#it’s the second time I redraw this 😆

[koffeenoe]

[blacleria]

Would love to see you do a Tom/Voldemort & Remus redraw of your old art 😍

Ah, it's already second or third request for Tom Riddle 😄 A really haunting Voldemort might be interesting to paint 🤔

However, please have in mind that Sirius is my all time favourite character, and I mainly exist for painting him 😆 So I will not paint that many other chars, I'm sorry!

[jerkfacepink]

Periodically this posts nukes my notifs and I wonder if giving additional info would even be worth it, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to add, I’m not forcing anyone to read it. Maybe archivists will like it. The way things for the web were built are done differently due to the changes in technical limitations— details nobody would realize unless you were from that time. But, maybe fan motivations could be similar? Hah, idk. It was normal for anime fandom online to go to a lot of trouble for our content— as my best friend puts it, “We all fucking walked 15 miles uphill in the snow for anime fandom, that was standard!” and a lot of people who have been online as anime fans since the 90s know each other or at least know each others’ work. (Hey everyone— I’m PIMoSDL from the Ranma ML. Anyone still alive? Hahaha.)

This gif was inspired by an even older dancing Lum gif (transparent background, Lum facing forward, the dance from the Lum’s Love Song ending from Urusei Yatsura, I can’t seem to find that gif anywhere and have no idea who made it), which was on a buddy’s Ranma site that’s long gone. As a new webmaster I wanted an animated gif on my anime site too, because animated gifs were cutting edge, but it HAD to be one I made myself! From OUR fandom! It HAD to have a transparent background because that was more immersive, and I wanted everything on my anime site to be content I produced (it was the first English Ranma and Akane shipper shrine ever; even back then my first foray was into fandom because of ship wars, hahaha. I had a whole fucking career as a web designer because I shipped Ranma and Akane.)

I had to jam the card onto the motherboard with my foot (don’t do this) because it was too hard for me to push in. My boyfriend (who bought me the card after I asked how to get screencaps onto a computer “like those college kids do”) bought it at a computer show; we were still mostly limited to local options for many specialty purchases. Also, I married that guy and we have two kids now 🤍

The first adapter (A/V adapter) didn’t work, so he brought me a coax adapter (hence— static on the screen caps)

You could not just hit “print screen” to get screenshots of video back then. I had to export screen caps from the capture software and use the pause on my VCR if I wanted specific frames. I was lucky enough to have a frame-by-frame feature on my VCR but it left even more lines and static on the frames compared to just playing video and hitting the “capture” button in my software. There was no choice but to redraw everything.

The version of Photoshop that I had was 4.0. It didn’t even have a tool to make rounded corners or rounded corner vector paths, so it sure as hell didn’t have an animation panel/animated gif export 😆

The frames were made in Paint Shop Pro. It was saved to .gif in a separate program (forgot which) where I had to manually enter the hex values for the color palette because I didn’t understand why t f it was messing around with my colors and adding “dots.” I freaked out a bit and had to manually fix all the “dots” that were added from dithering

This was my first gif. I tried my best to make it as small as I knew how to (which was already a relevant professional skill back then, since most people downloaded graphics over a 14.4 modem; 14kb a second. A web page that took up 1mb was about the most you wanted to make— I was working as a fledgling web dev after school for a local company and was learning all this stuff at the time, using my Ranma site as a test grounds for any new tech I was learning. The site’s still up and the last time I edited it was when frames were still in vogue, it’s been a minute lol)

This gif helped make, and outlived, my entire career as a web designer. Companies always change their web presence, so it’s survived past anything I ever made professionally, and it’s loved more than any stupid corporate junk I made, hahaha

THANK YOU BING IMAGE SEARCH. Thought I lost this!  8D

I made this in 1996.  To make it back then was a million times harder than it would have been today:  screen capped each frame in the loop by hooking up my VCR to my TV capture card (it was this external monstrosity with a separate power cord XD).  The screen caps had bad color, were blurry, and full of static so I redrew each frame pixel by pixel with a mouse (wasn’t so good at image editing programs back then). XD;;

Of course, it got lost over time because I made that thing like 203498203489 computers ago, so I’m glad people jacked it from my site back in the day. XD

[twopoppies]

Have you ever regretted getting tattoos? I’m also in my 30s and I think I wanna tattoo some things that are meaningful for me but then next second I’m not sure I want such a commitment for life.

Hi honey. No, I don’t regret them at all. I think some are more well done than others, so I’d say definitely take your time researching your artist and don’t worry about hurting their feelings if you don’t like they way they’ve drawn your tattoo… I made my artist redraw my first one like 5 times. 😆 He was so patient with me (I’m sure he wanted to strangle me).

And if you’re getting text, I’ve noticed that the ones I have that were small/delicate have either faded a lot or have bled together a bit making the text a bit harder to read. And certain areas hurt like a motherfucker, while others really don’t at all. So research a bit when you’re planning location. Last, make sure you cover your tattoos with sunscreen once they’re healed… the sun really fades them.

But all of the tattoos I have contain memories, so I really don’t regret them at all. 💙

[violetganache42]

Hahahaha! I cannot stop laughing at the first WIP. Webby trying to hold Scrooge and Goldie back killed me. 😆 If that actually happened in the episode, I would've completely lost my shit! lmao

The second WIP looks so amazing! One of my favorite things about the Halloween episode was seeing everyone get into the Halloween spirit in their own way. The adults are certainly no exception. Donald handing out candy to trick-or-treaters, Della wanting to scare trick-or-treaters like the mischevious twin she is, and let's not forget Scrooge. He is over 150 years old and he still trick-or-treats; not to mention he went absolute HAM with his skeleton costume! As someone who loves Halloween, I aspire to be on Scrooge's level of enthusiasm for the holiday. I hope you get around to finishing this one or redrawing it in time for Halloween 2021 because this is a spooktacular piece of art. 🎃

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You used twice the emoji, two wips will be lol

* This one was the first art i made after the Forbidden Fountain ep premiere, i love doing this kind of stuff xDD

*Something i wanted to have it done before Halloween, then i was several days late and i ended up leaving dfsjsd

send me a 👀 and i’ll post a snippet of art/writing that i never got around to finishing this year (r.i.p)