ChaseReynard was kind enough to pose for what might be my first proper TFTuesday picture! Most of this was reverse-engineered from thinking how funny it'd be if 'Transform-ios breakfast cereal' had a sticker label that it was now 15% more permanent, and I don't know who'd be better to be considering this than Chase.The figure Chase is turning to is Quisp, one of the other line of Jay-Ward-designed breakfast cereal mascots (alongside Cap'n Crunch, King Vitaman, Simon the Quangaroo). The canonical Quisp (see https://cereal-graveyard.fandom.com/wiki/Quisp ) doesn't wear moon boots, but I had to do something more to show changes taking place, since Chase doesn't wear boots either and there's limits on how much you can change his colors. Chase's design there is loosely based on actual foxes from Rocky and Bullwinkle because I don't have the character design skills to do that from scratch.
I like how the minimalist store shelves came out, but I couldn't figure a way to shade them so they look like they have stuff on them. I feel like my pencil sketch did better with the shopping cart too, but that'll happen.
Quisp was introduced as partner and rival to Quake, a ... coal miner or whatever? Something? The idea was that kids would like both cereals but it turned out they liked the one with the alien more than the one with the ... coal miner or whatever.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
Species Alien (Other)
Size 989 x 1280px
File Size 361.4 kB
I'm a little too young to know Quisp as a real, active cereal mascot, as opposed to something from YouTube videos and the occasional revival. But I do love their style, in part because alien, in part because there's so much of Gidney and Cloyd, Bullwinkle's Moon Men, in there.
A cereal mascot I know and liked more in concept than actual execution was King Halfsie, of Halfsies cereal, a short-lived Nutrasweet-based thing from the early 80s that I think was the last Jay Ward designed mascot. The idea was everything in the kingdom --- buildings, vehicles, outfits --- was one design on the left side, a different design on the right side. The missing element is the characters weren't halfsies too, just regular old monocoque humans. Think of the potential for, like, a two-headed dragon-puppy or whatever.
A cereal mascot I know and liked more in concept than actual execution was King Halfsie, of Halfsies cereal, a short-lived Nutrasweet-based thing from the early 80s that I think was the last Jay Ward designed mascot. The idea was everything in the kingdom --- buildings, vehicles, outfits --- was one design on the left side, a different design on the right side. The missing element is the characters weren't halfsies too, just regular old monocoque humans. Think of the potential for, like, a two-headed dragon-puppy or whatever.
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