#pixilated edition

[ashironie]

im really proud of this and i don’t wanna bother my friends so im posting it here

and the animation under the cut

part two, electric teeth apple (electricity not guaranteed): https://www.tumblr.com/ashironie/757204645146935296/aspirin

I made another one!!!: https://www.tumblr.com/ashironie/757214568442413056/okokokok-so-i-got-another-idea-for-one-animation

masterpost: https://www.tumblr.com/ashironie/757215405756547072/ok-so-here-is-where-im-going-to-put-all-of-my

[the-name-is-loser]

Burning Spice banner! Feel free to use with credit.

(Please reblog if you like the edit! It helps circulate posts and give them more attention.)

Background only under the cut!

[dare-g]

@sleepythug tagged me to list my 4 favorite first time watches in May! I put these screenshots to give people an idea of the plots if you're not familiar! It was fun and somewhat difficult to decide though tbh if it was just watches in general then this rewatch would have made it for sure

Anyway I'm going to tag a lot of you cause I'm nosey and feel free to just tell me in the replies if you don't want to continue the chain! (Also if you don't have 4 from May feel free to say anything you liked recently)

@skatalite @geckoafterlife @phibes @everyones-into-weirdness @jimphelps @arpicot @l-ultimo-squalo @fieldrecording @jacketrepresents @cowhidepillowcase @woyzeeck @filmplanet @nononookytv @vivereh1merda @vagrantbiatch @donnerpartyofone @herzoghaircut

[iono---zone]

matching akitouya moodboards

[site-127-unoffical]

Oh god it's worse.

Is that the flag? I don't instantly recognize that symbol.. but if you're still concerned I'll pass it around the office to see if anyone does! :)

[fandom-hoarder-official]

New characters I have for a story I probably won't fully develop, but is definitely inspired by @bread--queen so look at her art pls!!

[etherealsadchick]

Rdr2 male fans on tiktok piss me off so much, there would be a regular hot edit or some meme about how hot arthur is and they'd be like

"These type of fans smh"

Like SHUT UPPPPPP

shut up

Please

I assure you if rockstar didn't want people to simp over him they would've made him ugly, or atleast, not add almost sexy horse voice lines or animated him almost butt naked in baths.

Atleast "these fans" simp for an actual grown man

Unlike what most men do to girls in other video games

I'd also like to add that I also get pissed of when some people point out how he gets sexualized what so ever

I really don't care, he's a pixilated character, if people want to fantasize about him and simp, fucking go ahead, who the fuck cares ? Stop trying to make most girls that simp for him feel bad about themselves, you can appreciate a character and love them while still find them sexually attractive and that doesn't make you less of a fan, nor a bad person.

[nem0-kn0ws-n0t]

Hermit Permits- or Hermitconomics101

I would just like to start off by saying I adore the concept. It's perfect. But also, I'm a massive nerd and I wanna talk about it.This is such a fascinating little economic model. Like, the usual hermitcraft economy is already so fascinating.

Warning-Long post! Also might Slightly skew your perspective of the Gimmick.

At first Glance, the Hermitcraft economy is the epitome of a Perfect Market economy -the basic selling/buying market you think of when thinking of markets-which has a few requirements

1. Homogenous products: gunpowder from Doc's shop is the same gunpowder from Tango's or Iskall or whoever sells it

2. No barriers to entry and exit: anyone can decide to sell. The technology's there. Any hermit can decide to make a farm or manually harvest something, set up shop and sell

3. Sellers are Price takers: If say, X and False are both selling copper ingots (for example), and X prices his higher than False (and they both keep their shops stocked), Hermits will buy from False. So X has to price the same (or lower but shhhh) than False.

4. Product Transparency: If you pay 1 diamond for a stack of iron blocks, you know you're getting 1 stack of iron. (usually) no shenanigans involved

And now the interesting point->

5. Many sellers- In a perfect competition market, the market is usually saturated with sellers, to the point that everyone needs to price the same, or at exactly the cost of production (or whatever needs to be to have the last seller joining the market to have economic profit of 0 but that's real hard to count in diamonds). Usually, this is done by having many firms coming in (free market remember) and undercutting each other until it's at the point where Supply is equal to Demand (yes, exactly the graph you're thinking of). In hermits' case, rarely is there more than one shop for an item unless there is an obnoxious amount of demand for it, and often, they'll buddy up in the same shop and split the profits and the work (I'm thinking of all the wood groups) for the highly in demand items. (More on that later).

So the sellers aren't usually competing with other hermits to sell resources- they're competing with the hermits' other way of procuring resources- The Endless Grind

Think about it- The rule of thumb for establishing the scope of a market (and its competition) is to ask yourself- where do I go if the shop becomes too expensive? In our real-life situation, we go to other shops- hermits just roll up their pixilated sleeves and get to work themselves. They are the alternative. (or Lag but stealing throws off all economic models so we're assuming it doesn't exist.)

A hermit shop, to have sales, needs to price its resources low enough that other hermits will see it as a better (cheaper) alternative than acquiring it themselves.

But Nemo, I hear you ask, isn't it always going to be cheaper to collect the material themselves? All the hermits already have all the tools/technology they'd need to get the resources they'd want, so shops wouldn't work.

But they do work, every season hermits "get rich" which implies there's something "wrong" with my model, which there is.

It's Time. That's the main currency in Hermitcraft.

Any hermits can decide to get any amount of resources with no real limit except Time. Sure, some hermits are more likely to build farms and have it done quicker than others, but all of them can decide to pick up a tool and just grind away (which they do, often). The point of the shops is to be convenient. You could spend 3 hours getting 15 stacks of oak wood, but you could also drop 30 diamonds at Ren's shop and get that done in less than a minute. Which, when you're a content creator on a tight deadline, already spending hours upon hours just building and editing and living outside of work, time is precious. So Time is the real trading currency on HC.

And so there comes a wrench in the plan as you have 2 "types" of goods- you have the Sellers' resources (that cost you diamonds but less time) and your own resources (which cost you Time but fewer diamonds)

Which invalidates point 3. Price Takers- There are 2 very different prices, which you are willing to pay at different times to different degrees. Somedays, they grind somedays they pay.

And thus, there goes the perfect competition model-

~~And in comes Monopolistic competition.

Now, listen to me, this is crucial ish- this is not the same as a Monopoly.

Monopolies imply there is 1 seller. 1. there is 1 way of acquiring the good (at this point in time) (everything is taken as if time is held constant). YouTube has a monopoly on hermitcraft videos (kind of). You can't watch Hermitcraft videos anywhere else, as the hermits don't upload their videos on other websites. If YouTube started charging 10000$ per video watched, you probably wouldn't watch hermit videos anymore. That's a monopoly.

Monopolistic competition is when a few firms sell slightly different products. Think Pepsi and Coca-Cola. They're functionally the same thing (don't @/me for this), but they both still work as companies, because people tend to prefer one over the other.

And thus our model. A monopolistic competitive market.

The real competition was not store vs store (unless for the bit), it was Sellers vs the Grind.

(There are also sunk cost fallacies exhibited, when hermits make their own farms for materials they know they'll need a lot of, which then reduces the time spent, especially with AFK'ing, thus the active time spent being reduced but server time still fluctuating but that can be hermitconomics 102 lmao)

But Back to this season-

With the introduction of Hermit Permits (which, is such a fun term, I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with that first before the concept) they are forcing there to be a single official seller. But hermits are still able to collect their own resources and make their own farms. So the market stays the same.

Which is probably not what you were expecting was it. All this fanfare but theoretically, the model doesn't change. It might change the point at which a hermits decides it's better to grind it out instead of spending diamonds, but not the theory.

But here's the second hole in this theory.

One of the first assumptions one makes about any market model is that everyone involved wants to maximize profits. (which irl, is making the most money).

But the same was as the real currency is Time, the real Profit for Hermits is Content (and engagement, and a whole bunch of parasocial scales to do with audience retention but I'm an economic major, not a sociology or business student damn it, we'll stick with Content) .

Theoretically, nothing changes in the economic model, but the result changes. The potential to change things up is massive, simply because they at least superficially changed something. Rebranding something, in a way that shakes up previously established norms- That's what they're getting out of it. Forcing people to do content about things they normally wouldn't even touch, which inspires viewers to be invested, so see our favourite blorbos overcome the challenge. It's a narrative device.

(If anything, I'd expect this to actually "promote the economy" as hermits would be motivated to stock up their shops, thus making more farms/farm building episodes, or the competition occurring from additional permits being circulated.)

So yeah. Hermitconomics 101- The not-so-perfect competition. Sorry If I burst some bubbles, I just think it's fascinating.

Thanks for reading to the bottom!

TL:DR :This is gonna be so fun, and the hermit economy makes economists everywhere cry

[ellieabbyy]

How do you get your captures so high quality mine always end up pixilated

i do a few different things!

- rotating the view to vertical means you can get better close ups usually

- turning down the brightness and manually customizing the spotlights, i usually use two - one that’s super close to the face, and one that is further away to brighten the rest of the photo up

- pictures taken in dark places always turn out better, you get a lot more detail and there’s way more flexibility with the lighting

- there’s weird tricks you can do like making ellie stand close to a wall and then it lets you zoom in a lot closer than it normally would. this can be tricky though since she can also disappear if you go too far

- making sure that fidelity mode is switched on in settings instead of performance so that you get better quality picture

- turning off the grain filter in both display setting as well as setting it to zero in photomode settings

- a lot of it is from editing in lightroom, by sharpening the image a ton and then softening it with other settings it can make lower pixel shots look a lot smoother and more HD. here’s one of my edits next to what i started with:

system stuff:

- changing the image save format on your ps5. it seems counterintuitive but you deselect the HDR option and it switches it from jpeg to png

- lastly if you get an external hard drive you can export photomodes to it and you get the biggest size available. this is what i started doing recently and it’s definitely the best way but i’m too lazy to do it often lol. so unless it’s one i want really high quality i usually just take them from the app.

i am probably forgetting stuff but i hope this helps! 🩷

[anameistoohard]

Hello! We thought it might be good to have a pinned post so y'all can know a bit about us.

I guess start with the obvious thanks to that title: We are a we.

The bit less obvious: We are one person :p We learned we were a system in September 2022. There's a bunch of us in here but not everyone fronts. The ones that do often have a lot of identity confusion/blendyness so we don't usually specify who's speaking. If you don't know, you can refer to us by the body's name, Taylor, and the pronouns we us irl, she/her.

We are also a trans woman: Or at least... the body is? It's complicated. The majority of us are girls/strongly fem leaning but we have some guys and enbies in here too. We started hrt in October 2021 so we were already a year into it when we learned about our system. After a lot of questioning we came to the consensus that we should continue hrt. The guys are willing to put up with it and overall we are quite happy with the changes.

Autism and dyslexia: These make our writing a bit stilted/disjointed sounding sometimes. The two of them combined can make socializing online exhausting, trying to figure out what to say and how to say it (anxiety is no help either). If we don't respond right away, or at all, just know we're sorry 💜

Art! The reason you're probably here lol: We create art in just about the most inefficient way possible, in ms Paint, where there are no layers, you can only rotate in 90° intervals, and if you try to resize a picture it becomes a blurry pixilated mess. And we do so without a drawing tablet. When we make pixel art we're manually placing squares one at a time. But there's something kind of soothing about this slow monotonous inefficiency. We mostly do pixel art, but sometimes we make comics, or just whatever we feel like making.

If you have any questions, this is an open invitation to ask: Curiosity is a good thing! Don't worry if you're using the "wrong" language or you think something might be too personal, as long as you're respectful and kind, feel free to ask us anything about us/our experiences/our art. If we don't want to answer we don't have to, so there's no harm in asking. Just please don't turn to us for links/resources, we're not good at keeping track of that kind of stuff.

Written by Mark (they/them), Danny (he/him), and Taylor (she/her)

(Edit: I guess we should mention we have a twitter too)

(Edit edit: screw twitter we on blue sky lol)

[cheshiire-warper]

Flag 1 id: A square flag, styled similar to a 3 x 3 moodboard. It has black borders, with the squares being colored, from left to right, top to bottom; light copper, very dark red, dark carmine, burnt umber, off-white, bone white, dark coral, reddish cedar brown, and old rose. Moodboard id: A 3x3 moodborad, from left to right and top to bottom, the images are; a pixilated meat png on a black background, a dark red and background with tons of tiny holes, a pixilated meat png on a black background, a photo of a black cat editted to have 5 red eyes, a photo from the video Username 666, a white cat with red eyes there are two boxes zoomed in on the eyes and text saying "what do you see?", a pixilated meat png on a black background, several red question marks on a black background, a pixilated meat png on a black background Flag 2 id: A rectangular flag with 17 horizontal stripes, alternating between thick and thin. The thin lines are all colored black, while the thick lines are colored, from top to bottom; light copper, very dark red, dark carmine, burnt umber, off-white, bone white, dark coral, reddish cedar brown, and old rose /end ids

Mulvi666cat / Muligorcat — Mulviboard term related to the moodboard below- it can be used on its own, as a gender, as an allion, as a aldernic term, etc

Coined 11/22/2024 | Colors picked from the moodboard images | Moodboard source (link)

[Tagging] @radiomogai & @obscurian

[apparently-artless]

sorry to bother but I was wondering how you make your gifs so smooth and get rid of pixelation?

Hi, anon! Sorry for the late reply! And no worries, you're not being a bother at all. ^^

Regarding your question, these are some of the tips I can give which I typically do on my GIFs:

Use video sources with higher resolution

In all honesty, I am not doing that much to make my edits look smooth and HD. I just always make sure to download videos that are not less than 720p. I typically download 1080p but 720p would suffice since the suggested width for images here on Tumblr is 540p.

Use good editing apps

I use Photoshop which is a good app but if you're not using this, you may use Photopea (this is like an online version of PS). There was a time when I didn't have a PC and I tried making GIFs on my mobile phone but even when I'm using high-resolution videos, the output was not as good when making it on PS. I also used Photoscape before. This was my first app when I was still starting making GIFs and oh boy, the quality is just... XD Anyway, PS is good with the compression of images when you're saving the frames as GIFs even when resizing the file to a smaller scale.

Maintain the original size until the export

I've seen tutorials where they are already adjusting the size at the beginning of their edit. I personally don't do this because this contributes to the reduction of the quality of your GIFs. And if I want to crop (because I want a different width and height compared to the original), I will see to it that the height is the same with the original (only the width will change).

Take a look at this example:

This is a 1920p x 1080p image but I wanted to crop it to a 400 x 540 aspect ratio. What I would do is after cropping the image, I would resize the image to make the height 1080p again.

After cropping, this is now the dimensions of the image:

Then I will revert the height back to 1080p (the value of the width doesn't matter):

Of course, 1080p is just my preferred resolution. You can select a lower resolution but not lower than the original image or the final size of your GIF.

As you can see, even without further editing, the image already looks good and does not appear to be pixilated. Then after cropping, I will apply my coloring. If I save this as it is using 540p width, this is how the GIF's gonna look like.

As you can see, there is almost no difference between the 540p (width) gif and the 1080p (height) image. That's because I only resized the image during export and not in the middle of editing.

Use sharpening tools to make your GIFs look HD

The key to fooling the eyes is to make them look in a different direction. XD So what do I mean by this? Like I said, I'm not doing that much to remove pixelations from my edits. I just make it so people will focus on other stuff. If you don't want them to focus on the pixels, let them focus on the line art.

Just a reminder that this last tip is only applicable to anime GIFs.

In my case, I always start with frame animations, then later on convert to a video timeline. And then I will convert the frames to a single smart object so I can apply filters to all the frames at the same time.

These are the steps I do when I sharpen my GIFs.

Apply SMART SHARPEN. (Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen)

These are my preferred settings but you can also explore your own.

[Comparison of GIF without sharpening filter and with sharpening filter]

2. Apply POSTER EDGES filter. (Filter > Filter Gallery > Artistic > Poster Edges)

These are my settings. You can adjust the Edge Thickness if you want to have thicker art lines. As for Edge Intensity, it's better to set it to zero to avoid adding unnecessary details to the shadows of your image.

[Comparison of GIF without sharpening filter and with sharpening filter]

3. Apply POSTER EDGES again.

This is an optional step. I typically use this whenever I want the art lines to be thicker. I use the same settings in the second step.

[Comparison of GIF without sharpening filter and with sharpening filter]

And that's about it! I hope this helps! By the way, this is just my own way of sharpening my GIFs. If you're not using PS or Photopea, you might want to check other tutorials that are specific to the app that you are using.

[roughentumble]

concept for wade wilson/deadpool with pokemon teams! but uh-oh, what's this-- he's got two teams! he's got his fun team that he carries with him everywhere on the left, full of cutesy lil critters, and his "oh shit you just fucked up" team on the right, when he needs to go nuclear on someone. i forgor to add it in but each pokemon he has, has leftovers or some other healing item continuously healing it, and the team on the right is ridiculously high level

EDIT: whoops, sylveon would have pixilate as its ability

[tomboyjessie13-artblog]

Remember this status I wrote 2 days ago? Link

Yeah, it turns out I already had a screenshot edit in my Paint.Net 7 months ago, but never finished it because I was horribly lazy and didn't feel like using the program at the time. But then when I remembered the screenshot edit I did last month, it caused me to remember this one, thus pushing me to finish it.

Anyways, I got the inspiration from this Tumblr post by @iceicewifey: Link

I never did any drawings of her with DIO's house servants together, instead drew them separately, so I thought it be a good idea to draw her with the boys together and being cool and evil looking doing it since at that point she's DIO's housemaid.

Sorry if she stood out a little too much, I tried my best to make her look like she belongs in the environment, but it wasn't easy to do, also didn't help that the screenshot came from a pixilated Adult Swim clip that got recorded to YT(hence the small icon edit behind Medea's body).

[ihave1braincell]

I did a small thing based off my CCCC theory.

So, in my theory, Heart, Mind, and Soul all live within their Whole and take care of their body. (Basically the movie Inside Out) Every person has their own Heart, Mind, and Soul, but they are normally merged into one entity. Sometimes this entity splits into three. (This is what happened with Chonny Jash and the CCCC album)

Anywho, this got me wondering what MY Heart, Mind, and Soul would look like if they were split (ngl it feels like they are sometimes) so… I came up with these!

It’s only a cleaned up sketch, but here’s what I imagine my HM and S looks like! I’m too tired to elaborate on their lore but I’ll say that their body and hair shape being different IS on purpose. (And I couldn’t keep a consistent art style.)

Edit: GUYS PLEASE TUMBLR PIXILATED MIND AND SOUL SO MUCH

[gametastic-photography]

I wanted to work more on my editing skills. especially since I won't have my picsart subscription forever. I'll get into Photoshop fully someday to replace and out-do picsart. But picsart has been a tool I've been using for years. I've seen it grow. It's excellent for beginner editors as well as it has a simple and easy to understand interface with a lot of customization.

The reason I won't renew my picsart sub is because I have hopes to grow and gain experience. Not only that, edit professional quality photos. Picsart blurs or pixilates the quality depending on how you edit it. But nothing can compare to the processing power of a PC compared to a mobile app.