Whatever makes us happy

Let's face it, it's mostly reposts and every other full moon I post my own art

[yorgen-sh]

[2022dirt]

Faces in coffee.

[to-orrr]

summer sketches 🌾

[hymnism]

shirahama's hatching process

[souf-vs-staff]

You should be able to listen to a full album without looking at your phone. You should be able to watch a 3 hour film from beginning to end without checking social media. If you can't do this, you need to start training your attention span as if it were a physical muscle. I don't experience boredom or restlessness because I've trained my brain to not be dependent on quick stimuli and dopamine hits. If you can't chill on a park bench while waiting for a friend with just your imagination to keep you company, you need to learn how to do it ASAP because one day we may not have access to the internet.

[wholesome-animal-images]

[saltywinteradult]

just look at these fluffy motherfuckers. i want ten of them

[beardedmrbean]

[capsyst]

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

[vikingofficial]

Anybody else have a growing fear of updating their tech cuz everything seems to be getting worse and worse

[seanconneraille]

BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

[petruswine]

Please sign this if you are a citizen of an eu country

[prideknights]

Everyone(!) please also reblog this so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible!

[dunkelweiss]

Something incredible might be happening with this initiative. I've been keeping up with it over the course of the year it's been up and slowly losing hope (50% of time elapsed and only 17% of signatures, etc.) but this week has gotten more signatures than the previous 11 months combined.

First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.

Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:

The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.

With that newest update we now also have hit 7 different country thresholds (up from 3 before this spike). Shoutouts to France, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, and Slovenia!

[wizardarchetypes]

Aaron Wheelz

[animefreaksfall-in]

[blackeyed-seas]

@pestisly

[xanaxfarts]

Bats getting glamour shots

[jkl-fff]

Middle of the bottom row understood the assignment.

[jollyfurydragonballer]

[jollyfurydragonballer]

[frociaggina97]

"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die

[frociaggina97]

i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously

[thesealfriend]

I've also seen a sudden uptake in sentiments like "the people who are getting chatgpt to write their essays for them are the same people who would have plagiarised or bullshat or cheated some other way 5 years ago, this is no different" and

1) yeah but it's now so much easier to do it, meaning the folks who Might have done that but decided it's actually less faff to just learn the material no longer have that last layer of restraint

2a) the folks plagiarising or bullshitting are at least exposing themselves to the true material while doing so, rather than a machine's vaguely plausible hallucination, which means they're at least learning A Bit, and

2b) they Know if they're pulling something out their ass, they know that information is bullshit and will not help them in the real world, whereas chatgpt stans will not only submit that info as their work but they also tend to Believe it and therefore take bits of it with them into the wider world

and critically,

3) it was always bad to plagiarise and cheat in academia, like I'm not talking about copying your friend's standardised test in high school that's whatever I don't give a shit I'm not a cop, but academic integrity in higher education is a real issue with real consequences and always has been, whether you're submitting organic bullshit or AI slop.

[frociaggina97]

"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die

[frociaggina97]

i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously

[thesealfriend]

I've also seen a sudden uptake in sentiments like "the people who are getting chatgpt to write their essays for them are the same people who would have plagiarised or bullshat or cheated some other way 5 years ago, this is no different" and

1) yeah but it's now so much easier to do it, meaning the folks who Might have done that but decided it's actually less faff to just learn the material no longer have that last layer of restraint

2a) the folks plagiarising or bullshitting are at least exposing themselves to the true material while doing so, rather than a machine's vaguely plausible hallucination, which means they're at least learning A Bit, and

2b) they Know if they're pulling something out their ass, they know that information is bullshit and will not help them in the real world, whereas chatgpt stans will not only submit that info as their work but they also tend to Believe it and therefore take bits of it with them into the wider world

and critically,

3) it was always bad to plagiarise and cheat in academia, like I'm not talking about copying your friend's standardised test in high school that's whatever I don't give a shit I'm not a cop, but academic integrity in higher education is a real issue with real consequences and always has been, whether you're submitting organic bullshit or AI slop.

[li-izumi]

Chinese weighlifter Li Wenwen successfully defended her title, winning the gold medal in the women's over 81kg category at the Paris Olympics on Sunday!

In her private life, the Li is actually a fan of traditional Chinese Hanfa.

(source)

(Saw this post on Facebook and loved it, and since Facebook always steals Tumblr posts, I figure I can do the reverse and steal this Facebook post)