Threhan Haven

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Is this collab too random or do I like it? Hmm, I dunno. I don't currently have any Shadow figures. I've also felt less compelled to get Sonic figures (outside of hallmark ornaments) ever since I got the First 4 Figures checkpoint statue. Before that I got the Tomy Sonic figure with the extra face and hand parts on the Green Hill base. Between that and the statue, I thought that Classic Sonic merch couldn't get any better and stopped looking for new stuff, though occasionally I stumble across something. Knuckles as Superman looks a little silly to me, but maybe that's my Batman bias showing.

Kind of related photo from 2023. This shelf hasn't changed much since then except I added the Sonic spin attack tree ornament and a Lego yellow Yoshi. The shelf looks kind of grimy, but that's exposed compressed wood. Shout out to childhood furniture.

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Sometimes I forget I animated on this short film. Not a ton of scenes but I was an inbetweener on this project. I recently noticed it's listed on imdb so I may as well put it on my resume. Something came up where I saw the opportunity to do keys on another short related to this creator. I've been working for the other guy and I think I might have been grinding to wrap up that last project at the time the opportunity came up. Animators weren't given a set amount time to do the test. Because of that I felt a lack of urgency and didn't even start because I thought I wouldn't finish in time anyway. Of course now I'm regretting it, knowing the amount of time I would've had for the test which was definitely enough. I suck at multi-tasking. I remember getting some serious burnout when I worked at Copernicus and had 3 projects overlap. I dunno if multi-tasking is something I can get better at or if it is what it is. I'm still looking for more projects though, preferably something with more deadlines so I'm not waiting to get paid when everything's finished.

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When you apply to jobs thinking that 5 shows and 7 years is a good amount of professional experience. Then you stumble across some older animators' credits and see they have tons and tons of shows under their belt. Then you remember how years ago when you were starting out you met some talented older people who despite their experience were having trouble finding work. Then you think about how many other people might be struggling in this industry today who are probably applying for the same jobs as you but have decades of experience. Then those 5 shows and 7 years don't feel as good anymore.

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Oh, you poor 6,000+ people, getting your hopes up. This job posting, I cut some of it out, is deceitful. I say this as someone who fell for it months ago, except I don't remember the bold letters that say donating some time in the listing I responded to. I do remember seeing that in a later email though. That line is literal, he wants free labor. Honestly this new posting is almost too good to be true. He's hiring for everything now, doesn't matter how you animate, doesn't matter what you do, he just wants you to work unpaid. There's another active listing that states things like "volunteer" and "internship" so people actually know what they are applying to. For some reason this guy doesn't do that. Tsk tsk tsk. Shameful.

Unrelated sketch, I actually hope to finish this fan art, the full uncropped version that is.

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I have a love/hate, ok mostly hate, relationship with AI, but robots intrigue me (and sometimes weird me out). In the case of Emo and Aibi and this particular chatbot I find them kind of cute. I'm always fascinated by robots when I first see them and then I lose interest after I've seen all the features, but sometimes I circle back around to interest again. My sister has had a couple of Robosapiens and I wanna say a robot dog of some sort (Tekno?) back in the day. Personally I'm more of a doll/figure collector so I'm not in the market for electronic pets, but I still like to watch it. OK there's a part of me who wants to interact with one, to draw a little mouth on Pophie and coax it to be like a magical girl's pet thing. I guess I'm a hypocrite. I've watched a few videos of Pophie, it seems like a bunch of people got them free to test out. I'm a little annoyed by the chatbot's constant glazing. Isn't this how some people fall in love with chatbots, because of all the positive feedback? However I still think it looks and sounds adorable. That's how they get you. If the original Furby had been this thing instead I would have wanted one. I'm sure there's a server somewhere with these people's personal life details/conversations/locations on it. Well, not my problem.

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NOOOOOoooo, my beautiful prince! Gone! 😭 The hidden figure in this blind box series is my favorite by a mile. I was fangirling over the pictures. Once released he was selling for $45 on KikaGoods, only $5 more than the regular dolls and less than the $90 it costs on Aliexpress. Wow, what luck! I could just buy the secret for only a few dollars more? But I'd already bought a doll this month, and I'm trying not to throw money away on this kind of thing as much, so I said to myself if he is still available in May then it is meant to be. Also he wasn't marked "low stock" at the time while the regular dolls were and the special color vampire was out of stock, so I thought maybe other people weren't feelin' the secret like I was. Maybe they preferred the vampire. Well, I decided to browse KikaGoods again this month and he's gone, GONE I tell you! I've never hated myself so much for NOT buying something. Fate gave me an opportunity and I threw it away. I shed literal tears y'all. At the same time, I also hate that I'm so upset about it. I don't need another blind box bjd. THIS one though, I love a pretty boy with whitish hair and a white outfit, and a prince too? I was instantly sold but I was trying to be better with money. Who knows, maybe KikaGoods will get more in stock again by next month... Aargh, I should've just bought the dang thing!

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Imagine being hired by someone to do animation and then having to explain animation to the person who hired you. What is this planet I'm on? I knew this guy didn't know what frame by frame meant. And that one guy is back on Animated Jobs again trying to get people to animate for free. In THIS economy? C'mon.

I rediscovered Mighty and Knux base sketches I did for Chaotix harmony puppets I wanted to make and recently added Charmy and Espio. I don't think I've ever drawn Vector before, and if I did it wasn't accurate. I know he's gonna give me the most trouble. They don't have to do much though, mostly reacting. Knuckles gets all the action, and whoever it is that he kicks in the face. Assuming I even get to this animation, the idea for it is at least a year old, maybe I'll have it figured out by then. I've never played Chaotix. That's a shame.

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Following up on that last thing, the client wanting to switch over to frame by frame, well apparently frame by frame means like 6fps and also not always frame by frame. I know a squashed and stretched drawing and a motion tween when I see one. I ALMOST asked why require frame by frame when the examples I saw can be accomplished with puppets. (This was not 90s cartoon series level frame by frame, this was your baby cousin got their hands on an animation app frame by frame. I'm not trying to knock someone if they're just starting out, but it's insulting that this guy would ask me if I'm able to do this kind of thing after paying me and complimenting on what I already did for him, me showing him my past frame by frame examples, and having a resume with actual cartoon series experience wtf) But no, the bar is low, why should I question it? I should enjoy that fact that it'll be low effort and just take whatever income comes my way. Heck, I could still make puppets because if I'm going to do the entire animation in full color myself and he can't tell the difference anyway, who am I drawing whole frames for? I don't think this guy knows what frame by frame means. I think he just hired freelancers who happened to work that way.

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So now that the video's done the client asks do I know frame by frame animation because he's going to do everything frame by frame now... wtf. Frame by frame animation for a prospective Youtube children's learning channel has to be the dumbest thing I've heard in awhile. Why would you make things unnecessarily more complicated for all parties involved? There's one video already on the channel, it's painful to sit through, and it is not frame by frame by a mile. This is why I hate working with people who know nothing about animation, or files for that matter. Like I'm pretty sure this man doesn't know how a zip file works or how to sort uploads by date. I'm not sure if this man is all there, it's concerning how much he doesn't understand. The guy before that had an accent so heavy it was hard to decipher what he was saying. I also had to remind him to pay me. His stuff was more together, character turnarounds and such, though I had to make up my own incidentals. There was a storyboard but no animatic, and the idea was just to animate the scenes with some extra room on the ends and I guess the editor will figure it out when they get to that point. If you have the storyboard pictures already, why would you not time it out? You can at least paste those pictures into a video editing app. Again, why are people complicating things for everyone? My kingdom for a professional. I think I mentioned before about the guy who put up a job posting and wasted my time with small talk emails just to eventually ask if I could animate for free. Of course not, you clown! Where do these weirdos come from? I just want to work for someone who has their ish together. The racist neighborhood worm and spider bedroom broken fridge dead landlord situation I left is starting to look pretty good right now, but even places in Canada aren't hiring like they used to.

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So I was browsing Upwork and saw a job post that said they were a final year animation student looking for an experienced rigger to build characters for their student film. So you're being taught how to animate in Harmony but you're not being taught builds? How does that work? Or are you just not good enough at it and want to pay someone to do it for better? This is straight up cheating is it not? Wow.

I'm allowed to be ignorant about builds because I was never taught Harmony in school. I learned on the job. What's their excuse? I'm getting more efficient, but still don't know everything. I had to do a few for this freelance project I've been on and finished up yesterday and now I'm trying to get paid. It's 7.5 minutes long and took me the same amount of time to do as that last Sonic fan animation. The reuse goes hard, but still, it does prove that I procrastinate a lot less when money is involved.

Here's an unrelated unfinished doodle color test because otherwise this post is all text. Happy No Kings Day.

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I used to like long transformation sequences because they were eye candy, but this felt TOO long. I'm sure they cut it down in most cases, but I honestly started to zone out a little. I remember Megas XLR made a joke about long transformation sequences, and I think Power Rangers kind of did too. I'm just saying, a proper villain could murder quite a few people in the amount of time this took. I did actually finally start watching the original Precure last summer so I could see where it all began and then I forgot about it. Same thing happened with the Spanish dub of Saint Seiya. I was also watching Heaven's Official Blessing on Dailymotion and checked out of that too. I dunno, maybe my attention span is just fried. It wasn't great to being with.

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Lately I've been binging Ren and Stimpy episode recaps and random clips in between all the ICE raids footage, Epstein files news, and video essays on overconsumption. I don't remember this scene or episode at all, but I really like it. I enjoy seeing weird dark moments and characters in mental/emotional distress for some reason.

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I don't know how old this Urolift commercial is. I don't watch a lot of regular TV, practically given it up completely between 2017 and 2023 and now it's mostly background noise, but I looked up from my laptop and saw this pink creature on the far right. Does this not look like a modernized version of the Wooly What's-It? It's a couple of ears away from being the live action costumed version. I think whoever designed this thing had a Teddy Ruxpin as a child.

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Oh yeah, some Toon Boom Harmony posing footage and some Photoshop at the end. I figured I may as well try to milk two videos out of one project. I'm not sure if I want my next thing to be Mario Bros related or not. I'm getting some very specific mental imagery for it which is usually a good sign. Building Mario characters is likely to be a little more complicated than Sonic characters, but I should at least try. Building Sonic was kind of a pain, something about making builds breaks my brain, but I built both Tails and Knuckles off of the Sonic puppet which really sped up and simplified the process for me. So at least once I build a Luigi, it won't take much extra work to make that into a Mario, or vice versa.

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Have you ever seen something at first glance and thought wtf am I looking at? Then at second glance you think, actually I'm kind of into this. I guess it's because I like when people are themed to plants, animals, and objects. I also like that he has kind of a lumpy nose. I find it endearing, that it isn't so perfect which it makes him seem more human and individual than a bjd that has those more idealized features.

Those pant legs are icing on the cake. Who's got 600 bucks to spend on a doll though? "Not I," said the cat. I feel like I stay looking for jobs. I have to ask the guy on upwork to pay me what I'm owed instead of him just doing it when he's supposed to. I can't even get cashier jobs and I did that for at least 6 years in the past. The work I'm best at, they're all hiring from abroad from places like Spain and Ireland. The American job market is trash. I should have stayed working in Canada in a dead woman's basement with the racist neighbors and city rats. Where was I? Oh yeah. In these dark times looking at a candle man brings me joy. How sad. However my birthday is coming and my sister is taking me to the new Lego store this weekend so I'll have that to look forward to. Although, I feel like whenever she offers to take me to a mall that has a Lego store for my birthday it's because she wants to go and I'm just along for the ride, but whatever, a trip's a trip.

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Wow, I got it posted tonight. Good for me. Hope I caught any errors. There is nothing more mind numbing than thumbing through the frames and noticing a different glitch every time and having to fix and resave over and over. There is a level of error I'll allow because I'm not a build artist and there's still plenty I don't know how to do well or at all, like some of the connection points are a little rough but I don't know how to make them better. It'll be refreshing to work on something different now and hopefully it won't be another year before I start. I did have to stop crafting in order to work on animation so I guess I can't have 2 hobbies at once.

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Playin' in my face

How are you gonna post at a job board and not have a job to offer? You want people to work... for free? The site is called animated jobs. Jobs are things people get paid for. If you're looking for interns or can't pay people, you say up front. I'm so pissed at the audacity. 3 emails in and now you want to say this is volunteer work. I could scream. My first red flag should have been how the first 2 emails were small talk and not what they needed me to work on. What's even happening anymore? I hate the now times.