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About Me Deviant Premium Member Simon GannonCanada Group group avatar #anthro-gratia-artis
Anthro for Art's Sake
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Favorites represents what appeals to me as I browse dA in efforts for inspiration.

These pics almost all represent something I would like to eventually achieve... (I'm always keeping my bar out of reach...)

I'm surprised how many galleries I fell upon only to discover they did official art for something I like!

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Lead Illustrator for MUSEbasement, a small 'studio' of local people enjoying sequential art. Hoping to move forward and practice more often.

The Backloggery: [link]

Please visit MUSEbasement Publishing: [link]

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Do you primarily use traditional or digital tools? 

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7 deviants said Both equally
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6 deviants said Digital and sometimes Traditional
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6 deviants said Traditional and sometimes Digital
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1 deviant said Traditional only
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1 deviant said I mostly write
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Commissions

I am opening up commissions that will start right after I do the prize for the SMA club.

I am only going to open up one slot at a time because I'm slow, busy and meticulous. It takes me a lot of tries until I'm happy with the output.

My gallery's pretty small, so this is partially to force me to work on things. I'll put up examples as it gets relevant. For now, take a look through the gallery and folders, for a feel. I never half-ass for a client, so you're going to get the best thing I can manage.

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Prices:

10$ - A rendered sketch or inked line art.

18$ - Full digital colour cellshade, inked

25$ - Full colour render, inked depending on the style

40+$ - I'll do whatever you like, negotiable. A one page comic, Chinese ink/calligraphy, full tone paper, etc. I hand framed one image once. Cost depends on materials and such, if I have to buy things.
*I'm not set up to do oil painting. However if you pay :iconkrisrix: 40$, I'm sure they'll be happy to oilpaint for you.

60$ - Prepare & paint 35mm miniature you mail to me.

100$ - Custom miniature greens, 6 page comic (inked, on boards), etc. (Large projects)

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Restrictions:

Oil paint
Vore
Inflation
Sexual shota/lolita (but I'll draw the style.)

Which means I'm perfectly fine doing:
Yaoi/Yuri
Furry (Especially if it's innocent, but note me, we'll talk)
Blood


PM me, and we'll discuss what you want, how difficult or simple it'll be to do, and I'm flexible.

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:iconjaayno:
Yo Simon! I didn't know you draw! Duuurrr! lol I Some of your art is tres Starblazers. I like.
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:iconsimongannon:
Thanks! I can`t believe I actually had to look up Starblazers. I watched a different anime by Leiji, Albator (which is known as Captain Harlock to everyone else) along with lots of french kids in the early 80`s, in France and in Quebec, because my parents would let me watch all the cartoons I wanted if they were french ones! Most 'french cartoons' back then were actually Japanese. My parents thought they were French productions, probably thinking the animation was outsourced, but it turns out my childhood was filled with anime, long before I discovered modern anime on my own in the late ninties. What I long called a `french`style, (and oddly, no one I`d ever spoken to ever even disagreed) was actually 70`s anime style, which I've taken to liking more and more as the animation industry worldwide gets cleaner and cleaner with more and more 'appealing' type characters, and streamlined, less-'dateable' designs.

The music is now ultra nostalgic to me (and probably many french nearing or in their thirties), and they cut a LOT less plot and visuals than the english/american imports have. There was some deep stuff, and there was one show that always made my mother cry. (I'm pretty sure it was Belle et Sebastien, which was, as far as I can tell, about the hardships of an orphan boy in the Alps?).

I think I have been rather firmly imprinted, the way a lot of other kids are burned-in with Disney, Marvel/DC, or recently, modern anime.

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and one of my all-time favorites:
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The music in this one was great throughout, and when I rewatched it, I was surprised to note its quality. Looking up other pieces, this level of quality was pretty standard. It wasn't by any means high-budget, but it took some competancy, and attention to detail. TV-budget anime today tends to feel a lot more static, and hangs straight and still on the screen.

And I thought I was just remembering old animation as better than it was :/

It's totally (maybe) not fair to pick on gundam seed but it was the most striking example of what i'm talking about I've actually watched in recent memory, i picked something at random that seemed to have humans in it. I don't watch a lot of anime these days and I don't want to pick something I never even tried to watch, that's just not fair :p

Starting with the decline of Disney and the quality of anime as the OVA industry stalled I've really started to pick at animation :p It's a beautiful art and it's losing momentum and finesse every year :/

I walked out of The Princess and the Frog really disheartened, for example, with the exception of the bad guy - who was totally animated by an old expert, the rest looked like students who did a very good job reading and understanding the principals discovered by guys like Walt Stanchfield in the golden age, but it just lacked the -life-. I went back to my books to try to find what was missing, but it just has to be between the mind and the paper:

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SORRY YOU TOTALLY GOT ME TALKING ABOUT ANIMATION AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED LOL XD;;;;
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:iconjaayno:
LMAO NO! I LOVE IT!!! xD Now when I write an essay geeking out on animation I know you'll read it lmao! But I'll still control myself lol.

That's super interesting because it was the same for me growing up in Barbados, we had shows like G-Force (Gatchaman) and I just figured it was old American animation, never occurred to me that it was 70s anime until the mid to late 90s when I was "introduced" to anime through the Fatal Fury OVAs, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll and Akira. I can definitely see the 70s anime influence in your style, but I couldn't place it at the time so I was just like "duuurrr... Starblazers!" lol. I know of Harlock too though! Just not as familiar with it.

Thanks for showing me Bell et Sebastien; I've never seen that before. I have however seen that one about the golden cities, waaaaay back when... It's English name is totally escaping me, but you're right; the animation quality is amazing, especially for a series, it's almost Miyazaki-esque. Don't worry, as an actual Gundam fan I was disappointed with Gundam Seed's art and animation too actually lol. But if you want to see some truly spectacular Gundam animation, I'd suggest you check out 0083 Stardust Memory from the 80s and more recently the Gundam Unicorn OVA is tres impressive.

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I'm glad someone else finally agrees with me about Princess and the Frog! And I soooo wanted to love it because (not to be a stereotype but,) I'm black! lol So I was pretty excited and I agree the villain animation is great, but the rest is so so and there's really nothing wrong with it per say, it just doesn't grab you. It also kind of failed for me on a storytelling and emotional level as there's nothing in it on the plateau of that scene from Beauty and the Beast that you posted by Glen Keane. Also why couldn't the prince be black too? Why does he have to be of "nondescript race"? I guess if he were black they wouldn't have been able to give him swishy hair and "classically handsome" looks... but I digress... lol I did still enjoy the film but was just slightly let down. I also heard that for the first time in Disney's history most of the animation was actually outsourced to Korea, so that may have been part of the whole animation quality thing.

Anyway, I said I'd hold back but I wrote an essay too lmao. Yours was a fun read though. xD
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0080 is one of my favorites actually, and Unicorn is looking great so far!! I felt bad picking on Gundam, but SEED was pretty surprising when I saw it.

I was like aauuugg bllbllblb when I saw Audry's hair because I was in the middle of scraping for character design ideas for the visual novel I'm doing (what all the pilots are for) and now I couldn't do any woman-regents or anything like that. Daaarrr I'm not a good designer, it's tough for me to come up with interesting things like that XP I like straight hair, because it cuts into such crisp angles, and curves can be very fickle on you if you're not careful. The main character's design is actually modified from a different story I'm working on (Adrien in the other drawings) because the writer saw some concept art for him and told me only he could be the star :P Now I've got two very different Adriens, which I'm glad for because that hair is fun to draw - if a little terrifying to get right. It has such wild folds that you can do it wrong (and clip into his head) easily if you're not planning things well.



Yeah, at first I really liked the 'nondescript' race thing many creators were doing, but now it's getting sort of weird. People are actually diverse, not homogenous, as much as we seem to want to pretend? Has our fear of racism made us fear acknowledging race and how people around us are different than us? Is that still somehow not okay? Jeez.

As a note about the 'handsomeness' factor, I used to hate the beast's human form. I think in retrospect, given what Glen Keane was going for as far as what he was taking in from his museum visits, it's really supposed to be like a sculpture come to life, but man, there was something much more ...attractive??? to his beast form. Not sure how to put it :p I think I mean just that. Attractive, something that pulls you to look, and doesn't repulse you to regard. Despite his nubby fangs and underbite, you can look at his face a long time without feeling weird. Human beast looks a little weird. He's really stylized (ethnic?) - which I should appreciate, but is so odd next to the other characters who are so cartoony and much less chiseled :P He has so much more FACE

Anyway, regarding Princess and the Frog, darn there are some really ludicrously good looking black dudes out there, I could even say 'classic' really. Everyone knows what that looks like. Maybe it's just too hard to draw so many distinguishing features, when white cartoons (cartoons who are white) are so established. Then =everyone's= gotta have distinguishing features and then it becomes a clusterf**k of lines which isn't the disney style - or change the style to simplify everyone the =same way=, which isn't disney style either. It's some other style.

My vote, walking out, was that the movie should have been done entirely like this: [link] this was definitely the best part of the movie, and the most vibrant and creative. Also, the most 'black', since historically jazz was very hip at the time, and all that, and that there is some jazz poster images. It resonates culturally and historically and was well done to boot - everything moved a lot more and was vibrant, reminiscent (in both meaning and visually) of 'I just can't wait to be king'.

Almost every scene and song in the movie is cut and pasted from other Disney movies, an almost desperate attempt to ensure that it 'felt' like a Disney movie. It was a downer that the confidence was gone. It was a double downer that nobody seemed to even notice. It's not that it wasn't done creatively or well, it was just so predictable and worse - desperate. I would have enjoyed a fresh, 2-D animation that featured something that was a little different instead of the Same disney movie I've actually watched a million times by now. Treasure Planet? It was different. That did poorly at the box office though, sadly.

I find our princess looks a whole lot like jasmine - but her mom is believable, now that I look at her? Boy they tried hard to put lines that are not traditionally 'caracturish' JUST IN CASE. I have to applaud them for managing with just facial outlines. That's pretty tough in this particular artstyle.

I feel like this movie suffered from a bit of the Obama effect, where everyone was so excited and pleased that there was a black movie now that no one wanted to - or dared - say anything bad about it. Thankfully there was totally nothing -wrong- with it. Sadly, that's about it. Most previous Disney films did, at least the major ones -something- new, even if it does have a very particular feel to it (maybe in part due to the people animating it). The ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast (at the time it was pretty awesome), or the astonishing stampede in the Lion King.


If you watch her motions at the beginning of this clip, several times she moves her arms or head, and her body doesn't move at all. That's actually so anti disney that it jumped out at me even at the time. Every line from the wrist to the ankle is normally treated as an object unto itself. If the arm moves, the entire figure moves with it, in some way or another. Stuff sticks to each other, pushes a lot, that kind of thing. I can imagine, as the mother pulls the broom from her, her arms going a lot further than they do here, making her bend over more, and then have to travel back, maybe even making a face, as the mother continues to speak. Here, the motion is discussed rationally and realistically rather than flamboyantly. If you're missing the plot (because you are just too young to understand anything or don't care, for example) then there's not much to look at or be dazzled by, when characters are delivering lines. It just wasn't very -entertaining-. Given the plot is quite simple, I think adults were probably more bored than they'd like to admit, compared to films like the Lion King, which was bright and active for little kids, and had sufficient darkness for adults - like the actually kind of shocking Nazi march. I didn't notice up until my most recent viewing. I had to wonder what my parents had thought of that! The plot is sort of ludicrously simple in that film too, but I don't think a lot of people mind all that much.
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This was always my favorite disney movie, as much as Beauty and the Beast was awesome. They could never, never get away with that much violence if they were humans! In what other Disney film does a woman get backhanded so hard she flies across the room?
So it was exciting, and I happen to think animals are great and I love watching them move - they did such an excellent job convincing us they were real lions. That talked :P (Even the way Scar slowly sits up at the end there is wholly accurate to the animal kingdom)

Scenes in the Frog where people just aren't 'following through' enough on motions is really where the life drained out of the movie, I find. Maybe it does have something to do with korea - not the country or its skillset, but the fact that a lead artist who has been doing this for decades is not there to help a younger artist through a troublesome scene as the disney style would dictate - a style that wasn't just arbitrarily decided, but was crafted by the masters as they worked through their own problems, sketching for bambi or figuring out just how Ariel would move this way or that while totally floating in near-zero G the whole time.

Now watch how she moves in the 'poster' styled wish song. It's completely different - it isn't just the flashy style or inventiveness at work here, it's actually animated better. There's a lot of really fast cuts immediately after that and a scene change that I think disguises the difference quite a bit.
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Hello, Thanks for the watch!

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I GET IT your avatars MATCH. cute.
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:iconsimongannon:
Kris has adorable spasms sometimes. :p ~~
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:iconnatasmai:
Oh heeeeey, I just got it too!

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