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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.

(All four of these are takes on my OCs drawn by my really good friend, u/ThatCorruptDino!)

I know there can be artists who can be protective of their art and don’t really appreciate fanart that heavily reference them, but me personally, I love seeing it, especially in small friend circles like mine where we do little art trades and make cool takes on eachother’s OCs, the feeling is so validating and it’s really cool seeing how different their versions of your OWN character look like…

i don’t do them at the moment, but this goes for OC commissions aswell, but I just find it really special when it’s purely an effort between friends to challenge eachother with things like art trades and even their own takes on the lore, characterization, etc.

(The second slide is ”Daigo”, he’s a VERY heavily derived version of one of my OCs to borderline being a separate character entirely, we both technically own the character now, but there’s alot of potential born from both of our efforts in turning him into a fully fledged story that might even become a novel!!)

sorry I just wanted to get this out because this is genuinely really something especially special to me and one of my greatest treasures

ITS SKELETONS THAT SHOW THE HORRORS OF WW1 WITH SCREAMY GUTTERAL GERMAN DEATH METAL I LOVE IT RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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they're just so chill and polite

Can't wait to pull her when she reruns