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UPDATE July 2011:If you're a Watership Down fan, you should check out this site:
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It's a small discussion board for WD fans. Not too many members at the moment, but the fandom is very old after all; older fandoms don't tend to be as active as new ones.
Anyways, I've never before managed to stumble on a Watership Down discussion board, so I decided to join the moment I saw the site. Would love to see more new people over there!
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Aww crap. Something messed up with the submitting process. Well, let's try it again.
Watership Down characters, part 1/6: main cast.
I posted these in my Livejournal already, but I'll post them here too.
I did some cosmetic changes to the pictures, though; changed some details that bothered me.
Watching the Watership Down TV series, I got inspired to try to draw all the rabbits in it. I'm also a fan of the Watership Down movie which was done in 1978. The movie has a more realistic style and the series is more cartoony. Also, the first two seasons of the TV series have a consistent style, but in the third season the character designs of all the characters were changed drastically. I wanted to draw all possible designs for all the rabbits: the movie version, series1&2 design and series3 design.
So, in this picture, there's always three versions of the same bunny: the first image is the character's design from the Watership Down movie, the second one's the bunny's design from the first two seasons of the WSD TV series, and the third image is the design from season 3 of the series.
This is image 1/6, and it's featuring the main cast from the movie and the series.
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why'd they change them?!
and since when is blackberry a girl?
sheesh, now i'm not even interested in watching the series...
nice pics though!!!
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i liked watership down even though i can't remember muich of it since it was so long ago. i love these pics. but is the third pipkin supposed to only have an eyepatch over one eye?
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That movie made me cry but it was still awesome!
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hmm I never really liked the series, but I'm a big fan of the book and the movie! Great work on drawing them all!
teehee that third bigwig looks odd to me, I never saw that one x3 (but then I don't think they even broadcasted the 3rd seaon here :/ )
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I think the watership down movie ones are the best, they look more how they said in the books.
Fiver looks good in the movie. Just how i saw him in the books.
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UGH i hated how bigwig looked in the cartoon series.
BTY in the 3rd season did they really put a marking like a monocle over pipkin's right eye?
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Yeah, Pipkin had that marking but only in one eye. It looked weird to me.
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Never seen neither movie nor series, but I can see, the style is completely onther thing... creeps.
Still, gotta say, this is very nice, hoorays for you!
Hm... I always thought Bigwig got more hair...
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Blackberry...A FEMALE!!?NO WAY MAN!!!
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I know how you feel, i was just shocked when i found out that he is a female in the serie
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I prefer Bigwig without the rediculous lion mane.
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Blackberry being a girl defeats the whole point of the rabbits going to efrafa in the first place. To get does - because otherwise their warren will die out.
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I didn't even know there was a series.
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Nice work! I like the movie designs the best. Something I loved about Watership Down and made it unique is that the rabbits actually looked like realistic rabbits. It's a shame that quality was taken out in the series. I love rabbits the way they are, and there's not enough realistic rabbit based fiction. It's all good though.
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the entire second row/column thing is right to me. right expressions, right colours, right everything ^_^ im glad you made this. watership down kicks ass.
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I just noticed, but in the movie, they all have red eyes...DEMON BUNNEHS!!! j/k...And I noticed this too, why do the first two blackberrys look like girls but in the movie blackberry is a boy?...if blackberry is acctualy a girl in the movie, I'm so stupid...
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Poor Blackberry, but I like how Dandelion developed 
I love this.
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Very, very awesome, but blackberry is a guy.
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.....why the hell did they turn Blackberry into a female ?
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Since when is Blackberry a girl !?!?!
Jesus Christ the best are still the first ones 1978
still great pic
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From old to new
So awesome
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I really like how you combined all the styles.
I like the 1st and 2nd season of the TV show.
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The hell? Why is Blackberry suddenly female?
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It might be because the people working on the series thought there were too many male characters and believed it needed to be balanced out. Or something.
At first Blackberry's gender change feels like a sacrilege, but when you watch enough episodes, you'll get used to her. Especially in the later episodes the character is handled well. Anyway, the series is more like an "alternate universe" kind of take on the Watership Down events, and the series Blackberry is a very different character than the book Blackberry.
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That is correct! I had order DVD from other country. I am in USA and I watch and I really love. I never see first and I see second and third cartoon rabbit.
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You have captured styles from the movie and the series very well. Of course, I like the movie versions of characters better. I think it was stupid to change Blackberry's sex for the series. >.<
I really love Fiver and Bigwig ones. <3
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Bigwig. . .is . . . my . . . favorite. . . @_@
I've never seen the t.v series. I don't think they show it in the us. I have, however, seen clips of it. It pissed me off that they had given Blackberry Silver's coloring and made him a girl. Poor, poor transgender Blackberry.
This is drawn wonderfully by the way. ^_^ I love it.
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I love this series of pictures! And looking at them, I MUCH prefer the Movie versions of all the rabbits...WHAT THE HELL IS WITH BLACKBERRY?! Did they make him female in the series?! HERESY!
You draw them so well! I've like....faved them all
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And lol Bigwig looks like a freakin' lion in the third series! XD I never liked the cartoon series much...but you are so excellent at drawing the characters, I must faveeeee
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I know! Like from the Lion King x3
The 1st is young Simba, 2nd is older Simba, and then he MAGICALLY transforms to Mufasa o:
XD
And Blackberry got a gender change, why? .-.
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Lol yes! XD Life is strange indeed. O_o I don't know why they do that...It happened in Farthing Wood too...Don't know if you watched/read that, but half of the characters got a gender change from the book in the cartoon...The majority of the book characters were male...I guess they wanted to balance out the number of females...w00t!!
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Good pic. You captured the degenerating skill of the subsequent artists of the series perfectly, lol
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I haven't seen the tv series yet but when I do, I'll definitely use this as a reference! Kinda sad that they strayed away from the realism of the movie . . .
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I have to say once again the movie ones are nicest! I don't know what they were trynig to do to Bigwig with this lion-mane they're playing with, and Fiver and Pipkin don't really look like their personalities anymore. Hazel still looks determined as ever, though!
Nice work, I love the comparisions idea!
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When I saw the characters in the series for the first time, I went like "whaaaat??? what have they done to the characters!!". I hated the style, they looked like any regular children's cartoon, and it was nowhere near the realistic style of the movie. But when I got to see the series, I got used to the style. Plus, I think it gets a lot better as the series progresses. The third season stylized the rabbits to look less "kiddie cartoon"-like, and its themes were also a bit more grim than the previous two seasons. For example Pipkin was a sweet, cute, innocent, naive kid in the previous seasons, but in the third season he looks more grown-up when his eyes are stylized differently; he also acts more grown-up and wants to have responsibilities.
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Awesome! I'll have to watch it when it comes on over here.
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I didn't even know there was a TV series.
I find that a little dissapointing that they'd take a fantastic movie/book like that and make a TV cartoon. It wasn't exactly a kid's story...(even though I did watch/read it as a kid, but I was a little ahead of my peers at that time. XD )
You did a fantastic job though! I recognised the characters right off.
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I noticed that many characters look the same in the movie, but all characters look different in the series.
Even if I once liked the movie more and the series was nothing I liked very much I now think different about it. Also, I have not much memory of the movie, I would like to see it again, although I remember it to be very spooky and frightening, at least when I watched it as a child
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I like the old versions better then the serie version, looksmore realistic.
great work anyway
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They ruined them in the series, I think. They made Blackberry a GIRL! Anyways, awesome job!!!!
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Wow, these all look so good :3 i love watership down but, i sometimes wonder...why did they make blackberry a girl? Meh. Anyway, i love tthis <3
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