#dynamics

[inthemoodforblastt]

People these days have completely ruined the whole concept of enemies to lovers. The whole point of enemies to lovers is that when someone is actually your enemy, you’re the worst version of yourself around them. You tear them apart, or at least you try to, because you can’t stand them. You project all your worst traits onto them, and they do the exact same thing to you.

So we’re talking about a dynamic where, by the time these two people end up in a relationship, they’ve already seen each other at their absolute worst. They both know the other person is a complete piece of shit. They’re a terrible human being. But they’re just as much of a terrible human being as you are, that’s why you’re enemies in the first place.

If you reduce enemies to lovers to “we’re academic rivals trying to get the best grades,” you’ve completely stripped the trope of what makes it work. Your families hating each other while the two of you just go, “You’re stupid.” “Well, you’re ugly.” That’s not enemies to lovers. Enemies to lovers is about two people who have genuinely spent time and effort trying to ruin each other’s lives. And if you take that away, if you remove the fact that there was real, mutual, visceral hostility between them, then the entire dynamic falls apart. It just doesn’t make any sense.

If you’ve never seen the other person’s dark side, if you’ve never seen just how awful they can be when they’re pushed, then what’s the appeal of the dynamic? There isn’t one. Disliking someone isn’t the same thing as them being your enemy. There are plenty of people I don’t like, and I wouldn’t call any of them my enemies.

[missmargomuse616]

"what would it take for you to speak on the record?"

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[missmargomuse616]

"We should take the time for ourselves do you think?"

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[storyvoice]

Watch: A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Spring of 1977. In this lecture, Donella Meadows takes on a more philosophical concept. How can we bring ourselves to be aware of the assumptions we make as systems thinkers? She asserts that models are a set of assumptions. Donella Meadows defines some of these system dynamics assumptions (such as causal relationships and feedback loops) in this video.

[artandpalletechallenges]

ship dynamic that I like by catslank

[artist-refs]

Do you have any refs for sort of triangular shaped characters like Patrick Star?

It appears that I don't at the moment.

Without access to my tablet, I can't do this properly, but I'll give it a shot... Oh God, I am so sorry, this is just terrible <:D

So, the first thing you do is get some images of the thing you want to draw and break it down to simplified forms. The purpose of this exercise is to get a feel for how the thing exists in three dimensional space. I did one example here, but it would be good to do this with several different poses where the head and limbs are at different angles, like pointed towards the viewer vs away.

... all I see is, Patric is a scoop of ice cream and a bunch of differently sized ice cream cones sticking out on all sides.

Once you feel like you have an understanding of how it works, you can then scribble out a sort of gesture starting with a line-of action.

From there, you build up that scribble with construction lines based on the forms from the previous exercise.

(Oop... i just noticed that the angle of the legs are off; they should actually be more straight up-and-down >.<)

This basic procedure can work with pretty much any style of cartoon and is not limited to triangular characters.

There is one more thing to study when breaking these things down. Proportion. How long should the arms be? The legs? The head? Sometimes, animators don't fuss too much about keeping it consistent; they don't follow the model sheet too rigidly and the characters can be stretchy in order to emphasise an action. But other times, it can make or break getting the style just right. For this example, I would estimate that Patric's head is roughly as tall as the torso area (the "ball"). The arms seem to have the stretchy thing going on, but the "default" is roughly 3/4ths the height of the torso, and the legs maybe between one fourth to a half (take this with a huge grain of salt; I've never actually watched sponge bob or tried to draw the characters.)

Uh... I'm sorry, this is really bad, but it's the best I can do at the moment. I thought I had some style guides and/or model sheets for spongebob, but they appear to have gone missing. Maybe I made a type-o while tagging them... or I'm confusing it from seeing them elsewhere. In any case, I'll see if i can find some more.

EDIT: I got these off Pinterest; they are not sourced, but I'm fairly certain these are production notes from the creators of Spongebob and they do include some helpful tips. You can also see some of the construction guides on some of them.

[oaresearchpaper]

Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo becomes an important problem and causes loss of biodiversity and degradation of many ecosystems. Among this problem, many strategies are used such as reforestation, use of stoves to reduce firewood cut. This study analyzes the dynamic of land use/cover change in forest ecosystems of Kabare and Idjwi over a period of 29 years. Remote sensing was used in GIS to detect change from 1986 to 2015. The results show an increasing of the area in woodlots about 8.48 % in 1986 to 8.79 % in 2015, tropical grasslands from 0.78% to 0.84%, farmlands to 29.99% to 31.94% and settlements from 0.03% to 1.29%. Other classes decreased such as dense forests (14.12% to 10.76%) and water (46.59% to 46.38%). The matrices of change detection show that the area has been changing from one land use to another. The increasing was observed in agricultural area and settlements area from 1986 to 2015. There is the need to take critical measures to regulate land use/cover and conserve the environment not only in this area of study but also whole forest ecosystems in DRC eastern.

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