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Post by psychoangel51402 on May 27, 2009 10:13:19 GMT -5
That's entirely true. You know that picture in your faves on DA? The one of Rocky as an actual Raccoon? Well, that's what I picture. He's so cute and mournful-looking! TT-TT Faith is good, though...faith is good...
And so is silly! XP
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Post by Fatal hilarity on May 27, 2009 17:54:56 GMT -5
Cute cartoon animals in dark situations is one of my favorite things of all time, actually... that, and I had come up with a similar idea to that drawing for one of my own stories.
See, I was able to write this poem because there's so much going on just underneath the surface in cartoons, and it's comparable to real-life situations.
I simply LOVE revealing the dark underbellies of seemingly harmless cartoons... that's what happens when adults do family- or children-oriented things. Or better yet, when adults deliberately make a darker version of something that would normally be cute, like WFRR of The Secret of NIMH.
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Post by psychoangel51402 on May 28, 2009 18:17:58 GMT -5
I understand entirely. That's probably part of the reason why I'm such a HUGE fan of "Redwall". That's what it's all about. And that sort of thing can be very easy to relate to.
It's the psychology, I think, that can be utterly fascinating. Like the "Lilo and Stitch" movies, for example. Jumba and Pleakley are now members of the family who in the first movie were merely mosquito food to them.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on May 28, 2009 19:15:38 GMT -5
I found that after all these years of struggling with and failing at depicting human emotions in my art- I mostly got stuck on stereotypes and cliché characters, who were mostly jokes- I could write sincerely and emotionally with talking animals.
I dunno why... I just feel really awkward doing anything dramatic with a human. It seems phony and melodramatic. But when I do it with a talking animal, whether NIMH-esque or toon, all those raw and bleeding feelings suddenly seem real.
It's like I have to wear a mask to expose such things to readers.
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Post by psychoangel51402 on May 28, 2009 23:30:30 GMT -5
I'm the same. Everything with humans is always WAY overdone, used too many times. But because of their different features, using animals opens entirely new doors. The same basic facial expressions look the same from human to human, but on different species of animals the same basic expression looks ENTIRELY different!
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Post by Fatal hilarity on May 29, 2009 1:08:54 GMT -5
Yeah, it's really strange... you're lucky that you're aware of that, because I didn't truly find my niche until just last year: Dramatic comedy with talking animals/toons and fantasy and horror elements, with music involved somewhere- usually rock music.
I do plan to do things with humans, of course- just usually comedy. If it's at all serious, that would be because it either had action-packed adventure or straight horror.
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Post by psychoangel51402 on Jun 17, 2009 9:16:58 GMT -5
Yes, I am...I'm always looking for signs of God's guidance towards my career...I hope this may be a sign...
Your niche is very interesting! A unique combination! That'll be a refreshing hit, what with all these predictable genres...
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Jun 17, 2009 14:03:02 GMT -5
I try to make art that's on par with my influences on several levels, which is why I tend to make those sort of mixtures.
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Post by Cobrawolf on Jun 25, 2009 14:06:00 GMT -5
wow.....Nice Poem  |
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