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Published: 2017-03-09 06:00:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1207; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 0
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Description Another school related piece. So in my Conceptual Illustration class we were frequently given redesign or re-imagining challenges with trademarked material (such as this piece I posted awhile back: Goku Monkey Boy Redesign ) and this time was no different. Except this time it was a group project and 80's cartoons.
I was in with 3 other people and we decided to do Thundercats. That was our first mistake. Ya know, considering none of us had actually ever watched Thundercats in any incarnation.

Well, we decided to do Viking themed Thundercats in which the same storyline essentially unfolds except the cats get stranded on a Third Earth that's currently in a Norse era AU culture thing. The style we chose was fairly high realism so I elected to draw environments (and a vehicle) since I can't really draw realistic people-things.

Originally I was only supposed to sketch and line the environments and others in my group would flat and color them but things got real bad real quick that week so I decided to ease my teammates load by rendering out two of them myself. I only posted the lines on this one because I didn't want to post a collab'd piece for folks I can't give proper credit to in my main gallery (one teammate did the flats and the other shaded/rendered), but you can find those pieces here:
 

Sooo yeah! Depicted are two landscape/world building images to get a feel of the place. The third is the reimagined Thunder lair (?) and Mumm-Ra's new lair, which is based on an Ásatrú temple (It was supposed to have a steeple thing but I accidentally forgot to line it OOPS).

Um. Yeah, this project was hell and I hated it. Maybe one day I'll post the Thundertank I designed but it's so horrible that I'm gonna have to contemplate that :')
Quite proud of these environments, though!

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Comments: 19

Nothofagus-obliqua [2017-03-21 04:44:27 +0000 UTC]

those are super appealing! I am a total nutto for BG/Environment work (I think those must have a "personality" on their own) and these are really nice, pretty colors and lots of things to look at.

OMG I used to watch that show when I was a toddler ='D

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AlfaFilly In reply to Nothofagus-obliqua [2017-04-13 21:38:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much 8D
And it's so true! The environments are just as important as the characters! I hope one day I can enjoy environments just as much so my worlds can kinda come together~

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merteazy [2017-03-16 14:19:29 +0000 UTC]

This idea is more interesting than the actual show by far. Your classmates did an alright job coloring too, but damn girl. You got those atmospheric tones going on in those top two. Very nice. Very good. 

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AlfaFilly In reply to merteazy [2017-04-13 21:38:24 +0000 UTC]

Awww yisss thank ya!
And that's hilarious and sad pfff

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Sombraluz-Images [2017-03-13 02:16:40 +0000 UTC]

As a fan of the Thundercats, I can say you did an awesome job on these!

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AlfaFilly In reply to Sombraluz-Images [2017-04-13 21:38:34 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! Thanks so much <3

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ZureLazuli [2017-03-11 11:32:47 +0000 UTC]

I'm not familiar with Thundercats either, but these are some beautifully crafted landscapes, oh my

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AlfaFilly In reply to ZureLazuli [2017-04-13 21:38:47 +0000 UTC]

Aww thank you kindly! I'm glad you think so ;n;

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demiphoibus [2017-03-09 22:11:54 +0000 UTC]

Vikings and Thundercats sounds like an awesome combination! I like how the Thunder lair thing turned out

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AlfaFilly In reply to demiphoibus [2017-03-10 05:42:00 +0000 UTC]

It was in theory! Execution would have been much more polished if we had another week to work on it aha

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tbolt [2017-03-09 10:49:31 +0000 UTC]

Heh, I caught all of the original series, you didn't miss much   Personal taste thing, but it reminded me of Gilligan's Island + Lost in Space + combat.  I preferred the remake (Mostly because of the lack of genocide in episode one...)

Yeah, that can seem rather rough redefining a series cold like that, but it can help to take things in a new direction, and your scenery is gorgeous! =^^=

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AlfaFilly In reply to tbolt [2017-03-10 05:41:39 +0000 UTC]

Aha I heard about the genocide part from one of our teammates! They also preferred the newer one, even though they didn't watch but one episode. I only watched clips of the two and neither caught my fancy. Though we all agreed in class (as in, professor and everyone) that the new series was released at a horrible time. If it had been released now-a-days, it would have big much more successful. Too ahead of its time...

Thank you kindly! It was an interesting challenge for sure. ^^

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stories-of-heroes [2017-03-09 08:17:46 +0000 UTC]

And then the dino characters appear!! RAWR!!

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AlfaFilly In reply to stories-of-heroes [2017-03-10 05:40:07 +0000 UTC]

DISASTER AWAITS!

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stories-of-heroes In reply to AlfaFilly [2017-03-10 08:28:03 +0000 UTC]

ADVENTURE! ROMANCE! AND A DASHING HERO!

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VioletWhirlwind [2017-03-09 06:35:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow!  I don't know anything about Thundercats, but these are epic!

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AlfaFilly In reply to VioletWhirlwind [2017-03-09 06:37:46 +0000 UTC]

Aha then you woulda gone in knowing about the same as me!! 8D thanks!!

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LadyUnorthodox [2017-03-09 06:07:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh good grief this is so amazing! How are you so good at this? It's not fair!

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AlfaFilly In reply to LadyUnorthodox [2017-03-09 06:38:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!! I am kinda surprised how well these turned out myself. But reference helped a lot! Especially on the waterfall one! 

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