Thanks ellie-jessie-eve! That was one of my more inspired crossovers.
Haha, thanks, love70ways! By the way, those two Na’vi are the two Na’vi (Jake and Neytiri). Or my poor renditions of them in long-shot. XD I just used the Brush tool in Photoshop to paint the characters and poorly smudged them for the Redwall painting. The background is a texture I found on dA andd that I acknowledged in my dA uploader comments.
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FIQUE TRANQUILO
That means “No Worries!” in Brazilian Portugese. I’m really looking forward to Blue Sky’s Rio next spring, but there seems to be little buzz about it at the moment as there’s hardly any pre-release hype coming from the studio this year. Until two five days ago, the only materials publicly released were a teaser, a poster, and a Thanksgiving poster that had a few elements Photoshopped. The trailer released on Wednesday had a great beginning and hinted more of the other characters and revealed how Blu ended up in Brazil, but it soon degenerated into a celebrity name-dropping sequence.
Nevertheless, I’m very excited, because of the unique location (How many animated movies are set in Brazil? Probably the godawful Ratatoiing), endearing characters, and cute storyline. I really love how they depicted Blu to be this adorable neurotic and Jewel to be his exasperated ‘teacher-of-life’. Their relationship will be one of the film’s strongest suits, along with Blu’s love for his human companion. If Blue Sky pulls it off, it just might redeem itself for the disappointing Scrat x Scratte subplot in the mediocre Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
So yeah, long comment aside, here’s a sketch dump I did in an hour of scenes from the new trailer, along with a few character cameos from other films. It just might possibly be the first Rio fanart on the Internet! Honest comments and constructive criticisms much appreciated.