The character designing in Rise is amazing, but one thing I especially love is how when it comes to the turtles designs, there’s similarities between them that are still differentiated
[Bit of long post ahead!]
Like just by looking at them, you can already see:
-Donnie and Raph have masks that cover their entire upper head
-Donnie and Mikey both have short mask-tails
-Leo and Mikey have three-sashes that connect on different points (they also both put their weapons there i think)
-Donnie and Raph just have belts
-Donnie, Leo and Mikey have markings, whereas Raph just has his spikes
-Donnie and Mikey both have knee-pads
-Raph and Donnie both have elbow-pas
-Mikey and Donnie both have darker shades of green for skin, while Raph and Leo have lighter ones (Leo also has a more yellow-tinted green)
-Leo and Donnie both wear fingerless gloves, Raph has the bandages that could kinda count as that? And Mikey got bracelets
-Leo and Raph’s gloves/bandages both almost reach their elbows
-Mikey and Raph both have unusual (but still very nice) teeth, Mikey has his tooth-gap and Raph his snaggle-tooth
-Leo and Donnie are pretty similiar in height and build (and forehead height-)
-Mikey and Leo have the same markings on their shells, Leo has three and Mikey has two
-Raph and Mikey also have things sticked to their plastrons, Mikey has of course the stickers and Raph the cross-bandaids (which i’m still confused on why exactly he has those there)
-Both Raph and Donnie have squares as their main shapes, but Donnie specifically has a rectangle
-Donnie and Mikey’s plastrons both have a pretty straight line at the top, while Raph and Leos curve slightly upwards
-Mikey, Leo and Donnie also all have toe-less socks that almost reach up to their knees:
(also i just noticed this when searching for a screenshot, but look at how Mikey copied Raph’s pose!! Adorable<33)
-Raph also has a yellow tint to his eyes;
-Donnie does as well, but only sometimes, usually his are also just white like the other twos
(Splinter also has yellow eyes, so there’s that)
Bonus, for their Ninpo designs:
-Raph and Donnie’s gloves reach above their elbows
-Leo and Raphs socks end just under their knees, Mikey’s probably end right at his kness and for Donnie they go above them
also i saw lots of people doing cool usagi redesigns more info about the rabbit himself below 🐰
I really like usagi in the tmnt 2012 universe but I sort of wish he wasnt from another dimension and instead became a friend of the turtles over time in their universe :]
I didnt want to change too much about him because I am just starting to read the comics, but i thought itd be fun to instead of making him very serious and cool like he was in 2012, to make him more competitive and a perfectionist (as well as having his cool moments)
I dont know much about him yet in my (sort of) redesign but id like to think he is so used to traveling alone that he does not want anything to do with the turtles or teaming up
But over time he becomes friends with all of them! with leo he is super competitive (both are blue and independent... usagi immediately thinks they are rivals HAHAH) but they become buds after a while
with raph id imagine they train a lot together and have more in common than they think since usagi gets frusterated easily which raph can relate to
I think mikey would help usagi to learn to relax and take life as it is, so usagi respects mikey greatly (and also acknowledges that mikey is super gifted with fighting)
and with don uhhhhmm errmm scratches head i do not know SORYR
One thing I do when I hyperfixate on a show is look up biological facts relating to it. Boy did I learn some weird fun facts about different turtles!
The fifth frame with Mikey eating the deer corpse makes me laugh too hard.
Unturtled turtle tots!! I feel like Leo’s trans shell would definitely crack at Mulan and he would impulsively cut his hair (tc*st dni i will bust your spine)
I love the “You Got Served” episode, mostly ‘cause its basically just Mikey using his youngest brother privileges and metaphorically flipping Leo off, who is practising self control via resisting his Cain Instincts and strangling Mikey right then and there.
Meanwhile Senior Hueso is just watching the two and hoping and praying they don’t damage anything in his restaurant. He doesn’t give a shit about the murder that’s four seconds away from happening but BY GOD if ANYTHING happens to his restaurant HE will be the one who starts killing.
And I think that’s beautiful<3