Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…
Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.
YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME
THIS IS FUCKING MAGICAL
I just got up and now my mind is screaming in amazement. help e_e
oh? OH? ooohhh?
I’ve inherently been doing this technique without realizing it?!?!
Holy craaaaaaap
A post for
Jessica because she’s on a tablet and i cant send this crap through aim.
FINALLEEEEeeeeeeeee
8:28 Apr 6th, 2013 | 3 notes
I am finally getting to play skyward sword, my darling little brother got it for me for my birthday last week! I am madly in love with the knight commander, Pipit, and every single kikwi so far.
One of my favourite pieces by Roger Ebert is his “Great Movies” appreciation of Spirited Away (read it in full here). At the end of the piece he details an encounter he had with Hayao Miyazaki himself, where Miyazaki defines one of the key differences between the work of Studio Ghibli and mainstream American animation. I can see his words relating to comics as well, and these words are well-worth reading for any creative and parent.
Here is the excerpt from Ebert’s piece:
I was so fortunate to meet Miyazaki at the 2002 Toronto film festival. I told him I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or sigh, or gaze at a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.
“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ‘ma.’ Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ‘ma.’ If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness.”
I think that helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing than the frantic action in a lot of American animation. “The people who make the movies are scared of silence” he said, “so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions—that you never let go of those.
“What my friends and I have been trying to do since the 1970’s is to try and quiet things down a little bit; don’t just bombard them with noise and distraction. And to follow the path of children’s emotions and feelings as we make a film. If you stay true to joy and astonishment and empathy you don’t have to have violence and you don’t have to have action. They’ll follow you. This is our principle.”
He said he has been amused to see a lot of animation in live-action superhero movies. “In a way, live action is becoming part of that whole soup called animation. Animation has become a word that encompasses so much, and my animation is just a little tiny dot over in the corner. It’s plenty for me.”
It’s plenty for me, too.Yes
Yes.
YES
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
-Piet Hein
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.
How to Draw the Head from Any Angle (via ProkoTV)
(via Parka Blogs)
art
this is how i learned to drawing heads from different angles i promise you it can help
ahhh
holy shit
IMPORTANT ART STUFF
You know, you can read about these techniques all day long, but knowing the exact whys, and being taken through it step by step helps it stick with you a lot better.
So important.
HOLY CRAP BROTHER GRIFFIN WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY THIS STUFF? (or maybe you did and I was just too trying to stay awake.)
M a s c h e r a d a: kurtsasstho: sloths store fat on their feet and can turn their heads...
2:19 Mar 8th, 2013 | 3,262 notes
- sloths store fat on their feet and can turn their heads 270 degrees
- because sloths spend most of their life hanging upside down, their fur grows in the opposite direction of other animals
- though two-toed sloths thrive in captivity, even zoos that mimic their natural habitat…
Replace sloths with celeste and this is my biography.
I don’t know if I’m ever gonna get a chance to finish this… soo uhh… he’s a chinchilla and a bunny shoving an invisible ball at each other.
Ohhh myyy gooosh this was so amazing everybody WATCH IT NOW
(via rudimentree)
