Hi!
I'm Killy/Guideau, an eldritch paleo-archaeologist with a love for obscure media and weird things in general.
This is just my blog to share stuff I like. Expect a non-Euclidean mess of interests.
I’m Killy/Guideau, a local adult benevolent horror who likes weird things! This is my personal hub blog to share my random things and be accessible to other blogs of mine in varying parts of the Tumblr horrorscape. This is a side-blog, so it will not follow back and will not have notifications come from it.
Things you will find here include:
Obscure Media
Anime and Video Games
B/T/Kollywood
Horror and its variant forms
Whatever I like that I find pretty and relevant to my interests
Some musings and things from me about life and events and other such personal things, on this, the day of my personal blog’s wedding
Really bad jokes
Things you will NOT find here, that I am not willing to reblog or discuss:
Politics of any sort: I don’t believe politics should have a social platform and I stand by this decision to keep it off my blog for a pleasant non-confrontational experience, especially in knowing most of my audience may be young and impressionable
AI-anything: It’s an insult to ecological and artistic endeavours and I will not have any of it
Assholes in my Inbox/Anon Hate/Drama Llama: Self-explanatory. I will not publish anon hate, the anon feature is a privilege and I am not afraid to take it away if I feel it is being abused
Overall, I’ll add what needs to be added as it sees necessity. I also do not post my own art and things here, you can find that at my art blog @utahraptart ; I may reblog things from that blog for exposure though. Otherwise, feel free to reblog stuff from me and enjoy content. If you want to say ‘hi’, I welcome friends too!
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.
The rookie mistake in fiction writing is assuming that short stories will be easier to write than novels because they’re smaller. No. This is the equivalent to thinking that it’s easier to make a pocket watch than grandfather clock. Short stories are complex engineering problems.
You need to find a way to pack all of the things that a story needs into a tiny like box without it overheating.
