Steampunk Nutcracker

My entry for 2D CharacterFORGE challenge in CGHub. We were required to draw the Nutcracker in a machine suit.

As a child I watched The Nutcracker in a cartoon movie, and it was one of my favourite stories of all time. Recently a movie entitled "The Nutcracker in 3D" came out, and OMG, it's the most disgracing thing that's ever happened to the Nutcracker story! They butchered it and worst of all, they turned the charming Nutcracker prince into some stupid wooden puppet character. Don't these guys know that visual effects is not everything? It's cool to know that they did so poorly at the box office =P

Anyways, still experimenting with styles. Referred to Tatsuyuki Tanaka's work for this. His work is awesome!

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