#james kubo

[orangetubor]

I'm back again!

DOMES! so- what can u tell me about the space and education domes. I'm so interested. Why are they separated based off of activity? Are all the domes in a giant ish dome? ALSO WHAT DO MARTIANS FARM. POTATOES? what kind of recreational activities are in the recreational dome?

Also what are the fatal flaws of your ocs... I love finding out about this stuff if u cant tell. Any funny (or otherwise) story that any of them would tell about another to like describe one of them? (that sounds very confusing but basically when I introduce folks that are my idiot friends, I give a memorable story that makes people go "ah, that's such a (friend name) thing" (e.g. One of my ex friends from school ate her essay out of spite - she wrote it on rice paper and wanted to spook the teacher)

And yes I've seen the whole "I think I'm attracted to you because youre the hottest person I know" so AMAZING JOB- I love ur ocs!!!

Respectfully curious,

a nerd who likes knowing lore and science (and character!!)

(I'M SO SORRY FOR HOW LONG THIS IS I'M JUST REALLY INTERESTED)

I'm gonna do the flaws first bcs it won't take as long so:

Martha: gets sad cuz she doesn't have a specific 'thing' like the rest of her friends (jenny's the tech guy, Evelyn's the animal guy) and she gets sad cuz she thinks you need a thing to work in and aspire to in order to live your life to the fullest

Tammy: doesn't think. Like at all ever. No internal dialogue nothing in that brain half the time she's just playing rock music on loop. Lights are on but no one's home except the lights aren't even on

Jenny: builds little robots and then gets existential about creating a pseudo life to fulfil one singular purpose. Continues to build little robots anyway.

Thomas: internal dialogue goes 100 miles a second and so when he has to take a second to actually think he just. Blanks. He also has awful memory due to things getting pushed so far back by unrelated tangents

Genji/James: has a mullet

Aled: catastrophises a LOT and overthinks literally everything he's just handing Thomas a hair bobble and he's like 'wait is this elasticy enough. Oh no there's a hair on it oh no. What if my hands sweaty what then-' baby girl it is a hair bobble

Georgie: previous break ups have left her feeling like she isn't interesting enough, now she has to always give her two cents or else she thinks she's forgettable

Dane: ~\_(°u°)_/~

Sahrah: given her uniqueness as a weird fucked up entirely new species she feels like her life has to be perfect so that her mother species doesn't get a bad rap, especially since her mother is the first of her kind to live in mars. Also she's really supposed to be a litter animal but she was the only one who survived to birth so she's lonely a lot of the time

Fun story: Martha says 'the first time me and Tammy met was when she needed someone to show a dead bee to. She asked me if I wanted to pet it'

And ... DOMES!;;

educational dome has the schools and colleges in it, a few corner stores for hungry students, it's not that interesting other than the fact that there are geese for some reason

Space dome is basically just space science stuff, it's got telescopes, research for crops, rockets, exploration base, it's also the original dome! The very first one built by the robots they sent here so that the researchers had somewhere to stay.

What kind of crops do martians grow? Well, any they can get there hands on, there are several small climate controlled domes used to grow different things, deserty, tropical, whatever Ireland is, and some animal domes that rotate various animals and grain, it's also home to the farm house that hosts the majority of Halloween parties. There's also the eden dome, which isn't connected to the farm fines, but to the space domes! It was home to the very first crops grown on mars. (Which, of course, included potatoes) and then if course. The big dome. The super massive one that uses my new favourite thing: AQUAPONICS!! obviously you can't feed an entire small country with just plain kabd, you need stacks! You need later upon layer of fish, water, wires, dirt, plants, synthetic sunlight, and more fish! They also synthesize a lot of meat because it's sci-fi. I can do what I want. And it's better for the air cuz farm animals produce a lot of gas

The recreational domes have shops, cinemas, various sports centres, a nice park, and also hosts lots of festivals. There's also a small 'market dome' that's connected to the residential dome so you don't have to go all that way to pick up some eggs or something. (Martha and Tammy's favourite thing to do is go roller skating at 'saturns rings' also there's a diner where the waiters are all in roller skates)

As to why they're separated, it makes it easier for me to design them in a cool way. Also the air inside is very different to the air outside, so smaller domes make it easier to manage, and keep out the sticky martian sand while building.

Martian sand is ridiculous

[iamblue15]

Stop Motion is Orange

[twiptoe]

if i ever become a million/billionaire i will use my money to fund stopmotion animation. thank you and good night.

[imanawkwardbean]

Just finished making a collage of INFPs from my favorite stop-motion movies tee hee

[goatei13]

Mask De Masculine and James drawn by Tite Kubo.

[martha-the-martian]

Gamer jamer

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

The Marauders Favourite Animated Movies

James - Cars or Madagascar

Sirius - Brother Bear or Despicable Me

Lily - Up! or Moana

Regulus - The Hunchback of Nortre Dame or Big Hero 6

Remus - How to Train Your Dragon or Kung Foo Panda

Marlene - Mulan or Treasure Planet

Dorcas - Corpse Bride or Coraline

Mary - Tangled or Chicken Little

Pandora - WALL-E or Rio

Barty - The Road to El Dorado or The Lego Batman Movie

Evan - Monsters Inc. or Bolt

Peter - Toy Story or Aladdin

[mikyapixie]

Uggghhh!!! These guys😒😬😒😬😒😬😐🫥

[martha-the-martian]

[Image id: image one, a painting of two warriors, one is human sized and stands in the foreground holding a sword, looking up at the other. The other is massive and in the background, wielding a giant axe. There is text over the giant one that says 'tall girl wearing heels', and over the short one that says 'guy who's height begins with five'.

Image two, the same thing but the short guy has a bunch of hearts drawn around him. End id.]

[orangetubor]

Hello thereee- can you give me everyone's views on gender?!? So hyped. :)

BEHOLD TYE GRAPH!!

The graph, conveniently in RGB, so you can make colours with it

Martha! (She/her) She dresses pretty fem, she identifies as a girl, but it's not like ~that big a deal~ to her, #481818 a nice reddish brown :)

Tammy! (She/xi) She cares a lot about her presentation, not in a 'must look fem' way, but in a 'must look cool' way, her clothes are pretty in the middle on the scale, she does id as a trans girl, but like, ehh? She cares about being a girl but in future she doesn't get any surgeries or voice training, just estrogen, so shes in the middle on that. #CB9537 a lovely gold

Jenny! (He/she) She dresses p fem, she's like, bigender but doesn't actually care cuz it's not a huge part of her identity, robotics is more important. #192C74 a lovely dark blue

Thomas! (He/ju) He presents very fem, in fact he's dated two people who turned out to be lesbians later, though he is a boy. As for careness?? He's like middlish, he doesn't mind being seen either way but being a boy who likes boys was like, a big thing for him. #7415F2 a vibrant purple

James/genji: (he/him) presents masc, is a boy, cares about it #EEF4F2 white (to further explain, he's a trans guy, and cares very deeply about being a guy, this is also probably a good place to explain why he's got two names, he named himself after his dad who turned out to be kind of a dick so he changed it again)

Aled! (Any, he/him pref) He's like, mostly a boy? He presents kind of on the masc side but he doesn't actually care that much soo.. °\_( :j )_/° #37A2C6 a nice blue

Georgie! (She/they) She's a girl, but she does use a lot of masc terms for herself, she dresses fem and she's more on the don't care side, she gets #4D2A5F a nice mauve

Dane! (He/zem) He truly is just some guy, his presentation is pretty middly, (is a sweater and jeans really gendered at all?) He does call himself Georgie's wife, but also likes masc terms, he's just kinda... Eh. #0E9DD8 similar to aled

Sahrah! (She/ha) she dresses pretty fem, she is mostly a girl, she's asked a lot about the gender on her mum's planet, and it's kind of different, but she's never gotten the chance to really explore it. She cares like, a decent amount, and so gets #C30F3D a very reddish pink

http://www.cknuckles.com/rgbsliders.html here's the link to the website! For GB 0= fem and 250= masc, for R 0=doesn't care and 250= does care. (So my gender colour would be #1032D4 electric blue)

Neopronouns: (ha/sa/seh) the gender neutral pronouns on her mum's planet. (xi/xin/xir) just some pronouns, pronounced like xhi xhin xhir. (Ju/juself) play on Jupiter, as there's a lot of Jupiter imagery in his story.

[neil-gaiman]

The Unofficial Art Of Coraline

Good day! You might already know about this and could have posted about it already and I just missed it but there is an unofficial art of Caroline book on Internet Archives. (link in the title, I hope it works in asks too).

I was looking at James Gurney's blog and he wrote about this a month ago in his post Digital Media and Cultural Memory. He writes this about it:

"All of the films by Laika Animation have "Art of" books available, including Paranorman, Boxtrolls, and Kubo. But their first film, Coraline, doesn't.  Much of the concept art had been shared online, but it wasn't organized, and hard to find. So a group of fans gathered up everything they could find, and created an unofficial digital book in PDF form and put it online. But after the book had been available for a while, they started receiving takedown notices from Laika. They weren't making any money from it, just honoring the artists' work. They wrote to the management of Laika, who found out that the takedown letters were coming from their legal department. Fortunately Laika reversed their position and allowed the book again. For now, you can view the book. (It’s a big file and takes a while to download.)"

I just thought I share it with you in case you didn't know about it (which I think is unlikely but possible). It's really amazing book. Have a nice day!

That is wonderful. I'd love to see a physical Art of Coraline book.

[martha-the-martian]

[image id: nine pencil drawings of the martians from the neck up, with their names written underneath them.

One: Martha blum, a cutesy cartoony style, with the nose coloured in and the eyes not very good. Her handwriting is kind of messy.

Two: Tammy Kubo, her style is very angular, and so is her handwriting. She is drawn at a three quarter angle.

Three: Jenny Khalil, his style is very anatomical and realistic. Her handwriting is neat and circular.

Four: James Kubo, his style is realistic, and his handwriting is very small and neat.

Five: Thomas Khalil. His style is cartoony, and his nose and forehead are shaded. His glass eye is blacked out and his lashes are exaggerated. His handwriting is messy and round.

Six: aled Howell. Her style is cartoony, with line and circle eyes. He has not drawn a neck, instead adding a wool lined jacket. His handwriting is curvy and tall.

Seven: Sahrah gamal. Her style is quite cutesy and alien looking, her eyes are overly shiny. Her handwriting is round.

Eight: Georgie Blum, she is drawn cartoonishly with large angular eyes. Her handwriting is wiggly and tall.

Nine: Dane newton. Has a chibi-anime style with very big eyes. His handwriting is very messy.

End id]

Tada! analysis:

Martha: very cartoony. Doesn't draw often, always messes up the eyes.

Tammy: angular. Only draws 3/4 busts

Jenny: generally only draws technology concepts, very rarely humans.

James: realistic style, makes himself more masculine

Thomas: fantasy-ish. Always draws his eye blacked out, and also forgets to draw his white streak. Adds it in later.

Aled: kinda chibi-ish. Hates drawing necks, tries, ends up giving them a scarf

Sahrah: makes herself look more mystical. Reminds me of those fairy illustrations

Georgie: cool™. Can only draw front facing.

Dane: watched anime as a child disease. Makes himself look more feminine. Don't ask why. Side note: I forgot to draw his cheek marks 😔

All artists friends and foes !!

Draw your oc as if they had drawn themselves!!

[gallusrostromegalus]

AEIWAM: Which character(s) did you change the most, and which did you change the least?

Hmm. It's hard to say is the "most" different from their canon incarnation, because once a small change is made, they're forever different, but in terms of HOW they've been changed:

1: Smash The Vase Of Canon And Make A Mosaic From The Pieces I took the stated background of the character, worked out what Priorities/Motivations/Skills a character with that background would actually HAVE, then approached the remaining canon events with those motivations, which seems to result in a character totally different from, yet still recognizable as, the original Tousen, Unohana, Komamura, Yamamoto, Byakuya, Ulquiorra, Jugram, Gerard Valkyrie, Ichibei Hyosube, Oetsu Nimiya, Kirio Hikifune, Kon, Giselle Gwelle

2: Yeah They've Always Been Like That This character's background is a fuckin' VOID (or extremely stupid) so I had to make up a past for them to explain Why They're Like That, so while the character didn't really change, the new context totally changes how they're read Gin, Matsumoto, Soi Fon, Mayuri, Aizen, Yhwach, Urahara, Yoruichi, Isshin, Coyote, Hallibel, Yammy, Tenjiro Kirinji, Bambietta, Candice Catnipp, Meninas McAllon, Lillotto Lamperd, Shutara Senjumaru

3: Come To The Front Of The Class This character that previously only existed as a side, background or in extended source material now has a load-bearing role in the plot Kakiyo, Kiganjo, Chikane Iba, Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro, Wonderweiss, James Superfan, Akon, Love Aikawa

4: This Is Not My Beautiful House (The Same As It Ever Was) This character is probably still largely recognizable as the original but because they're now living in a different universe, they're a different person: Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Rukia, Renji, Uryuu, The Rest of The Captains and Lieutenants

5: Death To The Patriarchy: This character would be doing a SHITLOAD more in the story if Kubo didn't keep forgetting/nerfing/killing his Queer and Female Cast: LITERALLY EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER, but esp: the female captains, the femritter, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Yoruichi and Urahara (T4T), Chizuru, MASAKI KUROSAKI, KANAE KATAGIRI

6: I Just Think They're Neat This character is so fun to write they get more page space, and change other characters more than themselves Don Kanonji, Shinji, Yachiru, Mimihagi, As Nodt, Gimmjow

7: YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS I wholesale made this character up to fill a void in the Plot Tama Nikuya, She Who Rules The Sky By The Mandate Of Heaven, Quincy Freishutz, Kenpachi Tokagero, Miss Believe

8: There Are None Above Me In Heaven Or On Earth: After Smashing the vase of Canon, I realized that this character i has the strength to pull together like eight metanarrative themes while carrying like, Half the Worldbuilding Zaraki Kenpachi

[caw4brandon]

The Power of Stop-Motion

Media in today's standard is quick and easy. Rarely is a show more than 2 hours long or 13-epiodes per-season. With that, animated movies are a lot slower than the typical films.

There is a discussion on if animation is suitable for film purposes and while it is often shunned by the Golden Globes or the Oscars or other awards. The very few outliers can prove these awards and the world very wrong.

But that is not what we will be talking about today. Because while animation is popular, there is a dark horse among its sphere. One with a rich history and strong filmography that should be shared. Let's talk about;

- Have I possibly gone daffy? -

Stop-motion is a film making style that compiles multiple still images of an object being physically manipulated in small movements into one whole scene.

Majority of Stop-motion films and videos use [Clay Animation] or [Paper Animation] with several more varieties of new innovations emerging under the umbrella of stop-motion. The most popular of them in the modern era towards kids is [Lego animation] which is the manipulation of Lego models in motion.

The earliest trace of Stop-motion in films is the 1898 short [The Humpty Dumpty Circus] by Albert E. Smith and James Stuart Blackton which is said to be a lost media. To compensate, please watch [A Tribute to Stop Motion]

In its early concept, Stop-motion was used as a method to create impossible things or do practical effects under budget constrains. Such as the iconic King Kong scene at the Empire State building. Since then, Stop-motion has evolved into a full production industry. From Indies; [Righteous Robot] to Juggernauts; [Laika Studios]

- Shimmer a Little at The Edges -

Unconventional media such as stop-motion is often not a style suited for every story. Its a rather expensive type of media that requires worthy innovations top break the niche barrier. Just looking at Laika Studios alone, we see that they've develop a lot of interesting ways to improve visual effects while staying to their stop-motion roots.

One perfect example is seen in < Kubo and the Two Strings > where the animators need to create water in a still image world that feels natural. [A Perfect Storm] one other part of the stop-motion puzzle is the iron-willed discipline it to conceptualize, animate and edit a production that can take about 3 to 5 years to complete. More so of a time frame than a normal film.

This difficult curve lead to budgeted methods such as using models that already exist to tell new stories. Such as; Legos or with crude multi-jointed figures of existing characters. [MOONSHINE]

While I may say its crude, the low budget production is the selling point. Assisted with sound bites taken from gaming sessions or from shows featuring a lot of inside jokes and memes. Also, its hilarious to see a Teletubby turned into a Eldritch monster.

These attempts to make stop-motion productions accessible has captured the attention of other like-minded channels to collaborate and elevate one another. [ERB: Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker]

- For Better Tomorrows -

With all that is said, what is the power of stop-motion? As a media that is tediously overlapping across processes. What are the better tomorrows for our inanimate subjects?

I like to think, that as filmmaking grows. Stop-motion will continue to remain as a sacred tug against live action films and traditional animation. It can be used to tell complicated stories with concepts that may look strange if its adapted in a live action.

As I have mentioned in [The Beautiful World of Hilda] animation's greatest strength is simplification. Stop-motion takes the opposite side of that philosophy.

Its a higher level of world building of the materials with willingness to accept mistakes and ruggedness that gives them that little flavor of life. As an actual touchable thing, the various cartoonish styles can take on a whole new dimension to heighten the style and give it that detail that is less polished.

Stop-motion shows that filmmaking magic can still exist despite already knowing the tricks. Its a media where every frame shown has a significant purpose that invokes a specific flow. That's the power of stop-motion.

[bestanimatedmovie]

Tumblr's favorite animated movie, Round 1!

Classification round | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4

Round 1:

Results overview

A Monster in Paris vs Sailor Moon R: The Movie

A Silent Voice vs Shaun the Sheep Movie

A Troll in Central Park vs Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods vs Lu Over the Wall

Astro Boy vs Ferdinand

Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest vs Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion

Barbie & the Diamond Castle vs The Great Mouse Detective

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus vs My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper vs Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena

Barbie Princess Charm School vs Turning Red

Batman and Mr. Freeze: SubZero vs Robots

Batman Ninja vs Barbie Fairy Secret

Belle vs 101 Dalmatians

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children vs The Princess and the Goblin

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie vs All Dogs go to Heaven

Chicken Run vs Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time vs Green Snake

Despicable me vs Wreck-it-Ralph

Fantastic Mr Fox vs Wendell & Wild

Fantastic Planet vs Anomalisa

Gnomeo & Juliet vs Ernest & Celestine

Home on the Range vs A Goofy Movie

Hoodwinked! vs Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

Ice Age vs WALL-E

In This Corner of the World vs We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem vs The Tale of John and Marie

Isle of Dogs vs Weathering with You

James and the Giant Peach vs Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Klaus vs Summer Wars

Kubo and the Two Strings vs Bambi

Liz and the Blue Bird vs Tekkonkinkreet

Madagascar vs Encanto 

Mary and Max vs The Sea Beast

Monsters vs Aliens vs Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks vs Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

Night on the Galactic Railroad vs Metropolis

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island vs Star☆Twinkle Precure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars

Paprika vs The Secret of Kells

ParaNorman vs Suzume

Penguins of Madagascar vs The Sword in the Stone

Persepolis vs The Garden of Words

Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension vs Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus

Planet Hulk vs Zombillenium

Pocahontas vs The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Pokémon Heroes vs Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva

Porco Rosso vs Meet the Robinsons

Quest for Camelot vs Digimon Adventure: Our War Game

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas vs The Nightmare Before Christmas

Spookley the Square Pumpkin vs Kirikou and the Sorceress

Tales of the Night vs Stormy Night

Tehran Taboo vs Emesis Blue

The Adventures of Tintin vs Bee Movie

The Book of Life vs The Aristocats

The Boy and the Beast vs Waltz with Bashir

The Brave Little Toaster vs Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

The Breadwinner vs Millennium Actress

The Congress vs The Legend of Hei

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen vs Ringing Bell

The Jungle Book vs Wolf Children

The LEGO Batman Movie vs Kung Fu Panda 2

The Lego Ninjago Movie vs Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride vs Watership Down

The Little Prince vs Loving Vincent

The Pagemaster vs Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

The Phantom Tollbooth vs The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Secret World of Arrietty vs 9

The Thief and the Cobbler vs Felidae

The Wind Rises vs Brother Bear

Tokyo Godfathers vs 5 Centimeters per Second

Trolls World Tour vs Promare

Unicorn Wars vs Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Whisper of the Heart vs Batman: Under the Red Hood