It really says a lot about the Town that the couple with a wife who talks to a giant rat and a faith healer daughter who just crawled out of an open grave one day are the "hard, dry, and colorless" ones.

Shield Captain

Custodian Guard

A special delivery for @kitto-paint

Ohh, what a nice present

hi tumblr peepee can i give u a scrap from my twitter

I have double eming brainworms

Pick a lock : Lockpick :: Cut a hair : Haircut :: Reuse a chart : Chartreuse

it’s almost as if Tolkien knew what he was talking about

It’s almost as if Tolkien personally witnessed one of the bloodiest wars in human history and then used that to fuel his writing.

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.

Who would win?

When you are small (and scared of women) and your friend is big (and a scary woman) but deserving of the best hug you can muster

Monster Mashtober by Samantha Mash

Astarion doodle from a few weeks ago :D

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