#flash animation

Hi there and thanks for you question.

In all honesty that is a question for my co-creator Lili Chin. While we worked in tandem on all of the designs, French Twist was all her. My take is that yes - he uses lipstick to accentuate his mime persona.

I love the design too, and it was very important in the development of Mucha Lucha!, as up until then we (as lucha libre purists) had been keeping the mask designs and personas fairly grounded in the world of professional lucha libre. French Twist was one of the first designs that pushed things outside the box for us in terms of look and character.

As for his origins, I remember the writer of one of the early episodes had come up with a bunch of names for background characters in the classroom, and French Twist was one. There was no description of the character, just a name. In a moment of inspiration Lili took it upon herself to design him as a Marcel Marceau French mime, giving us the character we know today.

i havent animated or done any animations in a while but i worked on this & its finished now!!

ive been kinda stressed & anxious recently so this was a stress reliever (thats why i put that in the title btw, but i still luv joel even if hes just a cringy lil guy from the smurfs 2025 movie!!!)

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song (not mine):

Since for a long time I’ve wanted to see some of the characters to have some development, including the teachers (headmistress, hasbeena, midcarda, kurtz, custodio & fundador), and ever since the announcement about the teachers’ development arc i haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since, and I’m very happy about that :D

And I was wondering if the teachers will have a development arc (both in character and personality, since they are the school staff), or an arc that consists of diving deeper into them, for example, such as their interactions with other characters (such as the parents or students) and all that stuff.

Thank you!

All I can say is that they will be featured in the story. As I've mentioned, I have a beginning, middle and end. I know in my head where the characters will be featured, but until I start drawing and reach the stages where I want them involved, it's all just ideas. I don't actually write scripts for projects like this and prefer just to keep building on the original one-sentence-premise idea. I will say though, that they will be 'active' :)