The wealthy have hedge mazes while the rural poor have corn mazes. However, the rise of urbanization and the suburban middle class still leave countless Americans without a distinctive maze. If you elect me to Congress,
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I feel like a secondary character in a koan. I posed a foolish question and have been brought to enlightenment.
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.
wow players having to stand in lines for a quest because a relevant npc can only talk to one player at a time. is the funniest image on the planet
i need to correct this: wow classic doesn’t have any npcs that can only talk to one player at a time. these lines actually formed for a quest npc that players had to kill to complete the objective. knowing that i think this image is even funnier.
Jolene? Ah, no. It’s Joe Lean. Cough syrup guy. Yeah, the guy who drinks cough syrup recreationally, that’s the guy. And yeah, your man’s with him. Hey now, don’t cry. Come on. I mean not to be rude, but with all due respect I don’t know why you’d even want him back. You’re getting cucked by a guy who drinks cough syrup. Honestly I can’t even tell which one of you three has the lowest standards. Get your shit together, all of you.
This was my second original embroidery design! I did it in july 2020 :) By this point i was really into using cool techniques to show textures and i was very excited to try out stump work (basically crochet LOL) for the nori. I love picking techniques that really reflect the properties of something.
It’s also VERY SMALL, see last photo with my glasses next to it.
I am whatever the opposite of a speed runner is. I am a game meanderer. I have to look at literally everything. I am overly cautious in every way. I forget to pause and wander away from the game. I take a minimum 7 hours to get through any given level. If you give me a timer I will cry.
Real MVP award goes to the poor stressed out stage hands (“Five minutes?! We go live in ten!!!”) who have to handle HUNTR/X constantly disappearing (“YOU’RE ON IN TWENTY SECONDS!!!”) right before cameras start rolling
