firestar, sandstorm, ashfur, thunderclan - american pie
(reblogged from my wc design storage blog)
for the american pie MAP i thought it would be great if i designed every single cat from power of three, to keep the designs cohesive. this wasn’t AS stupid as it sounded since my design philosophy for american pie was to make everything as simple as absolutely possible (since the MAP was created to be friendly for total beginners and give them a chance to get a foot into MAPmaking with the guidance of established and well-practiced animators/editors) but without confusing viewers.
I didn’t end up doing every single cat from the arc (I don’t think?) but I did do all of thunderclan… except, somehow, birchfall, even though he had an actual named role in the MAP at the end and the majority of the others didn’t. I made a few design screwups, including some things that people ended up thinking were intentional (yay?) and I’d love to re-examine some of the designs from this MAP now that it’s been a few years since it came out :)