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Request for Air-Racing contributions - Spontoon Is. website
8 years ago
The Spontoon website posts "Speed Week" stories and art on a 1930s air-racing theme each year at the end of August: Here's a contents page for the contributions:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html
We'd be happy to add more art and stories to the section!
The Spontoon Island website will celebrate "Speed Week" and post new contributions starting 24 August, through the first week of September. The site would be happy to repost images of 1930s racing vehicles on a tropical island, including racing seaplanes, 1930s motorcycle races, and similar subjects. Also welcome would be images of visitors watching the racing, locals managing the races, mechanics at work, & pilots. Original 1930s aircraft designs are welcome, as are historical 1930s designs.
Text stories set during the air races or the racing festival in this 1930s Pacific island setting are also welcome.
Rating for contributions should be G to (mild) Mature.
The setting for the Spontoon Island website is an alternate version of our world, approximately 1930s in history and technology. The population is anthropomorphic toons, to funny animal, details depending on each contributor's cartooning style. Think "Miyazaki anime" meets "TaleSpin" meets "Blacksad", with all original characters.
Your own original characters are welcome to visit the Speed-Week festival. They should be wearing 1930s-style costume, and skilled enough tourists to fit in with this alternate time environment. Reposts of your previously-drawn art (that fits the theme) will be OK. You keep your copyright, and we will make sure you have credits and links to your own archive.
There's background information on this webpage:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCQ.html
General pages on Spontoon-setting aircraft:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwAi01.html
Questions are welcome, and can come through comments or Fur Affinity's 'notes'/message system.
Thank you!
Ken Fletcher
'Heywulf' on FA
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html
We'd be happy to add more art and stories to the section!
The Spontoon Island website will celebrate "Speed Week" and post new contributions starting 24 August, through the first week of September. The site would be happy to repost images of 1930s racing vehicles on a tropical island, including racing seaplanes, 1930s motorcycle races, and similar subjects. Also welcome would be images of visitors watching the racing, locals managing the races, mechanics at work, & pilots. Original 1930s aircraft designs are welcome, as are historical 1930s designs.
Text stories set during the air races or the racing festival in this 1930s Pacific island setting are also welcome.
Rating for contributions should be G to (mild) Mature.
The setting for the Spontoon Island website is an alternate version of our world, approximately 1930s in history and technology. The population is anthropomorphic toons, to funny animal, details depending on each contributor's cartooning style. Think "Miyazaki anime" meets "TaleSpin" meets "Blacksad", with all original characters.
Your own original characters are welcome to visit the Speed-Week festival. They should be wearing 1930s-style costume, and skilled enough tourists to fit in with this alternate time environment. Reposts of your previously-drawn art (that fits the theme) will be OK. You keep your copyright, and we will make sure you have credits and links to your own archive.
There's background information on this webpage:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCQ.html
General pages on Spontoon-setting aircraft:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwAi01.html
Questions are welcome, and can come through comments or Fur Affinity's 'notes'/message system.
Thank you!
Ken Fletcher
'Heywulf' on FA
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https://www.furaffinity.net/view/11069889/
The art is very well done, especially if done on a 'mimeograph' duplicator.
I am also very impressed with the design of the "Talespin" title logo. The designer was very good, and I like how he included the aircraft propeller into the title design.
I have the characters Claure and Sunulu who are vaguely feline with prehensile tails from another planet (they also have metal skeletons but that's doesn't show on the outside)
I could draw them in period aviator outfits, maybe fixing a vintage plane.
http://d.facdn.net/art/thapig/13174.....ig_hunters.jpg
Period clothes & vintage plane are fine. For Speed Week some mechanics/pilots are going to be dressed very casual, other mechanics, pilots, & groups are going to be more formal, in working uniform or overalls. I also like your toon-style for characters and technology.
If you find you need more visual references, I may be able to help, or at least point you to on-line references.
Thanks
But if I can manage sufficient inspiration, I'll try.
-Badger-
In any case, you may see some inspirations at the Spontoon website: http://spontoon.rootoon.com/
If it helps, I may be able to find generic or specific reference art.
Especially the Grumman Duck and the PBY Catalina.
Just have to see if I can crank up the old inspiration machine and get the engine to turn over.
-Badger-
Looking good.
But you sent a pedal-car racing cartoon for last year, so expect a couple of racing cartoons from me in reply.