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Wait!
I read the link yesterday...

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Amputated the leg in under 2 1⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days).

Doesn't mention "bleeding out".

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My mistake, I got the cause of death mixed up and I stand corrected.
Either way, that man did many weird operations.

Anyways, here is my entry:

The Axolotl is a fascinating creature, a Mexican salamander which unlike most other salamanders keep
its external gills into adulthood, and carries the nifty ability to regrow its limbs should it
lose any in an encounter with predatory fish, snakes or Robert Liston.

Since the Axolotl already have pink frills on it,
making it a fan of Japanese Lolita fashion seemed obvious.
An Axololita?

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Ok, voting is over and I have, to the best of my ability, counted the votes, and I must say that the results were rather even.

Results:

First place comes to Grok.
Second place goes to Grundislav.
And the third place goes to jwalt.
And a participation trophy goes to DBoyWheeler.


I thank everybody for your votes and participation and hope you are satisfied with the results.

I'd actually be curious to see a mix of both, that is to say, keep the coloring and shading from the first, but make all the outlines black as they are in the second one.

Interesting idea! I could experiment with some darker outlines on top of the image.

Oh...I wasn't trying to be snarky...I can see the gun in question very clearly...

I thought it was your clever subtextual political satire of sexual images being used sublimally in propaganda, as they were back then and still are now...

I swear I saw a picture of Putin riding around half-naked somewhere...

I know, I've seen that picture too, but in most versions they used Photoshop to swap the horse with a bear.

I know you were joking, I tried making a joke about a famous Dr Freud quote, that when Freud, who interpreted pretty much everything sexually, was asked about why he always had a big cigar in his mouth, he said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".
You are right about the poster, I wanted to do it a bit over the top and include some humor into the image. It seems no one has even noticed the umbrella-stand yet...

I'm still unsure of which version to use, but I'm currently working on another background for the game and thinking about making two similar versions of that one too in order to make the comparison easier.

Wait, how is that even possible? Did he have more than twice the number of people die, than he actually had paitents?
You can't get over a 100% mortality rate! Unless... did people drop dead as he walked the street!

I included a link to his wikipedia page in my previous post, though I wouldn't recommend reading it while eating...
Long story short, he was a Scotsman living in the early 1800's nicknamed "the speed surgeon", and as for the 300% mortality rate:

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He once tried to amputate a mans leg so fast that he sliced off the patient's leg, manly bits, three of his assistants fingers and the coattails of a bystander.
The patient bled out while the assistant died of gangrene and the bystander died of sheer fright. All in all, three people died when Liston operated one man.

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The focus on sisterhood and rejection of Prince Charming are also firsts in a Disney movie, I believe.

Okay, possibly being a tad unfair with earlier comments - as mentioned I did enjoy the movie, just didn't think about it too hard maybe!

The feisty heroine bit had certainly been done before in Mulan, but I guess she in a way had a "Prince Charming".  I haven't seen all of them.  Nothing beats The Jungle Book for me!

Lilo and Stitch did the sister dynamic before, and Brave was also about the relation between two female family members, albeit a mother and daughter.
Even the rejection of Prince Charming and critique of Love at first sight was done before in Enchanted (Just compare this clip to Elsa/Hans meeting!).

The only thing that Frozen did first for a Disney movie was making the identity of the villain a surprise, and even then it feels like an afterthought tacked on at the last minute.
In my opinion, Frozen is like Cars, but for girls.

My main beef with current Disney movies is simply that I wish they would go back to 2D animation, or at least animation with more of a 2D look. Ever since Tarzan and its Deep Canvas system, and then later with the Meander system used in "Paperman", they've had tools to do really nice painterly stuff that allows them to put hand-painted/drawn things into a 3D scene (though I didn't think "Feast" worked very well: basically just looked like cel-shaded 3D), but all feature movies have this cheap videogamey 3D look. I had hoped Moana would be 2D, since the Polynesian setting lends itself beautifully to more loosely painted backgrounds. Ah well.

Yes, it's a real shame you don't see many 2D movies being produced anymore, I remember growing up watching Disney and Don Bluth movies over and over again, I felt they looked like picture-books given life and they inspired me to draw things myself.
Most of the 3D movies just feel like they all look the same as well, there isn't really any big differences in style, only in budget and technology.

However, there is a good animated film of H.C Andersens tale The Snow Queen, made in Soviet Russia in 1957. It's 2D animated and stays pretty accurate to the original story as well.
Here is a link for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1M1y595_U

I'd definitely go with the first one, you've spent a lot of time painting in that soft shading and it's such a shame to lose it.

Personally I quite like the character style matched with the first background, it reminds me of the classic Disney animations:

http://www.animationsensations.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/w/sw_prince_icon.jpg

Yes, I'm a big fan of classic animation myself, though I have to admit I didn't spend much time painting in the soft shadows, I used the shading tool in Photoshop elements.
The second version is merely a filter I used on top of the first image, so the background can be changed back and forth pretty easy.

Is that a gun in that dude's hands...or is he just very glad to see us?

I was trying to draw a PPSh-41...
Well, in the words of Sigmund Freud, sometimes a phallic symbol is just phallic symbol.

The death of cinematic cartoon shorts came about largely because a Supreme Court antitrust ruling forced the separation of cinema chains from movie studios. In the old days, studios like Warner, MGM, Paramount, etc. owned the movie theaters and controlled the programming (so a particular cinema would show only films from a particular studio). The ruling meant they had to sell them off, and that there had to be an open market in deciding what each cinema would show. The court also started to enforce an earlier decision that it was illegal to "block-book" short films along with feature-length films (i.e. sell them as a package). This made them much harder to sell, since people didn't usually buy movie tickets for short films but for main features, so they were an obvious target for cinema chain cost-cutting (the movie business went into a major decline around this time). Within a few years they were all but gone.

Most interesting, thanks for the read!

I thought Frozen was good, not necessarily outstanding.  It was phenomenally popular because it hit all the right social consciousness buttons at the right time.

That is also something which baffles me, since I can't really think of anything that Frozen did that other Disney/Pixar movies haven't done before. Compared with previous Disney movies, such as this scene from Pocahontas or The hunchback from Notre Dame,
I think Frozen is very tame and doesn't take any big risks. Even Wreck it Ralph and Zootopia handled issues like fear of others and alienation much, much better than Frozen.

This is the OctoDoc. Has a 47% recovery rate!

I'm not so sure about those odds, though I'd still pick OctoDoc over Robert Liston.
(Primarily known for performing the only operation in history with a 300% mortality rate!)

Cool, it looks like he's really about to wolf down on that biltong!

Who doesn't love Lovecraft?

I didn't know this until recently, but this change was probably brought on by the motion picture production code, which was instituted by hollywood on 1930. This resulted in a collection of "pre-code" films which addressed race relations, drug use and sexuality with a freedom we have been slowly re-acquiring in recent decades.

I've read about the Hayes Code before, though I doubt that it's solely to blame since it applied to cartoons and live-action alike.
I'd say this also has a lot to do with media technology as well, since the introduction of daytime TV created a huge demand for family-friendly content, and the loosened restrictions of recent times goes hand in hand with internet becoming big and many people being able to share content without relying on studios and tv-companys.

I get a bit annoyed at myself when I hear certain songs so awfully terrible (not even a so bad it's good song), and it sticks in your head and you catch yourself singing it!

Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!

I'm not sure though if "Let It Go" fits the description of a terrible song...I would say it's one of Disney's best (The Lion King still rules supreme for the songs though in my book)

And speaking of cartoons, while I have to admit that I liked "Let it go", it grinds my gears that I still see stupid Frozen merchandise pushed in my face everywhere. People simply refuse to let it go!
It's not even a good movie! It has plotholes the size of China, the song the trolls sing is so awful it's even worse than vogon poetry and the animators didn't even bother to give the female characters different character models:

Cool, love all the little details on the mech!
I have been thinking of making an entry myself, but I just cant decide on weather to draw an Axolotl or a Giant oar fish...

I think the bottom picture works best with the character sprite. I think another question would be, should you make the character sprite to match the top pick?

Since I already have finished many character sprites, no, I probably won't redraw them to match the top pick, but that still leaves the question open on
which image works best, and weather the characters should stand out or blend in.

Hi!
I have spent some time working on a background which I plan to use in a sequel for my game Sniper and spotter being patriotic,
and I plan for this game too to have something of a 1940's cartoon aesthetic. This background is supposed to be the office of a soviet political officer,
and I added in a character sprite to compare against the background. I have made two versions, and I wonder, which one do you think looks the best?

Gotta agree with Cassiebsg on the angle of the girl looking odd, as well as neither of the mattresses leaving no reflection in the water.

Otherwise, it looks absolutely lovely, and while I have seen many dramatic worlds in games, there have been few that made me wish I could physically visit them myself.
You should consider selling postcards as tie-in merchandise!

And if you look at some really old cartoons, like the original Felix the Cat shorts, they're more adult themed than even South Park!

Yes, I do feel that cartoons were indeed much, much darker before, because the cinemas often used to show short cartoons before
the feature-length movie back in the day, and many of them were geared towards adults.

One of the darkest movies I've seen was a wartime propaganda film titled Education for death, made by none other than Walt Disney.
And people today say Frozen is "dark" because the protagonists parents die off-screen and another character lies about being a nice guy.

It grinds my gears that animated movies still are considered dumb kiddie entertainment by the large masses.
Never mind that there are several good animated films out there which tackle difficult subjects in a more mature and artful way than most live-action movies,
the notion that animated is automatically kid-friendly have most likely made innocent kids suffer as well.

I have already read about traumatized kids being dragged out of theaters showing Sausage Party...

That's just gorgeous, arj0n!

Agree, I'd never thought that a room full of Barbie-pink could be that ominous!