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Did you know there is a sentence in the german translation of good omens where Crowley thinks of spanish girls. I tried finding it in the original but I couldnt and thats how I foudn out translators can just add stuff
I didn't know that. O god.
@dduane @petermorwood What was that company that blatantly inserted soup ads in its Discworld translations?
Peak character design is a dark gradient on the limbs or fingers
I think I’ve already reblogged this but too bad
The warmest parts of the kitty are light and the coolest parts are dark (that’s how this kind of colouration works) so I think colour gradients on fantasy characters should follow the same principle.
Attilio Codognato. The most famous and demanded Vanitas ring from the
Codognato Atelier, in gold, enamel and rock crystal, 1980s.
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This is a useful visual explanation of how 3D CGI fails to capture the look, feel and appeal of traditional animation.
(from Rescue Rangers 2022) In animation you create key poses which are then inbetweened. As in this example by Preston Blair, the key poses are supposed to be very clear with strong silhouettes and staging, which may be cheated a little (or a lot) to look good from a single camera angle.
CGI animation often lacks that clarity of staging, because these are 3D characters constructed to make sense from any angle. They are, by design, a compromise between how the character would be drawn differently from different angles. It’s possible to warp and cheat them to move in a more stylized way, but this takes a lot of effort and is unintuitive, rather than being built into the process as in a drawing on paper.
An animator wouldn’t purposely draw something like this. The characters look very solid, like toys. In 2D you’d call it lifeless. An artist would push this to give a sense of stretching and movement, to show the characters at the angles where they look best. This staging is unclear.
In the 2010 My Little Pony TV series, characters were rigged to appear certain ways at certain angles, to allow for more limited TV animation. These models look like those from the Gameloft mobile video game, which can’t use any of those cheats, and compromises between those views. It looks like a compromise, because it is. So it only looks vaguely like the characters, because they’re stylized to be seen from specific angles.
(Also note that there seem to be two of the orange character “Applejack,” with Dale riding a strangely-recolored version with untextured hair. This suggests an unfamiliarity with the franchise being cameoed here.)
The ironic thing is that some of the world’s top traditional animators did work on this film, but not on the CGI main characters.
They worked on the very short cameos by 2D-animated background characters like Roger Rabbit, MC Skat Kat, and the Three Little Pigs. The animators doing the 2D background characters here have worked on animated films of incredible beauty, like Klaus, The Thief and the Cobbler, Fantasia 2000, and other films from Disney, Warner Bros and Don Bluth. They should be animating the leads, not doing background cameos.
(If you haven’t seen it, Klaus is a masterpiece, both of 2D animation, and of using CGI tricks to make 2D animation look more like 3D animation. It was directed by traditional animator Sergio Pablos, who wanted to give it a feeling of the best of both worlds. It was a Christmas film for Netflix.)
An example where this problem was avoided is the Hotel Transylvania series. Genndy Tartakovsky’s work is very stylized, designed to be very flat and seen from very specific angles. It’s also very cartoony, and he found that the CGI animators weren’t getting that across at first. They weren’t stretching and squashing the characters at all, because they thought it had to be realistic in a real world way. He kept pushing them to do more extreme posing and really stretch the characters to match a hand-drawn aesthetic. This wasn’t at all obvious to a CGI animation team, whereas a hand-drawn artist would immediately come up with clear, exaggerated poses. Henry Gilbert said on Twitter: “I’m interested (in Rescue Rangers 2022) cuz I like all the creatives involved, though it does feel like this is a thing Disney would never allow “animation people” to do while they instantly ok it when “celebrities” pitch the same idea to them. There’s a bit of outsiders mocking cartoon production vibe. TBH I do feel bad for the many animation professionals who worked for 20 years in the industry yet don’t get to direct features because the execs constantly give those opportunities to celebs. Turns out they should’ve tried to work on SNL instead to get a Disney directing gig.” I’ve had comments saying that cel shading has been done well enough in fighting video games. But this shouldn’t look like a fighting video game. Those are based in restrained, realistic human anatomy, which is pretty natural in CGI. They don’t need the exaggerated cartooning skills of a traditional animator like this does. Those are human superhero characters who don’t need the same level of flexibility as a classic Disney or Looney Tunes or MGM character.
Also I promise you that every good example you have of CGI having some of the feel of 2D animation is because they did 2D animation paintovers and redraws and previs and then matched that.
If they wanted this to look like Rescue Rangers, they should have done 2D animation for everything rather than cel shading. Traditional animation and CGI are both very expensive, difficult, and work-intensive, if they’re being done with any quality at all. But 2D animation is not “more expensive.” Animated films have generally been made at the typical budget for a Hollywood feature of that year. This suggests that studios pay for an animated film what they’re willing to pay, and the artists work on that basis. The listed budget for Disney’s 2D-animated The Aristocats is 4 million in 1970. (1.2 million for The Rescuers.) Pixar’s Up, from 2009, is listed at 175 million. We don’t usually see cel-shaded CGI animation in features, because it flattens out the hallmarks of CGI animation - the depth and realism - and brings the fact that it’s not hand-drawn animation into stark relief. It’s pretending, unconvincingly, to be what it should actually be. And I bet a lot of effort was put into that. My actual point with this is that studios should also be making feature-length traditionally animated films for theaters, and they’re just not. They’ll go to any length to do it with CGI even when that makes no sense for this story, and when the results don’t look quite right. CGI-animated films these days are stylish and can look and feel like just about anything… but they’re not the same as actually drawing a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Or a Chip & Dale cartoon. Or a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Or a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Sometimes you need to draw the chipmunk.
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Day 6 of Funguary, the Candlesnuff fungus!
A deer~~~ I think he looks nice ^^
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"I hate to tell them they already didn’t have a chance of me anyway," Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, joked...
I hate to tell them they already didn’t have a chance of me anyway," Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, joked.
I know I’ve already reblogged this but I thought it was worth mentioning that medicine covering for racial violence is nothing new
Let’s not forget how black people who pursued civil rights were diagnosed as schizophrenic
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Hmm I wonder why someone who has just been electrocuted and is being forcibly restrained would enter into a panic and frantically resist? Surely nothing about this situation would register to the brain as a serious danger to one’s safety and naturally trigger one’s instinctual fight or flight response? No it must be the fault of an obscure mental illness I’ve just invented.
If fighting back after being tasered is the result of a mental illness, can you claim insanity to avoid charges of assaulting a police officer?
Your mistake is assuming that the American legal system has coherent logic and applies its rules consistently
Livia Marin, Chilean born artist imagines a whole new world for cups and teapots in her series of ceramic Nomad Patterns. The artist deflected by making ceramic bathing, a very surreal way, in flasks covered and sagging patterns. A fabulous clash between tradition and modernity.
Livia Marin has reshaped service porcelain teapots and cups by giving them a molten appearance … all without damaging or changing the patterns inscribed on objects!
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Also people act like autistic people would have been, like, left in the woods to die or something as kids for most of history, but as i said i'm researching islamic saints and in both islam and christianity there's an awful lot of just, like, "Yeah that guy decided to go live in a cave by himself and wore one (1) article of clothing and sometimes he would walk around and scream randomly, it meant he was closer to god than everybody else"
I'd have to research this, but I kinda feel that, what with how much the eugenics movement pervaded everything for a huge chunk of recent history, our narrative of how disability was for much of history has gotten a little warped.
I feel like I always heard "yeah they assumed people were possessed by demons Back Then" but actually researching religious history? I've found a lot more of people seeing a person showing signs of (what we would call) neurodivergence or mental illness and being like "hm. yea that's god."
It's also definitely like...in the US anyway fundamentalism has absolutely decimated a lot of AWARENESS of what Christianity specifically can look like.
american evangelicalism is based a lot on Belief in your religion as axiomatic Fact and at the same time a very buddy-buddy view of god where Jesus is like, your cool dad. Both of which are not very good for allowing the numinous and divine "mystery" to exist
So I think we assume people throughout history would default to "things I don't understand are of the devil." when very often they would instead be "things I don't understand are of God."
and they would see someone speak in strange sounds or move his body strangely or respond differently to the world and see something divine in it, and there are instances of this across many religions
@invisibleoctopus There's this fascinating book about the cultural aspects of how mental illness presents called Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters that is not without its flaws, but that (among other things) discusses how schizophrenic people do significantly better in cultures where there's a precedent/religious or spiritual explanation for people 'hearing voices' and such, because for one thing, they're not treated as social outcasts for it. Those environments are better equipped to help and accommodate those people on the basis of being able to keep them integrated into a community. At least according to the Ethan Watters guy.
The thing about imagining that autistic children would have been left to die for most of history is just... it's so lazy. And it betrays a huge failure to understand what autism looks like for autistic people and what daily life looked like in history at the same time. It's very frustrating.
There's this weird idea that autistics only develop special interests in this very narrow stereotypical STEM-field domain of life, also, which is total nonsense. Of course religion autistics are a thing. Judaism, too, has a lot of room for autistics: you develop very deep spheres of knowledge, about which you argue constantly, and prayer is sung and you get to move back and forth during it rhythmically.
The other thing that gets me is that it's not just that there's historical room to interpret weird behavior as Godly, it's that autistic people are relatively likely to come up with unusual ideas about people and how people do and should work. If you're talking about any theological tradition that involves contextual study and argument, you often find a very autistic sort of perspective writing the theology.
Also, just as a general data point: my stepdad, who is in his mid-70s, grew up in a rural farming community, and was never diagnosed with anything, is Obviously Autistic to anyone who knows what autism is.
He can only tolerate about 2 different fabrics against his skin.
And can only eat about 5 foods for obvious food texture reasons.
He hums softly and continually.
He never looks at people.
He has a bunch of other people-related sensitivities, like the inability to tolerate a lot of sounds and nearly all perfume smells.
He has about 3 topics of conversation, which are a) tractors, b) agriculture, and c) Rottweilers.
And you know what? He has had a nice long life of being a Rural Farmer and gets along great with other old farmer dudes who want to talk dogs-tractors-farming with him.Â
I mean, it’s generally understood that he is Weird, but also that he knows Really A Fucking Lot About Tractors. Which counts for everything in a rural farming community.
It goes beyond lazy into a type of downright cruelty.  No matter how autistic people did or did not fit into their communities in the past, chances are someone loved them. When they were little, someone found the clothes they could tolerate and food they would eat and something they could do that matched their interests and abilities.  And people married some of them and had children with them.  Maybe not all of them, but some of them at least were loved. Â
We know this because archeology shows over and over again a great level of care and because these traits are still present - they had to get passed on somehow. And we know it because we too feel love for others, despite them constantly failing to live up to any ideal whatsoever.
Anyone who approaches other people with this attitude is only seeking to perpetuate an excuse to be cruel to them. It has nothing to do with what happened in the past and everything to do with what they hope they can get away with in the future. They discount the love that must have existed because it can’t be used against us.
OP how does it feel to be completely right? Have a flower 🌹 as a reward.
Peng Chang in 'Heat Wave' by Zhong Lin for Vogue Taiwan January 2022
“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).
“Okay but why is it always so chemically roundabout and unnecessarily complicated” well buddy, that’s because your blood is imitation seawater. See? It’s very simple.
Blood is what now?
It’s imitation seawater what part is confusing
#are you telling me#humans are just sentient aquariums?Â
Buddy if anything is living in your blood (except for more parts of you) in detectable amounts then you have a serious microbial infection and need to go to the hospital.
Humans are seawater wastelands kept sterile of all but human cells, with microbial mats coating their surfaces.
Thank you that’s…very disturbing
It’s not my fault you’re human.
Ok but “It’s not my fault you’re human.” Is the best comeback ever.
You can use it against anyone except children that you biologically helped to create.
#/blood is imitation seawater/ is the part that’s confusingÂ
Picture this: you are a Thing That Lives In The Ocean. Some kind of small multicellular animal a long time ago, before proper circulatory systems existed. “Wow,” you think, metaphorically, “it sure is difficult to diffuse chemicals across my whole body. Kinda puts a hard limit on the size and distance of what specialised organs I can have. Good thing I have all this water around me that’s the same salinity as my cells (they have to be that way so I don’t explode or shrivel up) so I can diffuse and filter chemicals with that.”
“Wait a minute,” you say a couple of generations later, because you’re not actually a small animal but an evolutionary process personified and simplified to the point of dangerous inaccuracy for the purposes of a Tumblr post, “instead of losing all these important chemicals to the water around me, how about I put it in tubes? I can keep MY water separate from the rest of the world’s water! Anything I want to keep goes in my water! Anything I don’t, I dump back into the outside water! I’m a genius! An unthinking natural trial-and-error process that’s a GENIUS!”
“Wow,” you think a great many generations later, “being able to have such control over such high concentrations of important chemicals is so great. Look how big I’m getting. I even have a special pump to move my seawater around, and these cool filter systems to keep the chemicals in it right, and that control and chemical concentration has let me grow so many energy-intensive, highly specialised organs! Being big is so hard. I need special cells just to carry my oxygen around now, to make sure my enormous, constantly-operating body has enough of it.”
At this point you are embodying a fish, and eventually, fish start straying into water with different pressures and salinity levels. (I mean, they do that since befor ehty’er fish, but… look, I’m trying to keep things simple here.) “What the FUCK,” you think. “My inside water is at a different salinity and pressure to the outside water?? How am I supposed to deal with that? I can’t have freshwater inside my seawater tubes! My cells have a set salinity and they would explode! I need to start beefing up my regulatory and filter systems so that my inside seawater STAYS SEAWATER OF THE CORRECT SALINITY even if the outside water is different! Fortunately, adding salt to my seawater is a lot easier than removing it, and I want to be saltier than this weird outside water.” At this point you beef up your liver and urinary systems to compensate for different salinities. (Note: the majority of fish, freshwater and saltwater, have a fairly narrow band of salinities they can live in. Every fish doesn’t get to deal with every level of salinity; they are evolved to regulate within specific bands.)
You also, at some point, go out on land. This is new and weird because you have to carry all of your water inside. “It’s a good thing I turned myself into a giant bag of seawater,” you think. “If I wasn’t carrying my seawater inside, how would I transport all these important chemicals between my organs and the environment?” As you specialise to live entirely outside of the water, you realise (once again) that it’s a lot easier to add salt to water than to remove it in great quantities. Drinking seawater in large amounts becomes toxic; your body isn’t specialised for removing that amount of salt. Instead, you drink freshwater, and add salts to that. The majority of your organs are, at this point, specialised for moving your seawater around, protecting it, adding stuff to it, or taking stuff out. You have turned yourself into an intelligent bag for carrying and regulating a small amount of imitation seawater, and its salinity (and your commitment to maintaining that salinity) is based entirely on the seawater that some early animals started to build tubes around a long time ago.
And that’s what a human is!
My only quibble with this is about “any nonhuman cells are signs of a serious microbial infection” a few reblogs down. There’s lots of nonhuman bacteria that just live in and on the human body without causing issues. I don’t have a citation on hand because I’m an RPG blogger not a medical professional, but I once heard that humans are about 20% nonhuman bacteria by weight.
They absolutely don’t live inside the body, which is what the reblog you’re talking about is specifically talking about.
There’s lots of nonhuman bacteria (and animals, and protozoa) that live ON the human body. On the skin, on the intestinal walls, on mucus membranes in the nose and ears and mouth and vagina, on surfaces in the lungs. If you have significant, noticeable populations INSIDE the human body (meaning any spot where they’d need to cross a semi-permeable membrane to get there in an uninjured human), you have an infection. That’s the point of the reblog you’re referring to – they’re not inside the body, they’re on the surfaces.The body has pockets that we colloquially refer to as “in” the body (such as the contents of the stomach) but these things are NOT inside the body, they are outside – as the part you’re talking about points out, these are not microbes living in the aquarium; they are living on the surface.
There comes a point in every person’s life when you realise that a human being is just a sapient tube.
The outside of the tube is what we usually consider the outside of our bodies (what you see in the mirror if you take your clothes off) and the inside of the tube is the pathway from your mouth to your anus.
Food and bacteria can pass through the middle of the tube without ever being inside the walls of the tube - which is where all of our guts and stuff are.
Basically this is you.
If the bacteria are in the part in the middle where you can stick your fingers, that’s A-OK.
If they get into your green water and dinosaurs, that’s an infection.
