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can’t wait for him to be released on live server, still don’t know how strong he is, since there’s no real matchmaking on PTR.
A trio of speedpainting commissions for @werewolf-fiction @rmfiction
Go check out their blog, especially if you’re a fan of werewolves!
Performing life-threatening stunts is scary enough – but to swordfight or crash into cars wearing skimpy costumes rather than padding requires a special kind of courage
They perform mind-blowing stunts dressed in clothes as flimsy as paper doilies and are forced to meet Hollywood’s demands for ever-shrinking waistlines without losing the muscles they depend on for work. Meet cinema’s small but dedicated community of stuntwomen: because of the skimpy clothes they have to wear, they put themselves in more danger than their male colleagues.
But it’s all part of their day job. Tammie Baird is Hollywood’s go-to stuntwoman for car hits. She’s appeared in Fast & Furious, Chris Brown’s Next 2 You music video, and NCIS: LA. She’s been smashed into windshields, bounced off bonnets and slammed into the tarmac – more often than not wearing a tight dress and heels. When Baird got her first role, in Mr & Mrs Smith, she went shopping for stunt gear “like a guy”. “I bought the biggest, bulkiest pads, and thought, ‘Yeah, I’m protected, nothing’s gonna get me.’ Then I saw my wardrobe – I was wearing a miniskirt.”
Friendly reminder that stuff like unrealistic female armor actually tangibly hurts women
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Wonder Woman Annual (2017)
ARCHON: Immortal
A commission for J Laren for their upcoming dark fantasy trilogy!
This was so fun to work on, as it’s so different to what I normally paint!
Weeee, great job!
Akira Production Report (1988) / Line Tests / 24fps ‘in ones’
Amazing line tests from the ‘Akira Production Report’ documentary. 30 years on, Akira is still the only hand-animated feature film to adopt such a high frame rate.
Akira Production Report (1988) / Line Tests / 24fps ‘in ones’
Amazing line tests from the ‘Akira Production Report’ documentary. 30 years on, Akira is still the only hand-animated feature film to adopt such a high frame rate.
FFVII REVISED
Okay, allow me to explain:Recently, it was brought to my attention that some people on my page had a problem with me drawing black people because I, a black man, was drawing far too many of them (and not as stereotypes or tropes) when I’m known for having diverse character designs in the first place. This struck me as odd because there is literally no problem with me drawing characters of other backgrounds any other time, but the moment I start to draw us in a way that doesn’t make us look like the same stereotypes you’re used to seeing, it’s a problem? Check yourself. I literally got asked, “Do you ever draw white people?” And “You only draw black guys. Why?” In the same morning and I’m like, “Oh so this is a PROBLEM now?” Anyone that has seen my work knows that I draw people from all over. That said, there IS a conscious decision to represent my people in a way that is just and equal to how every other race has been represented since like…forever. Don’t come at me for actually taking the time and effort to show us in positive light. If me drawing people of color as characters and not stereotypes and over used tropes offends you, then get ready to hate my black ass then, because I’m not about to sit by and let us not be represented in a respectful, uplifting and positive light anymore and if you don’t like it well…. Too bad. But since it was an issue with me drawing my own heroes of color, I decided to do other heroes and villains from a game I’m fond of and make them people of color…. I specifically chose FFVII because it’s already a diverse case and to Square Enix’s credit, you could literally tell the same story with these designs. Enjoy.
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Whitewashing: An American tradition. Hollywood shapes how we are seen and *not* seen. But we don’t have to give them our money and views. Ghost in the Shell and Death Note are more missed opportunities to showcase Asian-American talent. Let’s not watch them.
Clara Mae’s brilliant thoughts on race, gender, and AI in film
note to self: just because someone did the thing you were thinking about doing, and did it way better than you could ever hope to do, doesn’t mean it would be stupid or pointless to go ahead and try to still do the thing anyway.
Also, when it comes to creative things? There really is no “better”.
Sure, someone might be more technically accomplished than you - you might not be able to colour as nicely or craft a sentence that rings as poetically - but art is only really secondarily about that. It’s firstmost about what you, uniquely, have to express, and how the precise way you express it might be what others need to relate to it - even if it’s less flashy, less “beautiful”, and gets fewer notes.
I promise you this: there are obscure fanfics with only a handful of notes that are the read-and-re-read favourites of someone too anxious to comment. There are drawings done by 14-year-olds in poorly-blended markers that are someone’s favourite because they spoke to something that nothing else did. There are covers of songs where your voice cracks and you cringe every time you hear it but someone thinks the way it cracked just at that moment added beauty to the song. There are angsty three-line poems you wrote at 4am that someone once called “pretentious emo trash” that are loved by someone else going through the same thing as you.
And I guarantee you, there is something unique about your art. Even if you’re “saying something someone else has said”. Even if you’re the thousandth person to take on the subject. Even if you feel like you’re not at all unique. You’re bound to express something, however subtle, that didn’t exist until then.
Art is about connection. And the more you create, the more chance you have of finding other people who experience the world the way you do.
“But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.“ via @neil-gaiman
The “two cakes” theory of content production.
It was only yesterday that I was lamenting thing I no longer felt allowed to do because someone had done similar. I ought to read this post daily. Maybe twice daily.
I hate to be negative because I fall into this problem myself but the issue with the two cakes theory is that when one thing comes out that’s highly successful and amazingly popular, then anything that comes out after that that looks similar is partly going to be seen as riding the trend and it’s the second thing that certain audiences are going to get all snobby about because now they’re looking for things to nitpick about to compare to the first one to showcase why the first one is superior. For an example, look at the release of Paranormal Activity and then look at the shitload of found footage movies that came out shortly after it.
Okay, but those “certain audiences” of snobby nitpicky people that you’re mentioning are never going to be happy no matter what you do. You’re never going to make everyone happy. Being successful as a creative person is about finding the people who do like your work, rather than worrying about satisfying people who don’t.
As long as you are creating something from the heart, and aren’t making a literal copy of something or relying solely on cookie-cutter gimmicks, the right audience will find you. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot before even you begin. Give yourself and your ideas a chance. You may not always be the first out of the gate with an innovative concept, but what you do still has value, because it’s your unique voice and perspective, and no one else can offer that to the world but you. You never know who out there might really be needing to hear your voice.
And to go back to the cake theory, it’s not like one person made The Best Cake, and now every other cake made after that has been considered an inferior copycat. You’ll probably find a lot of people who prefer your honest and delicious cake over the frilly fancy award wining cake. And if some asshat gets all snobby about your cake, then guess what? He doesn’t get any cake.
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Someone: *leaves a nice tag on my art*
Me: I would die 4 u
Someone: messaged me abt my characters or abt my art
Me: I Will die 4 u
Someone: draws me something
Me: I AM dead and now ascended to the next level of existence and will now watch over you and smite those who wrong you
FAR OUT - by Mark Chang
More selected art for Far Out project by Mark Chang on my tumblr [here]
I love this look.
Beauty and the Beast but they’re lesbians
And the Beast is still this 8 foot tall hulking monster with horns and massive claws and fangs and when she turns back into human she’s still buff as shit and her girlfriend is small and they open a library together also the candle and the clock are gay
This is what people mean when they talk about the “gay agenda” if you want a story about gay people make your own don’t steal someone elses idea
Alright, listen up you sorry excuse for a burnt crepe
The animated version of Beauty and the Beast is dedicated “To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul, we will be forever grateful.”
Why?
Because the lyricist for the movie was Howard Ashman, a gay man who died of AIDS, only a few months before the release of the movie.
The version of the story you love has always had queerness in it.
It’s a story written by a gay man dying of AIDS, of someone who was cursed, whose time was running out and their death was coming, and the world wanted to hasten it along instead of helping, instead of loving him and understanding that he was never truly a monster.
It’s never belonged to you, not all the way. The soul of the Beast is queer.
“Oh, but the original version of the fairy-tale”
Fine, fuck you.
Gay version of the Little Mermaid, then.
You know, the one which was written by Hans Christian Andersen, a gay man who watched the love of his life marry a woman.
The original version story ends in tragedy, but with the idea that while the mermaid could not be with the man she loved, she does eventually gain a soul and find peace, when he was a gay man in a time when that felt denied to him.
Disney changed the ending of the Little Mermaid, the lyrics of which were also written by Howard Ashman, and gave her a true happy ending.
Now, let’s honour the inherent queerness of the story and acknowledge that we are in a time when gay people can be happy, they can be with the ones who we love, and make that the story.
Damn right that’s part of gay agenda. Gays in space. Gay mermaids. Gay Beasts. Gays goddamn everywhere there’s a good story, because it’s about damn time.
Watch as we take over every story that you thought belonged to you and make them delightfully, blatantly, queer, just to fuck with you, specifically.
Happily ever after.
Also:
Fairy tales and Shakespeare cannot be stolen. (An argument can be made, given the way Shakespeare magpied his way through folklore, given the way his narratives have slithered into Western consciousness, that at this point, they’re the same thing.) They are works transformed by the telling.
Would you tell Disney they stole all their stories? How about Robin McKinley? Stephen Sondheim? Me? All the people who work in fairy tales, who use them as building blocks, as common ground to set a stage, we’re not stealing, we’re continuing a grand and human tradition.
This isn’t “the gay agenda.” If anything, this is “the straight agenda.” Laying claim to a thing that human nature itself says has to change and shift and flux and grow to survive, and saying “oh, no, if you change this one thing, this load-bearing thing, the story is destroyed.”
Fuck that. Ain’t nobody strong enough to kill these stories.
you sorry excuse for a burnt crepe
I am no more good after that. Also I must use this at some point.
