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Friendship ended with Otto, now goat DeVito is my best friend

Not pictured: Barb coming home in 20 minutes So i was asked what do i think about Jim as an older sibling. And well though he’s sweet, kind and caring, i think this family is just a clusterfuck. And that’s very entertaining.

I know it’s bad™ to ship them, but little angry girlfriend and big dork is my weakness (one of the many), so consider this all post-redemption-au whatever

To celebrate the Annie Award that we received for our work in Trollhunters here you have some more development.

This will be the last batch for a while. Thanks to the Dreamworks team for giving us the opportunity of being part of this awesome show!

Otto did send the flowers

so i’ve seen this photo of (apparently) Barbara’s parents (from this post). And i couldn’t help

the way people feel about stevens universe and dr. who on this website… back in the day, that’s how people felt about clay pots

So, I’ve heard it’s The Day, so i finished the drawing

You are working the gate in the afterlife and for the first time ever, something the humans built has shown up to be processed. You’re not sure what to do, this… entity shouldn’t have a soul, but here it is in front of you, freshly dead and awaiting the next life.

Listen... I may be stupid. I'm sorry Angor...

Tale of Tales

Fuzzy Boi

TROLL HUNTERS by Rémi Salmon

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“He took my left hand!”

We know now that Merlin cut off Morgana’s hand and forearm and melted it down to infuse it into the metal parts of the Amulet of Daylight. (Were they already enemies by that point, or was that the final straw that made them official enemies?)

Maybe the hand was supposed to give the Trollhunter resistance to Morgana’s magic?

Angor Rot could not harm whoever wore the Inferna Copula, made of his flesh and containing his soul (though that didn’t somehow stop him from smashing the ring when nobody was wearing it - maybe because that was an accident). Angor’s eye is put in the amulet to counteract Angor Rot’s magic, and the Triumbric Stones (at least one of which was once physically part of Gunmar) are used by the Trollhunter to resist Gunmar’s mind control and create the Eclipse Sword, which is implied by the narrative to be the only thing able to kill Gunmar. 

I suspect the arm in the amulet was supposed to be more of the same.

(Also, there’s clearly part of her arm being melted in that cauldron, but since she screams, “He took my left hand!” rather than “He took my left arm!”, the cut was probably made below the elbow joint. Cosplayers, make a note.)

No one: “Do you have any headcanons about the Gumm-Gumms?” Me: “Why yes, as a matter of fact I do.”

Sure, their primary reputation is as warriors/raiders/murderers, but they’ve also got some really top-notch smiths. Somebody’s got to craft and maintain the armour and weapons. 

(Yes, we see one troll get their armour conjured when mind-controlled, but we also later saw mind-controlled trolls being given helmets, so presumably the armour isn’t all conjured by the Decimaar Blade.) 

Non-Gumm-Gumm trolls are seen wielding Parlok spears, too, but Parlok was the name of the Gumm-Gumm smith who first designed that style of spear. It’s designed to be used against a sword (like when Jim used a fork to catch Strickler’s butterknife in Recipe For Disaster). The dual-pronged head also allows extra damage when stabbed into a target and twisted, without the risk of getting stuck that a serrated spearhead would present.

Gumm-Gumm craftsworkers are also amazing at imbuing artifacts with magical power. Looking at the properties of the Grit-Shaka and the Decimaar Blade, Gumm-Gumm sorcerers appear to have an aptitude for mind-influencing magic. 

Speaking of the Grit-Shaka, the saying that “the brave are often the first to die” was originally a Gumm-Gumm saying, “the fearless are often the first to die.” 

It was meant as strategic advice that the use of Grit-Shakas should be a last resort, not an opening tactic. It has since evolved to mean something more like “don’t try to be a hero,” and spread among non-Gumm-Gumms who heard it used as a taunt - the audience first hears the line from Angor Rot.

The Decimaar Blade is passed down from one warlord to the next, and enchanted so only a Gumm-Gumm can wield it. An acceptable means of claiming power in their society is to steal the Decimaar Blade and use it to kill the previous warlord. If the warlord is killed by a non-Gumm-Gumm, whichever troll can summon Decimaar next is accepted as the new warlord. 

Merlin based part of the enchantment woven into the sword of Daylight, which can only be wielded by the Trollhunter, on this established structure of spellwork. Trolls as a whole were pretty freaked out by the first Trollhunter because the conjurable sword and armour were so Gumm-Gumm-esque.

Decimaar is an archaic trollish word meaning ‘control’ or ‘authority’, referring to how the sword belongs to the tribe leader and to its mind-control powers. In English it would translate as something like ‘the sword of power’. Its similarity to ‘decimate’ (killing every tenth individual) is a false cognate. Due to association with the Gumm-Gumms, trolls don’t tend to say decimaar in conversation anymore, but the word still comes up in formal and/or legal contexts.

According to the spinoff novel of the same name, The Book Of Ga-Huel was written by the Dishonorable Bodus, not a scholar named Ga-Huel as I had previously assumed. Bodus says it was commissioned by Orlagk, the warlord before Gunmar, so Ga-Huel wasn’t the commissioner’s name either. If one chooses to accept this as canon, it raises the question of where the book’s title came from. 

I posit that ‘Ga-Huel’ was actually the tribe’s original name, and ‘Gumm-Gumm’ began as something their enemies called them, which they adopted out of pride at how intimidating ‘bringer of horrible, slow, painful, and thoroughly-calculated death’ sounds.

troll!jim is my son and I will defend him to the ends of the earth.

((reuploading because my blog got deleted))

IVE DONE IT!! (not exactly sure what it is in this situation but it sure is done)

Rumble n Frenzy would bully screamer any chance they get

Soundwave on the other hand needs payed vacation because that man has to put up with so much crap

Some Trollhunters doodles for the hecc of it

more troll tinies \(★.★)/ and a not-tiny bonus gsHhsjdjks

i loved @yokuimmobylen’s absolute storm cloud of a baby bular so much that i tried to make him look just as hairy and fuzzy <3

could you draw Troll Jim pls? (or Nomura, take your pick)

Ok but like,,,, why not both lol

sorry they’re not the best, enjoyed drawing Nomura’s nose tho

Jim vs Nomura fight. by  board artist Hyunjoo Song and  Rodrigo Blaas

Arthur taking Merlin along literally anytime he goes on a quest.

In which Merlin does understand the significance of Arthur gifting him his mother's sigil

Happy pride month to these two specifically I can’t believe that Merthur is real

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia Concept Art vs Final Scene (2/?)

(WIZARDS SPOILERS) My storyboards from Wizards Ep 10, Douxie & Merlin Farewell scene. This is by far my favorite scene I have EVER boarded of all time. This scene is heavily crafted in terms of visual language and cinematic symbolism, and I had SO much fun planning and executing this scene. I will post a scene breakdown analysis of this sequence soon (hopefully within the next 2 weeks) so y’all can see my thought process and the symbology behind the cinematography (hints: look at the character blocking, directional movement, compositions of the frame, lighting, and see if you can find some themes!) Fun fact, I was crying boarding this scene haha; I listened to “Moving On” from Lost as I boarded and I’m sure that didn’t help.

Edited by the exceptionally talented Joel Fisher (I had to do minor edits on this version, so if there is something clunky that is 100% my fault).

You can find tap through versions of these storyboards and more on my website. Link in my bio!

I think I’ve put this off long enough, it’s time for the Jim’s Daylight armour design post. This has been pieced together with what can be found online with acknowledgement that there is additional art in the official artbook and very likely online as well which has yet to be uncovered. It’s already happened with Bular/Gunmar and the twitter version of this also had something within 24 hours so it’s a given at this point.

Anyway onwards!

Keep reading

the only one allowed in crime alley 🐦

Made a quick TikTok. Enjoy!

Spoilers for who have not seen trollhunters: tales of arcadia season 3, and wizards.