Lisbon Time
Muppet Treasure Island…
Fern Gully tbh
Jackie’s Back
Home Alone 2
HOW DOES NO ONE REMEMBER LEGEND?yeah, always legend
Rocky Horror? Oh god, what does that say aboot me
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Nintendo just signed an exclusivity deal with Sega for Sonic’s rights (meaning that the 90s console war can finally be considered over, with the last vestiges of Sega’s pride lapped up by the behemoth that is Nintendo) and Sega are canvassing for a new mascot, so can we finally pronounce the hedgehog dead?
I don’t even give a fuck about the amounts of “oh look at me, special snowflake who can see the monster for what it is! listen to this fallen messiah” the rest of the post exhales, this post is stupid and will be called on it hundreds of times in the next few days.
I’M JUST REALLY FUCKING TIRED OF PEOPLE HEARING SOMETHING ON THE GRAPEVINE AND THEN GOING OFF IN RANTS WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE FULL NEWS OR CHECKING SOURCES
- SEGA DID NOT SIGN AN EXCLUSIVITY DEAL FOR SONIC’S RIGHTS, THEY SIGNED A DEAL WHERE THE NEXT 3 GAMES WOULD BE ON NINTENDO CONSOLES. GUESS WHAT, THEY ALREADY DID THAT VARIOUS TIMES BEFORE, ALL THEY DID THIS TIME WAS BOTHERING TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL- REMEMBER ALL THE SONIC GAMES THAT WERE ON NON-NINTENDO CONSOLES BETWEEN 2001 AND 2004? I DON’T.
- AND NO, YOU FUCKING BLOCKHEADED PANICKING DECAPITATED SCANDALIST FOXNEWS BLEEDING CHICKEN CORPSE-RUNNER OF A POSTER, SEGA ISN’T “CANVASSING FOR A NEW MASCOT”, ESPECIALLY NOT TO REPLACE SONIC. THEY HAVE AN ONLINE SHOW, AND WANT A MASCOT SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT SHOW. SEGA ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE OTHER MASCOTS FOR OTHER USES. SEGATA SANSHIRO IS A THING THAT HAPPENED. HE DID NOT REPLACE SONIC. SHUT YOUR VOCAL CHORDS.
- REALLY, SHUT THE FUCK UP
TL;DR - I FUCKING HATE MISINFORMATION
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The last of the redesigns for tonight- Zorabel, Queen of the Pirates, plus butler and pet frog, from Sonic the Comic.
No fancy colouring since I’m pressed for time. The redesigns livestream is over, but if you want to join and watch me work on a pamphlet for work, or just keep it open in a tab so you can listen to the music, I’ll keep the streamer on- http://www.livestream.com/thecrowandtheradio
Second result of the “SEGASonic-ify everything!” Livestream, currently ongoing! Join at http://www.livestream.com/thecrowandtheradio
Do-Bot from Sonic Underground.
First result of the “let’s SEGASonic ugly Sonic characters” Livestream going on, Lady Windimere from Underground!
Join us - http://www.livestream.com/thecrowandtheradio
come watch me swallow my own words about SEGASonic designing
Seriously, come in! Starting in 10 mins approx.
warning: stream prone to connection breakdowns. Also the music playing may be NSFW.
For the Livestream: Perhaps Lady Windimire and the Do-Bot from Underground, and Queen Zorabel from StC. (I'm not sure what species Windimire and Zorabel are meant to be, though Zorabel could just be a human) There's also probably quite a few AoStH background characters whose redesigns could be a serious challenge. ~RADIX
Well you certainly don’t pull your punches, do you? Underground and StC have some of my favourite designs that are unmistakeably un-SEGASonic. Not sure about AoSTH overall though. But yeah, those are a good idea.
I’ll try to Livestream around 10 PM GMT
I’m curious after that last Ask. Gimme Sonic characters you think are absolutely irreconciliable with the SEGASonic style and then come, assuming everything goes okay, watch me struggle live to make something out of them.
When Superman and Batman came to Japan, it was right after the war, right? Together with the G.I.s. In other words, our height and theirs was completely different. We were totally overwhelmed physically, and got this complex about being unable to compete with White people. It was just then that Superman arrived, the White man’s representative, and I thought who the hell does he think he is? And then Lois Lane, the classic American beauty. Even her outfit and her makeup were like a foreign woman’s. Of course today Japanese make themselves up more like foreigners than foreigners do. Ha ha ha.
But at the time, everyone in Superman looked like an alien from another planet. Compared with that, Mickey Mouse was just an animal, and so was easier to use. That’s the side I got consumed with. So just maybe, had I felt more in common with Superman, my drawing style would have been different.
”You know a lot about SEGA-izing characters from non-game media, so out of curiosity: are there any designs that you think simply cannot be SEGA-ized without throwing out just about everything about the original? ~RADIX
Hmm.
Well you see, I think the key here is that when I do SEGASonic designs, I ignore anything post Project Sonic, meaning I mostly base myself as “would this design fit in the artwork for Sonic Screensaver”. My logic is that if you make your design work as a classic design, then you just stretch it a bit and it works as a post-Adventure one.
Now, if you’ll look at all the Japanese SEGASonic material pre-Uekawa, there’s actually a big variety of shapes, so IMHO often half of the work is done if you draw the character as a 1920’s rubberhose cartoon instead of a 1980’s Disney Sunday Afternoon cartoon, as Sonic, particularly classic, is just that- rubberhose. From there, a couple more quick changes (as has been controversially shown with Sally recently, girls have clothes and boys don’t, everyone gets gloves and shoes, mechanical designs go the other way and instead of being simplified into rubberhose have to take inspiration from 80’s anime) goesa long way.
So long story short, I honestly can’t think of a design where a simple change in trace and proportions doesn’t already change nearly everything needed to make them look SEGASonic without losing the original design, and if changing clothes is all required for the character to lose everything that defined them, then they were extremely generic in the first place.
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