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For those who don’t know, Rotoscope is essentially an early form of Motion Capture, where Live Action Footage is Traced Over with 2D Animation, to create this really cool (and somewhat uncanny) hybrid style, which dates back to the early 20th century, and is still used today.

Examples:

Koko The Clown - Fleischer Studios Animation

(Often labelled as the first ever use of this style, back in 1915)

Snow White - Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Kevin - Spooky Month: The Wacky Wicked Woods (2026)

(A parody of the Snow White Example)

Joseph Gordon Levitt - Short Animation by Carli Ihde (2014)

Everyone - A Scanner Darkly (2006)

(Literally the Entire film is all Rotoscoped throughout)

Emmet and Clara - Back To The Future: Part 3 (1990)

Probably one of the more well known examples of this trope. While there’s only a 14 year age difference between the Actors, the character of Clara is only about 30, while Doc Brown is around 65. Despite this, age isn’t really brought up in the film, and their relationship is treated pretty wholesomely, with them bonding over a shared interest of History and Joules Verne, resulting in them eventually starting a family together.

Renee and Paz - The Boroughs (2026)

In The Duffer Brothers’ new show, two of the main Renee, a retired music manager and Paz, a younger security guard at the titular retirement village: “The Boroughs”, begin secretly seeing each other, while investigating the shady goings on at the facility. Unlike the first example, the age difference is acknowledged multiple times, and is a point of tension between the two, as Renee is more self conscious and somewhat apprehensive about what people might think if news got out, while Paz doesn’t seem that worried about the whole thing. >!However, by the end of the series, they decide to stick together, not caring what people think of them both.!<

Lisbeth and Mikael - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy)

In The Millennium series, Lisbeth and Mikael have a pretty unusual relationship, as what starts off as a professional partnership, between a mid 20’s hacker, opposed to strangers, and an early 40’s reporter, standoffish to the woman who hacked him, quickly evolves into something much more, as they both come to realise they have an undeniable mutual attraction, and compliment each other well.

>!Sadly, things don’t exactly work out between the two, but less because of the age thing, and more down to them being from very different “worlds”, with Lisbeth feeling a sense of imposter syndrome among Mikael’s reporter community, along with Mikael’s struggle to commit to a single relationship (he couldn’t stay faithful to even his own wife), eventually leading to Lisbeth deciding to leave, forcing herself to hate Mikeal, because loving him is too painful.!<

However, >!the ending of the third book does kind of leave things open between the two, with Lisbeth inviting Mikeal into her apartment implying the possibility of them maybe getting back together.!<

(Honourable Mention) Rebecca and Sam - Ted Lasso (Season 2)

Technically this one is an honourable mention, as it’s more of a limited time relationship, but I felt it was worth putting anyway. Essentially, Rebecca, owner of The Richmond Football Team and Sam, one of it’s key players, start using a dodgy blind dating app, and unbeknownst to both of them, make a good match, and end up arranging to see each other at a restaurant, where they finally realise who each other are. Despite things initially being awkward, they both find they get along surprisingly well, and continue to secretly see each other for a little while. Despite this though, the two do later decide to go their separate ways, due how this could effect their very public lives as club owner and professional player respectively, with Sam starting a side venture as a restauranteur, while Rebecca >!eventually finds someone new.!<

These are the four main characters and a few of the Bacteria Monsters from “Doomsweepers”, a newly unveiled action comedy franchise, planned to consist of a Comic, Video Game and Animated Series (Hopefully). The IP is being created by Sarah Harper, best known for Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lego Monkey Kid and Glitch Techs, and is being worked on as a co-production between Lightfold and Flying Bark Productions.

The plot revolves around a group of misfit cleaners at a shady laboratory, who are faced with the outbreak of an apocalyptic zombie-esk infection, and are forced to fight back and save the world, using their own cleaning equipment as weapons.

From left to right in pic two, The Team consists of Nikki (with the Anime stickers, Tamagotchi and Scrub Daddies), Steph (purple headphones and “Soap-Thrower”), Levi (ID lanyard, camera and Dual Mops) and Dogmeat (grimy and damaged suit with clear goggles and Dual Disinfectant Sprays). The group has a pretty cool design philosophy, similar to that of The TMNT and Ghostbusters, where they all share a uniform look, but each with their own unique elements, that set them apart. I personally really like the stylisation of the characters, especially with how their faces are obscured by the hazmat suits, only showing silhouettes, yet still being really expressive and having a lot of personality.

Then we also have the monsters the team has to go up against, which we see a few of in the announcement trailer, and seem to be zombie like and inspired the viruses of Resident Evil and the fungus from The Last of Us, but in this case it’s a Bacteria infection, with an eye and teeth theme and mostly blue and purple colour scheme. Towards the end of the teaser, we also see this girl, who seems to be “patient zero”, and what looks like the main villain of series, and is really cool in her own right, with a kinda Vecna/Gozer vibe going on.

Highly recommend watching the Trailer:
DOOMSWEEPERS | Official First LookYouTube · Lightfold1 week ago

It honestly looks Amazing! Screen shots just don’t do it justice.

Here’s a link to Lightfold’s Website:
https://lightfold.tv/pages/doomsweepers

Right now, the studio is doing a “project milestones sign-up campaign”, to gauge public interest in the IP. It’s similar to Kickstarter, but Completely Free, where all you need to do is sign up to Lightfold’s newsletter, which will give you updates on all of their upcoming projects. At the time of writing this, the Final Goal is 30K Sign-Ups, for a Full Animated Series, and the current level is at around 22.5K. So, if you like what you see, then be sure to sign up, when you get a chance, and make it Happen!

PS: Don’t forget Flying Bark’s Website Too: https://www.flyingbark.com.au

Anyway, that’s it from me, I just genuinely love the character designs and concept as a whole, so I thought I’d share it here.

I know the girl on the right becomes leader of The Chained Choir, in “The Hummingbirds” path, but who’s the BOS looking person in the middle and the Pink Assultron to the left? Is that Doki?

PS: sorry about the bad quality. I just couldn’t be assed to data mine the game, and just took a photo of my monitor instead.

(Bonus points if the film was unsuccessful, and The “Universe” ended soon afterwards.)

The Mummy (2017) - Universal’s “Dark Universe”

Probably the most well-known example of this. From the very beginning, the plan was for face reboot of The Mummy to act as a pilot for a wider cinematic universe, comprised of classic monsters, which universal owned the rights to.

While the original idea was for it to be a horror franchise, that soon changed, due to the popularity of the MCU, and Tom Cruise taking control of the project, pushing The Mummy into a more action focused direction. So, it was then decided that each film would lead towards an eventual team up film, which would be something of a “Monster Avengers” you could say.

This agenda is painfully obvious in the final film, as we introduced to “Dr Jekyll”, he is essentially a Nick Fury stand in, with his own shield equivalent. If that wasn’t enough, there’s also a room containing various Easter eggs, relating to other monsters, like a vampire skull and the hand of The Creature of The black Lagoon.

However, though, whatever you thought of the final film, it ended up being a massive financial flop for universal, with an estimated $60 to $95 Million loss, and all future plans for the Dark Universe were put on permanent hold, for now at least.

Scoob! (2020) - The Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe

In this reboot of Scooby Doo, one of the most notable features is the amount of characters from other Hannah Barbera shows, like The Blue Falcon, Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races and Captain Caveman. This is because apparently Warner Brothers had plans to make a cinematic universe, comprised of various different franchises created by Hanna-Barbera.

However, the film wasn’t the smash hit the studio had hoped for, and the nearly finished sequel, Scoob: Holiday Haunt, was unceremoniously cancelled in a series of tax write-offs by WB in 2022, thus ending the hopes of Hannah Barbara making a major comeback, at least for the time being.

Black Adam (2022) The Rock’s Revival of The DCEU

While definitely not the start of for DCEU, Black Adam was intended to be a kind of soft reboot for DC in live action, with The Rock having creative control, and inserting himself as The titular antihero, and main face of change in this new direction for the franchise.

However, despite bringing back Henry Cavill as Superman, and setting up a versus film between him and Black Adam, the film was a major disappointment at the box office, and following this failure, Warner Brothers decided to give the role of creative director to James Gunn instead, who decided to just wipe the slate clean and start up the New “DCU” instead, which is where we are today.

Matt Damon in Arthur

Simon Cowell in Scoob! (2021)

Various Celebrity cameos in The Beano
(including but not limited to: King Charles and Queen Camilla, Stormsy, KSI, Tom Holland, Claudia Winkelman, Allan Carr,, Romesh Ranganathan, Harry Styles, Lewis Capaldi and Oasis, among many more.)

For those who don’t know, Ska is an often overlooked subculture, spawned from the music genre of the same name, popularised in the 70’s and 80’s by bands like Madness, The Specials, The Beat, The Selector and Bad Manners etc. In essence, Ska is essentially a fusion of Afro-Caribbean culture with European and North American influences, resulting in a unique marriage of styles. Aesthetically, Ska outfits are often an odd mix of formal and casual clothing, with Trilby Hats, pinstripe suits and ties, spliced together with stuff like Martens, straight-leg high-ankle jeans, braces, and simple shirts, along more modern trainers and hoodies, While hairstyles vary, jagged, spiky hair, or little to no hair at all, are considered staples of the subculture. In someways, Ska is stylistically comparable to the Skinhead subculture, but without the nationalistic connotations surrounding it. Instead, it’s quite the contrary, with Ska generally considered inherently “anti racist in its nature. However, a key design detail which sets Ska apart, is certain iconography like frequent use of black and white chequered patterns and skulls, which is often a major distinguishing factor.

Walt Jabsco The “Rude Boy” (Mascot of Two Tone Records)

Beat Betty (Mascot of The Beat)

Tomska’s various avatars over the years (He’s a big fan of the genre, hence the name “Tom-Ska”)

The Members of “F**k The Factory” from This Town (2024)

The Townies (Dropouts) - Bully (2006)

Absolute Harley Quinn - Absolute DC

Orks from Warhammer 40K

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Some background, I have been a professional artist/digital artist for over 15 years, and have been working on this since 2022. I got the idea many years ago after watching the film "Samsara", and decided to combine my love for Fallout with my own spiritual journey with Buddhism. The story follows a PLA Soldier that turns to Buddhism after the war to cope with the end of the world, and their journey through post-war Asia.

I stopped working on this full time ever since AI took over most of the digital art world, and was very discouraged to continue it. So here's everything that's left of the project.