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lost my pin kitsuragi a little while ago (just noticed that he's not on my backpack) so there is a non zero chance that, while you are out on the streets of toronto, you may find him when you need him most.

in a sidewalk ditch

also no, i don't have the second one anymore that one was a gift to @misterjablez

herzspalter

Your occasional reminder that if you post an art piece or a piece of writing that isn't very good, nothing bad will happen.

It's nothing to be scared of, what are people gonna do, be mean to you? Cruel people never need a "reason" to be mean to you, they do that anyway!

Fuck it!

fxrheisenn

Andrus Laansalu talked about making Disco Elysium at EKA (Estonian Academy of Arts)

"Initially, the church wasn't a focal point. There were certain characters that needed to visit this location, and I asked, "Seriously, what do we have in our church?" The others replied, "Nothing at all. Our church is completely bare—just a wheel, really. It's quite basic."

That's when I decided to unleash my creativity in the design. For example, they chose to install a glass structure at the top of the church to create a reflective surface. It was like placing an optical clock up there. Therefore, one of the most crucial aspects of designing the church was ensuring the lighting was just right to create the desired atmosphere."

"Let me show you an example of Baroque architecture, which is rich in detail. We're also designing the interior of the church based on large cathedrals. However, the foundation you use might not yield the expected results, because the church itself doesn't require such intricate details. Sometimes, it's about simplifying the design."

"I used Articy for the initial scriptwriting of Disco Elysium. The image only represents a tiny fraction of the text and choice variables involved. This system was also the reason I eventually abandoned the project after a year of outlining the script and shifted my focus to becoming a sound designer. My mind struggled to keep up with the dynamic graphic rules, but fortunately, a more talented writer took over afterward."

"In terms of sound design, it's essential to develop different layers to bring out the charm of the church as a cohesive space. Although this represents only a small portion of the overall design, each layer actually requires a significant amount of time to compose the whole....... Whenever there's a shift or a change due to the dialogue itself, you need to adjust the background sounds. Each time you modify the details in the dialogue, I have to refine the background audio, ensuring that these elements build upon each other like an intricate layer of work."

"It's funny how many scenes involve characters getting smacked in the face. My job was to recreate those, so I locked myself in the bathroom with a recorder and hit my forehead until it turned red.

As a sound designer, I really dig those unsettling, drill-like sounds. So, I mixed in creepy lectures, metal scraping, moans, and cries of pain—because I just love that stuff! (laughs)

Players will be moving through all kinds of areas, so it's super important to make the sound transitions feel natural, trying to create a more immersive vibe in certain spaces.

With all the scenes featuring big cranes, you can hear them from far away, and I wanted to capture that eerie ringing in your ears. That's going to be a thing throughout most of the game. I've found ways to really mess with players while they're playing!"

"I've come across a lot of old objects (like phones and radios) that I needed to perfectly replicate the sounds. I started to become a bit of a hoarder, buying up different models of old phones whenever I found one to add to my collection. The sound effects I can simulate from them are really impressive."

"Some of the devices don't actually exist in real life—just a mix of architecture and tech. When I need to create sound effects, I first look for something similar that exists in our world, then I try to simulate what the sound and appearance of that thing might have been like a century ago.

Towards the end of the game, there's a character carrying a fuel canister. We needed the sound of the canister, so we dug one up from our garage—it had been sitting there since it was five! I realized this would make the sound perfect. So, it had been there for 50 years, and after 40 years, it finally found its purpose.

In some places, I needed unique sound waves, and recreating them was a real headache until one day I happened to walk by a swimming pool and stumbled upon an old wartime torpedo. You can rotate the torpedo's probe, and it slowly rises up, like a proud zombie head. The sounds it made were exactly what I needed!"

🙋How did you manage to get funding?

"Well, since we're in Estonia, you just need to know a wealthy person. You don't need five people—just two who can network, hang out together, and convince them to keep investing! (laughs) Back then, we constantly ran out of money and would tell them, 'Oops, looks like we spent it all! Can you invest a bit more?' That's how we made it through!"

🙋How did you all come together to make the game?

"Luck. It usually doesn't happen this way, and that's the key difference. It has to be. If not, you couldn't create a game of this scale - well, I mean in terms of budget. But creatively, Estonia definitely has writers and artists who can pull it off. With such a small population, there are a lot of quirky folks who are good friends. We were really lucky, though - lots of fortunate circumstances came together. It brought the right people together, allowing those talented fools to collaborate with us. They had experience but hadn't tackled projects of this magnitude before. So yeah, luck is pretty important!"

Lecture experience shared by 白兔YIYANG SUN on 小红书, reposted & translated by me with her permission.

ralfmaximus

Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we've been featuring their efforts to make their vast collect

They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

88,000 new free images just dropped, to use however you like.

leahberman

wandering dream

instagram - twitter - website

videntefernandez

Totally obsessed with Mark Ryden's meat purse, but it probably costs more money than I'll ever make

so I got this at the thrift for $4 and you know what happens next

I love it

goodolreliablejake

The hopeless part about Disco Elysium is that recovery is so far into the future as to seem unimaginable. Lilienne might consider going out with you if you had five years between you and your last drink. It might take eight more years before you get over Dora. There are no flashy bonuses for getting sober, and the health benefits will kick in some time in the future, and the future doesn't actually exist because it is beyond the scope of the game's timeline (also the world is going to end).

But the hopeful part of Disco Elysium, the part that made me fall in love with it, is that you also don't need to wait for recovery. Right now, among the shit, are miracles and beauty, fleeting but meaningful: cryptids, and helping a girl out of the cold, and "teleporting" up ladders, inventing a new dance, and painting a wall. These things matter, because you are alive right now, and you are not alone.

zorciarkrildrush

Kim Kitsuragi shitpost voicelines!

Please see end of post if you want to use these!

Submitted by you, voted for by you, I'd like to present the voicelines you were just dying to hear being said by Kim - dutifully performed by the brilliant Jullian Champenois.

ilgattopatata

disco elysium grabbing me by the shoulders: "listen, everything is going to end and it's inevitable so do something beautiful while you still have the time. look at the men playing petanque in the bomb crater, look at the guy composing poetry as he imagines being with his wife and kids. there's a woman making dice in the chimney of an old commercial area. those kids are making music inside of a church. paint a wall, sing karaoke, play board games. everything is going to end but in the meantime something beautiful is going to happen. and maybe even the giant bug is real in the end."

expressions-of-nature

California wildfires, sunset & sunrise by Gary Robertson

gifbro

4gifs

Japanese Sumo robots

setheverman

this is the funniest gif i’ve seen all week what the fuck is going on

bunjywunjy

the best part is this isn’t even HALF the relentless bullshit insanity that goes on in robot sumo wrestling, a sport where the contestants are all hyperfast robots with scoop attachments and preprogrammed moves.

(this one wants to be a beyblade when it grows up)

the idea is to include as many unique moves as you can, to make your shrieking deathbot difficult to counter

or dodging. that works too.

also, some of the speed demons have… unorthodox attachments to fool other bot’s sensors

WIIINGS MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRR

robot sumo is also a sport where spectators may end up taking a small robot to the shins if they aren’t careful.

FLYYYYYYY

I hope you enjoyed our foray into madness!

art-res

Heya, I love what you guys do helping people out, it's super lovely! I was wondering if you could also help me out as well. Do you have any recommendations on where to start for someone who wants to try doing art but has never drew anything a day in their life? Thanks for being a helpful group of people and have an awesome day!

Hi anon! I really appreciate the support.

Here’s a link a previous answer with a lot of info that might help you, but I also linked a few more!

Composition masterpost - composition is important, otherwise your art might lack the energy/balance you desire

Read the Tutor Tuesdays by Meg from the absolute stunning @thundercluck-blog

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnart/ – amazing place to ask questions

Anatomy Books Mini-Masterpost

Videos: Sycra, Proko, idrawgirls, CTRL+Paint

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/resources/tutorials/?order=67108864 – DeviantArt kills it!

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials – love this site as well. Diverse topics.

I hope this helps! Feel free to private message me for feedback on your work, or any follow up questions (please send an ask to my inbox those!)

Btw, I am one person, but since I am going to college, I could use a person to help find content maybe!

Please consider giving this post a reblog if you enjoyed it! It helps this reach more people <3 It would mean the world to me if you could check out my art at @astrikos!

Further Reading – Affordable Art Supplies Masterpost | Anatomy Books Mini-Masterpost | Beginner’s Photography Guide Art-Res Links & Resources

art-res

Heya, I love what you guys do helping people out, it's super lovely! I was wondering if you could also help me out as well. Do you have any recommendations on where to start for someone who wants to try doing art but has never drew anything a day in their life? Thanks for being a helpful group of people and have an awesome day!

Hi anon! I really appreciate the support.

Here’s a link a previous answer with a lot of info that might help you, but I also linked a few more!

Composition masterpost - composition is important, otherwise your art might lack the energy/balance you desire

Read the Tutor Tuesdays by Meg from the absolute stunning @thundercluck-blog

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnart/ – amazing place to ask questions

Anatomy Books Mini-Masterpost

Videos: Sycra, Proko, idrawgirls, CTRL+Paint

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/resources/tutorials/?order=67108864 – DeviantArt kills it!

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials – love this site as well. Diverse topics.

I hope this helps! Feel free to private message me for feedback on your work, or any follow up questions (please send an ask to my inbox those!)

Btw, I am one person, but since I am going to college, I could use a person to help find content maybe!

Please consider giving this post a reblog if you enjoyed it! It helps this reach more people <3 It would mean the world to me if you could check out my art at @astrikos!

Further Reading – Affordable Art Supplies Masterpost | Anatomy Books Mini-Masterpost | Beginner’s Photography Guide Art-Res Links & Resources

theartofanimation

Moebius

genicecream

Hi Genice! I wanted to ask why did you go for capilanou instead of sheridan? It's also in canada and one of the top animation colleges in the world. You can easily get in there or any other college. I live in the subcontinent and want to pursue 2D animation but there aren't any institutions that really offer that. So it's either Europe or north America and it's pretty expensive. So any advice?? Thanks. btw love your art

i answered a really similar question here!basically i just felt that overall it’d be better rn for me to stay where most of my family and friends are lol

to add some points though:

i never considered colleges based on their prestige alone. of course, most “prestigious” schools have reputations that aren’t based on nothing, but even so i think it’s really important to research them and see if what they offer is something that suits you (eg. what programs/teachers/equipment/facilities they have, etc), and if there are good alternatives because i think a lot of popular schools take advantage of their reputation to charge students crazy tuitions lol. i’m sure sheridan’s pretty great, but capilano also has a lot of the things i liked or was looking for in a school (personal work stations, small classroom sizes, programs that focus on training students to be employable) so i chose it because it also fulfills my desire to stay in my home city

the way i see things, my education is mostly on me. ideally, a good school would give me the guidance and support i need to bring me further ahead than i can on my own, but in the end i am still the one doing the work and pushing myself to improve. even if i go to the best school in the world, if i go through my education passively the school’s reputation isn’t going to make me improve; and on the flip side, even if i don’t go to the best school in the world, if i’m putting as much as i can into my assignments and community, i’m pretty confident i’ll still get a lot out of it because i’m determined to try my hardest.

i just needed to not go to a bad school. “if my education is mostly on me, then it doesn’t matter too much which school i go to because i know i can try hard enough to get something out of it”- is what i used to think. not that it’s completely wrong, but i realized what could happen is that school could weigh me down in a way where i would’ve been better off studying independently. i already mentioned this in the first point but again, i think it’s really important to research the schools you’re applying to, not just what they say on their website, but what their students and alumni say. what are the best and worst things you can expect? are the alumni satisfied with their education? check out grad work, is this where you want your work to be? the level you want your work to be? what are some similar schools you could also choose? how are they better/not better/different? etc. this thought process kept me from settling with a school that i chose by default (which in hindsight, really would not have suited the kind of artistic goals i have lol) and i gotta say i’m pretty happy with choosing capilano instead

i don’t know enough about your financial or life circumstances to give you anything but general advice (and even if i did i’m not sure if i even can lol), but there are a ton of resources on the internet you can learn from for some pretty good prices! you can find a bunch of links in resources my tag here (i especially recommend schoolism subscriptions) and i’m sure there’s a ton of gumroad stuff floating around the internet that are worth checking out.the main disadvantage i see with independent studying (instead of art school) though is you don’t have the built-in communities and networks that schools usually have. of course i think it’s possible to remedy this by building an online presence, participating in online communities, and going to workshops and industry conventions (or even comic/anime conventions) and stuff, but it’s a factor i’d still consider

good luck with whatever you do though anon! there’s a lot of personal and life things that factor into your artistic journey, so you are probably the best person to decide for yourself

andatsea

Define: meaning.

kingofooo

by storyboard supervisor Erik Fountain

A few years ago, Erik put together these updated AT storyboard guidelines for new board artists and revisionists.

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