#Four Color Process

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

4CP | Four Color Process

[rayhantochtli]

Beautiful butch woman from pokemon, she's at the beach or something

[indigos-stardust]

Link, Pre-Meiosis

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(edited: changed mitosis to meiosis)

[nitunioart]

The Business of Shadows (palette from @color-palettes !)

IT FITSS HIM SO WELL YOU WILL NEVER KNOW HOW LOUD I GASPED UPON SEEING THE PALETTE AND THE TITLE

[alangdorf]

The aforementioned Forgotten Land cutscene redraw, which I ended up overpainting (for the first time in over three years) to make it all nice since I’m using it as my desktop background!

[poligraf]

« Spring (The Procession) » by Joseph Stella

[chiropteracupola]

for the palette asks: brendan and isaiah in ‘flesh’?

And I know that you mean so well / But I am not a vessel for your good intent...

[schmafs]

to be human

redraw of this from four years ago (wow!)

[carewyncromwell]

“You'll see, Ma, now comes the better part -- Someone's gonna make good, cross his stupid heart! Make good and finally make you Proud of your boy...”

~“Proud of Your Boy” from Aladdin (musical)

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original background image (edited with Lunapic!) // in case you want to read some more mother-son content with these two! // my own cover of this song

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Gaaaah, Jacob, my boy!! I’m so proud of you and so is Mama Lane!! 🥹

Ahem, so yeah, since this is kind of graduation season for a lot of people, and because I haven’t done nearly enough Mama Lane content (and because @dat-silvers-girl​ suggested I draw some Jacob/Lane huggles, haha), I decided to draw this, which is set on the day of Carewyn and Jacob’s graduation from Hogwarts in the spring of 1991. Carewyn’s graduation obviously was scheduled for that date from the moment she started at Hogwarts, but for Jacob, who had been expelled from Hogwarts and had his entire life and future wrecked by R, he had just about lost all hope of ever seeing this day. He therefore -- pretty understandably -- got pretty emotional during the ceremony. Even Lane, who’s always been so quiet and reserved with her emotions, couldn’t completely fight back tears of pride seeing her beloved son, who so many had labeled as a delinquent over the years both as a child and after disappearing, graduate with an astounding twelve O’s on his NEWTs. Obviously there were plenty of pictures of Lane and Jacob with Carewyn too...but this image was just so strong that I felt it deserved its own picture. Jacob went to school wanting so desperately to not be the “screw-up” he was as a boy and to be someone his mother and sister could be proud of...and even though, yes, they’ve always been proud of him, this day Jacob finally felt like the whole world could see in him what his mum and “Pip” always saw. He’d finally done something right.

[peachcitt]

instead of catching up on greatest hits i have been steadily and methodically curating a playlist for greatest hits. this has been happening for hours

[autumnalwalker]

Hej hej! I poked around a little and Empty Names sounds really fun! Especially the rather grumpy demon in the beginning of the first chapter. They need like... a coffee or something. May I ask what inspired you to start it? I read you wanted to try and write more prose-like things, but what inspired this specific story?

So, it's actually a little embarrassing, but Empty Names basically exists because of Internet Discourse about a video game I've never played.

So, back in August of 2022, the character Bridget was added to the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive, and in that process was confirmed as being trans. For additional context for anyone not familiar with Guilty Gear (and please, take all this with the giant disclaimer that I haven't actually played the games myself), Bridget was first introduced back in 2002 or so as a boy who (for convoluted plot reasons that I'm not going to try to recap) was raised as and dressed like a girl but still identified as male. So, twenty years later and that bit of character development rolls around. Some people were happy about it, and some people were not.

One of the more interesting (to me anyway) things that it seemed I kept seeing in the resulting Discourse was the fact that a certain subset of people unhappy about Bridget being trans claimed they felt they'd lost the niche representation of "guy that presents in a feminine manner but is still secure and comfortable in his masculinity/gender identity." This got me on the idle thought experiment of "What if a story had a character like that, but then also had a trans woman?" This led to the prototypes for Ashan and Lacuna respectively.

I then took that a step further and went "Okay, now flip it and have a masculine-presenting woman and a trans man," and thus Eris and Sullivan. And then because the "five man band" trope is fun but I have perhaps too much of a love for organizational symmetry we then had Road being genderfluid and mostly-but-not-always going by they/them.

Now I had a bunch of characters I didn't know what to do with, but wanted an excuse for them to interact. The urban fantasy/"monster of the week" vibe seemed like as good an excuse as any to toss them into situations together and it was a different enough type of story from The Archivist's Journal that it seemed like good practice for expanding my range.

(Meanwhile, The Archivist's Journal exists because the password for my FFXIV account got stolen and I got locked out of playing it for two weeks, so I was bored and while doing the dishes one night I realized it had been a while since I'd done much creatively.)

[milo-is-rambling]

Nothing like some light substance abuse to really make you feel like a child again

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[literaryvein-reblogs]

commonly confused words

accept: to receive except: with the exclusion of

advice: recommendation (noun) advise: to recommend (verb)

adverse: unfavorable averse: opposed to

affect: to influence (verb); emotional response (noun) effect: result (noun); to cause (verb)

aisle: space between rows isle: island

allude: to make indirect reference to elude: to avoid

allusion: indirect reference illusion: false idea, misleading appearance

already: by this time all ready: fully prepared

altar: sacred platform or place alter: to change

altogether: thoroughly all together: everyone/everything in one place

a lot: a quantity; many of something allot: to divide or portion out

angel: supernatural being, good person angle: shape made by joining two straight lines

are: plural form of "to be" our: plural form of "my"

accent: pronunciation common to a region ascent: the act of rising or climbing assent: consent, agreement

assistance: help assistants: helpers

bare: nude, unadorned bear: to carry; an animal

beside: close to; next to besides: except for; in addition

boar: a wild male pig bore: to drill a hole through

board: piece of wood bored: uninterested

born: brought into life borne: past participle of "to bear" (carry)

breath: air taken in (noun) breathe: to take in air (verb)

brake: device for stopping break: destroy; make into pieces

buy: to purchase by: next to; through the agency of

canvas: heavy cloth canvass: to take a survey; a survey

capital: major city capitol: government building

choose: to pick chose: past tense of "to choose"

clothes: garments close: to shut; near cloths: pieces of fabric

coarse: rough course: path; series of lectures

complement: something that completes compliment: praise, flattery

conscience: sense of morality conscious: awake, aware

corps: regulated group corpse: dead body

council: governing body counsel: advice; to give advice

dairy: place where milk products are processed diary: personal journal

descent: downward movement dissent: disagreement

dessert: final, sweet course in a meal desert: to abandon; dry, sandy area

device: a plan; a tool or utensil devise: to create

discreet: modest, prudent behavior discrete: a separate thing, distinct

do: a verb indicating performance or execution of a task dew: water droplets condensed from air due: as a result of

dominant: commanding, controlling dominate: to control

die: to lose life; one of a pair of dice dye: to change or add color

dyeing: changing or adding color dying: losing life

elicit: to draw out illicit: illegal, forbidden

eminent: prominent imminent: about to happen

envelop: to surround (verb) envelope: container for a letter (noun)

everyday: routine, commonplace, ordinary (adj.) every day: each day, succession (adj. + noun)

fair: just, honest; a carnival; light skinned fare: money for transportation; food

farther: at a greater (measurable) distance further: in greater (non-measurable) depth

formally: conventionally, with ceremony formerly: previously

forth: forward fourth: number four in a list

gorilla: animal in ape family guerrilla: soldier specializing in surprise attacks

hear: to sense sound by ear here: in this place

heard: past tense of "to hear" herd: group of animals

hoard: a hidden fund or supply, a cache horde: a large group or crowd, swarm

hole: opening whole: complete; an entire thing

human: relating to the species homo sapiens humane: compassionate

its: possessive form of "it" it's: contraction for "it is"

knew: past tense of "know" new: fresh, not yet old

know: to comprehend no: negative

later: after a time latter: second one of two things

lead: heavy metal substance; to guide led: past tense of "to lead"

lessen: to decrease lesson: something learned and/or taught

lightning: storm-related electricity lightening: making lighter

loose: unbound, not tightly fastened lose: to misplace

maybe: perhaps (adv.) may be: might be (verb)

meat: animal flesh meet: to encounter mete: to measure; to distribute

medal: a flat disk stamped with a design meddle: to interfere, intrude metal: a hard organic substance mettle: courage, spirit, energy

miner: a worker in a mine minor: underage person (noun); less important (adj.)

moral: distinguishing right from wrong; lesson of a fable or story morale: attitude or outlook usually of a group

passed: past tense of "to pass" past: at a previous time

patience: putting up with annoyances patients: people under medical care

peace: absence of war piece: part of a whole; musical arrangement

peak: point, pinnacle, maximum peek: to peer through or look furtively pique: fit of resentment, feeling of wounded vanity

pedal: the foot lever of a bicycle or car petal: a flower segment peddle: to sell

personal: intimate; owned by a person personnel: employees

plain: simple, unadorned plane: to shave wood; aircraft (noun)

precede: to come before proceed: to continue

presence: attendance; being at hand presents: gifts

principal: foremost (adj.); administrator of a school (noun) principle: moral conviction, basic truth

quiet: silent, calm quite: very

rain: water drops falling; to fall like rain reign: to rule rein: strap to control an animal (noun); to guide or control (verb)

raise: to lift up raze: to tear down

rational: having reason or understanding rationale: principles of opinion, beliefs

respectfully: with respect respectively: in that order

reverend: title given to clergy; deserving respect reverent: worshipful

right: correct; opposite of left rite: ritual or ceremony write: to put words on paper

road: path rode: past tense of "to ride"

scene: place of an action; segment of a play seen: viewed; past participle of "to see"

sense: perception, understanding since: measurement of past time; because

sight: scene, view, picture site: place, location cite: to document or quote (verb)

stationary: standing still stationery: writing paper

straight: unbending strait: narrow or confining; a waterway

taught: past tense of "to teach" taut: tight

than: used to introduce second element; compared to then: at that time; next

their: possessive form of "they" there: in that place they’re: contraction for "they are"

through: finished; into and out of threw: past tense of "to throw" thorough: complete

to: toward too: also; very (used to show emphasis) two: number following one

track: course, road tract: pamphlet; plot of ground

waist: midsection of the body waste: discarded material; to squander

waive: forgo, renounce wave: flutter, move back and forth

weak: not strong week: seven days

weather: climatic condition whether: if wether: a neutered male sheep

where: in which place were: past tense of "to be"

which: one of a group witch: female sorcerer

whose: possessive for "of who" who’s: contraction for "who is"

your: possessive for "of you" you’re: contraction for "you are" yore: time long past

commonly confused words part 2

[gudmould]

Introduction of multi-component injection molding process

Multi-component injection molding process Also called multi-color injection molding process, it refers to injection molding of two or more color materials or different materials through a mold with one or more runners. It was first represented by two-color injection molding, most of our daily contact with two-color products, such as toothbrush we use every morning and evening, handle is made of…

[shesnake]

Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’

Why don’t more animated movies look this good? According to people who worked on the sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, it’s because the working conditions required to produce such artistry are not sustainable.

Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion.

While frequent major overhauls are standard operating procedure in animation (Pixar films can take between four and seven years to plot, animate, and render), those changes typically occur early on during development and storyboarding stages. But these Spider-Verse 2 crew members say they were asked to make alterations to already-approved animated sequences that created a backlog of work across multiple late-stage departments. Across the Spider-Verse was meant to debut in theaters in April of 2022, before it was postponed to October of that year and then June 2023 owing to what Entertainment Weekly reported as “pandemic-related delays.” However, the four crew members say animators who were hired in the spring of 2021 sat idle for anywhere from three to six months that year while Phil Lord tinkered with the movie in the layout stage, when the first 3-D representation of storyboards are created.

As a result, these individuals say, they were pushed to work more than 11 hours a day, seven days a week, for more than a year to make up for time lost and were forced back to the drawing board as many as five times to revise work during the final rendering stage.

"For animated movies, the majority of the trial-and-error process happens during writing and storyboarding. Not with fully completed animation. Phil’s mentality was, This change makes for a better movie, so why aren’t we doing it? It’s obviously been very expensive having to redo the same shot several times over and have every department touch it so many times. The changes in the writing would go through storyboarding. Then it gets to layout, then animation, then final layout, which is adjusting cameras and placements of things in the environment. Then there’s cloth and hair effects, which have to repeatedly be redone anytime there’s an animation change. The effects department also passes over the characters with ink lines and does all the crazy stuff like explosions, smoke, and water. And they work closely with lighting and compositing on all the color and visual treatments in this movie. Every pass is plugged into editing. Smaller changes tend to start with animation, and big story changes can involve more departments like visual development, modeling, rigging, and texture painting. These are a lot of artists affected by one change. Imagine an endless stream of them."

"Over 100 people left the project because they couldn’t take it anymore. But a lot stayed on just so they could make sure their work survived until the end — because if it gets changed, it’s no longer yours. I know people who were on the project for over a year who left, and now they have little to show for it because everything was changed. They went through the hell of the production and then got none of their work coming out the other side."