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bob-artist

Bittern at the grocery store

sparkly-heretic

A very elegant crime.

(edit: my partner just pointed out that maybe the bittern is going to pay, and that's a good point)

bob-artist

Don't worry, his disguise was flawless and he got away with his snack :)

tinylobelia-deactivated20200702

wisteriafield

i’ll kick anyone’s ass. i’ll kick your ass. i’ll kick your dog’s ass. i’ll kick my own ass

garaks-huge-naturals

so i go to a fuckass liberal arts college and i work at the art museum right. we recently got a yves klein piece and besides being an absolute bad bitch at judo he's mostly known for Blue. like Blue, as in he created International Klein Blue (IKB) (most blue to ever blue). this is his main thing. so we got his piece in the mail and it was flaking so we had to call in the klein foundation's restoration person and she pulls up, mixes this patented color, and sprays the flaky bits of the sculpture. beautiful wonderful it is fixed, but she has some extra left over. so very kindly she turns to the staff and goes, "does anyone have something they want me to paint." and one guy fucking lights up and with the world's most evil glimmer in his eye he asks, "will you paint my labubu." and that motherfucker, she says YES. so now. in the mueseum. in an office. in or someone's house. theres a fucking genuine klein blue labubu.

garaks-huge-naturals

CALL IT A LABLUBLU

toughtsalot

MaoMao x Jinshi ♡

rainintheevening

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

beardedmrbean

ella-the-ella

This has probably been done to death and taken as fact by now but... I thought this sums it up well

musubeans

saw a car dragging a labubu facedown through the street

bakwaaas

tea isn’t just a drink it’s a handwarmer it’s an experience it’s a love language it’s a friend it’s

luriuan

I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.

sailing-ever-west-deactivated20

One time they just stuck him in a hole in the ground for a whole episode.

ectojester

This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.

If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.

not-deadsummer

My favorite is that Sokka absolutely would've just navigated them out of the desert, so they had to put him on acid the entire time.

capsyst

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

transhuman-priestess

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

transparent-plastic-robotgirl

omg that's cool as heck!!! 🌸

alltheurlsaregone-blog

Disney made a neat featurette about the movie that gets into this process.

The whole things' worth a watch, but the xerox process shows up at 11:41 and they go into the cars at 22:18.

This was the first full length movie to use the xerox process, without which you would just be rotoscoping. Which is a cool technique, but would have required both much more work and probably not given you quite the rigidity that they get here. It also mentions how the early version of xerox was perfectly suited to 101 Dalmatians because it produced extremely stark black lines that could have been distracting in a different context but are perfectly suited for the black and white dogs. This early version also produced a rough scratchy sort of line that fit well with the modern, jazzy style of the movie. It also let them "cheat" in the crowd scenes with gaggles of dogs in frame, letting them easily copy and rescale and flip individual action cycles to make multiple dogs from a single animator's work.

The xerox process is also an interesting art automation story. Before this disney employed a large number of inkers, whose job it was to take the animators drawings, which were done by pencil on animation paper, and trace them with ink onto the celluloid that would eventually be photographed. And after 101 Dalmatians showed the process could work, it was just a matter of time for the entire inking department. Today disney employs four inkers who make reproduction cels from their old movies for collectors or display.