This is one of my favorite Bolin drawings from the cabinets in the Korra production area, by Eugene Lee, in a style reminiscent of Koji Morimoto. Apparently Eugene drew it here so Bolin would stare into Colin’s office.
He does, and it’s creepy
{insert heck joke here}
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Hi! I'm Colin Heck. I work in animation as a director on The Legend Of Korra. These are some of my drawings and smartass answers to Korra questions.
Hey, Nearly Every Artist That I Follow On Tumblr, I thought I should let you know: when you publicly answer a stream of “asks” that consist entirely of compliments to you, it makes you look immodest and tacky, and somehow makes me like your art less. Please stop spending so much time up your own butt. Thank you.
It’s 1 AM and either somebody on the Korra crew is listening to Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” or I fell into a wormhole that sent me back to 1997
Just found this on my phone from a couple of years ago. It’s the best picture I’ve ever taken.
I remember back in the Avatar days… the typical fanart we would get would be a charming, childish crayon drawing stuffed in an envelope. Nowadays on Korra, I take a skewed screenshot with my phone, post it, and shortly thereafter someone un-skews it, crops it, separates the character levels, clones the background, “Ken Burns” it with a multilevel slide, animates the characters blinking and talking, tints it, and makes a GIF out of it, that I then see on the same phone with which I took the original picture. Times they are a-changin’…
P.S. In case it is unclear, I’m not upset, I’m just amused and amazed.
EDIT: Wait, I got it! A more appropriate classification for this: not fan art, but a fan retake.
Holy crap the solution to everything is crowdsourced retakes
(Source: baelor)
Ezra Smith (ezrads.tumblr.com) (I can’t figure out how to edit the html to make a proper hyperlink) got an astonishing 28 out of 40 correct! I’m seriously amazed that he managed to get a lot of these artists, as a lot of them have only been working on the show for a few months. Congratulations, Ezra! Message me your email and I’ll send you your prize next week when I figure out what it’s going to be.
: Legend of Korra Book 3 Crew Names
This took most of my Sunday to track down and find the crew members names and faces and I still had to guess for a few of them….Like the 4 top-left girls and a few others. I think this is a pretty good effort though. Please enjoy Colin….I hope I got you right…
Bryan made most of it pretty…
Oh, wow! This isn’t perfect, but it’s really close. How about let’s keep this contest open for another week, and then the entry with the most correct answers will win. Currently, it’s this one.
RYU CARICATURES OF KORRA BOOK 3 CREW
–VERSUS–
KORRA BOOK 3 CREW CARICATURES OF RYU
We have a much bigger in-house crew these days, with full design and storyboard departments like we used to have on Avatar. Ryu couldn’t help himself with all of these new faces to parody and skewer, so he surprised us a few weeks back with a motherload crew caricature (top). Bill Rinaldi and a few folks had the idea to band together and get Ryu back with our own compilation of caricatures (bottom).
If anybody (that doesn’t work on the show) can figure out who each of Ryu’s drawings represent, I’ll email you some sort of drawing or something as a prize. Do an overlay with all the names over the drawings and tag me in it when you post. Hint: the placement of our Ryu drawings can help you figure out a lot of them, but it’s not exact.
