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Damn region locking Cartoon Network videos page… I wanna see this so much…
Wow, it’s really weird hearing Goku outside of Dragonball.
Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to…
He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.
I don’t know when this interview happened but I AM SAD AND ANGRY NOW
The philosophies in Star Trek are kinda part of the actual setting. If you don’t get that, why are you allowed to make Star Trek movies.
Sigh. The whole point of Star Trek is that it’s philosophical. If you don’t want philosophical Science Fiction, there’s plenty of that for you to enjoy, but Star Trek is philosophical. Philosophy is part of Star Trek’s DNA, and if you’re given the captain’s chair, you’d better damn well respect that.
You know which movie was most faithful to the philosophical spirit of the original show? Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Know which movie doesn’t have a damn thing to do with philosophy? Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
I’m. Just. Saying.
Character Design is using Pinterest, an online pinboard to collect and share what inspires you.DEAR TIM I HAVE CONCEPTS TO COMPLETE DUE IN AN HOUR WHY DID YOU LINK THIS THIS IS THE MOST DISTRACTING THING YOU COULD’VE LINKED
CLICK IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CLICK IT.
Oh dear lord, what a stash
yes. yes. yes.
BOOKED THE FUCK MARKED!
I’m been dealing with rigging these two characters for the last two months on the off times not spent looking for a job. Was this close to being done, then realized I screwed up the hierarchy somewhere…le sigh. Oh well, I still decided to create a victory render.
I’m almost done. Eventually I figure if I say it enough times, it’ll come true!
Because of the backlash, Disney is restoring Merida to her previous look. All future Disney…
See, THIS is why ppl need to drop the knee-jerk attitude that Disney are evil assholes. Because…
It more bugs me that they listened on that one, but the rest of the girls still look all glittery…
I actually didn’t mind her redesign. If the merchandise was sometimes 2D and sometimes…
They listened to us about Mulan. She doesn’t have as much make up caked on her face any more. But now Merida…
jesus am I the last person alive who thinks the Illustrated Merida was perfectly fine, totally unsexualized, an acceptable 2D version of a 3D character and the…
This maybe arrogant of me to say…okay this is absolutely arrogant of me to say, but I’m pretty sure all the complaints stemmed from the eyes, whether the peeps complaining were aware of it or not.
The re-design is standard Disney glossification with that cheap VHS cover style highlighting, but it didn’t really deviate from the original character design…except they replaced her eyes. I’m not just talking about eye shadow, the eyes are literally a different shape. They are different eyes and eyes are the key to defining a character.
Merida was unique because of those eyes. Look at them! They’re as wide as goddamn saucers and just as round. She looks like she’s in the midst of a sugar high! No other princess was ever portrayed this way before. Every other princess in that picture is in some manner docile with heavy lidded eyes and eyelashes. Merida’s re-design had the same, removing this key aspect of who she is and replacing it with a passive expression that was completely at odds with the kind of character she’s always been presented as. Hence the rabble rabble.
‘nother words, if they’d kept with the 2d redesign, but changed her eyes to match the original design, I’m betting there prolly wouldn’t have been that much a controversy to begin with.
Felt like scanning a few pages from my Graphic-Sha book ‘Drawing Yaoi’ (lmao)
There’s actually a couple more clothing references in here like for shoes and gloves if anyone cares to see them (｡◕‿◕｡)
Jesus! I almost lost this in the tumblr scroll!
degraala asked you:
Hi, I was wondering if you could answer a question about 3d animation I have. I’ve seen lots of stuff about how hard animating in 3D is, and it’s obviously super expensive and takes a long time, so I was wondering why there isn’t nearly as many 2D animated films as…
Bullshit.
2D animation is dead because Disney killed it. It really is that simple. You’d think there’d be more to it, but there really isn’t. They created a standard they were unwilling to deviate from - a needlessly expensive and time-consuming standard - creating an audience expection that they were now financially tied to and that brought everyone else down with them.
2D animation died because the only animated movies people were willing to make were Disney animated movies, whether they were Disney or no, and they had to be ‘Disney’ quality, which meant focusing on character animation to the sacrifice of pretty much everything else. Blandest doe-eyed character designs, color schemes and compositions you ever saw, but make sure that character animation is so smooth you got 1 foot of animation done in a week in order to get it right!
Apparently the simple fact that The Princess and the Frog was 2D after 2D was ‘dead’ was gimmick enough for them to not give a shit about the actual artistry, but hey, they move like Disney characters don’t they?
And I’m not faulting the bean counters for this by the way. Ooooh, no. This toxicity that has been following 2D is all because of the entrenched self centered stubborness of the animators that’s been a tradition since the days of the Nine Old Men. It’s the animators who forced this production pipeline that killed creativity with their exclusive focus on this wasteful, vapid, un-dynamic, un-engaging Broadway performance character animation. And why wouldn’t they? It wasn’t like there was anything to compete.
I’ve been more engaged by 2D animation since it’s ‘died’ than I ever was while Disney was plowing through the 90’s with shit after shit feature. I just finished watching a Game Grump fan-animation created by one dude that was more visually engaging than anything by Disney since Aladdin.
2D is ‘dead’ because of dogmatic Disney animators and no one else.
