to actually figure out Grimm designs! Nimona had just released, and Celeste and I loved it, so she asked if I could take some inspiration from Nimona's shadow form! GLADLY. Here's what I came up with!

I was going between how the movies and comic designed Nimona, really loving the almost liquid shadow of the movie, but also how the comics had this broken up/held together rougher form. Celeste liked the second to last one the best! The original plan was to have it leave a wispy shadow trail like the concept art, but to simplify the animation we left it solid instead!

Next up is tiedown! Basically just getting the roughs more on-model, so the lineart comes out nice and clean. I've also transferred the new Grimm design to the base from earlier, and fire's also outlined orange so it reads clearer. (SPOILER- if you look REAL close here, you can see Yang visible in the fire! I liked the idea of Blake's slash also doubling as Yang throwing a punch. The idea is in the concept art earlier but now it's working with the action.)

Next step- final look of picture!! I asked Celeste for sources of inspiration to draw from when thinking about environment design, and we got Nimona, She-Ra, and Owl House! Used each of those as springboards for shading style, colour palettes, and how the fire would look!

From there, we kept the straight trees/bush/lake/foreground greenery from the first one, the blues from the second, and the fire from the third!

Once I had this frame, it was a matter of working backwards and making the background work pre-camera turn (which was ABSOLUTELY the most challenging part of this process). Learned a lot doing this! Procreate isn't quite equipped to make something like this efficient, but I'm pleased to say that Dreams would make something like this easier in the future (keyframing objects instead of hand-drawing/spacing duplicates by hand, for example).

From then on it was just colouring the lineart, adding shading, and finishing up the background! Beginning-to-end this whole process was beginning of July to end of October!

I had an absolute BLAST putting all this together. Here's to next year where I find a way to do something even more ridiculously complicated!! It's fun!!!

#rwby #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #(technically!!! look at the fire!!) #officialrocketart #officialrocketanimates #greatest hits #HOOO WHAT AN UNDERTAKING #so glad I came up with an idea pretty outside of my comfort zone but having the CLEAREST idea on how to execute it #means things went smoothly it just took a Long Time #AND I LEARNED LOTS #hope you guys can read the story one day!! its dope!! #bonus bonus fact for tag readers i didn't put in the post proper: i showed the rough pass to ANIMATION INDUSTRY COLLEAGUES for feedback #shoutout to ioana and v love you both lots #ioana for tightening up the rough pass and suggesting i smear the sword #and v for notes on my sword smears #okay i hope you guys enjoy!!! #it has been true for ages now but The Bees Motivate Me To Create #and in these trying times i thank them for that

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Happy Holidays to Pep and the gang!

Pep: "..."

Pep: "Mrrp!"

Pep: "Niaga uoy ees ot deticxe ma I!!! Syadiloh yppah!!! Sdneirf olleh!!!"

Pep: "Kool emoc! Enoyreve rof staert gnikam yad lla ysub neeb ev'ew!"

Pep: "Olleh yas sdneirf ruo! Kcirb ,kool kool!"

Brick: *happy greeting squeak!*

Pep: "Enoyreve rof eikooc a edam ew! Kool!"

Pep: "Sdneirf, uoy rof tsuj eno laiceps a s'ereht dna!"

(Happy holidays to you too! Everyone can't be here right now, but I hope you guys enjoy a little bonus post for now, hehe)

#pizza tower #fake peppino #brick the rat #peppino and gus are here but I am not gonna tag them #also not gonna tag all the cookie characters #translation: “Hello friends!!! Happy holidays!!! I am excited to see you again!!!” #“We've been busy all day making treats for everyone! Come look!” #“Look look Brick! Our friends say hello!” #“Look! We made a cookie for everyone!” #“And there's a special one just for you friends!” #bonus story post #that'll be the tag for now #probably worth mentioning that this is a few months after where the current story is #hence cookies of Vigi and Pepperman #also probably too detailed for real cookies but I do not care #Pep is so talented he can do anything like detailed cookie art #and Brick too she helped #ALSO ALSO YOU CAN'T SEE IT #but Brick's sweater says 'Merry Cheesemas' and I need you to know this #okay enjoy the post I spent too long on making those cookies it's time for bed

[g0nefischin]

I've been wanting to do this for awhile

Here are ALL of Killers cats (as of chp 16) from @lady-of-disdain s Killer x reader fic Poor Little Meow Meow

I love this Fic and all the cats in it sm

GO ReAD IT!

#my art #my utmv art #cats #utmv #killer sans #Can i tag that since he isnt actually here??? #his cats are so i think its fine #this man has 9 cats! #I am a huge fan of fics with animals as a main theme in them so i really like this story #no spoliers but the second most recent update made me feel things #I was going to do Luka and Biscuits aswell for a lil bonus but photoshop crashed so i think thats a sign to stop for now #hoping i did the kitties justice!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Omg idk if you talk Spanish or if it’s just XXC, but with that little and wonderful doodle you gave me the amazing headcanon of XXC being bilingual and just randomly speaking Spanish out of nowhere and nobody understanding him

[TL: XXC says "don't do coke in the bathroom"]

Shout out to the Spanish speaking MXTX fans. I don't think this is remotely what you wanted. (bonus below cut, TW: Drugs)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xiao xingchen #xue yang #Ask #bonus comic #I'm not confident enough in my Spanish to really integrate bilingual XXC into the comic #but I love the enthusiasm and there are at least two ppl leaving spanish tags on my comics so...its soft canon here. #if spanish speakers want to throw good spanish memes at me for xxc I will do my best B*) #Maybe he transmigrated and tried to turn the tides of the story but met a even worse fate.... #I like to think he teaches Song Lan Spanish to have a secret language like the SVSSS transmigrators with (broken) English. #The bonus joke here is that it doesn't matter what language the sign is in. XY can't read. He has severe dyslexia #Its not even real coke its just sugar. He's about to have a dreadful time. But the TW is just for the visuals #EDIT: THE QUEUE BROKE and I was outside with my hands in the dirt digging (around) tubers for my mum's garden. So i didn't notice #Happy Mother's day! To the mums and those without one this year <3

[mint-mango]

phoenix wright u will always be famous

#yea he looks different from that other time i drew his face but i like how this looks lmao #continuing my ace attorney journey i am now finishing up aa5 #(as in i finished the story and am now on the bonus case) #it was so fun tho #i luv athena w my whole heart #ok now for tags #ace attorney #phoenix wright #doodles

[esterigermaine]

You can all blame @animentality for this because their posts got me into durgetash (thank you!!!!!) and now I want to torture the villian couple. Probably won't make much sense because I drank enough caffeine to kill a horse today and my brain is going a million miles a second.

You know that scene where Orin shapeshifts into durge and tells them what she did to them? What if Gortash found out about it the same way and had Orin rub salt in the wound by then showing him the prayer for forgiveness?

She is cruel enough to do it and I can't think of any worse way to find out about what happened than for the attempted-murderer to shapeshift into their victim and describe what happened to them in explicit, gruesome detail. The attack itself, the tadpole, how they were abandoned to die alone like trash, how Gortash wasn't there to protect them, all of it. Only to show grieving Gortash the note

#orin the red #enver gortash #dark urge #the dark urge #durgetash #they were both doomed from the start the least we can do is make things even more painful #bonus points if she leaves it at leaving durge for dead so he has quite a bit of time to think durge is dead until reports start popping up #the pain of losing one of the few people you actually liked violently and having that act described to you by someone wearing their face #and the addition of then seeing a note praising you like that? not knowing untol after? #that has to be somewhere in the top few most emotionally painful things Gortash could possibly experience #regarding my note at the top #i seriously cannot thank them enough #because at first I was ehhhhh about Gortash in general then after playing Durge I was like oh they got along #and then after seeing their posts in the dark urge tag I was like damn now thats a love story how can I make their fates even WORSE #and I never would have even considered this ship and the opportunities it provided without them #seriously good stuff

[dailydegurechaff]

intrusive thought

#bonus doodle #youjo senki #the saga of tanya the evil #tanya von degurechaff #ok so like. the thing is. in my head this has a certain story/implication to it #but i dont think/know if it's explicitly clear enough that i need to trigger tag it #i feel like i should do it anyway tho just in case #cw suicide #implied suicide

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Riot Kings, page 141.1

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#okay so from a purely story point of view this has little purpose and slows down the momentum of the scene/transition to the next scene #but from a whump point of view? completely necessary #so i went back and added it lol bonus content #riotkings #wesgoesbrr #somewhat unrelated but i didn't realize how well the scar reveal scene a few pages back segues into a flashback #especially cause his first real arc WAS the flashback #so kinda nice #whump art #whumpy art #whump comic #tw electrocution #partial nudity #crying whumpee #tw drool #is that a warning? i swear ive seen it tagged #tw blood #tw torture #obviously this is a shortened version of the scene #it went on for an indeterminate time but it definitely wasn't just one pulse with zero questions #time to do 12 part comment tag list again 🥲

[stone-stars]

so here's the music in balnor backstory reveal.

alanis shows them balnor's village, his happy life with his wife and bobby. beverly's house. (a song of home, halflings, and of course bevelry)

balnor's village is attacked. balnor's bad dream. (balnor's dream from marabelle. there's a war coming and everyone has to fight, even old men who don't know how.)

balnor comes home to see the destruction. he picks up a shield and sword. he starts training. a fate refused. (hardwon kills galad. the title says it all. choosing your own path against fate.)

alanis returns, and balnor kneels to pledge himself to fight. the gunslinger's girl. (seeing the moment a character's path was set. murph says on the short rest this flashback reminded him of the ol' cobb and marabelle one.)

balnor remembers, all at once. balnor's bad dream. (he remembers. everyone has to fight.)

the boobs hug balnor. at the last minute, a first. (love against the darkness.)

#naddpod #balnor the brave #bahumia #bonus note friend turned foe is what plays when alanis tells them that balnor is the missing link #but before she shows them his story #which. hough. #naddmusic tag

[bagelvangr]

Eivor looks so proud 🥹

instead of writing so I can finally post something on ao3, I spent way too much time drawing this stupid thing

(+ a bonus off cam shot of Sigurd getting smacked by the jenga piece Randvi punched lolol)

✨UPDATE✨: We now know what they were doing immediately before this! 😌✨🛼

(I guess they must have gotten too excited with jenga at the bar, because this is where they end up?!)

original vid:

#randivor #yea i'll tag it as that fight me #randvi #eivor #eivor varinsdottir #eivor wolfkissed #randvi x eivor #eivor x randvi #modern au #i guess idk #this isn't even the setting of my story #guest appearances by #norvid #sunniva #birna #bonus offcam #sigurd styrbjornson #ac valhalla #assassins creed valhalla #yes i did purposefully put eivor in the boobiest possible outfit ty

[w0lp3rtinger]

Is gigi's design in any way inspired by techno the canary

XD No, not really. @lambpaca and I were inspired by fancy parakeets!

They come in all sorts of colours, but we ended up really liking the green ones.

Tekno does feature in Gigi's story, however! Amy had called on Tekno to help her figure out how to work with Gigi's feathers, as she didn't want to damage them. Somehow, however, Wave also found out about the adoption. Next thing everyone knew, she was storming into the house demanding to see the kid and saying she knew better than anyone else how to care for and style feathers.

Needless to say, Amy now knows how to work with feathers, and Gigi gained two aunties.

@sonic-fankid-showdown

#gigi the parakeet #sonic fankid showdown #sonic #sega #sth #(Bonus: Maybe it's a bit of a crack ship- but I think TeknoxWave is a cute idea) #(gonna tag them because though they are just mentioned briefly here- in my mind- they're important to her story) #wave the swallow #tekno the canary

[tracle0]

WIP poll yea

Tagged by mmmm @albatris my buddy! Hello!

Tagging uhhhh @polyaubergine @kaatiba @ace-malarky @loopyhoopywrites uhhh yeah that's all I can think of. Anyone else who wants to. Okay thank you, goodbye

#writerblr #poll tag game #wip poll tag #I dunno man I've not done a tag game in ages!!!! #but this was fun. Love to badly summarise my stories #hey bonus points to anyone who can guess all of these something of them I've barely talked about at all

[cottonsocks]

"Your one of my best friends. And I know were not as close as we are with jimmy for, like , all kinds of reasons. But I love you"

#iwbft bonus story spoilers #the speed at which i did this #anyway my guys we have been fed i am not gonna shut up about this #iwbft #osemanverse #oseman tag #rowan omondi #lister bird #alice oseman #angies art

[meraki-yao]

RWRB Movie: Sequel Series?

Hear me out.

A while back I mentioned that although I desperately want more Firstprince and more of the RWRB universe, I don’t really straight up want a sequel movie because of how complete the movie’s “fairy-tale” ending is and because I can’t think of, and don’t really want a full-on dramatic plot for their future. I kind of just wanna see them live their lives. I said I didn’t really know what’s the compromise between my two thoughts.

It hit me recently:

a series/ mini-series

The thing is, a series doesn’t need to be a continuous storyline. It can and most of the time it is, but it doesn’t need to be. May not be the best comparison but the Disney Junior shows I watched as a kid, while having some sort of overall continuity, aren’t always continuous. Each episode can serve as an independent story: sometimes it’s a flashback episode, sometimes it’s an alternate universe episode etc.

So when it comes to RWRB sequel, the benefit of doing a series instead of a movie is that it doesn’t need to be strictly set in the future, and it doesn’t have to have a dramatic over-arching plot, which leads to two big things we can work with.

One, we can jump around with the timeline, and give enough time to explore events that could only be mentioned in passing in the movie due to time constraints and pacing

@pippin-katz wrote a post about seeing a flashback to their first meeting in the sequel, and yes, absolutely, but with a series, a whole episode can be dedicated to their first meeting, which would be enough time to explore the whole event (i.e. Alex’s nervousness and Henry’s discomfort being at the conference, what happened after) and both Henry and Alex’s perspective. We can see everything from that day.

We could also fill in the gaps, moments that occurred during the movie but wasn’t fully presented. I don’t know if Wimbleton still works with the difference in dynamic and character on Henry’s part, but if it does it would be fun to see. One of the things that was in the book that I wish could have been in the movie was a moment of Alex’s showing his vulnerability and Henry understanding him immediately when they were just friends, so the Christmas phone call in Chapter 3, that can be in the series. Maybe the thing with kid Alex and the magazine photo of 12-year-old Henry. Things like Henry’s meeting with the King during his 18th birthday. Henry’s perspective of the Alex POV events and vice versa.

And of course we could have moments of their future, living together or working out a long-distance relationship, celebrating anniversaries, going on dates, doing public events as a couple, maybe even proposal, engagements, wedding, adoption, all the good stuff.

Two, we can focus on characters and relationships that aren’t Firstprince

Now don’t get me wrong, I love my boys and could never get enough of them

But one critic I’ve heard and sort of agree with is that a lot of supporting characters, and subsequently their actors, were underused. While I completely understand that again, it’s due to the limitations of movie storytelling, it’s still a pity.

With a series though? We can have episodes focusing on certain relationships, past, present and future.

We can have Henry’s relationship with his father, how the whole family fell apart for a few years because of losing Arthur and how much Henry’s grief affected him. (I think Nick would absolutely kill it)

We can have Alex learning more about Henry from Bea and Percy, and forming some sort of unspoken “Henry protection squad” bond.

We can have Henry reconciling with his grandfather and mother, and him introducing Alex to his mother.

And while we’ve seen Henry bond with Oscar, it’d be nice to see more of that, as well as see Henry bond with Ellen.

Firstprince will always be present, but with a series, it doesn’t always need to be the focus, and we can explore other relationships as well! And it’d give the other character a bigger chance to shine

And it can even be independent character studies: we can get a closer look into Henry’s depression and Alex’s ADHD/imposter syndrome (I’m not sure if movie Alex still reads ADHD, someone help me out here please, but if he does it’d be nice to see)

I love the movie so much and I understand that not everything can be translated on screen for it, but if the next related project is something more like “fill in the gaps” instead of “start a new thing” we can adapt certain things in the book that couldn’t be in the movie. Like colouring and adding things in the blank space of a painting instead of starting a new painting. Think about it, even Henry’s bonus chapter is a collection of miscellaneous moments that happen after the events of the book: it doesn’t have a plot.

I literally don’t know if this is a practical idea, and I’m aware this literally sounds like a collection of cannon compilate one-shot fanfics but on screen, but this is the best way to extend the RWRB universe I can think of

It’s more domestic fun and maybe fan service than making a statement/sending a message like the movie did, but the movie already did that, and it would just be nice to watch smaller moments of their lives

(and well, I got myself excited writing this, so please please please please please)

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #firstprince #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox #rwrb thoughts #rwrb sequel #rwrb series #making a tag in case I come up with more ideas #rwrb cast #come on guys I really think this would work #there's some comments saying the movie would have better as a series #while i disagree and i definitely think the core story is better as a movie which is what we got #think about all the bonus content we can get with a series in the future #and everything will be canon so certain bitchy people can't complain anymore #come on come on come on #please please please please please #meraki essay

[idliketobeatree]

a gentle reminder to myself: slow down when you're met with someone else's creation. just because it's not in a museum, doesn't mean it's not worth your time. you can skim through your life all you want, you can jump over the annoying cracks and never look back, but when someone presents you (in the most literal meaning of this word – as a gift) with their art you should sit down and pay back with attention. people need creativity that is shared and appreciated, and it needs your focus and care to bloom properly. briefness kills both the idea and the community around it. so, slow down.

#idk how to tag this #art #writing #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #i refuse to use this website as another mindless scrolling machine when there are a hundred different ways to engage with people #and it's so sad we've allowed to separate the art from the artist. to the point where you put the creator on a pedestal #and their art on an unreachable wall #behind some kind of a glass covering. the word “content” makes me physically sick #when it should be: stories shared in warmth and laughter by a fireplace. arm in arm. sharing notes and comments like friends. #or. drawings seen by your friends in all stages of creation. bonus points if your sketching game is horrible and the initial colors suck #i can mourn the artists who's works i adore because i'll never get to tell them how much they mean to me #but i can tell the ones alive just how much they've impacted me and i think it counts. like. so much. #marcela talks