An old Life Magazine ad from 1940 animated by Studio Spud using Moho software (2D vector animation). www.instagram.com/studio_spud

Great animation analysis and story comparison w/ the manga in this one!

Intent & texture are disappearing from anime's linework. There are many factors : tools & technology (digital douga, especially in practice), the idea of "good animation" straying away from the drawings, and even mentorship - younger generations learning in an era where this aspect isn't prioritized

These guys mean business. #WorldBollardAssociation 😎

Is Frieren boring? Mmmmmmmaybe, but that's what's great about it! I love boring media and I just spent 40 minutes explaining why. Make👏 Frieren👏 More👏 Boring👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQ3...

I'm back from my hole, fool. Watch more boring stuff, it's great. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh here's why! New video's out early on patreon, it's a big'n! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

Chekhov's shrimp pocket

Here, hear it from the man himself.

sometimes ya gotta make some midnight pakore

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

it’s twin peaks day ☕

Best part of loving Cardamom: EVERYTHING Worst part of loving Cardamom: Getting mad at a terrible Vox article from like 2014 about how cats are owner-hating sociopaths which ignores the actual science in favour of unpublished, ongoing research at the time which later contradicted the article

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

Bobby's the best

There's nothing like seeing an old lady walking an equally old dog, both matching each other's pace

Hey @discord.com this shit sucks and I will literally go back to IRC if you start enforcing this privacy violation nightmare everywhere Remember how you claimed any submitted data was supposed to be "quickly deleted" yet 70000 ID photos got leaked through this already? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Surprise quick video: youtu.be/wqIyrWKLakw

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Me when scaring off shit tons of paying customers with actively hostile business practices for no good reason made number go down

Literally I was so self-conscious about this line in an upcoming script that I kept trying to rewrite it even though it's objectively a normal and even rhetorically effective way to make a point??? I stopped saying "crucial" for awhile because ChatGPT text was overusing "crucial"

Okay this was way too much of a tangent to include in the video, but it's important that you know this, in this age of "___ slop". John Everett Millais (who painted this) Belonged to a group of artists called the “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” in the mid→late 19th century, (1/2)

New video out on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdm...

New video is up on Patreon! As always, I fell down a research chasm in what was supposed to be a quick and simple video. www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

I've been watching what's happening in Minneapolis and I don't know what to say. Two American citizens killed by ICE in three weeks. Countless more who are not citizens. People afraid to leave their homes. For those of us not living in Minnesota, are some things we can actually do:

He actually drew them himself, Saito loves dolls this much. The process was: -Saito designs the puppets -Professional troupe makes the physical props -Saito storyboards -Troupe performs as instructed -Saito animates it with the live action references

Kino watching Flow.

I think it's very important to be aware of what seems weird, or what feels off but also we've ALREADY drifted into "this looks bad *to me* and thus IS AI generated" which we literally cannot entertain

For anyone keeping track, yes I am still getting these. This is the first one I've gotten in Japanese though ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡ {{Name}}'s channel really left an impression on me too! That {{Name}} guy's the real deal.

Won't lie, annoyed how the en/em dash has been ruined by A.I., as I've always enjoyed using them in my writing.

Operators of incredibly profitable casino decide it was somehow not enough

so I guess I more or less got the basics of animating with Krita down... of course I test it with something super annoying to both animate and line but man am I glad I doubled the frames

Animation by Atsuko Tanaka / Masako Sakano* | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

trying out Krita's animation setup with a simple lil flying dragon gif that took me frankly FAR too long to get not looking jank

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Once again, my modest belief is that in the context of age ratings, a product should get a gambling stamp (and an automatic 18+ rating and other legal restrictions that pertain to gambling) if it features real (microtransaction) money to random chance pipelines.

What ever happened to the puppets from the Rudolph TV special? That was the original question that turned into a century-spanning saga about one of the most influential, but least-known pioneers in East-Asian animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9K... taking a break rn but I still love this video

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Success! Time for a tiny taco. I let one of them fully ripen to match the label on the can. Unfortunately the plant is now infested with thrips so I probably have to toss it, (and maybe start again) but I'm surprised it actually grew big enough to give me some chiles!

Forgot to post these ones a while ago. It's struggling with such little root space, but still persevering after I pruned the roots and refreshed the soil twice

wanted to try animating a toothy yawn

The machines will never shame me out of using em-dashes. I have a windows program that exclusively gives me an easy way to use them(Em-n-em). I will not allow them to take the cool long dash away from me. It's the ONLY proper way to interrupt a—

finding out AI was in a game i enjoyed feels like when people "prank" vegetarians by sneaking bacon grease into their food or whatever

Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse for One-Punch Man, accusations started flying across the internet that the following episode was made with AI. So was it? I decided to find out for myself, while also fixing the errors: (spoiler alert: it's not.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVra...

thinking of making a new bird.

Honestly? The funniest, possibly best explanation. I was worried the parent companies OK'd this. Knowing they didn't – and that Amazon acted without their approval – is comforting, and also makes me think Amazon got chewed the fuck out. Honestly, I hope they start losing licenses over this.

Wake up babe, new @swampjawn.bsky.social video just dropped! ❤️‍🔥👇