#the amazing digital transylvania

[antisquare]

guys you have no idea how much i love this au transylvania au by: @notadreamurr

Ko-Fi

[notadreamurr]

The only note i had for caines' design is whimsy. Idk if that's even a word (og design on the bottom)

[ominus-potato]

I MADE AN ABEL

Everyone else has one so it’s about time I made my interpretation of Abel.

I don’t know what it is with me and drawing twinks but I cannot get enough of them. They’re so fun to draw!

(You’ll never guess what my inspiration for his design was)

[ordinaryschmuck]

You know what I'm impressed by? 3D animation looking like it's 2D. And I don't mean 3D animation giving cell-shading like you'd see with Borderlands, TellTale games, and Marvel Studio's What If...? I mean stuff like this:

Taking the fluid, snappy, and often overly expressive shots you'd see in a 2D, hand-drawn cartoon, but giving it a 3D makeover.

This is a tactic I feel like got popularized by the Hotel Transyvania series. Genndy Tartakovsky, the goat of animation, directed the first movie like he would for his 2D works, having motion and models that were often stiff and slow for the moments they needed to be, but can also look snappy and expressive like any hand drawn cartoon would to make the scene more comedic.

Now, that's not to say there haven't been attempts in the past. Hell, even Laika has tried to do the same thing in stop-motion:

But it's with Hotel Transylvania that I feel like this tactic really started taking steam, being that thing that pushes the envelope of animation just a bit farther. It's not a tactic that's as realistic or as heavily detailed as your other favorite animated films, but it's still impressive in its own right. Because, you see, it's not as simple as making a character that should be 2D and just giving them a 3D model. Just look what happens when animators put Timmy Turner into the world of Jimmy Neutron or making the 80s Ninja Turtles team up with the 2012 ones:

It creates this weird uncanny effect looking at something that was MEANT to be hand-drawn and giving it that third dimension it was never intended to have. Granted, this is all to have the characters fit in with another show's art style, but you can tell that it doesn't work because it's not supposed to.

That's why when a CGI animated project tries to look 2D, they keep the idea that it has to look good, regardless if it was hand-drawn or CGI. To accomplish that requires both changing and altering the models the right way and knowing where the camera is facing. Take this one shot from The Amazing Digital Circus:

Here's what it looks like from the side:

From behind:

And from the other side:

Shout out to animator Protj for giving this neat behind the scenes detail. Check out their whole showreel of Episode Three for yourself, by the way.

And yeah, this shows why this type of animation style is often difficult to pull off. Anyone could have just DRAWN a shot like that, but to shift the model in such a way where it mimics the style is impressive all on its own. It's so much more hard work, all done for no reason at all aside from style points. They could have done this in 2D and it would have been just as fine, but sticking to it being CGI, it shows an extra level of dedication to the craft that I can't help but applaud over. I'm impressed with looking as real as possible, but there something so much more impressive about a CGI show or movie looking as cartoonish as possible.

[alicealmost]

One of the best thing of being a bunnydoller is the other fellow bunnydollers XD

@starspangledbatter posted this in Bunnydoll Litter Community saying it's Ragatha and Jax family in a nutshell (pretty accurate,lol)

And then @that-weird-skeleton-bastard turned it to something even better

If I could hug you guys, I would XD

Plus: I just love how cute sleepy Jaiden is 🥹🤏✨️

See the original post here

[grapemoon]

Sorry for ragatha x figure posting again but theyre very fun to draw

[angelfacemjj]

Anyways, just lettin everyone know, block n report @anticringeassociation for harassin young artists, fandom blogs n kids enjoyin themselves in general. Crosstaggin for reach.

[crosspunzel]

[notadreamurr]

I Can I see some ragapom drawings from your au?, please 🙏🏻

Imagine taking a whole month to answer this? That's so cringe.....id never do that

[xxinkys-ocsxx]

First post on Tumbler! ^^

Hiya! I'm Inky! This is my introduction post, and at the time of posting, this is my first post on tumblr! but definitely not my first time on tumbler lol (I have a alt acc on my laptop)

(just a random reminder that this blog will include oc x cannon, if you don't like that stuff please be respectful ignore my blog and proshipers, ped0s, homophobes, racist, zoophiles etc, dni with me or my blog.)

I'm probably going to be posting art and POSSIBLY writing some oc x cannon/x reader fics on here because yass👏👏Anyway here's just a summary of me but as one of my ocs profiles loll

Name: Inky

Nickname: Inks

Gender: Cis female

pronouns:she/her

Species: Little sona gal

Nationality: England☕

Fandoms I'm in:

A:

Arcane

Animal crossing

B:

Bluey!

BEASTARS

Beetlejuice

Bendy and the ink machine

Black butler

C:

Circus of wishes

Cuphead

casino cups

Charlie the union

Chicken nugget

D:

Demon slayer

Deadpoll

Dark deception

Dhmis

E:

ENA

epithet erased

EYES ARG

F:

Fanf

Ferngully

Far fetched

F.r.i.e.n.d.s

G:

Glitter force

Garten of ban ban

Generation loss

GURBY

Guardians of the Galaxy

Gacha

Gravity falls

H:

Hazbin hotel

Helluva boss

Heart of Titans

Heathers

Hamilton

Heart stopper

Hotel transylvania

Harry Potter

Hilda

I:

Indgo park

J:- none yet-

K:

Komi can't communicate

L:

Lackadaisy

Lamas in hats

Little nightmares

Little misfortune

M:

Murder drones

Metal family

Mean girls

My little powny

My friendly neighbourhood

Mario

Monkey wrench

N:- none yet-

O:

One piece

Obay me!

P:

popee the performer

Perfect husbands

Poppy playtime

Portals

Purcy Jackson

Q: - none yet-

R:

Royal high

Ramshackle

rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

Rise of the guardians

S:

SpyXfamily

Spooky month

Sam and max

Sad ghost club

Skylanders

T:

The amazing digital circus

Tokyo ghoul

Toilet bound Haiko-kun

U: - none yet-

V:

Vampire series

Villainous

W:

Welcome home

Who framed Roger rabbit?

Wimpy witch

X: - none yet-

Y: - none yet-

Z:

Zipped up

There are probably SOOOO meny more I just can't think of rn :/

But yeah! That's me! Expect to see lots of art, mostly oc x cannon

I'm excited to start posting, until then bye!!

[celestialmazer]

Making Nosferatu Sounds Even More Cursed Than Watching It : i-D.co

DOUGLAS GREENWOOD - DECEMBER 27, 2024

Mild spoilers for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu below

Robert Eggers’ psychosexual horror movie was made by a team of exacting and brilliant artists. Here, they tell us how 2000 rats, Sky Ferreira and Pinterest played a part in it.

In Nosferatu, the legendary silent vampire movie, the insidious Count Orlok harbours an obsession for someone so intense that it conjures insanity in those he touches. For director Robert Eggers, who this week released his long-gestating take on the tale, that obsession – less evil, equally as effective – is directed towards detail, the minute elements of a movie most people don’t pay attention to. In every frame of it, you’ll find locket necklaces that transcend era, sagging town streets, and corpsified costumes – all designed to be accurate to the period and the character.

A chilly and elegantly made psycho-romance, the material is ripe for such treatment. Set in Wisborg, a fictional German port town in the 1830s, Eggers’ take on the film focuses on Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) a young woman whose mind seems disturbed by the encroaching presence of an unknown evil force. Her financially struggling real estate agent husband Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) is sent on an assignment to meet Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), a mysterious isolated man interested in local property. While a haunted Ellen holes up with their friends the Hutters (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin) in the meantime, little does Hutter know that he’s luring the evil force closer to his most desired object: his wife.

Eggers faithfully recreated the look and feel of a German town in the 19th century plagued by the arrival of a demonic vampire by doing “a whole lot of damage on Pinterest,” Egger says, during a conversation in London’s gothic St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel. An obsessive researcher (hence the palpable earthiness of his debut The Witch, and the salty taste of his strange period comedy The Lighthouse) here working with his biggest budget yet, Eggers had the time and team to go down the rabbit hole. Pinterest led him to books in the library, which led him to their bibliographies, which opened whole new worlds. To make sure everything was accurate, he brought in consultants on everything from Transylvania to the occult. The result is his most astonishing, all-consuming film yet.

This kind of accuracy is “just what I enjoy for my movies,” Eggers says, “but it also is nice because all of my collaborators know what the goal is.” Here, Eggers and a handful of the film’s hundreds-strong creative team – cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, costume designer Linda Muir, production designer Craig Lathrop, composer Robin Carolan and researcher/advisor Florin Lazarescu – delve into the details of how Nosferatu was formed, in all of its wretched glory.

It always starts with the mood boards

Robert Eggers (Writer and Director): I did digital portraits of all of the characters, putting actors’ faces into paintings, and for every location and major set piece in the movie.

Jarin Blasckhe (Cinematographer): Rob’s gonna bring a lot of references to the table. [As cinematographer,] I see it as my job to sort of synthesise them and turn them into my own expression.

Linda Muir (Costume Designer): I put together my own little book of images and swatches of fabrics appropriate to the period of the film. I pull from my costume books, close ups of paintings, fashion plates, and photographs of authentic garments housed in museums or online auction houses. An amazing resource book is Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style Colour, Layout, and Period by Susan Meller; Joost Elfers.

CREDIT: AIDAN MONAGHAN/FOCUS FEATURES LLC

The location scouting was vast, but fruitless

Eggers: We scouted [cities like] Lubeck and Wismar and Gdansk (which was in Germany in that period). They had the architecture, but none of them had a massive amount of streets left intact because of World War Two. Even if we wanted to, there wasn’t a city that would have served our purpose.

And so they built the film at Prague’s Barrandov Studios

Eggers: Bernie [Bellow], our line producer, and his team were able to facilitate building all of these things, because I get the architectural specificity that I’m looking for.

Craig Lathrop (Production Designer): [Eggers’] beautiful and horrifying script was full of design opportunities, and all of the roughly 60 sets seemed to have something that was oddly tricky and specific. The streets of Wisborg were by far the largest sets we built. I wanted each building to have its own personality. None of the sets are perfectly square or plumb, and on Wisborg’s Old Town Street, the medieval houses have a certain amount of sag. We graded all the streets so the characters would move up or down the streets with the exception of the exterior of the Harding’s house (it is on a canal, so that street is flat). By controlling the palate and the dressing, we tried to ensure that when you see the streets in the early scenes, it’s a bustling port town. Once the plague arrives, those same streets would feel ominous and frightening.

Eggers: Sometimes the sets were literally coming apart on hinges midway through a take and coming back together again.

Lathrop: [Like in] the opening shot. Ellen is sitting up in her bed, calling to an unknown spirit. When she gets out of bed and moves toward the window, the wall with the bed alcove split open and swung out of the way with all of the set dressing attached, in a choreographed dance with the camera so that we could end the shot looking 180 degrees in the opposite direction, with a head-to-toe profile of Ellen and Orlok’s shadow.

Though it did venture into the outside world sometimes

Eggers: I think Bram Stoker might have seen an engraving of Hunedoara Castle when it was in disrepair, and that it [might have been] his template for Castle Dracula, so we shot that castle for [Count Orlok’s castle’s] exterior. In the cemetery scenes, we had to find a part of the cemetery that was large enough to accommodate building a large mausoleum. There also weren’t a lot of headstones around. We had to bring in 30 headstones to populate it.

Eggers designed a new kind of Orlok…

Eggers: I knew he would be a folk vampire, instead of a monster like the Murnau film, or an Anglo-literary vampire like every other Dracula.

… that dressed like a Transylvanian nobleman

Eggers: There’s never been a version of Dracula or Nosferatu dressed like a Transylvanian nobleman with authentic Hungarian attire from the 16th century.

Muir: Textiles for Orlok had to evoke a past some 250-300 years before the period in which we find all of the other characters, so I looked at paintings, illustrations, garments housed in museum collections, and books illustrating the Transylvanian military from around 1560 to the mid-1600s. I tried to find as many examples as possible of what a dolman (tunic) or mente (overcoat) or kolpak (hat) or footwear could look like within this period, along with sash, buttons, and embellishments suitable to the clothing of a nobleman of great wealth and privilege. Once completed, Orlok’s costuming had to then be distressed (corpsified) inside and out, [because his] centuries of rotting flesh affect the inferior layers and the environment affects the exterior.

Bill Skarsgård found a nightmare-inducing voice

Eggers: Bill worked with an opera coach to lower his voice an octave. We didn’t do a lot of ADR [automated dialogue replacement] for him. Sometimes we pushed his voice into the subs to give it even more body, but it’s not EQ manipulated to make it deeper or crazier than it was. That was him.

Eggers wanted to “embrace the romanticism” of the story

Robin Carolan (Composer): It’s almost like a love triangle to some degree. So I think when it came to the score, I wanted to write it as if it was this sort of fucked up marriage.

Blaschke: I was just trying to make [the cinematography] as shapely and lush as possible, and to embrace that. The current [movie] trend is kind of grungy and handheld, [shot] with available light. I wanted to buck against that and rebel with craft. When [Eggers] says he wants it to look romantic and lush, then that just lets me fall into that instinct.

Blaschke shot on film

Blaschke: I just prefer the palette of it to digital. That has nothing to do with trying to show off… the palette is lovely and befits this film. Digitally the colours would be very clean; [on film,] they’re just much more complex.

Eggers only wanted to shoot in gloomy weather…

Eggers: [It was] one of the only things that really frustrated the studio. They understood, but time is money, and when you’re waiting around for cloud coverage, when you have 200 extras, it becomes quite scary.

… but he wasn’t the only stickler for lighting.

Eggers: The most time consuming lighting setups were moonlit interiors, because Jarin only wanted the light source to be coming from the windows. He also wanted the light source to feel very far away for the most amount of naturalism.

Blaschke: [Typically,] in moonlit interiors in real life, you don’t see jack squat. Sometimes, when shooting those scenes, I had a light for moonlight 70 meters away, shooting over the entire soundstage into a mirror that then sends it back into the set. We had a lot of uncontrolled light everywhere, so we had to close it off. It gets very time consuming.

The Nosferatu typefaces were discussed and debated

Eggers: The Nosferatu title treatment is a kind of strange looking Gothic typeface that I worked very closely on with Teddy Blanks, the title designer. He did many iterations of it, down to changing the serifs ever so slightly to really get what we were after. [And] even though it’s a German speaking movie, we went with a typeface for the subtitles that would have been in an English speaking book from 1838. I think we used whatever type was used for Oliver Twist.

The film had an occult consultant

Eggers: I had an occultist come in and check out all of the books and the paperwork. The only thing that we fucked up – and we fixed it – was the heptagram that Knock sits in [at the beginning of the film].

And a guy who knew everything about Romanian folklore

Eggers: Florin Lazarescu is most famous in western cinema for writing the screenplay for Aferim!, but he’s a novelist and a poet, and also an expert on Romanian folklore.

Florin Lazarescu (Consultant and Researcher): I acted as a consultant and researcher on anything related to 19th-century Transylvania. I also contributed some Romanian and Romani dialogue and worked on creating the ancient Dacian language that Count Orlok speaks. Sometimes I found myself in unique situations, such as giving the final approval on wooden crosses or ecclesiastical garments inscribed with texts I proposed.

The sound design was cranked up to a million

Eggers: People like to say that even though I’m making movies that take place in the past, the filmmaking is very modern. But I think the filmmaking is not very modern at all – it’s the sound that makes it more modern and visceral. Even if there are scenes with a lot of silence, the wind tones and the creaky doors are very like dialled in.

While the score was loosely inspired by Sky Ferreira

Carolan: Rob and I will kind of have our own references, and some of them can be quite odd. There’s a Sky Ferreira song called “Downhill Lullaby”. I was listening to that kind of obsessively for certain scenes for Ellen’s character. It just put me in a certain mood.

The costumes are hyper-specific

Eggers: [For Ellen] I found a locket from the period that had that heart shape, like something you’d get at a store for a teenage girl.

Muir: A small section of the centre back of Hutter’s waistcoat collar is made of the same fabric as the waistcoat back. It would not be seen as the frock coat always remained on (walking around in shirtsleeves was not really done during the film’s period – unless you are running around a terrifying castle attempting escape). It’s a wee detail that speaks to Hutter’s lack of funds.

Deep thought went into its possessions and exorcisms too

Eggers: [French neurologist Jean-Martin] Charcot made etchings of every hysterical pose that his patients did. Those were a bit of a menu for us to go through. When you read the script, [Lily’ character Ellen is] doing this thing. Now she’s doing this thing. Now it’s really crazy. Now it’s really, really crazy! [Movement director Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Depp and I had to ask ourselves:] how do we actually do that? When is it sinister? When is it sensual? When is it childlike? When is it demonic? The more The Exorcist-like stuff is not, for me, the most powerful. I think that the [demonic sex] scene with her and Nick, even though it’s in some ways less flashy, is more unique and disturbing.

Lazarescu: My favourite detail in the film involved an abbess from Bukovina performing an exorcism in Church Slavonic. Initially, it was more of a cinematic cliché, with no real connection to the Orthodox Christian tradition. I researched books, consulted specialists, and convinced Robert that a cliché exorcism would come across as cringeworthy. We replaced the ritual entirely with something plausible: a priest reciting from The Prayers of Saint Basil the Great in Romanian at the bedside of the ‘possessed’.

Oh, and the rats.

Eggers: [For the chapel scene in the film’s climax], we made Vacuform rat mats; these squares of plastic rats that were covered with fake fur that we tiled the floors with. [Then we added] a layer of CG rats on top of that. But there were 2000 real rats. I said 5000 by mistake in another interview. Now it’s gone viral.

[bloodmoon24]

Besides Feedback, N and Vox, are there any other characters that attend Fandom University?

A LOT of characters, from my childhood to my adulthood

Like from Wild Kratts, Monster/Ever After High, Ben 10, Teen Titans, Disney Characters like Tiana, Winx Club, The Bad Guys, Max & Ruby, A.N.T. Farm, Jessie, Austin & Ally, Bunk’d, Raven’s Home, Soul Eater, PowerPuff Girls/Z, Squid Girl, Black Butler, Dragon Maid, Magical Girls Inc., OK KO, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Gravity Falls, SVTFOE, The Amazing Digital Circus, Murder Drones, The Owl House, Lackadaisy, Sonic the Hedgehog, TMNT 2012, MCU, MLP/EG, Trolls, Hotel Transylvania, HTTYD, The Amazing World of Gumball, Strawberry Shortcake, etc.

Geez Louis, the Fandom University is gonna be a huge ass school

[fabseg-creator]

Tinky Winkynos VS Everyone Season Two (part 2)

This is the part 2 of the Season Two of the conquests of Tinky Winkynos.

The maximum number of links was reached on the part 1. So I created a part 2.

The action: Tinky Winkynos invades the targeted suggested franchise. You must vote for the side of your choice.

The rule: You can help him conquer or you can stand against him by voting.

The result at the end of the poll will decide the fate of the universe(s) issue of his conquest(s). If The Mad Teletubby wins with more 50% of votes, he succeeds his conquest. If the franchise (TV show, video game, movie, novel, etc) wins 50%, the invasion is repelled.

If you have a franchise to purpose as challenge, say it by message or commentary.

List of conquests:

Vs Despicable Me/Minions REPELLED

Vs Lucky Luke REPELLED

Vs Scooby-Doo! REPELLED

Vs The Amazing Digital Circus REPELLED

Vs The Fairly OddParents REPELLED

Vs Cars REPELLED

Vs Troll Hunters REPELLED

Vs Zootopia REPELLED

Vs Murder Drones REPELLED

Vs Roblox CONQUERED

Vs Mulan REPELLED

Vs Asterix REPELLED

Vs The Adventures of Tintin REPELLED

Vs Masha and the Bear REPELLED

Vs My Adventures with Superman REPELLED

Vs Happy Tree Friends REPELLED

Vs Powerpuff Girls REPELLED

Vs Peppa Pig TIE

Vs LoliRock REPELLED

Vs Jimmy Neutron REPELLED

Vs The Amazing World of Gumball REPELLED

Vs American Dad REPELLED

Vs Borderlands REPELLED

Vs Helldivers REPELLED

Vs Call of Duty REPELLED

Vs The Elder Scrolls REPELLED

Vs Men In Black REPELLED

Vs Invincible REPELLED

Vs Megamind REPELLED

Vs Mars Attacks! REPELLED

Vs Ben 10 REPELLED

Vs Duke Nukem REPELLED

Vs Attack On Titan REPELLED

Vs Animal Crossing REPELLED

Vs Friends REPELLED

Vs Lego Friends REPELLED

Vs Caillou CONQUERED -> (Vs Caillounos REPELLED [TIE])

Vs Cyberpunk REPELLED

Vs Doki Doki Litterature Club REPELLED

Vs Trolls REPELLED

Vs Vocaloid REPELLED

Vs Clash of Clans REPELLED

Vs Godzilla & King Kong REPELLED IN BOTH CASES

Vs Gacha Life REPELLED

Vs Good Omens REPELLED

Vs Supernatural REPELLED

Vs Madagascar (movie series) REPELLED

Vs Assassin's Creed REPELLED

Vs Devil May Cry REPELLED

Vs Mashle REPELLED

Vs Indiana Jones REPELLED

Vs Street Fighter REPELLED

Vs The Last of Us REPELLED

Vs Hotel Transylvania REPELLED

Vs Sword Art Online REPELLED

Vs The Matrix REPELLED

Vs Cardcaptor Sakura REPELLED

Vs Initial D REPELLED

Vs Beetlejuice REPELLED

Vs Twilight REPELLED

Vs Dune REPELLED

Vs Hunger Games REPELLED

Vs The Legend of Vox Machina REPELLED

Vs Games of Thrones REPELLED

Vs Deadpool & Wolverine REPELLED

Vs Rusty the Guardian Teletubby [Finale] ARRESTED

Part 1 here:

Season One:

[seraphcutie]

You Can Now Send Me Art Requests!!

Hello, I Have Finally Made The Decision To Do Art Requests!! Here's The Rules

Fandoms I Do Art Requests On:

Dragon City

The Bad Guys

Sonic The Hedgehog

Barbie

Family Guy

Hazbin Hotel

Spongebob Squarepants

The Thundermans

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Mallory McDonald

Dork Diaries

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Mr. Men & Little Miss

Murder Drones

The Amazing Digital Circus

The Loud House

Tabaluga

Primos

Hotel Transylvania

Pac-Man

Dog Man

Sprunki (An Incredibox Mod)

You Can Also Do Art Requests On My Own Stories (Pirate Haven, Biologicals: Saving Kids By Force, & Mermaid Tale)

However Here's The Rules

Don't Request Me Any Art That Isn't From Those 22 Fandoms, & Any Of My Stories, Otherwise Your Art Request Will Be Denied

In Order To Make Art Requests Equal, I Will Do 3-7 Art Requests From The Same Fandom Each Month.

No NSFW Art Requests, This Means No Nudity (Mild Nudity Is Fine, But Hardcore Nudity Is Not), No Extreme Graphic Depictions Of Violence, & No Racist/Offensive Arts, Doing So Will Lead Me To Report You To Tumblr.

Wait For 3 Days Before You Send Me An Art Request In General, & 5 Days Before You Send Me An Art Request From The Same Fandom (For My Stories, It's 3 Days).

You Can Use My Art, Just Credit Me & Don't Vandalize Them.

Ok, That's The Rules, Hope You Guys Can Come Up With Something Cool For Me To Draw :)

[far-from-fran]

Fandoms

Rise of the Brave Tangled Frozen Dragons+

How to Train Your Dragon

Rise of the Guardians

Tangled

Brave

Frozen

Encanto

Wish (Disney)

Raya and the Last Dragon

Hotel Transylvania

Non/Disney

Crossover Ships

Sanders Sides

Five Nights at Freddy’s

The Amazing Digital Circus

Hazbin Hotel

Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Force

Avatar: the Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra

DC Universe

The Fairly Oddparents

Scooby-Doo

Total Drama

Monster High Gen 1

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Steven Universe

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Kim Possible

The Looney Tunes Show

Wild Kratts

Sonic the Hedgehog

Kingdom Hearts

Tangle Tower

Marvel

Adventure Time