An old Life Magazine ad from 1940 animated by Studio Spud using Moho software (2D vector animation).
www.instagram.com/studio_spud

Great animation analysis and story comparison w/ the manga in this one!

This is Why Frieren Season 2 Was So Short (episode 10 breakdown) YouTube video by Swamp Jawn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCp...

Intent & texture are disappearing from anime's linework. There are many factors : tools & technology (digital douga, especially in practice), the idea of "good animation" straying away from the drawings, and even mentorship - younger generations learning in an era where this aspect isn't prioritized

These guys mean business.
#WorldBollardAssociation 😎

In Defense of Boring Media YouTube video by Swamp Jawn

Is Frieren boring? Mmmmmmmaybe, but that's what's great about it!
I love boring media and I just spent 40 minutes explaining why.

Make👏 Frieren👏 More👏 Boring👏

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQ3...

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I'm back from my hole, fool. Watch more boring stuff, it's great. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh here's why!
New video's out early on patreon, it's a big'n!

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Chekhov's shrimp pocket

Here, hear it from the man himself.

paneer and broccoli pakore in a red bowl

sometimes ya gotta make some midnight pakore

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

it’s twin peaks day ☕

Fake Vice article: We Paid a Freelancer to say the thing you like is dogshit because the google/facebook duopoly ate the whole digital ad market and not harvesting hate clicks is the only viable business model for online media

Best part of loving Cardamom: EVERYTHING

Worst part of loving Cardamom: Getting mad at a terrible Vox article from like 2014 about how cats are owner-hating sociopaths which ignores the actual science in favour of unpublished, ongoing research at the time which later contradicted the article

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

hehe such cute grumpy eyes

Bobby's the best

There's nothing like seeing an old lady walking an equally old dog, both matching each other's pace

Hey @discord.com this shit sucks and I will literally go back to IRC if you start enforcing this privacy violation nightmare everywhere

Remember how you claimed any submitted data was supposed to be "quickly deleted" yet 70000 ID photos got leaked through this already? www.bbc.com/news/article...

How (and why) They Built Real Puppets as Reference For a Single Minute of Animation YouTube video by Swamp Jawn

Surprise quick video:
youtu.be/wqIyrWKLakw

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Me when scaring off shit tons of paying customers with actively hostile business practices for no good reason made number go down

Highlighted part of a script: The spectacle doesn't just generate profit; it generates citizens.

Literally I was so self-conscious about this line in an upcoming script that I kept trying to rewrite it even though it's objectively a normal and even rhetorically effective way to make a point??? I stopped saying "crucial" for awhile because ChatGPT text was overusing "crucial"

Anyway, go watch the video, I think it's fairly good, also.

In particular, the group objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, whom they called "Sir Sloshua". "Sir Sloshua" "Sir Sloshua"

who basically thought Italian/European art had gone off the rails after Raphael, and were apparently deeply petty about it. They referred to the art they didn’t like as “sloshy” and, (see image)

19th century painters — They're just like us!

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Okay this was way too much of a tangent to include in the video, but it's important that you know this, in this age of "___ slop".

John Everett Millais (who painted this) Belonged to a group of artists called the “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” in the mid→late 19th century,

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Breaking Down Jujutsu Kaisen’s Most Eclectic Opening in Excruciating Detail YouTube video by Swamp Jawn

New video out on youtube!
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New video is up on Patreon!
As always, I fell down a research chasm in what was supposed to be a quick and simple video.

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I've been watching what's happening in Minneapolis and I don't know what to say. Two American citizens killed by ICE in three weeks. Countless more who are not citizens. People afraid to leave their homes.

For those of us not living in Minnesota, are some things we can actually do:

He actually drew them himself, Saito loves dolls this much. The process was:
-Saito designs the puppets
-Professional troupe makes the physical props
-Saito storyboards
-Troupe performs as instructed
-Saito animates it with the live action references