#i started watching anime

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

#animation #animated film #animated movies #across the spiderverse #across the spider-verse #spiderverse #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots 2 #nimona #nimona film #yes i'm posting this specifically because i just watched nimona and am feeling all kinds of things but really these are all PEAK TIER #the fact they have ALL been released within 7 months of each other...like...woah we are thriving right now #stylised animation with its own unique style reflecting the movie i love you forever kissing you on the mouth #films that make me ferally rip up any and all art blocks to shreds #and that's just the animation side of things #i won't get started on the plots. they also make me want to bounce off of walls #hugging all these close to my chest #as well as all the other great animated movies that exist because animation wins all catergories for me always #(let's not forget anime movies either; y'all are beautiful too! keeping 2d animation alive and i'm so here for it)

[t00thpasteface]

tone deaf

#this was the original idea i tried to start on before i got sidetracked drawing that very dramatic bunny i posted earlier #i'm watching batman the animated series the textures are so good i've always loved the background art for this show #mmmmm light colored oil pastels 'n' stuff on black paper yum yum very moody and mysterious #art #dc #dc comics #superbat #batman #superman #bruce wayne #clark kent #m1nty fresh hall of fame

[soranker]

some guy i saw at the funky bar...........

#one piece #roronoa zoro #OOPS WAIT surprise this is not trigun or wolfwood LMAOO #I DREW THIS AFTER WATCHING OPLA which i loved <3 that was my first foray into OP #and then afterwards i started getting a ton of anime zoro clips on my ig feed and found out HE IS ACTUALLY SOOOO FUNNY AND GOOFY???????? #LIKE HELLO??????? WHATS UP WITH THE COOL GUY ACT IN OPLA LMAOOO its wolfwood all over again #anyways im slowly (very slowly) chugging thru the anime ^_^ he's def my fav so far #im actually dressing up as him for halloween this year LOLOLL

[when-sanpape-arts]

my favourite vegetable sellers

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #senshi #marcille donato #chilchuck tims #delicious in dungeon #fanart #started watching the dun meshi anime and I love them so much #illustration #artists on tumblr

[diamondsheep]

East Blue Crew ✨ !!!

#today is my 1 year anniversary since i started watching OP 😄❤ !!! #i wanted to draw something special for this occasion !! and since it is almost the release date of OPLA ! #I drew the east blue crew cuz they mean a lot to me💛💚❤💙🧡 #i wanna thank One Piece for being the anime that gave me back my motivation of being an artist when i was really sad #and for becoming my favorite anime ever 💖💖 #THANK U !! u funny funky pirates 👒❤ !! i wanna add that i'm happy that i joined the OP tumblr community cuz everyone is so nice <3 !! #opla #one piece #one piece liveaction #usopp #zoro #roronoa zoro #luffy #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #nami #sanji #black leg sanji #one piece fanart #my drawings #diamondsheep art #one piece live action

[thisdarkhomeofghosts]

Black Butler fans how are y’all feeling??!

#I’m 2014 Black butler fan! I started watching the anime when I was a sophomore in high school #and I haven’t looked back lmao #i love this series so much #met so many cool people though this anime #black butler #kuroshitsuji #kuroshitsuji season 4 #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #william t spears #grell sutcliff #public school arc #our ciel #undertaker #adrian crevan #vincent phantomhive #black butler manga #kuroshitsuji manga #kuroshitsuji memes

[egophiliac]

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #because i need to talk for a minute about how the plot of the anniversary story so far is literally just #crowley jumpscares us in our living room to demand we make him lunch and yuu is just like 'i need to start locking the door' #oh twst you always know just how to get me #the qol updates though! CONVERTING SINGLE KEYS INTO 10-SETS YES THANK YOU OH MY GOD #SKIP LESSON TICKETS!!!! #3X BATTLE SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!! #SAVE TEAM BUILDS AND SUPPORT CARDS FINALLY AHHHHH #oh and some other stuff too but look i NEEDED these things #also master chef grim! he's so precious! #though he's not going to get a little sporty uniform after all? #grim canonically flies in the nude i guess #no it's okay chef grim is ADORABLE #if you zoom in on his card you can see little smoodges from his inexpert cake decoration 😭 #which on the one hand is cute but on the other hand i'd been convinced he'd just slapped some frosting and candles on an actual can of tuna #anyway happy (a few days until the) fourth anniversary everybody! #i've been here since the beginning (preregistered during the dorm reveals babyyyy) and it REALLY doesn't feel like it's been four years #you know what they say: time flies when you're watching anime characters have emotional problems

[waterghostype]

crusty kid

#baby lloyd would totally be all over capitalistic free to play hiearchal roleplay simulation websites #ninjago #lloyd garmadon #ninjago lloyd #dude i LOVED animal jam it was my life #i rmb the day i got membership the world was revolutionary… then i stopped playing #now im old enough to pay for my own membership #but being a senior high student also means i cant play animal jam #it’s so weird to think im now the age of all the ytbers i used to watch #animal jam drama was truly something else #anyways i love this little shitbaby lloyd #hes so stupid i love him #cant wait for him to experience the horrors #when i first watched ninjago i was confused why lloyd was a baby bc i thought that lloyd was everyone’s fav prettyboy #i initially thought lloyd was totally loyal to evilman garmadon and started off as an actual formidable enemy #though now i want to make an au like that #aphid’s ninjashits

[jicklet]

Ember and Wade in Elemental (2023)

#elemental #pixar #elemental movie #ember x wade #animationedit #pixaredit #filmedit #elementaledit #v posts things #v watches elemental #i want to gif this movie so bad but all i've got to work with are random promo clips #anyways i love them ahahaaa #emotional sillyboy x cranky failgirl is a precision strike to my ship preferences #dig yourself deeper Wade #i love the look on his face as it slowly dawns on him #also just. all the cool little things they do with the animation #ember flaring brighter when she's pissed #wade starting to sweat as he panics and melting when he's miserable #and how his hair is constantly cresting like little waves? #so fun. i just love it

[swampjawn]

God I love animation. I love it for the way it can bring anything to life beyond the constraints of boring ol' reality, but also the ways that it's inextricably linked to, and draws on the conventions of live-action film-making.

So fuck it, let's look at how Hayao Miyazaki straight up copies some camera framing techniques from his predecessor and the other most influential Japanese filmmaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa! (Kurosawa really was the master of framing scenes around his characters, so he's a great source of inspiration)

(btw, this is a screenshot from this TV special where the two met for the first time just after the release of Kurosawa's final film. It's pretty interesting, and also very cute how nervous Miyazaki seems to be to meet one of his idols.)

Specifically, how the two each choose to break the 180 degree rule (well, not technically 'break' in the case of Kurosawa) to show their protagonists' changing destiny in "Throne of Blood" and "Princess Mononoke".

For anyone who doesn't know, the 180 degree rule is a basic film-making rule of thumb which states that in any scene where two characters interact, you should draw an imaginary line between them and the camera should always stay on one side of that line.

("In the Mood for Love" - Wong Kar-wai)

This way, one character is always looking to the right of the camera, the other is always looking to the left, and the audience doesn't get confused by the geography of the scene. Crossing this line can be disorienting, but when done intentionally, it can convey a paradigm shift of some kind in the scene.

In this scene from "Throne of Blood," (a feudal Japanese retelling of Macbeth) Washizu's wife Asaji discusses tactics with him and tries to convince him to aspire to the throne and to assassinate his lord Tsuzuki while he sleeps.

As two servants appear to notify them that Washizu's sleeping quarters are prepared, the camera dollies left and around the characters' backs. This camera movement is motivated by the motion of the servants' torches outside the room, but it also signifies a change in Washizu's outlook.

Washizu is completely silent for most of this scene, contemplating his wife's advice. But as the camera slides behind his back and across the line of action, the scene is now re-framed, illustrating his change in perspective.

He's been convinced and the trajectory of his life is about to change - and now, facing away from the camera, is the time for action.

Because the camera slides smoothly across the line, Kurosawa isn't technically breaking the 180 degree rule. Miyazaki on the other hand, takes it a little further.

The complimentary scene in Princess Mononoke comes near the start when the wise woman of the village reads Prince Ashitaka's fortune after he's cursed by the wild boar spirit. She tells him that it is his fate to leave the village and travel to the west, where he may be able to lift the curse on his arm. The trajectory of Ashitaka's life changes in this moment too. As he accepts his fate, the change is symbolized by him cutting off his hair, but also by the camera jumping the line.

Throughout this dialogue scene and even as he cuts his hair, the simulated camera sits just slightly to the side of Ashitaka's left shoulder.

But once it's done, for the final shot, the scene is reframed and we jump to the other side, where Ashitaka is now looking to the right of the camera instead of the left.

Making the camera dolly across a scene like Kurosawa's version in 2D animation is no simple task, so this transition with a simple cut is in a way subtler, in another way a bit more jarring, but it conveys the same meaning.

This is the moment when our protagonists make the choice to embark on a new destiny and re-frame their lives.

This has been an excerpt from a short video essay I made a while back, which not many people watched. I think this is at least in part due to my failure to package it well, and it seems you tumblheads like this animation/cinematography analysis stuff, so this is an experiment to see if, with the help of y'all, and a new title and thumbnail, it's at all possible to give this video a second wind in the eyes of the Youtube Gods!

So if you found this interesting, I'd appreciate if you checked it out! Thanks for reading!

#Also i spent a lot of time on the little animated bit at the start so please watch it lol #animation analysis #mini essay #video #video essay #princess mononoke #throne of blood #hayao miyazaki #akira kurosawa #Youtube #gif warning

[tshortik]

DUNGEON MESHI ‼️❗️

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #laios touden #chilchuk tims #senshi of izganda #started watching this anime and i luv it and i might have started the manga too teehee

[fluffyartbl0g]

If you asked me to describe them in one picture it would be this

Here’s the scene in question ^^^^ ITS SO GOOD ITS SO GOOD ITS SO GOOD

And here’s the exact screenshot I redrew

#one piece #op fanart #monkey d. luffy #revolutionary sabo #portgas d. ace #curly dadan #asl brothers #i keep thinking of that post of someone wondering why sabo is depicted so batshit insane in fanon #and the person answered that it was prolly mainly because of the ‘crack your egg like a skull’ line #but then i watch stuff like this. and i see that absolutely crazed look in his eyes even at the young age of 10 #and im like. THAT MAN WAS BATSHAT INSANE FROM THE START #this whole food fight scene is so dear and integral to my love of the asl bros ihope you know #its an anime only scene too XDDD

[kellysketches]

hobie brown!!!! the man that you are!!!!

#across the spider verse #atsv #hobie brown #my art #fanart #but genuinely from the moment I first saw fanart of this man I have not known peace. I'm obsessed w him #I thought I'd calm down after watching the movie but lmaooo #the way he's animated??? the way he's textured??? the way he's been designed???? his voice???? #like he's SOOOOOOO handsome and funny and don't get me STARTED on his writing and character or we'll be here all night #also friends will know I'm a sucker for a rock band man so like I never stood a chance hskdglsjdfdklshg #spiderverse

[marcirose]

Nobody understands Kingdom Hearts that well cause everybody compares it to shonen anime when it's actually a magical girl anime because it has:

-A protagonist who is an ordinary lad who got given a special power that could save the universe

Teammates that the protagonist can lean on and who help the protagonist with said special power

A love interest heavily involved in the plot that both motivates the protagonist and is motivated by the protagonist

A monster of the week format that has its own standalone conflict that eventually leads to the next major plot point in the story

Overarching themes about love and friendships and connections and identity

#kingdom hearts #kh #i haven't stopped thinking about this #it literally started with recoded #and how recoded is basically the first arc in sailor moon ghjkdfshfds #and then i realized that it literally applies to the whole series #oh ye and let's not forget that kairi is the protag's bestie who gets caught up in the monster of the week conflicts #kingdom hearts is a shoujo #this is exactly why nobody understands #god i feel so big blained for this #nomura pls just tell me you've watched magical girl anime cause it's all right there #i feel so smart rn stg lmao

[rev-tone]

read pluto

#naoki urasawa's pluto #pluto #OBSESSED nearly read it all in one day #so fuckign good #starts out as a murder mystery and as it all unfolds ough #i lvoe all the robots so fuckign bad #the character designs go INSANE i gtota fucking read MONSTER now #LOVE THIS STORY FUCK MY LIIIIIIIIIIFE #I HAVE TO WATCH TEH ANIME SOMETIME.......... #TCH #ANYWAYS

[floq]

you know, a big reason i kinda drifted away from the phandom last year was because of how prevalent dp x dc content had become. at the time, i was more of a marvel girlie and i didn’t know much about the batfam or dc content in general. but this year during my (somewhat unintentional) hiatus i coincidentally got really into superman media, which then spiraled into an interest in the batfam and dc as whole and oh god I GET IT NOW

I GET THE APPEAL

dp x dc content creators, keep it going, y’all are doing wonders for this community

#first i watch my adventures with superman #then i wanted more so i binged the 10 seasons of smallville in a concerning small amount of time #then i wanted even more so i watched other shows #like superman and lois the justice league animated series some of the dcau movies and more #with the dcau movies i got hooked with batman so i started looking for comics and more media #and here we are now #i love reconnecting with an old interest and finding a new one at the same time #dpxdc #dc #dp #🥀