#Giant Eyeball

[sspacegodd]

[yuukirita]

I just wanna draw em-

no one stop me

I just imagine Vortex really encouraging Firstaid to get freaky by trying to pick out the best part for him or something.

You know. Being interested by his hobbies. Very sweet. Extremely creepy, but sweet :D

Please, I need more mecha au vortex and first aid. I need freaky first aid and freakier vortex. They’re horrible for each other. Thank god they took each other out of the dating pools.

Please let first aid be freak holding back until vortex slowlllyy brings it out

You know like. First aid is a freak but he was taught to hide it so he wouldn’t become an outsider. He was raised to be shy and sneaky about it.

But when he starts spending time with Vortex he steps to zero judgement territory. Whatever he says, whatever thinks about - Vortex never finds it inappropriate or creepy. You wanna steal a piece of alien spine? Yeah sure why not. You like to mess with dead bodies? Cool, I’m more of an “alive and screaming” type of guy but I get it. You are collecting the badges of dead soldiers? Can I see?👁

Like. Vortex isn’t shy about being a freak at all. He enjoys it~

[clairity-org]

Giant Eyeball, Dallas 5/16/24 by Sharon Mollerus

[palabarian]

Do you think they have a rail card?

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

THE WATCHER

by Kurt Huggins

[id-feminist]

The abyss is literally gazing back.

Caldwell 63, Helix Nebula (Infrared)

[egophiliac]

I love how you draw Grim the size of a small cat. It genuinely blows my mind that according to the game he's actually approximately 70 cm tall... Like, Ortho is 148 cm. That's only two Grims! If Grim stands on Ortho's head, they'd be just a bit taller than Malleus (who is 202 cm and I'm not sure that's counting the horns)! The proportions are just so wild to try to imagine realistically... (and I do like the small cat Grim take more, it's very endearing)

every time I remember Grim is actually supposed to be the size of, like, a medium-to-largeish dog, and then I just...draw him cat-sized anyway. I also think it's cuter that way! 🤷 (let's just say he's not allowed to ride the servant unless he takes the shrinking potion first.)

ultimately I figure we all get a little artistic license in our fanart, and mine are:

cat-sized Grim

Lilia with hair spikes up to the heavens

w i d e Silver

[the-adventures-of-dave]

I brought a nasty cold back from my Florida vacation. Kepler has been doing frequent check ins to make sure I’m not dead

[ghostpajamas]

As holiness increases, there is no way to depict its brightness, except by darkness. - or - just as light streams from the sun , those who hold an angel's gaze are bathed in unique light.

[acmeoop]

A Stingy Little Englishman “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” (1983)

[flamestar126]

Do it, Frisk

[solgemn]

yn what im gonna say it

im obsessed with this man and i think we should talk abt this more

[lowrezbonuslevel]

professional influencer

They finally ported Amazing Mirror to Switch! Here's my new worst post

(me vs. the eye she tells me not to worry about)

[zodiac-rave]

[betterbemeta]

I understand that everything about scale in The Transformers (any series, comic, movie, etc.) is bad.

I do. I really understand. I accept it. I have no choice to.

But it drives me insane.

A consistent sense of scale is what helps us understand objects in space. Including objects that are characters. We can understand how heavy they are, how tall they are, what spaces they can move through and which ones they can't, what their perspective is, and what a typical human perspective is of them.

This is actually the thing that makes the live action Transformers movies 'work'-- they aren't always consistent but because human characters and environments keep the same scale and establishing shots of most of the characters include that scale, all of the explosions and fights and "wow!" is relative to actual live-action human beings.

But when that isn't the case, the scale in transformers is often relative. Robots that are 'large' (Bulkhead, Lugnut & many other Decepticons, etc.) are scaled bigger than robots that are 'small' (cassettes/minicons, robots that are motorcycles, Bumblebee, etc.) and some robots that are 'important' are given a relative size that has to do with conflict that they face. The most obvious examples of that last one are Optimus Prime and Megatron, who are both often Large but may have different relative sizes as the key trait here is actually 'important'-- Optimus Prime is usually Large in relation to his team but never Large enough to win against Megatron without a Struggle to His Limits (or more heroic means like the power of teamwork etc.)

Relative scaling also applies to human characters who tend to be 'as small as giant robots make you feel.' Especially if they're a child. Which is... okay, but the whole point of Robots Being in Disguise is that they sampled a human environment with scale and are taking it with them. We SHOULD be able to assume their altmode, if it's an effective disguise, can also be a way to measure scale. But this isn't the case; TFA has a lot of weirdly sized buildings and almost all of TFP takes place in barren environments, or in Ships and Bases where the scale changes around surreptitiously.

Space robots don't have to be exactly the weight of whatever earth thing they transform into and sometimes that's totally impossible but who-is-more-massive is kind of important when your show has so many physical smackdowns. Relative mass can take us pretty far, but it can't take us all the way. Sir Isaac Newton IS the deadliest son of a bitch in space! Much more exciting confrontations can happen when we have a better understanding of what physics are possible even if we don't adhere to realism perfectly. Sort of like how drawing from life can make fantasy illustration more effective and imaginative.

And even outside of confrontation, if any characters want to interact with each other or their environment, we as an audience get SO much information based on their scale and sense of mass. Optimus Prime Has You In His Hand is more powerful if your mutual points of view are consistent. We can tell which robots can easily shake hands or hug, who can use a shipping container as a convenient thing to lean on vs a dumpster, how 'far away' stuff is for different characters, how much energy they have to use to cross a distance, and more.

Even Weird Stuff is better if we care a little bit more. In TFA, Blitzwing drops directly out of the sky if he transforms from a plane into a tank midair. We assume this is just because tanks can't fly, which IS funny. But what size of tank does he become? Is it a realistic size for a main battle tank in the modern day? Does he put on 52 tons when he changes from something the size of a F-15 Eagle to something more like an Abrams tank?? Instead of that being some kind of oversight or mass displacement thing what if we leaned into it and used this thinking to make even funnier jokes?

Many MANY mecha shows are very detailed about the specifications of their robots, which lines up with how people who are in to real life vehicles (and military technology...) obsess about the numbers. We don't need to go that far, but Vehicles and Technology are one of THE autistic things to care about and yes, I know, most of this material is 'for kids.' But who do you think is memorizing all of the Facts about Trains or Planes or Trucks out there? Why do kids care about vehicle robots, is it really just haha hot wheels vroom vroom or are some of them actually interested in what there is to like about real, non-imaginary giant metal constructs?

It drives me bonkers that the 'toy' aspect of Transformers where 'who cares, its toys' overtakes a lot of the things that help imagination play with toys in the media that's kind of the starter-imagination-play-scenario WITH the toys. Just a littttle bit more effort into consistency and leaning into showing it off would absolutely blow people's minds with what's now possible for action figures beyond vaguely bonking against each other.

[ispyspookymansion]

i decorate pretty severely for halloween for someone who lives alone in an apartment and will get no visitors or trick or treaters. But. i do this for ME.