#im going insane /lh

[avidlylivid]

BBG JUMPSCARE

girls featured (from top to bottom)

Aoi @teenagemutanttransgenderturtles

Lee @glitter-alienzzz

Lee Nova @/me

Leo @cpunkhobie2

Leona @mushtoons

loved drawing everyone !! shame we didn't tie :[[[[[ (i ALWAYS forget to tag @ultimatebabygirlsupremebattle somehow)

[lazanhaazeda]

Errorink is so interesing bc, what do you mean that while you were embraced by the multiverse and lead to a new life away from the one that hurted you so much that you killed yourself, what do you mean i lost the life that i loved so much, the life i finally thought i could have my happy ending without any more suffering and lost bc of my own curiosity.

Wdym we both have reborn in a white space, in the nothing, we both passes though the same thing but in the end we ended up in different sides, wdym that while you wanted desesperely to die bc you wanted to be something new, while i wanted to desesperely to live bc i didnt want to lose my old life

Wdym we both cant connect properly with people bc of how fucked up we are and see others, wdym that while im constantly feeling pain bc the multiverse is trying to delete the "Error", you cant feel pain and you got to be part of the multiverse in a way nobody else can, being connected to all universes and creators.

Wdym that we arent so different, but at the same time we are both the ends of one spectrum, that we complete eachother imperfections, that at the same time we are the only ones that can understand the one another.

Wdym we are both suicidal beings that are willing to do their jobs bc they are our only life purpose, the only way we think we can find joy, but at the same time the thing that is dooming us to our suffering

WDYM WE WORK SO PERFECTLY WELL IN SYMBOLISM THAT ONLY POESY COULD DO THAT AND WE ARE ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF FUCKING SANS UNDERTALE

[ponchcronch]

If I had a nickel for every time I had an alien with a portable pocket dimension who's likely the last of their kind as a comfort character, i'd have two nickels. /ref

[mysteryanimator]

Here ye here ye, another breaking down processes post from yours truly!

For this animation, my plan was to make something I'm proud of AND also something to force me to take my time since with all previous animation works they were all rushed. I normally tend to speed through work as someone whose illustrations are painterly and I like to keep them rough. Also lets be totally honest my other plan for this animation was to animate Mizrox being so sickeningly sweet.

Fun fact, this animation was going to be longer. I had tried to plan out Olrox climbing on top of Mizrak during the kiss to lay on his chest. There was an attempt trying to rough that out and several ref videos It was scrapped because for the life of me I could not figure it out. Also hypothetically if I was going to keep it, I would cut to another angle (perhaps Mizrak's face close up) and then cut to another angle that would make it easier to see that climbing over the top. OR, consider Olrox already sleeping on his chest (im just rambling now but this is basically 'if you were able to do this again' section).

I wish I actually went through a more proper tie-down process because the jump from going from my rough straight to clean was rough (badum tsk) for the first few seconds. Defintely learnt my lesson ALSO Olrox is surprisingly really fun to draw from behind.

I challenged myself to see if I could get the idea of "bigger movements, less in-betweens, smaller/slower movements, more in-betweens." Though the effect of Olrox rubbing his face against his arm may be a little too jarring and I steered quite a bit away from my rough and self-reference video in hopes of making the face rubbing more apparent because I thought the character acting was too subtle and wanted a contrast to the other half of the scene. I reconfigured my CSP animation workspace for this too so it definitely made the process less tedious when cleaning up the animation.

(Which by the way I do record a lot of self-references depending on the section! For things I can't do/uncomfortable doing, I'll end up looking up videos. It's the easiest for me to catch subtle things in body language and also get a feels for the motion.)

Also I'm really satisfied with Olrox's anticipation before his smooch and the shoulder roll at the end even though technically the arc doesn't complete itself. MIZRAK THOUGH, when cleaning up I realised my rough wouldn't make sense because he's already looking at him so there's no need for a turn, and then the lack of a shoulder movement felt jarring, so all of that was done without any thought, wish I did think about it more though.

Now compositing was a monster in its own right and basically me jumping back and forth between turning on and off different layers, but here are all the new things I did; I duplicated and blurred the lines of the lineart, beveled the shadows so it was lighter on the inside, and added a rim of blur so the focus drew towards the couple. Also will absolutely admit that my fanboy ass went "... be crazy and try to mimic the show." The final did not go that route because I thought it was more important to emphasize the mood/atmosphere (Also Olrox is intentionally stylized differently because i wanted him to be softer here and I had to give him eye highlights for plot HELP). THOUGH to say I did not try to mimic the style, the #2 lighting test was my 'attempt' LOL 😭 I can never consume media normally.

Here are the lighting tests I went through. I definitely knew I wanted to go with a morning vibe, though I tested out a night ver for fun and did some edge lighting which led to mixing both version #2 and #3 to make #4.

Fun fact, I almost went with #2 due to fear of getting too heavy-handed with compositing and therefore losing the animation (even though I really liked #4 at the time). Thanks to a friend, they also shared the sentiment of liking #4, though pointed out it felt like midday and encouraged me to make the colours warmer and deepen the shadows. It is a really tough balance but I think for a softer scene like this, the more additional layers of comp worked out in the end.

The edge light was a last minute thing because someone told me to add sound and to have light stream in. Also at this point I deadass forgot that you know, Olrox, is a vampire, but hey rule of cute overrules. We can pretend its light not from the sun LOL

Also yay I got to show off my own style a tad, I love paintingggg. It's not as completely fully rendered coz I knew that it would get covered up but I still made sure it was quite clean regardless. I didn't realise how much of it would be covered up even though I did make sure they would fit/make sense for bg LOL

Now we are done!

If you've gotten this far thank you! There's gonna be less frequency of these animations due to the semester starting back up soon and I don't get many opportunities to actually 2D animate (despite it being an animation degree RAH). Also I remembering cringing and laughing a lot when I immediately started putting colour down going "oh i can see the end of the horizon, i have too much power as an artist, people will see this i cant let them see me be crazy"

[Here's some memes I drew over while my friend was reviewing my work]

[comet-wire]

Last night I cried, and I mean UGLY cried at a foul hour because I love Albert Wesker and I hate it. (/Lh)

Like first off, the man's name is Albert??? Need I say more? But then, his name is kinda gothic when you say his full name. I don't know if that's just me. But just simply referring to him as Albert is goofy as fuck considering he's supposed to be a villain in RE. Not only that, he's got paper thin lips. How's he gonna get a kiss kiss??☝️🤨/ref

But it wasn't only that, mind you, it's also because this absolute FUCK, this evil David Bowie and Johnny bravo looking mother fucker, has consumed my life and every waking thought that sometimes it genuinely hurts and that's what I hate about being autistic. It's just how much I want to consume of something once it becomes a special interest and/or hyperfixation. On top of that, Wesker is a special case for me because I found out I technically trauma bonded to him as a comfort character. For the past year and a half now, I got back into RE because of the RE4R and began hyperfixating on said game then it spiraled into hyperfixating about the Wesker's storyline, with project W and so on. I already have a tendency to go back to RE periodically every like two or so years but this has low-key been probably the longest I've consistently fixated on RE without a single break in-between. My dad and I bonded over resident evil, he's one of the people who got me into RE, albeit he watched the movies and I got into the game's. Which means RE means a whole lot to me and since he passed my fixation on it only heightened as a source of comfort. I also found out when you have a comfort character during a horrible period in your life, you very well can trauma bond with said character. So that means out of all characters, I have trauma bonded to Albert Wesker and I am two seconds away from tweaking. 🤩

On top of that, every time @rainbowroadonsteroids sends me something remotely Wesker related I start punching my wall and they bully me for it smh./Lh+nm

Shout out to my favorite human nightlight, Albert Wesker. ☝️🗿

[daily-acvoid]

popsicle (he probably doesn't like it)

[satandoesntwannabehere]

**SHAKES YOU*

WHO GAVE YOU THESE GOLDEN HANDS

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY YOUR USERNAME

EITHER GOD OR SATAN GAVE YOU THESE POWERS

CUZ I CAN'T BELIVE A NORMAL PERSON HAS THIS MUCH POWER

/POSITIVE AS FUCK

SWNDING YOU MANY KISSES

**ISSHAKENTOOTHECORE**

[ghostlymarcy]

my big Homestuck Take™ is that there is a significant dissonance between the actual text itself and the discourse around it / sub-cultural idea of it, and that is not inherently a good nor bad thing.

ascribing any sort of monolithic statement about whether a cultural phenomenon is good or bad is always kinda stupid, but when it comes to HS its just… gods…

theres some real fucking bullshit out there. every week theres a dozen people throwing out takes with the confidence of a cis guy on two-and-a-half beers that have seemingly zero basis in the actual text and feel like they’ve invented 10+ years of fandom discourse whole-cloth.

but some of the most fascinating and enjoyable HS content and discussion I’ve ever seen has resulted from wilful dissociation from the base text. and i think there is immense creative and analytical power that can be found in highly non-literalist readings of a text.

i think the issue is less one of the inherent nature of cultural dissonance and more of the nature of our relationship to it and how we create it in our discourse. in other words, the way in which we culturally/socially recreate Homestuck in our discussions about it or in our fan media or what have you depends on whether or not we can all decide to just be normal about things or not.

this is an aimless rant but also i promised @arcanegemini a hs post so here you go lmao :33

[u3pxx]

sorry guys im having intense emotions about good omens season 2 right now that are physically bubbling in my chest that i can't express because i forget everything instantly. anyways, nice weather we're having today- yes i know that it's been raining y

[nebuladreamz]

*CRASHES IN *💥💥💥

NEBBY!!!

I JUST REALIZED I DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT YOUR AUS OR OCS PLEASE SLAM AN INFO DUMP ON ME

WAUGH UH

OKAY OKAY UH VERY SHITTY SLIDESHOW GO

[gooblenoodle]

my significant other, everyone.

[definitelynotshouting]

Sincerest apologies to the people who have sent me involved hunger au worldbuilding questions, my brain has been on 24/7 minecraft lockdown for the past like, week 💀💀💀 ur local enby is in fact aggressively worldbuilding for their singleplayer instead, oops

(the circled + question mark area has been figured out i was just too lazy to go back into CSP and scribble a broken down bridge LMAO)

[lexydakitten]

. look at these silly lizads. i think i deserve the suspiciously large molecule for my dont wanna socialize for 2 extra hours doodles

[eric-the-bmo]

"Need a light?"

(very huge thanks to @sm0kebreaks for this commission of my vampire and his sire! I'm going to go insane in the tags now, i adore this with every fibre of my being [also: vers with no piercings under the readmore, bc I love that one too])

[head---ache]

I don't think my heart can handle another tight poll it was too much with Silho I don't think I can do it with Kaiko

[imodekurita]

i need everyone to know that the return of this stupid dog actually makes me insane this dumb dog human got me into this mess AND WAS LITERALLY MY PERSONALITY FOR YEARS ohhh mybgod im so ibsane i cosplayed her i made a fursuit head i made a plush and everything il

im soINSANE IM GOING NUTS.