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erikwiese · 3 months

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SONIC PRIME "AVOID THE VOID" STORYBOARD COMPARISON

Inspired by what some of my colleagues have posted to Tumblr and IG, I’ve put together this side-by-side comparison of my Sonic Prime storyboards and the final animation. This clip is the climactic ending to “Avoid The Void,” an episode I’m particularly proud of. It’s the first one of Season Two, where Sonic and Shadow finally meet in the Shatterverse. It’s the moment their storyline, which started in Season One, connects and leads to a vicious no-holds-barred punk rock brawl!

I wasn’t supposed to direct this episode, as I had already moved on to direct a Peanuts special for Apple+ (though continued as EP on season two, but not on season three), but this episode fell into my lap due to a glitch in the schedule. So it was Peanuts by day, Sonic by night, with three weeks to build the animatic with the storyboard team. Because we had half the time we usually have, we kept our boards rough, rarely tying down a drawing. Anyway, what’s the point of doing tight drawings when it’s going to be CG, right?

Below, a still from act three of Avoid the Void, when Sonic blasts out of the Ghost World/Ghost Green Hill.

From the early stages, when Man of Action was breaking out this episode, it was clear that this one had the potential to be something big and cinematic. Set in the surreal world of the Shatterspace, it combined weighty emotional drama with intense action. At long last, it was also the big Shadow episode that fans had been patiently waiting for!

The photo below is a screen-cap from a Zoom record of Sonic Prime's "Avoid The Void." All the voice actors are Canadian. While Duncan (one quarter of Man Of Action) and I are in Los Angeles. Seen here are (left to right) Devon Mack, Erik Wiese, Duncan Rouleau, Andrew Duncan, James Corrigall, and Ian "Shadow" Hanlin.

Below are some storyboard panels I drew from the opening sequence from Avoid The Void. I had to add spot color because I wanted to give the feeling of the void and also because of the different colors of the gateways.

I hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at Sonic Prime.

P.S. A shout-out to the hugely talented STORYBOARD TEAM and ANIMATION CREW! You guys rock!

#sonic prime #erik wiese #sonic the hedgehog #shadow #shadow the hedgehog #erikwiesecreative #storyboards #rough storyboards #animation process #Avoid The Void #Sonic Prime season two #Toon Boom #storyboard pro #Animation Professional #Animation

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ot3 · 6 months

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i love the artistic stylings of studio ghibli as much as anyone else does but im kind of sick of anything with like vivid environments and big blue skies being branded as ghibliesque. because its like. you know where else you can hypothetically find some vivid environments with big blue skies? my friend the great and wonderful outdoors are here for you

#in general just assuming all media is drawing from The Most Popular Example Of A Thing #rather than being like hey maybe both these things took inspiration from the same parts of our world #just feels kind of unfair and reductive a lot of the time #not to say its bad when something IS inspired by ghibli but its kind of the professional version of being asked 'wow is that anime'

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villainsposting · 3 months

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Decided to look a bit closer into what changed about the way Alastor is animated (I liked it a lot more on some subconscious level and wanted to know specifically why), and one major thing I've observed outside of the artstyle being generally more consistent (in terms of line thickness and such) is that the lines of his mouth are sharper even when he is mid-sentence.

Pilot vs Show

Or when he is smiling but not grinning.

Pilot vs Show

His face is also generally less squishy. It felt strange for such an intimidating and refined character to be so... malleable. Generally I think the changes in the new animation style are a huge win.

#hazbin hotel #alastor #I am not a professional artist by any means but I did also want to see how they work his smile into expressions for doodling purposes #was this just an excuse to stare at his funny little animated face. perhaps

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radicalfemimist · 1 month

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I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.

Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.

To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.

If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.

I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.

I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.

#mim’s ramblings #this is a topic I feel more confident speaking on as cats are something I ‘study’#granted there’s not exactly a college course dedicated to cats so not //professionally//#tw animal cruelty #I do try and speak vaguely about the animal cruelty as it is an upsetting topic

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malzykins · 2 months

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i wanna make a new guy. but idk how to make em... unique looking...

draft 1

#lethal company #my art #personal #like one of those nature photographers that get ALL up in an animal's fucking business #i just think that would be Neat :]#with a lil xenobiologist sprinkled in but like not professionally. at all #hobbyist if you will

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horreurscopes · 8 months

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my guy pretty like a girl & he got fight stories to tell; i see both sides like chanel

#death note #horreurart #mello dn #near dn #mihael kheel #nate river #meronia #mellonear #TWO THINGS: 1. here. have a kind of failed attempt but ultimately a step in the right direction re: letting go of art #look how uuuhhhhh i barely even shaded anything <- trying really hard to loosen the grip i have on professionalism and finished illustratio #THE OTHER THING: at this point i feel the need to explain the reason why these anime boys have me by the throat is because me n the bestie #decided to rp them on a whim. and now we are in too deep. this isn't any less embarrassing #but it DOES add context #caption is frank ocean 's chanel. it almost was STEAM BOTH SIDES OF THE L but i refrained because it was too funny and ruined the vibe #<- bravely killed darlings. anyway i listened to chanel a lot drawing this i'd like to think the vibe transfered.#in my mind they feel the same

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hitroow · 11 months

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#i made PRIME DEFENDERS ANIMATIONS #this was really more of a practie of mkaing short animations than something meant to look professional lol #tho I'm pretty happy with how it turned out #also sorry for the lag I can't figure out how to make it not do that/:#anyway gonna go back to hibernating good.bye #prime defenders #just roll with it #just roll with it pd #jrwi pd #jrwi prime defenders #just roll with it prime defenders

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radioactive-earthshine · 11 months

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NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

#look i was a weirdo and loved the letters so much #so much #so fucking damn much #i still to this day mourn that we don't have them #sometimes the editors would publish blatant aggressive criticism and promise to do better on some things #it was rare but it did happen in a handful of things involving stereotypes #also there is queer history in them such as in superboy and the ravers where people wrote in about hero #asking WHY he was not interested in women and this editor had to so professionally explain that he was GAY and where they stood on it #you also got to read queer readers writing in about these queer characters and the JOY in their words is priceless #also sorry but geoff's letters are fun and stupid at the same time and are a huge insight to what his hcs were #he LOVED tiny krypto so much it likely inspired him making dex starr bc he loved the idea of a small overly powered animal #not saying that was the main reason why ofc but it is interesting that he created dex after praising that mean little mutt #i say with the most love #my venting #my rambles

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siphoklansan · 1 year

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It’s 2 AM and I’ve been editing this(;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`) I got too lazy to animate Ruggie’s jaw and the last part with the voice lines are just sketches, I’m too tired to do full color </3

(Yuu is Gender-Neutral here, so you can imagine yourself and/or your OC as them)

Audio: Zootopia

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muscadevil · 8 months

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My fave thing to see on the internet is, under videos about animals by biologists who specialize in those animals, some guy with 0 credentials in the comment section being like: “erm, actually, professional scientist person… you’re WRONG about that animal, here’s what it REALLY is: [information that the video directly disproves but that they’re still adamant about being a fact for some reason]”

#txt #txt post #biology #zoology #bonus points for claiming that the professional is handling the animal(s) wrong when they aren’t

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primrosebow · 2 months

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//Mammon x reader art//🍀

Stuck in his web :-)

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!Content warnings!: suggestive, not nsfw! Idk who out here wants that guy but I do(ToT)

This is just a silly late night doodle i did with a moot, it ain't much

Here it isss

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He's the type to brat all day and night to get your attention, if you ask me.

The guy is so desperate for attention I genuinelly cannot emphasize it enough

He also thinks he can just throw money at people and they'll love him and if it doesn't work on you he is going to be so frustrated and confused..

Like huh?? What do you mean cash can't get him in your pants?? How??

Make him work for your acknowledgement, it'll be entertaining.

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He's the worst guyze I love him

I love me a little repulsive guy. A little horrible unappealing dude

"unappealing dude" I say as if I didn't want him from the second he showed up on screen. "Women just aren't funny" whatever you say beautiful, now get on your knees I want to see what that weird colorful tongue can do since speaking just clearly ain't what it's best at.

Contradictions are the best guyze. Try it sometime.

More food coming in: whenever it is early enough to take my totally licit drugs again

#helluva boss #helluva boss x reader #helluva boss mammon x reader #not putting in the general mammon x reader tag because a generic anime boy is taking that one over #not interfering with whatever is up over there😨😨#professionals have standards (the ugliest men alive)#hazbin hotel x reader #mammon helluva boss

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fablepaint · 2 years

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