Very interesting. I love learning about the separate Birg cultures view on different things. And this one looks so fashionable.
Are there albino birgies?
A complete lack of pigmentation does sometimes occur in Birgs, yes!
Sentiments on complete albinism vary by culture; in kakroum clans, a pure white Birg is thought to occur when a cold draft allows a winter spirit to infect a larva. With a snow-ghost in their blood, they attract other spirits and may be agents of misfortune. Southern clans view them in a more positive light, embracing them as born interpreters of weather omens carried on the wind.
Heartland Twowi find them somewhat less uncanny, as large white patches are already a common phenotype in the region. Folk wisdom based on a centuries old practice of fate reading in spots would suggest that they are blank slates, their futures uncertain because the gods didn’t bother to mark them at all.
This film is woefully underrated. I wish more of the general public would talk about it. In the circles I’m in it usually just ends up being a bunch of animators talking about it. More accurately we are usually discussing the amount of work animating a horse is lol.
Beautiful feather texture!
One of my favorite birds is the bittern and one of my favourite dinosaurs is troodon! That's why I combined them into one! By giving this prehistoric creature a marking inspired by this wonderful bird.
During my final year of college I tried to create a Beetlejuice cartoon pitch bible to test myself. Ran out of time to finish it though. I do plan on revisiting it when I have more time. The designs were fun and I spent the most time on those. Couldn’t find the finished render of Lydia in her poncho sadly.
Here’s the updated version of my brush set since the last one is a bit old now
Here’s the link to the old set, many of its brushes overlap but not all. You can find both in my pinned post!
Again!!! Do no spread these brushes around do not use them for commercial purposes, they’re either stuff I found free online or made it myself, I do not own them I simply share them cause people have been asking what do I use
Kiki’s Delivery Service is one of those movies that I feel any aspiring artist should see. The struggle of Kiki in this movie is one that ANYONE who wants to further themselves goes through, that transition from taking what you love to do to something that you make a living off of.
As artists we have all been in the place where Kiki is. That place where we can’t draw anything right, can’t paint anything right, can’t sculpt anything right, that place where everything comes out wrong over and over and we begin to question if we’re actually good enough for the talents and skills that used to come to us like second nature when we were just using them for fun. That place where we want to give up because we suddenly can’t ‘fly’ like we want to, because everything seems too difficult to do that.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, just because it isn’t working right then and there when you want it to be. If you can always fly, then it wouldn’t make those times when you did as special. It isn’t necessarily easy to grow up, nor is it necessarily easy to live with the artistic struggle of losing inspiration. But you can’t just throw up your hands and say ‘No, I can’t do it anymore’ because you’ll NEVER fly if you do that.
You gotta wobble before you stand.