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I should be embarrassed of this for other reasons, but I'm embarrassed of how much I failed to imitate the TV show's style (I wanted to make some pics in that style since it would make more sense). They look too Anthro or something. Anyway I wanted to post art here again and this is from an episode!

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Some production drawings!

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Blackavar probably gets used to the banter that the Watership rabbits have eventually...

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A cool BBC interview of Richard Adams on Watership Down from 1974!

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"The Patrol brought you in, I'm told. What were you doing?" "I've come to join Efrafa." "Why?" "I'm surprised you ask. It's your warren, isn't it? Is there anything odd about someone wanting to join?"

Woundwort was nonplussed. He was no fool and it was, he could not help feeling, extremely odd that any right-minded rabbit should choose to walk into Efrafa of his own accord. But he could hardly say so.

"What can you do?" "I can run and fight and spoil a story telling it. I've been an officer in an Owsla." "Fight, can you? Could you fight him?" said Woundwort, looking at Campion. "Certainly, if you wish." The stranger reared up and aimed a heavy cuff at Campion, who leaped back just in time." "Don't be a fool," said Woundwort. "Sit down. Where were you in an Owsla?"

-- Watership Down, Richard Adams

Lear: What art thou? Kent: A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the King. Lear: If thou be'st as poor for a subject as he is for a King, thou art poor enough. What would'st thou? Kent: Service. Lear: Who would'st thou serve? Kent: You. Lear: Dost thou know me, fellow? Kent: No, Sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master. Lear: What's that? Kent: Authority. Lear: What services canst thou do? Kent: I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly; that which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.

-- King Lear, William Shakespeare

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There will never be a more perfect fictional colloquialism than the rabbits in Watership Down using ‘stopped running’ as a euphemism for death.

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“and they were soulmates”

“oh my god, they were soulmates”

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I can't decide which brother would have darker fur so I made them the same.

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『ウォーターシップ・ダウンのうさぎたち』

Blu-rayジャケットB

Watership Down

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『ウォーターシップ・ダウンのうさぎたち』

Blu-rayジャケットA

Watership Down

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Peace

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Watership Down (1999) + textposts

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Watership Down + textposts

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Watership Down + textposts

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I love so much how Adams really conveys the stress of being a rabbit. I mean this in the best way possible, but I've never been so stressed out reading a book as when I was reading Watership Down. The journey from Sandleford to Watership Down is, to a human, a five-mile walk in the English countryside. But to a rabbit, it's a lengthy journey through treacherous terrain, with enemies at every turn and constant environmental dangers, and Adams did an awesome job showing that.

This peaceful stream is the River Enborne that Pipkin and Fiver were too weak to swim:

This idyllic field is the common whose crossing was so miserable and demoralizing that Hawkbit, Speedwell, and Acorn wanted to give up and go home:

Thousand enemies for real! Everything is so so big and dangerous! And those rabbits are being so so brave about it!

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Watership Down key art of running rabbits drawn by artist and animation supervisor Phil Duncan and shared on Facebook by fellow artist and assistant Steve Woods.

He comments that they had small rabbits running around the studio for reference.

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Have you seen the cover for the French translation of the graphic novel?

Immaculate