#it was a shock the first month or so

[bobokitty]

Just saw your latest post about how much you really like to talk about animation pipelines, I also noticed you said pipelines, with an s. Could you elaborate on that, is there multiple?

Also also could you talk about animation pipelines look like? I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to capture the entirety and it’s nuances/complexities in just a singular post (would absolutely love to see you do that tho) but like also just really interested to see what that’s like and if people outside of the pipeline usually have any misconceptions about it

(Hope that made sense 😭 activated me like a sleeper agent when I saw that post because I’m super interested in hearing this stuff LOL)

OH HO HO!!!!! PIPELINES, YES, WITH A S!!

I did a talk last month about that that was supposedly recorded, but I absolutely hate hearing the sound of my voice ahaha. So! Every studio has a different pipeline variation, and within those studios, the shows and projects have their own variations. I'm still kind of new in the industry. October will be my third anniversary. However, I love finding out how things work (I used to work in tech before making a whole career/life switcheroo)~

Here's a pipeline that I made with my personal experience on a show:

And here is one based off the book, Producing Animation:

Each of these boxes requires a team of people, size of course depending on project scale and budget. As part of the production admin (production assistant tho in name only ahahaha I am again someone who sticks their nose into things and work directly with leads and directors), you have to be those lines connecting all the boxes and make sure everyone gets what they need. In the one I made, you'll notice how there is a loop happening in various parts. Pre-pro (pre production) is what gets done before animation. Script, storyboard, character/prop design, and backgrounds. (Interestingly enough, this is not the same for every production! Boutique deals with a lot of short term projects, like ads, music videos, pitch work. Various studios make their bread and butter this way. It's short term work and sometimes you get clients who will pay a lot for like some weird passion project. Think like, The Line, or what Cartoon Saloon does between movies. Anywho! Sometimes things like backgrounds won't get done until it's time for animation!) Anywho! In pre pro, character designs are influencing storyboards which are then influencing design and what sheets need to be made and backgrounds are being made which then set what the board artists can work in but then board artists want to change location angles and suddenly next thing you know, Producers have nuked an entire sequence and all of that work is cut ahaha. You even have editors going in and adding their own touch to the boards, adding in audio recordings and temp sound effects and music to try and get the feel, etc.

Oh god this is a lot of text on my phone and I haven't even scratched the surface LOL!! Point is, there is a lot of back and forth happening. Animation on a larger scale IS a group project. Miss on that production staff glue and oh boy. You will get....something in the end, but it will not be....... I've seen some disasters ahahaha. You got what you got and things could have been avoided. (And sometimes a team can be the best team and then you got these producers who have no idea how animation works but alas they are footing the bill and what can you do????)

...I 100% cannot capture this in a single post lol! I can barely cover it in an hour lecture. We haven't even mentioned spreadsheets and other programs (I have yet to try ftrack or shotgrid but I would love to get my hands on them and see how they work in a production; they also include file management which right now I do manually). Ehehehehe it's fun~~ Every day is something new~ Oh man I want to see what it's like with live action as well! It has to be a completely different beast!!! One day~~

[hrokkall]

I'm talking to a machine

[azuphere]

HE SAID YES!!

(to being my parasocial wife) (not clickbait)

(a bit of a sound warning for the video cause the background noise is a bit loud!)

transcript + twitter link under the cut!

feel free to repost and/or crop me out but credit to this og post would be appreciated!!

Twitter Link: (x)

Video Transcript:

Me: [to Phil] Can I propose to you?  P: Yes! D: Oh yeah, sure!  Me: [to Dan] And can you just be like, “What the-?”  D: I’ll look shocked, yeah.  Me: Alright. *brings out corgi figurine* Phil, will you corg-be my parasocial wife?  P: …Yes.  Me: *not expecting a response* Yes?!  [after taking the photo] D: Fuck yeah. Well, thank you.  Me: Well, thank you for being my parasocial wife!  P: Yes! D: No, our pleasure!

also the corgi figurine in question:

[demonkinguwu]

TWST is certainly the game of all time

[asalesbian]

Killjoys 3x05 - Attack the Rack

Delle Seyah staring at Aneela's mouth for half their conversation (for @killjoysmonth prompt 'favourite scene(s)')

[bmpmp3]

finding out ur coworker is way older than you thought and having to very quickly reorient how you talk to them

[parchmentknight]

HELP okay so i draw in my sketchbook (duh) but i also write whatever thoughts im thinking while i draw... THE MARGIN STUFF IS SO WEIRD IM SORRY IN ADVANCE LOLOLOL

[tongues--and--teeth]

Guys I think his effigy is ready

[angryjojofrog]

Redrew that photo Alegander has of himself all over his wall

Plus some slander bc i was in a terrible mood while drawing

This is of course very untrue. He's a smart handsome fella with a normal looking cup

Text on the left reads: [drink the sludge]

I lob him

[blossoms-phan]

idk why I keep lying to myself I’m looking at every spoiler possible I’m still going to go fucking feral seeinf it licve listening to it was bad enough im tweaking over how good they look in that 2 second boxing clip I keep forgetting they’re actually on the stage and there’s all this stuff happening on the screen behind them and it’s not just voices

[seaofreverie]

GUUUYYUYSSSD !!!!!

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KIMONO MY HOUSE VINYL!!!!!!

Also funny story which is that when my brother took these to the cashier he said something like "oh... Sparks... they were here one year ago"

[girlivealwaysbean]

it's not sinking in that today might be the last day in my house and town for many months to come

[tododeku-or-bust]

Today I learned that Shirley Chisholm- the first Black congresswoman, and the first woman AND African American to run for President under the Democratic party, despite a lack of support from both the DNC and the men of the Congressional Black Caucus go figure)- survived three different assassination attempts!

[fanofthelamb]

ok ONE MORE SKETCH BECAUSE I LEGIT AM FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE TO NOT RAMBLE ABOUT ALL THE SCRAPPED IDEAS I HAD FOR THIS BC I REALLY LIKE THEM AND SHIT

ok one more sketch bc i really wanted to do this idea but it doesnt make sense for this AU but,,, did u know narinder was originally gonna be the main antagonist for BTG when i first started writing this.

bonus BTG pic below the cut<333

[chrisbangs]

i finished thesis, won an award, and have graduated.. hello 👋🥸

[blue-thief]

pls let me back into the friend group. i was barely a part of it the first time and i won't contribute anything if you let me back in. but i wanna know why the breakup between that one couple was so bad that the entire group is falling apart