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[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[gingercatsneeze]

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

[ianmaiguapictures]

This advice is helpful.

[ariverofmilk-deactivated2019041]

Tezuka said much of the same! This is the great advantage anime has over Disney-style animation– tons and tons of frames make thing look very smooth and pretty, but completely removes the sense of genuine IMPACT from action sequences. They’re not as snappy! Watching a frame-by-frame of a Bruce Lee flick, you’ll see a move executed in very few shots. 

[iraffiruse]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[chuchoteh-deactivated20160512]

wHAT THE FUCK

[weloveshortvideos]

I fucking died

[lacomeobejas-deactivated2015121]

NO

[zephyrcorsair-deactivated202408]

SPG As Nonexisting Alignments

[liberiproject]

This thing took me a weekend. I couldn’t resist. And I’m not sorry. Quality is kinda bad, though…

[poiisons]

words of encouragement from frank iero

[error216-deactivated20190515]

I wasn’t ready for this

[yasakajinjya]

[sweet-yuri-milk-deactivated2016]

I hope they’re all okay

[madcat-world]

Volcano - MinnaSundberg

[tibets]

[magdalenarivera]

#it is also the ‘i have a live laugh love decoration somewhere in my house’#’i have a child named caedyn’

[jennytrout]

#Wall decals about bible verses will class up any kitchen #You should come to my Thirty-One party

[jennytrout]

I can’t stop. There are too many:

#I’m the best mom on this field trip and everyone knows it #Have you read Eat, Pray, Love? #Let’s get lattes after Zumba! #Gluten causes Autism #I will have him pulled out of your class #Oh shoot, I forgot I volunteered to bring brownies to faith group tonight #We don’t let him watch more than one hour of TV a day #Stick figure family window sticker #(whispers behind hand) you’ve got to read 50 Shades of Grey

Forgive me. I am a mother, and I walk among these women every day. I have adopted their ways as a form of camouflage.

[totally-stab-caesar-deactivated]

dying

[all-hail-bill-nye-blog]

ITS BACK AND IT GOT BETTER

[mostlycatsmostly]

[anubisofthemoon]

[commander-ledi]

can we stop pretending that adhd is

always “10 yrs old white boy who wont stop screaming and wont sit still” disorder 

 fake disorder that is designed so medicine factories could milk money out of white moms

liek im such randum xDDD lol tacos rawr!!!!!”11

[persistentpuddle]

how the fuck do some girls get boyfriends so easily like wtf do you just create them in your basement or what

[disneyyandmore-blog]

I haven’t seen a set like this yet, but I just wanted to give a special shout to the ladies who want to be mothers, but can’t have children. Mother’s Day is probably not the easiest day for them. So, let’s take a moment to think of those ladies out there who in their hearts are mothers, but just weren’t given the chance to be. You are mothers in my eyes, and you deserve the world. Happy Mother’s Day.

[kingbunbuns]

a short comic on self-acceptance and support from unexpected sources