Berserker does the thing

The doodlies.

[dihydrogenmonoxideawareness]

Why would anyone want to consume it!?

[etherealastraea]

I teach my 7th graders about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.

I bring in a graduated cylinder of it and we talk about how it’s used in nuclear power plants and gmo crops. How inhaling even the small amount I’m holding can lead to suffocation or even death. It’s found in vaccines and cancer cells, but also in infant formula and pet food. It is a huge component of acid rain, can cause severe burns, and has been found in places that were thought to be the most pristine and unpolluted locations on earth.

We talk about how there are little to no regulations on this chemical. No bans, no warning labels, and most manufacturers don’t even have to disclose their use of it in their products.

My students are outraged. We talk about what we can do. Create posters and flyers to spread awareness. Contact our senators with petitions to ban DHMO. Spread this information all over social media.

Then I explain that the real problem with dihydrogen monoxide is that….when I am thirsty…there is just nothing else as refreshing, and then I watch their looks of absolute shock and horror as I drink the entire vial down.

[bluegone]

I. Fucking. Love. This.

This is how misinformation works. How propaganda works. How manipulation works.

[nerdy-pharmacy-daydreams-deacti]

may our education be stronger than fake news

[darthlenaplant]

Amen.

[chubby-aphrodite]

To those who don’t get it:

“Dihydrogen monoxide” is the chemical name for water, AKA H2O.

[mod2amaryllis]

another important element of understanding the joke is understanding how pH levels work

yup.  that’s a higher number alright.

[s0ffia]

websites:

Animation World Network

Animation Backgrounds

Animation Magazine

Animation & CGI

Animator Island

Anime News Network

Cartoon Brew

Character Design References

On Animation

Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)

11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

animationart

animationforce

animationtidbits

aspiretoanimate

calartscharacteranimation

disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)

drawingforsuckas

fuckyeahconceptart

storyboardresources

theanimationarchive

theartofanimation

wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)

Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)

Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.

Animation Mentor: The online animation school

Art school exercises!!

51 Great Animation exercises

20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you

A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio

Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston

Animated chart of the basic principles of animation

10 Second tip: Always Anticipate

book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair

book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane

book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas

book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield

Basic 3D Animation Terminology

Digital pencil test!!

Keys to Emotion in Animation

Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia

Model Sheets central

The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos

Printable exposure/dope sheet

Phoneme Chart

Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts

The 5 Types of Animation

The Know-How of Cartooning 

The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry

Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Walk/Run Cycles reference

What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)

Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship

What is Rigging?

3D Rigging Terminology

3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

Animation for Beginners: Where do I start

Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)

Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”

Appealing Poses in Animation

Background & Movement in TV

Blinking tips

Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)

Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling

Drawing for Animation

Drawing a Likeness

Animation fundamentals + tutorials

Filmmaking: Composition and Framing

Getting Shape Change

How to animate using photoshop

How to animate Characters in Perspective

How to Animate Head Turns

How to Draw Gesture

OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost

Overlapping Action and Drag

Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio

Lyp Sync tutorial

Line of action

Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen

Squash & Stretch tutorial

Squash and Stretch 2

Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen

The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation

Tilt, Flow & Rhythm

Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions

TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation

supplies (traditional animation):

10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator

How to Use a Light Table for Animation

Making a Simple Animation Lightbox

Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)

Emofuri (animate using .psd files)

Google Sketchup (

Live2D ( animation/drawing software

OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)

Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)

Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)

Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush

SculptGL (Online modelling program)

Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)

Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)

Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)

TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

Aardman (Bristol, UK)

Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)

Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)

Fox Animation (USA)

Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)

Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)

Laika (Hillsboro, USA)

Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)

Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)

Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)

Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)

Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)

Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)

Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)

Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

Coda by and maps and plans

Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team

Duet by Glen Keane

DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh

Fallin Floyd by  il Luster

French Roast

Gravity by Ailin Liu

In Between by Gobelins

Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

My Big Brother by Jason Rayner

Night Light by Qing Han

Nephtali by Glen Keane

Nocturne by Kari Casady

Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film

One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin

Stickboy by Giant Ant

SOAR by Alyce Tzue

Tsunami by The Animation Workshop

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward

Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop

5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers

[whysosirris]

[pixel-butts]

Kobolds: A game about mining and shineies

KOBOLDS IS NOW FOR SALE!

I am proud to announce that we are ready for physical sales of Kobolds! If you like board games and cute things, then consider picking up a copy of Kobolds! ITS FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! 

I wanted to thank all you guys for all your feed back and suggestions! It has been extremely helpful, and we shouldn’t have done this without all your help!

[pixel-butts]

Gonna reblog this again just because c:

[jayrockin]

I’ve spent the past few months attempting to figure out a framework for Ghost Physics in the Danny Phantom universe? Enjoy my crazed scribblings.

Cliff notes version: The Ghost Zone is our dimension’s 4D “atmosphere,” absorbing harmful trans-dimensional radiation. Ghosts are made of the Ghost Zone’s version of matter, called ectoplasm, a substance capable of 4D motion (video explanation of that), “toggling” how physical forces (esp. electromagnetism and gravity) interact with it, and storing huge amounts of energy. A ghost’s unique nervous system and encoded body plan (the ecto-signature) remains in the upper energy levels of the Ghost Zone at all times, remotely controlling their body. Danny can chemically change his body between ectoplasm and regular matter, and has both a normal physical brain and an ecto-signature.

A Literal Essay:

Keep reading

[jayrockin]

Hey remember when I wrote and illustrated an essay about the possible physics of a Butch Hartman cartoon

[vandermation]

This is a line of dialogue I animated for Monkey during the early production of ‘Kubo’. Charlize Theron had not yet agreed to do the film but I think they might have shown this to help convince her to sign on. Audio is from the movie ‘Hancock’. We chose a line with an extreme level of anger that would fit her character. I think this test scared some people, I was drawing from a deep well…

[puniper]

time to bring back the best video

[scoutology]

it’s that time of year again

[marauders4evr]

Friendly reminder that Vincent van Gogh willingly checked himself into an asylum so that he could get better, resulting in him creating some of the most iconic paintings of his entire career, done in the asylum, when he was being treated 24/7, because he finally didn’t have to struggle with his demons and could instead focus on his muse, WHICH WERE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Remember this little insignificant painting?

How about this one?

Check this one out:

All of these and more were painted in the asylum when he was receiving treatment for his mental illnesses and I know I just said that but I said it again and I’m saying it a third time until you dramatic abled assholes understand!

VINCENT VAN GOGH

- KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY ILL

- WANTED TO CHANGE THAT

- WENT TO AN ASYLUM

- GOT THE HELP HE NEEDED

- PAINTED SOME ICONIC MASTERPIECES AS A RESULT!

SO DON’T YOU DARE COME OUT HERE WITH THIS, “I WISH I WAS DEPRESSED SO I COULD BE AS CREATIVE AS VAN GOGH” BULLSHIT BECAUSE EVEN HE KNEW THAT HIS DEMONS WERE HARMING HIS WORK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS HEALTH, AND HE DID EVERYTHING WITHIN HIS POWER TO FIGHT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL THEY ENDED UP WINNING! 

[spritzeal]

flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me

like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry” 

i thought you could combine flowers

like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and  a large tomato”

[thursdayplaid]

I really hope no one’s answered this for you yet, I saw this and got so excited that my obscure knowledge base might come into use.  I had to stretch a few flowers so to speak but Victorian flower language allows for alteration in meaning depending on colour, fruit, flower, bud, steam, leaves and thorns, so I didn’t feel I was too far out of line.  This message would work best as two bouquets bound together.  First red Nasturtium with no leaves (red denotes a leader, the nasturtium a patriot) mixed with white or red Mask Flowers (rebellion, red if you want to emphasize fighting, white martyrdom) around Cypress (death).  Then Chick weed (rendezvous) and Blue Convolvulus (night) surrounded by eight White Popular Leaves (symbolises the time: eight), Yellow Iris (flame, and a flower that grows by rivers) and Yellow Prarie Dock Flowers (this was closest I could find to docks)and one large Tomato Leaf, all bound in Dogwood Bark.  Dogwood represents deceit, but as far as I could find the bark wasn’t used symbolically, and as you referred to the dog instead of a dog, I thought it was likely the pun should be a dead giveaway.  

So there’s your rebel message!

[sanshofox]

finished the sketch animation part. added a rough background plus some lighting effects. maybe i’ll do more with it (i.e. cleaning, colors etc)

[sanshofox]

Resized it. It should work for everyone now. If not, message me plz

[thexfiles]

i’m mentally ill too but fucking listen to me here. you need to take responsibility for your actions regardless of whether or not they’re a product of your mental illness. you don’t get to manipulate, gaslight, take advantage of, or straight up abuse people because you’re mentally ill! you don’t! what the fuck! why are some of you still thinking it’s okay to say things like “manipulation is okay because i have _____ and need attention from my significant other” oh my god. Don’t fucking do that

[institutionalized-gaming]

October can’t come soon enough

[hateful-antichrist-deactivated2]

I NEED YOUR HELP

so, today me and my dad found a stray kitty in my street. he is really really small and didn’t even opened his eyes. he’s a newborn kitten and need special help.

we don’t have money and we need to take him to a veterinary and buy special milk for they, because he don’t have a mother to feed him. i don’t know if this post will work and i never made something like this but…

can you guys donate some money? i see a lot of posts like this and i never thought I’d need something like that but…i really need. i don’t want him to die. i really want to save him.

please help me save him!!

my paypal is: [email protected]

you can donate any amount of money! anything will help!!

[blendinblandin-archive]

'Rick and Morty' Co-Creator Slams Trolls Attacking Their Female Writers

Exclusive: Dan Harmon sounds off: ‘I loathe these people’

Continues Harmon: “These knobs, that want to protect the content they think they own — and somehow combine that with their need to be proud of something they have, which is often only their race or gender. It’s offensive to me as someone who was born male and white, and still works way harder than them, that there’s some white male [fan out there] trying to further some creepy agenda by ‘protecting’ my work. I’ve made no bones about the fact that I loathe these people. It f—ing sucks. And the only thing I can say is if you’re lucky enough to make a show that is really good that people like, that means some bad people are going to like it too. You can’t just insist that everybody who watches your show get their head on straight … And I’m speaking for myself — I don’t want the show to have a political stance. But at the same time, individually, these [harassers] aren’t politicians and don’t represent politics. They represent some shit that I probably believed when I was 15.”

[kosherrobot]

For only $20 you too can fuck Satan

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CREAM. TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK. 

MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.

This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.

Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.

Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.

The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online. 

I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.

I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me. 

The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.

Reblog to save a vagina.

[usobukii-deactivated20170126]

Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina

AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT

But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.

FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain

[sushinfood]

AMEN.

[newwavefeminism]

It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.

[bluegrasskitty]

Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑

[angrybooklady]

I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.

[reighost]

Reblogging to save a vag.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

It’s almost like the shame and stigma thar surrounds vaginas is a danger to the health and well being of people who have vaginas.

[monasoffspring-deactivated20240]

Damn y'all #saveavag

[wilwheaton]

always reblog.

[wheremyscalesslither]

Apparently not supporting the breeding of an animal with a known neurological disorder is “bashing”

And yes, all 12 comments were pro-spider breeding.

Learn more about the spider morph here: http://wheremyscalesslither.tumblr.com/post/149392453083/the-spider-ball-python-and-the-wobble

[cmkosemenillustrated]

Childhood Aliens Re-Imagined

As a child I was supremely inspired by science fiction films and made up hundreds of “space aliens” to populate an imaginary galaxy. My brother and I then play-acted adventures set in this fictitious realm.

My parents kept all my drawings; there are dozens upon dozens of pages, each populated with multitudes of aliens, complete with descriptions of every species and character.

Earlier this year I started putting together a portfolio of zany “trope” aliens, with the hopes of getting a gig designing aliens for a popular animated show. (Guess which?)

Instead of designing things from scratch, I decided to resurrect and re-draw ten characters from my childhood. Here they are, complete with original drawings and vitally-important attributes and descriptions.

Tri-Bots (1992) - Actually a lego-like colony of semi-organic robots. - Head robot gets to be the brain. - If decapitated, they play a form of robotic “rock paper scissors” to elect the new leader.

Meta-Snake (1992-3?) - Not a real snake, but a trans-dimensional entity that can slip between dimensions. - Glowing jaws help Meta-Snake open up portals between worlds. - Its face is a fake face; Meta-Snake’s actual eyes are the pore-like things between its body segments. - A sardonic character; refers to itself in the third person and speaks in riddles. - Occasionally speaks backwards because it has a different concept of time. - Can grant wishes, alter the universe and save you from the most dangerous situations… - … but you can’t really trust it.

Ogrenas (1995) - A scary-looking insect-reptile with a heart of gold. - Misunderstood and shunned, actually very kind and harmless. - Its species lives in big hives; glowing eyes can project holograms. - Scary teeth evolved to gnaw on the bark of giant trees. - Glands on its chest secrete a clear goo that Ogrenas must rub all over its body to avoid sunburn. Other species covet this goo as a valuable drug.

Sirian [IKMASH] (1995) - Very intelligent fellow, but devoid of feelings. - Gets a sadistic streak sometimes. - The classic grey alien but also a bit like a cat. - Lonely last member of a once-proud master race; vain and pompous personality. - Makes inappropriate advances to women of all and any species he meets, particular to brunettes. - Operates machines light-years beyond human technology. Can turn light into matter.

The Sultis Megadon Monster (1995) - From the same planet as Ogrenas (see above). - A predatory animal with a hollow head, people can get in via a door-like flap behind its jaws and drive it around like a car. - Controls inside look like tentacles, pustules and glands, you must tug at them. - If you crash into someone the Sultis Megadon Monster eats them. - If two Sultis Megadon crash head on, the larger eats the smaller. - If they are the same size, they start mating.

Veridian (1996) - Cryptic and shy intelligent species, comes in many varieties with different head-frills. - Their planet is full of snakes! - Scared of open places and doesn’t like being touched. - Will sting you to death with its extremely pointed jaw, but does not want confrontation. - Has no vocal cords, talks by shaking its elaborate, winged tail rattle.

Voidian (1996) - Friendly but annoying frog character. - Makes bad jokes and talks too much, but ultimately harmless. - Its race once lived on trees, but have now been banished to a network of caves. - Has the annoying habit of jumping on people to startle them.

Pudd (1997) - Cryptic member of a mollusk-spider race where everyone calls themselves “Pudd”. - In fact that’s the only word they can speak. - They actually communicate with a very sophisticated sign language performed by their top four limbs. - Shy characters; only want to play with strange devices they build in trees. - Scary claws help them climb enormous redwoods. Not predators. - Skip on the ground from tree to tree on well-developed monopod. - Hermaphrodites: Both lovers get pregnant when they make out. - Pale spigot on body squirts a kind of defensive ink. - Salt works like a dangerous drug on them; Pudd will crave it even as it kills them.

VIXON (1997) - A gregarious and boisterous space merchant of an unknown race. - Travels in a flashy spaceship that has many bright lights and chrome polish. - Enjoys giving people an awkward time. - Fun to hang out with but he WILL swindle you if you give him the chance. - Has glowing tonsils as a result of space herpes infection. - Every arm has a testicle and an ejaculatory pipe that Vixon uses in place of a thumb and forefinger… -… except the third pair, which has ovaries and other female genitals. But Vixon can’t get pregnant from himself.

Snirfle (1997) - Very smart dude, can hack any device. - From a backwoods planet; got where he is by sheer hard work. - Its hands are only used for grooming; Snirfle uses his triple proboscii to type on computers. - Can digest almost any type of food; prone to binge-eating, keep food away from him! - Sings when no one is looking.

www.cmkosemen.com

[danbensen]

Sings when no one is looking. Keep food away from him.