some people have been wanting a guide to drawing Arthur and Mesi so these are some general notes (although they ended up being more about movement and form rather than anything… helpful… oops)
I guess it’s kind of a breakdown of how their action matches their personality and design more than anything else but hey it was a good change of gear for me \o/
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/
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
Anonymous asked: what are Arthur and Mesi like if they get angry?
well gosh, Mesi isn’t too shy about letting people know about her feelings and out of the two she definitely has the most extremes when it comes to facial expressions, so it really depends on the type of angry that she is (but for general purpose it’s mostly tiger-like snarling rage), she’s very honest about her emotions and she makes very cartoonish faces too
as for Arthur he’s, well, he’s extremely difficult to upset at all but if you do I don’t know what to tell you man it’s like you know that one person who’s super gentle and kind and never ever gets angry and then when they do it’s like what thefUCKO HGO D
just
don’t upset Arthur okay it’s not a good idea
Anonymous asked: I noticed one of those otcp prompts was the characters falling out but I can't ever imagine Arthur and Mesi having an argument (how would that even work...)
the moral is never get into a staring contest with a silent comedian with no regard for his own safety 8’D
I think I’m going to approach this 30 day octp challenge like I did with the other meme thing and just do however many I want when I feel like it because I’m a hedonistic bastard \(.__.)/
in apology for the absence of anything prankish for April Fool’s I give you my sophisticated and intelligent super space babe from the future \(.__.\ )