For the love of the Universe

Specially dedicated to Star Trek 

[elveatas]

It is finally here!! My awesome Dramaturgy 101 - How the Fuck to Plot-presentation that I did for @coinelot 2018! Thank you so much to the organisers of this event to allow me to ramble on and for organising such a fun event!!

You can also download a version here

If some of it doesn’t make sense to you because you weren’t at the convention, you’re more than welcome to message me for elaboration of the subject :)

Otherwise, enjoy all your new knowledge!!

[bakudei]

so I started Black Butler tonight

[igibun]

I SHALL GIVE ALL THE FOOD I POSSES TO THIS BABY

he’s ((((very)))) excited

[xancollins]

I did a couple studies of jupiter! he is my beautiful mysterious dad who protects me from death by meteor impact and I love him for that

[piraticoctopus]

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

[thebookskeeper]

I just wanted to add a little more to this. If you have trouble figuring out how light sources work in your drawings this also allows you to choose where to have a light source.

That shaded ball on the left is your light source. You can see how moving the point changed the shadow cast.

Oh and all those other nifty looking things in that bottom bar there, yeah it’s what you think. You can change the model color to one of these presets or even customize your own palette.

Plus for all you lovely people who want something a little more simplified to use as a pose reference

You can turn your model into the classic wire frame.

[nick-nocturne]

Why reblog this? Because for more visual creators, this will be like the lumberjack discovering chainsaws. “Reblog to save lives” as the saying goes.

[kerijiano]

Artist friends!!! @gallishep @ashiwaff @corgi-kid

[corgi-kid-blog]

:OOOO

[perversepuppet]

This has been extremely useful right now thank you!!

[cluster123456]

Works from the plaster gallery at the Antonio Canova Museum. In 1917, the museum was bombed and the artworks damaged. Here we see them catalogued soon after (photos by Stefano Serafin, 1918).

[singingstarling-blog]

Amazing how the works got anew meaning!

[mejev]

[fraterleo]

[phdbitch-deactivated20150805]

I love how they use background music in animal documentaries to signify danger. It’s like damn, I thought this caterpillar was chillin but clearly something bout to happen that neither I nor the caterpillar know about.

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

TOS Episodes written by women

- Charlie X

- Tomorrow is Yesterday

- This Side of Paradise

- Journey to Babel

- Friday’s Child

- The Gamesters of Triskelion

- By Any Other Name (cowritten)

- The Ultimate Computer

- The Enterprise Incident

-  The Paradise Syndrome

- Is There Truth in No Beauty?

- The Tholian Web (cowritten)

- The Empath

- That Which Survives

- The Way to Eden (cowritten)

- The Lights of Zetar (cowritten)

- The Cloud Minders

- All Our Yesterdays

(x)

so to all the current shows who are somehow unable to hire female writers? get rekt. or more accurately, get trekked.

[onedamnminuteadmiral]

I wanted to talk about this moment in Mirror Mirror:

Because it hit me what’s so absolutely heartbreaking about it. Aside from the fact that our gentle, kind, peaceful crew are trapped in a universe that goes against every single one of their values, and not only do they have to pretend to be something they’re not, they have to find out WHAT THEY WOULD BE CAPABLE OF if they only lived in different circumstances.

So when Jim asks the computer to read out his service record…

And that hurts, right? You can see in his eyes he’s sure he never would’ve done something like this, but keep watching.

Destroying a planet? A whole PLANET? That’s about as evil as you get, right? That look on Jim’s face is very very clearly “I couldn’t have. I would never. But I did.”

BUT THEN.

And we don’t see Jim’s face for this one. I’m furious we don’t see Jim’s face for this one, but if we did I have a feeling it would break our hearts into ten thousand pieces. Jim has very real, singular reasons for believing himself incapable of an atrocity like that (specifically: he lived through one). But in this universe, he did it. In this universe, he’s capable of inflicting the kind of trauma he himself endured onto countless other people.

It’s no wonder this is what happens next:

[gameraboy]

1968 Star Trek lunchbox and thermos

[littlestoneinspace]

this cactus was a Jim’s gift for Spock and one night cactus started flowering

[y2kaestheticinstitute]

Lenny Kravitz’s house in Miami, designed by Architröpolis (1999)

1960s & 70s space age/disco aesthetic had a strong influence on Y2K design, especially in this example (eg. the homage to Verner Panton). There are some 90s cyber-updates, like $30,000 automatic sliding glass doors, and the bathroom ‘mirror’, which is actually a “camera & video-screen that records everything to videotape”. The music video for his 1999 single, ‘Black Velveteen’ was filmed in the home, featuring lyrics like “The 21st Century Dream”.

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

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i have no words

[theyboldlywent]

Absolutely nothing is wrong with this picture.

From The Star Trek Activity Book, featuring text by Peter Lerangis and illustrations by Carlos Garzon. Published in 1986 by Wanderer Books.

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[bailesu]

1.  Kirk did not have 3 arms at the same time as Scotty’s French Chef phase.  The three arms were resolved by the end of 408; Scotty toyed with the culinary arts of his mother’s distant French ancestors in season five. 

2.  Scotty’s chef hat is only worn when off duty; he especially would not wear it on an away mission.

3.  Sulu owns a Raggedy Andy, not Raggedy Ann doll.  *Uhura* has Raggedy Ann.

4.  Chekov owns a jambox full of traditional Russian music like the Beatles and Pearl Jam, not McCoy. 

5.  Kirk’s third arm should be on the right side of his body.

6.  Wilbur Whatley, when he impersonated Spock, wore pants to hide his furry, deformed lower body and would not go around in public showing it.  It would be illogical for Spock to cosplay as Whatley cosplaying as him.

7.  The banner should read ‘Eat at Scotty’s’ 

8.  Frosty the Snowman was never really part of the Enterprise Crew; the Christmas Special in Season 5 was just Spock’s hallucination from Plomek suit. 

9.  Frosty is out of uniform and missing his hat.

10.  McCoy and Scotty do not cast shadows, but should.

11.  Scotty is missing a finger on his right hand and does not compensate with having six on his left.

12.  Starfleet Officers are not allowed to hitchhike.

[theyboldlywent]

[xxxxxx6x]

ASK27：(Startrek movie 4)Sarek came back to Vulcan,kissing Amanda and told her that Spock said he feels fine.