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It's insane how many usamericans i'm seeing say the animation industry is dying. Open your eyes!! It is not dying, it is reinventing itself!! On the usa alone more indie animators are getting their works known and series published, and while i can not speak for other countries, i can speak for mine- brazil is making it's first feature stop motion movie(Outras pessoas by Pedro Iuá) and on my state alone two new animation courses(public ones! there is a total of 3 public animation courses on the contry!) have been born! the third world has always been made of indie animators to get their stories told!
the animation industry in this side of the world has solidified itself since 1920s that walt disney was the heart of it, and his standards for animation- full features, tv animation, child centric, musical, the american style of squash and stretch and silhouettes, etc- and it kept this idea even through the birth of dreamworks, of pixar, of cartoon network and nickelodeon...so its good that these are dying! it's good to decentralize and let go from these usamerican productions that for centuries limited what (non-japanese and non-czechoslovakian) animation could be, and look wider into what worldwide animation has to offer! what these different narratives and animation influences have to offer! to say that animation is dying is to stablish and reaffirm the propaganda that the heart of animation lives in the usa! that is not the case! expand your horizons! i'm glad ena, a peruvian animation, got so popular! i'm glad flow and latvia, which is definitely not known as an animation reference, got an oscar against the usa! while third world countries do have animation, the animation studies are not as incentivized or normalized as it is in the usa, and it is vital that we all let go of disney and pixar gladly in order to look at non-usamerican animations and give them the support they deserve!
animation is not dying! not here! not there either! don't let these big studios and networks feed you the idea that only they can make animation and without them animation dies! it is not the first time there is a "death of animation"(2d to 3d, and before that cel animation to digital, and before that hand-drawn transitioning to limited animation, and before that the idea of leaving cinema to go to something as risky as the new technology of television, and before that the hays code in the 30s(killing betty boop and fleischer), and before that animation being forced to transition from silent to sound(killing felix the cat)...but none of those were real deaths! they were simply animation reinventing itself!) and it wont be the last! it will continue reiventing itself! that is a good thing, it opens new opportunities of what animation is allowed to be!!
(ps: if any third worlder has animation recs of their countries to give to me, i'm all ears! i myself need to make a playlist on youtube and links filled with brazilian animations, after all can't just say "go watch our animation" and not name it! if you like black and white horror, adult swim has some shorts from Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, if you like stopmotion and these more violent gangster-like stories Pedro Iuá has Contra-filé with english subtitles, if you want something simpler and lighter but still unique and for all ages O menino e o mundo(The boy and the world) is free of dialogue and fantastic, Kabuki by Tiago Minamisawa is also free of dialogue and a beautiful japonese-theather inspired take on being transgender against a hostile world, Meow(1981) by marcos magalhães is also free of dialogue and available on youtube, and it's simpler but a still relevant social critique over both americanization and industrialization, um...Marcos magalhães' animando is a classic(the dude himself is a classic, one of our biggest animators) but it's not exactly narrative-style, it's displaying different animation techniques he learned when studying abroad, though its a very fun watch...but these are just some from the top of my head. I think pretty much a lot can be found on the AnimaMundi and AnimaJam festivals, too. We mainly thrive in live-action cinema and have some truly fantastic live action shorts and films, but our animation is still strong!)
i decided to write a character sheet for Zé and Panchito(for future fic references). I'm still not done but i ran out of space on this page
these sorts of edits are still funny right
promo for pierre? i like things from the 80s and sci-fi movies and can be Your best friend and mutual :-)
speaking of my jojo ocs i don't think i actually uploaded them here... everyone say hi to jordan (they/them) and doc (he/it) :-) art and designs by reillen
what if his neck just did that
every time i try to take a picture of this thing my camera never focuses right because he is so tiny so it looks like i am viewing him as a distant memory