#at visuals

[robotlyra]

Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

[imperatoralicia]

I get a lot of entertainment thinking about how containers are used in video games sometimes.

[foone]

(bad) Idea: Pronoun selections for multiple pronoun users where you have the ability to set relative rates of each pronoun. Like maybe like:

See you could set relative frequencies of each pronoun, and order them.

And yes I did mock this up using Visual Basic 6. That's just how my brain works.

[frail-simulacra]

tokyo google maps

edit I’m going to try to find the exact location somehow since everyone likes this picture haha

edit: i actually found it— it’s 5-chōme-4 Higashiōi in Shinagawa City, Tokyo

[string-star-lights]

i love characters with prominent noses. the only reason i’ve ever given a character a small nose is to fulfill a diversity quota

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[blnxpc]

Arrow Poem

[canisalbus]

✦ Fashionably late ✦

[wolfythewitch]

👁️

[cozystars]

!!! BUILT LIKE BILBO BAGGINS !!!

[maplewozapi]

I genuinely feel like I’m going insane sometimes

[aliasalias]

That day I woke up crying

Inspired by this article, which caught in my throat for a good while.