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Collecting behind the scenes fun, fascination and shinies from the Tales of Arcadia franchise in one place. Content posted at least once per day!
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One more day of Archie methinks. This visual development piece for Wizards is by Francisco Ruiz Velasco!

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Wizards by Francisco Ruiz Velasco. It shows two images of Archie, one sat down and one stood up in a very toony style. His soulmark looks more like a blue V.
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Rounding up a terrible week with this bounty hunter Fury Galluzzi did for 3Below! Can't go wrong with a funky manta guy.

They are no longer on her website but you can find her other work here - furygalluzzi.com/production
Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: 3Below by Fury Galluzzi . This shows a robotic bounty hunter in red with flashes of gold and blue highlights. On the left marked with 20 appears to be the initial design which is a very leggy bot with wide shoulder plates, golden modules under them and long arms with red lines running down them with a welding mask like shape over the face stretching back in grey. They are wearing a cloak. In the middle is the same bounty hunter modified to give them a long golden mask and the funkiest manta ray like cloak of which the "points" end in two rounded triangle nodules with holes in them. This cloak creates a V shape under the neck and the try mark manta horns coming up either side of the mask. On the right is the back of the manta cloak with banded plating for the heck/neck segments and flashes of neon blue colour including a pattern on the central part draped over the back. The long leggies also appear to be covered by either layers or flared trousers in black and have more humanoid feet.
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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It might be near midnight on a Monday night but can we interest you in their headshot of King Arthur in his zombified state by Isaac Orloff?

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Wizards by Isaac Orloff. On the left shows a headshot angled slightly to the right of King Arthur complete with his grey zombie skin and glowing eyes. In the middle facing forward is a beard and hairless version of him. On the right is a skin texture callout, Angor's eyeball and teeth/tongue with the mention to reuse the teeth and tongue from Bellroc's model.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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John Bell worked on the film version visual development of Trollhunters. This included this artwork of Claire's room, the third version of it according to the file name.

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters. It shows Claire standing with her eyes closed with a book and glass as height reference in a cushion filled bay window. It's a lot more green themed than her usual purple with lots of clutter from books to nick knacks and plushes draped on a shelf. She's clearly a music fan in this version as there's a couple of band posters plus a record player with records and all sorts of repurposed boxes for furniture in here.
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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House of Cool did storyboard work on the TV part ToA and trough them, multiple artists worked on the franchise though unfortunately they are not individually credited. These are from the Trollhunters episode, So I’m dating a sorceress.

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Storyboard panel from the House of Cool website for the Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters episode So I'm dating a sorceress. It shows Claire looking worriedly at Not!Enrique waving the shrunken Skathe-Hrün around. Storyboard panel from the House of Cool website for the Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters episode So I'm dating a sorceress. It shows Claire looking guiltily towards the laptop while holding her bag while Not!Enrique is not impressed.
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Having some glorious Windows related problems today including explorer trying to crash when grabbing this file so that's nice. Have Deya in Daylight as we saw her in Wizards by Alison Donato!

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Vis dev from Tales of Arcadia: Wizards by Alison Donato. It shows Deya in Daylight from the front, side and back though the latter two are white and directly over her model for additional reference purposes. There are call outs for the shoulders, hands and foot using Kanjigar's model sheet showing essentially the same plate just fitting her build differently.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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For a bit of fun on a Thursday, some posters you might have spotted during Wizards by Betsy Bauer (@ bauerpower)! If remember correctly these were only on twitter originally. Apologises for the tweet text being a bit blurry, it's the discord cache since the original tweet no longer exists.
Screenshot of the discord cache of the original tweet by Betsy Bauer. It reads: Some more fun graphics, in the form of lost pet posters. Still pretty proud of my puns of these [Clown emoji] Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Wizards by Betsy Bauer. This one is a lost cat poster of a ginger tabby with a white front holding a fish. Their text reads: LOST CAT ANSWERS TO "HARRY" IF SEEN, CALL 555-555-0125 Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Wizards by Betsy Bauer. This one is a lost dog poster of a brown chihuahua in a pink handbag. Their text reads: "Princess" Last see on Alameda and Olive. We miss her! If spotted please call: 555-555-0185 Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Wizards by Betsy Bauer. This one is a lost hamster poster of a brindle and white in a hamster ball. Their text reads: We've lost our Marbles! He rolled away and we can't find him! Please return him by calling: (555)-555-0199
October 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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This week's storyboards is from the episode Waka Chaka by Andy Erekson! Sometimes you just need to watch Jim getting a biiiit too confident and lots of Draal standees getting various degrees of smished.
October 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Have you ever wanted a better look at that crossbow which had a notable appearance in Angor Management? Well now you can! It was modeled by Anthony Romero :)

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters by Anthony Romero. It shows a front and back view of the crossbow complete with loaded arrow with crystal head. Curiously you can see additional arrows attached to the side for quick reload access. On the left is a screenshot of Strickler holding it and Jim from the same episode as reference.
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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We're having a Wednesday with some music this week, specifically this photo showing a bit of the score John Fee posted for Wizards!

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Screenshot of the text part of the instagram post by John Fee. It reads: Excited for Wizards to come out later this summer! We just finished our last recording session today (this is from our first last year). Wizards is such an amazing show and I’m honored to be part of it! Photo John Fee posted of the Tales of Arcadia: Wizards showing a good chunk of the first page of "Douxie pushes the broom" score from the first episode.
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Today we come with... A dropbox link? Saved from vanishing into the abyss when it was deleted from youtube, this SYFY Wire New York Comic Con panel 3below from 2018 can still be watched and/or downloaded! Just please be kind to my poor dropbox account.

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Screenshot of the video thumbnail. It has the SYFY WIRE NYCC Live logo and specifically mentions coming up next is the 3Below panel. Because of the nature of the panel you can just listen to the audio.
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Please give schedule, been hacking my lungs out most of the evening from breathing wrong. Please accept this gnome orthographic for 3Below by Fury Galluzzi that is no longer on her website!
Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: 3Below by Fury Galluzzi. On the left is a reference gnome in the classic red hair, white beard, blue jacket with a black belt n gold buckle plus boots. Next to it is a far grumpier looking elder gnome, hands on hips, with fluffy hair, a belt to her hat, brown shirt, red skirt and brown boots. She is shown from the side and back and there is a call out for the plaster texture as well.
September 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Apologises for the absence! Blame indesign. Anyways, have a tweet and an unexpected origin story of a well loved Jilaire moment!
This is a screenshot of Aaron Waltke from twitter. It reads as follows: FUN #TROLLHUNTERS FACT: This moment, when an awestruck Claire reaches out for Jim’s glowing amulet, was inspired by an early lighting test created before the show began. We loved the imagery so much, we wrote it into the show! #TalesofArcadia This is the lighting test in question. It features Claire on the left putting a hand just below where the amulet is on Jim's chest looking at it with genuine curiosity. Jim is wearing Daylight except this is an older version of the final armour being a lot bulkier and with an existing shield arm. the sword looks very plain and more generic sword-like as well.
September 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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And to re-Thursday the Thursday, here's Draal's VA Matthew Waterson rescued from twitter!
September 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The original tweet by A. C. Bradley might be long gone but discord cache kept it long enough to screenshot! Fun little tidbit regarding the Shadow Staff for your bank holiday monday.
Screenshot of a discord preview of a tweet by A. C. Bradley. It reads: The Shadow Staff was originally pitched by myself and Lila Scott. We wanted Claire to get a weapon that would be both bad-ass and in contrast to Jim's Daylight sword.
August 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Starting the week off with concept art for the girl scouts in 3Below! Very understandably only one could go forward to modelling, recolours are cheaper than making a new one from scratch. Great to see how cute the whole little crew is! They're by Yingjue Chen.

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: 3Below by Yingjue Chen. It shows four different designs of little girl scouts including one with orange braids that went ahead. Below is her updated design and turn around in a t-pose ready for model reference.
August 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Did you need a bit more reference for Claire? Jessica Bulinski has you covered! Including colour palette which is always helpful.

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters by Jessica Bulinski. It shows Claire from the front with a side view of her boots. On the right is her colour palette complete with texture swatches and in the top left is what is called a "character in final lighting shot". Specifically it shows a screenshot from the episode Adventures in Trollsitting where Claire is helping Jim with his homework.
August 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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We up for a little bit of Becoming? This is the revised for TV version from the Trollhunters episode, Becoming by Michael Yates!

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August 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The more you know! And also why sometimes see references to it in fanfic.
Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Waltke. It reads: FUN #TROLLHUNTERS FACT: It was a running joke in the writers room that Mary Wang’s never-seen crush from a rival school, Tight Jeans Hank, was secretly a powerful wizard — because no mortal could squeeze into pants that small without magical means. This has never been disproven. It also has a gif of Mary Wang specifically when she was telling Claire about her date and why she couldn't babysit Enrique.
August 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Francisco Ruiz Velasco has been quiet on ToA uploads since April then this proof of concept from the Wizards intro appeared on his linkedin page!
July 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This one frequently blows about the internet uncreditted. This Toby concept was figuring out his armour via the medium of asset reuse by Rustam Hasanov!

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Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters by Rustam Hasanov. It shows Toby wearing a saucepan, ladles strapped to each hand and seemingly more typical armour over his chest. Something is protecting his feet though it's hard to make out what it is.
July 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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You really never know where the inspiration might come from and doubt many will have thought this for 3Below.
Screenshot of a tweet by Guillermo del Toro. It reads: Thank you NYCC! Master Osamu Tezuka's Wonder 3 and Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraimon were, for me, the inspiration for 3Below. Well, that and Coneheads. There's a screenshot from the mentioned Osamu Tezuka's Wonder 3. It shows a duck with a helmet style hat, white rabbit with a black curl of hair, a horse with a very bendy neck, spot on the nose and pale muzzle plus a boy with very rounded black hair all staring out a window.
July 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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From the Tales of Arcadia official twitter, crafts! This ones really cute and shows how to make funky crystal ornaments. Less likely to ever vanish but yanno, never hurts to be safe.
July 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Give scheduler.

Starting this week with a bit of visual development from Wizards by Francisco Ruiz Velasco! Can't beat a snazzy dragon or a rare Zoe shot can you?

www.artstation.com/artwork/8eEQzG
Visual development for Tales of Arcadia: wizards by Francisco Ruiz Velasco. It shows Zoe in her Hex Tech work outfit holding what could well be the Staff of Avalon hanging onto Douxie's shoulders who is in more biking leathers and helmet. They're on a glide shaped like a red plane with a WW2 style face on it. They're trying to evade a bluey green wyvern style dragon with fins and shark like treatment trying to eat them or even just rake it's talons. In the same coloured background is another one aiming straight for the floating Camelot. There's also a scattering of rocks everywhere.
July 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Sometimes easter eggs are hiding in plain sight /and/ refuse to preview! Here's one from Trollhunters, just click through to see what it says.

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Screenshot from Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters.
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM