Anonymous asked: okay so I feel dumb for asking but, I just watched SKIP (and loved it) but why does Mesi check Arthur's teeth?! It's hilarious but I don't know why!
you know what anon I am actually super happy you asked because that was a completely spur-of-the-moment thing I did during the animation stage- it wasn’t planned! I didn’t board it! I just had ‘Mesi inspects Arthur’s face’ as the motive and it just kind of happened when I was doing it! I mean heck there are reasons; you can take it as a gag with the expression ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’, and being a space explorer one of the first things to find out about a new species is whether or not it’s carnivorous so she was probably mostly checking for canines.
but yeah this is what I mean about my characters being the boss of themselves, I just sort of discover them and have to go along with what they’re going to do! On a sidenote if I can get it into the feature I figured it’d be cute if she did that on first meeting him, and then later (when he’s smacked into a wall or something) she does it again but this time it’s to check if they’re all still there .u.
maybe she’s a dentist in another life or has a teeth fetish or something idk I’m not here for explanations \o/
oh hey so remember scary burny wax lady from back here well yeah I got bored and there’s this bit where she turns Arthur and Mesi into toys because that is totally what a vindictive spooky fire sorceress would do right
well it is if you know how the story with a one-legged tin soldier and the paper ballerina ends anyway
everyone else was drawing their OC’s as centaur people and I want to be one of the cool kids too >:T
alternate explanation is Arthur and Mesi end up transitioning into a Fantasia setting and Mesi thinks it’s his fault \o/
f in all y I didn’t think I’d manage to finish this chunk ever but hopefully I can get the next bit done sooner because cliffhanger
one of the fun things I’d like to play around with in the feature is that they transition between film genres via reflective surfaces; puddles, mirrors, even sword blades in this case (also yes sorry for very bad bg’s but I’m on a tight schedule here whoops what a bad excuse)
I confess these aren’t really proper storyboards, more a sort of ugly mash of beatboards and storyboards, but hey it’s mostly for larks so what the hey \o/
previous SKIP boards explaining why Arthur is sopping wet over here
I’m not even joking I had about twenty asks about if Mesi ever found out about Arthur’s scars
I’m actually quite glad someone made me bring up this part of Arthur’s character, because it goes a long way to explaining why one of his first interactions with Mesi is such a complete car crash.
Also for those who are surprised, he’s not exactly the first silent comedian to get tangled up in WWI
