#fin the orca

[planetbeanie]

Todays beanie of the day is Fin the Orca

Birthday- 1/12/2010

[nhl-chirps]

buoy and fin flirting on insta - 12/11/22 - x

[cold-fins]

I just shaved my head again after MONTHS of trying to grow it out and oh my GOD I feel so much better

Idk if it's the orca in me, but I just don't feel like myself when it gets longer than a couple centimeters

[appledeers]

Fin Fins of some of my favorite toothed whales! Which Fin Fin variant would You befriend?

[naffeclipse]

If I were to describe the moments I get inspiration for Apex Polarity it's like either being bit by a fish that is convinced I am it's soul mate from another life and won't let go, or a miniature avalanche like a snowcone with rainbows being dumped on your head. But instead of brain freeze you get lovely ideas!

So I did just that! I made another piece of pixel art. I had a few ideas, including things like some sort of penguin Y/N or a snowman of big fish man himself. I wanted to make something for Harpy!Y/N in particular since I hadn't don't anything for them or their AU and it's my favorite iteration of Apex Polarity.

Family Under the Ice

This one depicts Eclipse and his family of four swimming together below the frozen surface. With young Sun and Moon in tow, Harpy!Y/N close beside them and the shapes of fish (yes those weird lumpy dark things are fish!) against the light from above.

I tried my best to scale Harpy!Y/N right, but as there is no official reference, I used the various fanart and deduction to decide they're probably around the size of Eclipse's torso and upper half, give or take. Perfect for Eclipse to use his big fishy effect to its fullest and to not be inconvenient for hugs!

The hardest part by far though, wasn't the ice, even though it took multiple layers upon layers before it finally looked more than just a bunch of dark blobs, the colors or the lighting, it was drawing SILHOUETTES in pixel art.

This took HOURS, it was so difficult to get the shape and size right, especially at the scale I was using (64x64, the same as the last) which left me with not much room for detail.

One example of the many iterations I had to make -

The original sprites for the siren babies where literally fishtails on chicken drumsticks with heads because I didn't think I'd be able to squeeze as much percieveable (or at least as much as I could get) detail into them with how small they were compared to Eclipse and Y/N. They also had to be small enough for Y/N to hold both without it looking ridiculous, but not so small that they barely looked cohesive with the rest of the silhouettes.

I hope you enjoy this small bit of Harpy!Y/N art

AHHHH THIS WAS BURIED IN MY INBOX BUT I'M SO GLAD I UNEARTHED IT AGAIN AHHHHHHH

I LOVE YOUR PIXEL ART SO MUCH AND THE BEAUTIFUL SILHOUETTES WITH THE BABIES AND HARPY!Y/N AND ECLIPSE ARE GORGOUES!!!

Ahhh, thank you so much for sharing! ♥

[antiqueanimals]

Walt Disney's White Wilderness: Animals of the Arctic. By Robert Louvain and the Staff of the Walt Disney Studio. 1958.

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[cold-neon-ocean]

I wanna put a sticker on his back just to fuck with Brig

He's truly never beating the oversize load allegations that's for sure

[videogamewhales]

[ID: An image of a Gminfly, an orca-bird hybrid creature from the game fin fin: On TEO, the Magic Planet. End ID.]

Gminfly from fin fin: On TEO, the Magic Planet (1996)

[rubyredorca]

Tfw you get turned into a ceramic for sale at Home Goods for $10.99

Based off these:

[poetryforcoyotes]

orca moodboard(s) with black/white theming 🤍

requested by @cold-fins!

[mikotomonday]

WEEK 9

mikoto monday? yes!! idatekoto edition!!

[hiss-graphics]

"It was on that day… that the ocean wept…"

Prompt list by Martaceccanti2000 Day 27: Hunt

[cold-fins]

Another happy wet beast Wednesday to all the aquatic therians/alterhumans out there! Stay wet besties ✨️

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[dexaroth]

also heres a rough draft of naji with the small original/old design on the right

she's a lot easier to incorporate the accents bc of how marine creatures are Just Like That irl but im also struggling with what to put in her back. she had a colorful fish spine that went all through her back but i decided to remove it bc its like. either shes shark/orca inspired or shes fish inspired. looks weird being both! to me of course. which leaves her back without anything to put onto

im not even sure ill give her the malachite/layered stone spots the original had bc then its just too speckled and more complicated

im thinking of giving her some similar markings to tiger sharks but i dunno. searches for 'cool funky sea animal with epic patterns' isnt returning anything useful to give me ideas 😔

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Dear tumblrinas I beg you to manifest that I see Him 🖤 while im on vacation bc if I don't I might die

[lurkdragonstuff]

Eccotober 2022 Day 3: Singers

An illustration for my personal favourite of my old Ecco drabbles, "The Pod of Earth." When the Asterite summons the Singers, I always imagined it summoning all the marine cetaceans of Earth to assault the New Machine, not just the bottlenose dolphins.

Species featured: Sperm whale, pilot whale, beluga, fin whale in the middle background, and an orca's dorsal fin in the foreground. The background also has a narwhal, some variety of psuedorca, and a Commerson's dolphin mixed in with the bottlenoses.

And, here's The Pod of Earth itself, for reference.