This one scene has inspired so many imaginary AMVs for my blorbos, love to see it in the wild

DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

You can only reblog this 12 times a year

Make the most of that

Every month I reblog this and every month I’m baffled that it’s already the 15th.

I’m scheduling this for every month

IT ONLY APPEARS ON THE FIFTEENTH OF EVRY MONTH

THIS ONLY APPEARS ON 15THS WTF

*slams reblog button*

Welp it’s that day again

Do people just have this queued or something`??

Hey wait a minute

Oh, hey, today’s the 15th!

Its the 15th day of the year even!

dude it’s actually the 15th

but thats just my onion

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.

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

omg that's cool as heck!!! 🌸

The early Disney animators were also 3d modeling. They were just doing it literally.

I have made some memes to commemorate the day

slowly chipping away at the stash of textposts that remind me of dispatch

original posts: fuckable loser | insane amount of tension

Long time no see….

high functioning depression is so unserious because i constantly feel like choking myself to death with my own hands but. i got laundry to do

Every time someone draws Waterboy without his beautiful big nose, an angel falls from heaven and gets impaled by one of those fancy pointy fences

New tidbit on V!Herm (Hadal)

Y'know how flambae hit Waterboy with his car? Yeah, Flambae will hit Hadal with his car too. He will get air time before Flambae realizes who he hit.

This will be on the test.

i firmly believe a hug and a fatherly forehead smooch from Skizz would fix all my problems

starting a collection

I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable

oh shit i almost missed it!

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing

Have their younger versions in their school uniforms. :3