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anybody else in the club feeling this one

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The future will be so beautiful.

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*plants mint directly in your dash* heehee :3

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long time, no see

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Holding myself accountable: I'm writing a book! I will get the words on the page and worry about the [everything else] later. My one consistent life goal has always been to get a book of mine on shelves in bookstores, and I am the master of talking myself out of things, so I've already written myself off as far as making that happen with a graphic novel. (Perhaps that will change, though the industry at the moment scares me into believing I cannot handle even trying.)

The details aren't hammered out yet as to what I'll try writing this time. I think it'll be very fey, because that's my bread and butter. I'm toying with the idea of a two POV story between Cat and Rowan, though I can also make a case for Tove being there. They would make for a solid trio, but their story arcs would far surpass a self contained novel, and next to no one is taking a chance on an unproven writer for a multi-book story.

I feel as though I should find a writing group in order to keep myself motivated and inspired, though I will also come up with a thousand introverted reasons why I can't possibly manage that, either...

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and it’s time for a few small repairs, she said sunny came home with a vengeance

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Today's repostober is this hug between my friend @deerkick's character Sol and mine Lorelyn. They had such an emotionally charged start to their relationship in season 1 of my DnD/Good Society game.

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I am the sail, the plank The mast that breaks and gets replaced I am remade, repaired Reshaped but somehow still the same Even after every cell in my body changed I know my name

#d&d #artificer #jim maloney #original character #drow #reincarnation #happy endings #dungeons and dragons #my art

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long time, no see

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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

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What you thought you knew, what you thought you wanted—it wasn’t what you’d find.

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Inspired by @deerkick’s d&d OC (who is not a rabbit nor a hare, but for whom the metaphor comparing the two was apt)

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here’s a compilation of different people driving box trucks into a low bridge over and over

#every time i drive under this bridge i giggle

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#food

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long time, no see

#original character #artificer #jim maloney #d&d #dungeons and dragons #my art

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