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vynegar · 1 year

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anniv3 card liveblog dump. updated as i go. spoiler warning!

luke

i’m gone TT (it’s actually all still pretty fluffy and sweet. barely a hint of angst)

YEAHHHHHHHHHH HIGH SCHOOL!ROSA MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ah i forgot to show you guys her new outfit in this card, she’s v cute, i’ll screenshot after this flashback scene)

agh. this expression. always so cute TT rosa it is an honor to be able to play as you 🫡

a;dlfjadkl okay i know the card wasn’t hitting (yet) but like. now with the new bgm i’m really feeling something :’) perhaps we will be budgeting for anniv3 after all

HADFJA;LDKJF;LAKJERLAJLEKRJAKLE

omg poetry reference. truly the bread and butter of this blog’s analyses

ok the interactions: i mean, they’re nice. the animation is very fluid and there’s definitely more motion and more variety than in normal card art animations (though those have been advancing over the years too!) lol i think the knowledge of how purely-fanservicey this is kinda limits how excited i get over this part

overall: i mean it’s a good card but doesn’t make me lose my mind over it like luke’s previous anniversary cards; like this is closer to the caliber of a birthday or top-up card. nothing necessarily bad about it but... i think the most emotion i felt was because the combination of a new bgm (or at least new to me) + high school era lukerosa which i have a soft spot for.

anyway. off to watch vyn’s, which is my last hope for this anniversary really delivering on the card stories :’) also based on my quick glance at his interaction video they might have fixed the piano keys...?? BIG if true

ahhh almost forgot the keepsake!!

BIGHEAD ROSA!!! ahh i was wanting to draw her but mhy beat me to it lol

vyn

omg already >100 comments on his video. yes. my brethren. we are all broke and watching the video instead of getting the card 🤝

55 other people are watching the video literally right now. hell yeah

omg. they really did fix the piano keys XDDDDDDD

me trying to zoom in on the sheet music. LET ME PLAY IT

wow. reference to a very famous and iconic vyn card moment in this story. hint it has to do with water

what the fuck dude extreme weather even showing up in the tot cards TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

whoaaaa okay worldbuilding: svart has its own language i guess? there are labels written in it, and the narrative calls it svart language and not like english or french or whatever

i think a fun thing about backgrounds being reused is that everyone probably has different scenes that they most strongly associate each background with. for me, this is the winery from food for thought. vyn infodumping about how to cultivate wine grapes. mixing wine with sprite. that’s MY reference to a previous vyn card for this story

VYN HAD HIS MOTHER SEND OVER THE PIANO FROM HIS CONFESSION AS THEIR MOVING IN GIFT????????????

VYN WROTE THE SHEET MUSIC!! NEON MELODY CALLBACK????? (HUGE WIN FOR ME PERSONALLY)

ok only halfway through the card rn but i Need to sleep. back tmrw to finish this and to watch marius’s (even though i’ve barely seen any of this recent cards... whoops)

WAAAAAAAAIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT HOLY SHIT THIS FUCKS SO HARD ACTUALLY??? THIS REFERENCE THEY’RE DOING?? WITHOUT STATING IT OPENLY AAAAAAHHHH THIS IS SO POWERFUL TTT

ok here’s vyn’s illustration. wet rain-soaked little meow meow

rosa forgetting about the instant noodles she’s cooking. just like me fr

hmmmm kinda criminal that they’re supposed to be playing piano here and the bgm is one of the ones that DOESN’T have piano

ok yeah they definitely fixed the piano keys. just compare this to the original anniversary PV you’ll see. NOW FIX THE SSS CARD SYSTEM NEXT

one comment saying the sheet music is liebestraum which i was kinda also suspecting since structure is very similar but some of the measures don’t match up exactly (at least not against the copy of sheet music i have). however, the section behind vyn’s right shoulder is pretty much measure 25 and the part behind his left shoulder is close to m35-36. (which... is not a song that vyn wrote xDDD we’ll say he’s alluding to or remixing it for their purposes)

you’re telling me his hand accidentally hits the piano and there’s a “pleasing sound”??? he’s falling backwards onto it and playing chords???

ok back to checking the sheet music (my priorities are exactly where they should be)

i think the two sheets here (behind his left shoulder and under his left hand) are the same page (which we said before was m35-36). it’s the only place in the song where the key signature change looks like that (in the upper right; it’s definitely the sharps pattern and not the flats) and the following sections match as well. so i think that pages goes like this:

line 1: m34-36 (and key change where five sharps are made natural)

line 2: m37-m39

line 3: m40-m42

line 4: m43-44 (not sure if that last note should have a slur tho)

it was kind of throwing me off earlier since some of the chords that would be octaves didn’t seem far apart enough on the card art, but maybe it’s a combo of perspective + shrunk down + artistic license

ok i can’t rly find a keepsake investigation video yet and i’m still just watching the interaction in the bg but this card is fine. i know i got really excited at one point but it’s because i’m especially interested in the plant motif (still have not fully stated what the exact reference was bc i’m sure i’ll point it out later). so far the cards feel like nice top-up cards (since those always make sure to have spicy/fanservice-y parts) that are trying hard to reference previous events. i checked the comments of BOTH vyn and marius videos and there was someone (different people!) asking which of the cards had a better story (because what they’d seen so far was disappointing).... does NOT bode well ufnfortunately

edit: i will say that these even feel a bit worse than top-up cards since those usually try to grapple with substantive potential issues in the relationship, while these anniv3 cards don’t. also still haven’t watched marius’s yet but yamashina jin just translated artem’s card and even she’s disappointed by the writing quality so like... widespread disappointment i suppose 😔

marius

ok yeah this is a very good continuation/evolution of the idea from tideborne romance. unfortunately i was also meh on that card

omg... marius is gonna make himself the present isn’t he....

OKAY THERE’S AT LEAST ONE (1) THING I LOVE ABOUT THIS CARD 🥺🥺 (doesn’t even get a mention in the story it’s just a visual easter egg in the bg)

artem

halfway through pt 2 and i’ve figured out how to describe how i’m feeling. you remember marius’s 1st birthday card when they were just kinda doing random things to fill up time in the plot? it’s kinda like that. (though it doesn’t have the weird ooc-ness of that card and it’s not as long)

the bear from his bday event and the eyemask from wandering heart!! actually maybe my favorite part of these cards will just be the little easter eggs in them

ok so after the “reveal” of what artem is Actually up to, i do like the card more. i really like what his true plan, i just kind of dislike how MC is kept in the dark again. it’s not even bad this time around, like it’s very much a cute surprise between lovers, but i think that stuff in his engagement left a bad taste in my mouth about it and i didn’t want to see it again lol. also, i feel like it would have been cute if mc was the one to propose moving in together (just a random thought since for all the these, it was p much the LI bringing it up)

ok this is one of the better illustrations for anniv3 cards tho.

alright. finished the card. umm nothing more to say xDDD

on the keepsakes tho; these genuinely fuck so hard. also artem's a protective charm from cloudbreak temple and red beans and he recites The Lines again.... literally why can’t we have this kind of energy in the actual card story TTTTT

#tot liveblog

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lonelyhooves · 3 years

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How do you draw so well?

To start with, there's two of us.

I (Zaron) have been drawing for about as long as I can remember, which helps make up for the fact that I didn't really start opening up to learning from others at all until like... shoot, 2010 or so?? In my 20s??? Lord. I handle the pencils and writing, meaning I hand the pages off to Kaz looking like this:

(The level of backgrond detail varies pretty wildly! For this one, between all the text and face shots, there wasn't much call to layout new scenery and the like, so part of the secret is that Kaz is just extremely good at reusing and patching up background assets when they aren't the focus of the scene, which ultimately saves both of us a lot of time until I do something like open a chapter with multiple angles of a train station and the vehicle parked at it.)

Kaz then goes through and does the colored outlines and fills and such, so most of what's left for me to do after that is any last-minute adjustments and the final word balloon arrangements and placements (I actually script and plan page layouts at the same time, and fiddle with intended dialogue placement as I work out the sketch; don't draw comics blind on where your text is going to go or you're gonna drive yourself up the wall with how much of the art you cover!) She started doing digital art a few years ago and took to doing pony adopts. Without her, the first few pages of chapter 1 each took at least a month to come out, with the first page in particular taking me... a very long time, actually, like ridiculously so. The comic's look would straight-up not be possible without her, which is probably why I'm constantly trying to convince her to take up more personal work again lol

The exception is the chapter covers where we both tend to split off on our own to create the two variants. 90% of that is just me being a stubborn dork about needing to prove I can still do a full piece on my own every couple years without skipping steps (I barely ever ink anymore! I kinda hate it! I'm a "cleans up the sketch" kind of guy).

I hope that at least kind of answers the question!

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johannas-motivational-insults · 4 years

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The interesting thing about editing is that generally doing a good job results in your work being invisible to the average observer. It’s really counterintuitive that way. This is true for editing words for sure, as all your efforts can be attributed to the author (and within writing there’s different types of editing, but it’s true for all of them). But the way this really strikes me is with my video edits.

I’ve had a lot of people express shock at how much time I spend on my amvs because they look so simple. And I do actually take that as a compliment because it means everything just looks so smooth and effortless, and that’s the ultimate goal of editing. But it is kind of odd that your job is to be invisible. Obviously there’s different schools of thought on this, some people like making really flashy edits with obvious audio and visual effects that show off their skills. But I dunno, to me that feels distracting? I guess that’s because I’m attempting to tell stories with my vids and I don’t want the delivery to get in the way of the message. I don’t care if it looks cool, I care about it provoking an emotional response in the viewer.

To be fair how much time I spend on them is probably amplified by the fact that I don’t have the most intuitive editing program (but hey, it’s free!) and also my perfectionism. But tbh, while watching the vids I didn’t spend quite as much time perfecting I always notice the little things like out of place movements that I should have cut by manipulating or freezing the shot. But yeah, most of the time I spend actively editing (as opposed to searching for and experimenting with shots for different segments of the songs) is doing subtle manips and cuts so the beats land right and so I can get in all the relevant information while still keeping the shot interesting. This is easier when you’re editing animated film because they often reuse frames or cycle them in predictable patterns, making it easier to cut out whole seconds of shots without any subtle jumps giving you away. Editing live-action footage is harder, which is part of why I haven’t published any fmvs yet lol.

So like for instance, in my latest vid I have a shot (highlighted in red below) of the scene where Shadow Weaver is trying to convince Adora to go to Mystacor. It lasts less than three seconds in the vid and if you look at the timeline you can see it’s actually three different segments of the same scene/shot that take place over the course of about ten seconds in the episode, but it runs smoothly as though it is one shot.

Of course I did this cutting and splicing to fit the shot in the correct section of lyrics and to keep it from getting too long and boring, but also because I was cutting around specifically so we could see all the emotions play out on Catra’s face in the background, as the video is about her feelings about Shadow Weaver.

You can contrast that with the segment before, which is actually all one continuous shot (the challenge for that one was figuring out exactly how to time it to the music) and the segment after, which is also all one shot except for a fraction of a second freeze frame at the end (highlighted in orange) to make the shot the right length for that section of lyrics so the beats hit right.

There’s also a thematic connection and parallel there. The shot in red plays over the first half of the line “don’t ask for blood // if you don’t wanna get shot” and it’s Catra reacting to Shadow Weaver touching Adora. The next shot, played over the second half of the line, is of Catra reacting to Shadow Weaver touching her by first freezing up and then pushing her away violently. It’s basically about Shadow Weaver’s weaponization of touch as a tool for both manipulation and fear (and ulimately violence), and Catra finally snapping and pushing back.

So yeah, that’s really just one example of the kind of edits I do in my vids, and I do this kind of playing around with pretty much every shot, making sure the transitions within and between shots are seamless and not distracting and that all the beats (auditory and emotional alike) are landing in the right places.

Anyway this post doesn’t really have a point, it’s just me being self-indulgent and rambling about the creative process because I feel like a lot of people don’t understand the art of video editing and the kind of meticulousness it involves. I love that people think my edits are smooth but I would love for people to understand why they are smooth and how I achieve that. Editing film takes a lot of patience but it’s also a lot of fun, and I enjoy talking about it with other people who are into it, but it’s much more of a niche interest than writing or drawing. Anyway, I hope this gave you a little insight if you made it this far! It takes practice to recognize quality editing in any format but this gives you some idea of how it works in film, at least.

#vidding #creatives #the creative process #amvs #mercy #spop #vids #behind the scenes

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astrologista · 4 years

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jason stop dying

ooooook i just watched ditf. it was PRETTY GOOD.... i only wish there was MOOORE! watching this REALLY brought me back to 2011 times to see it and i think they did a good job with most of the character design and animations insofar as matching it to the original. (maybe i’m totally wrong but i thought it looked good for the most part... also i just really love these character designs in particular). obviously the budget is not what it would be on a feature, so there are a LOT of places where animation gets recycled and many still frames. some parts are basically a slideshow lol. but i only sort of came to that realization awhile after watching, so i think they did a fairly good job of masking this... ymmv

so let’s get into it!!!

SPOILERS a-head! do not read until you’ve watched it because i’ll spoil everything

now obviously the thing to be aware of if you are not is the fact that this adaptation is not a panel-by-panel adaptation of the original death in the family comic. all references to jason’s mother (save one mention of her dying of illness) are completely removed, they go to bosnia instead of africa, and the circumstances around jason leaving are also heavily altered to fit the new narrative. this adaptation does slot perfectly into the universe established by the under the red hood animated movie from 2011 though, without which one would be pretty confused when watching this. it’s kind of a mystery as to why they didn’t just package this with utrh and release the entire thing as a collectors edition. instead they package it with like 4 or 5 unrelated dc showcase shorts which makes absolutely 0 sense but go off i guess. anyway

i liked that they took the time to adapt the scene from the original ditf where bruce is talking to alfred about jason! (i do not like that alfred didn’t get any lines. bad choice). tbh i can’t understand why they bothered showing us alfred, barbara and dick if they weren’t gonna give them any lines..... like come on........??

HOW INTENSE BRUCE LOOKS WHEN HE FINDS JASON IN SARAJEVO and just. grabs him lol. hes smad :)

ok so one two skip a few and we get to the first branch. instead of calling 1-900 we now get to choose whether jason lives or dies. there are 7 possible endings i think i got em all so let’s see what we got here.

“Hush” Route - Robin cheats death

hgrgdggr. i definitely think this is one of the more interesting endings, if not the most interesting one. this is also the only ending in which both bruce and jason survive the bombing. bruce is still too late, but this time jason barely clings to life and survives. as a hurt/comfort fan i was 100% on this shit from the word go but then jason? runs away from home lmao lmao i thought that was SO funny because 1) hes super messed up, how is he able to just literally run out the house that is SO funny to me and 2) implying that bruce would ever not be keeping an eye on him after that is just, lmao. it’s so zany. i call this the “hush” route because of the bandages but there are no other references to hush so ok. that’s fair. so anyway jason is now angsty for loosely explained reasons but the most fun part is yet to come.

when talia showed up, i really thought / was terrified for a second that they were gonna bring up certain “events” regarding damian’s parentage / who damian’s father is but then she mentioned bruce and i was like OH THANK GOD WE CAN STILL GO TO HEAVEN. i am so so grateful to the writers for NOT going there. cuz it was damn close ok. im not sure what the implication of this route is in terms of talia, jason and damian being a family unit but i want to believe talia sees jason as a son and damian’s brother (which is how she refers to him, damian’s brother) and not... yknow. i mean. jason raising a baby is kind of like a baby raising a baby...

no actually the reality of this scene is really dfuckin interesting like. they actually go with the “birth of the demon” (forget if it was birth of the demon or bride of the demon. one of those.) explanation for damian and that is something i’ve NEVER seen adapted so whoever wrote this can have a cookie and i kNOW this is something a certain someone will appreciate :)

not only that but the implications? are interesting? so talia’s claim is she miscarried so bruce won’t have to “choose” between damian and jason and idk if she’s supposed to be all on the-up-and-up in this universe but. i’m sitting here like GIRL YOU DON’T GOTTA DO THIS HE HAS A PRIVATE JET HAVEN’T YOU HEARD OF SHARED CUSTODY and BETTER YET HE HAS A MANSION JUST GO ON MAURY AND GET THIS SORTED OUT RIGHT NOWwwww

i’m also LAUGHING at the implications of jason thinking theres anywhere on earth that he’s going to go and hide damian’s existence from bruce. because you already know he’s just going to be tearing the planet apart looking for jason so this is actually hilarious. imagine he finds jason in one piece and also a baby. his baby. he’d be like (@ talia) “OMG WHY WOULD YOU THINK I WOULDN’T WANT THEM BOTH u are tearing me apart talia......” BUT THEN HE WOULD BE SO FREAKING HAPPY BECAUSE HE HAS TWO ALIVE SONS AND HE THOUGHT THEY WERE BOTH DEAD / (lost to crime)!!!

please lord imagine all of jason’s angst probably just originating from the fact that he has a brain injury that hasn’t fully healed and the trauma of going through all those surgeries probably gave him a lot of fear / paranoia about bruce and associating him with the joker because his neural pathways are all messed up but after he leaves he starts slowly healing back and regaining some of his lost sanity and thats when he realizes he misses bruce so much... but hes also raising his child... and every day it gets more difficult for him not to just take damian and bring him home and i ;v;

anyway i thought this route, while it had a few inconsistencies in it, was really freaking interesting and it gave me feels and plot bunnies and is probably the one i want to write about the MOST despite the fact that baby damian looks like a character from one of those web flash games in this lol

“True” End - Jason Dies

now if you select that jason dies the route basically defaults to the canon of under the red hood and the fact that utrh does not come packaged with this movie is a rather mystifying choice to me as i don’t think this adaptation would stand on its own very well. like you need quite a bit of background to really get anything out of watching this on its own, which is probably why it’s classified as a “short” and not as its own movie.

instead of showing all of utrh, it seems they took the opportunity to give a ~30 minute recap of utrh with basically entirely reused animation but they allow bruce to sort of. give his dvd commentary over it.

the biggest feeling i have on this is that it’s sad that they had to waste 30 minutes like this that could’ve been used to do something new and much more interesting, but honestly i’m not mad. it seems kind of obvious that this choice was probably made for budget and/or runtime reasons because a short does not get the same budget set aside as a full length feature film does. so they basically took the option of recycling 30 minutes of animation from the movie and dubbing new audio over it.

in evangelion they ran out of budget and that’s why the last two episodes consist of nothing more than still pencil drawings and frames while the characters engage in philosophical debates concerning the nature of reality and human connection. and i really enjoyed that. and for the same reasons, i also really enjoyed this.

i enjoyed seeing the clark kent of this universe. i enjoyed that he was basically out on a date with bruce. i enjoyed that bruce was willing to open up for once and tell clark all of what happened with jason. but what really makes this segment shine bright are bruce greenwood’s line reads. there are SO MANY good line reads in here. and i LOVED how many times he said the word “son”. very wholesome. the way he describes how he felt during the final fight with jason? probs my favorite FUCKING part.

and then him and clark joking together about contingency plans and then they’re going to work together to find jason and i ;_; this is probably the closest thing to a “good” ending but as a continuation of utrh i thought it worked really well. i really want to believe that bruce and clark did find jason in this route and that there was some closure in the end even though we didn’t get to see it.

including clark in this was DEFINITELY the right move as well, considering that he played a rather large role in the original ditf so it’s a welcome nod.

The rest of the branches exist under a separate option where Bruce makes it in time to save Jason from the warehouse... but Bruce dies......... :O

let me tell you bout it... bruce’s fucking DEATH SCENE i don’t know WHAT my man bruce greenwood is on, but the freaking LINE READS in this dialogue had me making INHUMAN NOISES. LIKE NOT ONLY WAS THE DIALOGUE GOOD, NOT ONLY DID HE SAY “I LOVE YOU, SON”, but this man is just an amazing actor. not just voice actor, but actor. he really really really really gave it the most i don’t know how else to say it....... it was very very well done and punched me sideways in the heart and i haven’t recovered and i’m not going to recover. and

ok so once we get past that.... scene.... u have to choose whether you’re going to catch the joker or kill the joker. bruce asks jason to promise not to kill the joker but technically jason doesn’t promise so........

Let’s start by choosing to kill the Joker. Jason attends Bruce’s funeral and various members of the Justice League show up to talk with him and just generally hang out. He has Alfred, Dick and Barbara as his support system, but Jason has some other plans.

This leads to a scene in a cafe where Jason meets with a man who... something something Killing Joke, flashlight, more Barbara being used as a plot device when she deserves better, Jason kills the Joker with a butter knife.

Once you do this you can choose to surrender to the police, or retaliate and escape.

Jailbird Ending

basically if you surrender to the police jason ends up in prison where he can actually attack even more criminals so.... ya

If you retaliate and escape instead you go to the Red Robin route where Jason becomes a vigilante who kills people much like the Red Hood and you get a further choice in a fight with Two Face where you can control how Harvey’s coin lands.

Tim Ending!

If you choose the coin to land clean face up, the thing rewards you by having Tim show up and I forgot what happened (wasn’t really paying attention lol) because i was so focused on TIM!

Prolly they felt sorry for him what with Jason stealing what is essentially his outfit (ok I know it was Jason’s first, but Tim made it cool) so they let a little baby tim have an appearance :) he’s very smol

I guess in this ending Jason gets reintegrated with the family somehow and Tim becomes “Bat-kid” which is hilarious to me but you know what it’s cute. CUTE.

The one ending where the coin lands scarred side up

i honestly forget what happens if you choose to have the coin land scarred side up but let me just say this is a FUCKED route to take, not only have you had jason survive and bruce die, you’ve now chosen to kill the joker against bruce’s dying wish, you’ve chosen to attack the police, and at the end of that you really are gonna choose harvey’s coin to be scarred face up???? choosing this made me feel like a DICK because here i am supporting jason’s whole fall to madness and villainy thing the way it wants me to and now he’s gonna die HERE? i hate it here.

interestingly enough he doesn’t actually die in this route. he ends up at home with barbara and dick while dealing with the fact that he killed the joker but the route ends with jason saying “i promise” so i guess this is supposed to be kinda sad. im so confused lol ok

So that is all the options if you choose to kill the joker, I believe. You can also make the choice to just catch him instead of killing him but amazingly enough, those routes are even more FUCKED up.

If you do this option Jason goes home, mourns Bruce with Dick, Barbara and Alfred, and becomes Red Hood BUT with a twist, he’s entirely on a bloodless operation in line with Bruce’s wishes. OR.... IS HE?

Things then follow the events of UTRH until the scene on the bridge with the van and the guys. Jason finally confronts Joker, who reveals the truth.

Apparently in this route Jason has actually been killing and decapitating his victims just like in the original movie, but he’s repressed it so as to not even realize to himself that he’s doing it.

that is FUCKED. also. i wanna cry because jason doing all of that stuff but not even realizing it ;------; jason blocking it out, because he wanted to honor bruce’s wishes for him not to kill anyone ;______; but he’s doing it anyway ;_____; he’s actually hearing voices telling him to kill ;____; like it’s a very cheap twist in a sense and also really quite cruel but.... damn, son.

There is a branch here where you can choose to spare or kill the Joker at this point (UNDERTALE???) but from what I can tell it seems to be totally meaningless what choice you pick because you end up at the exact same point either way, I think there’s a small variation in what happens after you make the choice but after that they just coalesce back together into the following two endings. Which seems incredibly cheap to me, I mean making a choice like that should alter Jason’s path completely but, it doesn’t! So... ooook....

Either way Jason ends up on the Wayne building and Talia shows up with a re-animated Bruce from the pit. Here’s another fun blast from the 2011 past with more gratuitous Grant Morrison dreck, remember that shit? Well, they’re gonna jam it down your throat here, too.

The reanimated Bruce is the Zur En Arrh Bruce and he’s already dead so this is all meaningless but basically Jason fights him and you get to choose whether everybody lives or dies.

Zur En Arrh - Everyone Lives!

if you pick this, jason actually gets the re-animated bruce back to the batcave and they lock him up down there because he’s still pit-mad and the prognosis is not great. but i’m not sure what they expected, he is the zur-en-arrh guy so I don’t think he’s getting better.

Zur En Arrh - Everyone Dies!

pretty much there’s an explosion and all three of them die and that’s it

I think that should be all the possible endings there are.

By the way the different ways in which black mask dies in this was actually a fairly clever running gag lollll. let that mf burn we don’t need no water.

overall there are a couple of things i would have done to SIGNIFICANTLY improve this adaptation beyond some of the obvious ones.

- the fact that all of the branching options are branched exclusively under the “jason lives and bruce dies” branch is a huge wasted opportunity. imo this is the most egregious problem with this, i was really looking for a more balanced tree / explanation of different things. i am probably super biased though being a fic writer and used to fic, we’re the ones making huge ass trees every day lol.

- the fact that there is no “good” ending here is something i kind of expected but given the context of this is lackluster. i sort of get it though because granted, the original ditf ends in an unresolved manner but it’s distinctly unsatisfying here. i secretly wanted an ending where bruce, like, figures out about the different endings and hacks reality to try to find a good ending where jason lives and everything is fine lmao. like a bat mite ending.

- i was disappointed in a sense that the narrative given in here is so basically simplistic? maybe i’ve been spoiled by games like 999 and undertale where shit gets messy and that’s not what this is supposed to be but when i play something with multiple endings in this day and age, at least play with the concept a little bit and connect some of the branches together narratively. use different devices. i was also hoping some of the choices would be a little bit meatier like you could choose to “forgive bruce” or something cool like that lol. but it looks like the majority of choices have to do with who lives or dies. and i felt like they couldve been a bit more creative with that ya know? being able to control harvey’s coin was a GREAT example of having some more fun with this.

- it is a huge missed opportunity not to have a “secret ending” on something like this. like where. the fuck. is my secret ending for completing everything. come on. and in a similar vein there should’ve been at least something in terms of bruce and jason interacting in a “true ending”. even if very brief. the closest thing to an ending this has is the “jason died” route and then the ending where he’s talking to clark which i feel like was a REALLY nice good optimistic ending as far as this goes, but it comes off as kind of disappointing i guess

there were SO many interesting nuggets locked into this thing though. i can’t deny it bugs me how many wasted opportunities there were with how they chose to structure things but i guess it’s the best you can do with limited runtime. i thought it was really well done though, makes an interesting companion piece to the original utrh, and is definitely something that i will be re-watching again soon!! overall i give it a 7/10 and some parts an 8/10+!

#a death in the family #death in the family #ditf #it was cool to see the different ideas they had to offer finally?#for what it was #it was kind of a collection of shorts and half spun ideas #plus i think about this shit like every day #so i cant help but be interested #someone come and talk to me about this #i really want to know #what ppl thought #spoilers #ditf spoilers #death in the family spoilers

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gimmethehobbit · 4 years

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2020 Fanart Highlights

Thanks for tagging me @une-amie!! Love your art btw!

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

Yay, nothing like a little artistic self-reflection! I’ll stick to linking to my comics and art (I have some rotten fic festering on the distant regions of the internet that we won’t mention here lol)

I think I drew more comics in 2020 than I did the previous two years? While my style has gotten less cute and I’m using almost no color, I actually don’t feel too bad about it. The art always served the punchline/gag anyway. If I got you to chuckle/smile with my comic then it’s mission accomplished for me. Also, around when quarantine started is when I got a drawing tablet and basically everything I’ve posted since then has been drawn digitally. I’ll go chronologically over my faves:

Pining Keith in 2020 [VLD | Klance] It seems like I optimistically start every year ranting that this will be the year of klance (now years after the actual show ended.) My favorite thing to do is cut corners so repeating panels and just changing expressions/dialogue is the absolute BEST and I encourage everyone to do it! No one will notice or care! :D This one was still pencil on paper, which I kind of miss because it carries a certain energy that digital misses.

RA Comix: ONE FEAR [Richard Armitage] Okay, this one has like NO notes but I died laughing making it. We could have had a really epic closing chapter to the whole RA/LP thing but I guess now we’ll never know? (is the con even being rescheduled??) Also any RA fan is free to reuse this for whatever RA’s current fear is lmao.

Michigan J. Frog! [Looney Tunes] I worked full-time during quarantine. But on a random day off I thought, you know what, I should really draw Michigan J. Frog on this tablet I’m still getting used to. I think he turned out alright. It’s still my aim to animate him once I have like a year off :P

RA turns 49 [Richard Armitage] This one is very special to me because I spent 5 minutes drawing it and then like an hour just playing around with cut and paste and warping his face. The real satisfaction here was making myself cackle. Also I love that his doll friend is the only thing worthy of being put in color. Did I mention how much I HATE coloring comics???? Which leads me to coloring art...

Leatherface’s Quarantine Advice [Horror | Texas Chainsaw Massacre] This was the first one of my horror/artober challenge. Drawing/coloring is hard! He came out okay, if a bit smudgy but I’m still perplexed over how I did that real cool-looking sky and background.

You’ll Float Too! [Horror | It Movie | Pennywise] Stylistically I went for something that looked like a kid drew it and I think I really nailed it! 😆

ANNABEL/LE’S [Horror | Annabelle | RA’s friend lol] Probably the art piece I spent the most time on this year? Aka more than an hour. Had a lot of fun painting her, I was in the Zone. Really like how her creepy face plays with light and shadow. That blood tear is pretty spot-on 👌 Also nothing like the juxtaposition between Annabelle’s realistic creepiness and the cartoony Annabel 🤡

(audio scream warning!->) Thrandy Scream [LOTR/Hobbit | Thranduil | Legolas] Including this one because it’s one of three animations I did last year along with Thorin’s McRib and Artie Fufkin. I was all set to do a bunch more and then I realized CSPaint has me stuck on a time limit of just a few seconds??? So that kind of sucks. But I like merging audio with crudely moving art. Definitely want to try more of it. Also amused myself by drawing Thrandy after a long hiatus.

That’s all folks! Lmk if there’s something you want to see more of this year :3 (I fell off the RA train because I don’t do audiobooks but I can always make shit up 🤪)

Tagging @heyholmesletsgo @oldfarmerbillswife @sillymarillion-comics @aninomori @atanes-universe @monkeyscomics @thejerseydevile @evankart and any other artist/writer/creator who wants to do this!

#2020 fanart highlights #tag game #damn i spent longer writing this post than drawing some of these comics i mentioned #🥴

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kaiowut99 · 4 years

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 57 Subbed (Finalized)

The Kaiser VS Ed! A Battle in the Pro League

Kaiser Ryou and Ed Phoenix are set to duel in the Pro Dueling League. While Ed’s deck is an E-Hero deck, it contains different cards and strategies than Judai’s, and so he Fusion-Summons “Phoenixguy.” The Kaiser strikes back with his Cyber Dragon cards, and Judai and the others, knowing it’s a deck he’s faced before, assume Ed to be weak. At last, the Kaiser closes in on him with Cyber End Dragon, strengthened by his Power Bond, but...

And a newly finalized 57 is all done! Only took 2.5 weeks, so not too shabby, lol. It’s a neat episode, establishes what the Pro League Ryou’s moved onto is like, we get some fated insight into our mysterious new freshman, and... Ryou’s spiral into Hell Kaiser is set into motion. Also, Judai learns something new about his deck, which... c’mon, ya dork. Overall, a good episode.

(Also, did want to note that, for Ed’s Heroes, I decided to use “[x]guy” as opposed to “[x] Guy” as I’d done before (ie, “Phoenixguy” vs “Phoenix Guy”); given that it’s a riff off of Judai’s “[x]man/lady” Heroes, and it’s written that way in Japanese without a space between “[x]” and “guy”, I figured it’d make sense. Means it’ll be “Diamondguy,” “Diehardguy,” etc when we get to Ed’s D-Heroes reveal next time.)

On the fixes/edits side: had a few card fixes to do, but the big ones were adding Burstlady’s oft-forgotten shoulder strap and taking a crack at fixing the signs Ryou walks past in Domino City that were mirrored for some reason, though I’d handled this latter one as I prepared 56. Details below the cut~

Enjoy, folks! After a little downtime (we do apparently have something happening tomorrow in the US which, however you go about it, you should consider taking part in if you haven’t yet [wake me up when dueling to settle world issues is being debated]), I’ll be looking more into working on 5D’s 28′s Dub-Uncut edit, mixed with preparing for finalizing both GX 58 and 59; as it’s the first real Judai VS Ed duel, and one of my favorites, I’ll be trying to release them together, so stay tuned!

Translations/Fixes!

As Judai and Misawa chat about Judai’s deck, he pulls out a magazine flipped to a page about Ryou and Ed; as I did in 53, I translated what was visible from the article and “editorialized” the translation such that what was visible vertically originally was visible horizontally. After applying the translation in Photoshop, I recreated the zoom-in for the shot in Sony Vegas.

As Ryou enjoys the fine Domino City night and thinks about Ed’s deck, he walks past several storefronts where the awning signage is reversed for some reason; to fix this, I stitched together the entire shot, then used layers in Photoshop to flip the signage in question. Once that was done, I redid the panning shot in Sony Vegas, masking Ryou and some of the attached building over the shot as needed to fill it out well. Probably the most intensive edit here, as Vegas would keep crashing on me every few keyframes after a while (😭), but I fixed this as I prepared to finalize 56, so this didn’t take much editing time here.

During the eyecatch, I noticed a quick frame as Ed is moving upward past Ryou where he suddenly moves down before continuing to move up; I just replaced that frame with the one just before in Vegas. Small quality-of-life fix, but y’know.

As Ed gets ready to fuse Featherman and Burstlady for Phoenixguy, when Burstlady appears on the field, she’s without her shoulder strap and arm band. I used Photoshop to draw them on her in the frame once she’s fully materialized, basing it off of her appearance as she’s about to fuse with Featherman in the next shot, then when I worked it into the footage in Vegas, I did so first by working backwards and moving the edited frame down to match Burstlady’s position as she rises, then keyframing a brightness filter just on the added strap and arm band, and then finally masking in the rays of light from the Solid Vision over the strap and arm band. Ultimately thought it came out better than 4Kids having to just throw on another burst of light over their edit, lol.

As Ed notes that Spark Gun being used three times destroys it, there’s a blank Effect Monster card where Phoenixguy should be; I first made a proxy for Phoenixguy, then threw it and a Sparkman proxy onto the first frame of the shot in AfterEffects, after which I redid the panning shot in Vegas.

As Ed looks on after Ryou summoned Cyber End Dragon, it looks like they left Phoenixguy on his Disk in his third Monster Zone with Shining Phoenixguy barely visible in his fourth--except he’d already fused Phoenixguy with Sparkman to leave Shining Phoenixguy alone on his field. I just edited the Phoenixguy card out of the third Zone in Photoshop, then extended the frame for the whole shot before just masking out the newly blank Zone.

As Ryou declares an attack with Cyber End Dragon, a lone impact line looks to have been left over the back of Ryou’s Disk extending into the whooshing background; I edited the first 18 frames of the shot to remove it, recoloring Ryou’s Disk and the affected parts of the background, and then looped those 18 frames for the rest of the shot, as I noticed that was where they started reusing them.

#yugioh #yugioh gx #ygo #ygo gx #GX #Ed Phoenix #Ryou Marufuji #my subs

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teamanpim · 4 years

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Secret Satiation

Our first and only (so far) visual novel that features adults, as well as supernatural entities.

BOIIIIIIIIIII There was so much to this game than it ended up being.

This was the first game that I worked on mostly by myself. Most of the team kind of opted out cause they were busy, and/or not interested anymore. I had some help from my co-writer here and there mainly for opinions and options, but I was on my own. I didn’t mind too much though, cause I had creative freedom C: It was definitely wild though, I had to everything from the art, the writing, the coding, looking for music, looking for backgrounds, etc. It was fun though! Kinda stressful, but still was super fun!

The story...... where do I even start..... I’ve changed the storyline like 3 times before settling on what we have now. Let me try to dig up our past storylines, let’s see.... There was a timeline where Ada had family issues, with like, arranged marriage kind of thing??? LOL Running away from responsibilities kind of thing. There was supposed to be a somewhat erotic blood sucking scene LOOL, it was just supposed to be a LOT LOT longer than what it is LOL. My ex-co-writer mentioned that it’s super unnecessary, so I condensed it and took out a lot of stuff. I think I spent more time struggling with the story than anything else LOL especially because I changed it so many times. I wasn’t in school at this time, I graduated college and was unemployed hahahahaha so I had all the time in the world (in which i spent all the time thinking up plots). In the middle though, I literally gave up cause I couldn’t decide on a plot or whatever, and I left the game alone until about a week and half before the due date and decided to pick it up again. So yes, this game was made again, in about a week technically haha.

It’s interesting to see the art improve compared to the last two games as well! I’m also SUPER satisfied with the UI that I made??? oh my god. I still really like it. Not a fan of the logo for the game though tbh LOL.

Character design-wise, I based Charlotte off an old drawing I drew, https://udon-udon.tumblr.com/post/162661408391/we-dont-talk-anymore-we-dont-talk-anymore-we (I tend to reuse designs cause most of these characters are just randoms anyway), and named her Charlotte cause the song I based the picture off of was by Charlie Puth LOL. I was going to name her Charlie at first, but I decided to go with Charlotte instead.

We didn’t have a music person anymore, so I had to go look for royalty free music, and I would like to bless and thank Kevin Macleod for all his hard work and royalty free music!! Saved my butt literally.

I thought coding was going to pretty hard, but it was actually pretty easy! All I did was take our previous game’s code and then switched some stuff, added some stuff, and voila.

Overall, there were lots of new experiences with this game! This one’s one our least popular games though surprisingly, but also not surprisingly. We hope to do more adult-oriented (not necessarily NSFW stuff) visual novels in the future! I just hope we’re able to still inject fluff and cheese into them :)

#team anpim #secret satiation #yuri #game ramblings

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dominicvail · 5 years

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Hey! Random question for you: How do you decide if/how you're gonna crop the gifs you make when putting together a set? I struggle so bad with the aesthetic elements of building a set it ends up discouraging me from finishing them most of the time.

I get the feeling anon, i struggle a lot with certain types of sets Still, which affects what i end up making A Lot. And i’ve only been making gifs for lol, 6 years, yikes? I tend to stick to what i Have learnt these days. But, anyway.

I mostly think that the aesthetics of what you’re giffing depend heavily on how you should decide to crop it to fit on here.

I don’t know what kind of sets you make? Because I make like, gifs of scenes very differently to something i make just for the sake of it being pretty.

I personally have preferences for what dimensions i think look best for certain types of gif sets on tumblr, i do not Usually ( i make exceptions) stray from these, and the dimensions have an effect on your cropping.

Say like, [This] set, the dimensions i used were 268x180 which is my preferred choice for either 6 gif set or an 8 gif set formatted like this and if i don’t use those dimensions, it’s because i had a good reason not to.

Typically, face close ups in sets like this look Far better than like, a shot in the first gif of that set with half of granger’s body in the shot. This isn’t because head shots look better in gifs, it’s because head shots remove a Lot of the background which is what, 9 times out of 10, is what is messing up the aesthetic of a gifset. Also, an aside, try not to have dialogue cover anybody’s face, sometimes with already close up shots it’s impossible to avoid, but if your text is obscuring somebody’s face, you’ve cropped too much off.

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Backgrounds are often messy, busy, and eye drawing. If you’re making edits just for the sake of being pretty, negative space is your best friend, i really can’t emphasis that enough. I think people think it’s what’s In your gif that will make an aesthetic set look pretty, but i personally think it’s in how you use what it Not there.

'what is not there’ also applies to shadows on negative space backgrounds, you Really need it to look as plain as possible, imo, take this gif for example;

Without edits, the plain wall behind the height chart was heavily shadowed, i used brightening techniques to remove the harshest shadows and also cropped it so the gif was thinner b/c the shadows were darkest at the far corners of the gif. It’s not a major edit, but the effect it had on the set it was in was Massive. It went from ruining the look of what was a ten gif set to fitting in perfectly and it was such a small, simple thing to edit.

Also, for examples of how different a seemingly plain background shot can look with and without editing, This;

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(the over exaggerated white was for Aesthetic reasons, i wanted it to look weirdly coloured, the bg was empty anyway) but this same shot looks totally different when i remove the small lines from the elevator he’s in that i left there in the top gif. His malevolence levels shoot through the roof. Just simple things like that can entirely alter the look of something.

I don’t have an example of this next technique with that specific G shot, But with some scenes like the above it would be possible to crop it in as close as the second gif has been, then increase the canvas size again and just paint on the same bg colour as the bg behind him and you’d have a panoramic gif with an entirely negative space bg without it even looking like you’ve even edited it.

i did that here, kinda:

I cropped the bottom of the gif off because originally there was a Lot more mountain on it, and added to the canvas at the top of the gif, and just coloured the blank canvas the same colour as the rest of the sky and presto! i have a Ton of more negative space and it took me like a minute. You can use the same technique for width as well as height, this was just the first gif i’d found.

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anyway i went on a tangent, but dimensions;

for 2 gifs in a set, if they’re face close ups i’ll for them side by side and like, rectangle, you can do them square but i just think it looks better if they’re higher than they are wide, i don’t always use the same dimensions for the height of these types of sets, just what i think looks best for the scene.

if it’s more of a view than a close up for 2 gifs, i’ll do one gif on top of the other, Usually if i do it like this it’s specifically to showcase a view, so i probably won’t crop the scene at all for this type, and just resize for tumblr, but if i do it will be to crop out a network logo but i’ll leave the gifs as large as i can do so while taking it off. If possible i will paint over a logo, so if the logo is over a bit of screen that’s just one plain colour it’s easy to obscure, but otherwise its a crop. If i ever leave a logo on, it’s b/c i had no choice because i Hate leaving logos on.

for sets of 4, like, dialogue scene gifs e.g. this one [here] the traditional square 268x286 is best, tbh. However, for that set there, not sure if this counts as cropping but it is aesthetic, in the show the shots were eric, nell, nell, eric. Because, in that format, doing it that way would have had them looking Away from each other in the bottom two gifs, i switched them around in the set and it looked So much better. When possible, always have people physically speaking to each other in gifs actively face each other. Sometimes this involves flipping the whole gif which i Try not to do because our brains are trained to look at these people through a backward lens, so when you flip it over we think it looks weird because very few people Actually have perfectly symmetrical faces so like, they look Wrong to us. But looking a little wrong normally looks less weird than having people insets face the totally wrong direction.

for 10 gifs, displayed 2 by 2, i will not make them as high, 10 gifs of 268x180 is too long, it looks weird, and even shaving 10px off each gif makes it look more aesthetically pleasing.

for gifs displayed one on top of the other with text over, where you have a lot of them, they look better thin, i usually use somewhere between 230-245px for each gif’s height. Like this one.

if you’re making Huge gifs like... 540x440px for Aesthetic reasons, that Can work really well but is Exceptionally difficult imo and i really can’t offer any advice or tricks because i am hopeless at it.

On of my other tricks of the trade is, when i see a scene i think will make great gifs in the caps i’ve taken for something, i will save the caps. Like, that G moment of him looking into the camera, i took caps of the scene for a specific reason, deleted the rest of them when done, but saved those ones away. Scenes with minimal background that Also contain a look into the camera are Rare, exceptionally good looking on edits, and u will never remember where they are in the show if u delete them lol. So if you find shots you love, keep the caps! reuse them! to this day, i’m the one one to ever call myself out over excessive reuse of the same shots over and over.

Also, zig zags and diagonals are more attractive visually. like, this is from my main but i can’t fine one off this blog atm, but [this] You see how i’ve made this so your eyes flow in a seamless diagonal downwards? You eyes don’t flit back and forth in 3 different directions, it has a flow to it. The first shot on that set isn’t actually like that in the show, her face was on the right side of the screen, i cropped off everything on the left, added to the canvas on the right and used the wall she was standing next to to make it less obvious i cropped it so dramatically to achieve that. You can only really tell if you’re looking for it in that one. But like, if you can crop something so the gifset has a decent flow to it, so your eyes slide over it rather than attempt to look in 6 directions in jerky moments, it helps a lot. I did the same thing with this one, [here] every gif on that is cropped into a different angle as it was on the show.

This works specially well when you have a lot of gifs in your sets, which is where the zig zag thing comes into it, like, those 2 i linked two didn’t last long enough to zig back, but if i’d done another 2 gifs on there, i’d have put it back so your eyes slid back to the left side again. Can’t find an example rn, it’s Hard to do the more gifs you have, but pull it off and it looks really good.

however, if you Can make each gif centered perfectly it looks Really cool but it’s really hard to do b/c show content just.. isn’t great sometimes. But it looks so cool.

tldr: Negative space is Super Important!!! backgrounds can be super eye grabbing and you don’t want that, choose your dimensions well, make sure you make peoples eyes flow across your work rather than dart.

idk, i hope this made sense, but making things look aesthetically pleasing is Really hard and takes a lot of work, it just looks like it should be easy, it’s not you finding something hard that other people seem to find super easy, it’s not easy, it involves a lot of tricks and editing that you Have to obscure because if it’s too obvious it doesn’t look attractive. A lot of work goes in, if i had my way i’d make mostly aesthetically pleasing edits but it’s too hard and i don’t have that kind of time. I hope this helped in some way?

#ask #anon #anonymous #editing #idk #i;m not super good at explaining things #Anonymous

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sack-thing · 5 years

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Read from left to right. I’d recommend seeing the full view:

Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5

It’s actually written goodbye in last panel but with FFCC’s alphabet. It looks like a google to me when I take a quick glance. :p

Phew. I had this done a while ago but didn’t feel it was the right time to post, idk. More comment and context below the cut.

This scene is post-game when they travel together (relationship isn't official yet) and they come across a moogle village. The moogles are in trouble because their stream isn't running as it used to so they lack water. Ramsey and Luu Kah solve the problem along with a moogle of the village (Mene) and a chocobo they "domesticated" for the occasion.

After that, Luu Kah takes a walk in the village while Ramsey’s still talking to the moogles; they speak an old language and only Ramsey manages to (half) communicate with them at this point.

Sooo there, that’s when Ramsey’s done and goes and look for Luu Kah. As planned, it took forever. I used a lot of help from past drawings and references, reusing things I already had, most often as drafts/bases.

Usual problem is I spent so much time on it that I'm blind. I'm afraid to find this utterly ugly in a few weeks lol. Some things already make me cringe, but I don't always manage to fix them.

Other problem is the scene was in repeat for so long in my head that I started to wonder if it made any sense at all, especially when you don't have all the story. Even stupid details made me doubt; for instance, drawing someone's face isn't blatantly romantic, so why does it do something to Luu Kah? Well idk man, he's so in love that he interpreted it as "so I was first thing on his mind?", esp. that he wasn't expecting it of all things. He thought Ramsey was just going to draw the same thing or another animal. But yeah, I started to just put a lot of things into questions and don't know anymore how it can be seen from an outside view. Maybe we'll think I'm weird and stupid; whatever. It made sense the day I wrote it and inside the story. orz

The last page also ends a bit quickly I feel? But again, in my script the part where Ramsey talks to the moogles happens just before, so I wasn’t going to repeat the details when writing this following scene. They can just talk about it on the road.

In any case, "this ship will test your patience" applies to them haha. Also we'll excuse Luu Kah for speaking straight and not realizing right away what he was saying. It's not that he wouldn't give compliments, just that he'd avoid saying that kinda “obvious” thing out loud usually, since he's in a gotta keep a low profile mode. :D

So yeah. I just remembered that scene (I was triggered when seeing an OVA screenshot of Colette drawing Lloyd’s face in the ground) and idk, I wanted to draw it. There's something... soft? about it that I like. They're in their little world or something, haha.

I didn't bother very much with backgrounds, but I imagine that the moogle village is prettier than that, and their houses more specials and cute. But it's too much work already. :'D

Some poses were helped by Senshistock resources. Sometimes I used my own hand as ref.

Luu Kah’s chocobo is greatly inspired by a drawing I asked someone to do haha. The story behind that is I asked my bf and a friend of his to draw an ugly chocobo, and I said I’d use the one who wins as uglier. :D In the end they were rather good, so I used a bonus drawing his friend did, because it was very simple and it was actually what I needed. (It’s still cute actually lol).

#ramsey #luu kah #luuram #my doodles #what else can i say #comics are hard and i don't know the rules about panels #and it's actually super hard to draw something decent each time lol #i may or may not cry after posting this

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tryinghuman · 7 years

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Comic Making Tips

So I ended up writing a whole tangent about how I construct, Trying Human, these days. SORRY. I hope you can find the answer to your question in these ramblings.

More staging shots. These are long shots of the characters, where they are in their environment, and in relation to each other. I try to have at least one staging shot within a panel or two of a scene starting up. Even if I’ve been to that location a million times *cough*Rose’s apartment*cough*, I still want the reader to know where everyone is.

Less talking heads. This is a little unavoidable in comic largely driven by dialogue and drama, but I try to not just have yo-yo-ing back and forth between headshots of the characters. There’s a lot of this in the old pages so a way I’ve gotten around it is by combining panels of characters talking or completely cutting out shots and having the ‘missing’ character’s dialogue come from off panel. I also add in their names so we know who’s talking to who i.e., “Longus, thanks for letting me come over” as opposed to “Thanks for letting me come over.” It’s a quick and dirty way to let the reader know who said what if they’re off panel.

Show all hands, feet, heads, and props (if they’re in the shot at all...) This is kind of related the last point. I try to move everyone’s hands and arms up into the panels. Or lower their heads. I used to cut off a lot of body parts or just not have them moving their limbs at all. I mean, with the Greys, I still don’t move them but that’s a part of their species. I think it makes them seem more creepy as well if all the other characters are talking and gesticulating and they’re just standing around.

Don’t completely desaturate your colors. I don’t know what I was thinking but when I originally shaded TH, I did so with grey for like... everything. I feel like I must have seen something somewhere and thought it was a good idea, which is weird because a lot of my non-TH art from the time didn’t suffer from this. lol ANYWAY, frequently I’m reusing old backgrounds on the redone pages and all I’ve done is knock the saturation way up. They look brand new! :D

More beta-ing/spot blacking. I’m not sure what this is called in English but Spot blacking; Thanks @randumbdaze! In manga, the large swathes of flat black both in the background and on the characters is called beta. There’s a lot more of that in TH. Waaay more black. LOVE THE BLACK. On comic pages that are just pencils this is usually marked with an ‘X’. If you’ve ever been to my streams, you’ll see me marking my betas before filling them in later. They just make the comic look more... Finished or fuller or complete. I can’t really explain it, you just have to take my word for it. In TH this is most noticeable on the inside of sleeves, collars, under characters chins, in side of mouths and on the bodies’ and in the eyes of the Greys. I also have black from the comic gutters (the area between frames) encroach into the scenes to help give the pages rhythm and break up the staging.

Less non-western style comic book sound effects. In Japanese comics, it’s really common to see sound effects like, “Poke!”, “Grab!”, “Smiles!” (つん, ざっく, うはうは, respectively.) That’s because they have actual onomatopoeia for a lot of that stuff. We don’t and it can come off as awkward in English unless you’re going for a really particular style to your comic. I used to use it as a crutch to get around actually drawing stuff out of my comfort zone, I think. This was like 10 years ago so bear with me. I take out SFX that aren’t actual sounds and just try to draw my actions better. Also, TH doesn’t really feel like a manga in visual presentation so I can’t really get away with those kind of sound effects. Worse comes to worse, you can always add a piece of dialogue like “Don’t grab me like that!” to help the reader understand what is going on.

Less sexy when sexy doesn’t need to be there. I’m a piece of shit and draw everyone in too sexy of poses. Mostly the ladies because I have a prooooblem. ;A; I’m trying to avoid that these days unless it calls for it. Weirdly, less is more. When I try to avoid drawing them sexy, I think they look more attractive. I’m a fickle boop.

Here are some good comic making resources:

Comic Book FX (The Comic Book Sound Effect Database) - http://www.comicbookfx.com/ Find some dank sounds.

Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering - http://www.blambot.com/ Check out their articles; they’re really helpful for creating a groundwork.

DesignDoll - http://terawell.net/terawell/ Step aside, PoseManiacs, DesignDoll is here to stay. The free version doesn’t let you save, but if you just want to throw together some poses for reference, this is a great program for that.

SketchUp - https://www.sketchup.com/ Awesome for modeling props and sets.

Sculptris - http://pixologic.com/sculptris/ A free organic modeling tool; great for modeling your character’s heads for reference.

#trying human #tryinghuman #comics #webcomic #graphicnovel #webcomic tips #long post #longpost #ask #8-xj #tutorial #comic tips #graphic novel tips

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sugabeans · 7 years

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wanted to do the other unusual asks questions bc i had time

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora?

is your room messy or clean?

what color are your eyes?

light brown

do you like your name? why?

what is your relationship status?

single single forever

describe your personality in 3 words or less

quiet, loud, happy

what color hair do you have?

dark brown

what kind of car do you drive? color?

it’s my parents.. a silver corolla

where do you shop?

anywhere where there is a sale!

i always shop on aliexpress lol

for clothing, a lot of my clothes comes from walmart, garage, dynamite, f21, bluenotes, h&m, (all from the sale section hehe)

how would you describe your style?

skinny jeans when it’s cool outside, flowy shorts when it’s warm

both plus a tshirt

and sneakers or boots as footwear bc i hate feet with no socks

favorite social media account

what size bed do you have?

queen size!

any siblings?

1 sister

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?

japan

why? because it seems like a nice place to be ;u;

favorite snapchat filter?

i like the standard flower crown one - the one that lightens your face and adds a crown, and does nothing more

favorite makeup brand(s)

idk i don’t wear makeup

how many times a week do you shower?

once every day so 7 times?

favourite tv show?

haikyuu

shoe size?

generally an 8

how tall are you?

sandals or sneakers?

SNEAKERS ALWAYS HO MAN

do you go to the gym?

describe your dream date

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?

a lot.. i’m not going to count but it’s def over $100 in cash

what color socks are you wearing?

i’m actually not wearing socks rn bc i showered recently

but it’s always plain black

how many pillows do you sleep with?

do you have a job? what do you do?

i’m currently a research assistant and we’re doing things with phonetics and the perception of sounds and such - though i won’t have this job in september bc it’s a summer job

how many friends do you have?

idk what are friends

whats the worst thing you have ever done?

cheated on a test?

flicked a booger into my classmates hair (when i was 8)

scribbed marker on mommy’s white couch?

sacked a boy in grade 6 by whacking his balls with a broom?

turned down a boy and RAN AWAY many times

whats your favourite candle scent?

i don’t like scents but something fruity like strawberry or cherry?

3 favourite boy names

kevin haha

idk any others that i really like? i mean, if i hear a nice name i’ll probs be like “ah that’s a pretty name” but i can’t think of any off the top of my head that i particularly like

3 favourite girl names

can’t really answer their either

favourite actor?

don’t have one

favourite actress?

also don’t have one

who is your celebrity crush?

kevin woo

favourite movie?

i still really like mulan

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book?

i do not read a lot and my fave series is dengeki daisy

money or brains?

brains

brains will bring you the moneys

do you have a nickname? what is it?

karinabeans is my self-proclaimed nickname lol

gabby calls me rainbow

how many times have you been to the hospital?

never

i just go to the doctor or walk-in clinic

top 10 favourite songs

don’t make me do this LOL

do you take any medications daily?

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)

combination

my eyes and lips and around both areas + forehead are dry af

but under my lips and near my nose are SO OILY CRIES

what is your biggest fear?

how many kids do you want?

but i also don’t want kids

whats your go to hair style?

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc)

i think it’s a decent size - probably bigger than most people

who is your role model?

what was the last compliment you received?

can’t remember honestly

what was the last text you sent?

it was to my student’s mom saying i stopped by but no one was home so i left

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?

can’t remember but i stopped believing pretty late

daddy showed me this website that showed you where santa was currently and i 100% believed it was real

what is your dream car?

one that drives

tbh i want one of those little ones lol the environment friendly ones

bc it’s just gonna be me driving it

bc i’m going to die alone

opinion on smoking?

I HATE

it’s disgusting

if you smoke, i’ll like you less as a person

if i smell it on you - then i have a bad opinion of you

do you go to college?

no i go to university

i’m in my 4th year

what is your dream job?

i want to be a speech language pathologist

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs?

suburbs

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels?

yes, who doesn’t?

i reuse the containers

do you have freckles?

do you smile for pictures?

always

how many pictures do you have on your phone?

a hecka lot

have you ever peed in the woods?

maybe i have? i’ve been camping a number of times and maybe i did?

do you still watch cartoons?

hell yeah teen titans is life

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?

mcdonalds

Favorite dipping sauce?

sweet and sour boi

what do you wear to bed?

a loose tshirt and shorts

or if it’s cold out, sweatpants and a sweater

have you ever won a spelling bee?

no pfft i can’t spell for shit

what are your hobbies?

can you draw?

no but i wish i could

do you play an instrument?

no but i used to play piano and flute

and violin and guitar but i wasn’t very good at those

what was the last concert you saw?

troye sivan?

tea or coffee?

tea

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?

lol neither i’m not american

tim hortons for life

do you want to get married?

yes but no

i like the idea of marriage and living with someone i love for the rest of my life

but like, getting married requires someone to be married to

and it also requires you to spend a lot of money to get married (if you have a ceremony and shit)

too much work

what is your crush’s first and last initial?

are you going to change your last name when you get married?

no i’m keeping my last name forever

it will live and die with me bc i don’t often see my last name anywhere

what color looks best on you?

red, like most people

do you miss anyone right now?

yeah i miss my crush lol

it’s silly but i want to see him

i’m sure he doesn’t care to see me though

do you sleep with your door open or closed?

closed

do you believe in ghosts?

yes

what is your biggest pet peeve?

last person you called`

again my tutor’s mother LOL

favourite ice cream flavor?

red bean or some typa chocolate rocky road or idk but chocolate definitely

regular oreos or golden oreos?

regular

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?

chocolate

what shirt are you wearing?

a univeristy of toronto tshirt i won in my first year

what is your phone background?

suga smiling ^^

are you outgoing or shy?

very shy

do you like it when people play with your hair?

I LOVE IT

but no one plays with my hair

it’s so sad

do you like your neighbors?

i guess? there are some who are too loud though and smoke and ugh

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?

i wash it in the shower at night

have you ever been high?

have you ever been drunk?

i don’t think so

last thing you ate?

i drank tea

that’s not food lol uh i ate snow pea leaves

favourite lyrics right now

can’t think of one

summer or winter?

winter bc cold

day or night?

day! look at the sunshine~

dark, milk, or white chocolate?

i like dark, i also like milk, i dislike white

favourite month?

december!

what is your zodiac sign

cancer

who was the last person you cried in front of?

i only cry by myself

#personal #shit it's past midnight now and i have work tomorrow OOPS

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