#8bit theater

[cowboy-in-training]

greatest webcomic character

[sburbiaoverture]

There is nothing that embodies all my favorite things in a character design more than

[pixelartparker]

can i request Francois Dubois from & Juliet?

For sure ^^ So I had never heard of this particular show but literally the day after I drew this I saw a billboard for it as I was driving in the city. Crazy.

I hope you like it :)

Suggestions, tips, and requests are welcome!!! I don't do any NSFW but I'll create for any fandom. Feel free to use this for something if you want. A like, reblog, or follow if you do would be appreciated!

~ Parker

[canvaswolfdoll]

i miss the days when webcomics weren't even indie, they were isolated.

graffiti on the digital walls, created and shared with no motive aside from a deep yearning to create and share.

an art limited only by your ability to produce a digital image and build a website (which, admittedly in the real old internet days was a high bar, but one thing at a time)

people made gag strips about video games and other hobbies

journal comics about the artist's day

sprite comics because it's easier to copy paste vintage art assets in ms paint than it was to learn to draw and figure out a scanner and for-profit image program

people created and shared and, yes, a lucky few could make a profit off ads and merch, but that's money that went to the creators pocket.

nowadays, webcomics either are sequestered to various social medias (reddit, instagram, twitter, the contemptable webtoon) where they fall under the curse of being content(tm) to mostly line the pockets of various corporate masters who smile and assure artists that they, too, can be influencers.

or, if the comic exists on the creators' own website, it exists primarily as a themed portfolio and, if it's successful, gets the artist a job and ends the webcomic because either the artist is busy as a story board artist or they no longer own the rights to the story.

now i'm trapped hoping for a deranged balancing act where a webcomic is popular enough to keep it going, but not so popular as to become ip.

it's a weird conveyor belt. when webcomic arose, print comics no longer felt like a place you could find the next bone or maus, but maybe such works might appear online.

now webcomics have also reached that point of market force, but i see no new source for hobbyist comics, sort of accosting youths on the street and mugging them of their sketchbooks to see their raw, unique artistic vision.

[libbys-braincell-loss]

Five Funky Nights at Fnafbears the Musical the Series the Movie is pretty fire ngl

spoilers in tags im sorry

[vilsoo]

No bc im watching the movie today and ive been a hair away from getting spoiled by twitter and tiktok😭😭

dont worry hun i got spoiled too 😭😭😭 its always fucking tiktok bro but i can’t escape it cuz its all over my fyp 🦭 i try so hard not to go on tiktok but i just cant resist trying to see some edits of my favorite fictional men :,) and then BOOM fnaf movie spoilers

[legobiwan]

Okay, just got back from the Mario movie, thoughts under the cut.

SPOILERS AHOY YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

This movie was delightful. I think I was grinning almost the entire time. Yes, it's a love letter to the Mario franchise. To quote Bojack Horseman, it's not Ibsen, but not everything has to be.

The visuals were stunning.

The SCORE WAS FANTASTIC. They did an incredible job of arranging 8bit video music game music for full orchestra. And yes, there was a short Luigi's Mansion quote when our boi was exploring the woods.

Speaking of our boi...LUIGI!!!! I LOVE HIM! He's such a mess and jeeze, did he get roughed up by Bowser. But there's something I want to point out about his "moment," as it was, in the finale. Well, two things.

Firstly, Luigi with the shield (manhole cover) looked like something straight out of Captain America. And for once, he's protecting his brother.

Secondly, Mario went through all this extensive training to beat Bowser. Luigi just shows up and...does it. Knows next to nothing about the Mushroom Kingdom or power ups or whatever, he just starts jumping around with equal skill and facility as his brother (yeah, yeah, I know they needed it for the grand finale, but in-universe, it's a hell of a thing.)

Honestly, I had no issues with any of the voice actors. Toad and Kamek were both unexpected delights. And yes, Charlie Day killed it, as was expected.

I could have done with fewer slo-mo bits - those did get a little old.

A lot of the reviews mention the pacing as an issue. Yeah, the movie probably could have used another 30 minutes, or - and this might be controversial of me to say, they could have cut the Bowser piano scene, as I personally didn't feel like it added much to his character. (The scene between him and Kamek rehearsing the proposal, however, was hilarious.)

LUMA YOU DEMENTED SOUL. Perfection.

Gods, the Brooklyn scenes. So good. Poor Luigi was really getting talked over by that one family member, grrrrrr.

Mario calls him "Lu"? ADORABLE.

I also think we could have done without the baby Luigi and Mario scene. Like, we get the dynamic, let's not lampshade Luigi's lack of confidence.

I started pumping my fist when I heard the Mario Brothers rap in surround sound. RELIC OF MY CHILDHOOD.

Okay, yes, Luigi was underutilized and my hope is that he gets his own character arc in the next movie. Or, you know, we could do a Luigi's Mansion flick, which I will pay to see 50 times in the theater. (Or or, we could go really darkhorse and ask for a Super Paper Mario film, but I doubt we'd ever be that lucky). Anyway, that really was my largest complaint of the film - we needed MORE LUIGI and MORE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FOR LUIGI. LET MY BOI BE INDEPENDENT.

9/10, taking off a point because I just want to see my boi on screen at all times. I had a blast (and showed up in my lowkey Mr. L outfit!)

[mysticballistic]

do yall know how fucking rabid I went in that movie theater when I saw that minigame 8bit styled intro bit in the fucking fnaf movie

[septic-dr-schneep]

Just saw the FNAF movieeee :D (Spoilers and babble about the experience below the cut, in no particular order because I'm just trying to get it all down before I forget)

My group went in costume and a bunch of girls in Springtrap shirts freaked out when they saw us taking pictures by the poster <3

The theater didn't have a full size cutout, which sucked, and the only big poster they had was Bonnie. They didn't include the others. Missed opportunity on the theater's part and ours as cosplayers

The theater was offering plushies but they sold out before I could get one ;-;

Someone asked me (dressed as Elizabeth) if the ice cream was worth getting rekt. I said it was just vanilla so...probably not

A Mike cosplayer and I made sibling eye contact and that was enough. There was a Mangle there too, that was neat, and an Afton who made his Spring Bonnie head out of Lego! That was so cool!

Loved the 8bit opener with him leading each of the kids away, that was cool

Abby is our neurodivergent little queen

Nice little detail that William didn't offer Mike the job until he saw his last name and connected him to Garrett

Matpat, you sly dog XD Now we now the truth. Sans isn't Ness, Matpat himself is Ness! Congrats!

Everybody cheered Foxy running down the hall, a classic

I initially mistook the Sparky animatronic for Fetch ^^" Rookie mistake, RIP

Frickin' Balloon Boy trolling everyone was a delight

I spotted the "It's Me" on the mirror and others in my group saw the one on the electrical panel, that was fun

Heard someone behind me call out the Bite of 87 right before Max got bisected. Oof

Some people apparently hadn't seen Cory in the trailer and screamed so loud when they saw him XD

Vanessa chucking Mike's prescription in the river? Rude, those could've been expensive

Vanessa being Afton's daughter, I'm kinda ehhh? about and so was the rest of the audience but I consider it a separate universe from the games so it'll slide

We got a springlocking onscreen! I thought they might have done it just offscreen and let audio do the work but whoopsie!

"I always come back." We know, king, we know, and we all applauded you for it

Everybody erupted when we heard the Living Tombstone! I'm so glad they got a fan song for the credits, such a nice thank you to the community!

I would've died if we got a Phone Guy "Hello, hello?" and I wish Mark could have been in it but I hope he'll appear in the sequel. If I had to criticize a couple things, I'd say the pacing had its slow points and the child actors were a little stiff sometimes but I still really enjoyed myself. All around fun <3

[watchmenanon]

Noah Schnapp for L’Officiel Hommes 2017.

Noah Schnapp looks out of the darkness of his trailer and wonders if anyone knows that his birthday is today. “Everybody forgot my birthday” is of course the great teenage fear from the iconic eighties Molly Ringwald movie Sixteen Candles. But the busy young actor almost did it to himself. Noah — who will turn 10 at midnight — is far too young to know the movie from 1984. Noah is used to waking up to his birthday, but tonight he will have to stay up for it, since he is on set and they are shooting a night scene. This is a big birthday for Noah, one he and his friends look forward to as a huge milestone. “It’s a big one,” he says. “Double digits.”

Recalling that moment now is hard for Noah, “I was so young then,” he laughs. He turned 10 in 2014. When he tells me this story in the summer of 2017 he is 12 years old. “I mean. I’m still young now.”

When Noah gets older these important moments from his life will fade as they do for all of us. The nostalgia of the moment will exist somewhere between his grownup self and his younger self.

The Netflix Series Stranger Things — like the upcoming Steven Spielberg adaptation of the eighties pop culture novel Ready Player One and a hundred Buzzfeed lists — exists on the line between the thought and the object of nostalgia. The cultural touchstones want you to remember your childhood in a series of discontinued objects and toys. They know when you hear the powering-up of the old 8bit Super Mario Brothers you remember playing the game.

But the sense of nostalgia is anchored to what the game represented. Playing an Italian plumber chasing mushrooms and renegade turtles meant school’s out for the day or hanging out with friends. Just as finding candy from your childhood doesn’t represent your nutritional needs, but the anticipation of a treat. Marcel Proust’s madeleine cookie took him — quite by surprise — back to carefree Sunday mornings with Aunt Léonie.

The art department of Stranger Things spends precious hours tracking down these objects of desire. Clunky eighties cars, original Star Wars action figures, banana seat bikes, walkie talkies. All of these things of course represent freedom from overbearing adults.

When grown people track down old Nintendo GameBoy controllers on eBay they chase after a long forgotten childhood feeling of anticipation. Of the days when the excitement of your life still laid ahead. Of a grownup need to dominate the things you once had no control over.

Back in the trailer the soon-to-be 10 year old Noah doesn’t yet know what “double digits” has in store for him. He doesn’t know that Spies will go on to win an Oscar. Or that within a year he will embark on a totally unique Netflix original series that takes place almost entirely in the nostalgia zone.

Childhood nostalgia allows a grownup to try and remember what it was like to be a kid again. And when we remember this we rarely think of how interminably slow the clocks ran at our elementary schools, how walking down the halls filled us with anxiety, how utterly trashy our favorite TV shows were. The grownup video gamer knows that he or she could afford a top of the line virtual reality video game system. But no one tracks down a GameBoy from 1992 for the graphics.

The children of Stranger Things are some of the most honestly drawn children in the history of moving images. Their scifi-realist universe exists almost entirely without adults. Which is great because the best parts of childhood — and yes that includes time spent playing video games and eating sugary snacks and playing in the woods — are devoid of adults.

The story of how this all went down in just a few short years still leaves him, at 12, with an enviable career. Noah’s parents put him and his sister in a local music/theater program. Their teacher soon connected Noah with an agent. There were TV commercial castings (“meatball commercials” as he says) and soon things picked up. First landing the voiceover role in Charlie Brown. During that same time Noah had auditioned for the role of Mike Wheeler (a role which went to Finn Wolfhard) but never heard back. It was for a strange series about a group of kids looking for their missing friend Will.

During the summer, though, Noah went off to summercamp to be a kid again. He has gone for five years now, back when he was just an 8 year old kid.

In the age of smartphones, camps stay perfectly in the nostalgia zone. Outdoors, fresh-air, letter writing. Their lone concession to the modern world is that you’re allowed 3 phone calls home during the summer. “And the last one my parents said there was somebody who wanted to talk to me. They clicked over the phone and then these two guys are on the line.”

They connected him to Matt and Ross Duffer, the thirtysomething identical twin directors who created Stranger Things.

They said, “We wanted to tell you that you got the role of Will!”

“And I was like, ‘For what?’” It slowly dawned on Noah that these two were serious and he was being offered an incredible role on his first TV show. “For the rest of the day I just had this massive smile on my face.”

Noah brings that naiveté, the kid-plucked-right-out-of-summer-camp feeling to the role. (In Atlanta, they all do have a life somewhat like the suburban kids of old movies, he and onset buddy Caleb).

Behind the scenes the kids put in a full work day. (Noah, Caleb and the newest cast member Sadie have one tutor who works fulltime with them just to teach them French). They get up each day at their rented homes in Atlanta and then go “bank” school hours — studying long with one of three private tutors so that if filming goes long on another day they don’t “miss” school.

When we think of “child actors” we almost always mean the Disney TV show, Lindsay Lohan types. The ones who walk in a soundstage and smile and the laugh track applauds. Or the kinds of deafening screams that followed a teenage Justin Bieber. The kids of Stranger Things all have this attitude that they are there to work and to learn how to be better actors from the grownups around them. “That’s why working with Winona is the best.”

Still, their set is basically a haunted house. Noah turns red when recalling the day the Duffer brothers finally aced the monster sounds. In a now-famous scene Will is supposed to hang up the phone and run out of the house when he hears a scary sound. The assumption is that the movie magic will happen later and they will add sound effects and monster noises, “I didn’t realize but there was a massive speaker right next to me. I was in the middle of the scene. I’m in my own world and then they pressed play and this monster-sized sound leaps out from next to me. It freaked me out because I was so in the scene when I dropped the phone. It was a real reaction. I was really actually scared.”

For a young actor, though, the scarier thing is the parts you don’t know. What if out of all the four kids, you’re the only one who can’t do the deep, emotional scenes? Luckily for the scarier things: they have Winona Ryder on set as his mom.

“I remember they had this really hard scene and it was crazy it was long and it was an emotional scene for like my character. So I asked her — ” Meaning Winona. He is on a first-name basis with Winona Ryder. “Can I like talk to you about this and you can go over with me and help me? And she totally understood it. ‘I’d love to help you.’ And she she came in an hour earlier the next day and she brought me to her trailer and she sat me down with her.”

That scene, by the way, is what guaranteed them a Season Two. When Noah’s character goes missing in Season One, it gives the audience a feeling of loss. It’s like when you’re a kid and you want to run off with your friends and you get lost in the woods. Noah without the safety of being at home with Winona leaves the audience feeling incomplete.

It’s a bit like the little kid who tosses three hotdogs in a lunchbox and announces to no one, “I’m running away from home!” and they get three steps out the door and sniffle once and turn around with a quivering chin, “Isn’t anyone going to miss me?”

Back in Noah’s trailer, though, Noah waits in that limbo. He’s auditioned for Stranger Things but hasn’t heard back. He’s landed the part in Bridge of Spies but now he’s working with Spielberg and Tom Hanks. He’s only seen Tom Hanks in Big — a movie about being a kid trying to navigate in a grownup world. It came out 16 years before he was even born. Which just so happens to be at midnight.

The real theme of that movie is about the anticipation of things to come. Noah calls it “hurry up and wait.” That directive that comes from getting up early and getting in costume and getting on set to just sit there for hours. Even on your birthday.

There’s a knock on the door, “Hey Noah, we have to pull you off set and bring you to school.” Ah yes, in order to get those long scenes with Tom Hanks, he will have to spend even more than a single school day with a tutor.

But when he walks out of the trailer the entire 200 person cast and crew surround him. Lighting grips, truck drivers, camera operators, extras, actors, hair and makeup staff. They are all lit from the light of the candles on a birthday cake they’ve made special for him. “Happy Birthday Noah!”

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg stand behind him while Noah’s parents snap photos.

Tom Hanks smiles, “Hope you have an awesome tenth birthday!”

To remember how important a moment is to a kid as a kid, that is the joy of all nostalgia. For Spielberg and Tom Hanks and even the Duffer brothers to remember how important and memorable that day is when you finally hit double digits that’s the magic of making a movie or TV show with kid actors.

Noah won’t say what he wished for as he blew out his candles. But the excitement of anticipation fills every room when you’re young. When the candles go out and you don’t know what will happen next. Will the movie win an Oscar? Will you get that TV show? Will you get another season?

The joy of watching Will in Stranger Things depends on how much you’re willing to hide under the covers and get ready to be a kid again when the lights go out and everything gets scary again.

[edoro]

that webcomics history post... who else here remembers 8Bit Theater. raise your hands. i can’t be the only one.

[thatartdude55]

The Mage of Evil, the goofy lil blue robed bastard, Black Mage Evilwizardington

[evilwizard]

You're just like the black mage from 8bit theater, except a version of him that I can actually say I like without cringing at myself.

the difference is that he is a character from a webcomic, whereas i am an actual real life evil wizard who casts spells and lives in wizard Missouri (most evil state because it sounds like ‘misery’)

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Me cosplaying red mage from ffi/8bit theater in 2007 at anime expo 16 with two other 8BT nerds

[campyvillain]

i’m all for giving the rest of the aftons actual designs but honest to god i swear on my life i will never change william aftons design to be anything more than the vaguely humanoid 8bit sprite eraser head looking bitch i already draw him as. not only because i don’t think he should be humanized at all given what a monster he is but also because it’s funny as fuck, imagine being michael and getting in an argument with your toothpaste bathroom sink residue father. like a heated dramatic argument except the thing you’re arguing against is a five below instagram slime man. if that’s not in the fnaf movie exactly how i described im walking out of the theater

[awigglycultist]

Going back and rewatching what I missed from the npmd livestream from the end of the Jane Perkins Theory to a bit before the beginning of the Abstinence Camp rewatch

I love how Matt keeps having to finish what Nick is saying bc he keeps lagging and freezing

"who's good at math?" *Joey immediately starts talking*

Jon being in show choir makes sense

Ofc Jon started a barbershop quartet

All these high school choir and theatre stories are incredible

"and I swore that I would never be involved in theater again" "and how's that going?" djdjdb

"I left to do Sussical the Musical, we made our decisions"

Hey, I like statistics! Well so far at least

Curt swam competitively and was ranked 18th nationally?

HE SWAM AGAINST MICHAEL PHELPS?

Mariah 🤝 Curt

Troy Bolton

"Bill vs Ted" "this is easy!"

Also yeah Ted would absolutely die first he's a whimp

Yes Peter and the Obnoxious Teen are still separate characters!

Wait the Obnoxious Teen characters was also going to be Richie but now they're also separate characters!???!

Doggy Power!

The 8bit tunes!! (once again asking SK to please release these as an album)

Yeah Paul absolutely would apologise the whole time

Bs I think Emma totally would win against Grace

No way Duke would even hurt a kid

Becky 10000% wins over Linda

"Paul have you been paying attention? We're having thr most important conversation of the decade!"

NOOO also I love Curt is like "no he's lacking context but f i n e"

Oohh wow Barry vs Henry is a good one

Peter Spankoffski my beloved

The idea o's Spitfire just incinerating Linda is wonderful

I REALLY LOVE Becky Barnes Climbed A Tree it's such a good feeling fun song and it makes me wanna go outside and climb a tree and I would absolutely listen to it every day and I love that they put in the little bit of Becky being Irish since that where the joke started from

Spefically 43 mins and 37 secs

Xander was supposed to have psychic abilities!?

"I might be bias though" "I'm definitely bias"

"okay Xander wins" "NO- I- NO!"

"okay so Grace has the power of God"

Absolutely love James' ideas of faking Spitfire's and Xander's deaths

"she's 18" "oh well then I retract everything I just said she's dead"

Xander sweep!

Daddy Bracket

Wilbur vs MacNamara off the bat? Omg

Woo filmed version of the Jangle Ball tour!!

He's a sorcerer?

NO NOT LEX VS HANNAH

"let's not do this :("

Lex has worked all her life to protect Hannah and make sure she doesn't get hurt so Lex would 1000% just lie down and die instead of killing Hannah

"it's like a Romeo and Juliet situation" mmm not quite Angela

EMDRIOD VS CAR!JANE AHAHAJSBDKD

"Can the Android hold a gun?" "yeah the android can hold a gun" "okay then this split, idk" ndjddbdjdb

"does android Emma.. Like, what's the gun situation?" NDKDBDDN

Angela and Mariah are really mean to be BFFs

Android Jane!

"this one breaks your heart?"

Also would Lumberaxe even kill Holloway bc he only kills ppl who aren't abstinent and Holloway isn't dumb enough to go do the dirty in the middle of the woods so would Lumberaxe be able to tell if she's been abstinent or not?

"I wanna see Webby and Miss Holloway fight, that'll be interesting" "I wanna see them fall in love!" in with you Mariah

The immediate "Holloway wins"

So many of these are good vs evil

"remember the child murder?"

They had Nemo stand in for wiggly durning a rehearsal of Feast or Famine bdjdjd

Full blown fluff machine!

My god I love Valentine

Jane's cat knocking over the camera bfjdbss

"that's a weird looking porcelain cat" "where'd you get that porcelain cat Matt?"

Anyway this is where I got caught up with last night so that's the end of this post