#Me and my shadow

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Drawing For Nothing is out!

Forgot to announce this here but the first ten chapters for Drawing For Nothing have been released! For those who missed the last post, this is a free, digital art book for animated films that were either canceled or bombed due to complicated issues.

https://www.drawingfornothing.com/

More chapters are to come. A few highlights in the next installation will be My Peoples and Larrikins.

Also, if anyone wants to help research, feel free to send a DM! We're also working on a new cover that will feature custom artwork of various characters from these movies. If you think you got what it takes to draw in the style of another artist, we would appreciate the help!

[darkfluffydragon]

Drew this interaction between Phantas (Phantasmagoria! Shadow Milk Cookie) and Ternate Milk Cookie! (Fragment AU Shadow Milk Cookie by @amitiagailec)

They're like siblings XD

Phantas: I made this cape for you! I know you'll like it, it's blah blah blah blah blah-

Ternate: what are you planning now?... And whenever someone says "I want to eat your art":

AND ALSO HAVE THIS REALLY OLD ONE BETWEEN MamS!PV (Me and My Shadow! Pure Vanilla by @raptor1312) and Majesty (Phantasmagoria! Pure Vanilla)

They know sign language :3

[salamander-does-art]

Lemon demon 👹👹👹

[shortshowname]

Varied-Fandom Sketchbook dump time‼️

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[gracebethartacc]

I was bored and wanted editing practice so my brain just said “hey what if you made a fake trailer for that one movie you love that doesn’t actually exist?” And I said “…eh sure why not” and then proceeded to have way more fun than I expected to !!

(Scenes are from the canceled Me and My Shadow by DreamWorks, music is the Diary Of Horace Wimp by Electric Light Orchestra, editing, as I said, was by me, lol)

[definitelynotholo]

Keychain of silly guy

[volleypearlfan]

every day I get more and more depressed that this movie was canned

[rosanoel14]

New Me and My Shadow clips yesterday oh my gosh… they are fully animated and as beautiful as ever.I never thought I would see it like that again.🤍

[masked-ragdoll]

Did @Holographicros3's dtiys drawing for them reaching 13k on twitter

It was loads of fun to draw :D

original here

[lukmarc10]

the drawer where owl city keeps the me and my shadow ost must be so dusty rn

[dracula-smokes-weed]

The first update to Drawing For Nothing has been released!

With new branding and a new cover being worked on by our talented artists, the book is also being hosted as a flipbook, which is way prettier and easier.

The highlight however, is our two new chapters! Disney's My Peoples and Dreamworks' Larrikins. Over 150 new pages just from those chapters alone. Along with those two, additions have been made to Me and My Shadow, B.O.O., and Joe Jump. Older chapters have also been revised a little here and there and a few links have been fixed. Larrikins includes storyboards that have never been shared publicly before!

Thanks to everyone for supporting the project so far! It's been a lot of fun. I have no date for when more chapters will come out, it'll just happen when it happens.

Read it here!

https://www.drawingfornothing.com/

[fyeahfailedcartoonpilots]

Me and My Shadow

Directed by Mark Dindal

DreamWorks Animation, 2014

[deemee-ed]

Wow, I'm so normal about this movie! *develops a DreamWorks conspiracy theory on why Me and My Shadow got cancelled*

DreamWorks and franchises: a "conspiracy theory" on why "Me and My Shadow" got cancelled

On December 10th 2010 the project for an animated movie called "Me and My Shadow" was announced by DreamWorks. The story is about a timid and boring man called Daniel Grubb and his shadow "Shadow Dan" trying to convince him to live a more exciting life. The animation style follows an idea similar to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", except that instead of blending 2D animation and live-action it would have worked with both 2D and 3D animation, with 2D for the shadow characters and their world and 3D for the real people. Despite being half-way done, the release date of this project kept being pushed back, first from 2013 to 2014, until it entered a state of limbo and eventually got cancelled. This decision was taken mostly due to the failure in 2014 of "Mr. Peabody and Sherman", which brought to the cancellation of other projects as well.

Personally, I have been upset about this cancellation ever since I found out about this movie, mostly because I just know that if it had come out this would have been one of my favorite movies ever. A few days ago DreamWorks released a trailer for their next movie, "Megamind 2", a very cheap-looking sequel to "Megamind" set to release on March 1st 2024 on Peacock. While I was washing the dishes (lol), I thought about this trailer for a moment and had a sudden "conspiracy theory" coming up on why "Me and My Shadow" was one of the movies got cancelled after 2014: In the same trailer of "Megamind 2" they announce a new serie which will come out based on it, meaning that this movie is basically an advertisement or a pilot for the show. This is reinforced by the cheap animation commonly used in these spin-off shows.

This serie announcement made me realize something: DreamWorks has made A LOT of shows, shorts and sequels based on their movies. In other words, this studio loves creating franchises. And even though this is a common marketing choice for many studios, I feel like DreamWorks does this VERY often. Some examples are: -"Shrek", with 3 sequels (might become 4), 8 shorts, 3 TV specials, and 2 spin-off movies and 1 serie based on Puss in Boots -"Kung Fu Panda", with 2 (soon 3) sequels, 3 series and 5 shorts -"How to train your Dragon", with 2 sequels, 3 series and 6 shorts -"Madagascar", with 3 sequels, 3 series, 3 shorts and a spin-off movie based on The Penguins of Madagascar -"Trolls", with 2 sequels, 2 series, 6 shorts and 2 TV specials -"The Croods", with 1 sequel and 2 series -"Monsters vs Aliens", with 1 serie, 2 shorts and 1 TV special -"Captain Underpants", with 1 serie and a possible spin-off movie -"Mr. Peabody and Sherman", with 1 serie As you can see, both known and less known movies ended up having at least 1 serie, turning them into franchises. It's actually rarer to find movies by DreamWorks that were not turned into franchises. So I'd say it's clear that DreamWorks has quite some interest in this marketing choice.

Even their newer movie "Orion and the Dark", released on Netflix on February 2nd 2024, can work as a DreamWorks franchise. You can understand this by the presence of a TEAM of secondary characters: they can't be fully developed in a movie, but they are an interesting team that can be developed in a show. It's the same concept as the Furious Five from "Kung Fu Panda", or as the Penguins of Madagascar and King Julien from "Madagascar": a team of secondary characters the movie can't focus on, but that you wouldn't mind seeing again. And now, with the release of a show based on "Megamind 2", a new team of villains is introduced in the sequel. Villains that are very likely going to be secondary characters that could be developed more in a show. See the pattern? I believe that DreamWorks follows this as their standard for a franchise: the movie must have a team of secondary characters.

Now, let's look back at "Me and My Shadow" and let's focus on the characters. From what we know, there were going to be 4 relevant characters: -Daniel Grubb (who some of you might also know as Stanley) -Shadow Dan (also known as Shadow Stan) -Heidi (Daniel's love interest) -The Shadow Villain (the bad guy, obviously) Every other character that was seen in small Behind-The-Scenes works doesn't seem to have much relevance. There are secondary characters, but they don't seem to be connected as a team, unlike many other secondary characters from Dreamworks.

Now, here's the "conspiracy theory": I believe one of the reasons "Me and My Shadow" was cancelled is that it could not be adapted as a DreamWorks franchise. The story would have been concluded in the movie, the characters didn't need to be developed more, and none of the secondary cast could work as a team. Could they have made some shorts based on it? Probably yes, but a short is not a serie. DreamWorks seems to have more interest in shows than shorts (remember: most franchises have at least a SHOW, not a short!).

With that being said, I'd like to end this post by doing some advertisement for this movie, even if it never got a chance to be finished. Everytime I find a new clip I am filled with pure joy. "Me and My Shadow" deserves to be made. -Shout-out to SQUIDWORD15 on YouTube for finding mANY unfinished clips. Bless this fella

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Daniel deals with That One Coworker 2023

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