Podcast Cover Art Illustration vs Animation Character Design
From their original design on the cover art of our fiction podcast - all the characters were changed a bit for animation!
This was mostly due to needing to simplify the characters to make them easier to animate (aka replicate over and over), but also have the opportunity for a few adjustments to suit their characters.
AURELIA
Aurelia is the most similar to her cover art illustration
Her uniform is looser, with sleeves rolled up - to reflect her more relaxed/chaotic character
SIM
On the other hand - Sim’s uniform is tight and perfectly pressed! Much like her.
We felt Sim needed different hair - something neater like her uniform, and also more gay…
Now all the characters have legs - you can also see that Sim is a short king!
Who knew how hot Sim was?!?!
MO
We needed to simplify Mo’s hair, uniform and remove the necklace
Also looking more gay now with the helix and tat! ☺️
Mo’s armpit hair matches her blue hair 😂
(In hindsight I wish we ditched the tat - because it was a detail that often got missed by the animators - so we had to add it in frame by frame in a lot of shots!)
SOLARIS
Very similar!
You can see the head to body ratio is different here, as all the animated characters have heads larger than normal
DUSTY
Flight jacket to represent the pilot skillz
Butched her up a bit more
New hair 🥵
BOB
Very similar
Now with cute lil paunch
Our animators all loved sweet Bobby and were committed to “baby girlifying him”
Watch them all in action here (you can watch in any order!):
Episode 1 (Sim & Aurelia)
Episode 2 (Mo & Solaris)
Episode 3 (Bob & Dusty)
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Working on a commission of Serpentor! (commissioned by the same guy who got the Doctor Mindbender picture)
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Favorite Side kicks or characters
Lucy Jack (Home On The Range, Disney)
Joanna (Rescuers Down Under, Disney)
Bartok (Anastasia, 20th Century Fox Animation)
Brutus & Nero (The Rescuers, Disney)
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