#tupu

After Commissioning @missplayer30 of The Space Goofs cast in the Artstyle of Tomm Moore, I’ve been lately watching a whole lot of Cartoon Saloon Movies Non-Stop (as well binging on Other Xilam Shows) that I’ve been inspired by @missplayer30 to do my own Artstyle Challenge of what Other Xilam Cartoons would look like in the Cartoon Saloon Artstyle since both the Goofy-Comedy & the Traditional-Beauty styles were one of the Tradition Inspirations to my Artstyle. 

I didn’t really want to add Lucky Luke (mainly “The Daltons”) in there since Lucky Luke is one of the Famous Franco-Belgian Comics that has been adapted before a lot in each Different Artstyle (even Xilam is one of the Top Tens) for I wanted to focus on picking their Actual Original Works.

You could obviously tell that while making these, I had to pick out Each & Every Different Style from Any Other of Tomm Moore’s Works into a blending mashup within each of Marc Du Pontavice’s Works considering that both Animation Studios tend to flesh out their own Artstyle (raging from Movies to Shows that I choice to do a combination).

Despite being a Huge Lover to the Movies (especially my Most Fav being The Irish Folklore Trilogy), I haven't been on a touch with Shows from Cartoon Saloon (besides than Skunk Fu) so I might give any of their Shows a Try Someday (same can be said to Xilam's Movies).

Those who are deeply aware in case if they haven't seen Space Goofs that are already drawn in this Artstyle, y'all can Click the Link Here.

All of Xilam's Shows (c) Marc du Pontavice, Olivier Jean-Marie, & Jean-Yves Raimbaud

Apart from these shows, l also like Ratz, Oggy and the Cockroaches, Oggy and the Cockroaches: The New Generation, A Kind of Magic, Moka's Fabulous Adventures, Tupu, Shuriken School, Hubert and Takako, Flopaloo! Where are You? and the Daltons.

i also think i've gotten a similar feeling when finding media to be European (other than the UK). i think i've even guessed it beforehand on occasion. like Tupu again, Rekkit Rabbit, Matt's Monsters, Arthur and the Invisibles.

i must note i don't mean to erase the Singaporean origin of Dinosaur Train. Sparky Animation is a Singapore animated content company which provided animation for the show. much appreciation for that. wait as i'm typing this rn i'm remembering that Big City Greens has an episode that has a gag making a point about people shoving material over to Asian countries to have the show animated???

k i just researched this shit and outsourcing of animation has become very widespread and it's been a thing since the 60s. ain't it wild how many American folks may have grown up watching cartoons animated by Asian people and were still taught racism against Asians by people and other media they saw on TV???

also anybody viewing this know more about outsourcing of animation, particularly Western companies hiring Asian companies, that they can tell me?

Tupu (possibly Inca, 1400 – 1533 [?])

Tupu is the Quechua word for “pin”.  Women in the Andes used these pins to fasten garments.

Apart from the basic form of a head & stem, tupus have wide variation in their design.  This pin's head forms a rounded triangular shape, with two spirals emerging at the top.  Some have suggested that these motifs are floral; others have suggested that they represent butterflies, especially the nocturnal butterflies that are called thaparanku in Quechua, with the spirals representing antennae.

The head of the tupu is symmetrical, and has a circular perforation near where it meets the stem, which is thick and pointed.  The stem's thickness suggests that it was first cast to its basic shape, and then hammered to finish the form.  Another possibility is that the metalworkers used cast stock metal that they had available, and hammered the head of the tupu in order to thin it.

The spirals were originally long, straight rods that projected from the top of the head.  The metalworkers carefully hammered the rods and annealed them (heated them & allowed them to cool slowly, to remove internal stresses and toughen them), and bent them to form the spirals.

For most of the spirals, the cross-section of the metal is circular. However, the part where it begins to turn outward into the spiral is rectangular in cross-section.  The metal rods may have originally been rectangular, or they may have been cut to have such a cross-section from cast stock metal.  Hammering and annealing of the spirals caused the cross-section of these parts to take on a circular form.

The stem also has a circular cross-section.  After the metal was cast and hammered, the head was perforated with a metal or stone punch.  This meant the tupu could be threaded and potentially connected to another tupu and other ornaments.