#cabezotapequeno

[nyctoheart]

You’ve probably noticed by now, but on twitter someone mentioned that in the Kingdom Hearts games, whenever the “K” and “S” on the title logo appear longer than normal, Sora is NOT the protagonist.

no i NEVER noticed until i saw it on twitter recently too!!! I think think there’s a chance it’s only a concert since those also have the longer K and S. I just don’t want to get my hopes up for a new title (esp. one thats not on mobile) if it only ends up being a concert of some sort.

[super-metroid]

Can you make it all the way to 100?

there arent 100 days in may but it sure feels like there are

[misreckon]

Just recently bought SMT: DDS on the PlayStation store, and I wanted to ask; is there any benefit to reverting to human form? I'm finding that staying in demon form works fine.

Some enemies are weak to gun and you may need to exploit that in order to get more turns. Otherwise, you’re weaker in human form and can’t cast any of your magic, so it’s generally a downgrade from your high powered demon state! I don’t exactly remember but you also may not be weak to or strong against certain elements like your demon form would be, so in certain battles you may need to revert a team member that’s allowing the enemy extra turns due to weakness.

[medakakurokami]

Top Ten character designers

ooh this is a neat one. i won’t do it in ranked order since its not really fair to compare styles against each other but here are 10 favorites. i’ll also do people who are primarily known for character design and not like mangaka who also work as character designers like Akira Toriyama or just have really good character design like Kozue Amano, but will allow character designers that may have worked on a manga like Yasuda Suzuhito

Akihiko Yoshida is my favorite artist and designer for Square Enix

Senri Kita, of course, who has my favorite Fire Emblem designs with all of her external work being just as good

and yes, .hack icon, i also love Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. similar to Azuma Kiyohiko (who i won’t include as he’s primarily a mangaka rather than a charadesigner) he has a very simple style that’s still highly distinguishable

you know who else is really good when he’s not being disgustingly self-indulgent and only being MOSTLY self-indulgent? RAITA

but you know who should be allowed to be as self indulgent as she fucking wants? Akemi Takada

Hidari, who happens to be my favorite Koei Tecmo artist, but is etched out by Senri Kita for best Fire Emblem artist mostly because i vastly prefer his Toukiden designs to his FE Echoes designs

Tatsuki Amazuyu i’ve never seen be NOT indulgent. but the main who invented Touka can’t be bad (with a shout-out to Misato Mitsumi)

Katsumi Enami, love her range of working with colors, from the more washed out in Baccano to the classic anime matte in Ys, all the way to the vibrant shit in Zero no Kiseki. plus just all her characters are super hot

and of course VOFAN. who is particularly noteworthy that despite the praise the Monogatari and SHAFT could received for a beautiful avant garde style in motion, they still don’t hold up to VOFAN’s still art

[toytowns]

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Akira Toriyama, creator of DBZ, said that the reason why Goku's hair turns blonde was to save time on inking, making drawing him a lot faster.

GENIUS

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Do you have any advice if someone wants to create an entirely new mythology for their story?

Mythology is a human creation which serves as a way to makesense to the world, surroundings and, mostly, natural events. Mythology tellsthe story of origins of the world, of people, of elements, and such. My approach to the creation of new mythology will have thegeography as the foundation for mythology. The reason for this is that we tryto explain, or find a reason, to what we see, hear, or sense. I can notexplain, even with a myth, snow if I have never seen it, or heard about it. Ican not explain the Aurora Borealis if I don’t know it exists. This might bereductionist since mythology relies on more than meets the eye (aka symbolism,rites, traditions, roles, kinship, among others), but it is a starting point.Geography When creating a new mythology you have to know where the story will take placeand the conditions of said place. The weather, the animals, the flora, thenatural events, and so. How do the people of your story understand and perceivethe sunrise, the sunset, the waves, the rivers, the eclipses, the storms. Isthere a story behind the shape of the mountains, are the animals arepresentation of gods and godessess. What about the stars, do they meansomething to them? Compile the geography of your setting, use mythology toexplain what your characters can see, the vital elements to their survival, andnatural events that can happen from time to time. The geography itself can play an important role in thedeveloping of the story, take for example a city surrounded by mountains, thesun rises from the mountains and sets behind them. There are no hurricanes, notornados, no tsunamis, nothing that can harm the population to a big extent.What role do the mountains play here? Are they protectors of the city? How dothe people feel when they travel to a place where there are no mountains? Onits counterpart, what about people living on an island, how do they feel aboutthe ocean? What it means to them?

CreationHow did things begin for the people in your story? What’s the beginning of theirworld. What are the elements arround it? Did a powerful entity created it, wasit because of a natural, yet untraceable event. How did the rivers becomerivers, who or what created the moon, or is i tan entity on its own?

LifeIs life given or is it created? If so, who, or what, gives it; who, or what,creates it? What is the definition of life to the people of your story? Is theocean alive? Do the mountains speak to the people who can understand them? Islife a synonym of movement? Is the wind an influx of life? Are living organismsseparated into body-mind, body-mind-soul, body-soul?

DestructionSome natural events can fall into the destruction category, such as volcanoeruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, among others. For your people, isthe creator also a destroyer, or are there other entities besides the creator.Is the destruction seen as something bad or as something natural and evennecessary?

DeathIs death the opposite of life? What do the people of your story consider death?Is it given, is it earned? Who can die, who can live forever? Does the sun diesafter it sets? What happens to the body after death? Is there an afterlifepeople can look up to?

TimeIs time linear or circular? How is it measured by the people on your story? Dothe days turn into weeks or do they remain days forever? How do peopledifferentiate one season from another? Is there an entity that controls thetime, or is it time an entity on its own?

SymbolsDo the entities have a correspondece here on earth, are specific symbolsassociated to them? Are certain events a warning for something bigger?  Do the people wear objects that resemble theentities they worship? Is there any iconography for these entities?

PropheciesAre there any prophecies in your mythology? It could be about the end of theworld, about the arrival of a different group of people, about a natural event,among others.

HeroesMythology also relies on heroes who have accomplished great tasks in order toprove themselves worthy of something. They are usually portrayed as role models for the society, as they embody the values of it.

Rites (also involved in religion)Are there any rites involved in your mythology? This could be before eating,before hunting, before a birth, or after those above. A rite is usually asacred act that allows people to go from one state to another within theirsociety.

Traditions (like rites, they respond to a diferent structure)These are a less sacred form of rites. Traditions carry the past on them asthey rememorate an event of importance to society, to a family, ore ven to asingle person. A birthday celebration can be labeled as a tradition.

SuggestionsBelow you’ll find a list of books written by anthropologists and such, aboutmythology. Not all of them are explicit about it. Also this books were written by people outside the societies they wrote about, so read them with a critical eye.

Tim Ingold - The temporality of the landscape (paper)

Pierre Clastres - Chronicle of the Guayaki India

Claude Levi-Strauss - Mythologiques / How myths die / Many of his work

Mircea Eliade - Many of his work

Louis-Vincent Thomas - Anthropologie de la mort

Joseph Campbell - Transformations of Myths through time

Fernando Santos-Granero - Writing history into the landscape: Space, Myth, and Ritual in ContemporaryAmazonia

Advice

Define what is sacred and what is profane for the people in your story.

The same goes for values and moral expectations. Think of archetypes here.

In many cultures, as well as in many mythologies, you can find a universal flood and universal fire myth. This is because both elements have cleansing properties. There can be mythological creatures associated to them or not. As well, these myths can be replicated when someone is born or when someone dies.

Mythology is part of the worldbuilding, and it plays an important role in society since it permeates to daily life.

As time passes, myths change, or are changed, to keep them alive. At the same time, they can be transformed to fit societal changes.

Mythology is not the same as religion. This being said, monoteism is not a higher or more advanced state than animism or polyteism.

I hope this works for you!LiaBelow there’s a not-so-short passage of the book Blindness by José Saramago. It isn’t a major spoiler but it shows how much incidence we, humans, have on the gods we create and re-create. It’s rather long, so if you want to skip it, or read the book (which I advice), feel free to do it. Also, I cut off some parts, but it stills makes sense.

A church, if I could only lie down for a while, I’d feel like new, Let’s go. Six steps led up to the church, six steps, which the doctor’s wife climbed with great difficulty, especially since she also had to guide her husband. The doors were wide open, which was a great help, a revolving door, even of the simplest type, would on this occasion have been a difficult obstacle to overcome… She raised her head to the slender pillars, to the high vaults, to confirm the security and stability of her blood circulation, then she said, I am feeling fine, but at that very moment she thought she had gone mad or that the lifting of the vertigo had given her hallucinations, it could not be true what her eyes revealed, that mannailed to the cross with a white bandage covering his eyes, and next to him a woman, her heart pierced by seven swords and her eyes also covered with a white bandage, and it was not only that man and that woman who were in that condition, all the images in the church had their eyes covered, statues with a white cloth tied around the head, paintings with a thick brushstroke of white paint, and there was a woman teaching her daughter how to read and both had their eyes covered, and a man with an open book on which a little child was sitting, and both had their eyes covered, and another man, his body spiked with arrows, and he had his eyes covered, and a woman with a lit lamp, and shehad her eyes covered, and a man with wounds on his hands and feet and his chest, and he had his eyes covered, and another man with a lion, and both had their eyes covered, and another man with a lamb, and both had their eyes covered, and another man with an eagle, and both had their eyes covered, andanother man with a spear standing over a fallen man with horns and cloven feet, and both had their eyes covered, and another man carrying a set of scales, and he had his eyes covered, and an old bald man holding a white lily, and he had his eyes covered, and another old man leaning on an unsheathedsword, and he had his eyes covered, and a woman with a dove, and both had their eyes covered, and a man with two ravens, and all three had their eyes covered, there was only one woman who did not have her eyes covered, because she carried her gouged-out eyes on a silver tray. The doctor’s wifesaid to her husband, You won’t believe me if I tell you what I have in front of my eyes, all the images in this church have their eyes covered, How strange, I wonder why, How should I know, perhaps it was the work of someone whose faith was badly shaken when he realised that he would be blind like the others, maybe it was even the local priest, perhaps he thought that when the blind people could no longer see the images, the images should not be able to see the blind either, Images don’t see, You’re wrong, images see with the eyes of those who see them, only that now blindness is the lot of everyone, You can still see, I’ll see less and less all the time, even though I may not lose my eyesight I shall become more and more blind because I shall have no one to see me, If the priest covered the eyes of the images, That’s just my idea, It’s the only hypothesis that makes any sense, it’s the only one that can lend some dignity to our suffering, I imagine that man coming in here from the world of the blind, where he would have to return only to go blind himself, I imagine the closed doors, the deserted church, the silence, I imagine the statues, the paintings, I see him going from one to the other, climbing up to the altars and tying the bandages with a double knot so that they do not come undone and slip off, applying two coats of paint to the pictures in order to make the white night into which they are plunged still thicker, that priest must have committed the worst sacrilege of all times and all religions, the fairest and most radically human, coming here to declare that, ultimately, God does not deserve to see… The conversation was overheard by the blind people in their immediate vicinity, and it goes without saying that there was no need to wait for the confirmation by oath before the news started to circulate, to pass from mouth to mouth, in a murmur which shortly changed its tone, first incredulous, then alarmed, again incredulous, it was unfortunate that there were several superstitious andimaginative people in the congregation, the idea that the sacred images were blind, that their compassionate or pitying eyes only stared out at their own blindness, became all of a sudden unbearable, it was tantamount to having told them that they were surrounded by the living dead, one scream was enough, then another and another, then fear made all the people rise up, panic drove them to the doors, here the inevitable repeated itself, since panic is much faster than the legs which carry it, the feet of the fugitive trip up in their flight, even more so when one is blind, and there he lies on the ground, panic tells him,

[justintaco]

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Didn’t the creator of Code Lyoko end up working on Space Dandy and other anime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Romain

hey you’re right

[alioc]

Remember when Rolf straight up squirted lemon juice in his eyes just to see those cupids

Rolf is like the physical embodiment of me @ that romo shit

[allhailweegee]

cabezotapequeno

  Y’know. Anastasia. The Disney princess.

Since this movie was owned by Fox, and Disney bought Fox, doesn’t this film technically count as a Disney film now

Fullmetal Alchemist Confirmed For Kingdom Hearts III.

[grydyne-ze]

🎶You'll never see them COMING🎶

@cabezotapequeno

[carnival-phantasm]

Feliz cumpleaños!

Thanks hermano!

[nyctoheart]

What are your thoughts on the overall composition of the KH3 cover? I've heard from a few people online that the new cover lacks a central focal point that the previous covers had.

Yeah I agree. I’m not at all like an art major, so maybe I’m just talking out of my ass, but still, I’ll say what I do know. I’ll insert a read more because on mobile I imagine this could get long.

At least for me, when I focus on composition and focal points, I like to compare if the focal point is being pointed too or is easily seen with light or darkness. I’m sure those have actually terms, but alas I don’t know them lmao

In the two posters above, the characters are easily noticed due to their darker colors in contrast to the sky blue (even with their pale clothing and skin)

Above to the left, all the characters are pointed to with the keyblades, and the characters on the bottom half still stick out due to the lighter background. The top half has a darker background which ansem and xemnas fade into, but the definite focal point is master xehanort, who’s bald head contrasts the dark.

Above to the right, Sora and Riku aren’t that much lighter than their surroundings, but considering that their surroundings all point and flow into them, they’re still definitely the focal point (of course, taking up half the page helps too!)

These two pieces above I wouldn’t necessarily say that they have lines pointing to the characters (though I think the thrones of Where Nothing Gathers points to Sora and co.). But it’s still easy to let your eyes slide to the characters because the backgrounds are a. rather empty and simple, and b. contrast with the characters themselves. Even Aqua and Mickey’s face contrast with the darker blue in the top left.

Here is a poster I don’t actually like, even though I think the artwork itself is gorgeous. I think the extremely contrasted checkers is a bit disorienting and distracting from the characters, even if they do point to all the characters. 

So now onto the main part, I think a good way to analyze KH3′s cover art is to compare it to KH1′s cover art, which I would say is definitely it’s inspiration.

I don’t think the poster above has any strong points to the focal point except maybe the clouds (which I guess writing this now, doesn’t point to the focal point) and some buildings. I also think that Kairi, Donald, and Goofy blend into the dark background. However, they are not the focal point. The use of negative space (the gif says anti space, so sorry!!!) to define Sora and Riku are what make this piece so strong. The large bright heart grabs your attention, settling your eyes on Sora and riku in contrast to the brightness.

So, let’s compare all that blabbering to the KH3 poser

Other than the top right corner’s pipes/bars/whatever, there’s nothing to really point at the characters. There’s also the fact that the characters blend into the dark building. True, their faces are more apparent (much like master xehanort in the 2.5 poster listed way above) but still, I feel like terra and the 358/2 Days trio really blend in. I would have thought Namine was the main character, seeing as she is so much brighter than everyone else. But even Namine isn’t the focal point, when I first looked at this piece personally, my eyes went straight between sora and the clock tower in the background. It’s very interesting to me that with a majority of the artworks, the characters really contrast with their surroundings, and the ones that don’t contrast tend to be more minor characters. But this piece seems to be much more a communal piece, none of the characters more important than the others. But, because of that, I would expect all the characters to contrast with their surroundings. That’s why the idea of the KH3 poster being set in day time (this still seems like dawn to me) was so appealing to me. I feel like it would emphasize the characters (especially since a majority of them wear black now haha!) 

I don’t have time at the moment, but later I would like to reblog this with an edited rendition of the KH3 cover, one where the sky appears more towards midday. In addition, perhaps lightening certain areas of the characters. it’s 10:10pm at the moment, so I may have to wait until tomorrow!

[super-metroid]

It's been awesome following you these few years. Have a wonderful break!

thanks for sticking around so long! trust me, i’ll be back before you know it

[misreckon]

Is it true that the Star Wars theme was discovered inthe files for SMT: Nocturne?

It’s very common to use scratch tracks while developing games, and sometimes those tracks get overlooked in the code of the game when it ships. I really wouldn’t be surprised if it was used for something.

remember, this is a game where the demi-fiend model was one of this first to be created, so it was used for placeholder animations while other models were in the works, leading to things like this:

so the star wars theme in the game really isn’t surprising 

[medakakurokami]

Yo, what are your thoughts on the Kingdom Hearts games so far? Heard you beat the first two games.

i beat the first game! and now I’m almost halfway through with Chain of Memories which feels a lot longer.

The first game was a lot of fun mixed with some perplexing decisions about progression. The combat held up pretty well for a game of that era. There were some frustrating moments but they were all pretty manageable in a way that in retrospect I don’t hold a grudge against, like the 1000 phase final boss for instance, it was frustrating but they gave you frequent extra respawn points and honestly its a better feeling than usual finally beating a boss when they had 1000 phases. The story was also just sorta fun, nothing convoluted just yet more just a bunch of shonen daydreamy stuff, but with the music and atmosphere it pulled that off pretty well.

Chain of Memories which I’m on now is a game I really like the ideas behind like the room generation and the card battles are all very interesting on paper, though it’s kind of a pain to play through directly after KH1. You never feel like you’re making good progress when you just gotta play through all the KH1 worlds again, and only get new story info in between the actual game worlds. But its an understandable compromise so I’m ready to bite the bullet, and the organization members are again, a lot of fun.

[toytowns]

Super Sonic is Goku's fursona

yes