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@emo-gene
X/Twitter might have actually hit the final nail in the coffin this time. It's no longer a safe space for artists to post art.
I urge you if you know any artists from there, encourage them to make a Tumblr account and post their artworks here!
If you are still on that hell site, RUN.
Felt this was important to add (from @humblegoat)
unexpectedly sexy part of the Sinners credits. we LOVE a thoroughly sourced film.
Just letting you know; if you’re thinking of making a low budget indie game (or know someone who is) but not sure if you should just have text for all speech or cave and use AI voices, you don’t have to do either.
There are a lot of people out there who voice act as a hobby who’d do it for very cheap. My housemate is one such hobby voice actor and I asked her if she or her friends would take the job if someone contacted them saying “I’m making a short indie game and need a voice actor for this one character but I can only pay you 5$” and she immediately said yes. They already do it for free as a hobby so being paid anything is just a bonus, and it would be a fun little job. All she’d ask for besides the 5 bucks is being put in the credits to get her name out there.
So if it’s something that ever becomes relevant to you, just search for voice actors on YouTube and you’ll be able to find them pretty easily. They’re not going to sound like top level professional voice actors but they’ll have a lot more soul than an AI voice.
normally i would just go make my own post responding to something like this but i do think that this advice is harmful enough that i feel compelled to respond directly
taking advantage of hobbyists' willingness to be underpaid for their labor or to work for exposure is absolutely not the way to handle trying to make a project you do not have the budget for. exploiting people who have a passion for what they do is a problem that plagues the games industry at every level and we should be doing everything in our power to discourage those sort of working relationships within our peers, not acting like it's somehow a win win.
it's genuinely great that your housemate has the financial security and free time available that she can do fun little jobs for $5 like the one you described, and i don't think her willingness to do this is somehow wrong in any way, but i think extrapolating that situation into a rule of thumb for how people trying to do indie dev projects should behave is completely irresponsible.
in general i dont think being a hobbyist means it's right for you to be underpaid. but something i think very much worth noting is that a not insignificant amount of those people you can find easily on youtube may not necessarily be "hobbyists" as much as they are people who have accepted they will not be able to break into the voice acting scene. many of these people are also very likely to be quite young and have less experience setting boundaries for themselves in professional or semi-professional contexts. Understanding that AI voice generation reduces the opportunities for paid VO work means understanding that a desperation for any amount of income for doing what they do or any kind of credit they could put on a resume is going to make people more willing to agree to exploitative working relationships than they should be.
if you're okay with amateur voice acting in your project, try starting with people you already know instead of soliciting internet strangers. people you already have rapport with, who might already be familiar with you and believe in the project you're working on, who you can be reasonably certain are in a place where providing you their labor without compensation isn't putting them out.
a big part of working on large scale projects is also learning to compromise between your vision and what is actually feasible. shifting your scope to something that is within your budget is always going to be the better choice than finding sneaky ways to get more labor out of your fellow creatives for less money. additionally, if you're releasing your game for sale, you can put whatever profits you might make towards patching in voice over after the fact. There is plenty of precedent for this in the industry - Disco Elysium released in 2019 and wasn't fully voiced until 2021, for example.
also something to keep in mind if you're making a for-profit game is the possibility of getting people on board with a profit sharing set up instead of just offering trivial or otherwise subpar compensation on the front end. Sure, the odds of any one indie game making bank are pretty low, but they're never zero, and I'm sure a lot of people would be more comfortable participating in an indie project as a partner in that game's future success than as a hired grunt.
basically, you have a lot of options here, and soliciting internet strangers to work for free or for essentially nothing would ideally never be in consideration at all. and at the very least it shouldn't be the first piece of advice we offer to people who have ideas bigger than their budgets and more of something considered an absolute last resort. i don't want a world full of ai voice acting but i want a world where independent creatives take advantage of each other even less.
‘The Magic of Jingle Sleigh Heights’
Or: Hallmark Christmas movie turned horror lol
One of my favorite parts about the writing of Howl's Moving Castle is how easy it is to write off all the things from our world at first as him just being a weird wizard™ (also thanks to bestie @jutenium for spotting this I wouldn't put it like that without you!!/pos). Sure, Sophie uses weird descriptions, but readers have every reason to believe them because of the way Howl is presented as a character. When Sophie says he wrote with a quill that doesn't need an ink, you wouldn't think it was actually a ballpoint pen, you would think Howl had just enchanted his quill so that it wouldn't need ink! When she adds that she can't make out a single word, you think he has matchingly terrible handwriting, but in fact Sophie has simply never seen a pen writing. When she sees the mysterious labels on his books, you think he's keeping a lot of obscure magical literature, but it's really just an encyclopedia and a guide like "Top 10 Rugby Tips." When Sophie notices the bottles in Howl's bathtub, you think they're some kind of magical jars where he keeps girl's hearts, but I'm almost certain that they're just 'Dove' and 'Head and Shoulders' that he's enhanced with his spells and put silly labels on. When you read Calicifer singing a song in a language Sophie doesn't understand, you think it's some kind of ancient cipher or code, but it's actually just a rugby song in Welsh that Howl sings when he's drunk. And finally, when you see the terrifying black door, which is completely shrouded in darkness, you imagine a passage to an eerie, mythical place, similar to what Miyazaki showed us - but it's just fucking Wales.
a haunting face.
we've got a life to love living.
why is “get ___ed idiot” one of the funniest sentences in the english language
get verbed idiot, the sequel to “ok nounboy”
get verbed nounboy
To the Grand Line!!!
This right here is why Ichigo should never have been allowed back in the human world.
Regular captains and lieutenants need a reiatsu limiting gentei kaijou seal on them to be allowed to go there at all.
Ichigo, base-line before he reaches this version of Aizen, had the reiatsu strength of three captains.
Ichigo overwhelmed this version of Aizen, then went on and overwhelmed and defeated a several times stronger version of Aizen.
And then he finds out more than half of his reiatsu was sealed all along and his reiatsu is so strong when he's going into battle it nearly causes a physical manifestation.
Even with a gentei kaijou Ichigo shouldn't be able to be in the living world because that seal works on a percentage and limits reiatsu to 1/3 - which would put Ichigo at the level of a captain before the seal.
Ichigo, by the laws of how everything works and his own skill level, should not be able to walk down the street in Karakura without leaving a line of broken bodies like Aizen did.
Aizen was not TRYING to kill those people. He even warned that guy to not come close. Aizen is extremely skillful in precise things and can absolutely restrain and control his reiatsu to a degree Ichigo is not able, and may never be able, to achieve, and he's STILL accidentally killing humans that get within a certain radius of him.
He's still blasting semi-to actually powerful shinigami's limbs to reishi dust when they get close to him even with Kurotsuchi's specially made seals and bindings and chair designed to keep Aizen's reiatsu close to his body.
Aizen never touches ANYONE but Ichigo and Yhwach after he fully transcends himself with the hogyoku.
It's entirely possible he CAN'T. That this is not an aspect of himself he can turn off and he's just permanently separated himself from everyone else in a every sense of the world.
That no one can even come close to touching him. That they won't even get to the point of being in physical contact with him before their hands cease to exist.
But Ichigo can lay his hands on his bare skin.
Ichigo can touch him.
Ichigo may be "weak" enough his reiatsu isn't insta-killing shinigami and souls able to withstand reiatsu, but he is definitely not weak or skilled in reiatsu control enough he should be able to be in the world of the living around souls with zero immunity to reiatsu.
Also: what a heady thing that must be for Aizen after all that isolation, to know there's one single person out there that can touch him.
And how obsessive and quietly needy that might make him. There's only one person who could ever touch him again for as long as he exists.
There’s no reasonable explanation as to why (after the war) when Ichigo re-entered his human body, it didn’t just explode. There’s no explanation as to why Mr. Soul King Candidate/Quincy/Shinigami/Fullbringer/Hollow (who had his Soul Chain cut anyway) was able to fit his amped soul back into a simple and frail human body.
Ichigo being able to get into that body is like Aizen or Yhwach entering a gigai; it shouldn’t be possible. So, unless Ichigo is sporting some Muken gear post-684 (which wouldn’t even solve the problem) there’s no valid reason as to how he hasn’t accidentally killed everyone around him. Especially considering he’s always at maximum output with his spirit energy.
At least in the Soul Society the reishi-rich air could act as a buffer for his reiatsu but the WOL doesn’t have that.
Just to list the reasons as to why Ichigo shouldn’t physically be able to exist in the WOL:
As you mentioned, his reiatsu would turn everyone to dust.
His body can’t hold his soul form, it’s too powerful. It’d either disintegrate or explode.
His reiatsu is too influential on Hollows. Karakura must be swarmed with them.
He’s a beacon of spirit energy basically inviting danger (be it from Squad 0, remaining Quincies, Arrancars, whatever is in Hell, etc.)
He’s already dead.
It’s understandable from a sentimental POV, why Ichigo may want to stay in the WOL but realistically it shouldn’t be possible.
Lets pretend that all the issues you mentioned were somehow solved.
They, that is Soul Society and the Zero Division, still made the frankly fucking baffling decision to allow Ichigo to return to WOL. Which we latter learn in those whimsy light novels is the lid of hell.
The shinigami have the audacity to be surprised the gates are crumbling, when they allowed a freaking reiatsu blackhole to live on top of them.
"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High
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thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note and said “this is not an effective design bc you can’t tell who this character is from this shape”
and everyone in the class went like “yes we can that’s L from death note”
This actually illustrates an interesting point about character design: it doesn’t begin and end with physical traits. Body language and movement are so key to how we recognize people visually.
Not to be a pretentious asshole but yes there is a problem with people no longer reading the classics. A lot of the YA literature romance novel crowd perpetuates the myth that the classics are inherently boring and stuffy and there’s nothing you can relate to or learn by reading them. And they’re not. These beautiful universal things we enjoy, comedy, romance, tragedy, family strife, they’re still so poignant centuries after they’re written.
Truer words were never said 👍
I’ve read classics since I was young and I agree with you totally 👍
Also, reading them critically can help to understand how people in the past thought and to recognize the different ways discrimination can happen at a narrative level and how prejudice can blind even smart observant people (for example, both Giovanni Verga and Luigi Pirandello were definitely great intellectuals and understood human condition well but they were misogynists like many men of their era too).
And one can discover how minorities managed to write their own texts, just look at Sappho, Hroswitha, Kassia, Murasaki Shikibu and Hildegard Von Bingen, and the first examples of feminist literature, like “The blazing world” by Margaret Cavendish and “The faerie queene” by Edmund Spenser or fairytales like “The Snow Queen” by Andersen and “Alibaba and the forty thieves” and “Tatterhood”.
And authors of any genre can find interesting ideas and inspiration in it too, just look at the strange countries and planets invented by Lucian in the “True history” or the bizzarre adventures featured in Ancient Greek and Roman novels and Medieval Chivalric literature or in fairytales, and how ancient some tropes and stories actually are, for example in the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi that collects ancient materials from Preislamic Iran there’s a version of “Rapunzel” and the “Vis and Ramin” by Gorgani presents many elements of “Tristan and Iseult” while being older than the latter and one of the many tales of “The Seven princesses” by Nizami of Ganja presents an older version of “Turandot”, and how many tales were very different from the modern interpretation and versions, like many older fairytales belonging to the “Snow White” type don’t feature a wicked stepmother but an abusive mother.
since apparently this is controversial, reblog with your country in the tags and whether or not you think noodles and pasta are the same thing
Looking at historic homes in Utah is so sad. These bitches had 6 wives but could only be assed to build a 4 room house. What was the point of having 30 kids if you did not force them to do artful stonework and carpentry?
What’s the point of having 17 strapping god-fearing sons if you can’t make them put up a better roof joist???
im so floored rn because croatian clerofascists are trying to cancel my art exhibition and are protesting it in such measure that the gallery just called me to tell me theyve hired a crisis communication PR agency and i will get a call from them? holy shit???
kudos to the gallery for not wanting to give up on hosting it though. This is insane
its a queer sexual exhibition called "woes of an atheist" and depicts mother mary lesbian catgirls and stuff, acrylic on canvas
Can we See the lesbian catgirl Mary for those of us that love in latinoamerica and cant quite reach there?
yes of course~! here are some paintings that will be exhibited!
