A drawing of @ouroridae and my DND characters Midknight & Thorian. You can find little easter eggs related to their campaign in this piece as well, featuring NPCs, Party Members, their horses....
I'm leaving the Big Nate crew to join the Max and the Midknights crew as a CG Generalist! Working on Nate for over 2 years now has been an incredible experience and I love the entire team! And I'm thrilled to continue my career at Nickelodeon with Lincoln Peirce's wonderful stories. Did this little animation for fun to celebrate!
here are the only two drawtober drawings I was able to get done,, I wasn't able to do the 3rd prompt in time then time kept slipping away from me and now it's end of October and i have no motivation to do the prompts now
i still want to draw what i had in mind for the other prompts, but in my own, very slow, time
The media the 87 turtles like both as a whole and as individuals says some really interesting things about them. Things which I'm about to overthink.
First off, when it's all of them the media of choice is monster movies. Kaiju, creatures and aliens all included.
They seem to identify with the monsters more than the heroes despite being fairly heroic themselves. They have a special fondness for turtle-monsters and avoid any monsters that remind them too much of their enemies (The Brain from Dimension X for instance).
Which makes sense! They remember being helpless animals, the fantasy of being huge and powerful and scary to humans is a valid one and it gives them a chance to let off some steam in their imagination when they wouldn't hurt anyone in real life.
Donatello really likes Film Noir, at one point quoting Dirty Harry, and reads an expy of The Dark Knight Returns (The MidKnight Crusader).
Donatello's a turtle with a lot of aggression that he tries to keep at least somewhat buried. He's often too blunt or indifferent without intending to be so he tries not to be deliberately mean as well. He also stays within the lines for dealing with enemies but against enemies where it's less clear what the lines are he can be ruthless - throwing lit dynamite after a nightmare spirit, torturing an AI for information, and leaving an energy being to be eternally bounced between two satellites.
It makes sense that he fantasises about people who don't have to try to tone themselves down to be part of a team. Lone wolves who do what needs to be done and get results.
Raphael likes game shows and stand up comedy, but also art films. At one point he teases Michelangelo that he'll have to get into opera since he can't get the comic series he wants, which might or might not imply an interest in opera.
Raphael's preferences for media are eclectic, but it strikes me that the things he watches on his own don't really contain violence. He's happy to watch monster movies alongside his friends, but on his own that's not what he goes for. (He also responds to Leonardo feeling sick during a gory dinosaur movie by assuming that's what's causing it and teasing Leonardo, which makes me think maybe he's the one that finds it a bit much.)
He's willing to fight when necessary (as long as he's sure it's necessary) but on his own Raphael doesn't care much for physical violence.
Michelangelo does go for monster movies on his own, even if they sometimes give him nightmares. He's had to be torn away from a couple he was watching by himself. He's also the only one who seems interested in a series where the focus is on the hero fighting the monsters and the monsters are regularly defeated - Michelangelo is the turtle who most likes humans and is happy to identify with them.
He reads a lot of comics, which seem to be more traditionally heroic as opposed to Donatello's interest in the grittiest Batman take, although his favourite one is about Bugman who could be considered a mutant like them, or at least like Splinter.
There's also a mean chat show focused around putting people the host doesn't approve of "on trial", which has vibes of "Michelangelo, why?" but I guess he likes to sit back and watch the drama.
Leonardo loves Samurai movies and remains convinced that everything they do was possible in ancient Japan (although circumstances seem to prove him right). He's the most interested in their Japanese heritage through Splinter and always interested in martial arts.
He also wants to watch kickboxing, making him the only one of them interested in watching sports.
There's also literature with Leonardo the only one of them to seem interested in reading much - starting with The Three Musketeers. Once again it's about swords. I suspect it's also about the intense friendship, fighting alongside one another, and "all for one" element. These turtles don't think of themselves as brothers, so Leonardo doesn't quite have a word for what they are. I can imagine he's looking at the musketeers going "that's us! we're that!" when he didn't have a model for it before.
A howdy to everyone to start off my name is lenny midknight and i like art, anime, video games, and like to make videos sometimes i hope to meet new people here :3
Nickelodeon’s new show 'Max & the Midknights’ art just got leaked. And I’m not surprised by the art style, since Dave Skelly, the art director of Nick’s Big Nate is one of the showrunners. Oh well...