This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

A powerful wizard blocks your path

he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced

he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this

Another hour in the ball pit

ok but yellow eyes' ghost town hunger games is lowkey charlie and the chocolate factory coded....they should have sang a little song after each member of the blood freak gen bit the dust

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.

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

Look in gutters. Flip over rocks in a park. Get into birdwatching, even if it's just for pigeons and house sparrows, cuz you'll be surprised at how beautiful they are and how much else you'll see that you thought was just sparrows. Start identifying plants on the street. Plant a native flower in a public median. Stare into a pond or a puddle until something moves.

NEVER flip your canvas. That's valuable time you could be using to draw everything at a slant.

ive been cooking something up...

(if you have any suggestions please send them my way!) (suggestions for cards but also format/ phrasing suggestions!)

my suggestions

black cards

white cards

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

see how quick it went from calling me racist to outright racism? quoting statistics and all?

this is another reason why I as a white person cannot let a racism accusation shut my brain down. I prevent that by putting in the work to understand these things on a systemic, not personal, level.

the way you keep it from bothering you is by making sure unlearning racism does not scare you. "am I being racist?" should be a question you are comfortable asking yourself.

the only reason I heard anything about that is because I'm mutuals with someone who could tell me about it. because I am white, I would have never known.

this all goes hand-in-hand with everything I've been saying about CSA. listen to the people that are affected by the issue. it will get you there every time.

I tried to show people me doing that in this post, you can literally watch me speculate for a while... then immediately clear things up the moment I find a primary source.

I'm far from perfect about this, don't get me wrong, but I'm doing better all the time.

does anyone want to see a really good picture of my kitty cat

In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.

MOVE IDIOT

He just chillin

“This water sure does like hitting me”

dryhumping

wethumping

soggyhumping

dustyhumping

help this is way funnier than my thing by itself

via yumi sakugawa