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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.

Where's the link?! Here it is! Have fun kitties!

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Attack the wife!!!!

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Some *experiments* with forms + FLESH AND BONE HUMAN BODY BARRY!!

I have a pretty silly headcanon with Barry keeping different types of knives and other weapons inside his own armor. Just because this weirdo can

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instagram flickr

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he can flying around. btw. if you even care

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Turoń - a mythical creature from Polish folklore, having roots in ancient Slavic winter rites. A person dressed up as a turoń is usually accompanying groups of kolędnicy (people singing carols) during the Christmas season in rituals of pre-Christian Slavic roots known in English as koliada (Polish: kolęda).

The figure of a “turoń” appears dressed in a costume with a head of an aurochs (Polish: tur, European wild bull that became extinct in 17th century). It is representing dark forces of nature but also the fertility and abundance of nature. Polish peasants were creating the costume of the turoń for centuries, mainly for the season of koliadas around the turn of the year that used to be connected to the ancient celebrations of winter solstice and days growing longer [read my short post about Szczodre Gody that were originally celebrated around Christmas]. It’s a custom that shows remnants of the ancient rites acknowledging the state of hibernation of the nature and determining the first stages of preparations for the rebirth of the nature - followed by rites of “chasing the winter away” for the arrival of spring.

The head for the turoń costume was made mainly of wood, straw and black wool, often with real horns (or woven out of straw), constructed with a hidden mechanism that allowed its lower jaw to move up-down and create noise. During these rites, a person disguised as turoń was bantering and romping, imitating the roaming of the creature, and eventually simulating turoń’s heavy fatigue - as a symbolic state of nature’s hibernation before the spring. The "turoń” was pretending to go to sleep (sometimes it was interpreted as turoń’s death), while the others were e.g. poking it, pulling its tail or giving it shots of vodka, trying not to let it fall asleep. 

Popular folk rhymes of Polish peasants, sung or recited during the “walking with turoń” rites, claimed that where the turoń will go, crops will later grow (e.g. “gdzie turoń chodzi, tam żytko rodzi / gdzie jego stopy, tam staną kopy”).

On the picture: illustrations from a theatrical leaflet for the “Turoń” play in the Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów, Poland, 1984 [via e-teatr].

[my list of references / book recommendations - in Polish]

You can see examples of turoń used in the Polish rites here under linked tag ‘turoń’.

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For this anniversary let me share an exclusive behind the scenes for the Pokémon Gold and Silver covers :p

2000  ポケモン4コマ大百科 金・銀 "4Koma Encyclopedia" front and back covers by Takahiro Yamashita, spoofing the official Ken Sugimori cover art.

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This was my piece for the Warriors ultimate guide Zine hosted by @harriertail !! Done over the summer :)

I did Rootspring(paw) and Tree in a sort of mock cover style for The Silent Thaw. Both the characters and this book are very dear to me, for personal reasons as well, so it was a pleasure to execute this idea for the zine! Glad to have been a part of this project💖

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Slugcats in Petz!

now you too can have your very own slugcat in petz!

this file is for petz 4 and overwrites the Russian Blue breedfile. feel free to convert it to a non-overwriting file, other game versions, use it as a hexing base, whatever you like!

file by bard at shipwreck

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aaaaaaaaaaand bam

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his own marketable plushie

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Build-a-Bear Clown Costume with Happy Birthday Banner

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G2 UK My Little Pony comic #2 (1999)

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G2 My Little Pony comic #4

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Fallen Over