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Africa. Silence. Bonfire. And banana beer x)

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Hey Tokay, if you have to pick a roommate out of these four villains, who would it be?

Hm.. Shen. But I'd rather choose Dr. Doofenshmirtz x)

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I like that Shockwave just took pieces of glass, glued them together and pretended it was a mega impenetrable dome with no roof x)

-SGStarscream

-SGSkyquake

- SGShockwave

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Would you ever do like a subnautica artbook? Like a collection of your wonderful paintings and works of subnautica?

I was thinking of the simplest merch, like postcards or stickers 🤔 Although I myself love it when artists make like zines where they collect their sketches. But I don't know if it makes sense to do something like that yet x)

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If the Architects had started breeding chelicerates, they would have achieved different color variations of this shrimp. They'd also make it smaller x)

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SGShockwave here is a sort of mixture of Wirl with Brainstorm from idw and Shockwave from Animated x) Contrary to his original, he is a rather emotional and even mentally unstable individual who himself cannot explain most of his life decisions. However, he is in this universe also a rather talented scientist with a genius that borders on mild insanity.

Much lighter in weight, active, can run fast Despite most of his inventions being useless, he made his mark on the decepticons even before the war. From creating his “tame scraplets” to fixing SGSound after he lost his arms. His left hand had a prosthetic instead of a cannon, which could swap his wrist for different tools (like Silver's from Treasure Planet), but more often than not left a miniature palm, which made it much easier for him to do small jobs (hence the scraplets, not the predacons as in the original).

Of course, Optimus couldn't help but try to get such a scientist into his ranks. Most likely, however, Shockwave had only rattled the nerves of the autobots with his behavior. Optimus had hopes for him, but either Shockwave only gave away failed projects or ones that were more likely to harm the autobots. It was hard to tell if it was intentional. But either way, the leader made the scientist himself the subject of an experiment. Namely resurrecting his corpse with dark energon, a parallel to how Megatron in the series first tried to resurrect Cliff. Shockwave in this universe is fragile and completely unarmed, so it didn't take long to break him.

Minicomic with him -SG Knockout (minicomic)

-SGSoundwave

-SGStarscream

-SGBreakdown

-SGAirachnid

-SGArcee

-SGSkyquake

-SGvehicons

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I like your idea that when carmilla went to hell she was already pregnant, that could explain her daughters existence and why zestial was so protective over them 🤔

Do you have any headcanons/ideas about why zestial and carmilla went to hell?

Hm... Let's see... /digging out a sketch from a year ago/

Given that Zestial arrived in Hell a long time ago, he could have done all sorts of wild things. Maybe he was a maniac or a serial killer (but an intelligent one at that), and once in hell his fantasy of killing with impunity was limited only by his imagination. But as the years or centuries passed, his fervor waned, and he began to use his findings more for his own defense. So he retired x)) Carmilla… who knows? Maybe she's like a Black Widow - she studied ballet, and ballet with extremely strict discipline, but at the same time engaged in espionage, got pregnant by someone, and maybe the same man killed her in the end. These aren't even headcanons, just the first thing that came to mind x) The show itself has revealed so little about these characters that you can make up anything there. But the fact that they may have killed someone in their lifetime seems most likely. But I like that these two eventually found each other. Zestial is so settled by the time Carmilla shows up that it wouldn't be surprising if he was so eager to protect the pregnant woman.

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Brother's support

I liked this random sketch in the sketchbook, so why not x)

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Hi, I hope you're having a nice day.

I'm want to make this YouTube video and I wanted to talk to you beforehand. Basically I want to make a "lore accurate" Scylla animatic edit, mirroring the encounter from the Odyssey as closely as I can only through different animatics put together by the EPIC community, with a couple of edits. I was wondering if you'd approve of me using sections of your Scylla animatic for my video (the dog heads in your animatic are actually what gave me the idea initially). If you accept, I'm more than willing to credit you and your original animatic in the video's description.

If you have any questions or want more details, feel free to ask.

Thanks for your time.

PS: Sorry if this is the wrong way to contact you, I tried here on Tumblr since I figured you maybe have your commisions over on Artstation.

Hi. Sounds interesting 👀 If there will be an credits, then sure, I'm fine with that.

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Lobelia

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The vehicons in this SG are the Autobots' workforce, who for the most part worked in the mines. When Optimus became addicted to dark energon, he decided to produce it himself - put small crystals in the energy pipes of the vehicons, which, thanks to the flow of blood, grew over time. When a vehicon was no longer able to work, he was sent to Ratchet for disassembly, thus replenishing the supply. During the war, resources to produce new cons became scarce, but by this point all the workers had already fallen victim to the experiment.

The decepticons were only able to bring a small fraction of these bots to their ship. Soundwave, through Lazerbeak, did the reconnaissance, Starscream developed the plan, and Skyquake executed it. But he purely physically could not bring whole crowds of cons to the ship, even using the ground bridge.

Next, they underwent a sort of crystal purge with Breakdown, and since extra parts are rare, the vehicons sat in the Nemesis barracks without any body parts.

Soundwave provided them with psychological support through communications and kept the riots in check, as the vechicons of this universe are more defiant and embittered by nature. Laserbeak became their favorite, but they tried to avoid the other decepticons.

Soundwave was a kind of inner voice of support for them, which they almost never saw in person, but they were very afraid of the big bots like Megatron and Skyquake. They were also afraid of Breakdown. The only ones they treated more or less evenly were Starscream and Airachnid.

Because of the fact that Knockout was also quietly drugging on dark energon in the corners, the workers probably avoided him as well x)

When the Autobots found Nemesis, and consequently finished off the remaining enemies, Soundwave asked Wheeljack to release the vehicons specifically, knowing that they were the only ones left alive on that ship. However, no longer vessels for energon crystals and unable to function, the vehicons were no longer of any value to the Autobots, even in terms of parts and energon. Therefore, it could be said that a complete genocide took place, with only Soundwave surviving. And that was only because Rodimus was accidentally thrown into this universe.

Wheeljack here is actually the character who had the makings of a traitor. I mean, he had a conscience, unlike the other Autobots, like Bumblebee, and he realized that he was doing terrible things. But, unable to go against Optimus, he never decided to switch sides. It's quite possible that he was then either executed or went insane himself.

-SG Knockout (minicomic)

-SGSoundwave

-SGStarscream

-SGBreakdown

-SGAirachnid

- SGArcee

-SGSkyquake

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hi! I don’t know if this has been asked before, it I was wondering what program you used to make your animatics? and, if possible, do you have any tips on making animatics? I really love your work and I want to try and make my own!

Hi!

I use adobe animate, but it's limited in features. Neither effects nor blurring with it can not do much, but I'm just glad that my computer can withstand it and can render the finished work for subsequent compositing (since the program itself also has problems with the sound, the song for some reason it rushes, or lags behind, which must be corrected separately) x) As for the animatics themselves, I advise you to set a goal for each scene. I know that many authors have such a habit, as too often change scenes, angles, that almost every second something flashed, moving. Maybe it's out of fear that the viewer will be bored, but it's a problem that the viewer might not understand what's going on. So sometimes you have to ask the question, is this or that scene necessary? Does it give enough information, does it show enough so that the eye immediately goes where it needs to go (especially if the scene is short). Of course, this does not apply to abstraction or anything like that, and if you just want to show something, without any purpose, why not, but if there is a sense in the scene, it is weightier. Anyway have fun with it. Animatics not for a commercial project should first of all give you the joy of being able to tell something through the language of animation :3

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ALL YOUR EPIC ANIMATICS ARE SO GOOD EKAFHDLKJHDAKJFH

:3 He he

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For some reason I remember a rather old AI site called Artbreeder. These are drawings from 2021, back then I didn't even know this site was with AI, more like just a regeneration of interesting and abstract images that were being redrawn. In this case the fish x) So these are not generated images, more like studies brought to something more meaningful.

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Just Hephaestus on a donkey х)

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Hey, Tokay since Death lost his children and his wife all on the same day. What happens next? Cause he would be going through so many emotions being sadness, loneliness, and guilt to the point where he sobs for the first time.

Hm... Let's just say that Wolf spent all of his grief on the children, as they didn't leave all three at once, but one by one. (The last to leave was probably the daughter, which hit him especially hard)

The she-wolf left after them after a while (when there was almost no white fur left on her muzzle), most likely slowly and painfully, so when Wolf was left alone, he had nothing but apathy among his emotions.

It made him gray and probably just wandered around the world. The other incarnations of life did not want to deal with him ( the lynx, the bear and the stork), so he had only to go to Kaang, i.e. the Dog. Perhaps the Wolf was looking for a way to die, and who better than the Dog to know about it.

(In fact, I'd look at that time period, because as we know, Wolf and Dog didn't get along. And here he just came and most likely kept silent. And the Dog just accepted the guest and started making beer x) ) Though Kaang guessed the purpose of the visit, not sure they talked much on the topic. If they talked at all.

Maybe the old man will just say that Wolf should return to his wife's grave when he is ready - she will be waiting for him.

And the recent sketch was just about the interval when he returned and saw the sprout.

This may be more of a weird fantasy already, but there was even a text on the topic.

Eventually his white pelt began to thin. Kneeling, he became grayer in every way. Until he dissolved into a peculiar blob of smoke, guarding the tree. He wouldn't let anyone near him, forcing him to wander between the three trees. And if you do evil, the mist will do the same. But he will not let blood be spilled near the tree, if it comes to that. He will lead them away, so as not to desecrate the roots that are sacred to him. Will bring moisture as well as living coolness, so that his wife may sleep peacefully in his arms.

It could more like some kind of legend or fairy tale that the same descendant of the Puss in Boots would start telling someone on the street. Like, "no one has seen these wolves for a long time, but my great-grandfather met them personally." And then the story went on, like in some Disney feature films, like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Actually this headcanon and end of the story of these wolves is probably 2 years old now, but I'm really surprised someone still has interest in them x)