#Unleash the Bats

[stuntghoul]

Kill them with kindness? WRONG!!!

UNLEASH THE FUCKING BATS 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

[razorsadness]

"The bats arrived"

The bats arrived, attached to the coats of calves, gazelles; when I could, I plucked one off. And others, tamer, hung in the kitchen with their heads upside down; papa gave them wine, cigarettes. The women, dreamier, set out roses and orange blossoms, so that the intense perfume of blood and sugar in those flowers would calm them. One day, one bit me; but I carried on unscathed. I hear, yes, that “the children of the night make their own music”; but I don’t participate in the feast. I am like a witness. Or I do participate, and I don’t know

—Marosa di Giorgio (translated from the Spanish by Sarah María Medina), from Poetry Magazine (March 2024)

[rustbeltjessie]

this is bat country // Jessie Lynn McMains, October 2022

[time-and-fate7]

🍒Inktober Day 3: Bat 🦇

[yu-melon]

I`m big werehog fan but month ago i was very sleepy and thought

What if werehog... but Rouge..? Well

Werebat upon ya!!!!

And now I can't stop thinking about her so Im gonna draw some more things with her

I did draw some more things with her!!!!

[chickenwaffles17]

we as a society (and me as an extension) need to talk about how Cas Van De Pol draws Sonic characters

LOOK AT THESE

[mayamarvil]

You can’t succumb to your inner goth when you have a homicidal tween to look after :(

Batman (2016-) #130

[essycogany]

Here’s a personal take!

The Sonic Prime 3D models have the best facial expressions seen from the modern cast. Why? Well, I’ll explain with my 0 experience in 3D animation. I’m only explaining as an observer. Not a professional. Anyways, onto the fun.

First of all, let’s talk about the current models in the games. The animators became better at animating them in Sonic Frontiers.

You can tell effort was being put in, but Frontiers still has limits due to the structure of Sonic’s face and eyes. I’ve seen fan animations with this model which animates him wonderfully. But no matter what, he’s still going to have limitations because his hands are too big, eyes are too far apart, mouth looks like it was made to only stay on the side, and more issues. The design frankly looks dead. Even in motion.

In all fairness, this character was built for a 2D design due to it being inspired by Mickey Mouse. But Sonic Unleashed (because they used different models like Dream Team) proves this character CAN be expressive in 3D with a good workable model. It’s not the animation that’s the problem in Frontiers. Here are similar expressions from Sonic Prime and Frontiers.

See how wider the expressions are in Prime? It allows their faces to be more flexible and warped. Prime!Sonic has rounder eyes making his head look easier for his facial structure to have an array of expressions. It’s kind of close to Sonic Dream Team with the minor tweaks of the OG models. Which is why the expressions in that game looked so good. ESPECIALLY when animated.

It’s even why other designs are able to have great facial expressions. The eyes being close together just works. While the OG looks like he’s pushing expressions that’s near impossible to push. Yes, it’s still expressive, but you can see how limiting it is because the eyes aren’t supporting the face. And his mouth is always stuck to one side.

Onto more compliments to the Sonic Prime models. They emphasize the hight differences too. I personally think Sonic and Shadow look like mixtures between their 06, modern, Boom, and movie designs. They have long quills like 06. Their entire look is inspired by the modern designs. Their eyes are shaped similar to Sonic Boom and they have cool textures like in the movies. Other characters count but it most notably is for the two hedgehogs.

The hands are smaller like in the movies and Boom. The pupils being bigger gives volume to the faces. I also adore their fur and quill patterns to give the designs flare. Their gloves have little details too. I especially love how they can change the quills for Sonic and Shadow and make them look similar to a 2D style. Usually they’d make the quills smaller in the games to get that 2D look but Prime Shadow and Sonic are able to have long quills while the animators adjust them however and whenever they need to.

Their mouths are also well animated and smooth when transitioning to different sides of the face. The characters body shapes are also 100% better. While the Game model looks too straight the Prime model has a pear shape torso that are also given to Boom and Movie Sonic respectively. The Prime models look like they were made for action scenes.

I know some people complain about the eyes not going down, but honestly it’s what makes the expressions weaker when used in 3D. I’m glad they have a balance of it sometimes to allow the expressions to get their points across. I really appreciate the colors on everyone also. They look lovely and bright with help of the lighting.

The few critiques I have are due to multiple watches but they’re not a HUGE deal.

1. I can easily see their necks at points.

2. The mouth animation looks weird when characters makes an O shape and the tongues/teeth are jarring.

3. I wish their hands weren’t so flat and skinny. Other models had their hands shaped like Disney characters, but Prime’s hands can look flat sometimes.

These are just nitpicks though.

Even compared to the CGI cutscenes while still good I think Prime conveys a subtly previous models didn’t do too often. Of course the CGI looks amazing and it still holds up, but the nuance in Sonic Prime cannot be ignored. Hope my take makes the slightest of sense.

Stay Creative! 💜

[dylanmct00ny]

An assortment of Sonic stuff :3 I've been loving Snapcubes Sonic Unleashed streams so I drew sum moments I found funny hehe

[stellar-collective]

been rotating an au around in my brain where the Sonic cast is just a bunch of kids running around in a small town because nothing gives me more joy than to envision a complex high action narrative as a series of mundane adventures

[c1emat1s]

When you open your food in a front of werewolves

I just really like Sonic unleash and werewolves. The grey character was supposed to be a YCH but I think I failed to represent that.

[blueblurarts]

hey oomfs so ik its been like almost a year since i posted but i promise ill try and b more active on here, atleast post art heres some art just to like,,, assert my presence ig

also introduciton hey! im amar and im a multifandom artist! i like stuff like sonic, icarly ,utdr, fnaf, dbz, sonic exe, creepypasta and more that you may see! he/him, bisexual, cissy, and a minor!

[rustbeltjessie]

April 30: We went to our local zoo, and they have bats now!

[matsaysyes]

This was just too funny to see. The creation of this movie must be chaotic (quick write a chao is space movie au fanfic)

The original image is from Sonic Generations

[cartoonartistpng]

My attempt at the 31 Days Sonic challenge that happened a while back (only got to day 7 oops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Day 1: Look Alike (Young Shadow & Mephiles)

Day 2: Control (Young Silver)

Day 3: What If? (Super Shadow, Super Silver, & Dark Sonic)

Day 4: Superpower (Infinite)

Day 5: Communicate (Amy, Rouge, Silver, & Knuckles)

Day 6: Legend (Sonic, Chip, & Dark Gaia)

Day 7: Emotion (Sonic, Amy, Tails, & Knuckles)

[frankenisms]

emoinktober - day 2: bats