#writing this made me realise how similiar donnie and raph actually are interms of design

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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

[If i forgot any, please tell me!]

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #dia rambles #i could also talk more about the other guys like Casey Jr and April but this post was already long enough #rise leonardo #rise donatello #rise raphael #rise michealangelo #you guys have no idea how long i spend on formatting the layout on this post #writing this made me realise how similiar donnie and raph actually are interms of design #adding onto list of evidence for older twin donnie /hj