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Published: 2012-04-13 18:55:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 1259; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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MemoryAll alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
...
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
-Memory
Ano thinking back on the old days...before he lost his pod.
Shown are his mother Imalu (above him), his older brother Kaiko (below/beside his mother), his older sister Nai'a (behind his mother), his other older sister Alohi (underneath him), and his niece Tali'a, who was also captured when Ano was, but wasn't released and died shortly after going to captivity.
This is the big project I mentioned in that journal!
I've never drawn this many characters in one picture before! Ref: i41.tinypic.com/jgmybp.jpg
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looks simply amazing.
and show such a sad situation
i love how you draw ano like this, so he not really exist for this great family
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Thank you so much!
It is sad =c I hate to be such a downer to people with this picture, but I guess I accomplished the point of the picture.
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Gasp! orcas!!! awww, this makes me sad 
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I'm glad I was able to convey his sorrow =c
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Yeah =c
Orcas are difficult to show emotions with. Realistically, they have so much blubber that their facial muscles cant "smile" like a beluga. They effectively cant change their facial expression. Although, I hear their eye whites turn red when they're angry o_o Anyway, I tried drawing a few sketches with their "real" expression and didn't like it. I like to be able to give them smiles x3 Or frowns like this, when appropriate.
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they are!
Hahah I have seen the movie "Orca", that fake whale has red in his eyes for sure. XD at least I hope he was fake. =O
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The orca in "Orca" was a combination of stock footage of Nepo and Yaka from Marineworld Africa, and animatronics. Most of the close-up eye shots were of real orcas =3
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I learn something new everyday. XD
Wow then those orcas were mad. some of them had red eyes, unless they photoshoped the color in. =O
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Orca eyes often have a pink tint to the whites like people. But a lot of the red in the eyes in that movie was caused by the flashing red light at the "dock" (they flashed a red light in the aquarium to stay consistent as if the orca was actually in the place the scene was shot at)
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Ah I see, that make since, with the flash.
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Loved this the minute I saw it. Just had to take some time to consider what to say. 
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Thanks so much! ;w; I tried hard to keep them in scale - that was the part I was worried about the most.
For sure! xD I'm actually working on a reference of sorts for what the pod is now. Imalu, Kaiko, Nai'a, and Alohi are still alive, but Kahna was taken captive. Nai'a and Alohi both have calves now. Males named Mako and Skana.
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Looks to me like you succeeded.
Quite the cast you're coming up with. They're like potato chips - can't have just one or two.
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They're all so beautiful and strong, Kite.
You make Orcas look like angels of the see rather than killers of the sea. : )
They all look so happy. ^_^
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Thanks so much Edel <33 I was worried that they didn't all come out that well, but everyone seems to like them =3
As they should be seen! 
They were. A big happy family. Until the capture destroyed their lives in a way...as real captures do =/ An orca's life revolves around their family unit. When you take that away from them, you take away a huge part of their identity. Its really sad..
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I agree, the name Killer whale is wrong no matter how you look at it.
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Yeah. That name is the result of a mistranslation anyway. They were called "whale killers" because of the way some transient orcas kill and eat other whales and dolphins. Somewhere in time, the translation got messed up, and it got switched to "killer whale".
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This is amazing! You're a master of orcas now!
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Thanks so much!!
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