i, soshi, am very Normal about Things.

little ramblings about yummy things (mostly animations lol)

[squeakitties]

[inquisitorgrand]

[miata-detector]

idont think a miata on that rode but its too wuick an animation for me to be a whole hundred percenta confidenta

[sm64mario]

Did you know? In Super Mario 64, I'a in that game!

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*comes out of my awesome cave to say:*

hey if you like indie animation i think you should consider supporting "crocodile dance." it's an afrofuturist thriller film set in nigeria and it looks really cool :3

Crocodile Dance - An Africanfuturist Animated Film

An indie animated thriller where a musician reclaims her voice to face the Mami Wata, a monster goddess threatening her family.

*returns to my awesome cave*

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: "imagynasium: a journey through doors" (kami exp, 2024)

this is where people do imaginary pushups and imaginary situps

(the link!)

one last post before my ween week magic runs out and i send this thing back to the grave...at least until i use my december month magic to bring it back...or maybe my november month magic idk yet

anyways, i watched this a while back and i really liked its aesthetic. i love surreal retro-style stuff...this really gave me a lot of "point-and-click edutainment" kinda vibes so i thought this would appeal to a cool niche(?) group somewhere around here.

the characters are super charming too...apparently this is part of a larger kamiverse, and there's even a game in the making for this! that is really cool i think. it means there's more sab! i love sab!!

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: "mimt" (ted wiggin, 2024)

this is your brain on experimental tweening...

i talked about ted wiggin before but i wanted to give him a proper "stuff soshi thingy what" post so...here goes!

ted wiggin is an animator who makes his own softwares for animating and compositing his works—you can check out some of his stuff here! some of his more recent works use inbetweening software like lizard ladder, which gives his stuff a really unique aesthetic.

i know tweening gets a lot of flak for being too lazy (for lack of a better word) but using inbetweening this way is really cool, i think. it really fits with mimt's neon colors, and it makes it look pretty trippy too!

combined with all the visceral imagery, i think this short makes for a wonderfully surreal experience. this wouldn't look too out of place in a museum, methinks...

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: the three tomes (breanimator, 2025)

a treat for you, on this very ween day...

(the link!)

saw this pilot floating around tumblr so i gave it a watch and i really liked it! i've been doing quite a few animatics myself so it was interesting to see how more experienced animators go about it.

i will admit the story was a little hard to follow at first? but all in all i think it has a lot of potential! the main characters feel pretty dorky, but in an endearing kinda way, and i really like the whole aesthetic the pilot has with its character and background designs.

and the little bits of animation were really lovely! i really hope this takes off because i would love to see the animation fully fleshed out.

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: rec room (ziggy cashmere, 2025)

i rec-ommend this room! i give it a 5! out of 5

(playlist is here!)

love this goofy little series. i love moe's design, i love this type of quirky humor, and i love love love the cartoons!

i think the use of existing media adds such a playful charm to this show. like i actually thought the cartoon segments were just emulating old cartoons, but apparently they're actually real shows? the whole thing feels like an animated collage, and i love collages.

i think the original stuff holds up too! i love these little fellas' dynamics. it really feels like going to a close friend's house and hanging out in their basement. or their...um...rec room? point is, i love everyone here. you are amazing!

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: hungarian folks tales (dir. marcel jankovics and elek lisziák, 1988-1996)

if i had a nickel for every hungarian children's cartoon i talked about, i'd have two nickels. or the hungarian equivalent of nickels. whatever.

(there is a playlist here...)

this is a little cartoon created by the kecskemét animation film studio, which actually started as an offshoot of pannónia film studio if i understand correctly. if pannónia sounds familiar, that might be because they created the rabbit with checkered ears, which i wrote about a while back. funny how things come together!

anyways...i've only seen a few episodes of this but i really like this show's art style, especially the way the backgrounds are designed. "geometric storybook-type art styles" are kind of a niche interest of mine.

favorite episode so far is..."the fox princess." because shapeshifting genderfluid fox is such a diva <3

and i think it's really funny how every time there's a fox involved it just leads to the most unhinged shit

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: ""delta airline saftey video" (jordan michael blake, 2023)

delta airlines lovs you

do you like taco bell? do you like film festivals? this was made for something called the taco bell film festival (unaffiliated with any fast food restaurant chain).

this was made by jordan michael blake, who is an american filmmaker who does live-action stuff and also animated stuff too. he has an animated film, "paradise man (ii)," coming up for sundance, and it looks pretty cool!

back to delta airlines...oddly enough, this film does a good job at actually making you feel safe? or saft, i guess. the slow tts voices, the parts about love and fear...i guess also the way they comfort you when everyone dies. it's hypnotic in a way.

bonus points for using stock images! i love when people play with jpegs like dolls. or pngs i think. you know what i mean...

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stuff soshi thinks you should watch: "boogodobiegodongo" (peter millard, 2012)

she boogo on my dobie til i godongo

with the power of ween week magic, i have raised stuff soshi thinks you should watch from the dead! these ones are gonna be a lot more bite-sized but hopefully you still enjoy them.

i actually talked about peter millard before, but i want to talk about him again cuz i really like his stuff! there's something oddly soothing about watching his doodly little fellas wobble around.

millard is an english animator and he does a lot of really fun, abstract animations like these. i distinctly remember watching this in my animation class and someone said this looked like something that would be made by somebody who was, and i quote, "mentally unwell."

but i feel like there's a deeper meaning to all this? but this is also a guy who makes animations about stomping on fruit and touching eggs so i wouldn't know. that said, a lot of millard's stuff do have a sort of abstract story to them, and he draws a lot from his own experiences for his films. maybe there is a reason to flobadee into the void...

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got bored during storyboarding class

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took a brief respite from my little youtube boycott thing to watch the homestuck pilot and uhhh, here are my thoughts:

it was actually pretty good? like i think a lot of the elements were translated pretty well! my biggest issue was with the pacing.

like i get it's a pilot and all, but thinking back when i started reading homestuck, there was just this really pensive feeling i got from act 1. john playing the piano, going outside, stuff like that. john going outside was really poignant, but i feel like the pilot kinda just played it for comedy? or like i guess cinematic drama...thing...look i don't know the word for it but anyways—

that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you're really going to try and capture the spirit of homestuck, i feel like you need to have those slower moments. like as absurd as homestuck can get, it's also a very contemplative work (at least as far as i've read), and you wouldn't be doing it justice by leaving those moments out.

and on top of that, i feel like the pacing reveals too much at once? like the trolls for instance. i love how your first impression is that they're simply internet trolls, but as you read further you begin to realize that they're actual, literal trolls.

there's something i find really clever about that, but with the pilot, you already know that from the start. and like...idk. there's just something about that that doesn't really strike the same chords with me.

regardless, i still think it's worth a watch, and i'd be down to watch more if it ever becomes a full series!

mostly because i n33d more nepeta...im almost done with a5a2 and im sad about nepeta :((

[kittensnax]

Keep making myself like choke laughing because I keep imagining a Netflix documentary following Augustus Gloop 20 years after the chocolate factory incident, heavily advertised across the platform and titled "Augustus: After the Gloop" like with his face in shadow or something

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apparently nintendo is making these "my mario" things for little kids and i can't get over the way they look

[suppermariobroth]

Officially licensed 2025 Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong headband available at the Donkey Kong Country area of Super Nintendo World in Japan.

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