nothing like suddenly realizing you remember something very specific
in like 2005, Calico Critters were distributed by a company called International Playthings in the US, and they had a ‘design a family’ contest for kids to participate in- the winning entry was a Pig family called the Pigglywink Pigs. There was an old Sylvanian Families family of Boars, but no bespoke Pig Mold at the factory i guess, so they decided to use a mold that had previously been used for the Forrester Dog family.
anyway as you can see, the dog mold is kind of obvious and the Pigglywink Pigs look really weird and not like pigs. i don’t know how closely they resembled the child’s winning concept art, but there’s a possibility that its part of the reason why they look like this?
anyway years later Sylvanian Families made a mold that was actually intended to be pigs and therefore the Grunt Pig family look a lot more like what you would expect from a Calico Critters Pig family
also here are the truffle boar family. i think they are so charming
Demon’s Funny Burger 2: Fishing was my entry into the Newgrounds Sweet Sixteen comic contest, and to my surprise, I was the winning contestant. I worked on this throughout November and up to the week of the December deadline. In the process I learned how to work within a 16 page limit, but it was also an experience in working with different story altogether- mostly, that I don’t like it!
I have to say I didn’t hate working on this completely, but I think I got my fill of it for sure. I would still like to make more entries for this series, but not on a schedule and much shorter.
One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.
nearing the 10 year anniversary of banishing editable reblogs
