#beast fables

[nazrigar]

Beast Fables: The Many Chimeras of the Horse and other Equids

Returning to the world of Beast Fables, the world of werebeasts and mermaids, another batch of Chimeras, featuring the horse and other equids!

Originally this was meant to be MUCH more extensive, but I had to seperate into more parts saved for later, because the horse is SUCH an important critter IRL, and in-universe the sheer diversity of chimeric morphs for the horse means that the cultural importance and application of them in-universe is going to be extensive as well.

[iskotaa]

Seinfield Voice: It's a pirate that's a rat. A pi-rat!

[beastfables]

Game Mockup #2! Another example of interacting with other characters in the world. Included are a few new elements as well: a checklist for small task-based gameplay and the setup for cooking mini-games.

[codihastoomanyideas]

Animation idea

I think that we, as an Internet community who loves nostalgic properties but hates being bombarded by every shitty remake Hollywood has brought back from the Pet Cemetery -- INCLUDING "Pet Sematary" -- are overdue for a Renaissance of Beast Fables.

Like, reimagining stories is part of storytelling culture, whether it's unintentional (word of mouth misses some details) or absolutely intentional (completely involved AUs with whole new rule sets and worldbuilding and such). Reimaginings can be a lot of fun, and give a lot more breathing room to people who actually wanna be creative instead of carrying out the same old-same old that executives are So Convinced are what the masses want.

My proposal? Pull a Lion King on 'em.

The Lion King wasn't a 1:1 adaptation of Hamlet for obvious kid-friendly reasons (would've been a bit of a downer for everyone to end up like their Shakespearean counterparts), but at its root, at its conception, it's a twist on Hamlet. And that's completely okay that the final product doesn't exactly match the initial inspiration, because it shows that the production team was allowed to think and use their imaginations during the creative process.

Didn't anyone else grow up with those reimagined/fractured fairytales in elementary school? We had a book where Cinderella was a sasquatch, it was fucking awesome

All the beloved stories, both new and old, can get the Lion King treatment. They don't even have to be animals every time, they can be robots or aliens or any direction one's muse pulls them in.

And for the love of corn, some of them can be animated outside of 3D CGI. It can be 2D, it can be stop-motion or claymation, it can be fucking puppets(or even Muppets!). Please.

Please.

There is so much more to this world than making the next Frozen. Shake yourself free of the tractor beam of What Will Make The Most Money, go forth and write the stories you want to see in the world -- even if you retooled an older story to fit a world of furries, it'd be doing a LOT more than anyone distributing huge-budget franchises would dare to do right now.

If I have to see one more Elsa clone on my phone app game ad du jour, I might just scream

[coleopterabyte]

Waspinator has swept thus far, but can he best team snakemouth?!

Unlike most polls in this tournament, this will only run for 24 hours.

Tournament Masterpost

[isasan347]

Suddenly it’s there, a feeling they can share

Both a little scared, neither one prepared

The Princess and the Hare

[artseniccatnip]

bugs together

[bugstabu]

I've been thinking about their interaction for a long time

[puppyeared]

AKA... the CATS!!

[faustiandevil]

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[nazrigar]

Beast Fables - Myles Roddenberry, the Were-Saltwater Crocodile

The main POV character from the side of the land in my Beast Fables setting, much like how Kara is the main POV character from the side of the seas.

Context: Beast Fables is a worldbuilding project that centers around the world of Urvara, a world roughly analogous to ours... except that everyone on land is a form of Werebeast, people who can transform into anthropomorphic versions of animals, and the seas live Merfolk, who themselves resemble the various creatures of the sea.

Myles is the quintessential scholar and gentleman, a good natured lad who enjoys learning about the natural world and all that lives in it, as well as a strong fascination with history, culture and stories throughout the world.

He is also a were-saltwater crocodile who also REALLY enjoys a good fight, partially because his specific bleed-in (aka certain traits from his animal from "bleeds in" to his human one) is aggressiveness in a fight, and partially because he enjoys the thrill of it.

[nathanielthecurious]

found out that in the 90s there was an academic network called the “beast fable society” that briefly published a journal all about Beasts in, like, aesop and the middle ages and urban legends and the jabberwocky poem and thomas hobbes and 19th-century biology and ancient japan. and my university has access to none of the beast articles

[iskotaa]

A little insight into my process for Beast Fables. I draw pages/panels without much thought to layout and order, and reorganize at the point of inking. I’ll ditch, resize, & adjust as needed to fit the script.

I used to get really bogged down with planning perfect pages ahead of time and it just wrecked my momentum.

[beastfables]

Game Mockup #1! Basic scene where you're interacting with Thorn and moving through the castle. I've also included a rough concept for how to interact with various objects/the world, and Thorn's journal, which will contain all the information about your progress.

[eggobuggo]

More of the bug fables swap that I am working on.

[cordycepsbian]

this was uh. this was supposed to be a colored sketch. it got out of hand

@mantisgodsdomain woe. wereweevil vi fanart be upon ye