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Wounds that never healed

Thank you for the tag @hastalavistabyebye 🩵

Waves might just be the best candidate for this, so here's for all the folks that wanna know more, and some miscellaneous Waves art below the cut:

ARC-4775 "Waves"

1. Waves was initially a heavy weapons trooper before he became an ARC. His first love? Rotary cannons. Even as an ARC, it is hard to find him on an infantry mission without a Z6 or a chaingun. He's a pretty decent shot with any blaster, but he loves melting droids with dozens of plasma rounds per second.

2. He has a shell collection. If he can find one that fits in a free pocket, it's his. Waves might never know that creature the shell came from, but it's something that belongs to him now, so it's special. Some shells are gifts from other troopers that make them even more special, and given the lack of personal possessions clones are allowed to have makes these small shells he's been holding onto all the more precious.

3. 4775 came from a randomly generated 4 digit code in 2016 that serve no functional purpose but I became attached.

4. Initially given the name Waves after the sound of a heart murmur mimicking the sound of the waves crashing into the supports of Tipoca City, later discovered an immense love of the sea. He insists the name is derived from the later option, but those close to him know it's the former. Said defect almost had Waves decommissioned as a cadet, hence his hesitation to share the truth.

5. Waves had a custom black series figure. Said custom black series figure has 36 college credits and has met Temuera. He's cooler than me ig.

Tagging: @adhd-coyote, @cloneplatoon, @brainrotparsecsaway, @tuatara-time, and @ceredonthrivsk

Some pictures for those unfamiliar with Waves

Today's oc: Clone Pilot Fireball of the 829th

1: Shorter than the average clone coming at around 5'6 (170 cm)

2: Lost his orginal squad he de-tubed with during the battle of komino. He was a lone survivor out of his squad and had to deploy without them. Sending him in to a depressive state he has to constantly hide.

3: Bleached his hair after reading on the holonet a change in appearance can help his depression. It worked for about 12 hrs now he's just growing out his curls.

4: Not originally from the 829th but transferred in after squad hoping through different units trying to find a fit.

5: has a flame tattoo going up his arm in the same placement on his armor. In memory of his fallen brothers and what killed them.

6: His sqaud died in a grounded LAAT explosion when a squid ship breached thr hanger roof and hit the engine. Killing 4/5 squad members near instantly since they where using the ship for cover

preview of his new reference sheet in the makings. my lovely blondie in all of his unarmored glory

✨ Happy Star Wars Day Week everyone! (a bit late to posting this here 😅) ✨

Time to finally give you some updates on the Tukk Tales project and introduce one of its new characters:

Commander Faust of the Coruscant Guard.

More on him soon, but for now I'll let this animation speak for itself. 🫡👀

But why new characters? And where's the short film??

First of all I'm sorry I haven't been great with keeping you all updated in the past! Juggling the project with my freelance work and private life hasn't been easy and I wanted to wait until things have developed further until I make any new announcements, but here's basically what happened:

After the announcement teaser trailer in 2023 completely blew up and I got to see how much love and support there already is for Tukk, his company and the project, I got motivated to push both my storytelling skills and the film itself a lot further, going back and rewriting the whole thing to let us spend more time with these characters and tell a more impactful and memorable story.

Instead of a little one-off 6 minute short (which at the time was still mostly in rough previz stage), it evolved into something closer to a full Clone Wars episode, which I've eventually decided to separate into three mini-episodes, inspired by the beautiful "Tales of" shows from Lucasfilm.

With that expansion also came the need for a lot more characters, designs and assets. And since I'm making all of those from scratch, with hand-painted textures, animator-friendly rigs and screen-accurate details that have to hold up in all kinds of close-ups, I've spent a LOT of time on that part of the process while simultaneously setting up some of the previz animations for the new story.

But an end of that step is in sight and once it is complete, updates will become way more frequent as I'm much faster when it comes to bringing shots from previz to a final stage.

I still can't give a release date yet as it's a no-budget personal project that is happening between client jobs, but it's still going full steam ahead and I'm extremely excited about the new direction it has taken on a while ago.

I'll also be looking for other character animators to bring onto the project later on and help out with some shots, so if you're interested in volunteering, feel free to send me your reel (mail address in my linktree)!

That's it for now, more character reveals soon (and no, they won't all be clones 🗡️🥸)!