snapshot

Along with the hologram of the andalite Tyrlieon that Kioshi found at the construction site, the young Japanese teen also discovered an old snapshot that looked well worn. It was inexplicably of his father, and himself as a baby. They looked happy.

Kioshi is still not clear on exactly what this means or how it came to be stuck behind the andalite’s hologram.

I included both the undoctored image and one using a texture to give it the look of a piece of paper that was folded and unfolded many times.

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Catfight

The third animal encountered in our Animorphs Initiative campaign is the campground cat, which we had been trying to lure in ever since we got our morhing abilities. A grey tabby cat that wandered around the Petersburg campground, we thought, would be the perfect animal to turn into to not arouse suspicion.

We finally got it to come around with a spare can of tuna, but time was cut short as a patrol of chaperones was headed our way. Gil decided to run out, aquire and morph the cat right then and there. Kilohana followed closely behind.

What Gil didn’t account for is the fact that there were now two tomcats in very close proximity next to a nice full can of tuna. They almost got into a full blown catfight and it was only the urgent voice of Kilohana that managed to bring Gil back to herself and they were able to escape in time.

Gil’s clothes, weren’t included in the shot because I wanted it to be unclear which cat was which.

The Big Three

‘The Sharing: Building a better life’

A group who I have started calling ‘The Big Three’ in our Animorphs tabletop campaign. This is mostly because we have only seen the Visser once and aside from him, in our first three sessions, these controllers have become our first major enemies.

On the left, Tom Renoir, Gillette’s older brother.

In the middle, Mrs. Jamie ‘Crazy Eyes’ Burns, too chipper for her own good.

On the right, Marcus Lee Kendrick, Principal of Monicon, the high school many of the group attends.

Tom and Mrs. Burns work for The Sharing, a Yeerk front organization that touts itself as a youth/charity/activist group. Principal Kendrick worked closely with them during the sponsored weekend retreat to end school violence where our group of animorphs met.

This moment, as well as being a portrait for reference’s sake, happened in session 3 when Katherine and Everett rounded a corner, about to execute their plan and came face to face with the three controllers.

A little background image from the Animorphs Initiative campaign! A Rosenstein family portrait. It was taken years ago, probably the last time the kids would participate. In this image Katherine is 16 and Everett is 7. Their mom is a field forensic analyst and dad is a psychologist.

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I have determined that every piece of art of Tyrell comes out sexier than I intended.

After morphing for the first time in our first animorphs tabletop session, we discover that our clothes do not change with us and everyone ends up…well, naked. We all had clothes at the cabin since we were prepared for a weekend away…all except Tyrell who was there for a clandestine meeting with Katherine concerning the exchange of illicit materials.

They were forced to borrow Katherine’s pink bathrobe and owned it a little too hard.

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A request image from the Animorphs Initiative tabletop campaign. Kioshi inspecting and pondering the hologram image that he picked up from the construction site as an owl. Tyrlieon, our first andalite ally standing in a field of yellow grass waving. A striking image we would also all see in our dreams that first night. She seemed to have a specific interest in the young Japanese student as she also handed him the medallion from hew own suit before the group fled.

I asked if the players wanted to see anything specific and Kioshi’s player wanted a shot of him back and the cabin looking at the hologram holding the button/medallion he was given.

Also a detail shot because the hologram was surprisingly fun.

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More tabletop Animorphs art (now the campaign has a name Animorphs Initiative!). Here, finally, our Andalite first contact: Tyrlieon-Cabiliac-Jortii. She crash landed grievously injured, but moreso burdened with the knowledge that her end was near (not necessarily related to her injury). She would soon be followed by yeerk forces.

Here she is with the morphing cube about to offer the group our new powers.

Many people have done andailte redesigns, but this is my take. I tried to make biological sense (as much as possible) but keep the air of grace while being a little off-putting.

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A small scene also from the first session. As the group begins to attempt their first morphs – barred owls – we realize that our clothes were not coming with us when we transform… Everett, who doesn’t change right away, realizes a very important small disk that was given to Kioshi (by the andalite) would be left behind on the ground. He hands it awkwardly to his sister….as an owl, who, at that moment, was trying to figure out HOW to owl. It is a strange interaction.