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More French towns are banning the Burkini in a show of how hypocritical Islamophobia has really gotten

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Building a Scene: It’s over isn’t it?

For Pearl’s song “It’s Over isn’t it?” the scene is about Pearl accepting a loss. As the series has progressed, she’s learned that she isn’t always right, and that there are things about herself that she’s has to reevaluate. This all comes to a sort of climax in this scene where she accepts and admits out loud that her relationship with Rose was never as deep and complete as she wanted it to be or told herself it was. This is where she’s left at the end of the scene, feeling lost and out of place.

In the outline written by Ben Levine and Matt Burnett, this is how the scene looked:

You’ll notice a lot of things ended up changing compared to the final version. Most of that was due to time constraints. When we started storyboarding the episode, all of the rough demos of the songs were recorded so that we had an idea of the amount of time we had between each song (which ended up not being very much). The result was that we had to basically be transitioning constantly between songs, but doing it in a way that felt natural and as gentle as possible.

In addition, Rebecca remembered a part from the 1982 movie “Victor Victoria” starring Julie Andrews that she wanted to use as reference for the feeling of the scene:

Right away we latched onto this spinning 360 degree camera move. I loved the energy and focus it gave to the character and I immediately roughed out a version with Pearl.

If you’re ever stuck during a scene this is what you do: Don’t start from the beginning, find the moment you see clearest in your mind and build out from there. From these rough thumbnails I built the rest of the scene outward. I brought back motifs like her sword skills and her dance style to help evoke the past events of the series, and I tried to give as much time as I could to each shot and make her acting as expressive a possible.

Below are my rough boards set to Rebecca’s demo. At the end, i added a pause for when she throws the Rose into the air. It felt like a good spot for things to crescendo ring out. Deedee Magno Hall’s rendering of this blew us all away when we heard it.

From there clean up was pretty much straight forward. The scene didn’t change much except for tweaking her acting here and there. I’m super proud of how this scene turned out, hats off to Nick DeMayo our animation director and to the team at Sunimin in Korea where they draw the entire episode on paper:

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listen listen listen 

Singapore is 51 years old it’s got less people than london and it’s only 719km sq but our boy Joseph Schooling just beat Michael Phelps and Chad Le Clos for gold 

we just won our first ever Olympic gold  it was our boy  Joseph Schooling from Singapore 

this tiny lil country no one ever expects anything from in sports this little red dot whose only purpose is to come last in the heats this. this kid who met Phelps in 2008 looking all specky and small and now has beaten him. beaten. him. beaten. everyone. world. fucking. champion. olympic. fucking. gold.

from. singapore.

i am so fucking proud of my country right now i could burst. they’re going to play our national anthem at the olympics. can you believe that? can you fucking believe that? 

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A dot Ham, drawn in PS.

[Caption: A realistic digital painting of Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton. Portrait is from the waist up. He is wearing late 1700s period costume: a plum velvet jacket and matching silk waistcoat with a ruffled white cravat. His dark hair is shoulder length and partly pinned back, and he has a goatee. His hand rests over his heart, and he’s gazing straight ahead with a serene expression. The background is deep mauve with an orange glow.]

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Smoky is such a good medium between Steven and Amethyst

Like I think it was a very specific choice to have Smoky enter Lotus position while flying through the air to rescue Pearl and Garnet.

Yoga, specifically lotus position, is a visual indicator of balance and harmony and all that good stuff to a viewer, so to see this literal representation of a calm inner state is a strong indicator of what Smoky’s strength is: their innate sense of inner balance. 

Obviously we’re not talking perfect balance, here. There is still some hints of self doubt and self ciritcism.

“We’re still waiting for the main event!”

However, this moment aside, Smoky has been upbeat, quick to respond, and most importantly, level headed. This is a great halfway point between Steven’s idealistic optimism and Amethyst’s nonchalant apathy. When you match a positive outlook with a carefree and relaxed disposition, you get a being who is ready to deal with any situation, and meet it with a happy, determined face.

tldr; Smokyquartz doesn’t panic in the face of danger because they represent the balanced combination of positive, good thinking (Steven) and the relief of worry from not caring more than necessary (Amethyst)

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you should always carry around very small clothes that can fit a frog. listen to me. listen. what if you meet a frog one day and you instantly have clothes for him. youll be that frog’s bro

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#PrayForMadinah After this, I can’t comprehend the mindset that still indicates ISIS has anything to do with islam.

This week was a bloodbath for muslims. How can we celebrate Eid now.

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What goes on inside that head… inside that head? Frank (2014) dir. Lenny Abrahamson

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when you read that Good Fic

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tbh people mock harry for going back to rescue fleurs sister in the second triwizard task but harry knows dumbledore better than anyone else. he probably looked at the situation and thought “would dumbledore let an eight year old drown just because fleur couldnt do this bit? yes. yes he would.”

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Photographic Sonata, I II III IV

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every xmen film ever

charles: erik don't do the thing

erik: fuck u old friend *does the thing*

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Michael Fassbender on James as Professor X and the dynamics of his character.

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Just act casual

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Why aren’t we talking about this??!!

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