Crystal Gem's Stuff ✦

A blog about cartoons I like, kirby and my art sometimes

[macholob0]

safe travels for our lost souls

[pangur-and-grim]

see her loud

[pangur-and-grim]

now see her quiet

[certified-cervid]

now see her bowling pins

[creepymutelilbugger]

fearsome fangs friday!!!!!!!!!! bite everyone

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

This game is freakin adorable

[purrshadow]

May I humbly add this to your collection?

[poffim]

so excited for gen 10 lol

[anistarrose]

[ID: art of Pombon, a fire Pomeranian Pokémon, looking at the viewer with a happy expression. End ID.]

[the-big-mood]

That one time THE PRICE IS RIGHT had the greatest Showcase Showdown of all time (1983) 😅🔥 wait for it..

[spiderbasil]

settings

> my oyster

> configure my oyster

> release my pearl

[chellychuu]

The pokopia fomo is hitting hard today ❤️‍🩹

[the-big-mood]

Watch until the end 😔

[ruinedchildhood]

[sirfrogsworth]

Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.

[thefrogman]

Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.

But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.

This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.

Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.

[kylostantrums]

they did this in lord of the rings too!

[galaxywarp]

via @suppermariobroth :

“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”

[hiimhdere]

TOAD IN THE VOID

[the-sage-libriomancer]

one thing i love about OTGW is that despite being a story about The Unknown and all the terrible dangers that lurk in it, the story’s main message is “things are rarely as scary as they seem.” the Woodsman scared the boys repeatedly, but he was really a good man trying to help them and in fact saved their lives multiple times. the inhabitants of Pottsville seemed ominous and ill-intentioned, but stopping to speak to them showed that they were benign folks who just came off a little creepy. the “fearsome gorilla” was just a man in a suit and the “ghost” was just an unexpected roommate. even Auntie Whispers, a terrifying witch-woman who seemed to be abusing her ward, turned out to love Lorna and was only trying to protect her from evil forces—and it was Wirt facing the evil spirit head on that finally exorcised it for good.

even the main characters’ arcs reflect this: Wirt is scared of rejection and humiliation from Sara and Jason Funderberker, but after returning to the real world, Sara is more than receptive toward him and Jason Funderberker isn’t even an issue. Beatrice is too ashamed to face her family after turning them all into bluebirds, but at the end of the story it’s such a non-issue for them that they only use the incident to affectionately tease her and everybody is perfectly happy.

and it all cumulates in the final episode when Wirt and Greg finally face the Beast. for the entire series the Beast has been a looming figure of evil, something dark and strange and unimaginably powerful that you never, ever want to meet. but when Wirt actually dares to face the monster head on, not running or hiding or falling for its tricks, he destroys the Beast in less than a minute! the monster that’s been terrorizing the woods for who knows how long, preying on fearful travelers and eating the souls of its victims, is extinguished by simply blowing out a lantern.

OTGW hammers it home that as much as it scares you, you have to face the Unknown in order to move forward. maybe its scary. maybe it will suck. but when you do confront your problems directly, it’s almost as never as bad as it seems.

[killerduckcollectivism]

im normal about this

[splendidland]

my idea for a new disney world ride. please signal boost this so that this ride can be at disney world.

[tumorhead]

one time I showed this to my husband and we both laughed so hard he legitimately thought there was some sort of gas leak

[kaasiand]

please

[dogpuppy]

[ask-eugene-h-krabs]

This here is me homunculus flesh puppet that me soul will transfer to in the event of me death. It’s got no soul insider it right now, so we keep it in a constant state a euphoria ter keep it from massacrin’ me customers.

[peachpulpeuse]

your teens are for repeatedly not killing yourself. your 20s are for having intellectual pretensions. your 30s are for making a reallyyyyy good cup of chai masala

[squeakitties]

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

new type of guy just dropped

[powerburial]

this is standard issue uncle

[swapauanon]

Do those nephews happen to think their uncle works at Nintendo?