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This has always been a personal nitpick of mine when it comes to how often weasels are designed in cartoons.
However, this isn't a dig at other people's artstyles though. You can still design a weasel with a slightly toonish style or even your own style, and it can look unique. As long as the animal is still recognizable (best example is I.M. Weasel, since he still looks like the animal he's supposed to resemble, just in David Feiss' style). My *real* nitpick is when the weasel itself starts to look less like the animal it's supposed to be. The large canine-like snout mostly derived from Disney cartoons, which has become the standard look for toon weasels. And in a couple of Looney Tunes shorts, as well as the Redwall TV series (where they are anatomically correct for the most part), they're given buck teeth, which makes them stick out like a sore thumb. Weasels have pointy teeth for a reason, they're meat-eaters.
Bit of a tangent here as well, but I'm also tired of seeing weasels be portrayed as villains, which seems to be a common agenda in Walt Disney productions, and in the Redwall series. They deserve as much respect as any other creature out there.
However, this isn't a dig at other people's artstyles though. You can still design a weasel with a slightly toonish style or even your own style, and it can look unique. As long as the animal is still recognizable (best example is I.M. Weasel, since he still looks like the animal he's supposed to resemble, just in David Feiss' style). My *real* nitpick is when the weasel itself starts to look less like the animal it's supposed to be. The large canine-like snout mostly derived from Disney cartoons, which has become the standard look for toon weasels. And in a couple of Looney Tunes shorts, as well as the Redwall TV series (where they are anatomically correct for the most part), they're given buck teeth, which makes them stick out like a sore thumb. Weasels have pointy teeth for a reason, they're meat-eaters.
Bit of a tangent here as well, but I'm also tired of seeing weasels be portrayed as villains, which seems to be a common agenda in Walt Disney productions, and in the Redwall series. They deserve as much respect as any other creature out there.
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File Size 1.55 MB
The thing is that what is portrayed is often not a weasel but a Bad Animal which is said to be a weasel because you can't just have it be nothing. It's like calling Goofy a dog, he's not, in any way, but he has to be something. You want something that people look at and go 'Ah. Bad guy. But nmot like, the BIG bad guy, a lackey.' A lot of people who can draw a 'weasel' have enver seen a live one.
Pretty sure the main reason why weasels tend to get portrayed as villains is that they often seen as a symbol of trickery (much like foxes and coyotes), plus they're tenacious little fighters. Like zfqfmid said, they're often less the "big bad" and more the "big bad"'s right-hand man.
But the fact that they're tenacious fighters would also make them good action heroes.
But the fact that they're tenacious fighters would also make them good action heroes.
Yeah, Badrang looked more like a wolf-skunk hybrid than a stoat. And I get that Killconey was supposed to be chubby, and a chubby ferret could work, but yeah, aside from his teeth, it can be sort of hard to tell that he's a ferret at first glance. Maybe in some of my future art projects, I might fix their designs from the Nelvana Redwall series.
FTR, this is what a fat mustelid should look more like, if you do eventually do that: https://www.reddit.com/r/ferrets/co....._fat/#lightbox Clogg and Killconey had the problem that their bodies weren't proportionally long enough, so they looked more little and round like hamsters. You need a sort of stretched pear shape.
So true
omg what are those tooned out weasels, it's not even similar to the actual thing. No offense to whoever likes them but it's like calling a green thing red
I'm glad there's people pushing against it cause I really enjoy mustelids, been trying to learn them better. Now if only there was more big media depicting accurate weasels without the usual villain characteristics..
omg what are those tooned out weasels, it's not even similar to the actual thing. No offense to whoever likes them but it's like calling a green thing red
I'm glad there's people pushing against it cause I really enjoy mustelids, been trying to learn them better. Now if only there was more big media depicting accurate weasels without the usual villain characteristics..
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