Dated 03/03/2019

Seems Red has managed to acquire some sort of new macro power-up. Now the Angry Birds' slingshots are the least of those naughty pigs' worries...

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I tend to find there are two kinds of pictures I produce these days. Those that I do for personal 'hornifying' reasons, and those that I do just for a bit of a laugh.

In case you're wondering, this is one of the latter.



I suspect there will be many of you out there who will roll your eyes at me for deigning to expand my list of misused characters into the world of Angry Birds. No doubt some of you probably despise the whole franchise, or are sick to death of it, or just have no interest in it whatsoever. And from a furry perspective, beyond joining the screen-gazing masses who have at some point become hooked on the original Angry Birds game, I never really gave the characters much thought myself either.

That was until The Angry Birds Movie came out a few years ago, when - much to my amusement - the cast of characters underwent a big anthropomorphic redesign and thereby acquired a new element: Feet.

Well, as stated in the Declaration Of Footsluttery (which I'm sure all of you should be able to recite from memory by now), "all feet are created equal". So my obsessed brain spotted a new opportunity and decided to 'go there'. Bad brain. Very bad brain.



Even so, the more I thought of how I could depict such a scenario, the more it just seemed to work. Angry Birds is, by its very nature, a game all about smashing up structures and pulverising pigs. Why shouldn't these characters, with their newfound lower limbs, be given the opportunity to explore their destructive capabilities in art form? (Especially with gratuitous size difference thrown in for good measure...)

I started this picture in late 2017, at a time when I seemed to be going through a mega birdy-feet phase (more fruits from which will hopefully emerge in the not-too-distant future). However, I only tend to work on pics when I'm - shall we say - 'in the mood' for them, and as this pic was more of a comedic goofaround than an attempt to produce something smutty, I kinda lost interest in it for a while. Hence it ended up in the latest volume of my Great Unfinished Collection.

Last December's 'comeback' gave me fresh impetus for a lot of things though, and as this project was already progressing reasonably well, I added it to my list of pieces I was keen to get done fairly soon. I resumed work on it in earnest about a week ago, and here it is.

As someone who first became familiar with Angry Birds through playing the original game, even though I've never seen the movie, I decided I wanted this to be a blend of styles. Red is therefore depicted very much in his movie form - anthro, realistically textured - while the design of the pigs and the background are obviously much more reminiscent of the classic game.

This was pretty fun to produce, though there were two real nuisance elements. The first was committing to going all out on Red's texture - which as you can imagine took quite some time - while the other was doing all the fiddly little bits of wood, glass and stone in keeping with the game.

Something I forgot to mention recently which has become a new feature in my artwork: I am now largely doing all of my work in exclusively digital media. In contrast from the pencil-and-paper drawings with which I used to begin my projects throughout most of my first 10 years in the furry fandom, nowadays I'm doing pretty much every piece with a tablet. Although I've never found it the most natural way of drawing, it saves me a hell of a lot of paper, and it does make things much easier when it comes to modifying sections, making copies and - of course - hiding the evidence...



As much as this was a funny little project that I did enjoy working on, I doubt I'll be doing much more with Angry Birds, unless the mood really happens to grab me again some day. From what I've seen on FA at least, these characters (perhaps mercifully!) don't seem to feature in the fandom much, and although I've always done my bit to fill 'gaps in the market', I do find limited true appeal myself in the very basic design of these characters.

Even so, Red makes a pretty good macro stomper, wouldn't you say?



RRRex