#emater

[ocombatenterondonia]

Votação da Alero assegura mais de R$ 5 milhões em recursos para Emater

Dois projetos de leis aprovados pela Assembleia Legislativa de Rondônia (Alero) asseguraram mais de R$ 5 milhões em recursos para a Entidade Autárquica de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural de Rondônia (Emater). As matérias foram publicadas no Diário Oficial do Estado (DOE) na terça-feira (9). Os Projetos de Leis 525/2024 e 553/2024 foram discutidos e aprovados durante sessão itinerante, em…

[delgadomkt]

Emater prepara mudas de pequi sem espinho para público, confira

Espécies de pequi com e sem espinho estarão disponíveis para serem comercializadas a partir de setembro deste ano e os interessados devem realizar cadastro no site da Agência A Agência Goiana de Assistência Técnica, Extensão Rural e Pesquisa Agropecuária (Emater) traçou um cronograma de produção de novo lote com 6 mil mudas de pequi, que serão comercializadas com o público geral a partir de…

[wikipediapictures]

eMate 300

“The Newton eMate 300 was an Apple Newton built into a laptop like casing including a standard keyboard. It was aimed at the education market.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[disease]

#181 – APPLE eMATE 300 — € 180,00 / 200,00

[maxwellatoms]

Very random question - in Big Boogey Adventure, how come the Billy robot has a cool 3D model that only gets used in one shot in the cold-open? Was it planned to be used in more shots but it was decided that just drawing it for the rest of the movie would make more sense?

To save money, studios will often make you use two or even three overseas studios or the same time. The idea (I think) is that you're getting some time from an "A" or "B" team at an "A" studio, and those episodes will help hide the "C" team from the "C" studio's work. Whatever the reason, the process makes quality control more difficult than it needs to be. Usually within an episode or two, you know which studio is going to be working for you and which is just going to make everyone's lives harder.

For Grim & Evil, we used Digital eMation for Evil Con Carne. ECC was the "middle cartoon", and therefore got less focus so I'd given that show to eMation almost in its entirety. They were an unknown quantity and I wasn't sure I trusted them with the main act, but over time they put out the best work. By our third season, I had eMation take over entirely.

eMation was hungry and eager to show what they could do, and that sometimes included surprising me with little treats. Since eMation started as a digital company, they had a solid 3D pipeline when we started working together. The Billy-Bot was something that eMation chose to do, and I thought it was cool so we kept it.

Our relationship strengthened, and eventually I even asked them to build some 3D models for Underfist's action scenes.

[mountportyearbookproject]

Mountport High Yearbook Project- Signups

It's here!! Welcome to the signups for the Mountport Yearbook Project

Rules:

All art and writing must be original, no AI generated pieces and no using other people's art (commisions/picrews/etc)

Character artists will pick last names and have first choice over designs, all writers must go along with their choices (If your characters are siblings, you should work together to figure out a last name, and if you want your characters to be siblings, same deal. Also check in with fellow members to make sure it all fits together)

All art and writing must be digital, if you need help digitizing your piece, reach out to me or the other members of the project!!

Artists can draw their characters however they want, I will clarify who the character is in the caption, so feel free to go all out with design and headcanons!

No infighting, bigotry, and if a fight starts in the server, agree to disagree. This is all for fun, if someone has a different headcanon/idea than you, that's their own perogative. (however, if you're causing too much trouble, you may be kicked from the project and your piece may be replaced)

The deadline for the project is November 1st, 2024. (This may change, but if you are unable to reach the initial deadline, reach out to me to get an extension)

More info about the project!!

It is free both to participate and read!

There will be a discord server, for organazation purposes, but also just to hang out and chat.

When it is finished, it will be out as both a flipbook and a slideshow, for higher quality.

It will be modeled similarly to the Hatchetfield High Yearbook (thank you again to @bird-likes-to-fandom <3) There will be senior quotes as well as signature pages, both for characters, and the artists/writers

For the signature pages, everyone will sign a trasnparent image with your name, a little doodle/quote if you want, similar to signing an actual yearbook. Individual character artists will also be signing a seperate transparet image as that character.

You can apply to be both an artist and a writer, just be sure you can finish everything you're signing up for on time.

Finally, if you change your tumblr url during the project, please let me know so I can give you proper credit.

Artist Signup Form

Writer Signup Form

If you get in, I'll DM you from this account Monday, September 9th!

[plasky]

Do you guys think this guy is based off of an Apple eMate?

[seeksstaronmewni]

What happened to Korean animation???

I can not stress this enough, but what is it with the Korean animation on most Burbank-made cartoons produced after 2015 looking so… slow and stiff???

There're LOTS more on 2s animation timing... and less inbetweening, while characters, props and effects are not as loosely drawn as they used to be before 2016.

Look at this example below of what a modern cartoon looks like when animated in Korea:

Bernard Williams ain't selling the acting well now; is he?

That episode of Craig of the Creek, "Creature Feature", was made in 2020; it was animated by Rough Draft Korea Co., Ltd. — an animation studio founded by Gregg Vanzo as a cheaper means for quality animation on none other than The Ren & Stimpy Show (Don't believe me? Thad Komorowski will tell you).

He's moving too slow. This shot is all on 2s. His arms move stiffly, and his head bobs up and down just a little bit. It doesn't sell the specific emotions he's expressing as richly as they could... compared to something like classic Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon shows of the past. The overseas animators should listen to the audio track, the recorded dialogue. That's what they did on on Ren & Stimpy!

Now let us to go back 10 years before Rough Draft animated that episode of Craig of the Creek... to another Cartoon Network Studios original that Rough Draft animated, the Sym-Bionic Titan episode "The Phantom Ninja":

LOOK HOW LOOSE AND SMOOTH THIS LITTLE BIT OF ANIMATION IS! ☝

This level of Korean animation quality was normal for TV cartoons back in the 2010s.

This one shot has a healthy balance of on 2s animation and on 1s animation.

It's just Ilana Lunis and Octus doing a bit of a... I don't know... a shrug... giving Lance a certain look. Not even talking in this shot, nor is it an action sequence, and this little bit of acting looks far better than Craig of the Creek ever animated in general.

Rough Draft also animates on Spongebob and they're struggling but usually excelling on the animation quality overseas.

This applies to cartoons made and aired before 2016 where post-2105 episode/content are the same quality as most post-2015 cartoons shows these days that're animated in Korea; examples are Uncle Grandpa, Samurai Jack Season 5, The Venture Bros. Season 6 onward, We Bare Bears Season 2 onward, and even later Disney TVA shows as Amphibia Season 3, The Owl House (even Luke Weber noticed the degrade in animation quality) and Hailey's On It! (excluding 2/3 of the first episode)... though mostly it involves Warner Bros. Discovery-owned properties - Turner Broadcasting System-based ones namely.

Now what are the reasons for Korean animation quality since 2016?

In the case of some post-2015 episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, the issue might be TIME, since it's a popular franchise which, among other new Nicktoons these days, Nickelodeon is trying to dump out on TV as fast as humanly possible. The Patrick Star Show seems to rarely suffer from this, however; only few episodes like "The Commadore Episode" were animated mostly on 2s and more stiff than loose - there just might not've been time for retakes, although TV and certainly streaming platforms tend to dump a bunch of episodes out all at once. Those that're animated in Korea would probably suffer from this business practice. Why can't we just put new episodes on every Thursday, Friday, or Saturday... with breaks in-between instead of not stopping until the season is over? That reminds me that most [adult swim] shows tend to have 6 or 10 episodes per season.

On the other hand... may be that Korean animators just need a break. Perhaps the Korean overseas facilities need more money... more direction... more communication... more retakes (as if we could actually afford all or any of that with today's gas prices?). Most American cartoons, which are typically animated in California (namely Burbank), are animated overseas in Korea — more so than any other country, Asian or not. Could America be overworking the Koreans? It's a possibility. Additionally, in 2024, there were some leaks that suggested that other studios had people in North Korea contracted for overseas animation work, and work between the US and the weapon-protected North side of Korea is forbidden.

Instead of overworking Korean animators, why not animate domestically here in America? In Burbank? When America had domestic animation for TV shows crippled, Japan became one of the most popular of overseas production facilities... until they became too premium for America, and America had to resort to other Asian countries like Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and in some cases even China. In my opinion, the Philippines can deliver better animation (a bit roughly but still better than Korea for the most part) for the US! Taiwan isn't as involved with Burbank animation anymore, and China rarely does anything except to animate for some shows like Secret Mountain Fort Awesome and Mike Young-era Clifford the Big Red Dog. Speaking of Rough Draft Korea, however: Hanna-Barbera sent John Kricfalusi overseas to Cuckoo's Nest Studio/Wang Film in Taiwan to train the assistant animators there in acting, animation, and layout on the 1980s' episodes (or is it a reboot?) of The Jetsons. All that John K wanted to do was character design, but he ended up doing a lot more on the show — and for an overseas Asian animation production facility prior to the founding of Rough Draft Studios!

What about rigging (puppetry in 2 dimensions), though? The future of quality TV/non-theatrical 2D animation may be in the hands of Canada's and Ireland's finest riggers. Mercury Filmworks, Boulder Media, Lighthouse Studios, Snipple Animation, and Jam Filled Entertainment can deliver better animation through rigging than Korea can do for most hand-drawn shows!

That is unless it's the Spongebob Squarepants franchise of course... that and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? and... pretty much anything animated by Yearim or Yeson (most of which are adult cartoon sitcoms with rather restricted animation so as not to distract from their comedic wordplay, since those shows are more script-driven anyway).

I asked some people about the current condition of Korean animation to see what they think about that. Maxwell Atoms had a good bit to say...

The What's in My Head? podcast interview with Randy Myers largely benefited from a question I suggested on Twitter/X about the animation quality differences between the first 6 seasons of The Powerpuff Girls and the 2016-2019 PPG "reboot" episodes.

Ariel Vracin-Harrell tweeted that overseas animators often follow the storyboards "religiously", and tiny little micro-poses in storyboards can result in the animation looking "laggy and odd". (Perhaps those Korean animators view the storyboard animatics as key animation?)

Lauren Faust says that you shouldn't animate you storyboards. One example to illustrate effective storyboarding that isn't an animated storyboard animatic is the intro to Batman: The Animated Series.

Another possible reason for stiff Korean animation since 2016 might be that the Korean animators are trying to animate as clean (and thus on-model) as humanly possible.

I'll expand more on this post later.

Tweet thread version here.

[slavhew]

Ive been rereading @thatsoneginger 's Machines Don't Bleed trilogy and have been getting hit by massive waves of nostalgia.

Its rly weird looking back on the fanart I made for it ages ago and comparing that to now, it makes me that more emotional sjdjkemf :') It really is a special thing to come back to a formative work and experiencing it with a brain that's (mostly) finished cooking.

Thank you for all the memories, Chaos. Your mercenaries will always have a very special place in my heart 🥹

[chiosblog]

Face please not like that

[krjpalmer]

MacAddict September 2001

Hits and misses (so far as the conventional wisdom went) cluster on the cover as MacAddict reached its fifth anniversary issue. "The best and worst of everything Mac" covered more than just the five years of the magazine's existence (with David Reynolds's editorial flashing back to being asked whether joining "a new Macintosh magazine" was a good idea in 1996 even as he declared he'd be leaving now); the news section happened to proclaim what the best and worst moments of the magazine itself had been.

[questfortori]

I love browsing the web on devices which have no business doing so in 2024, bonus points if it’s over WiFi

[adafruit]

The eMate 300

The eMate 300 📟, a personal digital assistant made by Apple 🍎, was a low-cost laptop specifically for the education sector. Launched on March 7, 1997, and discontinued in 1998, it was the only Newton device with a built-in keyboard ⌨️. It had a 6.8" grayscale display, stylus pen 🖊️, infrared port, and Macintosh serial/LocalTalk ports, and was powered by rechargeable batteries that lasted up to 28 hours 🔋. Although less advanced and memory-equipped than its contemporary, the MessagePad 2000, the eMate 300 was faster than the previous MessagePad 130. 🚀

[cynric]

listen to me. listen. off book the improvised musical podcast is ending after next episode. you most likely have not listened to it ever, so what youre going to do right now is go to any podcast app with a search feature. you're going to go to off book and youre going to type in marvel. youre going to listen to the 6 part musical set in the marvel universe. you will fall in love with clark and stargazer and britz and spitzz and team baby rattlesnake and also some ducks for some reason we dont really talk about episode 3. you are going to listen to spider-man go to couples therapy. it will be a good time i need you to do this for me ok? kissing you on the lips.