#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

[eyes-of-nine]

idc what canon says, you couldn't pry visible knee joints from my cold dead hands even if you wanted to

[xitsensunmoon]

Guys I love hands so much... But why they be so difficult to animate 😭

[breadmecoshy]

I think I have a OTP type

[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.

[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.

[apple-pie-fly]

my favourite airi card!

[thingstrumperssay]

I found this here.

[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

[sistaseparatist]

The Persecution of Activists at Dongduk Women’s University

Founded by the pioneering educator Dr. Lee Tai-soon in 1950, Dongduk Women’s University was established with the vision of empowering womyn through education in a time when opportunities for womyn were limited. Originally starting as a small womyn’s college, the institution grew rapidly, expanding its programs and facilities to meet the evolving needs of Korean society. Over the decades, the university has maintained a strong focus on cultivating strong female leaders and professionals in various fields, contributing significantly to the advancement of womyn in South Korea.

Womyn’s education in South Korea has undergone a dramatic transformation, particularly in the 20th century. In the early years of the Korean Empire and under Japanese rule, educational opportunities for womyn were limited, with traditional gender roles strongly restricting their access to schooling. However, after the Korean War and during the rapid modernization of the 1960s and 1970s, womyn’s access to education expanded significantly. The establishment of universities like Dongduk Women's University in the 1950s was a pivotal moment—as it provided a platform for women to pursue higher education and contribute to the country’s economic and social development. Today, South Korea has one of the highest rates of female higher education enrollment in the world, symbolizing the importance of womyn’s education, and the impact it could have of womyn’s mobility in society.

On the date of November 4th, the University announced that it would begin opening its doors to male students (co-ed integration). This comes on the tail end of complaints about the decreasing birth rates in the country—blaming womyn for having “too many options” and “losing sight of the family.”

Recently, there has been controversy in Asia regarding co-ed universities sabotaging womyn’s education, and lowering their examinations scores in order to secure apprenticeships and sufficient employment opportunities for the male students.

Since November 11th, the female students protested valiantly using methods like occupying the buildings and offices, crashing the registration website, and reaching out to international journalists to help them tell their story.

THESE TACTICS HAVE WORKED…FOR NOW.

But a temporary victory is not enough. Our sisters in Korea are facing huge cultural backlash against advancements made in favor of female people in law, the economy, and in education. They’re asking us to help them continue to apply pressure on Dongduk Women’s University, until an official decision is made.

Dongduk Women's University has announced it will temporarily pause co-ed discussions as of now while promising it will include students if it were to start discussions again.

The problem is, Korea is extremely hostile to womyn and Feminists. Male supremacist groups and local terrorists have begun tracking and reporting activists to police in order to have them arrested—sabotaging their mission to try and protect their education. They threaten the female students with violence, rape, bombings, arson, and doxxing in order erase them into silence.

The University’s administration even saw fit to coerce its female students for citing financial issues to which these womyn will be vulnerable.

Two men had even snuck onto university grounds, and it is still unknown what their intentions were outside of generally terrorizing the students.

Representative Lee Jun-seok indirectly sided with the men’s groups in a statement to the media, claiming that womyn’s universities are no longer a necessity, and that the female students should be grateful to integrate with males, despite high rates of sex based violence in co-ed universities.

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[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.

[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.

[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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[afriblaq]

On October 4, 2024, Trumaine White, a black father and truck driver, went to a local tire shop in Liberty, Mississippi, where he got his tire changed, paid, and left a tip. He then proceeded to go have lunch at a local diner. However, the tire shop owner called the police, claiming Mr. White poured something white on the grass, which was later confirmed to be a white paper towel. Without cause questioning, or explanation, police approached and violently arrested Trumaine at the Moose store, beating and tasing him after handcuffing and shackling him.

They took him to the local jail, where people from the store contacted his mother. She went to the jail and saw her son beaten and tired, and he told her, 'They're going to kill me, mama.' Despite her attempts to find out the charges, there were none. The police killed Mr. White in the local jail that night. Trumaine had no prior arrests or troubles and was a provider for his daughter. We demand the DOJ step in and arrest the cops who killed Mr. Trumaine White and the individual who made the bogus call and everyone involved in the cover up. You can’t even find a news article about it, liberty Mississippi I’m coming and we will not stop until we get. #JusticeForTrumaineWhite say his name!��