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Have you reconsidered embracing ceremorphosis?

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Thinking of how there's the option to eat the tadpole in bg3 and how laios would probably eat it if he was in the game

(Senshi only stops him so he can eat it gourmet/cooked)

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Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.

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Here we are! This bad boy is ready! ✨

Click here to get to the Preorder Page!

Preorder period: from 02/01 to 02/15.

More info on the prints page!

In the meanwhile, thank you so much for the patience, this is the first time trying to do something like this and I'm so scared and excited!

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VIBRATES THROUGH THE WALL

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▲ swish ▽

(rotoscoping of Reigen's twirl in op3 of Mob Psycho 100)

Finally done!!!! It took me way too long and a lot of it is still pretty rough TTvTT

Here are the static twirls:

And now some process gifs for anyone interested (I exported lines, flats, and shadows separately, then added some effects in video editing):

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The Lovers

(but make it a gif).

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Trying my hand at rotoscoping Reigen's twirl. I'm really happy with how the coat turned out, so I wanted to post a wip in case I fuck up the rest.

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#ohmyfrickingod

While working on Across the Spiderverse, I painted this concept art of what Manhattan might look like in Gwen's watercolor style!

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I designed the outfit that Gwen wears to prom in Across the Spiderverse!

For her outfit I was asked to bring in some 90s/grunge influence- the idea was that Gwen wouldn't buy a dress off the rack for prom, she would probably throw together her own outfit and customize it herself. Numbers 4 and 6 are closest to the version that ended up in the movie!

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Posting a wip to manifest the energy to finish this(these) piece(s).

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Idk about you but to me new haircut = new self portrait hehe∼

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Just in case you forgot

It’s ever too late for another The Owl House Finale fanart? NO, IT’S NOT c: Now get in there for a very squishy hug y’all

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It's ever too late for another The Owl House Finale fanart? NO, IT’S NOT c: Now get in there for a very squishy hug y’all

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vs zodiark

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Ok so I haven’t posted on tumblr for AGES, but here I am ‘cause I couldn't stop thinking about making fanart of this baby. THEY GROW UP SO FAST. I put so much love into this. Now I go back to crying.

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Thick lines.