#Digital labor

[drainlord]

me and the roommates after our shift at the excel sheet factory

[nicholasandriani]

Navigating Identity and Agency in Virtual Worlds: A Comparative Analysis of ‘Paralives’ and Simulators

Twitter Patreon GitHub LinkedIn YouTube As a media scholar and performance specialist who subscribes to the Derrida school of thought, the intersection of being, performing, and agency within the virtual realm is an intricate and compelling domain of exploration. In the context of video games, where players immerse themselves in dynamic digital worlds, the concept of “Paralives” and the…

[mochibutterflyy]

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

[pyroguesstuff]

art is Hard and the yearly taz hyperfixation is Particularly Potent this time around so uh. enjoy the intersection of those two things, i guess

[carnation-damnation]

I was heavy into everything, you were heavy into innocence

[ghostytoad]

i promise i'll get back to ninja turtles eventually but has this been done before and if not, pls accept my humble apologies for my bad editing + art

[ontarom]

A moment of discrete tenderness between the spymaster and the King of Orzammar, aka the Hero of Ferelden, during a visit to Skyhold.

A couple months ago I played DAO with a noble dwarf and I really fell in love with him. He ended up being a great fit to romance Leliana, I think: very honorable and gentlemanly, but not without his sins (he has fathered two kids, which Leliana knows about and is okay with, but he's mortified by it)

But now I'm mad that Leliana gets introduced as "mistress to the King/Queen of Ferelden" in the Winter Palace, if she romanced a human Grey Warden, but not as "mistress to the King/Queen of Orzammar". Maybe it depends whether on you put Behlen or Harrowmont on the throne... Bleh, anyway, my headcanon is that Duran Aeducan came back and took the throne after Harrowmont.

Also yeah I REALLY simplified the crown of Orzammar because the real thing looks cumbersome as hell.

[alicornze7]

I have a very ridiculous speculation

what if the reason she still talks back to jax after all his torment a habit she adapted from working in service jobs-?

she could be on the verge of tears but still has to put up with people’s crap and be on the receiving end of their frustrations/tantrums

She’s usually depicted as a pushover (that’s most likely true from what we’ve seen so far) but I think there are more complex layers of trauma and personality beneath that simply “shy” exterior

One can only take so much bs from people before they snap

that’s it that’s the post

[carrion-art]

Two Birds on a Wire

[mistydragonflyart]

This was supposed to be a quick little thing to get myself out of art block but I got carried away as always. I swear, Bluey has some of the prettiest backgrounds so I'll probably do more of these redraws at some point.

[tribbles-the-lesbian]

🍎Apol Thieves🍎

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⬇️Background + various close-ups⬇️

[hexasart]

It's Labor day weekend! You know what that means: SALE TIME!

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[bludgeon-alt]

Succession, or something that looks like it, anyway

[atlaslovesedm]

only two reasons why i care about labor day:

no school

i get to make a homestar runner reference

[umbrellainkart]

A few days late but happy birthday to the Pines Twins! Gravity Falls was incredibly formative for my taste in cartoons and penchance for analyzing things far more than I should, as well as one of my first fandoms! Here’s my take on 25 year old Dipper and Mabel :-)