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It's a self-indulgent week filled with prompts that I want to do and since I've had people express interest, I'm inviting YOU to join too! YAAAY!
The week starts August 17th and continues until the 23rd! Days include: Micro Monday, Bugs Buesday, Wedded Bliss Wednesday, Give Them a Third Thursday*, Fankid Friday, Sleeping in the Same Bed Saturday, and Repentance Sunday!
⚠️ More info about tags and guidelines and whatnot under the cut!
I'll be using #billfordbullshitweek as a hashtag for this event! I've had friends express interest in fulfilling some prompts with nsfw and while tumblr doesn't allow that, you can also use #nsfwbillfordbullshitweek as a hashtag on other sites if you want to create more mature pieces! While I'm not gonna be ID checking participants, please be 18+ years of age if you use the nsfw hashtag for everyone's safety and comfort! Thank you!
While this was crafted to lean more towards artwork, you're free to do any fan creation! Fanart, fanfic, meta posts, crafts-- the point is to have fun!
Biggest rule is to be kind and considerate!
Now to discuss the asterisk on the Thursday prompt. Since this was a week I created specifically for myself and I'm just opening it up for others, I please ask you to respect my boundaries. I do not want to see anything shipping Bill and Ford with other Pines (or Bill's family) or children in the week's hashtag. This isn't petty fandom drama that you can argue with me about, this is MY personal boundary and I want it respected, please.
You can, however, do two Bills and a Ford, or two Fords and a Bill since that's just two of the same guy. You can also do selfship/yumeship/crossovers/oc x canon! Again, just don't include characters who are underaged or meant to be related to either Bill or Ford. Thank you <3
Most other days don't have any hard and fast rules. Sunday is Repentance Sunday, but it's meant as a sort of free day with no concrete prompt, so have fun! Only other thing I ask is that you please warn for any mature themes!
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.
[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Tumblr banned the creator of The Amazing Digital Circus, gooseworx.' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]
gentle psa to new comic artists about a problem i also suffered from: slow quiet pacing is totally fine BUT if that's not what you're deliberately going for, you CAN fit more Story Progression on the page. no, more than that. more than that even. i promise if you don't want it to a single action doesn't need to take a whole page to illustrate each of its steps, a lot of connecting magic happens in the gutters i /promise/ if you draw someone pulling up in a car then skip to them walking in the door with groceries we will Understand that they unloaded the car and unlocked the house you feel me
#I am not a comic artist#but I had a similar problem when I was in film school#I call it “the door problem”#in my thesis film I had written that two characters walk out the back of the club into the alley behind the club#and my club location did not have a back alley but did have a side room that we used as the door#but that door opened in#and the location I used for the alley had a back door but that door opened outwards#and I knew it looked weird#I struggled framing the shots#and blocking the actors#and I got really really caught in my own head about how to make this door work#because to me it was really important that you saw every step from club to outside#because even though we had learned in school that you could transition it didn't feel right because it didn't feel like a new scene to me#(this being one of the struggles with a short film. It can all feel like one scene if your script is short!)#AND THEN#when we got into the editing room we just...cut the door transition entirely#initially not on purpose#what happened was that we decided to tighten up the timing by cutting non-linearly to the custom music I had commissioned#which made it much more experimental especially in comparison to my fellow classmates#however it showed me that the story still absolutely worked without needing to show how they got into the alley#the audience can infer the door#so now anytime I can feel myself getting stuck on something when I'm filming I think#“Is this a Door Problem?”#as a storyteller it's always a question of what is the absolute bare minimum you need to convey what you're trying to say#and sometimes that means you just need to already be outside the club
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Exactly! Film and comics are VERY similar mediums in this way, I love this. We should always be considering Door Problems
gentle psa to new comic artists about a problem i also suffered from: slow quiet pacing is totally fine BUT if that's not what you're deliberately going for, you CAN fit more Story Progression on the page. no, more than that. more than that even. i promise if you don't want it to a single action doesn't need to take a whole page to illustrate each of its steps, a lot of connecting magic happens in the gutters i /promise/ if you draw someone pulling up in a car then skip to them walking in the door with groceries we will Understand that they unloaded the car and unlocked the house you feel me
#I am not a comic artist#but I had a similar problem when I was in film school#I call it “the door problem”#in my thesis film I had written that two characters walk out the back of the club into the alley behind the club#and my club location did not have a back alley but did have a side room that we used as the door#but that door opened in#and the location I used for the alley had a back door but that door opened outwards#and I knew it looked weird#I struggled framing the shots#and blocking the actors#and I got really really caught in my own head about how to make this door work#because to me it was really important that you saw every step from club to outside#because even though we had learned in school that you could transition it didn't feel right because it didn't feel like a new scene to me#(this being one of the struggles with a short film. It can all feel like one scene if your script is short!)#AND THEN#when we got into the editing room we just...cut the door transition entirely#initially not on purpose#what happened was that we decided to tighten up the timing by cutting non-linearly to the custom music I had commissioned#which made it much more experimental especially in comparison to my fellow classmates#however it showed me that the story still absolutely worked without needing to show how they got into the alley#the audience can infer the door#so now anytime I can feel myself getting stuck on something when I'm filming I think#“Is this a Door Problem?”#as a storyteller it's always a question of what is the absolute bare minimum you need to convey what you're trying to say#and sometimes that means you just need to already be outside the club
(via @currentlycreating )
Exactly! Film and comics are VERY similar mediums in this way, I love this. We should always be considering Door Problems
upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake
to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50
just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost
it's worse than that: The Helldivers devs were told that duplicating assets would help HDD load times, but then they actually tested it and it had basically zero effect on load times!
So they had more than sextupled the size of their game by following industry standard practice that actually did basically nothing!
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