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Nippy13 - Let's give Joy a hug
🕑 Added 2020-06-17 22:23:14 +0000 UTC
There are very few movies that I’ve seen in my lifetime where I actually felt tears welling up in my eyes and if I blinked they would run down my face. One of those was one that I had seen fairly recently: Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out”. For this film there were many moments like that, too many to really list.
But when I came home after seeing the movie I knew that I wanted to have a fan art piece done of it. Something very different from what I’ve had done and worked on in the past. The reason is because with what I saw in this film and the way I felt afterwards, I wanted to break away from what I did before.
In particular, I wanted a piece done of the emotion “Joy”. The reason is because she reminds me of a wonderful friend of mine who no matter what’s happening to her, she still manages to find a way to smile. And I think that the world could use more people like that.
With that in mind, I called up Nippy13 who is the most adept at mimicking the Disney style than anyone else I know of. So I asked him if he wouldn’t mind doing an “Inside Out” piece. But given that he lives in a different country, and the movie hadn’t opened there, he wasn’t sure but went ahead with it. After it was done, he not only had the lineart but had a colored version of his own as well:
After that, it was up to me to add the colors. And so I did in my normal fashion but by the end of it, I decided that it needed something more. So, using the screencaps and other pictures for references, I saw what I had noticed in the film and in the trailers: the basically “little spheres skin render” where each emotion has a rendering that looks like little tiny spheres grouped together. After reading the trivia section for “Inside Out” at the Internet Movie Database I found out that the reason for this is because of how the emotions, in the minds of the animators, were made up of energy. So, using my brush and scattering tools I tried my best to render that in this particular coloring style. Applying it only to the hair and skin.
After that, it was a matter of a background. And so, I used the poster for “Inside Out” as a template/reference. A simple blue background and circles of colors representing the different emotions: yellow for Joy, red for Anger, blue for Sadness, green for Disgust and purple for Fear.
I am rather proud of how this turned out. I hope all of you like it as well.
© Joy - Inside Out - Disney and Pixar
Note: All characters depicted here are 18 years of age or older
(sarcasm): Thank you, Patreon, for not allowing me to post any actual artwork here.
