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I’m finally finished with this!!! I’ve been working on this on and off since last spring and I’m so happy I get to share it with you at last, you have no idea!
Now, before I get too ahead of myself, time for some backstory. For those unaware, the top image is spliced together from a panorama in the opening of Salty’s Lighthouse, an American cartoon whose creators bought the rights to use TUGS footage and spliced it poorly together to make filler for the show. If you know me well you may have heard me rant about it before, so I’ll give you the short version of my thoughts: It was awful. And that included awful 2D “animation” of our beloved tugboats.
So one day, I got to thinking: “Y’know, the art style of Salty’s Lighthouse really doesn’t do our boys any justice. I should fix this shot.” And so I did. Maybe that’s what TUGS would look like if it had a 2D spinoff that was actually competent? That would’ve been awesome. But instead, we got Salty’s. Oh well.
On a side note, I love how high Ten Cents looks in the background and how Top Hat seems so disappointed in him.

And for those curious, I didn't forget Zug! He ended up being too obscured behind Ten Cents because of the angle of the shot, so I just decided to leave him out.

Update: As of 9/18/2017 this is now my second most favorited deviation ever. Not bad. Thanks guys!

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(You'll want to double click this for full view if you wanna see it in its full HD glory.)

I’m finally finished with this!!! I’ve been working on this on and off since last spring and I’m so happy I get to share it with you at last, you have no idea!
Now, before I get too ahead of myself, time for some backstory. For those unaware, the top image is spliced together from a panorama in the opening of Salty’s Lighthouse, an American cartoon whose creators bought the rights to use TUGS footage and spliced it poorly together to make filler for the show. If you know me well you may have heard me rant about it before, so I’ll give you the short version of my thoughts: It was awful. And that included awful 2D “animation” of our beloved tugboats.
So one day, I got to thinking: “Y’know, the art style of Salty’s Lighthouse really doesn’t do our boys any justice. I should fix this shot.” And so I did. Maybe that’s what TUGS would look like if it had a 2D spinoff that was actually competent? That would’ve been awesome. But instead, we got Salty’s. Oh well.
On a side note, I love how high Ten Cents looks in the background and how Top Hat seems so disappointed in him.

And for those curious, I didn't forget Zug! He ended up being too obscured behind Ten Cents because of the angle of the shot, so I just decided to leave him out.

Update: As of 9/18/2017 this is now my second most favorited deviation ever. Not bad. Thanks guys!