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[Almirena]

Another of Australia's weird yet wonderful animals is the echidna - specifically the Tachyglossus aculeatus, known as the short-beaked echidna.

[Reny]

I like the "mixing up" kolobok...and the animals are wonderful. The animated water looks very good.

[Almirena]

Thank you - I think that water is always interesting to draw with koloboks... So is glass (and mirrors).

I'm always fascinating by how the exceptionally good artists that were here drawing kolobok-style emoticons have conveyed glass and water and so on. Those are the koloboks that inspired me.




I think that I forgot to upload my music box ballerina...



... and the Chinese kolobok with a classical Chinese topknot:

[Reny]

The ballerina is adorable and nice animated with the mirror.

The Chinese topknot kolobok ....very cute and funny.

[Almirena]

I was asked by a fellow forum member (a different forum) to create a Japanese-style kolobok emoticon:


(Perhaps I'll also re-use this Japanese kolobok in a more active way, wielding a samurai sword!)


Another idea also came to mind - the Dr Frankenstein experiment / the Modern Prometheus. (I always feel overwhelming sadness for the creature reanimated by Mary Shelley's Dr Frankeinstein. If he's a monster, he is so by man's design.) Anyway, here he is - the creature made by Frankenstein:

[Almirena]

Social distancing:


A gondolier (I've experimented with the hat to get a good straw colour):


Doing push-ups:


This post has been edited by Almirena: Jun 10 2020, 04:04 PM

[Reny]

Nice ideas as always, Almirena. I like them all very much, especially the gondolier.

[Almirena]

The gondolier is one of my favourites...!





Here are two boy koloboks on a seesaw:

[Reny]

So cute, Almirena

[Almirena]

This is a light version of Aiwan's "dwarf" character. (I see it as a berserker with an axe!)

I think something must have gone wrong (in the fourth frame) when Aiwan uploaded his original...



I've also made a girl version. It tickles my funny bone to see a berserker girl kolobok complete with lipstick raising her axe threateningly.

[Almirena]

A carousel or merry-go-round:

[Reny]

This carousel means a lot of work, Almirena Awesome!

[Almirena]

Oh yes... that carousel involved quite a lot of work!


Here is a new kolobok - relaxing in front of a cheerfully blazing fire in the fireplace.

(It's so cold here at the moment. The winter chills inspired this kolobok.)

[Reny]

Very nice, Almirena....

But we have a great heat currently

[Almirena]

After a hiatus in making koloboks, here is a girl with lawnmower:




(I did not feel like creating any more for a while; I have been so full of grief because of my father's death.)

[Reny]

Hello Amirena, it is so good that you are back and you have created such a beautiful animation again.
All the best for you and your family