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Originally Posted by deecee4

A new Brian Flynn interview about Silverhawks, if anyone wants to read.
Catching up with Brian Flynn, Super7 (June 2021) | ThunderCats.org

How do you go from

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Plan right now is to use some of the more really shiny, metallic paints, much like, uh... you've seen, we've done a couple metallic figures lately [...] Right now [...] how we're thinking about it [...] is similar to this where it's-it's metallic [...] where we'll go very much metallic in there to make them look as animation accurate as we can

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[...] right now, we’re focusing on delivering figures that are a close resemblance to how they appeared on screen. We’re currently still spending a lot of time on paint, and these figures you see have more of a matte finish, but we’re working on it having a pearlized metallic look or sheen, but something that still matching what was on screen and not a glossy figure. [...] They’re SilverHawks, not Chrome-Hawks, right?

and not feel dirty AF? You're right, they're the SilverHawks, so make them silver? Is that... is that a confusing thing? Like, just say you can't or won't make them metallic and stop calling the chrome a toy invention, it's really really really awkward seeing someone say these characters aren't supposed to look like the bumpers on a '57 Chevy. The entire iconography of the series is built around chrome, I honestly didn't even know they made toys for this show until a couple of years ago and even I knew these dudes were chrome, just stop saying the chrome is a toy invention

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As a whole, everyone has been extremely positive about the line [...] Apart from the one third that asks for the chrome look that is tied with an emotional remembrance of the figures, all feedback has been spot on and how great they look.

Am I nuts? I'm not the only one who reads something like this and feels intense loathing, am I? Is it the illustrator in me that knows what drawn chrome looks like?