finger illustrator who loves herpetology, anime, semiotics, and xanthophyll yellows. talk to me about robot girls and radical kindness
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Latest Posts by fridgefanatic - Page 4
Is that ASGARD in my FROZEN??? (unsubtle rainbow bridge) Is that Ymir's shadow hunting them?? Are we making Atohallan = Muspellheim??? :0 Is Elsa a Vanir in 2027???? HELPPP (we are SO getting a complicated second layer to where her powers come from)
+no shot, if anyone sneaks canon comparisons between Elsa and Fenrir into this, I'll need to be fettered
I know we explore Norse mythology plenty in the Frozen expanded material. We get Skøll as Hans' heartless in KH3, draugr in Polar Nights, and viking constellations in Forest of Shadows (they also pull Aren's mythical sword out of a viking dragon-ship and use it to fight a giant nattmara wolf, so). Usually a lot of the viking-age Scandinavian legend, such as creatures mentioned in the Eddas, are tied to specifically Arendelle's history though.
This promo seems to imply that the Enchanted Forest has some connection with Asgard (I am assuming it is Asgard for now). Or at least we are geographically taking off from there.
Which could come at the expense of Northuldra story? Diff culture. Not every fairytale race is related to the Enchanted Forest, or needs to be-- we have the trolls in the Valley of the Living Rock and Huldrefólk at Miner's Mountain. Although! Nøkk is a more Norse legend as well, yet acts as Northuldra's respected water spirit, so: not unlikely that the Northuldra may honor the existence of Norse spirits. (They may not even appear much at all.)
ohhh fuck. i can smell the magnus chase crossovers three years away. what have you DONE /lh
but I'm just so so excited. What if the crystals from F2 were runic and Anna learned galdr so she could have a moment like Gerda's magic prayer in the Snow Queen? What if we had magical ravens, like the talking ravens in the Hans Christian Andersen fable? What if Elsa argued with the Nornir about destiny, or Olaf bantered with Heimdall and unintentionally caused Ragnarok? What if Kristoff accidentally used Andvari's ring for the vows and gave us the most glorious Disney dragon moment since Maleficent? And come on, Anna with a battleaxe and bloodlust?!
Ironically, first seeing this was the direction after F2, I felt unfavorably about stacking on brand new lore, thinking it might rehash the "newfound community arc" which would make it infuriatingly harder to develop old and new relationships from previous movies (for weak reasons)
This is because Elsa's new power from Frozen II wasn’t really something magical: she still has ice, she’s always had ice, and it’s not like her ice got any more OP than it already was. (F1 already proved she can bring snowmen to life, build entire castles in less than five minutes, and freeze a whole ass fjord. I don't think stopping the flood or talking to a sentient glacier topped all that.) What she gained was fellowship with other magical beings and people who understand magic-- a community to help. Not to mention the closure in knowing that her mother would have accepted her, affirmation that she has a purpose, and freedom to assume new roles.
I do want the new movie to spend time using the new lore to steady our characters though, not the other way around. Can't always become something new to move forward, yknow? Gotta nurture what she has instead of breaking the absolute ceiling eventually.
but seeing them break the absolute ceiling is liberating every time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
actually wait. who's running arendelle right now?
First piece of concept art for Frozen 3 (2027) by Brittney Lee revealed at D23 Expo 2024
finally made rwby meme slides. after like a literal fucking decade
Project Dragon was a game that was in development for 3 years only to be canceled weeks from its announcement and its entire art and development team laid off by the Phoenix Labs. The game (which would have been called 'Everhaven' upon release) was intended to be a multiplayer sandbox rpg taking inspiration from both Minecraft and Breath of the Wild, with an art style similar to that of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which some of the team members also worked on along with Crash Bandicoot 4.
According to character design/illustrator Nicholas Kole "Our cancelled project of the last 3 years is officially, truly dead as of today (internal attempts to save it failed), and the embargo on the whole body of portfolio work has been lifted". This means that the only way the game has a chance of resuming development is by raising awareness and spreading the word of it's development. More info from Nicholas Kole and #BringBackProjectDragon Even if you're not interested in the game itself, you can find the concept art, animations, 3D models, music and all other completed pieces of work for the game being shared by the team at either of these links, and I think are worth checking out. Some mounts and NPCs
4 of the 5 playable starter races (5th being human of course)
My part of an art trade with @melkychi!!! Yay!!!
...can the lonely take the place of you?
A sleepless Elsa sings a power ballad alone in her room after her bedside portrait reminds her of the family "she" broke. Seems Sir Jorgenbjorgen is not just an excellent listener, but substitute dance partner as well.
I abhor the first page layout but, sorry, I can't be bothered to stare at it any longer.
A bonus scrapped page after the cut:
An artdump of Elsa as she appears in the holiday short Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017).
my love for this woman is kinda debilitating sometimes. i could gush about the benevolent ice queen for paragraphs
And they say brunettes with dimples can’t stabilize the reactor core 😏
one of my many book projects that I'm working on, a personal LOVELESS copy. Still in WIP stage and I haven't cased the text block in
Next step is getting the corner and cover decoration 3D printed! I'm so excited to see this all slowly come together
We got a little cabin fever and watched Crisis Core
"She's Gloreth's monster"
relief prints of the scroll from Nimona (2023), 21 x 13.5 in, printed 12/16/23
Hand-drawn and cut on MDF. Here's some pictures of the original woodblock before and after its print run
Happy anniversary Nimona (2023)! lyrics are from this song
pardon the low resolution I accidentally made the entire thing at like 314 x 450 px
You shall not fucking pass on his gig
Hello. Here is the Lightweaver holding a neopet in an allusion to the painting of jesus christ holding a lamb.
I straight up forgot I had this in my files...
From like February.
(It's a ref from Sailor Moon. I'd add the clip but it won't let me)
Was rewatching some Snapcube dubs and playing bbs
some practice expressions I did of Penny in 2022
I’ve had these concepts in my drafts for almost a year 💀
Realized I'm not sure I've seen anyone else talk about it on Tumblr, so if you didn't know about it, here's the heads up on this very cool fan project to make 358/2 Days fully playable on PC
@thatmaxcontent who made their own really cool version of the Sora lookalikes post emboldened me to share these designs of Vanitas and Xion that I left out ^-^
Vanitas' hair has a tiny bit of jagged swirl in it, partly to match Ventus (coming from his heart and all) but also because the heartless and unversed have those antennae things. He lowkey looks like an extra who escaped from a MCR music video tho
And Xion! I wrote their name pronunciation for non-KH mutuals. Truthfully the tooth gap for them was a happy accident that I kept because I liked it. it's an imaginary tooth