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Tax season knocked me on my ass, but I'm not free enough to do more than sketches, so I'm opening up Sketch Commissions! Keeping things super simple and straightforward, here.

DM me or email me at starmum519@gmail.com!

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Oh man....

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THEY FOUND IT AND NO ONE TOLD ME?!

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I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER TO POST THIS AAA!!

But here is the animation I've done for Danny Phantom's 20th Anniversary!! It's part of the 'DP: RePhanimated' project on Youtube!! (WHICH IS FINALLY OUT, WE BEAT THE COPYRIGHT STRIKE, GO WATCH IT YO!!! :D)

I was so stoked to have been assigned part of the original theme song, it was so amazing to animate it and pay homeage to the cartoon that actually inspired me to work in animation as an adult.

It was so meaningful to be a part of this project and I met so many cool and talented people!! (It was truly a labour of love, y'all.)

(Also as a bonus, here's my lineart pass!)

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My work has monthly art challenges and the prompt this time was “robot/android” so. Obviouslyyyyy I had to draw the Boi ☺️

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This was the second scene I did for the RePhanimated project!! This one was super fun to work on, haha :D

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I can finally post this!! I did two scenes for the Danny Phantom: RePhanimated project!! But tumblr won't allow me to upload both in one post so I'll make two posts :>

It's been almost a year since I've done this animation and I'm SUPER proud of myself for accomplishing this, I learned a lot doing this. My mentor (and my boss LOL) also helped me out with this by giving me so many valuable critiques and advice! I'd like to do more stuff like this in the future, honestly! We'll see if my schedule will let me, haha

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This was the second scene I did for the RePhanimated project!! This one was super fun to work on, haha :D

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I can finally post this!! I did two scenes for the Danny Phantom: RePhanimated project!! But tumblr won't allow me to upload both in one post so I'll make two posts :>

It's been almost a year since I've done this animation and I'm SUPER proud of myself for accomplishing this, I learned a lot doing this. My mentor (and my boss LOL) also helped me out with this by giving me so many valuable critiques and advice! I'd like to do more stuff like this in the future, honestly! We'll see if my schedule will let me, haha

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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! I'm sorry it took me so long; also this is the best way I know of to send it... You might want to open him in another tab before saving it; it's quite big... The version I posted publicly is scaled down, with watermarks and a noise layer on it- anti-theft and anti-AI measures, huehue. This is the one I wanted just you to have, tho there's not really enough detail to justify him being so large, in hindsight.

AAAAH i love it so much!!!!!! Fantastic work, Negz!

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Hey there! Want one of these? You can hit me up and I'll do you two for the price of one! Check the post's replies for details.

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“Live action movie” they have to animate the dragon anyway (but worse)

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Sighs. Okay yeah i have thoughts about cgi toothless.

First of all, why does he look so... slimy? He feels too smooth. Like they just stretched some scaly skin over a skeleton and let it walk around. Immediately offputting.

His body language is. Fine? Am i being nitpicky or does it seem just the tiniest bit less expressive? I'm guessing this is either the scene right after hiccup cuts him free, in which case he should be way more intimidating, or the fish-sharing scene, in which case he should feel a little friendlier and more curious around hiccup. It's a quick shot so i won't put a ton of expectations onto it, but i think it's worth noting.

Okay this is a legitimately cool detail though. He has a secondary eyelid!! You can see it slipping away when he opens his eyes. That's a detail exclusive to the books so i like that they included something as small as that.

Sighs again. And this is the shot that prompted me to make this post.

Look at the original, and then look at the cgi version. I could write an essay about how inferior the cgi version is in comparison.

First off, they flattened his face. I swear every iteration of night furies after the first movie has just been compressing their snouts until they're sufficiently 'cute' enough for the audience to forget they're supposed to be sleek and aerodynamic.

Second, his eyes. Absolutely radioactive. I understand using a brighter colour for his eyes, especially in a relatively darker environment to make him stand out and seem more fantastical. But. They're just so bright. It's mildly unsettling how saturated they are compared to everything else.

Third, his eyes. Again.

Toothless is supposed to be terrified but still threatening in this scene, and the original shot conveys that perfectly. If it's a threat, then by all means hiccup should kill it or at least run, but instead he draws a connection between both of them being scared of the other and decides to cut him loose instead. And that's the core of their relationship. Toothless is staring him down with a slitted pupil that could just as easily be interpreted as "fuck around and find out" but hiccup just acknowledges that there's a frightened, injured animal in front of him that needs help, and he helps.

Is any of that conveyed in the cgi version? No!! It's trying so hard to be cute that it's gone full circle back to just being scary. The wide-eyed stare, the dilated pupil, he's basically just saying "🥺🥺 uwu pwease i'm so cute and innocent don't kill me aha 👉👈". Which is a lot less of a compelling reason for hiccup to free him!! Plus the fact that toothless turns up to look at him instead of lying and accepting his fate like in the original, which only makes it seem even more like he's trying to show off how apparently adorable he is.

Idk. Just the difference between the in-your-face sanitised cuteness of "teehe you wouldn't kill little old me would you? 🥺" and the expert subtlety of his "please don't hurt me" of the original doesn't give me high hopes for a toothless that stays true to his character from the first movie. Even from something as small as this. He's gonna get woobified. I can feel it.

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Unfortunately I've been way too busy at work to be creative with much else. One of the drawbacks of a creative job I guess haha (Not that I'm regretting my choice of work, I absolutely LOVE my job, I just don't have the free time or energy I used to for other stuff).

This won't mean I won't post at all EVER, but it will definitely be more sporadic (as if it already wasn't on my main blog, oops), so I figured I'd just make a pinned post explaining my absence properly/making sure everyone was aware I'm on a HIATUS rn.

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you can't convince me that there was no ai used somewhere in the minecraft movie pipeline