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I wasn't too sure at first, but they grew on me as I looked thru them. I thought Schroeder's soul patch was rather appropriate.

Two observations:

 

They're well-drawn. Very nice designs, in regards to anime.

 

But, they capture absolutely none of the original characters' personalities and humor. At all. They completely, totally missed the mark. These could be any characters.

 

And on a personal note: Furries creep me out. Big time.

Mostly agree with observation 2, though I think Peppermint Patty, Marcy and Pig Pen match their characters.

 

Interesting

Maybe Frieda. What helps is using actual dialog from the strip to key off of.

 

Instead of just stock poses, the artist needs to work more on re-creating scenes from the strip. I think that would help sell the characters more.

 

Peppermint Patty needs to be more frumpy, Marcie needs to be more nerdy, and Pig Pen should be a fat slob (there are precedents for those types in anime). They approximate the looks of the characters, but not their underlying personalities. (I've been a Peanuts fan practically since birth, so I'm going to be a tough sell.)

 

Incidentally, for any Peanuts fans, these are indispensable.

 

Speaking of indispensable... weren't you going to work on a GUI version of KrokCom for OS X once Medieval Mayhem was wrapped up?

Frumpy? Never thought of her that way. Tomboy for sure, but not frumpy.

 

Marcie is hauling around a laptop - though I guess that's not as nerdy as it used to be.

 

While I think the scruffy look works, the artist does comment 'Trying to hit a "grunge" look for Pig Pen but I think I need to do more research.'

 

Yeah - been a bit burned out on coding of late. Can't avoid it at the office, so it get's cut out at home.

The problem with grunge, is that it's a faux-cool attitude adopted by slackers, who equate rebelliousness with not showering. It has nothing to do with actually getting dirty. Pig Pen revels in dirt. Probably end up being profiled on "Dirty Jobs". Hard worker, not hip slacker.

 

The thing about Peppermint Patty is she always considered herself to be frumpy. She hated having a big nose, and never thought she was attractive. People who grow up with that attitude tend to reflect it in how they look. Is she tomboyish? Yes. But more like Russian-female-weightlifter tomboyish, than sexy anime-geek-fantasy tomboyish. Definitely needs to be more butch.

 

(These are the kinds of things that run through your head after being at a film school way too long. )

But, they capture absolutely none of the original characters' personalities and humor. At all. They completely, totally missed the mark. These could be any characters.

That's what I thought, too.

I know this is late but I just happened upon this topic and had to say: I would never have recognized this to be peanuts characters at all.

 

Thanks for sharing this!

I were hooked on peanuts from childhood myself! Obviously this artist has talent - but if I were to draw those characters myself I'd keep em' as big round headed kids. Bringing them up to teens totaly destroys the world they lived in as childeren and just brings them closer to the adults we never got to see but only to hear them talking as if they had socks in their mouths. The anime style seem all the same to me and I get "style blind" when I look at them.

 

I can appreciate this for what it is and it's fun to look at as a type of fan art, but 'Peanuts' without those loveable round-headed kids is like Popeye without his freakish chin and over-sized forearms. There's just no "Shultz-like, peanuts gang feeling". You can call them 'Chestnuts' or 'Breastnuts' but they're not 'Peanuts' to me.

 

I also did read alot of the comments and plenty of people like his work, but I doubt it will take off. Most of his audience seem to be furry fans as well as anime, but I too can't understand the "furverts" thing. Though I've been commissioned to draw stuff like that long ago but I stopped because it started to creep me out how some were fetish about it.