Rainbow Brite and Color Kids

Post by **cwmodels** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:58 pm

Some of you on Deviant Art may have seen these already. But I want to share it with everyone here too.

These redesigns are by my friend Alpha2. I helped with some of the concepts and the color settings. We started toying around with the idea of updating Rainbow Brite characters back around 1995 for fun. Rainbow Brite, Red Butler, LaLa Orange, and Canary Yellow were done in 2000. We drifted away from this idea until last week and finally finished off the rest of the Colors Kids.

Please let us know what you think!

Full size file at Deviant Art:
http://cwmodels.deviantart.com/art/Rain ... -159864076

Post by **jazzycreations** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:34 am

wow! they are all great. I think Indigo is my fav! Patty is so cute too! they all are. thankx for sharing!

Post by **Rainbow Brite** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:08 pm

These are super!!! I had seen Rainbow before, but not the others. Great job

Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:36 pm

Much better to see these larger!

Why does Shy Violet look so upset?

Post by **Galacticatt** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:30 pm

Those are awesome, thanks for sharing! I love anime-style RBB character re-designs

Post by **stormberryfairy** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:26 am

Very cool! I like Patty and Shy Violet best!

Post by **cwmodels** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:27 am

Thank you all for your comments.

Seems like Patty, Indigo and Violet are the 3 characters that are most popular in the redesigns.

Rainbow Brite wrote:These are super!!! I had seen Rainbow before, but not the others. Great job

Rainbow's redesign was completed a long time. It's good to finally have all 7 color kids done, and we're currently working on all other characters as well.

Blondine Arc-En-Ciel wrote: Why does Shy Violet look so upset?

Because she's... shy?

Post by **Tom-sprite** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:31 am

I like the Buddy-blue manga redesign most ... (except his chin) !

Outfits are great ... outlines have recognition value and colouring is very good too ! :-D ^^
Some eyes look a little bit lifeless ... (like if the char would be under a spell or such a thing)
...but I really like what you ve done ...you guys have great talent ! ^^

Post by **Stormyfan** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:55 pm

My favorites are Red Butler, Lala Orange,and Patty O Green.

Post by **cwmodels** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:51 am

Stormyfan wrote:My favorites are Red Butler, Lala Orange,and Patty O Green.

Finally a vote for Lala Orange!

Tom-sprite wrote:I like the Buddy-blue manga redesign most ... (except his chin) !

Outfits are great ... outlines have recognition value and colouring is very good too ! :-D ^^
Some eyes look a little bit lifeless ... (like if the char would be under a spell or such a thing)
...but I really like what you ve done ...you guys have great talent ! ^^

Thanks for your comment. You do nice work yourself.

All the eyes are all done with 1 base color and 1 high-light color. The coloring on this piece is simply for color sets and references purposes. We want to get the designs finished and out of the way after 10 years of talking and planning. Funny things is when I started to put all the characters together for this piece, we realized we do not have any high resolution scans of Red and Yellow, and the original pencil art could not be found either. So we had to retrace the line art from a low-res printouts to have a cleaner version of the artwork.

Here are the 2 original low-res scans for them: