Many parts of my current animation project are based on my own IP, naturally, but equally as many parts are comprised of re-imagining of some of my favorite cartoon series from a long time ago. Here are a couple of character from part of the later, based on easily one of my favorite cartoons. This is a work in progress and I still have a ways to go while I try to invent a proper tail rig, that will behave the way I really want it to once I import the characters into Unreal Engine for final animation. Hence why you don't see the tails in these renders. I also made a few design changes to suit my own aesthetic choices. I figured that there are already a lot of phenomenal artists out there who have done some absolutely stunning work that is a spot on recreation of the original cartoon art, and since you can't improve upon perfection, I decided to design them a little different to suit my own aesthetic. That being said, I am holding off doing some more involved renders with these models until the new skin editor is released... then it's game on!























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I'm usually pretty good at knowing pop references (especially of the 80s-2000s period though I have a big hole around anime) but I dont know this one.  Hint?

This, my friend, is easily one of Disney's greatest animated series, as well as equally underrated.





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Interesting.  I have heard of it but never watched it.  This appears to have broadcast on the Saturday morning cartoons (I loved my saturday cartoons as a yuot).  I don't remember it broadcasting in the afternoon like the Batman series or animaniacs (which was about the only kids programming I was watching at that point.).  Also remember GI Joe and Transformers being a weekday morning show watching it before school.  Memories (though I have no idea why the sudden obsession with scheduling)...  Pretty cool.

I didn't know if you ever watched it, but the next section I am tackling at the same time is a pretty obscure one that it would appear that nobody remembers as well. Damn I loved this show. They even had one character modeled after a young Clint Eastwood, so plainly I had to tackle this one, lol.




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Your deep cuts go a lot deeper than mine hehe.  Mine are more along the lines of Voltron and Thunder cats.  Galaxy Rangers looks pretty badass.  Well at least the intro does.  Like an American version of Cowboy Bebop meets the WWF/WCW.  

That show was super badass. The Clint Eastwood character (Goose) was the ultimate badass too. He was not only a gunslinger, but also a shapeshifting mutant. That shit had me so totally jazzed as a kid, lol. The animation was extremely high level, especially in the 80's where budgets only allowed for a lot of money to be spent on the intro to series in order to draw you in, but then they had to cut corners throughout the season, like you often saw with a lot of shows. That's why shows like Transformers had certain episodes throughout season two where some looked near anime quality and other episodes were so poorly animated that characters had the wrong color palette, or there were missing frame sections, etc. Galaxy Rangers however, was super consistent with how epic the animation was. Which is why it was too expensive to last long, especially with not making it onto mainstream American networks that offered more lucrative advertising deals for animated series. 

Yeah, I've always wanted to be an animator since before the time when I could hold a pencil firmly, and I have lived all over the globe, which in turn has blessed me with the benefit of having seen some of the best examples of animation and filmmaking from multiple countries. Nerdom does have its benefits, lol. If you can extrapolate some good techniques from what you see from the old school animators, that most people wouldn't consider nowadays, know what I mean? :D



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Damn! I always marvel at your character creation. Top notch stuff!

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