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Portrait day with their favorite child. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.

#this one's for raleigh

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.

#omg that's incredible #this one's for raleigh #film: 101 dalmatians

problemnyatic

the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.

problemnyatic

You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it

problemnyatic

you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.

livseses

Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."

tartrazeen

And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.

dhaaruni

Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story

ralfmaximus

I'm not a Minnesotan, I didn't follow Hortman's trajectory closely. Only learned her name when she (and her husband, and her fucking dog) were assassinated.

But this piece made me cry.

#i didn't expect to cry to be honest but my face is soaked

sheepcounts

playing around with my "low-poly" style and city folk fashion...

#excellent #fandom: animal crossing #misc: fanart

Raleigh and I have been writing a fantasy book and we're 37k+ words/five chapters deep

Things have been hard and Baby's still here but it's getting worse

knifeforsale

TOOTSIE TOY MR.BUBBLE SWISS BUBBLE BLOWER | LISTING

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#this one's for raleigh #it's so cute but also reminds me of a lil sandwich?

singing-bowl

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

#this one's for raleigh #she's so cool

crimson-sun

#misc: art #fandom: pokemon #this one's for raleigh

99centmenu

I saw myself in the mirror

lesbianbillpotts

[ID: Art of a grizzly bear standing on the banks of a body of water, green grass poking up around little piles of snow. The bear is looking into the water, and the constellation Ursa Major looks back as the reflection. Other stars surround the constellation, and the water has a slight rainbow tint to it. End ID]

#misc: art #this one's for raleigh

vintagewildlife

Swallow drinking from a stream By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

#misc: photography #bird!

draconym

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

draconym

Me, 3am: But am I even deserving of love

The Steve Irwin That Lives In My Brain: Crikey, get a look at this art teacher! These are so important to the local area, right, because they create habitat for heaps of vulnerable critters like juvenile nerds, goths, and furries. I love finding these because they often have these great ornamentations that they can use to identify one another. Take a look at the piercings and tattoos, here. Absolutely gorgeous! Let's let this one get back to sleep.

#this one's for raleigh

My heart hurts