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Hi welcome to my animation focused blog with sides of writing and character design stuff. I'm an adult, I do writing, drawing, and singing. Feel free to look at the things I reblog and I heavily suggest you check out the creators of them! You never know who could be out there making the very stuff you want to see!

[milfyspamton]

anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember

[milfyspamton]

im not fucking crazy.

[milfyspamton]

if i have one more person say sparkles on this post im gonna blow i swear to god

[evengirlierballs]

They're squeans I'm pretty sure! If they pop like that anyway. But the term for this kind of "symbol to refer to the general vibe of something in art" is called "Emanata" because it emanates from a person or object.

[creepymutelilbugger]

what the fuck. comics are magic

[charlesoberonn]

somebody put a quimpsy spurl on my blorbo

[eirapparent]

she quimps on my jarns til I nittles

[capsyst]

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

[tainaronian]

this is how it feels to be a character designer who cares about character traits and applicable fashion and period clothing instead of making advertisable anime girl adopts

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[vforvalensa]

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[critical-bug]

[mauesartetc]

Hey, folks! Those of you who follow me for animation stuff may find this interesting:

Planet Jane | A 2D Animated Psychological Thriller

A washed-up photographer, sugary snacks, and a wild animal. What could possibly go wrong?

It's an indie film spearheaded by a former Pixar story artist and it only has a few days left to meet its funding goal. (If you're looking to build a career in animation or you're simply intrigued by the process that goes into every film, Meridian's Youtube channel has a ton of hidden gems.)

[lesbianmarrow]

ive been very critical of peter david’s work, because it deserves to be criticized, but the fact that in the last years of his life he had to raise money thru gofundme for his health treatments while across the spiderverse was as financially successful as it was in part due to its featuring of miguel o’hara, a character peter david created, is absolutely shameful and disgraceful. i don’t know if he got any money at all from that movie, but even if they did pay him some small sum, it certainly was not what would have been a fair amount

[lesbianmarrow]

and like of course i believe everyone should have access to the medical care they need regardless of whatever employment they may or may not have. anything else is inhumane. but like, this man made huge corporations sooooo much money. but because he worked under work-for-hire contracts, he didn't get a fair cut of those profits, and so he died in medical debt. isn't that insane? he worked hard, his work shaped huge cultural franchises, and that wasn't enough to insulate him from falling into debt for his healthcare. he had to crowdfund his healthcare and he died in medical debt. marvel execs should feel ashamed. dc and star trek execs too, but especially marvel

[lesbianmarrow]

if you want to donate to his family to help them pay off their medical debt, you can do so here

[sabertoothwalrus]

when you go to school for animation you will find that every third person in your classes will say “I want to be a character designer/storyboard artist!” and there’s no problem with that! except that the vast majority of these people don’t realize they don’t actually want to be character designers or storyboard artists. What they WANT to do is draw pretty ocs and dnd characters over and over and not do anything like draw backgrounds or tell stories or make animate-able designs to meet the needs of the production they’re on. And this is fine too! I’m not even saying this to be shady. I’m saying this because so many people don’t even realize how many jobs there are out there that are adjacent to the animation/illustration industries that would be way more fulfilling for people that just want to draw pretty ocs over and over than character design/storyboarding. Sometimes the answer is being involved in a non-art animation role (like production management) and then drawing your friends’ dnd characters on the weekends.

Frankly, my recommendation is just to make short films, and if if’s too overwhelming or you can’t even get enjoyment out of doing character design/storyboarding (or whatever part of the pipeline you’re interested in) on a personal project like that, then you were probably never going to be fulfilled doing it as a job

[vazelbeak]

God hearing Leviathan's circus thing might be freakshow and i am hoping so bad its not true how do you begin to explain the complexity of freakshows inwhich they were yes a means of independence for the disabled as a place to gain their own money and such as they couldn't get jobs else where (look up the "ugly laws") but also exploitation and ridicule as their money was made off of being feared to the extent it was specifically the push for the rights of disabled people and the determining the origins of their disabilities that took them down? and my fear most of all is that she may have gotten the idea from the greatest showman

[ankle-beez]

i know i said i wasn't gonna talk about live action remakes anymore on this blog because they're not worth it and i'd rather talk about stuff that i actually enjoy but oh my god i saw something from live action how to train your dragon that made me so mad i am going to break this rule

[ankle-beez]

this is making me go insane. i love how there's visual clarity and purpose in the animated movie but then the live action one doesn't have a good focal point so you don't know where the fuck you're supposed to be looking. literally, in the animated movie, in this specific shot, everything is in the center, where you're supposed to look in a speedy shot like this.

This is BASIC FILMMAKING

did nobody look at this and was like "hey maybe we should try again. maybe we should do this shot again and make it visually coherent." i cannot stress this enough, this is why you PLAN A SHOT

BEFORE YOU DO IT

you can't just take the shot from the cartoon and plaster it in live action with no second thought on how it's gonna look in a different medium!

[vazelbeak]

Getting the feeling the stolaskys guy is a troll even if i only see their blog second hand because curiously it appears I have them blocked or vice versa and i havent been as active here to really get blocked if they're new but also I used to go on frequent mass blocking sprees of hazbin and helluva tags which is inch resting

[cath-lic]

like theology? like animation? i do, and i am currently LOSING MY MIND over the judas iscariot film on kickstarter!!

Judas Iscariot is an animated retelling of The New Testament of the Holy Bible, featuring details from the Apocrypha (The "Unofficial" Gospels) with a fresh stylized reinterpretation of the story's core figures. The goal of this project is to illuminate this text for both a religious and non-religious audience, placing it back into the historical context of Jesus’s role as a political figure during the Roman occupation of Judea.

the film is over 50% funded, with a month left on kickstarter! i just donated $10 myself, and am looking to spread the word--because seriously, look, this is incredible!!

JUDAS ISCARIOT

An animated short film about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, from the perspective of the man who betrayed him

[tahioxaaa-deactivated20250528]

🐝

[doodler16]

User and anons’ opinions of Vivziepop’s being on the asexual spectrum. And of course, there is a hot take sprinkled in.

Context regarding Vivziepop’s sexuality:

Context regarding the Kendraw’s situation:

In 2020, Vivziepop was not only warning a redacted user about Kendraws but venting and ranting about them. She would say many serious allegations towards them and call Kendraws a “monster” and many other things.

In the dms, Vivziepop would accuse Kendraws of posing as asexual. She would mention a specific character, Kendraws was drawing. Recently this year, Kendraws would reveal in tags the character (named Xavier) Vivziepop was referring too.

Alastor’s asexuality in Vivziepop’s words (Hunicast, 2019):

As you can see, Vivziepop has said a lot of ignorant and ace phobic things regarding asexuality in the past and it has gotten worse in Helluva Boss specifically with Mammon. As an Anon mentioned up above, I too hope Vivziepop realizes her mistake and acknowledges it.

Even if she doesn’t publicly acknowledges and apologizes for her mistakes and past views of asexuality, I do hope she uses this opportunity to improve on writing regarding asexuality in future seasons of Helluva Boss and by extension Hazbin Hotel.

People on the asexual spectrum have every right to criticize Vivziepop on her asexuality representation. Her being on asexual spectrum doesn’t automatically mean she is in the clear.

[vazelbeak]

I want to say as someone who's also ace in cannot say I entirely blame people who don't believe Viv when she discovers herself to be asexual. On multiple levels. I remember around the late 2010s when people decided asexuals were the new punching bag. It's very irritating and hard to trust someone whos actively expressed not only a lack of but a significantly lesser view of asexuals. It's hard to trust them especially because the worry is hearing them use it as a reason to dismiss things like not being sex positive under the guise of being ace because they know so little they just assume that should it explain it all away when being ace does not make you inherently sex negative. (I have seen people use it to excuse that kind of behavior)

But as had been already said, people with internalized bigoted views of groups they themselves are part of is real. I hope this perhaps means Viv will self reflect on what asexuality means and can look like, I don't need proof to believe her but I also know her being doubted isn't without reason either. It's incredibly disappointing behavior to see her be asexual and yet express such a low view of ace people.

[bitchin-tubs]

I actually have to submit multiple assignments tomorrow but unfortunately I heard Vassago is supposed to be pirate inspired so I just HAD to procrastinate. Anyways enjoy ˆ_ˆ

[vazelbeak]

hes supposed to be WHAT

[targetedknowledge]