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thorawilbar · 26 days ago

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Mae Flowers 🌸🌼🌸✨

I’ve been wanting to draw her for a while, and here she issss! 🌈☁️✨

Dream Along With Me and characters belong to @dreammeiser !

#dream along with me #dawm #mae flowers #dream along with me fan art

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thorawilbar · 2 months ago

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🌈Dream Along With Me FAQ!☁️

Hello, Hi! I decided to do a little FAQ since I get a lot of the same questions in my ask box! Beware... I have the tendency to yap... I will update this from time to time as more questions pop up!

✨ Question: What made you want to make DAWM? 🌈 Answer: So when I was very young, I had landed an internship at Jim Henson's, but I wasn't feeling satisfied with my work there, it wasn't scratching that creative itch. That's not to speak ill of it, when you're an intern you're not given that many tasks that are "higher stakes", that's just standard at a studio. When I was talking to my pops about this, he recommended I make the project I wished I was working on. Earl (full name Early Early Oxenfree) was my character that I was fixated on at the time, so I decided to give him a story and make him some friends. Take a gander at some of the (non-spoiler) concept work I started out with :oD (Don't worry, one day I'll show the other concepts when I can)

Pictured: Top Left: First version of Earl, circa August 2009. Top Right: June 2012 Earl Redesign. Bottom Left: Creature Doodles, Character Concepts, Earl Concept Doodle on Music Box. Bottom Right: Fiona Character Sheet (then called "Nautica" but scrapped the name because I didn't like it), circa 2018. ✨ Question: Why dreams and puppets? 🌈 Answer: Because I like them 😆

✨ Question: Is this an ARG/Mascot Horror? 🌈 Answer: No, it's an indie animated series :o)

✨ Question: Is this going to be like Five Nights at Har Har's? 🌈 Answer: No 😂 but if you enjoy that you might like DAWM?

✨ Question: Why does Archie have blue hair/yellow skin? 🌈 Answer: Because I like that combo. 😆 I mean why not? That's my favorite blue-- it's the same blue as my bird, Kraken! The choices for Archie's sweater and pants would've been a nightmare to track in animation so I had to go with something more simple. Yellow happens to be a skintone in 80s animated television that was popular at the time because of how eye-catching it was. I'm not going to make him look worse than he could be just because Marge Simpson or Yellow Guy or Sid the Science Kid or Joy from Inside Out did it first, that would be bad character design, babey! Primary colors are timeless and iconic combo for good reason. They're eye-catching and give contrast with colors in their simplest form, which is one reason they're prevalent in childrens' animated media and "kidcore" aesthetics.

Pictured: Left: Various Archie sweaters and pants combos. We ended up picking the blue and pastel striped pants with the plain cream sweater. Right: A photo of Kraken enjoying cheek rubbies

✨ Question: You worked at Jim Henson's?! What did you do there? 🌈 Answer: Yes! I was inducted as a muppet in summer of 2010! Kidding, I was just an intern. I was assigned to paint UV Texture Maps for paintings and props in the background. I also... modeled a pumpkin for their Halloween episode... One 😂 You can see one of my paintings in "Sleep? Who Needs It?!". It's a little funny because they picked the one painting (of three I made for this episode) I was not proud of... But uh, I also got to color one of the pages for the Archaia Dark Crystal comic and that was really cool <:o)

Pictured: Top: The painting used in the episode "Sleep? Who Needs It?!" and how it appeared in show. Middle: The unused other painting options. Bottom: From Left to Right, Texture I painted on a Teapot used in show. An unused UV Map for a cereal box. One colored page out of the Archaia Dark Crystal comic.

✨ Question: Why does Roy have 5 fingers on one hand and 6 fingers on the other? 🌈 Answer: It's all the better to high-five you with, silly! His handshakes are one finger friendlier! ;oD Hehe okay but silliness aside, when I was designing Roy, he was meant to look unsettling and off-putting to funnily contrast his sunny disposition, and was aware that folks judge people that are born a little different (it's unfortunate and honestly sucks but that's a whole other can of worms). One of the things I did was give him an entirely different finger count-- It was to make a little fun of gen A/I, which is unsettling and off-putting itself. Later though, folks pointed out he could be polydactyly representation. I love Roy and think that's actually pretty cool!

✨ Question: What were your inspirations for DAWM? 🌈 Answer: The Muppets, Sesame Street, Osamu Tezuka's works, and Moomin were some animated/puppet media off the top of my head that always stuck with me my whole life and have influenced my retro inspired work the most. They all had such sweetness and charm to them, and all felt like a found family :o) My favorite trope. Puppets were also just deeply meaningful to me because they were physical forms of creativity and childlike wonder you could hold and play with! I thought whenever you made one, you put a little bit of your heart and soul into them.

I wanted the Dreamalong Gang to have the charm of Jim Henson's and Tove Jansson's characters, but I wanted them to have the humor and intrigue of Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, and Welcome to Night Vale. DHMIS and Night Vale actually inspired the story the most because they were both a really nice mix of absurdist humor and horror! Sleep Paralysis Demons were a point of intrigue for me that I thought were perfect for a Dreamscape setting, so I started working on including those.

I will mention too that seeing Welcome Home encouraged me to post my art again, seeing it made me feel nostalgic, but also incredibly happy to see people appreciate Muppet-inspired art again <:o) I fully intended to just keep all of this to myself because being in the public eye is spooky, but I know that's something I wanted to change, so I just started throwing spaghetti at the wall... this time, with feeling!

Pictured: Top Left: Sesame Street Illustration done by Maggie Swanson! Top Right: Muppets Illustration done by Joe Ewers! Second Row Left to Right: Over the Garden Wall, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. Third Row Left to Right: Gravity Falls, Welcome to Night Vale. Fourth Row Left to Right: Astro Boy, Moomin (1990) ✨ Question: What programs/apps do you use to make your animations and paintings? 🌈 Answer: So for paintings, I use Adobe Photoshop and I experiment between animating with Adobe Photoshop, TVPaint, and Toonboom Harmony. I have been animating more with Toonboom lately though! For editing programs, I have been using either Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro. I used to use Capcut, but they put a lot of effects I used under a paywall >:o0 Peepee....

✨ Question: Is yumeshipping/self-shipping allowed? 🌈 Answer: As long as everyone being shipped is a consenting adult, it's all good. Have fun :oD

✨ Question: Can I draw fanart/cosplay as one of your characters? 🌈 Answer: YES... My team and I love seeing fanart and we've been dying to see some cosplays! 😭 I would only say, don't send it to me if it is NSFW leaning, please 👁️👁️

✨ Question: Can we have a Content Warning List? 🌈 Answer: Yes! I may update this from time to time if it changes, if that's alright, but as far as what has been planned/written... Here are the trigger warnings so far:

Body Horror, Friend Loss/Death, Neglect, Religious Horror, Abusive Households, Blood/Slight Gore, Cleithrophobia (fear of being trapped), Suicidal Ideations, Depersonalization/Derealization (these are kinda/sorta... it's hard to explain without spoiling), Oneirophrenia (Dream-Reality Confusion), Manipulation/Brainwashing, Disorientation.

These are honestly tentative as well, I don't want to be doing something someone else is doing accidentally 0o:>

✨ Question: What were your inspirations for the characters? 🌈 Answer: Here's the inspiration boards for them :o)

✨ Question: Do you have boundaries surrounding the project? 🌈 Answer: Oh, I mean kinda? It's just something to be aware of, I know not everyone will be respectful but I appreciate the people that make the effort <:o) Thanks for asking! I'll paste them in from my Instagram Stories.

✨ Question: When will we get the pilot episode? 🌈 Answer: It's hard to know when or have an exact date, but I can tell you we currently have a goal of releasing the teaser for it by end of this year. Our goal is to have the pilot out next year :o)

✨ Question: Where can we best follow your work? 🌈 Answer: I mostly update on my instagram through posts and stories. 0o:

✨ Question: What's the best way to support DAWM? 🌈 Answer: Memberships and one-off donations on my Ko-Fi go towards myself and our team. We're thinking of a GoFundMe or Kickstarter to fund the pilot... Not sure yet <:o0 But for now, Ko-Fi helps a lot. Thank you so much for asking 😭💖 So far, you've all helped pay for voice work and puppet materials, we appreciate you so much <:o)

✨ Question: BUT ARE THEY GAY/HOW OLD ARE THEY/HOW TALL-- 🌈 Answer: Yes yes and yes Archie - He/Him, early 30s, Biromantic. 5'10" Mae - She/Her, early 30s, Panromantic. 5'5" Earl - He/Him/They/Them, late 20s, Demi/Pan. 5'7" Honeybell - She/Her, late 30s, Ace. 2'11" Fiona - She/Her, early 20s, likes women. 6'2" Mufflin - He/Him, late 30s, likes men. 6'7" Teddy - He/Him/They/Them, late 30s, Panromantic. 6' Bertie - He/Him, mid 30s, Grey, likes women. 8'5" Lunette - She/They/He, mid 20s, Panromantic. 5'6" Oddrey - She/Her, early 30s, Biromantic. 5'8" Roy - He/Him, late 30s, ???. 5'6"

#dawm project #dawm

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thorawilbar · 7 months ago

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