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We Lost Our Human - Full Illustration Tribute

This series/game/movie was phenomenal. Just so much was cramped into one playthrough, and so much that you could've missed and gone back to watch again. You'd rarely go through without something being just a little bit different because of your decisions, and I was so behind that. It really felt like a massive multiversal adventure.

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A Very Little Elfmas

Set them to the tune of your Holiday favorites.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Day 20) - Mother Nature

Lovely lady that Mother Nature. Had a wonderful time over designing this outfit.

And that's it. Thank you for following along. I'm glad I was able to stay consistent on these. I want to try and do more of these Draw 20 series in the future, maybe not to this scale though.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Day 19) - Jingle and Jangle

I know including two characters as one is a bit cheating (and I even snuck in the Head Elf from Rudolph), but I figured these two would share one brain cell, so it probably wouldn't count.

I imagine, if the various specials of Rankin Bass were merged together more seamlessly, Jingle and Jangle would be the bumbling assistants to the Head Elf from Rudolph. That would make Jingle's title as "Number 1 Elf" make more sense and why his uniform would be so different from the regular toy elves like Hermy.

And it would make Elf Practice even more MANDATORY!

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Day 18) - Father Time

Time marches on for us all.

Admittedly I'm starting to get worn down by this challenge to draw 20 characters. I'm not sure I'm giving my 100% to the last few. That's why I stopped at 20 instead of going all the way to Christmas or the end of the month. Still got two more to go and I'm really excited about these last two (though one of them's a cheat bit of a cheat to this challenge).

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Day 17) - Winterbolt

Here's a deep cut for ya. Winterbolt is closest Rankin Bass has to an over arching villain, though it’s only known when viewed through his debut film, the often overlooked “Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July”.

A culmination of all the specials up to that point though it probably wasn’t intended at the time.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Days 16) - Bumble

Oh Bumble, what are we gonna do with you.

Also, a slightly intentional callback to the 1989 Rudolph VHS which is the version I would watch at my grandparents' house when I was little: https://vhscollector.com/movie/rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer-0

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Days 14-15) - Karen and Hocus

Not much to Karen that I can gleam. She's a sweet girl who's mostly the point of view friend character to Frosty. Almost like a Wendy to Peter Pan relationship and it feels like that dynamic should have been play up more in the subsequent sequels then what we got. Like, it's in the song, "he'd be back again someday", but none of the sequels had a returning character.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Days 12-13] - Winter Warlock and Topper

Aren’t these two adorable.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Day 11) - Jack Frost

Personally, more of a fan of the anti-hero Jack Frost from Frosty’s Winter Wonderland than the 1979 heroic version.

We are now at the second Winter themed Rankin Bass character (not counting Frosty). You’re going to be seeing a lot of those soon.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Day 10] - Sam the Snowman

Halfway there.

Holly Jolly Christmas is my favorite Christmas song. All the Rudolph songs are Christmas classics, and Burl Ives sing the three best ones in it.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Days 9] - Clarice

Not much for the romance stuff but I do think Rudolph and Clarice are pretty cute together.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Days 8] - Yukon Cornelius

It was at that point they met Yukon Cornelius, Scallywag of the North

And his assortment of mixed-matched sled dogs.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Day 6-7] - Miser Brothers

It’s a two for one special. Bring on the heat and cold. Neither one was going to upstage the other today, that’s for sure.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Day 5] - Mrs. Claus

The Shirley Booth version of Mrs. Claus is such a strong and charming character. I don’t think that special works nearly as well without her facing off against the Miser brothers and Mother Nature to help restore Santa’s faith in Christmas. I feel like she holds it all together and is the best iteration of the character.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Day 4] - Santa

The Man, the Nick, the Legend.

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Rankin Bass Draw 20 [Day 3] - Frosty the Snowman

I think the pipe is just aesthetic. Otherwise, wouldn't he melt his mouth if he was smoking.