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bppeny32 · 3 days
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Ya girl just passed her master's thesis defense!!
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bppeny32 · 21 days
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“I am alone with my own thoughts and it’s dangerous.”
-cress
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bppeny32 · 24 days
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You ever just realized how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?
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bppeny32 · 25 days
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Little reblog game thingy because I love making these (and want to show some love to my mutuals)! <3
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bppeny32 · 1 month
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A Wizard's Apprentice
My submission for a tiefling discord Valentine's exchange 💜 for @chibi_trex (on Twitter) ft her OC Merridyn
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bppeny32 · 2 months
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so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.
First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!
Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.
But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.
On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.
However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.
But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.
The alternative is indie animation.
With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.
The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.
And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.
Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.
And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)
And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.
You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!
Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.
So it’s tricky.
Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.
I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.
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bppeny32 · 2 months
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They also have an animal one that I linked a whole back on the same site !
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bppeny32 · 2 months
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You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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Spent a long time on this art resource/reference masterpost! If you have a request for resources for me to find OR have a resource you want me to add, just send me an ask :D 
General Anatomy/Human stuff:
body quick tips
painting/drawing straight hair
how to draw eyes
arm squish/bend tip
chest/pecks with raised arms tip
long hair how to
male torso anatomy (back)
learn manga male anatomy (torso & arm)
male torso anatomy (front)
head and hair tips (scroll  a bit, it’s in one of the images!)
how to draw noses
ears tilty tip
arm tips
two tips for drawing women’s hair
drawing teeth
anatomy tips
random hair and mouth ref anime
leg muscle anatomy ref
arm muscles anatomy ref
knees reference
arm ref study
quick arm tut tip
how to draw arm
shoulders n sleeves
Poses:
umbrella poses
random female poses
random anatomy pose thing
chibi sleeping in hands pose
laying poses
elf (?) with staff poses
holding phone half bod
peeny wolf pose set
perspective pose sheet
anatomy poses 
crossed arms ref sheet
holding baby poses
Hands:
how to draw hands 1
hand refs & tutorial 2
hand tutorial 3
hand tutorial 4
36 hands
how to draw hands in 10 minutes
hands ref 2
hand gestures and simplifying the hand
arm & hand ref
500 hands
Diversity:
stop drawing natives red
wheelchair tutorial
drawing fat people
vitiligo notes for artists
darkskin palms
epicanthic folds
biracial characters
do’s and don’ts of thick lips
Animals/Creatures:
how to draw falcon beaks
canine studies (broken down into parts)
feline tiger ref
Insect wing venation
Musculature of a T-Rex
Pony bodies tutorial
Hyena Nose tutorial
horse reference
drawing horns
Flesh tutorial
bird tips
wing basics
making mythical creatures look realistic
pony heads tutorial 
dragon designing tutorial pt 3/3
pony wings tutorial
hedgie bodies
Furry/Anthro:
dogquest’s pixel tutorial
furry portrait tutorial
furry pants tutorial
how to draw paws/pawhands
fur direction reference
anthro tips
muzzle shapes
furry styles
anthro expressions
f2u chibi-ish furry base
furry / cartoon head tutorial
f2u furry base/pose w three different ears
drawing humans! for animal artists
Backgrounds:
how to draw debris
fire tutorial
night sky tutorial
materials study with notes
tree tutorial
water tutorial
tangents??
ocean painting
clouds tutorial
bubbles
painty background studies tips
peony tutorial
lakeside tutorial
quick flowers for the lazy
mistletoe vs holly
Perspective:
foreshortening coil technique
foreshortening tutorial
Webcomic:
medibang comic panel tutorial
how i make webcomics/webtoons
how to color comics
the art of lettering comics
comic/doujinshi paneling
in depth webcomic tutorial
Coloring:
72 Color Combinations
How ViPOP uses color
Hair coloring tutorial by rosuuri
Gurochii moe quick eye tutorial
Anime eye tutorial
Mermaid tail tutorial
Grayscale to Color painting tutorial
chibi eye walkthrough
skin tone tutorial 1
curly hair tutorial
color palette
coloring tutorial
light, it gets everywhere
comfort color
skin coloring tutorial
holographic tutorial
dappled lighting effect
cute/bright coloring tutorial 
pattern trick
arcana character coloring tut
Expressions/ Meme / style:
small body language study
expressions reference
how to cute
Platonic cuddles meme
expression reference : nervous
flustered expression meme
drawing expressions tutorial/key
Pixel Art:
Pixel icon tutorial
Ice cream
Moving clouds tutorial
50x50 pixel doll tutorial
pixelin’s pixel process
pixel expression ref
pixel eye blinking tutorial
how to pixel liquids
Clothing / Accessories:
Shoes
Fancy color tip / ref
Chainmail
short reference
learn manga basic pleated skirt tutorial
learn manga basic frills
random clothing refs
chainmail brush
clothing ref masterpost
pinstripes tips
cloth texture tips
how to clothing folds
Misc:
Sketchfab 3d Models
Mikeymegamega on YT for anime/ecchi/etc
Gentei_sozai on twitter for chibi poses
S0zalsan on twitter for random poses
mecha basics
75 tutorials
Obvious art tips you might have forgotten
Mosaic effect
how to draw a cute chibi
fighting artblock
cute pikachu base
painting a face tutorial
volume commissions mini tutorial
arcana characters tutorial reference
notes from the “animators survival kit”
concept art tutorial
another art resource masterpost
MS paint tips and tricks
Reference table for drawing CONSISTENT faces
@hanari0716 on twitter for HELLA references
animation guide for beginners
Brushes:
Foliage brushes
cityscape brushes
ghibli brushes
clip studio paint assets
PS brush pack
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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and that's a wrap. this stupid fic means so much to me. and now it's ended.
anyway. you can read about human!Raphael and a very feisty f!Tav here.
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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He got stuck in his sleeping bag…
Based off of @timethehobo ‘s drawing
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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Arm Wrestle
Blacksmith Arms vs Old Man Strength
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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some storyboarding techniques as a sequel to my storyboarding basics presentation. I focus specifically on tips for action and conversation scenes!
as always, these are general tips and tricks, but rules can always be broken. happy boarding! ✍️✨
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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A mouth-watering fuck-ton of hand angle references.
By Shadowcross on DA.
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bppeny32 · 3 months
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I'm writing a BG3 Fic/ One Shot Collection about my Durge Silaestra and Astarion bc this vampire owns my soul now, no regrets.
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bppeny32 · 4 months
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Reblog if you have made a friend online that you would love to hang with, but they live far away.
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