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Here are some drawings from “The Zoo”. Ages ago, Rebecca pitched The Zoo to Lamar and I as this absolute utopian, hippie society full of beautiful and healthy people with no concept of pain or sadness. So we went to town drawing as many different kinds of hot people as possible! 70s sci-fi, hippie communes, The Time Machine (1960), The Footlight Parade (1933), and the Centaurette sequence from Fantasia were all influences for this episode. 

i had SO much fun working on the zoo episode of steven universe with katie. when we first got the episode we were talking a lot about how the zoo is supposed to be this kind of utopia. a good good friend of mine told me about a quote from…uh…someone…about how utopias usually have something/someone missing, or that you should look for what’s not there in these settings. with that in mind i wanted to make the zoomans (zoo humans) as varied and diverse as possible. here are some initial sketches + a few board drawings.