#project movement

[k00295632]

Project: Movement.

Week 6, reading week.

Animation, Gorillaz art style study.

During week 3, I did some artist research on Jamie Hewlett's art style through his Gorillaz pieces, mostly looking at his proportions and body models to incorporate into my own art style as I don't have much experience drawing below the shoulders.

When discussing how to go about my pixelation piece with Yvonne and Paul last week, Paul went through my sketch book and saw my artist research on Jamie Hewlett's art style for the Gorillaz. He suggested I draw myself as a member of the Gorillaz.

It gave me a few ideas. For example, over the years the Gorillaz have been portrayed in a number of different art styles, each separated by their phases, I think there's currently 9 phases. My idea was to draw myself in the different art styles depicting my own different phases via my hair.

I looked at the first 4 phases' art styles, focusing on builds, shapes, and facial features, out of all the characters both noodle and Murdoc have had the most drastic changes over the phases.

Phase 1: is the most cartoony of the bunch, majority of the characters have dull dotted eyes, large rounded ears, and their face proportions scrunched. I also noticed each member of the band has main shapes in their designs, 2D; long rectangles with a short torso and long legs, Russel; rounded squares with a large torso and short legs, Noodle; Cone shapes with normal child proportions, and Murdoc; stubby rectangles.

Phase 2: Not much has changed in body builds apart from noodle being gradually aged up, now a pre teen in this phase. Differences I noticed was that the eyes were closer to the nose, and the and the mouths were lower down, now aligning with the bend of the jaw. That and 2D's eyes are more almond shaped now, no longer little dots.

Phase 3: Here the faces become wider, the eyes bigger, and the ears pointed Murdocs face shape has also become more pointed compared to the rectangular shape he started with. The 3 oldest characters also have some age lines, and Noodle is now a young adult in this phase.

Phase 4: The style begins to take a more realistic look to it, the eyes become smaller, the nose is further down from the eyes and closer to the mouth, and the ears have become smaller. The hair is also a lot more detailed now.

I roughly tried drawing my different hair styles in the different phase styles to get a sense of what I would look like. I thought the first one looked the best, I'm thinking of trying to do a proper drawing of myself in that style.

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[katakaluptastrophy]

OK, so we've discussed Jod's apparent faux concern when Harrow comes to him desperately begging to be protected from G1deon:

"Harrowhark, when was the last time you slept?"

We later learn that he asked G1deon to "fix or put down Harrow". He thought putting her in desperate circumstances would somehow activate her Lyctoral powers.

It all feels particularly awful because elsewhere we've seen him imagine Harrow as his daughter: "You’d make a hell of a daughter, Harrowhark."

And yes, this is Jod's love of being perceived as a nice man and his tendency to make everything about him. But also...

They’d all expected me to go nuts. A— kept saying, Are you sleeping, are you okay, are you taking any Class As, you know you can tell me.

I wasn’t trying to be a dick. I think I hadn’t slept for two days.

I wasn’t operating on a lot of food or sleep.

I’d stopped sleeping and I wasn’t eating much, I was keeping my body going just by fiddling with the processes.

That last one is John 1:20. You know, the chapter where Jod finally unlocks the full potential of what he can do (with just a little help from a planet and 10 billion deaths) and becomes god?

Jod sees himself in Harrow. And he knows being hounded and sleep deprived was what worked for him.

[breadmecoshy]

I think I have a OTP type

[billionbrilliantstars]

There’s two options in this election

1. We get enough voter turnout and Kamala wins: this means that our fundamental human rights are protected and least there’s a good chance at stopping the genocide of Palestinians.

2. We don’t get enough voter turnout and Trump wins: the genocide is GUARANTEED to continue AND America becomes a dystopian nightmare.

There is no third option. RFK Jr. doesn’t stand a chance. This is it. I agree that in lower stakes elections we should try to encourage third party voting. Even then, it will take multiple elections for it to work. This election it’s an exercise in futility to vote third party. It will save no one.

Boycotting the voting booths saves no one. Boycotting the voting booths won’t save a single Palestinian. At least we can guarantee we save ourselves long enough to help others if we get Kamala in office. At least we have a chance of stopping genocide if we get Kamala in office. It is not selfish to vote for Kamala, it is the best thing we can do four our country.

[themuppetjokernumber420fan]

okay so who's coming to the astral projection blunt rotation, i need to make sure i roll enough for everyone

[statleragainstposers]

Physically I'm at school.

Mentally, I'm Astral Projecting to the Denny's parking lot in Louisville, Kentucky, to set traps for the Croaker.

[no-significant-askblog]

I give to you… the Roblox Btools

" ... and what am i supposed to use this for ? "

[k00295632]

Project: Movement. Week 4. Thursday, 1/02/24.

Painting: Studio Time.

I did a bit of thumbnailing for what I had in mind and even shot some reference pics in my bathrooms doing different actions/ different positions to help decided with what direction I wanted to take this painting. My initial idea was to create a portrait of my past self looking into the mirror at my current self, reflecting my theme of the movement of time and how much I've changed since cutting my hair for the first time.

I decided to further emphasise the change between my past and future self with colours, duller colours for the past and highly saturated eye catching colours for the future. I had to do some thumbnails for how to balance out the colours, and look at some older works of mine to see how I did it in the past. I settled on using primarily red, yellow, blue, green, and orange as my colour pallet. However, I've never used them in the way I intended to here, so it was certainly a new experience.

I started off by choosing a reference picture and doing a rough under drawing to figure out proportions. When doing my rough sketch I actually taped my phone to the wall and tried to draw from a distance so I could calculate the shapes and proportions as accurately as possible.

I decided that since the interior and exterior of the mirror are very different in colour schemes, I would work on one at a time, I chose to focus on inside the mirror to start off with. Once that was done I began blocking out my main base colours and went about adding shadows. the light shadows helped start the process of shaping the face. It was a very "trust the process" sort of situation.

I knew with the approach I took I wouldn't be able to get away with solid blocks of colour for the hair and shirt, so I experimented with layering different colours to gain different textures. For the hair I tried building shapes with different layers of blues and greens before going in with a dark blue for the darker areas and shadows, I then went in with some red and light green highlights. It was certainly an improvement.

As for the shirt, It was very trial and error, I actually had to repaint over certain areas. I settled with using my light blue for the main shadows on the shirt to add a sense of dept, the translucence of the blue paint on top of the orange worked in my favour. Since blue and orange are on opposite ends of the colour wheel they tend to cancel each other out a bit, resulting in a duller hue of blue which was perfect for the shadows. I went in with greens to blend out the blue at the edges and yellow for highlights, I used bits of red and dark green for creases and wrinkles in the shirt. When I was doing the blue areas, I actually covered large areas at a time and then would drag the back of my hand through it removing a lot of the paint and leaving an interesting texture, similar to a wedge tool shown to us during the tool workshop.

That's all the progress I made for Thursday

[vintageseawitch]

i get this sick feeling that certain leftists, especially white leftists, who are abstaining from voting or voting third party & are still encouraging others to do the same while being the loudest at complaining about "vote shaming" 🙄 will be the type, if heaven forbid trump wins, to suddenly go silent on them being far left & will GLEEFULLY turn in their neighbors a la the 1940s if only to save themselves.

they've made it clear that only certain types of genocides count to them, they're ignoring actual Palestinians who are BEGGING people to vote for Harris, & they've been glossing over how trump is bibi netanyahu's preferred candidate because they need to focus really hard on punishingnthe black woman. these leftists are death cult accelerationists who are okay with fascism as long as it affects those who "deserve" it, such as citizens of the US & Ukraine & eventually the rest of Europe should trump win, NATO gets abandoned, & putin gets to do whatever the fuck he wants.

these leftists are vile. i don't care that you claim genocide is your hard line because i don't believe you. say as much as you want on your privileged soap box but i'm not seeing you go to prison for not paying your taxes because last i checked ALL of our taxes are funding this so like it or not you're just as complicit & your shiny slogan words won't be able to cancel that.

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU'RE THE HERO YOU CLAIM TO BE. you will ABSOLUTELY throw neighbors, acquaintances, hell maybe even friends & family under the bus after a period of time in order to save your own skin & please the authoritarians in charge. you're a dangerous enemy.

you have no plans about how to handle a trump presidency & all i hear when y'all claim we're already in a fascist country is you saying that without facing any consequences & you being too stupid to miss the irony. you don't know what that word means & you just want to see this country burn while conveniently forgetting you'll be burned right along with thr rest of us. it's stupidly short-sighted. you're hardly a revolutionary if you're so inclined to suicide. please be for fucking real.

[thoughtportal]

Willow would emit more climate pollution annually than more than 99.7% of all single point sources in the country. It’s estimated that the oil from Willow, when burned, would add more than 280 million metric tons of climate pollution to the atmosphere over the next 30 years — equivalent to the annual emissions from 76 coal-fired power plants. Willow is a climate disaster we just can’t afford.

https://stopwillow.org/

[redcomet-stims]

Content warning: rapid movement!

COOL&CREATE - "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!" gifset by me! Source

Please credit me if used. Sorry that the fourth and sixth gifs are poor quality, I needed to compress them.

I didn't see any gifs of this MV, so I took it into my own hands :)

Feather Divider | Smiley Divider

[billionbrilliantstars]

I wanted to share some of the things I love about Kamala Harris. I previously made a post about why we need to vote for her to save our country, but this race is no longer the lesser of two evils. Even if this election wasn’t against a fascist dictator I’d still vote for her.

She is kind and tough and unafraid to break down glass ceilings. She’s charismatic and enigmatic. She’s happy and childlike but also capable of taking serious things seriously. She wants to fight for human rights for all. She stands up to corporate greed. She’s extremely intelligent. Kamala could be our first great president in many years. The kind of president we look back on in history with pride.

Kamala represents the possibility of rebuilding our nation to once again be a symbol of freedom. Kamala represents hope for America to be something all its citizens can be proud of. The Fourth of July could become more joyous than it has been in decades.

There’s a lot of concern going around about her ability or desire to fight for Palestine. As far as I can see, I have faith that she will fight for Palestinian lives AND fight against anti semitism all at once. She is intelligent enough to see what a nuanced situation it is.

For me there’s a personal connection. She is multiracial, being both Desi and Afro Caribbean. The same combination of races as me. I admire her because she embraced all her identities despite the fact that multiracial and biracial people are often told to choose one, or told that they can only identify as multiracial and not with their individual heritages.

If you are at all hesitant about Trump, I implore you to consider the value Kamala could add to our country. To find your own personal connection to her and/or Tim Walz. I promise you you’ll find it if you look. Trump and Vance do not represent the interests of any empathetic person in this country, even if you think he does I promise you that you won’t find a personal connection because both of them have given up their humanity.

[poetry-feeling42]

Any liberal who thinks Biden stands a chance this election and demands that anyone who wants peace in this world need to compromise their values and submit to the authority of the Democratic Party has not learned a single thing about the 1968 DNC rebellion.

You cannot win with a pro war candidate, only peace will land you the election. If you spineless liberals don't want to place this election directly into Trump's hands, then you need to demand the Democrats cease the genocide in Gaza, establish a permanent ceasefire, and dismantle Apartheid, and not only run another candidate in place of Genocide Joe, but one who will end the US sanctioned bombings, killings, and countles injustices in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, West Papua, Tigray, Haiti, and so many more countries across the world. Someone who will end the suffering happening here the stolen land of Turtle Island. You need someone who will compromise with the Left, and steer ,1this country away from dictatorial fascism and towards liberation and decolonization of the failed colonial project that is the American Empire.

You can degrade and reprimand us until your tongue falls off, but unless you demand better from your cherished Blue Corporate Puppets©®™, you will not save anyone. Not black people, not brown people, not queer people, and not even your own worthless hide.

Will you tremble and capitulate to murder and oppression, or will you stand up and fight for the liberation of all people? Will you demand all power to all people? Or will you shrink away and let white supremacy reign free, knowing you'll be spared by your overlords for abandoning your Black brothers and sister, your Native brothers and sisters, your Palestinian brothers and sisters, your Queer brothers, and everyone who has been under attack for too damn long by this cruel empire?

Will you make the right choice?

[mightymorphinnegro]

Hey, Quick thing. To every woman out there choosing to follow the 4B movement, I don’t just see you—I get you.

That is entirely your choice and I support it especially When the system was rigged to leave you exposed, you are within all rights to claim your own protection.

I also want you to know this: those who voted away your rights are not only capable of so much more, Heinous Violence with no regard for punishments by an establishment bcuz said establishment has emboldened them to be this way. Openly; Believe me, they have already joked about the 'joy' of taking from you your prized possession, you get me?

Yes, some of them openly fantasize about your vulnerability as they strip what you would have left of your dignity. They are savages and the talk of the 4B movement has them seeing it as a challenge. A challenge to your voice of 'No'

So, I want you to listen closely. If you are not, I want you to Get yourself trained. Get heavily armed. Become dangerous, Become The unbreakable force they fear. Don’t be a victim to their delusions of control.

If they ever think about crossing that line, let them meet a reckoning they will regret. To every woman capable of it—arm yourselves with a deadly calm. Godspeed, and let them learn the hard way just how dangerous you, a woman can be. 💣

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[k00295632]

Project: Movement.

Week 8. Thursday - Friday

Animation

With almost all my backgrounds done, I decided to try get some animation started, but I encountered a problem which side tracked me for a bit. I realized I didn't know how to calculate how many frames each of my scenes should have.

I tried to do some math to figure it out but unfortunately failed, so I ended up drawing out the timing and dividing the timeline into 12's per second and just counted how many frames each scene needed. My timing on premier pro said my animation was 12.3 seconds long so I calculated I would need 144.6 frames. Using my very complicated method, I ended up with 148 frames, I was only 2 frames off which wasn't bad. It however took me 2 hours.

Once I knew roughly how many frames each scene needed I got it started and got some progress done.

Its rough but its a start

For foley sound I was thinking of using sounds that add to the ambience of the location; bussing lights/ flickering, ventilation fan, dripping taps, People walking past, distant music, all sounds that tie into the location and add to its discomfort. For the protagonist I was thinking of getting noises for the scissors, the hair falling in the sink, a wet blink etc..