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"Do I look like I do country? Just cover yourself in fake blood and jump around screaming." - Miko Nakadai on her musical preferences.Animated Bio:
Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Miko Nakadai lived in a rather strict household. As such, shouldn't have come as a surprise when she developed a rebellious streak, dying her hair, setting up her hairstyle, and her overall appearance and tendency towards extreme sports and rock music. When the opportunity came to be a foreign-exchange student to the United States of America, Miko couldn't get there fast enough. So, she settled in with her host parents in the city of Detroit, Michigan, and found school life there, while not as rigid as Tokyo's, to be rather dull. Then, the Autobots rose out of the bay and everything changed. After witnessing the alien robots perform great deeds of heroics, she became one of their most staunch supporters. When Megatron was defeated and taken back to Cybertron, she met with Sari Sumdac and became good friends with her, and through her, she got to meet her heroes, becoming very chummy with Bulkhead and Bumblebee in particular.
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And that is my take on Miko Nakadai, my second attempt at an Animated Human. For this, I used teenaged Sari as a base.
As always, let me know what you think in the comments below, and have a most wonderful day everybody!
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*sees Miko* MAH WRECKER!
Both Jack and Miko are absolutely stunning! When are you gonna do Raf?
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Thank you. I showed it to some guys on Discord, and one guy said that her head looked a little long.
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No problem ^^ her head looks fine to me, I’ve seen longer stylized animated heads.
Also I had this thought I wanted to share. Do you think Miko ever got tickets to go see Primus the band and team prime thought she was talking about their Primus?
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Thanks, and yeah, Animated has had weirder shaped heads.
Heh, that would make for a good in-joke reference, kind of like one I heard with The Who.
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Welcome again. I was referring to a different show, but yeah the heads are weirder.
“Hey guys I got some tickets to see Primus!”
“............. Primus?”
“Yeah they’re a cool rock band.”
“I didn’t know Primus played guitar,”
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That last line got me. XD LOL!
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True, lots of shows tend to draw the characters a bit weird.
Almost reminds me of that one joke I saw in a movie where a vampire thought Alice Cooper was a woman. "Ugliest woman I've ever seen."
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True, those are fun art styles.
I don’t get the reference apart from Alice cooper is a man with a woman’s name and a really long pony tail maybe.
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Plus, I think one reason animators tend to go for a stylized look is that it's easier to animate.
I saw the Dark Shadows movie (with Johnny Depp in it) with my mom when it came out. Alice Cooper was in it, and Depp's vampire thought Cooper was an ugly woman.
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I don’t mind the more stylized animation, I rather enjoy looking at the different art styles. Plus I feel like that type of more simplistic art style allows the characters to be more expressive compared to the stiff overly detail cartoons from the 80s.
But I fully respect your opinion on stylized animation.
Ohh I see. Never seen or heard of that movie until now.
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The animation style I like best was from Disney's Gargoyles and the 90s Batman cartoon, both of which balanced the stylized with the more realistic look. For animation movements, I tend to prefer the kind that has fluid movement and not at all stilted.
I respect yours, as well.
It's based on an old television show about a family that had weird supernatural things happen to them. One of which was their vampire ancestor, Barnabas, move in with them.
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The DCAU’s art style is also one of my favourite’s. I also really love Tim Burton’s art style, Into the Spiderverse’s animation style and the animation seen when Hermione was telling the story of the deathly hallows (gives me goddamn chills). I also enjoy animation with rather fluid movements.
Thank you for not screaming at me.
Ohh sounds interesting.
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Nice choices.
You're welcome.
It does, although I haven't seen the original show. The trailer for the Johnny Depp movie marketed it as a comedy, but the film itself is mostly melodrama and a "fish out of temporal water" story.
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Thanks ^^ they’re all so aesthetically pleasing to look at.
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I wonder what was going on in the marketing teams and the editors heads when they were putting the trailer together.
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Indeed.
Me too. All the funny bits from the trailer were in the movie, but they were few and far between. Plus, there were some scenes that I would prefer to skip over, but that's just me.
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BTW, I'm considering doing a canon import character who only had a couple appearances in G1. Care to know who it is?
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They sound like they’d be good friends with the Venom marketing team.
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Sure.
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Truth be told, I actually enjoyed Venom, though mostly with the stuff AFTER Eddie gets the symbiote.
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Frankenstein's monster...as he originally appeared in the book, which was considerably different from what the movies usually show him as.
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I enjoyed it too. Eddie and Venom’s interaction were hilarious they had a very interesting old married couple type dynamic. The cast had very solid performances. I also liked how they didn’t make Ann’s new boyfriend a douchebag like a lot of movies do.
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Ohh sounds interesting. I’ve never read the book but I look forward to seeing him! (The episode where Spike got his mind brain switched with a Robot Frankenstein because he basically got into a car crash was weird and stupid)
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Yeah, Eddie and Venom's interactions were among the highlights of the movie. It was nice to see Anne get some action in the movie as well, and that they didn't turn her new boyfriend into a jerk. Plus, it left open the possibility of seeing She-Venom again sometime in the future, which I'm glad to see because, well...unlike in the movie, where Anne actually like the power from the symbiotes, in the comics, Anne's brief time with the Venom symbiote traumatized her so much that she...eventually took her own life.
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Well, while modern movies and the like tend to portray the Frankenstein's monster as an inarticulate, patchwork monster, the original version in the book is beautiful, intelligent once he gets some learning in him, and his only real physical faults are that his eyes are a little creepy and he's a little viscerally-disturbing to look at. Here's how his creator, Victor Frankenstein, describes the creature when he comes to life:
"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips."
Also, side note, but the book never actually tells us how Victor brought his monster to life, meaning the movies had to make up that whole lightning thing on their own. Same thing with the "stitched together from dead bodies" schtick.
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I do look forward to the possibility of seeing more of She-Venom. I’ve never read the comics, but I did see this cool fan made poster for a live action She-Venom movie which was based on a comic poster. (I think I prefer how the movies handled Ann and She-Venom)
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I was not aware of that fact before, and I have never seen the original movie my only experience with Frankenstein was when I watched the Hotel Transylvania movies and Monster high while babysitting either my little sister or cousin, but thank you for this piece of interesting trivia. I think it would be cool if someone were to interpret the character closer to his description in the book.
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Got a link to this poster? (Yeah, I prefer the movie over how it happened in the comics as well)
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You're welcome, and I intend to make the monster look a lot closer to his description in the book. Problem is making his black lips look natural and not like black lipstick.
Also, the monster has no name in the book. However, at one point when he speaks to Victor, he says "I ought to be thy Adam," likening his creation by Victor's hands to that of Adam by God. As a result, many stories that give him the urban-fantasy treatment tend to call him Adam. I think I may go that route as well.
And on another note, care to know what the deal is with the monster's "bride"?
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No sorry. I saw it on Instagram around the time the movie came around.
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If I could suggest something. Maybe try making his lips darker than his skin but have it still look natural, like a purplish tone.
Interesting name to give to a monster, “I shall call him........ Adam....”
I think I’m good. But thanks.
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It's okay, thanks for letting me know, anyway.
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Hmm, I'll have to experiment with that one.
Heh, I see what you did there.
Alright then. Guess I can't give away too much if you decide to read it.
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Your welcome
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Like his lips are inexplicably dry.
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I think one thing that might add to the effect is not having them be outlined. Also, since the book was released in 1818, I'm having him dressed in period-appropriate attire.
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Sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing it.
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We'll see soon enough.
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This is very well done. She and animated Bulkhead or at least whatever Prime Bulkhead in TFA would get along just fine.
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Thanks, and yeah I imagine they would. Although, someone I showed this too said that her head was a bit long.
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I don't really notice anything and besides, in TFA they all have that odd shape from humans to transformers. I mean just look how the way they stand and that person had the courtesy to tell you that? If anybody else tells you that, they need to watch the show. XD
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I suppose, and yeah, Animated overall has a very stylized look to it.
BTW, I'm considering a potential import character to do - Frankenstein's monster. However, if I do it, the character would look MUCH closer to how he was depicted in the original book, as opposed to the common depiction of him. Would you like to know what that is, and do you think I should give it a shot?
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Exactly.
Sure, go ahead. I'd like to see it. I don't mind other work besides Transformers.
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Thanks. Also, the original book never actually tells us how Victor Frankenstein (the creator) brought his creature to life, meaning the movies had to make up that whole lightning thing on their own.
As for the monster's appearance, while modern depictions like to portray him as an inarticulate, patchwork monster, the original book version of him is beautiful, intelligent once he gets some learning in him, and his only fault is that his eyes are a little creepy, and he's viscerally-disturbing to look at. Here's how Victor describes the moment the creature comes to life:
"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -- Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
A bit different from the Boris Karloff version, eh?
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That is true. I never really did read the book but I knew there had to be an original somewhere. Somehow I prefer the original better than what we have today.
A lot different yes.
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"Somehow I prefer the original better than what we have today."
You do, do you?
And technically, the monster did make a couple of cameos in the original G1 cartoon, only it was more like the characters watching a movie or a brief dream sequence and stuff like that.
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Yeah, in some things the original is better. I know when I see it and I don't use that loosely.
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I can see that. From what I've heard, the original Universal Monsters movies turned the creature into an inarticulate, patchwork monster because they felt it would be scarier. However, the original story of Frankenstein and his monster is less horror and more tragedy.
Also, the monster is never actually named in the book. Although, at one point, he tells Victor "I ought to be thy Adam," likening his creation by Victor to that of Adam by God. As a result, many stories that give him the Urban Fantasy treatment name him Adam.
You should give the book a try when you can.
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Well when you put it that way, I guess I can understand.
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Yeah, though I'm going with the original.
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Thanks.
Also, about the so-called "Bride of Frankenstein", in the book, the monster tells Victor that he will vanish away from the civilized world if Victor makes a bride for him, and if he doesn't, he'll kill everyone Victor loves and blame Victor for it. Victor almost does, but as he's nearing completion of the monster's bride, he realizes something that not many authors have internalized. Namely, just dropping a girlfriend in front of a guy won't guarantee that they'll actually get along. This means that if they don't like each other, then he would be unleashing 2 loner monsters on the world instead of one, or conversely, they could get along too well and they'd end up breeding a new race of monsters to conquer the world. While this is a medically solvable problem, Victor is in too much of a panic and forgets his training before destroying the unfinished lady monster. This pisses off his first monster something fierce, who promises that he'll be with Victor on his wedding night. Victor thinks this means that the monster will kill him instead of the logical assumption that the monster will make good on his promise to kill Victor's friends and family.
To be fair to this part of the book, the story was written in the early half of the 19th century, so the author, Mary Shelley, wouldn't have known about reproductive organs like the ovaries and the uterus or how heredity works.
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