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Readers: We want character development!

Author: Oh, I’m sorry, did you mean add more characters?

Readers: What no!

Author: *Adds another character to the 100+ member cast* There you go! Just what you wanted!

Readers: WHY!?!?!

#writing problems

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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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remember that big oil companies literally pay for commercial advertising and lobbyists against clean energy because it would wipe them out financially. Because apparently they don’t already have enough money in their pockets to last a thousand lifetimes.

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

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Just a reminder that if someone starts their post with “just a reminder” they are probably going to start passive aggressively ranting about some social issue, but are most definitely not going to tell you an actual helpful reminder about how you left the milk on the counter and you should probably check that, you lazy ass.

#just a reminder

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new pet peeve: blind characters in comics who look other characters in the eye (probably because the artist habitually has done this but hasn’t done a blind character before). Like bruh they can’t see wtf they making eye contact with? The devil?

#pet peeve #blindcharacters

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*Looks at my own art* oh, its getting pretty good! I’ve really progressed! I feel so awesome about myself!

*Reads One Punch Man* FUCK. I AM GARBAGE.

#opm #art problems

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Here’s a bakug-OwO for you

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Only reblogging cuz dat smile

How well do Zendaya, Jacob, & Laura know Tom? ↳ BONUS:

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cool until all the birds poop on it constantly

The Studio. #pascalcampion

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when a movie is taking itself way too seriously

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I hate it when people come up to me and comment on my “healthy eating habits” because I’m skinny and eating a piece of fruit or some shit. Assuming I’m some para-athlete with a perfect diet.

Little do they know my lactose-intolerant ass just scarfed down almost half a large pizza last night because I was sad and didn’t want to cook. 

Maybe I just like apples, Karen. 

#eatwhatyouwant

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I got my first sub for my comic and I freaked out and was so happy until I realized:

It was husband. Thanks babe  <3

#comics #loveyou #youllalwaysbemynumberonesubscribertoo

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Idiot’s Guide to Making Bakugo a Villain

Yo like SERIOUS manga spoilers so you have been warned.

So I noticed that in the manga the league of villains tried to turn Bakugo evil just by capturing him and giving him a little speech or whatever, but that is seriously the stupidest thing. Like seriously this manga is amazing but the villains... y’all need to bump it up a notch ya hear?! Like, they were willing to cut a dudes hands off but damn, absolute shit planning for this! If you really want to make Bakugo join you, or at least turn evil, you’ll need to kill Kirishima (or make it look like he died) and make it look like it was the Heroes’ fault, bonus points if you can pin it on All Might.

Think about it: not only has Bakugo never lost anyone significant that we know of, but he has also developed what is probably the deepest relationship he has ever had with Kirishima. The second he saw his dead body he would fucking EXPLODE. LITERALLY. People are most vulnerable to significant change when they hit rock bottom, and I’m sure this would do it.

This would be possible if Twice could make a copy of All Might and/or Kirishima to fake the scene. After he would go on his rampage, possibly alienating others and himself, a member of the league could offer to help him “let off some steam” by beating up some randos that he thought were thieves, but turns out they were paid off/threatened by the league to fake the robbery. Maybe this happens multiple times. Now the cops show up and Bakugo finds out he’s been framed for assault and he goes to jail to await his trial. Now he’s been further alienated from Hero society, and even his own mother hates him. While in jail, a member of the league, the first one he met, offers to break him out of jail before the trial, because he found out that the whole thing was a setup by a certain member of the hero association who didn’t want him to graduate. BOOM! Now all of a sudden the league can come right out and say it was a setup, which was their plan, but make Bakugo believe it was a hero’s fault. Now, Bakugo doesn’t believe this guy/girl at first, so he goes to the trial, only to have the evidence “confirmed” before his eyes when he sees video camera footage of the robberies with a Twice copy of the hero in the background talking on a radio. The second he goes back into holding he busts out, knowing he’s done for if this trial continues.

Bakugo’s dreams of becoming the number one hero, or even a licensed hero in general, are effectively ruined. He’s out on the streets, alone and homeless. Eventually he has to steal for food. He sleeps in an abandoned building, maybe an old hero academy for added irony, and wonders what he will do next. The league of villains offer him money, food, and a place to stay if he does odd jobs for them. “Nothing super illegal, just stealing some stuff” and the favors get more and more insane as the years go by. Eventually Bakugo may want to leave, but will find out it’s literally the league...or prison for the rest of his life. Bakugo may not like being a villain, but they could at least get him on a leash.

TL;DR: If you wanna boil a frog you don’t put him directly in boiling hot water, but you put him in when the water is cold, and then slowly raise the heat.

Fucking step your game up, villains

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Me making comics. Lol sometimes smaller figures are harder to draw, don’t judge!

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