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As a good exercise, I found Todd Kauffman of Total Drama Island's old character design of Duncan from 2006 from his blog, and decided to try to re-clean this 20 year old drawing with the modern Animate style (sadly I found out at the same time Animate is being discontinued; RIP).

And as another one, I made another clean up take on a sort-of on model Duncan in line to the current Total Drama style; I say sort-of because his pose is still very loose and expressive like the original design compared to how stiff and tween-robotic TD is handled.

2006 vs 2025

Today is the anniversary of Danny Phantom, one of my favorite Nickelodeon shows growing up as a kid; and I uncovered a fan-fictional Jimmy Timmy Power Hour-inspired book I wrote and illustrated when I was in 2nd grade. And one of the drawings was apparently Danny. I was even observant then. I can tell it was from 2006 because the book was inspired by the 2nd Jimmy Timmy crossover, which premiered at the time, and by then, Danny Phantom already got his logo in his jumpsuit. I was even observant then honestly.

Never stop drawing kids.

This was a practice to try to streamline and revamp the design of a classic Hanna Barbera cartoon series; inspired by the 2 Stupid Dogs version of Secret Squirrel, which I loved growing up. I chose Crazy Claws from The Kwicky Koala Show mostly because it's one of the most obscure shows made in HB, plus I enjoy Groucho Marx films (which was the motif for Crazy's voice IIRC).

Going for a flat, graphic and continuous flow on their builds while adding sharp angles. I try not to make them too much unrecognizable while still slightly keeping their design flat and graphic. Also made Crazy Claws' namesake more prominent by having his actual hands literally sharp.

Rawhide Clyde always seemed like just a Yosemite Sam-expy (makes sense since the show's creator Tex Avery was a Golden Age WB alumni), so I replaced his giant beard with a more Fred Flintstone-esque stubble, which sort of makes him more original. I also gave Bristletooth a little stubby yet not too blobby type of body to contrast Crazy Claw's slick and fast design.

I found out that in my school we get to make thesis films for our third and fourth/final year. While it is waaaaaaayyy too early for that, on the wayside, I've been developing some potential thesis film ideas and characters to save for later. Who knows what could happen? Maybe I might take them as their own standalone film or maybe they might be used.

One of the ideas I have involves a wise-ass and invasive Michael Scott-meets-Groucho Marx-esque hyena who set up a circus-themed Entertainment Agency and her employees and clients (who are freakshow attractions) always puts up with her crazy and weird shit. I was anticipating it to be an office-comedy since I've been watching The Office lately, but also want to execute it in a matter similar to Smiling Friends where weird shit happens along the way.

This is one of the development pieces I did of the boss character and their assistant (I'm trying to make it work in a way that's different from another concept I have; more on that later), and I haven't even revealed any of the other employees neither. I've been tweaking their designs a bit and as this is preliminary sketch concept, they may even look vastly different at this point than they do now (I've also been working on the name of the concept too).