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lllustrations for Fantasy Flight Games by Lenka Šimečková

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Kelsey Smith  -  http://amidstsilence.tumblr.com  -  https://www.instagram.com/amidst.silence  -  http://amidstsilence.tumblr.com/tagged/my+art#  -  https://society6.com/amidstsilence  -  https://twitter.com/amidstsilence?lang=es

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Racist white lady calls in and tells Native Hawaiian to stop blaming the white man for taking their land, especially since the Japanese are doing it too.

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Stop-Motion Moana

“We can rebuild her… We have the technology… We know the way!”

A few months ago I ripped apart a Moana doll and made it into a stop-motion puppet using a kinetic armature kit.  

The walk cycle above was the first thing I animated with this puppet, and was just a throw-away practice test with no green screen. I had never done a walk cycle in stop-motion before and soon discovered how difficult animating a straight-ahead cycle within a localized space with no retakes could be.

I showed the cycle to my dad while he was holding my Moana puppet in his hand and he seemed more impressed with this crappy test than the actual animation I did on the movie! I think the combination of him holding the puppet, and then seeing it come to life on the video before him was what blew him away. I guess that’s the appeal and magic of stop-motion. :)

Here’s a second test I animated for fun:

I read that it’s best to have the foot joints nice and tight to hold the weight of the puppet, and have the arms looser.  It’s amazing how much weight those toe and foot ball-joints could hold for the falling poses:

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Me, on Earth:

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Beyoncé is Thanos.

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Black Panther - End Credits 

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Pizza Planet Truck

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#SHE DID THAT!

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Stop teaching children that there is only one person out there meant for them. Let it be easier for people to let their toxic relationships go without fear of losing “The One”.

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Childhood Memories

Me: Aye go ask mama if we can have some ice cream

Lil bro : Why I gotta ask? 

Older sister : Cause you the baby. She likes you more.

Lil bro : Okay

* Goes in parents room *

Lil bro : Mommy, Trent wanted to know if… 

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Just because I treat you right doesn't mean I'm the one.

I’m just doing what I’m supposed to do.

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This bitch called black women ugly and I said

Bitch WHERE?!

She said, “under all that melanin!”

And I said,

BITCH … W H E R E?!