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The everyday life of a cat who isn't a cat...
Katnip pixelart by me!Katnip was created by me in 2005 to serve the purpose of making Flash cartoons with a character who was easy to animate. He's basically a box with arms and long pointy ears. Also I can't stress this enough; he doesn't act anything like a cat. He doesn't like fish or balls of yarn or even milk, so don't even think about saying "Here kitty kitty" if you don't want to make him mad! Basically think about a human who's brain is stuck inside the body of a cat. He has his own house and a job working at a factory warehouse carrying boxes and having races on forklift trucks.
I really didn't want to create just another cat character, with all the stereotypes that cat characters have, such as purring or getting chased by dogs. Its been done a thousand times and its used. So Katnip just looks like a cat, thats the only thing that relates him to them. He also has a Jamaican accent.

Twizted Tranzizter
Katnip is in a band. The name? Twizted Tranzizter. The music? Electro synth 80s style metal and my inspiration was music by the band, Less Than Jake and the anime Initial D's music.
Coridor is the lead vocals in the band and he also plays secondary guitar.
Sterreo plays bass and sings. He'll also play keyboard if needed.
AvistA is lead guitar and singer.
Meo is keyboards or trumpet.
Spyke is trumpet.
Katnip is drums.
Lazarus sometimes joins in as a singer.
They can play different instruments and do different jobs depending on what is needed for the song. Their gigs involve pyrotechnics from AvistA, Coridor and Sterreo turning to their natural liquid state and showing off around the stage, ultra violet and black lights, large screen videos behind the perfomance and neons.

Twizted Tranzizter
The first pic of the band I drew together. You can see them doing their usual jobs in this picture. I had this printed on a mug too. This is what the band looks like most of the time.
And this is the cover of their first album, Battery Acidd! I still need to do a songlist for it. They do have a poem kinda thing though....
Coridor and Sterreo let the funky music flow
Pull it up and let it go
Twizted Tranzizter stealin' the show
Ya got Spyke on trumpet, Katnip on drums
Meo on keyboard havin' some fun
AvistA on guitar blastin' out a tune
Playin' those riffs, rockin' out the room
Coridor's the words,
Sterreo on bass
Every gig they do is tearin' up the place
Twizted Tranzizter, aint no better band
Got a rep for rockin; right across the land!
Battery Acidd
Katnip First rendered colour picture of Katnip, drawn and coloured in Flash. I'm not really happy with this, I don't know why, he looks kinda weird. Anyway, the shading's quite good.
Katnip sketches in blue biro, I sketched while bored at work. These were the first pictures I drew of him. I drew various poses and stuff to get used to draw him. Because of his simple nature, he is easy to draw in many different poses. These also include my first coloured picture of Katnip. Katnip
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Katnip is © Lara Ryan 2005 - 2009.