#acting dot gif

[casualavocados]

#he doesn't want to fight with you ai di, he wants to Kiss🙄💘🥺

Nat Chen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[keery]

FARGO 5.04 - Insolubilia

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

me: never saw a single episode of the hit television show pretty little liars (2010)

also me, 4 hours into a 3-part, 6.5 hour-long comprehensive breakdown of the hit television show pretty little liars (2010):

[chevaliermalfets]

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

I'm bored...I'm gonna analyse a GIF.

This year marks Ed, Edd n Eddy's 25th anniversary. I may not talk about it much on this blog, but it's one of my all time favourite cartoons. I'd watch it constantly during my childhood and to this day "Big Picture Show" is my favourite series finale. So, given how much I enjoy the show, I was happy to see more tweets about it than usual on my Twitter (yes I'm still calling it that) timeline because of the anniversary.

The influx of tweets (yes I'm still calling them that) about the show led me to this tweet. There's a very good analysis of the moment here on Tumblr, but here's a screenshot from a reply under the tweet of what the user said.

It made me think of other similar moments of character acting in animation, and of course I started thinking of examples from Animaniacs.

There's many to be found across the original show and the reboot, but one example I really like is this moment here:

For context, all three Warners are making similar jokes about the size of a hunter's feet.

It's not the dialogue I wanna talk about, this moment is brief and ultimately not that important, but I just love how the Warners are animated here. It tells you a lot about them based only on the character acting and body language:

Yakko

Yakko is the first to come onscreen to make a comment, indicating that he's the leader. He calmy walks into frame holding one hand out conversationally, before standing with both arms behind his back. Compared to the other two's stances, this makes him look more reserved and professional. This not only indicates that he's older, but also suggests he's cool-headed and not as reliant on physical action as his sibs, hence why his arms are behind his back; he only really needs his voice. He gives a smug grin, so even without hearing what he's saying you know he's being snarky right now, which contrasts with his body language, showing he's purposefully maintaining a deceptively non-aggressive demeanour and is likely a smart aleck in general.

Wakko

Wakko is the only one who doesn't come in from the side, instead he enters frame from below, indicating that he's the most unconventional of the three. He flails his arms around rather than keeping them in one place like Yakko, which not only suggests that he's more wild and energetic, but (as I said earlier) is more reliant on physical action than Yakko. Wakko does a sort of "don't worry about it" motion with his left arm with a simple smile on his face, a smile that lacks any smugness. This suggests that he's a little friendlier in comparison. He sticks out his tongue like a dog and eventually settles on T-rex arms, indicating that he's more animalistic than his sibs.

Dot

Dot quickly hops into frame from the side, almost like a pounce, with a determined and somewhat aggressive facial expression, showing energy and spunk. She punches the air, which only emphasizes her feistiness. Her movements suggest she's more prone to being outwardly aggressive than her brothers. Her expression softens to more of a cute smile, showing that she's not all aggression and is quite cute and jovial too. She settles with her hands on her hips, a typical pose used to show that a character is sassy and/or confident, hence indicating that Dot is too.

Basically I just think the way animation can be used to establish characters without us having to hear a word out of them is really cool.

[titsthedamnseason]

why does “God” talk to zane. im scared

[kaycode1999]

I’m rewatching the Animaniacs reboot and I’m freaking out because I just now realized they made a reference to Transformers

Which Jess Harnell ( Wakko) was in and he voiced this guy

[dudleyguildford]

you psycho! look what he's done!

[laceratedlamiaceae]

finally some realistic flirting

[knightofleo]

[chirpsythismorning]

📝 💐 🛼 💔⏪️💭🧊🌄❤️‍🩹

I Know There's Something's Going On by Frida

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El's Not Stupid

[weedzkiller]

muse: yoon cheonbok. he/they/xe, queer. runaway trust fund baby, current con artist.

open to: m/x. friend, hookup, recent partner, sugar daddy, etc. pls note that cheonbok is on the aromantic spectrum and as such i cannot promise a romantic ship with them.

plot: your muse is rich and/or has a high position in a powerful company. they suspect cheonbok—who they know as sawyer kim, a pretty and harmless dancer—of stealing from them, spying on them, and/or using them to get information about the company. which he totally is.

they stare at the other with eyes wide, heart pounding, expression vaguely bewildered, when all they want to do is grab the nearest fragile object and shatter it against the wall. “…sweetheart, do you even hear yourself?” he laughs lightly, like this isn’t terrifying. like this might not be the beginning of the end of everything he’s spent the last few months working so fucking hard on. where did xe possibly slip up? what could they possibly know? “i—please slow down. i’m struggling to even understand what you’re accusing me of.”

[esther-dot]

Are you a bot?

[lucidicer]

i need to learn to stop forcing myself to do things just for the sake of doing them

[entityforged]

muse: (yoon cheonbok) sawyer kim. he/ae/they, queer. runaway trust fund baby, current thief.

open to: m/x/f. friend, hookup, recent partner, sugar daddy, etc.

plot: your muse is rich and/or has a high position in a powerful company. they suspect cheonbok of stealing from them, spying on them, and/or using them to get information about the company—which he totally is.

“...sweetheart, do you even hear yourself?” he laughs lightly, like this isn’t terrifying. like this might not be the beginning of the end of everything he’s spent the last few months working so fucking hard on. where did he possibly slip up? “i—please slow down. i’m struggling to even understand what you’re accusing me of.”

[former-leftist-jew]

Here's how big Israel actually is, lest our imagination run away with us.

by studiosalud (2024)