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kianamaiart · 2 years

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Sure you know about the entire Beanhead artstyle, the stuff people been booeing and hating back in 2015-2021-today due to its minimalistic look and repetitive use in most media. Anything to say regarding that?.

LOL it's annoying.

My explanation/rant got long haha (under the cut)

Like I get it, it's very prevalent nowadays, but every era of tv animation has a ~style~ that a good chunk of mainstream shows fall into. And if you reaaaally look at the entire catalogue of shows that have come out in the past decade, there's actually a good amount of variety. The problem is most people are just looking at the 5 most popular shows that are out at any given year.

And the reason for these styles being pushed is because they ARE appealing. Appealing to kids. The demographic of most of these shows. I think people forget that focus testing exists. Kids are the people who are streaming these shows, watching on cable and buying toys (or rather their parents). Networks aren't gonna cater to teens/young adults/a much smaller demographic who likely know how to find and watch the shows they like for free. And as much as it may seem like online fandom has an impact, networks won't notice unless it's reaaally benefitting them monetarily.

I understand that people may not like this style, and that's alright, but I take issue when creators and artists are attacked for it. Most of us don't even draw in the style of the shows we work on (ex. i work on big city greens, but draw mostly anime-esque stuff on my own time). I don't speak for all of us but I don't think it's a stretch to say that a good chunk of us would LOOOVE to pitch stuff or have shows with more variety in style. But at the end of the day, most of the stuff on mainstream tv is "a product" to be sold. It sounds cynical, but it's true, and networks are usually gonna play it safe and pick up stuff that has a winning formula, and part of that winning formula at the moment is this particular style.

I think people also fail to take into account that animation is hard lol. Simple designs mean easier animation. Most American studios unfortunately do not have in house animators and animation is done overseas. Because of this storyboards are hardly storyboards anymore. They're cleaned up key poses so that there's less room for error when shipping everything over. Those errors being hard to fix because 1. a lot of the time there's a language barrier, 2. it takes a long time and 3. it's expensive. Every artist on each end of the process is already overworked, so any way to make the process easier is ideal.

If people want to see different styles in animation, they gotta support the stuff that's different and trying something new! And support it more than the kids and said kids' parents who are being catered to. That means streaming said shows (legally), tuning in on cable, buying merch, etc. I know it's a lot to ask for, and not everyone, understandably, has the means to, but a lot of the time, networks/studios/companies see everything in black and white. If a show is not a complete success, then they will assume the problem is because it's not following that winning formula I was talking about earlier. Trying new things is a risk in their eyes.

It's not hopeless! Just look at Spiderverse and its impact on the style of animation we're currently seeing in feature/movies. Us artists WANT to do different stuff and make inspiring work, but we need that viewer support!

#long post #basically capitalism #also bean mouth style is cute #there's worse styles out there hahaaha

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ginga-snappd-offical · 11 months

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Who are the artists that you love on here?

I want you to know this is the narrowed down list:

General artists:

@doekis (has a lot of soft 80s inspired cartoon art (think carebears, classic mlp, etc.)) their works are like cotton candy on silk canvas to the eyes, they’re so so SO pretty and cute.

@nicktoonsunite (aka izbubbles) the expansion to the nicktoons cinematic universe I didn’t know I needed but now that I have it, I am in love with it.

@graskip pretty use of colors and visual textures, a very maximalist use of short hand indicators on simple silhouettes that elegantly balance each other out. Their work is the closest thing to touching grass if that makes sense.

@ferretrix I forgot why I followed them and then scrolled down, and oh my goodness their comics? Their colors??? Their sketchy thick lines that make me wanna go feral???? Good stuff, check them out

@mutiniir followed for the epithet erased fan characters, stayed for the shoes with gun heels. They are incredibly talented, and have a fun and fantastic writing style.

@speyerboot everything cute, colorful, and just Shaped ™️ their works are super fun, they made that one epithet erased avatar maker (I can’t for the life of me remember the site rn), really good stuff!

@yamujiburo I don’t think they require a shoutout from me, but they’re a storyboard artist and director on Big City Greens, they make a lot of cute shipping art of Jessie and Ash’s mom which is both wholesome and hilarious, and I just think they’re neat :)

@k-eke animations right? But they’re animals. And they’re done on the FLIPNOTE APP ON THE NINTENDO DSI. Howwwwww??????? They’re fantastic with expressions, weight, and follow through in technical terms, and have a very funny sense of humor with their works.

@amberluvsbugs an old coworker, has The Most Talent, is currently working with Mob Entertainment, they know a lot about moths and have this elegant, whispy style to their work that the rococo period could only DREAM of replicating.

I Found During My Nuzlocke Phase:

@pettyartist I think they made the first comic I ever read in highschool, and while they don’t do it anymore I still keep up with their works.

@protocol00 was also one of the first comics I read, their artstyle changed dramatically overtime for the better, they’ve had a lot of improvement over the years! They don’t post as often any more so it’s like a delicious morsel when they do.

@kynimdraws was the reason I started to get into digital art in the first place. I followed their black and white comics intensely, and I appreciate that they wrote N like the freak he is ❤️

#asks #artists to follow

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iamnompuehuenu · 6 months

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I've always wanted to do this character card with one of my original characters, and here I am. My 12 year old self would cry from joy since I even tried to imitate the artstyle but I got too tired at the end, so... I'll just put her here. I even made spanish versions and GIF versions because the flag changes color depending on the season which is so good. My research might be wrong so if there are errors I will gladly fix them.

Meet Užupis, a micronation located in Lithuania!

I have all her information here because I got too invested and the Užupis Constitution is too much fun. I even wrote what her relationship with others characters is like... I kinda love her, actually. She's Lithuania's little sister with a harsh story on her back. Too harsh, honestly, she deserves the whole world. If you'd like to read more, here it is.

Information:

Name: Republic of Užupis (Užupio Respublika)

Katakana: ウジュピス (Ujupisu)

Human name: Anželika Laurinaitis

Katakana: アンジェリカ・ロリナイティス (Anjerika Rorinaitisu)

Alternate Spellings: Angelica, Angelika

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Birthday: April 1, 1998

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Golden

Height: 167 cm

Appearance:

Užupis appears as a teenage girl of golden eyes with a confident and relaxed smile at all times, keeping her long hair in a low ponytail and wearing two hairclips that resemble angel wings. She wears traditional masculine Lithuanian clothing; a long green coat with a sash surrounding her waist, which changes color depending on the season and her mood. Under the coat she wears a white shirt and black shorts. She wears high black boots and gloves with a circle on the back of the hand and she sometimes carries sculpting tools with her.

Personality and Interests:

Located in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, she is a neighborhood full of artists and bohemians of all kinds since Soviet times, which makes her an artist as well, though she loves sculpting the most and has many projects ongoing at the same time. With a knack for pranks and jokes, her carefree but determined attitude makes everyone wonder if she’s being serious or not, which only amuses her more. She declares herself a pacifist and free spirit and everflowing “just like the River Vilnelė!” but is shown to be easily influenced by the other micronations, always going with the flow. Užupis considers everyone equally deserving of love, since her home used to give shelter to homeless people and sex workers with no disctinction, but she gets easily flustered when someone shows her affection since she grew up in a harsh environment. She also has a gloomy side to her, sometimes mumbling to herself about black-and-white silent and experimental cinema that show the grim realities of life; these last two qualities may or may have not been inherited from Lithuania himself. She is also hopeless with technology since Užupis does not house internet-cafes, markets or shopping malls.

Relationships:

Lithuania Despite being her older brother, she bears a resentment towards him due to being neglected for the first years of her life to the point she used to be one of the poorest areas of the city with many run-down houses without utilities. She doesn’t have a Lithuanian embassy either and refuses to call him brother, much to his dismay. She knows it wasn’t his fault, but she can’t help but feel hurt by it. They are currently mending their relationship bit by bit and Užupis even started to play pranks on him, too!

Belarus Because her river also crosses Belarus, she came to know her and became mesmerized by her. As neighbors, Užupis admires her strength and grace and wishes to sculpt the perfect masterpiece to make justice to Belarus’ beauty. Belarus couldn’t care less about her, though, and Užupis is often ignored but thankfully never harmed. Not that she would care, since she is Lithuania’s sister, after all.

Poland They get along quite well and she always exclaims that she wishes Poland was her big brother, much to Lithuania's dismay. She admires Poland's strength and is one of her biggest inspirations, but above all, they both love to (affectionately) torment Lithuania.

Hutt River Užupis finds Hutt River amusing and they bond over the fact they both have rivers they are attached to, but for some reason, her pranks never seem to work on him which frustrates her to no end. She doesn’t give up, though, she is always planning a way to surprise and finally shake up Hutt River out of his elegant and dignified persona! However, she still respects him and admires his organizated house.

Kugelmugel As a fellow artistic micronation, she respects Kugelmugel greatly and is one of the few who doesn’t get intimidated by his outbursts. In turn, she actually supports and even cheers for him when he ponders what is art and what is not. To Užupis everything is art and they argue and discuss these matters seriously, exchanging ideas and perspectives. Užupis thinks he’s cute.

Ladonia As a fellow artistic micronation, she respects Ladonia and sees him as a symbol of inspiration for his strong personality and the way he defeated Sweden so many times! Užupis believes his stories and hypes him up, though since she is absolutely hopeless with technology they can’t seem to see eye to eye... So Užupis decides to clutch to his height, haha! Yeah, she teases him as a sport and pranks him quite often. Užupis thinks he’s cute.

Molossia She finds him fun and enjoys pulling pranks on him just to see his reaction, but she wishes for him to be honest with himself and often gives long speeches about the happiness of being truthful with oneself. Molossia mostly curses and tries to push her away, but Užupis is stubborn and will strive to make the purest and most honest art of the world with a sculpture she plans to make of Molossia’s true personality! She always says this out loud, which embarrasses him further.

Nikoniko She never got to meet him, but she respects him and can’t help but be fascinated at the beauty of humanity he has. She sometimes daydreams about becoming human as well and wonders if it was worth it, but respects Nikoniko’s decision and is in awe at the beauty of his journey.

Sealand Užupis admires his confidence and strength and considers him an example to follow, something she always chooses to say so she can boost Sealand’s self-esteem as a supportive friend and admirer. However, since she is really far from the sea of Lithuania and is accustomed to freshwater rivers, she can’t bring herself to like that much the sea that surrounds him and they sometimes bicker about it, but she does her best to see through his perspective... But it’s too salty, too salty!

Seborga They are the closest in age and get along fairly well as two carefree micronations who like to play pranks on the others, but Užupis gets easily flustered when he flirts with her to which she often responds with an out of pocket joke in an attempt to flee from the situation and disimulate. She appreciates his warmth and cheerfulness and often says she has a lot to learn from him, quoting him as a “beckon of freedom and love!”

Wy As a fellow artistic micronation, she respects Wy and in turn Wy sees her as a “senpai” of sorts due to being older and having more official citizens, though Užupis puts no importance in that type of thing. Nonetheless, she looks out for Wy and supports her artistic endeavours and, as the only other girl micronation, they have a close friendship bond almost sisterly-like. Užupis thinks she’s the prettiest of all micronations.

Aerican She can’t understand him but at the same time she does, it’s a complicated relationship that is fueled by their love of cinema, even if Užupis’ preference is more somber and old. She states that Aerican’s dramatic costume counts as art as well and rejoices at his performance, hyping him up and clapping her hands everytime he says something cool. She sure wishes he stopped trying to get her to understand video games...

Nikoniko Jr Cute, so cute! Užupis considers him the cutest of the cutest and wishes to protect his innocence, mostly because she held none of it when she was his age. She likes to joke with him and show him cool tricks to make him smile, but because she is really inexperienced with children she often lets him ride the huge and dangerous statues she makes, giving everyone a headache.

Trivia:

Anželika is the Latvian and Lithuanian form of Angelica and it ties to the Angel of Užupis.

She is quite small with only 148 acres (60 ha) in size and a fairly new independent micronation, but she looks like a teenage girl thanks to the cultural blossoming she experienced to the point she even granted the 14th Dalai Lama an honorary citizenship in 2013. He later returned in 2018 to plant a tree in the Republic's "Tibet Square" to mark 100 years since the Council of Lithuania proclaimed the restoration of an independent state of Lithuania.

She has ambassadors that represent the republic and its constitution in a certain state or geographic region while others share the republic's spirit in various realms of life like the ambassador among hummingbirds, the ambassador of knowledge for humanity or the ambassador for whistling in the streets. There is even an embassy that strives to build bridges between arts and AI technology to make artificial intelligence more accessible to society, more ethical and more innovative.

Her constitution, which was blessed by Pope Francis in 2018, has 38 articles and 3 mottos translated in 23 languages. Some of them are serious (“Everyone has the right to hot water, heating in winter and a tiled roof.” or “Everyone has the right to not to be afraid.”) while others can get quite silly (“A dog has the right to be a dog.” or “Everyone has the right to have no rights.”)

The Angel of Užupis is a statue of an angel blowing a trumpet situated in the main square. It is in memory of animator and caricaturist Zenonas Šteinys and became a symbol of the revival of the republic. Previously, a temporary sculpture of an egg stood in its place. There is also another statue made by the same sculptor, Romas Vilčiauskas, which depicts a mermaid.

The official flag of the Republic of Užupis changes color depending on the season. It features the palm of a hand with a circle on it on a white background. Blue for winter, green for spring, yellow for Summer and red for autumn.

Her outfit is a Lithuanian traditional clothing from the Dzukija region, which is where the capital of Vilnius is, which is at the same time where Užupis is located.

The name Užupis means "beyond the river" or "the other side of the river."

Constitution (because it's too good):

Everyone has the right to live by the River Vilnelė, and the River Vilnelė has the right to flow by everyone.

Everyone has the right to hot water, heating in winter and a tiled roof.

Everyone has the right to die, but this is not an obligation.

Everyone has the right to make mistakes.

Everyone has the right to be unique.

Everyone has the right to love.

Everyone has the right not to be loved, but not necessarily.

Everyone has the right to be undistinguished and unknown.

Everyone has the right to idle.

Everyone has the right to love and take care of the cat.

Everyone has the right to look after the dog until one of them dies.

A dog has the right to be a dog.

A cat is not obliged to love its owner, but must help in time of need.

Sometimes everyone has the right to be unaware of their duties.

Everyone has the right to be in doubt, but this is not an obligation.

Everyone has the right to be happy.

Everyone has the right to be unhappy.

Everyone has the right to be silent.

Everyone has the right to have faith.

No one has the right to violence.

Everyone has the right to appreciate their unimportance. [In Lithuanian this reads Everyone has the right to realize his negligibility and magnificence.]

No one has the right to have a design on eternity.

Everyone has the right to understand.

Everyone has the right to understand nothing.

Everyone has the right to be of any nationality.

Everyone has the right to celebrate or not celebrate their birthday.

Everyone shall remember their name.

Everyone may share what they possess.

No one can share what they do not possess.

Everyone has the right to have brothers, sisters and parents.

Everyone may be independent.

Everyone is responsible for their freedom.

Everyone has the right to cry.

Everyone has the right to be misunderstood.

No one has the right to make another person guilty.

Everyone has the right to be individual.

Everyone has the right to have no rights.

Everyone has the right to not to be afraid.

Do not defeat.

Do not fight back.

Do not surrender.

Sources: http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/07/costume-of-dzukija-province-lithuania.html http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction-to-lithuanian-costume.html https://www.dw.com/en/a-tiny-republic-with-a-big-heart-exploring-uzupis-in-lithuania/a-61835169 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%BEupis https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/11/arty-hipster-and-a-country-within-a-country-welcome-to-the-republic-of-uzupis-7920560/ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/lithuania/articles/the-republic-of-u-upis-bohemia-in-lithuania https://www.reddit.com/r/Uzupis/ https://www.playboy.com/read/uzupis-utopia https://uzhupisembassy.eu/ https://uzhupisembassy.eu/foreign-affairs-ministry/

#hetalia #aph #hws #hetalia oc #aph oc #hws oc #Užupis #aph Užupis #hws micronations #hetalia micronations #aph micronations #original character

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fran-oewm9 · 7 months

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🇲🇽Gloria Sato de Los Vecinos Green!

Me volví a ver la serie y sigue siendo uno de mis personajes favoritos junto con Tilly c:💜☕

🇺🇸Gloria Sato from Big City Greens!

I watched the cartoon again and she is still my favorite character along with Tilly c:💜☕

🇲🇽Por cierto lo siento por no haber publicado dibujos terminados en mucho tiempo, he estado practicando este artstyle pero me salieron dibujos que no me gustaron mucho y decidí no publicar, perdón (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)

🇺🇸Btw I'm sorry for not publishing any finished drawings in a long time, I've been practicing with this artstyle but I didn't like most of the drawings so I decided to not publish them, sorry (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)

#Gloria Sato #Big City Greens #Los Green en la gran ciudad #Los vecinos Green #bcg #lvg #Fanart #art #drawing #dibujo #dibujo digital #digital drawing #digital art #ibis paint x #FranOewm #I remember I used to roleplay as her on one of my yt accounts and my amino profile on the Big City Greens community #I also became a leader on that community lol

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quillheel · 6 months

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ALIAS / NAME: Captain! I used to be called Honey, Lovely, and Nyx in the past, though that was LONG before Tumblr. Twas my amino days, baby. ( I also semi-recently tried out 'King' but the vibes don't quite fit yknow! prefer the vibe of that as a term of referral - ex: my liege - rather than a name weirdly enough BHGKTRB )

BIRTHDAY: july 7th!

ZODIAC: cancer! i forgot my exact stuff, like rising sign or the like, but i do know that! i got into zodiacs when i was like 13 i think so I know at least MY sign by heart lol

HEIGHT: 5'6! something like that, I think :] which is also 167 centimeters

HOBBIES: drawing, writing ( I have an ao3 I've been neglecting for so long ), dungeons & dragons / general ttrpgs which take up SO much of my week <3, video games, content analysis ( kinda? ), baking, penpal, learning ukulele, learning to sew, learning crochet!

FAV. COLOR: im terrible when it comes to this question because i love a lot of very specific colors because artist brain BUT... If I had to pick one. Probably a red-y brown-y color. I REALLY like warm and neutral colors ( though Quillheel's pallet probably wouldn't invoke that thought ) though i also like a lot of neutral and cooler colors. you can basically reference a rainbow for my preferred colors but even with blue at the bottom ( I'm a big purple-enjoyer ) i still enjoy what good usage of it can do <3

FAV. BOOK: the long walk by stephen king, inkheart by cornelia funke, or frankenstein by mary shelley <3 love different aspects of all of them, though inkheart was a big part of my childhood so i'm biased BHHGTR

LAST SONG: be nice to me by the front bottoms :] i've been listening to a lot of Hozier lately though

LAST MOVIE / SHOW: UHHH wolfwalkers! VERY good i really liked it <3 i wanna rewatch song of the sea eventually, too! that ones also a favorite. the last show would probably be season 3 of infinity train ( I still resist the temptation to add Simon sometimes. he is such a terrible yet interesting little man ) or finally finishing watching hisuian snow :]

RECENT READ: if fanfiction doesnt count ( if it Does then wander boy by poptod, which is surprising its not one of the HUGE amounts of disco elysium fanfiction i've been chewing on lately ) then probably i think frankenstein by mary shelley, which i picked up and began reading but didn't finish :( still the most recent though! I wanna actually finish that + reread the long walk + read a bunch of other books, like the song of achilles by madeline miller, circe by madeline miller, orange world and other stories by karen russle, memorial: a version of homers illiad by alice oswald, the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson, good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett, the city & the city by china mieville, etc etc etc! ( if you guys have any suggestions actually, feel free to send em my way! )

INSPIRATION: horror! especially slashers, psychological horror, and 'bloodbath' horror ( selectively! carrie's got the vibes, saw does NOT ), psychological writing in general, a bunch of the books i have or plan on reading, mythology & legends, fanfiction and composition, music ( especially the weakerthans, the narcissist cookbook, hozier, etc ), poetry, and just!! learning methods of how things Generally are made, ig! how people paint, how people make clothes and make fabric, how people grow plants. i take a lot of inspiration from unexpected places, but a lot of those places are the act of creation in of itself. my writing might only be writing, but i try to embody a sense of color to it, of an artstyle you can almost taste, yknow? the composition in shows where blues look almost green and its like the world is basked in paint and there's just a feeling, indescribable, contextual but potent in of itself, the feeling of small moments everywhere, all at once, all the time. THAT SOUNDS REALLY PRETENTIOUS BUT LIKE... its true, yknow!! i like to embody a feeling in my writing, and i go to a lot of places to find it.

STORY BEHIND URL: once, a long time ago, my oc multimuse @cassiopiia was named orphic-ruin, and quillheel came second in my blogs list. i wanted them to match! so i thought of storytelling, which went to writing, then to pens, then to quills! and the 'heel' part comes from achilles heel, or the achilles tendon! as well as having ties to hermes' winged feet. in a way, its kinda saying 'vulnerable storyteller' or 'half-divine legend' or even kinda like a title or epithet vibe wise like you might find on a mythological figure ( ex: quill-heeled ) or something like that, which i think still fits the vibe p well to this day! if i did change the URL, idk what I'd make it now! i might eventually, but yeah!

tagged: @disassnbler ty ender!!!! <333

tagging: uhhhhhhhhhhhhh @littlelonesomestars @slaughterlocked @underworldslibrary @rebellionhearted aaaand anyone wearing blue, green or red <3

#━ ♔ your slightly mad sea-captain : ooc.#━ ♔ the world grows green again when you smile : games.#Q.

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shoppncarticles · 10 months

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The Pidove Family

Can't forget about the regular inclusion of a regional bird! Since Gen 5's region, Unova, is based primarily on New York City and its surrounding areas, it only makes sense for the regional bird to be based around a pigeon, the adorable members of the dove family accustomed to city life.

In fairness, I probably should criticize Pidove for being a direct translation of a pigeon to Pokemon's artstyle, as I have done for other animals before it, but hey, what's wrong with a good stout pigeon once in a while? It's got the little fleshy beak parts and big poofy heart chest and everything. A very adorable little bird.

Score: 3.5/5

I was gonna give Pidove a 4/5 entirely out of bias but I'll cut the score a little just to be fair.

Unfortunately, Pidove loses a lot of that charm when it evolves into Tranquill. Tranquill isn't too bad in all honesty, I like how it's a more menacing bird but still resembles a pigeon. Losing the glassy eye and small, rounded body is a big shame though.

The final evolution, Unfezant, is about what you'd expect from these lines by this point, being a big, beefier version of their original form more accustomed to predatory hunting than seed eating. Sadly, Unfezant lacks a lot of the swagger and personality that made Staraptor so cool, and kind of just falls into relative mediocrity like Swellow and Pidgeot before it.

The sexual dimoprhism going on with the two is neat at least. The males are more brightly colored with a green underbelly and plumage like a stylish mask, while the female lacks a mask and has a brown underbelly. If the masked thing was played up to give Unfezant more personality and character, that would've been nice.

Score: 2.5/5

Not bad, not great either though. Definitely lacking something.

[Gen 5 Archive]

#pokemon #pokemon review #pidove #tranquill #unfezant

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hoagmaster · 10 months

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Halfway There Day

July 2 marks the halfway point of the year as @ProgressBar202_ on Twitter will tell you, as does Kiff from earlier this year. So I want to take this halftime post and share some of my favorite things from the year so far.

Games

Note that I am only putting new(ish) games from this year that I played to the end here.

Metroid Prime: Remastered - One of my absolute favorites from the GameCube/Wii was shadowdropped on us back in February and I had a ball going back to it.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - Another one I liked back in the day and had a good time revisiting. Still have yet to do some of the bonus stuff, but it packs a good amount of said stuff in the package.

Fire Emblem Engage - Maybe my top alternate pick for my favorite game of the year so far. I got into the characters and story and found the changes to the gameplay to be, er, engaging. I'm even contemplating a second run in the near future, which has to say something.

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line - The other top alternate pick for my favorite game of the year. It's a sheer love letter to game music that left me beyond thrilled the series returned.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Now my top contender for my favorite game of the year. It takes everything I liked in the previous game and builds upon it in so many ways. I've still just barely scratched the surface of the game even after playing to the end of the story and I'm sure I'm going to go back at some point.

Dead Space - I never played the original game but I now have to imagine this is the way to play it. The setting and story were both engaging as was the gameplay that did keep me playing longer than was probably wise on some occasions.

Resident Evil 4 - My other -other- pick for my favorite game of the year, maybe? I had some grumblings after I finished it once but going back to it again with some upgraded stuff and shifted expectations helped me to really appreciate what it does.

Lot of good stuff played this year, but now I think I'm shifting to catchup mode for the next two months while we enter a slower period. Stuff like Mario, Sonic, and so much more dropping in the fall makes that season even more exciting now!

Movies

Bit of a shorter list here, admittedly.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Maybe the most biased I've ever been toward a movie because this franchise may be the single most important entertainment media to me, but I can accept that and still have a blast watching this.

Fast X - I watched it shortly after it opened and mildly guffawed my way through the whole thing. This franchise just gets more ridiculous and I'll be there for the "end."

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse - Yup, pretty good like everyone's saying. Animation is quite superb in a lot of it too. I'm skeptical we'll get the next one anytime soon but I'll be fine with waiting, especially if they can get things done better on the production end too.

...And that's it. Well, least this month has some stuff like Mission: Impossible and your pick of Barbie/Oppenheimer. Still a lot of ones I can catch up with too!

TV/Shows

And an even shorter list here!

Kiff - My favorite new show of the year so far. Lot of charm with a fun artstyle that keeps me coming back.

Hailey's On It! - I need to catch up, but the premise has led to some wacky fun so far.

Then I won't list them because they're existing shows, but stuff like Big City Greens and The Ghost and Molly McGee continued bringing the goods.

Lot of catchup to do here with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and the next Zerocalcore Netflix show along with a bunch of new episodes of other stuff. Getting increasingly antsy as to when the last season of Hilda will drop too...

Anyway, I'm sure I'll have more to say on stuff in the future. Felt good to get back to a longer writing post like this!

#lists

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redrobin-detective · 3 years

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Crawls out from the Pit

Alright so after about 2 and half weeks I have finished all 8 seasons, 80 episodes of Ben 10 Omniverse. I’m a little sad to be done but also glad to have my free time back (also if I have to hear that motherFUCKING opening theme again I will actually cry). So it was an experiencing one that was both super enjoyable but also infuriating. Let me break down my thoughts (with some spoilers) under the cut.

Things I liked

- From the very first episode I was, and still am just fascinated by the basic world set up. Ben Tennyson is known across the entire universe as a hero and wielder of the Omnitrix, everyone he meets knows who he is. Coming off series with locked down secret identities Ben’s status as a universal celebrity had both pros and cons and was simply fascinating to watch.

- Aliens are common in his hometown of Bellwood and there’s a thriving populous under the city. Watching aliens and humans interact with awkward moments and periods of adjustment was damn interesting, great world building in there too.

- The Plumbers being intergalactic peace keepers of sorts (again with all the good and bad that come with essentially being space cops) and having a presence on earth and beyond. Ben’s status as being part of the organization but not a true member, one who really answers only to himself was intriguing.

- For all that I nitpick Ben and Rook’s relationship (stilllll not seeing shippers sorry) I loved Rook Blonko as a character, he was delightful. I also did like Ben and Rook’s relationship bc their individual prejudices and problems kept them from becoming actually close and reliant on one another and while it came close at times it never really resolved which I’m okay with.

- Love the time travel shit *chefs kiss* Professor Paradox my beloved. Also I would die for No Watch Ben. And why is Ben 23 so popular? He’s a lil bitch.

- Genuinely did love the cartoony artstyle, I was obsessed with how green Ben’s eyes were. My personal fanon is the Omnitrix has slowly made them green and glowy over the years. Also the flashbacks to 10-11 year old Ben, baby diagnosed. Such a cutie patootie.

- Speaking of which, loved the frequent callbacks to the original series (my first and favorite). OV felt way more connected to that Ben that I first fell in love with than AF or UAF.

- Ben, when his character was executed right, was wonderful. A big hearted teen who has way too much power and responsibility just doing his best. He covers his fear of failure with jokes and a deceptively casual attitude. While he can be lazy and overconfident and doesn’t think things through, he is dedicated to what he does not for fame but to help people and his determination and adaptability always see him through.

Things I Didn’t Like

- So when Ben was done right it was great but my biggest peeve was how they changed his personality, maturity, competency level episode by episode. Sometimes he was capable of complex negotiations, sometimes all he could do was complain and eat junk foods, sometimes he he could sheer climb walls, other times he was pathetically weak without his Omnitrix. Needless to say I was really irked by the dangerously immature & reckless, rude to the point of being mean, willfully idiotic moron version of Ben who didn’t care about anything.

- When I first started someone said the first half of OV was good and the rest was not. They were right, loved S1-4, 5-8 had good episodes but overall was either cringing or rolling my eyes. S5 in particular aggravated me with Ben being at his worst. I was pulling my hair out at Ben yelling about how ugly and monstrous the citizens of Anur Transyl were like Ben... you regularly turn into those aliens.... your whole deal is being able to see from other’s perspectives...

- Just, the lack of taking itself seriously or following through on some damn interesting storylines. Like Ben being put on trial for recreating the universe? And being found guilty not just of that but misusing the Omnitrix??? That’s good shit right there but they waved it all away with some trial by combat bullshit and well back to normal. I know its a cartoon but that episode infuriated me.

- Gwen and Kevin... didn’t care for them much here. Their characters just felt flat and shoved in whenever it was convenient with no real meaningful interactions between the supposedly close trio. They really were thrown under the bus to make room for Rook and the whole Plumbers thing.

- Kai *long groan* Honestly any attempt to address Ben’s love life was so nightmarishly bad. Everyone who says that Ben is Aromatic is absolutely correct. Boy hardly showed any interest in dates and tried to get out of most of them and yet he was ‘destined’ to be with a girl who was shown only to care about his transformations and not him? And that he didn’t really respect back? Hell no.

- Most of the villains were kinda Meh. Maltruant was cool but underused, we hardly got ANYTHING interesting out of the series big bad Vilgax, Albedo was... still don’t know what to think of him. Malware was cool tho, the whole Feedback thing was painful.

So overall the good outweighs the bad but I liked it far more at the beginning than I did the end. I’ll rewatch some of my favorites but probably won’t do a full binge again. Still, I love the idea of this particular universe and really did enjoy most of my watch!

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chicoriii · 4 years

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Made for @adrinetteapril Day 11: Video Games

Adrienette April 2020 4/8: Day 4: Hand Touches

Day 8: Hair Down

Day 10: Charm Bracelets

Day 11: Video Games

Day 12: Piano Lessons

Day 19: Rain

Day 24: Kwami Visits

Day 30: Ice Cream

I’ve changed my mind, after finishing my 6th art yesterday, I decided to do one or two more (maybe even three, but that's very unlikely) for this event, as I have few more ideas and time for that.

For people who prefer everything in one image:

And there’s a full French version of this comic. Thanks so much @emsylcatac for the translation. I love you!

There’re links for full resolution (2900x3600) in one image as I can’t upload as much big pictures on Tumblr:

English version

French version

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It’s my first comic, not counting terrible Pokémon ones I have done as a kid years ago. That's my first and the best idea and the biggest project for this year Adrienette April. I knew that if Miraculous characters are going to play a video game, that's have to be my favourite series. Pokémon is a big part of my life since my childhood, it's been almost 20 years since I'm a fan (October/November 2000, I think). Although things I like in Pokémon franchise have changed over the years, it has began with the anime, now I can't stand it. And Pokémon is the reason why drawing is my hobby, I spend lots of time at drawing Pokémon and I have designed so many my own monsters (they're called Fakemon in the fandom) in childhood/teenhood, though most of them are terrible.

Characters are playing Pokémon X and Y versions, a pair of VI generation games released in October 2013 worldwide for Nintendo 3DS, they all are playing on 3DS XL, since it's the best version of this handheld available at that moment. It's the battle in early game, because I wanted to show starters in their first evolutionary stages. All in-game text is written in French of course (thanks YouTube videos and PokéPedia, French version of Bulbapedia). There're also French names of Pokémon: Marisson = Chespin Grenousse = Froakie Feunnec = Fennekin

Froakie's moveset is: Pound Lick Bubble Quick Attack

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The choice of the games is not accidental. Pokémon X & Y take place in Kalos, a region based on France. It's second non-Japanese-based region in the Pokémon universe, after V generation Unova (United States-based). Marinette is playing X version as its mascot is Xerneas, Legendary Pokémon of Life (part of Aura Trio), which is related to Creation. While Yveltal, Y version's mascot is called Legendary Pokémon of Destruction in the English version (in the original Japanese it's Death Pokémon, Americans are afraid of using words like "death" or "evil", Dark-type is known as Evil-type in Japan). This is why I have drawn Legendary Pokémon for the background, too. Reshiram and Zekrom of Tao Trio from V generation games would fit Marinette and Adrien too, since they are related to Ying and Yang, but they are not from France-based region.

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The choice of starters is based on their colors, Marinette's is blue Froakie, Adrien's green Chespin. I know that Marinette is too smart to use one of the weakest Water-type move against Grass-type Chespin, but bubbles are too fun to draw. ;) Alya and Nino are here too, because I wanted to show all three Kalos starters, besides fennec fox fits the fox Miraculous user perfectly. She loves to pet her Fennekin as much as she can in Pokémon-Amie. Unfortunately, there's no fourth starter for Nino, but he's also playing Pokémon games, although his Kanto starter (which are distributed in Paris-based Lumiose City by professor Sycamore) is Water-type turtle Squirtle of course.

Earlier I also got some ideas for Pokémon x Miraculous arts, like designing Pokémon-based Kwamis or drawing Marinette and Adrien in the Pokémon world in more Pokémon-ish artstyle (and Alya with her fox), but there're always more important things to do. I'm not giving up on my ideas, I'm planning to make my Pokémon AU arts someday. At least I hope. ;)

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overalledfrog · 8 months

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REALISTIC TILLY GREEN???

#big city greens #bigcitygreens #tilly green #bigcitygreensfanart #fanart #REALISM IS SO FUN I LOVE MY ART STYLES #My artstyle changes like every 5 minutes im sorry #I ACTUALLY WAS ABLE TO DRAW TILLY HOW I IMAGINED HER LOOKING REALISTICALLY IN MY HEAD MY GOAL HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED YALL #i have so many different variations of realistic tilly that i drew but im sticking with this one #ive been trying to draw the Greens realistically since forever help

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semi-imaginary-place · 3 years

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gamers have no rights

SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION

Oh and Minato actually using crude (like he always speaks very politely) speech for the last big shot was a good moment. i rather like minato and you can see how dear kaburagi is to him. Minato gets Kaburagi put on mod duty instead of being destroyed or sentenced to life at the waste facility. Minato then stops Kaburagi from getting destroyed a second time and even keeps his avatar which would have gotten him killed. and he does all this without Kaburagi asking him, without Kaburagi ever knowing. Minato in the finale then risks annihilation to see kaburagi in the finale and is willing to gamble his life by staying in deca-dence to execute the plan. if he hadn’t helped, kaburagi would almost certainly be destroyed by the bubble wipe. Minato just wants to be near Kaburagi and be a part of his life. me in the distance: “gaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy”

when the admins threw donatello into the poop jail, did no one think to take the arm gun?

Yuzuru Tachikawa has a lot of good stuff. death parade, mob psycho 100 II, assistant director for zankyo no terror.

once a limiter is released, can you put it back on?

http://decadence-anime.com/en/ incase the website ever goes down and i have to use the wayback machine

5.5: ok so i did forget the part where they say that Solid Quake and the other mega corps manufacture the cyborgs. ah and the cyborgs are also property of Solid Quake. real last stage capitalist dystopia. and some cyborgs’ job is to play the mmo. Like the company mandates download of the game upon cyborg activation. yeah if solid quake has the resources to manage a population of squishy monsters and have absolute control of all matter in the bubble they totally could have dealt with the air pollution on the rest of the planet. There’s also at least 4 other structures/companies on the planet. I wonder what they are up to. i was wondering about the ruins, so they were made as set pieces/background art for the post apocalyptic story.

so cyborgs did originally have their roots in biological humans. but currently and all the ones we see are assembled by Solid Quake. I wonder about the cyborg cores, they have the same green glow as oxyone. And one of the characters (minato? kaburagi?) says that cores aren’t controlled by Solid Quake, so the cyborgs have free will.

So I doubt minato ever switched departments though I guess its possible, meaning when he says he wants to fight along side kaburagi again he means this metaphorically, he wants to be able to once against work towards the same goal as kaburagi side by side. Also Minato calls Kaburagi “Kabu” no honorifics or anything and the subtitles bastardize this into just “Kaburagi”

they ended up making a game that involves throwing around a cyborg core. isn’t that a little...

Though everyone helped out a little, the finale was all about helping kaburagi where as I would have preferred something like everyone working and changing the system rather than kaburagi having a chat and the deca dence system letting him do what he wants. but I suppose that’s a hook for season 2. So seen on its own deca-dence has a good solid ending but not a spectacular one. But I am so glad it has a good ending, you don’t know how many shows have gotten my hopes up in the first couple episodes only to fizzle out and flop. I am so happy this show stuck the landing even if there was a little wobble.

I watched all of Deca-Dence in one sitting and wow do I love this show. It's just a good solid show. There's no weak point, each episode is solid, the writing is good, the animation is striking, and most importantly the show holds itself together throughout its entire run.

funny thing is. When I first saw the promo material for this anime back in spring of 2020 i went like ”ugggg not another one of these” where the remnants of humanity fight against annihilation at the hands of some monsters like shingeki no kyoujin or kabaneri of the iron fortress mostly because I’m been thinking a lot on compassion for the Other and a lack of that combined with propaganda about how the Other is a threat to the existence of the in-group forms the basis of a lot of modern facism and white supremacy groups that justify their existence against an imaginary threat use this same kind of logic framing themselves as the last bastions of humanity (whiteness) against a monstrous other (muslims, immigrants, ethnic minorities, usually people of color/not white people). Now the premises of humanity fighting against annihilation by monsters in of itself isn’t necessarily racist, but after a year where violent racism exploded against asian americans and BLM had a lot of attention, my mind can’t help but be in that space. However by the time I watched Deca-Dence on January 25, 2021 I had completely forgotten everything and anything about the show. All I remembered was some people crying about it on tumblr and twitter whose posts I skipped over once I realized they were about a show I hadn’t seen. So I went into this with a completely blank slate, I didn’t know that this was scifi, or that there was a giant fortress city, I didn’t know that Kaburagi was featured in the promos alongside Natsume, and I didn’t know we would be fighting monsters. But the first episode was just so well directed that I was excited for a second one despite the premises, and also i was still processing that last shot when i clicked the next episode button. It was the second episode that sold this show for me.

Oh I totally forgot to talk about natsume’s arm and how the show handle’s disability. Also I don’t have a prosthetic so take this with a gain of salt. Natsume occasionally feels self conscious about her prosthetic arm since people will comment on it and it adds barriers in her life, disqualifying her from joining The Power and making it more difficult to adjust the nozzle on her pack. She has added struggles in her life that others don’t, but the show never portrays her as lesser for it, its just something she has to consider and work around in her life. The line about how its not her weakness, but her power was a good line. And she literally turned it into a weapon, that’s so cool.

Corporations generate capital for the enrichment of their shareholders. But in the world of deca-dence there are no shareholders at the end of the pipeline. The machinery of the capitalist firm continues to spin, squeezing out as much cheap or free labor as possible, and acquiring assets, but for nothing and no one. Its a system made to benefit the Few, but whose beneficiaries no longer exist (or at least we never see them in the anime). The exploitation of the Tankers and cyborgs serve no purpose but to continue the existence of Solid Quake and its system.

dissonance grieving tankers at funeral to cyborgs chatting about how fun the last raid event was. bright cartoony artstyle to the dystopia of neoliberal capitalism (and the labor camp). the cheery game trailer and company intro style exposition for the apocalypse.

The reason the ending was only good instead of spectacular is because it doesn’t engage with the themes laid down in earlier episodes enough. The ending provides an emotionally fulfilling ending for its characters but only a lukewarm one for late-stage capitalism. There’s two narratives going on in Deca-Dence. The personal narrative told through Natsume and Kaburagi about learning to try again, improve yourself, make your own decisions, live on your own terms, and push your limits. Then there’s the secondary narrative about overcoming structures and systems of oppression. The anime team did a great job at the first one, but kinda meh about the second one. When we are introduced to the people of Deca-Dence we see them stratified into classes like Gear/cyborg and Tanker. However this is a false narrative perpetuated by Solid Quake to maintain its control of both groups, after all Solid Quake owns both the cyborgs and the Tankers as literal property. Ideally the Tankers and cyborgs would realize the divide between them is false and team up to tear down not only Solid Quake but the systems that allowed mega corps to exist in the first place and build more equitable and just social systems. And we do get some of this in the ending with changes in how Solid Quake is run (no more punishment of “bugs”, got rid of the gulag), but all this is shoved to the background. Essentially management and company policy changed but the fact that the corporation or its structures exists, didn’t. I can't tell if its deliberate or not though. Its common with single cour anime to leave dangling plot threads as a bid to the funding for a second season and most of them never do. So I can see it like that, but eh I still never liked this approach. Its also a limitation of the single cour instead of being produced as a 24 ep anime where they would have had lime to develop that second narrative.

#deca-dence #deca dence

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phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess · 6 years

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Comic Series to Read (Pt3)

+ALTERS by Paul Jenkins & Leila Liz

As the world struggles to accept the emergence of a new kind of human species known as alterations, or "Alters," a young woman must navigate the path to becoming her true self, while struggling with the complications of her civilian life and the responsibilities of her newfound power. This groundbreaking series - years in the making - begins the saga of a young woman who can only really be herself... whenever she is not herself.

Fascinating view of the world through the eyes of someone who is not only hiding their secret hero abilities, but also that she IS a she. I really enjoy this book, and all the little details that unfold the more you read on.[Trans!protagonist, violence, disabled character(s), general death and mayhem, superpowers, a few unfortunate slurs, etc.]

+GENERATION ZERO by Fred Van Lente & Francis Portela

Years ago, the children of the experimental strike team known as Generation Zero were taken from their families by Project Rising Spirit, a private weapons contractor, and raised to be psychic soldiers. After years of taking orders, they have fought for and won their freedom. Now, the world's most wanted teenagers have pledged to protect each other tooth and claw, while using their extraordinary abilities to right wrongs for a generation without a future... To fight for kids, just like them. One of those kids is Keisha Sherman, whose boyfriend just turned up dead after a suspicious car crash in Rook, Michigan - a newly booming tech town that sprang from rags to super-riches seemingly overnight. When Keisha makes a desperate plea into her webcam, the local high school suddenly finds itself with several unusual new students... But as word of Generation Zero's presence spreads rapidly through the halls, this volatile band of teenage upstarts is about to discover that they're far from the most extraordinary thing lurking behind Rook's stainless-steel facade...

This is one of those stories where you THINK you know what will happen, but surprise, you’re fucking wrong, it’s waaaaaaaaay better and also, way worse than you imagine. What they come to save the town from is something that takes far bigger than you can even comprehend...

[MH/disabled protags, violence, deaths, etc.]

+ECLIPSE by Zachary Kaplan & Giovanni Timpano

Imagine if sunlight burned you alive. In the near future, a mysterious solar event has transformed the sun's light into deadly immolating rays. The world's few survivors now live in nocturnal cities. But a killer emerges who uses sunlight to burn his victims, and when he targets the daughter of a solar power mogul, it falls to a disillusioned solar engineer to protect her.

Actually really, really liked this one. The effortless world-building and the degree of chaos instilled by the whole world going to, literal hell. And it’s not... far-fetched, not really. I mean, in Aus it was super fucking hot three years in a row, like, unusual even for us hot... it’s that hint of ‘maybe future’ that draws you in and the story traps you. [Violence, murder, immolation, drugs/alcohol use, etc]

+COPPERHEAD by Jay Faerber, Ron Riley & Scott Godlewski

Welcome to Copperhead, a grimy mining town on the edge of a backwater planet. Single mom Clara Bronson is the new sheriff, and on her first day she'll have to contend with a resentful deputy, a shady mining tycoon, and a family of alien hillbillies. And did we mention the massacre? Questions swirl around not only the murder mystery, but around Sheriff Bronson herself. What brought her to a place like Copperhead? Is she running from something? Or towards something?

It feels like you want to like and hate the characters, because they feel a little too realistic; the situations may be in space and crazy alien nonsense, but some things remain the same. Definitely felt a bit slow to begin with, but it all made sense in context the more I read... [Violence, Surgery, Death, Big Spooky Bullshit Aliens, etc.]

+TREES by Warren Ellis & Jason Howard

Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no-one here and nothing under foot. Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe, but that they did not recognize us as intelligent or alive.

Okay, so that’s vague. Consider this, ten years ago, aliens dropped some gigantic cylinders on earth in strategic places, humanity called them ‘trees’; they don’t talk to us, we’re fleas to them, nothing alive or worth noting. Occasionally, a tree floods green sludge that annihilates everything around it. The world is broken by them.

You follow a handful of different stories that all seem to meld together somehow. Follow a research team in the ice; a young painter who finds himself in the shadow of the china tree; a young woman who seizes control of her little world through the fear the trees elicit, etc. You never know what will happen.

I, personally, loved it; but that’s just me. can’t wait for volume 3, though. [LGBPTA+ characters, violence, alien trees, gangs, violence, murder and cruelty, etc.]

+THE EMPTY by Jimmy Robinson

Tanoor is a hunter struggling to feed her village in an apocalyptic world of poison and decay, but Tanoor finds hope when she discovers a stranger named Lila who has the ability to grow life from death-a power that could change the world of The Empty.

You know, when I first saw the artstyle, I was a little put off because I thought it was just someone exaggerating features for the hell of it; but you know what, the more you read, the more you realise how and why they are like that. How evolution shaped them, because of the world they had come from, and survived in.

Basic story summary? Tanoor, badass lady hunter trolling through the emptiness to find food for her asshole people, lead by foolish elders too afraid of their own shadow to take chances. Lila, a different kind of being, ends up in the Empty and finds Tanoor; that’s when the fun really begins as they try to reverse the terrible poisoning that has created such a toxic, barren world. It was pretty engaging; can’t wait to see what volume 2 will bring, bc you really do get invested in the characters. [Violence, Death, Wasteland, Xenophobia, etc.]

+ZODIAC STARFORCE by Kevin Panetta & Paulina Gancheau

They're an elite group of teenage girls with magical powers who have sworn to protect our planet against dark creatures . . . as long as they can get out of class! Known as the Zodiac Starforce, these high-school girls aren't just combating math tests. They're also battling monsters--not your typical afterschool activity! But when an evil force from another dimension infects team leader Emma, she must work with her team of magically powered friends to save herself--and the world--from the evil Diana and her mean-girl minions!

Sounds like just another Sailor Moon style magic girl team, and that’s pretty much the mindset I went into it with; but yeah, I was wrong. Honestly it surprised me, really loved them.

And the villain is so fucking relateable, sure she’s doing a Bad, but ther reason behind it makes sense. At least half of you would take the same chances and fuck up too. Not justifying her shit, but really, you get WHY. Love the zodiac force though, so damn cute and silly and ridiculous. [LGBPTA+ protags, girl power, violence, chaos, etc.]

#more for your consideration

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