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I've been eagerly anticipating being able to post this... it's Joi's NEW REF!
This wonderful picture was done by the illustrious
hooboy who did a fantastic job of translating all the toony elements of Joi into a full ref. He also made several adjustments and tweaks to Joi's overall design, making his colours a lot more vibrant! He also added the cute pink nose, which has finally settled the debate that absolutely no one has been talking about: "Is Joi's nose just like, a little pink Y or a triangular shape?"
Doing all this updating has also given me the opportunity to write a proper backstory for Joi which, funny enough, I've neglected to do! Hooboy's rendering of Joi's name was reminiscent of 90's cartoons, which inspired me quite a bit. Have a read of this short vignette:
Joi! (1998) is, to this day, considered one of the biggest losses of budget in animation history. Envisioned as an ambitious, fluidly animated sketch show featuring a voracious, gassy rabbit, the concept was eclectic from the get-go, but network executives were repeatedly assured to "[...]just trust us on this one." through it's development.
Though it had a full 26-episode run fully produced, Joi! (1998) was cancelled before it aired after SMD Network realised it's potential demographic reach only consisted of, quote, "[...]weirdo sex perverts who want to fuck the looney tunes". It's master tapes were unceremoniously dumped, sold off from auction lot to auction lot, never screened or touched.
That is, until years later, in the digital age, when an unsuspecting film archivist's computer had an awful, simply terrible accident involving an analogue-to-digital converter, at least 20 F.A tabs (most of weirdo belly porn), one bottle of banana milkshake and a freak lightning strike directed solely at the archivist's house. Out from the electric doom of irrelevancy and lost media stepped Joi; fully-formed and fully famished.
This wonderful picture was done by the illustrious
hooboy who did a fantastic job of translating all the toony elements of Joi into a full ref. He also made several adjustments and tweaks to Joi's overall design, making his colours a lot more vibrant! He also added the cute pink nose, which has finally settled the debate that absolutely no one has been talking about: "Is Joi's nose just like, a little pink Y or a triangular shape?"Doing all this updating has also given me the opportunity to write a proper backstory for Joi which, funny enough, I've neglected to do! Hooboy's rendering of Joi's name was reminiscent of 90's cartoons, which inspired me quite a bit. Have a read of this short vignette:
Joi! (1998) is, to this day, considered one of the biggest losses of budget in animation history. Envisioned as an ambitious, fluidly animated sketch show featuring a voracious, gassy rabbit, the concept was eclectic from the get-go, but network executives were repeatedly assured to "[...]just trust us on this one." through it's development.
Though it had a full 26-episode run fully produced, Joi! (1998) was cancelled before it aired after SMD Network realised it's potential demographic reach only consisted of, quote, "[...]weirdo sex perverts who want to fuck the looney tunes". It's master tapes were unceremoniously dumped, sold off from auction lot to auction lot, never screened or touched.
That is, until years later, in the digital age, when an unsuspecting film archivist's computer had an awful, simply terrible accident involving an analogue-to-digital converter, at least 20 F.A tabs (most of weirdo belly porn), one bottle of banana milkshake and a freak lightning strike directed solely at the archivist's house. Out from the electric doom of irrelevancy and lost media stepped Joi; fully-formed and fully famished.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
Species Rabbit / Hare
Size 1697 x 2171px
File Size 3.58 MB
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