#scratch it

[whoopitywhoopwhoop]

-could you not drive so fast? everything is hovering before my eyes!

-just do what i did. simply close your eyes

[buckpussy]

okay @girluptighty just made me slightly worried about the fact that, uh, tumblr might have eaten up my private replies to bday messages? i replied to every single one of them, but i did it from my mobile, and now i'm. Stressed that y'all maybe didn't get them??? if you sent one but didn't get my reply PLEASE KNOW that i HAD sent it, and i'm currently sitting here feeling really stressed and shitty. i'm so so SO sorry if someone sent me wishes but didn't get my reply!!!!! i was so happy because of every message so i made sure to thank y'all personally but now i'm like..... 🙃🙃🙃

[ladybugkisses]

im trying to re-design my trickster outfit and i lowkey look like the wendy’s mascot i feel personally attacked right now

[iamlisteningto]

U.S. Girls’ Scratch It

[smokeyhardwick]

Do Fish Itch

[ualscout]

Captain’s Log: Scratch It

I am scared to animate because I don’t know the multitudes contained within a second of time. I’ve never actually made an animation before. I don’t know how long a second feels. 

My dudes, this changed today. We did scratch films on 16mm film, and by god it was painful.

My idea was simple: do some simple typography accompanied by a moving thing. That way, there’s two things happening, they can both be shitty on their own but impressive together. 

I pulled a quote from a tweet, specifically “you got ghosts in your blood” ‘cause it sounds so metal. 

I ended up changing it to “u got a ghost in ur blood” because ‘ghosts’ was too long a word to fit on 16mm film. 

The animation is as follows: a stick figure fortnite dances without a care in the world. Suddenly, as if struck down by his own hubris, he is struck down and falls dramatically into a heap on the ground. From the ashes of this pile, a simple ghost springs up. Then blood falls from the top of the shot, spelling “blood”, and the ghost appears one last time in the last few frames while “u got a ghost in ur blood” flows one word at a time on the film. 

Was it funny? Yeah. Was it 116 frames? Yeah. Did the craft knife leave permanent scars? Hell yeah. I never want to pick up a craft knife again. 

The last bit was kind of rushed, but it’s not a big problem. It still looked cool as hell, and you could tell it apart from the other scratch films super easily. 

[smodur-archive]

My foot is itchy so I’m going to assume that means it got its shit together and started healing.