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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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we're not kids anymore.
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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@blacksapphire
I can't believe how often I used this place in the ye-olden days, and how easily I just forget that practically anything exists now. I know I reblogged some stuff semi-recently, but this is me saying "Hi, I'm not dead." and hitting myself with a newspaper desperately trying to remind myself that I need to post more art here, and everywhere else I am.
I love drawing pokemon because they can so easily be put into a drawing.
You COULD just draw pomegranates, but you could also draw cutieflies flying around pomegranates.
You could just draw a field, but you could also draw ponytas running through said field.
YESSS you get it!!! Adds a little bit of fun to any excercise :D
Tread here.
The best part is OP got fired because their boss asked why they weren’t “incorporating blockchain technology” into the video switcher they were building and OP straight up said “you have no idea what you’re talking about” and went to lunch
This is potentially the funniest thing I’ve ever read.
One of the most important things I’ve learned as a Real Adult™ is the importance of a job half done.
Today I did a load of dishes, wiped off my stove, and swept the kitchen floor. Did I do the best job, or finish every dish? No! My stove still has that caked on caramel that I need to bust out an SOS pad to take care of, one of our big pots is still sitting in the sink, and somehow a kitty kibble unearthed itself while I was wiping down the stove (?? how??).. but the kitchen looks a LOT better. It’s once again an inhabitable, usable space.
Parents, bosses, teachers, even my own self, harp upon absolute perfect completion of a task as the be all and end all of a job well done, but god damn, my kitchen isn’t terrible because I took the time to improve it. Little steps, especially when you’re struggling, are important. They mean a LOT. They are a sign that you won, if only in that brief moment, and they make getting all the other stuff done so much easier later on down the road.
I…need to remember this. Thank you.
Even if you only take a single step forward, you’re still closer than where you were.
A travelogue, for webcomics
I'm a contributing writer to The Webcomic Travelogue, an independent repository for webcomics! My first article for the site is about the 5 things you need (besides determination) to start a webcomic. Check out the article, and when you're done, use the discover feature to find some awesome comics to read!
im sure someone already made a post about it but i came across a ublock origin add-on that blacklists around 950 AI websites and disables AI overview ☝️ so u can be free from seeing AI in your search
Your irregular reminder that you should have ublock origin installed for a significantly better internet experience. advertisers have tried to make it as shitty as possible; fight back! Give yourself an online experience worth enjoying!
theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment
your starter pokemon are trubbish, rattata and glameow. which symbolise the trash you keep forgetting to take out, the rats living in your walls and the stray cat you keep trying to befriend but it keeps hissing at you.
you guys dont get it its not supposed to be dark and edgy its supposed to be living in a mundane setting and slowly rediscovering the wonder in the world by going on a journey with a magical trash bag that is your friend, its about love and recovery and coping with the stress of your adult life with your friend who is made of sentient garbage
I’ve never been so attached to literal trash before
I am similarly attached to the sentient trash. Can't wait to take him on little adventures
This is gorgeous, and I love the concept that it's about healing and not just wallowing in that void of apathy (or worse) inside.
Mozilla soon Improve PDF Viewer in Firefox with PDF editing features w/the ability to annotate. PDF Editing can be enabled & tested in Firef
Yeah !!!!! Firefox truly is the superior browser
much to Yahoo's chagrin, Firefox is actually the new pdf
this is a big deal since adobe recently locked editing PDFs behind a paywall :’)
somewhere on a long dead forum there's a link that no longer works to a mod to a game nobody plays that would be a valuable contribution to the way people see level design if it got a chance to be seen. somewhere on a website that gets 15 monthly visitors there's a webcomic that woulkd inspire and resonate with you and change your life even in a small way if you could just find it. somewhere theres a music artist that would inspire you for years to come but their work just can't manage to be seen online or off. theres so many things that would change your life that just can't seem to rise to the surface and remain undiscovered and forgotten. or maybe never shared
This 100% was my feelings when Adobe Flash was announced to be discontinued. So many things just... lost to Time now, with little, or without any, evidence they existed in the first place.
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If you're an adult...
You are allowed to read comic books. You are allowed to write fanfiction. You are allowed to play video games. You are allowed to collect stuffed animals, dolls, Funko Pops and whatever else. You are allowed to go to cons. You are allowed to cosplay. You are allowed to have a comfort show, even if it's not popular, or hasn't been "on the air" for decades. You are allowed to have anime crushes. You are allowed to have fun. You are allowed to pursue hobbies, even if you can't monetize them or turn them into a career or a "side hustle." You are allowed to take time out for yourself; that's not the same as totally neglecting all your responsibilities to their detriment. You are allowed to write your own life script, instead of following the one your parents and culture mapped out for you at birth. You are allowed to decide you don't want to have children, or don't want to get married. (Or that you'd like to do those things someday, but not today.) You are allowed to go at your own pace, on your own path. You're allowed to have a life that's not all bills and back pain, fatigue and drudgery. You are allowed to play, as well as work.
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE FUN
Hello Tracy
I hope this doesn't come off as rude but I saw somewhere that Lackadaisy supposedly only pays their animators $35 per second, is this true?
I've been wanting to try out to work for you guys some day which is why I ask
No, that is not true. Normalizing transparency may ultimately stand to benefit artists, though, so... We paid $52 per second for rough animation, and $52 per second for cleanup on the pilot. For some more complicated shots cluttered with characters, we paid a higher rate and split the work between multiple animators. We knew that wasn't up to par with a full-fledged studio rate, but it's what we could do based on the Kickstarter budget we had raised in 2020. We were upfront about it with anyone who applied for work, and we enacted a policy of not animating on 1s. Moving ahead, feeling that rate was insufficient, we doubled it to $104 for a number of smaller animated projects we did after the pilot, including the teaser. The "per second" model is a pretty industry-standard way to pay animators, but it is flawed, especially when you consider how common it is to send work back for multiple revisions. We've since been trying to move away from it to a more salary-like pay structure for anything that isn't a short, standalone assignment. ***** For those who may not understand what "per second" means here, it refers to "per second of completed, approved animation". It's not based on the amount of time the artist spends animating, but on the output.
Just want to add that I didn't respond to this with the intent of besmirching any other indie studio. It's just the facts of what we paid, how we changed it, and why.
Part of the 'why' I didn't discuss, though, is that we do ask for a certain level of detail and relative fluidity in frame-by-frame (not rigged) animation that amounts to more work than the approach some other productions may take. A lot of small, indie studios operate on thin to non-existent margins. Or they operate at a loss, and the people running those studios - in addition to having to mind the production - have to be constantly gathering up resources through crowdfunds, taking on freelance work elsewhere, dipping into personal savings, and designing and selling merch. (We have had to do that too.) The merch part in particular is kind of non-optional. YouTube ad revenue won't even begin to cover expenses on full bore animated episodes. It's hard. It's really fucking hard, and I respect the determination of any independent showrunner to keep moving forward despite the relentless financial headwinds. Especially now, as the network/streaming situation for animation is such a dumpster fire.
It's just important for an indie studio employing freelancers and paying per second to be honest about what they are expecting. It's important to not demand output wildly out of proportion with the pay. It's important to never hold it against someone who has to drop a shot to avoid injuring themselves, who has to take on additional freelance work, or who has leave for a different job. And it's important to continually work to try to fix pipeline issues that might be creating extra work for artists, or which might contribute to the normalization of bad or exploitative practice.
From there, I think it's pretty fair to trust a given animator who has been reasonably informed about the job to decide what's acceptable to them and what isn't.
pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc
against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"
Stop-motion is an animation technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments. By capturing 24 frames per second, the object comes to life
The movement of each character, the speed at which they move, and lighting are all taken into account. Everything is crafted and captured manually, frame by frame. By doing everything manually, the handmade nature of this series exudes warmth filled with the unique charm only stop-motion can provide.
As the process requires extreme precision, each animator can only create up to 4 to 5 seconds of footage a day. Approximately 86,000 individual images were required to create this series.
illus. so-taro "Vaporeon" from Sword & Shield Promos
illus. Ligton "Mimikyu" from Lost Origin
DOING ARTFIGHT! Already doing better than previous years because i’m almost 1 doodle a day so far. PLEASE LET ME KEEP THIS MOMENTUM UNIVERSE! I’ve been needing it.
Sugar (the winged dog) belongs to @lovelysweetdreams (LucidHomey on Twitter) and deserves all the naps.
I am uncertain of everyone else’s Socials but Characters and Species are (c) their owners!
