#i have a bachelors degree

[dean-winchesters-clit]

Gods, can I gush about the CGI in the Percy Jackson show for just a minute??

All of it is so fucking good!

The work was gone by ILM or Industrial Light and Magic, who are an incredible effects house and also one of the oldest effects houses there is. ILM was founded in the 1970s by George fucking Lucas to make the effects for the original Star Wars trilogy. They are the reason the original Jurassic Park had CGI in the first place! They worked with Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal and Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist, which has sone crazy awesome effects if you've never seen it. A part of ILM broke off in the 1990s and became fucking PIXAR!!

And Percy Jackson has had just the best looking effects I've seen in a long time. The creature work alone is worth so many awards. The minotaur was amazing.

And the illusion of Chiron is never broken, it's just seamless and perfect.

And don't get me started on Medusa's snakes. They're PERFECT. THEY ACT LIKE REAL SNAKES!!!

And the chimera was beautiful. I loved the decision to give it a cobra's frill.

Also, water is a notoriously difficult effect to do and all the water looks amazing in this show. I bet they pulled some people from the Avatar sequel to help with it.

And Grover's legs never look bad. They're always perfect. I love the decision to keep them exposed the whole time, it adds to the magical feeling of the world while also showcasing how powerful the Mist really is.

And one of my favorite effects HAS to be the way Mrs. Dodds' coat turned into her wings. I saw that and had an out of body experience.

But this most recent episode just blew me away. Specifically with this (these next gifs are by @stevenrogered) :

So, if you didn't know, tracking an effect onto someone's body is incredibly difficult. It's so difficult that CGI artists will often replace someone's body with a 3D model in order to make it easier. That could be what happens here in part, but they can't fake Walker's face.

Props to Walker for sitting as still as humanly possible during this incredibly emotional scene. Him sitting still helps make the tracking of the effect easier since the artists don't have to adjust the effect every frame to account for the slightest movements. Which brings me to the face.

It is so hard to animate human faces and not fall into the uncanny valley, and yes this effect applies to that. Look at the way the gold conforms to the shape of his mouth as he speaks. Look at how it follows the movement of his chin, his cheeks. It's PERFECT. This is an incredibly impressive effect and I wanna just worship whichever overworked and underpaid VFX artist spent hours of their life working on it.

Okay, that's all, rants over, everyone go home!

#pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson show #ilm #industrial light and magic #star wars #george lucas #tagging those just in case #pixar #disney #disney+ #cgi #vfx #visual effects #movie nerd #film buff #i went to film school #i have a bachelors degree #not a flex im just that much of a nerd about film

[twothirdsgenius]

i love being an adult with dyscalculia. love getting absolutely BODIED by 7th grade math

#i have a bachelors degree

[milk-carton-whump]

HOW DID YOU PENOUNCE WHUMPEE THEN

I PRONOUNCED THEM THE SAME I JUST... DIDNT DO ANY CRITICAL THINKING!

#i swear #i have a bachelors degree #its not in language tho #im not a STEM major for nothing

[onemagpie]

Au where Goncharov and Andrey survive everything, grow old together and sit on a street all day somewhere in the south of Europe

#Goncharov #Goncharov 1973 #unreality #gossiping old dudes #I have a bachelor degree in drawing guys sitting next to each other

[nathanielthecurious]

im curious about how many people consider themselves part of classics tumblr and what those people's relationship to classics is IRL, so...

#tagamemnon #i just like making polls tbh #edit: im definitely missing some possible answers #i shouldnt have put 'major' because thats very american terminology but it means the main field of your bachelor's level degree

[satari-raine]

Seeing people talk about (what I'm fairly certain is) the wakizashi Vessel uses in the "The Love You Want" music video and I'm trying so hard not to jump in, because I think there's some neat little associations with the blade and the video's symbolism. I love Japanese swords and culture and would probably ramble until someone stopped me with a frying pan to the face.

Edit: Well, a ramble happened.

#Satari rambles #Sleep Token #Hi yes I have a bachelor's degree in Japanese studies and language and I'll probably make this someone else's problem one day #Also I adore that music video so much so #Ignore me I'm a dork first and a person second

[tys-kitty]

TLKOF will release in spring 2026

#cassandra clare #tlkof #i will have my bachelors degree by then #the last king of faerie #twp #the wicked powers #dru blackthorn #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #ash morgenstern

[lesamis]

being a fic writer is so funny. i just gave my phd thesis into print and literally my first thought looking at the final word count, the culmination of 3+ years of agony and research and blood and tears etc., was "well that's substantially shorter than the exr college au i wrote as a 19 year old in a depressed haze over six months"

#''did my yaoi stickers arrive!!!! ...... it was my bachelor's degree :/'' type vibe #like this thesis falls thirty. thousand. words. short #in writing evergreen in 2k15 i have created my own white whale. nothing i write will ever be this much or this fast. ever again #also @ everyone who's ever commented that they read that fic in the space of a day and night: what 😭 #i didn't realise how long it was! it took me weeks to proofread my thesis! and that was apparently just three quarters of evergreen! #longfic readers are so strong and interesting and also i hope they're ok. love you kings

[ninyard]

just hit 11,000 words on my jeremy fic and I’m thinking about how my final year thesis was about the same length but instead of Academic Analysis it’s Jeremy Knox suffering

#yes I have a bachelors degree #yes my jeremy knox fic is going to be longer than my dissertation #what about it

[suashii]

omg hi hello happy sunday :3 i hope u are all well and that the sun has come out to kiss u on the cheeks ! ! ☀️ it’s been a bit so i haven’t checked in recently. . . despite that i hope everyone has been taking care of themselves! ᡣ𐭩

#☁︎ manon's mind #news on me: #finished all my finals #and. . . i graduated yesterday ! ! #officially have my bachelor’s degree :3 #wahhh i’ve been so busy it’s so nice to just finally relax #can’t wait to catch up with u friends #and write some more ugh #i have been a lousy writer lately lol #actually! i did write ~700 words for a yuta fic #sometime while i was gone so #guess that’s something :p

[doublydaring]

#i wish i didnt have to get this stupid ass bachelors degree so riley and i could write mind bending monkees fic full time #Spotify

[whoredmode]

neeeeed ppl to not be so afraid hc characters over like. 25. i’m sorry but from srtt onwards y’all gotta start admitting some of these characters are in their 30s. you will never be able to convince me that kinzie and the dewynter sisters are anything but 30-32. pierce and johnny gotta be in their early 30s by srtt. if you look me in the eyes and say asha odekar is like 23 i’m gonna smack you

#it’s such a nitpick but it really bugs me. they aren’t gonna be corpses by 30 i promise😭 #and in some cases it makes way more sense if they are at least that age #i think ppl truly forget kinzie is an agent and has to go through training and has to be a certain age to even get admitted to the academy #to become an agent you need a bachelor’s degree and then go through several years of training. it Literally takes like 5-7 years #combined w the fact she had to have already been working there At Least a year or two #at the end of the day pls hc whatever you want ofc this is just a general trend i’ve noticed forever

[lesbiradshaw]

three shots in trying to figure out what bradley was planning on doing with his poli sci degree if getting in the navy didn’t pan out

#(as someone who also has a poli sci degree) #he does nawt have the personality of a politician AT ALL #usually w psci majors its either public service or a predecessor for law school #which i can see more but like. bradley would have gotten one semester in and realized he fucking hates it i feel like 😭 #mr ‘i have to raise my voice when i argue so they dont notice it shaking’. hes kinda just like me #ik OCS requires at least a bachelors degree but poli sci is so random to make yourself look like a better candidate LMFAOOOO #i really think he was planning on law school as a back up for the navy and probably had a minor in like history or something #he would be the type to take military history and international relations classes. #in my head hes a psci major w a history minor that takes social work classes on the side #which is partially my own self projection but also i think he would make a good social worker with the way he grew up #anyways. sorry for the rambling in the tags (not really) #Hi if you made it all the way down here #i love bradley so much. can you tell. #carolcore

[conspiring-limabean]

most embarassing but also funniest thing about mild memory issues is having to google months of the year to remind myself what numbers are what and all the results are like, colorful cartoons for teaching babies. im sitting here filing taxes with this shit open

#i can’t even say that it makes me feel stupid or anything because like #i literally have a bachelors degree with a 3.9 gpa #i just struggle to remember what number correlates to what month 🤷🧘‍♂️

[peniscat]

it's the anniversary of my account! happy two years of peniscat everyone <3

#two years of thinking about succession every single day. i have no idea how i have managed to get a bachelor's degree at the same time. #anyways thank you for being here i love you all i have the greatest people around me!!!

[e-louise-bates]

Finished my last final today.

Semester is done.

School year (for me) is done.

Degree is done!

#switching from a bachelor's of library science #to an associates of liberal studies with a focus on library science #was one of the best decisions I made this year #while part of me wishes I was still sticking it out for the bachelor's #the majority of me is so happy to have any degree and be done with school #the bachelor's can wait until the kids are out of the house #now I can breathe and enjoy the rest of them being in high school #and write more books!