Dexes

"Martin sank to his knees next to the fallen phone. Fingers entangled with his hair and he started to pull. The strands were healthy and wouldn't tear, so he tugged harder and harder and harder. It came off with a yank, now two large tufts laid trapped in his fists. What an utterly disgusting shade of blond. He should get rid of it entirely.

If given the choice, he might have torn himself bald."

!! All rights belong to the original Artist, Simon Paquette !!

Reading through some WK Storyboards to ease myself off the exam stress and also prepare for the animation analysis that I will definitely do one day (:

Wild Kratts has some pretty neat Storyboards up online that are free to look at (Posted by the Artists as Portfolio pieces rather than the Studio starring them for the masses) and I am eating them up, they are so nice to look at and definitely don't need to be this detailed. Like, my university had a character designer of the Owl House over one day and she showed us snippets of Amphibia storyboard which where much lower quality (for very funny reasons). But yeah, reading storyboards is just a very nice way to practice staging and camera direction without actually doing it-

I love how how dramatically Chris rolls into the scene just to say a sentence and then run off again. Koki literally being like >:0

And look at Martin, he is adorable in the bat eared fox suit. Gosh do I wish I could watch the animatics of the show

You guys-

You guys have no idea the actual genius of 9 Story Entertainment and BrownBag Films (The Production and Animation Studio for the Wild Kratts Episodes)

First of all. This is not traditional 2D animation.

This is Cut-Out Animation, also known as 2D Rigged Animation or Puppet Animation. Other shows you might be familiar with that use this technique are Bluey, Hilda, Rick and Morty, or the Big Hero 6 TV Show. There are more but these came to my mind first.

Cut Out Animation can be very limiting, because you work with 2D sprites in a 3D environment almost. The Tech Artists, sometimes called Character Builders, are the ones that take the design of the characters and creatures and build a 2D skeleton of sorts, putting bones inside of the png drawing and allowing it to move. It might sound easy, but trust me when I say it is a tiring process and the node-view is horrifying, haha.

I don't know if people would care for an actual deep-dive into the animation of the show, because believe me, I can talk a lot about it, as someone who is familiar with the animation technique, the technical/character building aspects of it, as well as someone who has actually access to the Software the Animation Studio is using to make these episodes (I kid you not when I say that I am in possession off all the tools to make my own Wild Kratts episode, minus the backgrounds because I hate doing those)

For those that care, THIS is what the animator sees before the episode gets finished, lol

Say hi to "Chad", he was part of the Shortfilm I made with some others in my third Semester at uni.

The purple plots are controllers with which you move the character around.

The green lines and dots are deformers which make the character able to bend and stretch.

Also, the thing in the right window is the beloved node view, or at least a small aspect of it. All these small squares have meaning and I won't even try to explain

I am sorry, but I just watched the seahorse episode and it left me with QUESTIONS.

This is not the first time one of the villains directly call the Tortuga gang on their creature pods. How do they have their number? Why would they just- pick up without thinking that there might be evil intentions???

Why did Donita only call Martin- Listen, I have seen the ship, I hear you guys, but maaaaan, that had me balling on the floor with laughter.

Also, also, also, can we pllllls talk about Chris's reaction to Martin's attempts of lying? Like, baby, please, just hang up, you are embarrassing yourself.

Chris here truly regretting his life decisions.

Guys I just can't with these two

I am just looking for conversation buddies.

This fandom is smol but from what I see everyone here has a great vibe and I wanna harness some of that >:3

Here have two screenshots I saved since I cannot stop gushing about them-

This... This is how they introduce themselves, right?

Anyhow, hi, hello!Pinterest said I should look at some fanart of a show I watched too much as a child and now I am here. Busy life so no idea how much art this phase will produce, but I already started posting a Martin-Whump-Fanfic, so you know the obsession is *bad*

Look at this man.



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I've been listening to the acoustic version of What are you waiting for by Paradise Fears a lot lately, and this song fits Starving Lights recovery so much, it is surreal.

Happy late new years

I forgot to post this...

Hello there! Yes, I am rewriting SL, but mostly because I wanted to give readers a better reading experience. I feel that sometimes I could have written things a bit different to make them much more immersive. Also, I liked the idea of Huey actually losing the eye, so now he did.

Edit: Plot-wise, not much will change in the rewrite, here are the few things I did change: That part where the boys just sit in the cage and be scared in chapter 5 is extended, Huey actually loses the eye, gets glass eye, some more trauma for him, both torture sessions are extended and the boys aren't actually told about the timephoon being the badgers motivator, the escape from the cages and them trying to run is a bit different, I actually made Louie's death sadder, not sorry

I also plan on adding more chapters along the way, especially during the recovery arc, because there is much more to trauma healing than I managed to show in the story, and I probably got like 5+ chapters planned to add once I finished all my uni exams and have some air to breath (;

And yes, more stories are to come, but university sadly has me in a cage at the moment Have a great day