Accidentally Artsy

Part-time adult and casual dreamer

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Syd Mead influence on Mass Effect concept art

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Treasure Planet concept art.

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Video Games as headlines from the Onion

Borderlands 2: Dad way scarier when controlling temper

Dark Souls: Video game character wondering why heartless god always chooses ‘continue’

Dead Space: Area man just in bad mood because he’s tired and an awful human being

Dying Light: 27-year-old lies about every aspect of his life to keep everyone from worrying

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim: Somebody’s got to save this country from certain doom, and let’s face it, that person is me

Fallout 4: Man thinking about packing up and making exact same mistakes someplace far away

Fallout - New Vegas: Badly injured man not done partying yet

Far Cry 3: Cult leader pretty cool, actually

Far Cry 4: That sucker Jesus has forgiven me for some pretty bad sins

Grand Theft Auto V: Hi, in the past 2 years, you’ve allowed me to kill 70,000 people

Hotline Miami: Employee wishes he had enough job security to voice opinion

The Last of Us: Man miscast in role of father

Mass Effect 1: Entire precinct made up of loose cannons

Mass Effect 2: Man always carries gun in case he needs to escalate situation

Mass Effect 3: Man who thought he’d lost all hope loses last additional bit of hope he didn’t even know he had

Max Payne 3: Man does good job getting drunk

Metal Gear Rising - Revengeance: INSANELY CUTE child soldiers

Metal Gear Solid V - The Phantom Pain: Best friends each secretly think of the other as the sidekick

Mirror’s Edge: Woman has few enough friends to consider confiding in sister

Overwatch: Advice to enjoy being young came out way sadder than intended

Ratchet and Clank: Kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day

The Sims: I fucked my way into this mess, and I’ll fuck my way out

Tomb Raider: Area woman’s safety net braces for another impact

Uncharted: Man just wants to get rich, accidentally saves world

The Witcher 3: Sometimes I think I’m the only one who gives a shit about rich, lustrous hair

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So if we wanted to watch some French animation, what films would you suggest?

the Triplets of Belleville is about an elderly woman searching for her son who was kidnapped in the middle of a Tour de France race. It’s largely free of dialogue, but the sound effects and such are wonderful. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature—it lost to Finding Nemo.

A Cat in Paris is about a young girl and her cat who discover mysteries in the course of one night. It was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Rango.

Persepolis is based on an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi about her early life in Iran. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Ratatouille.

the Illusionist is about an aging magician and an imaginative young girl who form a father/daughter relationship. It was also nominated for a Best Animation Oscar, but lost to Toy Story 3.

The Rabbi’s Cat is a story about a cat who swallows a parrot and gains the ability to speak like a human. It is set in 1920’s Algeria.

Ernest & Celestine is the adorable story about a big bear and a little mouse who forge an unlikely friendship. It was also nominated for an Oscar in Best Animated Picture, but lost to Frozen.

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a story inspired by West African folklore that tells the story of Kirikou, a boy who was born with the ability to walk and talk, who saves his people from an evil witch. The film was popular enough to spawn sequels and a stage adaptation.

A Monster in Paris is a 3D animated musical film that is reaaaaalllly loosely based on the Phantom of the Opera. It’s set in 1910 and is about, surprisingly, a monster that lives in Paris, and his love for a young singer.

The King and the Mockingbird is an 80’s film about a cruel king titled Charles V + III = VIII + VIII = XVI, who is obsessed with a young shepherdess, and whose attempts to capture the young girl are thwarted by a mockingbird whose wife the King had previously killed.  

Those are probably the most famous of the feature length animated films.

But the animated short films are just as glorious. Here’s a compilation of a bunch of short films and I can link you to others as well. 

Sorry for the long answer but I just really love French animation.

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Reblogging over here. French animation tends to do better with diversity than Disney does, hahaha.

[young-angry-and-fabulous]

I should add “Le Tableau” which is really beautiful, especially if you love art. This movie is highly poetic !

“A château, flowering gardens, a threatening forest, here is what, for mysterious reasons, a Painter has left incomplete. Three kinds of characters live in this painting: the Toupins, who are entirely painted, the Pafinis, who lack a few colors, and the Reufs, who are only sketches. Considering themselves superior, the Toupins take over power, chase the Pafinis from the château, and enslave the Reufs. Convinced that only the Painter can restore harmony by finishing the painting, Ramo, Lola, and Plume decided to go looking for him. Throughout the adventure, questions will follow one after the other: What has become of the Painter? Why did he abandon them? Why did he begin destroying some of his paintings? Will they one day know the Painter’s secret?”

I would highly recommend Ernest & Celestine as the animation is beautiful, the characters are really moving and the story conveys a great message about love, friendship and oppression.

Another thing : have you seen how these amazing movies lost to american big productions ?

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Don’t forget about Kirikou et la Sorcière.

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They didn’t forget! Kirikou and the Sorceress, up there.

May I suggest Dragon Hunters for myself? This 2008 feature-length film is based on the 2004-2005 cartoon Chasseurs de dragons, by the same makers (available fully online, by the way). The music, by Klaus Badelt, is hypnotic. The world is beautiful and strange, the characters lovable… and the dragons, really good.

Just saying.

[monkeysiu]

hey, wthat about Le jour des corneilles? Its one of my favorites french films

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Animations by Romain Barriaux on Dofus movie, Le Vagabond de Saint Marcel short film, and Abraca project.

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It’s summer time! Hit the beach and get sand bending! Vine by @edskudder.

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Attention ALL artists!

You sure have seen this post. It has spread like wildfire over the past few days so I doubt there is any artist out there who hasn’t seen it. But even if you didn’t, you should read on because I’m about to tell you a handy little thing that can help you to protect your art from such assholes as the anon who submitted this bullcrap, as well as art thieves in general.

The magic word is Metadata.

Metadata is like an invisible signature that is embeded into a file. It can contain all kinds of information, like Title, date, keywords for online seach engines, and copyright information. And the best thing is, since this information is “hidden” in the code of your picture, it’s hard to remove it.

There is a nice basic tutorial on how to add Metadata, or “additional file information” to your images in photoshop. It’s really, really easy so check it out!

“Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop” on PhotoshopEssentials.com

I’m not sure if you can do the same with any other art program. If you know how to do this in other programs / can confirm that it works the same way there, please tell me so I can add the information to this post.

Adding the Metadata will not stop idiots from taking and reposting your art. It also won’t make them stop editing out your signature. It WILL however, help you prove that you are the original artist whenever you have to. Always remember my friends. You, the artist, are protected by law. No one has the right to take your intellectual property and hard work and repost, use or edit it without your permission. Ever.

[wunkolo]

OP is talking about something images can store called EXIF data which tumblr can actually parse and that most image tools preserve no matter how much the image gets edited. Tumblr shows camera-related exif data as the little “i” on the bottom of images and not much else will show besides camera-related data(Author or Image Description fields aren’t immediately shown) but you can edit the camera name and model to source your art if it ever gets reposted to tumblr. This only works on JPG images. Right click your image and go to properties and go to the details tab and edit the camera-related exif metadata and it will show up when uploaded to tumblr. Even if the image was to be edited in photoshop or whatever.

Not sure if Mac users can do this as a native feature but they can use this [http://thexifer.net/]

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“Like all other Art Nouveau artists, Mucha was convinced about the fact that people should be surrounded by art, every day. Art should be made readily available to the general public and be seen and enjoyed by as many people as possible. To create some kind of guide-book for craftsmen, he published a ‘designer bible’ in 1902, called “Documents Décoratifs” 

Source:

https://aboutartnouveau.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/alphonse-mucha/

[banshee-titan]

“Like all other Art Nouveau artists, Mucha was convinced about the fact that people should be surrounded by art, every day. Art should be made readily available to the general public and be seen and enjoyed by as many people as possible. To create some kind of guide-book for craftsmen, he published a ‘designer bible’ in 1902, called “Documents Décoratifs”

Source:

https://aboutartnouveau.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/alphonse-mucha/

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WIP Revisiting an old artwork with a bit of colour and light!  Taking criticism from the art senpai of the internet

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Shark choir

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Both fire and electricity in one post so I don’t clutter my place up 

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Most animalz

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Obligatory Hipstopus

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Wow. Like, 25% or more of this blog is about me coming back after giving up on myself. I'm like a creative zombie. Apart from looking like one, it seems I can't quite bring myself to die as an artist completely.

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Animation key frames, all illustrated by Sushio for Kill la Kill.