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¿Para qué quiero una Harley-Davidson?

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Gods.

So, i worked next to an older woman... She's one of those people that's nice to your face, but is VERY opinionated with her politics and honestly, is just not the sharpest knife in the block (seriously, no one know why she's still working here when she makes massive mistakes on the regular).

Mind you, I'be already told her that my politics do not in ANY way align with hers, and that I think it would be best if we were to avoid the topic altogether whole at work.

Every day, she tries to slip it in on our conversations, which is when I literally always withdraw from the conversation. I'm not going to change her mind, and she is CERTAINLY not going to change mine.

Today, however, she started talking about how Mercury isn't actually bad for you, and that when she was little, she would play with the stuff with her bare hands on the regular. But she turned out fiiine.

It definitely explains a few things.

#she also tried to tell me that big oil and coal were literal gifts from god today #so like #take that as you will #fuckin brainwashed harpy

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Panty & Stocking

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Ed Edd n Eddy in:

Ed's Wonky Chocolate Factory!

(based on the willy wonka experience scam)

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Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.

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Dungeon Meshi is a peak comedy🤣🤣🤣

Elf girl needs a break and asap.

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With Dungeon Meshi getting popular, if you like Studio Trigger, you should totally check out Kiznaiver!!

Basically its about a group of teens that not only have the most complicated love octagon, but can also feel each other's pain

Its such a beautifully animated show

With a canonically Sapphic character too!

In conclusion: watch kiznaiver

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So I started rewatching Kill La Kill and I just wanna gush over the art direction. It's so fucking cool. It constantly knows what it's doing! It's Bold, it's Extra, unashamedly so! Keep up or drop out!

The art style and animation style are so snappy and full of personality (that's just that good TRIGGER shit!)

Yes! You can bend reality to have the huge character that's the chief of discipline of the school take up the entire room! Right after interrupting a lecture about the rise of fascism in Germany in 1933! Subtlety is for the weak!

So many shots are clearly well thought about in terms of composition, colors, iconism, and it's pretty consistent not just for the first episodes/a few trailer-moments but when the story needs to be intense or serious- The planning of all that must have been crazy, imagine storyboarding this madness

The camera movements during some action scenes?? insane

They used a BUNCH of 3D cgi models and you wouldn't even see it because they're worked into the art style and used very smartly, notably in the heavy action shots with the aforementionned insane camera movements (watch that gif closely! the characters, the desks, the background! I don't think it would have been possible to do all that fully hand drawn! even if only for a time/budget reason) I fucking love that! It came out in 2013 and it's so clean!!

Ah, I just like it a lot when a production is unique and carefully thought about. Anime is really fucking cool.

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A Firefighter’s Kiss

PROMARE (2019) by STUDIO TRIGGER FAVORITE SCENES (4/?) (Happy 4th Year Anniversary 💖)

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nefarious gets trolled

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Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around