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Published: 2011-01-05 08:20:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 5250; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 117
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Yet another TMNT redesign. This time it's Ray Fillet, the hero of the deep.I wanted to make this character a bit more playful like the old action figures from when I was a kid. Thus the duck float and the harpoon tail. I also wanted to make him look a lot more like a superhero and snagged this pose directly from an illustration of superman. His fins just make such a convenient cape!
This will probably be the last thing I post for a bit, as I am moving to another country and starting school again. I hope you all enjoy it.
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haha. I never got into him much as a kid. Something about the design seemed pretty funny to me when I was working on this though.
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He was one of my favorites from the original toy line--but he was so hard to find! 
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I THINK I had a copy of that toy, but now I can't remember for sure. There were a few silly characters that I got toward the end, and I had no idea who they were. I think Ray Fillet was one of them.Β
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Probably! Β They had a crap load of weird characters in that series. Β They even made a character based on a tapeworm! Β They were really reaching for animal ideas at that point.
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haha. I remember that tapeworm character. He would be fun to draw too.
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I should revisit him! Β I drew a version of him about 14 years ago--he was white and looked more like an actual worm, and resembled Twelve from Street Fighter III quite a bit. Β ...as most of my characters do. 
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Definitely! I have to get back into using Flash again though, which is a bit exhausting. I also have a Scumbug design that I have been sitting on for about two years now too.
You should definitely draw him too. I really dig your character redesign work.
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Ooon, Scumbug would be cool to see! Β Do you use Flash for these designs? Β They look great!
Thanks, man! Β I'm really digging your designs, too!
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Yeah. I used Flash to make all of these. It's just painful for me to do stuff in vector now though. It's so obsessive compulsive.
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Ha, ha! Β Sounds like it would be. Β I never really got the hang of vector.
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I never knew that besides mole rat drawings you make superheroes from TMNT!!!!!
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Yes indeed! I am multi-nostalgic.
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You're multi-nostalgic!? Wow!
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Thanks! That was a big part of the design for me. I wanted him to look like some sort of a Aquatic superman.
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Thanks! Glad you like it.
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You're welcome, plus I like Mantas, and when I knew there were a Manta mutant I loved the char since the 1st time
A shame he wasn't named or used too much
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I had the action figure when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure he came with a little sidekick, which I ended up using as a player piece in the best board game of all time: DYNAMITE!
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Thanks.
I don't remember the sidekick, but it was definitely during that time period where they were giving them all of those still little accessories like that.
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Thanks man! I was checking out your version of him earlier today too. VERY cool.
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Danke!, I loooove the colors, is that illustrator or just fancy gradient work???
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Just fancy gradient work I guess. I did this illustration in Flash, so I wasn't able to do those weird gradient alterations. To be honest I usually don't like the look of those really structured gradients.
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Gotcha, so did you just layer chunks of color over each other?
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No. I used lines to delineate the gradient areas and then filled them in. It was sort of like cell shading but with gradients and lots of cells.
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Wow, it's been a while since I've checked out your stuff, but this Ray Fillet is awesome!
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Many thanks man. I had a lot of fun with this one.
Been away for a while?
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Not really, I just haven't remember to check in on your stuff. I don't think I even knew you had a DevArt account, I just used to visit your blog a while back.
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Oh right! I haven't visited that turtles forum in ages either.
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this is just wonder, love the small touches like the inner tube duckie and the flippers. AMAZING!!!
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Thanks man! haha. I try to work duckies into my drawings whenever possible. It was just TOO easy with this one.
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his chin... looks like a belly button. lol he looks awesome
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Yeah it does. That's the kind of dimpled chin that you could lose digits in.
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it almost looks like it could start talking by itself
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Maybe that's one of his mutant powers.
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lol that'd be crazy. ray could have conversations with it. i imagine it would be rude and sarcastic.
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Nice redesign of an obscure TMNT character. 
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Thank you much. Yeah, it sort of seemed like a missed opportunity not giving him the chest gills in the cartoon and comic. Needed to be rectified.
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Fantastic! I love your redesigns (If you haven't noticed already) of the TMNT universe. I hope you keep making these.
Have fun at school.
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Well I don't think I'll ever be totally done with the series. I probably won't be doing it super frequently though.
Thank you much man!
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Glad to hear that cause there are so many other characters to be redone. I have a list... but I wont post it cause I'm sure you do as well.
Keep up the great work
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haha. Yeah. I have quite the list as well. I think I'll be working on it for the next decade.
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Awesome! I'm jealous! I don't have ANY of my old toys.
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Oh god.. I have a boat load. I was lucky enough to have a friend find a slash and send him to me years back. Was one of my white whale toys I lost as a kid
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