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YJ: CORAL and TOPOby *Jerome-K-Moore

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WB Animation Character Design, YOUNG JUSTICE, Coral, Topo.
Pencil, Digital Color.

With the airing here in the U.S. of the YJ episode, "DownTime," it's permissible to now post this incidental character design.
As requested, I'm posting our new version of TOPO. After my friend, artist Dusty Abell submitted a cool design, I was asked to revise Topo's head to make him "cuter," and possibly younger in appearance. So, this is sort of an unintentional collaboration, since I kept Dusty's design for the body.

Topo is a minor figure from the early part of DC Comics' Silver Age, first appearing as Aquaman's octopus pet, and sidekick (Adventure Comics #229). More recently, in the Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis series, another character was given the name "Topo" as a respectful nod to the original. However, this new Topo was a human/cephalopod hybrid. In YOUNG JUSTICE, Topo is one of the many diverse students in Queen Mera's Conservatory of Sorcery. He uses his skills to recount a heroic tale for Aqualad, a wonderfully stylish animated sequence designed by artist Tom Perkins, and director Jay Oliva.

Coral is an incidental character, and another of the students appearing very briefly in the Conservatory scene. I designed her as a bit of a punker type, with much of her outfit fashioned from natural aquatic materials. She is completely original, and is not officially named in the animated episode.

*As always, the art style used is set and approved by Phil Bourassa, and the color choices here are my own.

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*monitor-earthprime Jan 27, 2013

How tall is Coral?

*Jerome-K-Moore Jan 27, 2013 Professional Filmographer

Under 5'5".

~BatFromFire May 19, 2011

Topo is underrated.

*Jerome-K-Moore May 19, 2011 Professional Filmographer

So is Aquaman.

Maybe being underrated has something to do with being underwater. Heh.

~TheEtownHero Apr 26, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Were the two of them drawn in different programs? Coral looks real clean and exact, like maybe she'd been done in Illustrator with vector lines, and Topo looks a bit more like he was drawn in Photoshop with a brush.

*Jerome-K-Moore Apr 26, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Hmm...
You have a pretty keen eye, Hero. Well done.
The fact is that I only cleaned up my portions of these designs, including Coral, and Topo's head. I left Topo's body at the basic "clean-up" level that I found it, which is actually the accepted standard for most productions. Not everybody suffers from perfectionism the way I do. And that's cool.

~TheEtownHero Apr 26, 2011 Student Digital Artist

I may not always at first, because I sometimes tend to get sick of working on one picture after it hit's the "THERE, FINALLY IT'S DONE" point. But after a day or so I'll go back and look at it and notice certain things that just sort of bother me, so I'll go back and adjust them. I try to keep all the original PSD and AI files for my work just for that purpose.

~Bluedog24wolf Apr 26, 2011 Student Filmographer

Awesome designs.The one on the left,Coral reminds me of Kari Wahlgren for some reason.

*Jerome-K-Moore Apr 26, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Who's Kari Wahlgren?

~Bluedog24wolf Apr 26, 2011 Student Filmographer

She a voiceover actress who has done alot of shows/games. Here is her website [link]

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