Oh, there's so much about the life-action movie we've been having lately. First, the leaked frame with Toothless and Hiccup, then the first trailer (which I'll talk about much later), and now this photo from the filming, where we can see the local Astrid and Snotlout, which I'm going to talk about.
Astrid, for starters. I actually really like her design from her hairstyle to her armor. Yes, it doesn't look much like the design from the original movie, but damn, the new design is still very good. I don't even have the words to say how much I like it.
And also the armor design looks like something in between Hiccup's armor and Astrid's clothes from the second movie. I'm not the only one who sees the resemblance, right?
Among the disadvantages of Astrid's life-action image, I can note the absence of small skulls and spikes on clothes. Like, these are important details of her image, which well showed her sharp and belligerent nature. And the fact that they are not there makes me kinda sad. And this is purely a matter of taste, but I would like her to have a blue shirt, not a red one (I never liked her red shirt).
And now about Snotlout. I don't even know what to say about him. His clothing design is kinda meh. There is no hatred for the actor, but, as for me, he is too thin and small for the role of a big dumb bully. Like, I don't believe that this cute guy can bully other people, especially because of their physical strength and small build.
Like, in the original, Snotlout was such a standard of appearance and behavior of the Vikings of the Berk. Big and strong, and because of it, it doesn't matter that he's dumb. And his design emphasized this well.
And here... Meh.
In fact, he looks more like 16 years old Gustav than Snotlout.
Y'know, I have a couple of problems with Lucifer. I don't like how the Lord of Hell himself, the personification of pride, was made some kind of misunderstood sweet goofball. Like, why does this nice guy personify pride? Well, the sin that made him a fallen angel. I just hope that later on in the show it turns out that Lucifer and Lilith told their daughter an untrue version of their story. That Lucifer was not a misunderstood sweet goofball, that his ideas were really dangerous, that he was not the best angel. But these are my hopes. In the meantime, I will tell you a rewritten version of the story of Lucifer, so that he really was the personification of pride. I must say right away that I personally haven't read the Bible (like Vivien), I have only heard a retelling of the story about the Fall of Lucifer, and I will rely more on the version from the show. In short, you'll figure it out later. In my version, Lucifer is a kind of control freak. He considered himself the most competent of all the angels, believed that only he could do the job properly, believed that only he had the best ideas, but he didn't listen to others and didn't want to listen. Other angels, of course, didn't like him and decided not to allow this tyrant to create the Earth, and then people. This couldn't help but anger Lucifer. Therefore, to prove that he was the rightmost, he secretly entered Eden and persuaded Eve to taste the forbidden fruit. Because he thought it was better for humans to know about good, evil, and so on. He believed that he knew better what was best for others. But the plan failed, Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden, and Lucifer and Lilith (I didn't talk about her because I didn't know how to fit her into the story) were sent to hell, and you know the rest yourself. Lucifer fell because of pride, because he believed that he knew better, and refused to think otherwise or listen to others. When he first became the ruler of hell, he gave sinners the freedom to do whatever they wanted without any consequences, still believing that he was doing the right thing. But later he began to understand what mistakes he had made, seeing that people, that sinners, were doing brutal deeds. And now he has to watch the consequences of his mistakes every single day, that's what his punishment is. That's all. Thanks for reading this messy fanfiction.
In April, I decided to redraw a screenshot from "Mlp: Tell your Tale". I have nothing against the series, but the design of the pony is just HORRIBLE! The animation itself has gotten better over time, but God, what's wrong with Hitch's face?! Zipp has cancer?! What the heck, Hasbro?!
Sometimes I wonder what Astrid's name would be if her parents followed the tradition of Berk — giving children disgusting names to scare off trolls (or goblins, I don't remember)? Axegirl? Sharpthorn?... Skullcrasher?...... uh...... Asstrid?
I'm sorry, I can't make up names.
A tiny redesign of Octavia.
I don't mind her original design, except that she dresses too loosely for, well, a princess whose mother is concerned about what others might think, and, probably, that she looks like an almost identical copy of Stolass. I didn't work too hard on her redesign, I just put Via in a simple dress and tried to make her a mix of both her parents, not just her father.
Maybe in the future I'll try to do a more complete redesign.
I did a small redesign of Lucifer. Just to a little bit upgrade the original.
What I don't particularly like about the original design: Lucifer's face is too small, so it barely fits a wide smile, red cheeks and eyes; because of the small face, Luci looks younger than he should (he looks like a child compared to his own daughter!); there are too many unnecessary things on the hat; because of the high collar, you can't see his face; there are about thirteen colors in his design, which is too much!
In my redesign, I tried to minimize the number of colors and details. Made Lucifer's face a little longer and reduced the smile with red cheeks, and also added a beard.
What do you guys think?
I haven't played ENA: Dream BBQ yet, btw.
POV: you're Stoick (httyd1).
I just realized that somewhere in deep space there is another team of turtles who are completely unaware of Splinter's death...
And of Shredder's death... And of a lot more things...
Okay, here's another redraw. I tried to make Sunny's tail like in the movie, but I failed. Yeah. But I really like Hitch.