Updated my old snake mascot for fun. Hand-animated it, because it felt more entertaining
A bit out of left field if you don't have the context. I've used the artist name 'Snake' for most of my life at this point. It's been so long I completely forgot I had a little snake mascot for a short while. Ca. 2007-ish I think. Used to look like this:
In love with the idea of captain marvel being Billy's imaginary friend. Like, it'd be so easy. Early depictions had them as almost fully separate people sometimes, like one soul with two minds, rather than just two filters like we mostly see now.
But imagine a Billy down on his luck, hurt and hiding from police and criminals alike, daydreaming the hours away as children do, taking inspiration from all the superheroes rising to fame, making little stories to play out his dreams of saving the world with a generic action doll he found while dumpster diving once. Most of the paint's rubbed off.
Red's his favourite colour, his comfiest jumper is a bright ruby even after all the grime and washes. Gold, too, it's shiny and warmer than silver! A hero cape is a must, big and eye catching! And he can fly, of course, like superman, and in his daydreams, when he's sore and frustrated after a long day's grind, his superhero is smart enough and knows all the right words to get the bullies to stop without resorting to fighting.
His superhero fantasy is one he spends a lot of time on, the first one he goes for when struggling to sleep at night, and he can picture it so clearly. Captain marvel is big and bright and kind, strong enough to lift the boxes for the old lady up the road who's moving all by himself, fast enough to catch Jamie who fell out of the tree on Saturday and broke his leg and couldn't come to class for weeks. He appears at the entrance to alleys when Billy is cornered, he steps up behind to cover for him when he gets caught shoplifting, he sits at the bus stop with him when it's pouring rain and the right bus doesn't seem to be coming.
And then the wizard comes, or rather whisks him away, and like a magician from a fairytale breathes life into his imaginary friend until Billy feels thrice his size and a million times more invincible.
From then on, captain marvel is a real hero, just like Billy is a real boy, and as one they save the whole city, and then the whole world, and get cats down from trees and help Mrs Victoria move the last of her boxes and she gives them a pinch in the cheek and cookies for the road and sometimes it hurts but it's so much better than he imagined.
👩🎤 2000s Virtual Singers (also known as 2000s Virtual Mascot) – aesthetic and character trope based around fictional mascots that many companies used and were popular approximately from 2005 to the mid 2010s. These corporate mascots were often portrayed dancing and/or singing for an audience in a specific space, and generally they were anthropomorphized animals or object but there were a few singers that were humans. Some music videos involving these singers were also ringtone commercials that one could buy for their mobile phones, because of the technological limitation of the time.
Some iconic child-oriented examples are Gummibär or Psycho Teddy, both created by the company Jamba!. Other, more juvenile, examples may include Hatsune Miku and the Vocaloid boom during the late 2000s.
Because of the fact, that these singers were primarily popularized through TV ringtone commercials and holiday jingles, this aesthetic possibly started to fall out of style during the mod-2010s, because selling ringtones or wallpapers simple stops being fashionable or convenient due to the fact that they became more widely available for free to the public. Some of the last examples of popular 2000s Virtual Singer commercials may include GUMMI GANGNAM STYLE by Gummibär, which was a parody of the song Gangnam Style by PSY, which was one of the most popular songs at the time.
@flugame-mp3 and others who may be interested. sneak peak of JON DOES TAP!!! this is a snippet of last semester’s set (i’m the one on the left!! house left, stage right lol)
set was game night themed and this was our operation number (hence why zach’s in a hospital dressing gown lmao)
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