Toon Transformation Study (Roger Rabbit TF)

"Hello, everyone! My name is James! Allow me to formerly introduce myself..."

Name: James

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

Height: Approximately 6 feet

Race: Caucasian

Clothing: White T-Shirt and blue jeans, green socks

Likes: Baldur's Gate, Dragon's Crown, and when a nice old lady gives you a 2-for-1 coupon at the local cheap seat theater and asks for nothing in return.

Dislikes: Transformations against his will

"Now that we've got introductions out of the way, I think it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty here. You see, I've been asked by VGDC Mario what it feels like to transform into a cartoon character, also known as a "toon". It's a very bizarre process, so I thought I'd walk you through what it's like to become a 2-dimensional character in a 3-dimensional space. First thing's first..."

I then take out an old-timey pen. This pen has a black-colored body and a white brush on the end with a black ink on it. "This is the "Magic Toon Brush", a special transformational tool! It can transform you into any cartoon character you want, as long as you call out the name right before using it on yourself. Before we start, it's best to go over some safety precautions..."

I take a deep breath before exhaling. "First thing's first: Never transform into a toon wearing clothing while you yourself are buck-naked. This can be really bad because the brush would transform the outer-layer of your skin into the toon's clothing itself. This means that the clothing will forever be stuck to your body, because it is your body! Not only that, but you won't be able to transform back as a result of having toon clothes stuck to you."

I took another deep breath. "Also, never use the brush to swap bodies with a toon. I once swapped forms with Porky Pig and he ended up gaining me 300 pounds in the course of 2 days! Thankfully, I was able to work it off. Now, for the brush itself, all you have to do is to simply drip the ink from the brush onto yourself. One drop will do! Let's get started..."

I gripped the brush tightly and held it above my face. "Let's go with something a little more modern: Roger Rabbit!" I exclaimed, causing a drop from the brush to fall down and land on my nose. I placed the brush down on a nearby table and waited for the results. My nose then grew larger as the flesh along it hardened and became wet. My nose then changed to a bright pink color. Several whiskers than popped out of the side of my face, three on each side of my face.

I pressed my finger against my pink nose, as I took note of how strange it felt. "Man, it's been a while since I had a cartoon nose! Cartoon noses are great, but be careful with them folks. If they detect something that smells delicious, the nose will take control of your body and make you float towards it. Toon senses are definitely a tough thing to get the hang of!"

My skin then started to tingle, as what appeared to be white fur emerged from it. However, this fur was 2-dimensional, which looked rather odd on my 3-dimensional body! "Ooh, tingly! It feels like pieces of paper sticking out of my skin. Time to get to the good stuff!" My body then started to flatten out. The bones inside my legs and feet disappeared, as my limbs became paper-thin
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As my skin became paper thin, the 2-dimensional white fur that emerged from my skin managed to overtake my limbs. The thick fur soon blanketed both my arms and legs. As my body continued to flatten, I found my clothes starting to change. My shirt started to rip in half, as the material moved up my body and coagulated around my neck. The remains of my shirt soon shifted and morphed, forming into a blue bowtie with yellow polka-dots.

I could feel the blood inside my body beginning to transform. Every single blood cell turned black as the liquid inside my body took on a more goopy appearance. Within moments, my blood had been replaced with ink! At that moment, all the ink in my body travelled up my blood vessels. As this happened, my blood vessels started to vanish one by one.

The ink left through the pours on my skin and encircled my body, forming into thick lines of ink that lined every part of my body. The ink attached itself to every edge and defining part of my body, almost as if I was being drawn on by a large invisible pencil! After becoming a living drawing, my feet started to grow larger and became flat. The bottom of my furry feet turned pink and resembled rabbit paw-pads.

My pants changed color, turning from blue jeans into red pants. The fabric of my shirt splint into two and moved to the sides of my torso. They quickly became elastic suspenders, connected to my red trousers and holding them up. The bottom of my pants then split open slightly, as a fluffy white rabbit's tail burst from my backside. I wiggled my fluffy cotton-tail about in order to get a feel for it.

I then felt my ears start to tingle, as I soon found them starting to grow longer and larger. My ears moved to the top of my head and grew much longer, becoming rabbit ears in the process. The brown hair at the top of my head started to change color, turning from brown to orange. A pair of yellow gloves appear on my hands, covering up the fur lining them.

I then cleared my throat, causing my deep and very manly voice to become a high-pitched and somewhat annoying voice. "There we go!" I said in my new screechy tone of voice. "Alright, so let me explain the intricacies of this cartoon form!" I say as I grab my red suspenders and proceed to snap them against my furry body. "First thing is that cartoon characters cannot move diagonally in a 2D space. A 2-dimensional body always appears as a 2D drawing to both 3D and 2D characters alike. Because a cartoon character doesn't look natural moving diagonally in a 3D space, a cartoon character isn't able to move like that normally."

I wiggle my pink nose around and smile, while continuing my explanation. "However, you can move diagonally in a way. This involves sliding your 2D body across the 3-dimensional plane, in a way that would look like floating. Think of it like those Adult Swim shows with limited animation. The ones that often have static images moving in bizarre patterns across your screen. Here, let me show you!" I then concentrate, causing my 2-dimensional body to float across the screen in front of you. My cartoon form moves back and to the right, in a diagonal-like motion.

"Another thing to note about cartoon characters is how they interact with 3-dimensional objects. You see, for a cartoon character, they can pick up almost anything! A 'toon manipulating objects is similar to how a human being would pick something up, like so!" I then walk over to a nearby table, as my flat feet make weird squeaking sounds on the ground. I reach my gloved hand out and pick up a nearby Kamen Rider action figure situated on the table. I grip it tightly with my gloved hands, pressing the plastic tightly against the fabric of my hand-wear.

"Now, you'll notice that earlier I said that you can pick up "almost" anything. Well, toons can't manipulate things like paper, or paper-like objects. This means we can't pick up books or comics. Why is this? Well, if we try to pick up paper, we get sucked into the paper itself! It's only for a temporary time, but being trapped inside paper can become pretty annoying. Especially if it's happening all the time! What's that? You want a demonstration? Fine, I guess I could do that..." I say with a heavy sigh, as I turn my head to face a piece of paper lying on my desk.

I took my gloved hand and pressed it against the front of the paper. My hand immediately became stuck to it, as I found myself being pulled into the world housed inside the piece of paper. My flat became attached to the paper of paper, as I found myself shrinking. Within seconds, my body had been fully absorbed by the paper and I was now just an animate 2D drawing on the front of it! I grumbled as I crossed my arms and wiggled my whiskers angrily. "Happy now?! Great, I'm going to be stuck in this piece of paper for thirty minutes! Thanks a lot, guys!"

I took a deep breath in order to retain my composure. "Alright, well now that I've shown you that, time to move on to the last part of the lesson: Toon behavior. You see, if you transform into a toon who is a pre-existing character with his own unique personality, you have to periodically act like said character. Not doing so could lead to a build-up and cause you to "toon out" at random! There's nothing worse than going to a book signing, only to accidentally lose control and bash J.K. Rowling with a mallet! Again, allow me to demonstrate."

I stand completely and perfectly still for a while five minutes, until I suddenly feel a surge of energy. I leap into the air and let out a fever laugh, while at the same time flailing my furry arms around. I bounce off the sides of the paper, like a pinball ricocheting off a pair of paddles. After leaping and bounding against my will, I land on the ground and give my body a good shake. After regaining my composure, I dust myself off.

"And that is the final lesson, I wanted to teach you! Keep in mind all my advice on toon behavior and how the transformation process works. There will be a test on Wednesday and if any of you fail, you will be spending detention as Pluto The Dog! Now, time to wait 25 more minutes to get out of here, and then an additional three hours for the transformation to wear off... Man, this is going to be an annoying day!" I exclaimed, as I sat my toon tush down. My cottontail pressed against the invisible floor of the piece of paper I was in, as I waited patiently for my release.