#Just to see the visual differences

[brainlessbaguette]

After just binge watching the entirety of adventure time, I am really appreciating how the animation has grown. You got to see the subtle changes during the show, distant lands was gorgeous, and this is just wow, my jaw is on the floor. Its the same goofy style we all know but its so freakin pretty. The thinner character lines, the lighting, ALL OF THE BACKROUNDS OMG. I am in love.

#Seriously go watch ep 1 and then Fionna and Cake #Just to see the visual differences #Or even just ep 1 and then the finale #I never noticed/appreciated the season to season quality changes before #and I know every show gets quality changes #but Im still pointing it out/gushing about it #whoever is working on the art for adventure time deserves all the love #adventure time #adventure time fionna #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat

[yuhi-san]

I’ve seen a few posts pointing out how stampede vash lacks the anger that 98 and especially trimax vash has. Which is true.

And it is important. Because vash isn’t the too morally strong or good or kind to be angry or whatever. Vash has a lot of rage about a lot of things. he chooses to be kind despite it rather than not being angry at all.

His sheer determination to not give into anger and choosing kindness over and over again is very important to who he is.

(personally I think that while tristamp vash went through a lot already too, he simply has not quite reached that point)

What I haven’t really seen are post pointing out that stampede vash, unlike 98 and trimax vash, does not cry.

Vash cries a lot. Some of it is for the comedy and because he is dramatic like that and also he isn’t above trying to get pity that way (with little success lol).

But he also cries a lot just… because. I don’t know how to explain it.

Like vash has no shame or inhibition to cry when that’s what he feels. Not gonna lie, I know trimax mostly from spoilers so far (shame on me) but especially in 98 vash cries very freely. He cries when he thinks he will have to watch that ex-mob boss or whatever being shot. Cries after killing, cries after monev kills all these people and he wants to shot him but wont. And so so many more.

Like that time he just suddenly drops his donuts and cries in the middle of the street.

Vash is friendly and sociable on a surface level but he has cut himself off from so much. Keeps so many things on the inside. Crying seems the one thing he doesn’t hold back on. Maybe his only genuine outlet for the pain.

Vash hides his scars, his pain and much more but he never hides his tears.

Vash, in 98 even says ‘is there something wrong with that?’ when the kids note that he is crying despite being an adult.

In contrast to that, stampede vash never really cries. He even states that he doesn’t deserve to.

We see him shed tears just once, at the very end when it becomes clear to him that he can’t save nai and that his brother and him have grown so far apart that he barely recognizes him anymore. He sheds silent tears for nai, for them, at what he certainly believed to be the very end.

Stampede vash is not only a lot more timid than his counterpart but seems overall more repressed and and emotionally dulled/exhausted

#this reminds me that trimax and 98 vash as children would just follow knives around for a looong time with no agency of his own #vash cryinf after dropping the donuts kills me every time #i dont know how to say it but how vashs crying is handles compared to many other protags hits different #it feels more like seeing vash's pain and distress #and less like a visual reminder to the audience that this is a tragic situation #am i making sense? #maybe i am also just a little biased #also adding to this johnny young bosh was so good in that dub #none of the words vor abgestumpft seem quite right hmm #trigun #trimax #tristamp #vash the stampede #trigun 98 #he also tries crocodil tears on meryl but she shot that down when he was barely a sniffle in so there is that lol

[xenomorphicdna]

On the string propaganda

Heeellll yeah

Bestie is an entire PLACE

I look at those guys and let me tell you the soul of that thing ain't just in the puppet, it's in all the neurons carrying the thoughts and emotions, it's in the power rails that serve as the heart. All the memories in the memory conflux and all the numbers we see flicker across displays, the flux condensers, the puppet; a little avatar.

No way these massive machines see life the same way we do. They have their own experiences and senses and things they hold dear. A world we can't imagine, a way of living we couldn't even comprehend.

I could never tear an iterator apart to be just a puppet. Who am I to decide how's life supposed to be enjoyed or perceived?

You treat your creechurs however you want- I ain't gonna dictate that. But damn, hearing the thrums and buzzes of the linear systems rail? They are alive with so much power, these mechanical beasts are exactly what they should be.

#sorry im just a really passionate on the string believer #you cant tell me that these massive structures kilometers wide capable of things we cant even image would look at something thats #thats comparable to a speck of dust and be like #yes i would like to rid myself of practically my entire body to be that tiny #this aint no “if i were a supercomputer i'd be sad i couldnt see the sky like i do now” #thats only because you have something to compare it to #if i were to suddenly loose everything to be just some microscopic creature i'd be miserable but only because i know what im loosing #id be loosing the ability to think like i do now id be loosing the ability to enjoy the things i do now #i dont know what life is like as a microscopic creature but i wouldnt be willing to give up my life as i know it now #and i think with iterators are the same #just how different is their life from ours and what things can they see that we are missing out on? #give up everything comfortable and known and for what?? #to feel the sun? they absolutely have various temperature sensors #see the sky? those overseers were made to see things those visuals are in 4k #other animal comforts?? what about computer comforts?? #what makes a lil creature happy may not necessary make a massive supercomputer happy #sorry big rant in the tags um just wanna say this is no hate to anyone who wants their creatures off the string #these are fictional beings and you do whatever makes you happy take them off the string set them loose yess enjoy little robots running #around be happy i love reading ya alls off the string shenanigans #rain world #iterator #drawins #oc veil of dreams #rw talk #rain world oc #iterator oc

[canisalbus]

are you okay with folks writing about your guys? i know they're very personal to you!

I'd consider it an honor! They are very personal to me that's true, but it always makes my day/week when people draw gift art of them, and I find written works comparable to that. If you end up writing something and posting it somewhere, please let me know, I'd love to take a look as well.

#I'm not a writer so it's very interesting impressive and inspiring to see them through another art form #one that is so different from the visual art I make #just try to be nice to them #you don't have to stick to my canon but it'd be preferable if they stayed sort of true to their character #and an arbitrary rule but whatever you do please don't kill Vasco I really don't think I like the idea #Vasco is only allowed to die of natural causes at old age #answered #anonymous

[carlyraejepsans]

Do you enjoy underfell? I thought you disliked aus /genq

i don't dislike the concept of AUs itself, I'm just not a fan of like... the subculture that spawned around them in the UT fandom specifically and how it eventually took over almost all canon content (especially when it limits itself to the bros)

i like aus visually! i am an artist at heart after all. it's just that, if I'm going to care about them as stories and not just fun design ideas, my bar is uhh almost impossibly high the further you move from canon lolol.

#uf being one of those! the story is centered on certain characters (mainly asgore) behaving very ooc #so as a stickler for canon I don't have much interest in it #but there is a very clear visual idea and motif in the redesigns that ties every character together very efficiently #and also fucks like a rabid rhino #so i can appreciate its visual/aesthetic aspects instead #i mean you can't understate the impact that good *artists* specifically had on the proliferation of aus back in the day #good writing is almost inseverable from good characterization because dialogues and characterization ARE an integral part #of what makes writing good. while good art (as much as it too is tied to its own conventions) is free-er from the bounds of accuracy #as was as being easier & faster to consume. writing has to be read first. you can just look at a piece of art and go ''wow that looks sick'' #without thinking about logical details/accuracy #you can show a pic of sans to an artist who's never touched the game and they might draw you the most gorgeous piece of art you've ever seen #it's significantly harder to do for writing #swap aus are a fun design challenge to see how you'd incorporate different aspects of some characters visual signatures into another #it's a game of translation of sorts. but if you want to treat it like a story well... the matter becomes a lot more complicated #answered asks #au tag

[muninnhuginn]

the way teru was introduced proclaiming himself as the ‘main character of this world’ because he was the most powerful person he knew until he met mob. and mob was a threat to him and ultimately to this mindset so he tried to take him down. but even when mob collapsed teru didn’t win because mob refused to fight him and so teru couldn’t prove power to power that he was “better”. instead, when ??? came out, teru was stripped to his core and shown that he was ultimately unimportant in this world.

and in the most recent episode this entire situation is flipped. teru has entirely shunned his old philosophy because mob taught him that he’s not all-powerful, he’s just an average guy. that’s his new identity. but his new philosophy where he chooses to prioritise saving people over fighting back is the most main character thing he has done in the series. teru is yet again broken down to his rawest, but this time, he wins.

#mp100 spoilers #mob psycho 100 spoilers #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #idk idk something about how teru didn't even see mob as a rival at first until he 'earnt' it #threat -> rival -> admiration #and visually the entire scene is call backs. the stripping and strangulation and destruction #the motivations may differ but visually it's just his intro through a funhouse mirror #and that makes it the perfect lens through which to close the circle on his arc #anyway I'll try and say something that makes more sense later but rn im just spaghetti throwing thoughts at the wall #also also 'use your powers against me'. the spin on that line. I love it

[sysig]

Take care of him (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Watchdogs #Lord Hater #Wander #He's very important don't you know ♪ #I may or may not have been reading sickfics where the Watchdogs take care of Peepers in his moment of weakness hehe #The Watchdogs really swing between brutally competent and hilariously frivolous they have no middle slider haha #I really like them <3 They're such a cute bunch! #Never getting over all the Watchdogs all stuffed into that one carnival ride on Bingleborp lol #So many eyes and all single-seeing there's just something Very about them hm ♪ #I can't decide which I like more - the Watchdogs kinda just putting up with Peepers or actually admiring him #I can have both since there's so many! A Peepers fanclub? Haha ♫ #I don't think he'd be comfortable with it tho - at times his actions make me wonder if he even considers himself a Watchdog #He does a lot of bullying and gets bullied in return - The Cartoon as an example of the latter haha #He truly is more competent than the average foot soldier which is y'know - why he's a Commander in the first place lol #But to the point of comedy (and yes of course I know it's a comedy show lol) - the divide is very stark! He feels very separated #I like that about him :) He has visual differences and spacial differences - his own room - and competence and just ah! He's interesting! #He rises to meet his desires!! I like him very much ♪♫ #More on the sickfic train lol a bit of a role reversal - a careful Hater and a lackadaisical Wander haha #Peepers is so small and breakable in Hater's arms! Treat him gently! Whereas he's barely smaller than Wander lol #Maybe they went out drinking together and he needed to return him to his room haha - so many identical doors #Normally he'd know but it's funnier to drag him around lol #The usual sleepy doodle <3 Gotta do it haha #A couple silly ones - I wanted to try the X eye shape but I didn't want it to stick haha though they do use it when they fall down sometimes #Almost X-shaped when he squints really hard! How cute haha

[spearxwind]

I genuinely don't mean to be That Person and I do think everyone is definitely entitled to their own opinion and nothing should be exempt from criticism but I think everyone criticizing hazbin hotel over the designs is honestly a little mean? Yes, all the characters are stick thin, that's bad and there should be more variety. Yes, the designs are cluttered, not good for an animated show by regular animation standards.

But criticizing the style as something to grow out of in your teenage years? Saying how ridiculous the facial expressions are, or the palette?? Who cares about the general style tbh??

You probably have friends or peers who have similar styles and similar design preferences who are going to see you say all of that and think less of what they do because of it. Vivzie isnt going to see your mean post calling it an edgy art style but your peers are. And honestly ESPECIALLY any younger artists and teenagers that draw like that are going to take the hit.

I'm not eloquent enough to make a better more nuanced post I do think there's a point to be made about how people on this site defend all art styles and want to be supportive of artists and "cringe culture is dead" but the second something is unpopular enough they start riffing vitriolically on how it looks instead of the things actually worth criticizing (of which there are many).

#thunderclap #making this unrebloggable because if this escapes containment its gonna attract so many undesirables #i have reblogged one or two of the jokes that i felt were silly enough but this week i have seen a LOT of posts #that just rag on the art style #and honestly!! who the hell caressssssssss. every single fucking animated show in recent years looks the exact same #they all use the same style the same colors same vibes. hazbin; despite its faults; is actually visually fresh and new #YES even if its visually a fucking mess!!!! it matters a lot that its different looking in a landscape of samey animation! #i dont even a diehard hazbin fan i just thought it was ok but its so fucking annoying to see people say this shit

[thoughtfulfangirling]

One of the things that has me so invested in The Locked Tomb series is that it's got such a vibrant and active fandom. I just want to take a moment to appreciate the fact that some thick, not technically YA novels with no current visual adaptation has the fandom it does. I'm proud of all of you. That's really fucking cool. And FUN!

#I'm so glad there is no real Offical look for the characters #I really love all the different variations and Gideon #and her possible haircuts #the undershave is neither canon or not canon #as an example #I just love it #such a rich fandom for something without visual media just is not something I have run into much #and I love you all for that #I'd love to see more! #it's also technically NOT a romance #thus far honestly there's been in fact very little direct and to the point romance at all #and I'd even argue my personal interpretation is that the main couple don't even fully reciprocate romantic! feelings #don't mind me #the locked tomb #tlt #books #thinky thoughts #tfg reads

[ded-lime]

my attempt at lily versions

#wolfgang amadeus mozart #antonio salieri #fate grand order #fgo #my art #ok listen i know literally no one besides me cares about how these are two different centuries #but you see salieri's thing with this to last ish century suits makes putting him in a 18th century clothes looking weird #i figure that 19th is a good middle ground and plus he like. died in that century anyway so close enough #well actually im not sure when that style of coat became a thing. the outer one i mean but whatever #also they still had knee ish length in 19th century but the visual connection with modernish suits also makes it looking weird on him but #but! the longer boots make a similar shape to it and #um anyway #amade is eepy cuz um idk he writes about being tired lmao #<-- the most normal fan of these guys #did a very normal amount of reading on them. also this might be bringing out my mild interest in historical clothes just a little bit #well its not like i *have to* put them in historical clothes its not like this gacha game is very historical... #bwa wrong i do have to and the reason is brainrot

[gofancyninjaworld]

Showing vs. Telling

Webcomic: That Man, blah blah blah....

That Man gets knocked into a hole in the ground so we don't have to be shown anything about him:

Manga, take one: Let's show how fast and dangerous That Man is.

Manga, take two: Still too much telling. Let's lead with showing how utterly terrifying dimension-based fighting is.

I love these guys. Please keep striving to improve your story!

#OPM #meta #showing vs. telling takes a different dimension (pun intended) when it's a visual medium #there are important places for both: the trick is knowing where the balance lies #and it's good to see that no one gets it right first time #ONE: I can imagine just about anything #Murata: anything you can imagine I can learn to draw so don't hold back! #so less of the telly-telly and more of the showy showy kapish?

[alexxuun]

TerraMyriad is basically a world I’ve been creating throughout the courses of this year. This is my boy, Triffid :)

#you will probably see more of him and this world stuff #I basically started this for a animation course and then it kind of expand to a visual narrative course which established the world building #and now i’m using it to make a game for my course as well #so just trying out a bunch of different format haha #oc #terramyriad #triffid #for class

[averlym]

ghostwriter (their grandma would tell them she'd lose half her soul)

#or smth smth. having a lot of Thoughts. anyways here's the piece i've been working on and sometimes u have to just say Done #there's a lot of thinks but i am maybe a bit tired and so tmr i'll come in and add all the Tags that i'd personally want to get from myself #maybe i'll reblog the extras tmr too. this is an incredibly self indulgent piece + it probably deserves a tag ramble essay or smth #ig for now we see how it stands for itself + in the meantime: #adamandi #beatrix valeria campbell #hello!! i'm back with belated tags yippee!! alright so for funsies i'm going to make it sound like i'm going bonkers over this :3 #the eye shine... the glowy eye... it's like phaethon shine but also smth about eyes to windows to the soul and like #there's two beatrixes here! half the soul. lost part doing things specific to the phaethon and here it's portrayed as tearing off her name #because that's really; truly; when it all starts!! also notable for the ghostly beatrix is i did it more painterly and cloaked in shadow and #fading into the bg. i think i was super duper specificish about where the glow comes from! front lighting back lighting beloved!!! like help #let's put it this way- beatrix face always glowy. important parts of paper also glowy. it's just that different elements are turned away #from the viewer by each beatrix!! also also. let's talk about the very gently implied blood and red etcetera #like the red string is canonical and i love personally the whole red strings of fate thing even though it's not Here Applicable exactly but #that definitely was an influence! and also the blood in the bg... i'm starting to think this is a recurring trend. but anyway shadowy bea #the other strings hang while the red string loops!! so like that one string feels almost alive. it's a sort of whimsical i put on the same #as metaphorical glowy eye!! also also the eye is lowkey influenced by the whole idea of Eyes and Spotlights within the show and also glow #as in power as in heyyy you ever think about writing as a visual medium huh #speaking of writing!! there is no beatrix thingy complete in my head without text sorrry but the black text overlays are always so >>> to me #and in the sense of art styles and overlays shoutout to all the black crosshatching outline thingys because For Some Reason in my mind #of all the characters beatrix feels like the bnw ink printed illustrations you get in books idk #fun fact! i spent so long rendering this and that was fine i liked it! but then trying to figure out text to go on the papers was a Thing #i tried to do. but then gave up on! sometimes i have to pick my battles and graphic design is indubitably Not my passion bc Fonts #fun facts about this is i Actually did start with a quick sketch in mind and there's been so many changed elements. in the og the front #paper for instance had 'ardess murders' written on it and the back one said phaethon interviews.. i like the nominee list better it feels #more narrative-esque and less passive than her just holding her writing.! other elements that got discontinued were that #front beatrix was supposed to blur into the other ghostly beatrix but i couldn't do it without sacrificing clarity so... no... no blurry #oh and the red string morphing at the ends to smth more abstract was always there from the start!! og had more floating papers #and also a silhouette of vincent and a scalpel bc 'one who pulls the strings' but that (pun intended)! got cut (hahahahahahaha) (sorry) #used also to be a lot of print room clutter but that got cut to bc compositionally i made beatrix larger (learned lesson from last art)

[winchester101]

I personally never moved past this

#forever thinking out that persons tags: screaming crying throwing up #in my mind rent free #their smiles to each other!!! #right as Luffy jumps #because they’re inside each others brains sharing the brain cell #I love how happy Luffy gets seeing litterally anyone from his crew #it makes his whole day #I won’t survive the dub roof piece zolu whenever that comes out #because I never even survived the sub one #zoro…crying out for Luffy…in my native language….*collapses* #no discorse or anything bc I watched almost the entire show once in sub and once in dub #it’s just nice to be able to focus on visuals vs reading #also they’re both like different experiences bc naturally dub will change things #like sanji really said zoro has one brain cell for booze and one for swords and that’s it

[chaos0pikachu]

watching people write in-depth meta about a t-shirt that says "fart" in english b/c they like the director and studio not realizing that's not even how costuming in film works and that a lot of english t-shirts in East Asian countries just Be Saying Shit for the Vibes but can't get past a bathtub full or flowers or recognize the surrealistic aesthetics playing off erotic media works of Playboyy b/c there's blowjobs and dudes are cranking it on screen

#playboyy the series #i promise y'all sometimes a shirt is just a shirt #sometimes you just like a thing and think it's cool but it's not intentional on the directors part #sometimes they add the color blue to a scene for emotional symbolism but 90% of the time it's b/c they like the color blue #it's neat #i'm cool with ppl having fun and being like yeah this is a neat thing I saw in the thing I like #but sometimes ppl be like this is 100% factual and intentional and I'm like wait what #and also the different ways I'm seeing ppl engage with something clearly not intentional #vs #a series that is using intentional framing in the filming and in it's visuals #but those shows are heartfelt romances while the other is about sex in a really frank non romantic way #makes me go hmmmmmmmmmmm #anyways #chaos pikachu speaks

[sailorfailures]

One eerie frame for every classic Sailor Moon episode, OP, & ED

🌙🖤 Happy Halloween!

#Sailor Moon #descriptions in alt text #the visual design of the first season really was something #in my heart I feel like it's not Sailor Moon yet bc it was still finding its feet but that also allowed it to be more experimental #I don't think it's better or worse because while I do enjoy the novelty of earlier episodes #they also don't feel like Sailor Moon episodes. A lot of them feel like another show with SM characters randomly in them #which is not a good thing necessarily but they're so interesting it's also not a bad thing. It's just a thing #which you don't really see as often with current anime #you can just really see how they were kind of taking a gamble with Sailor Moon and testing the waters to see what angles would do well #I think it started to understand its actual target audience at around the Rainbow Crystals arc and shifted focus there #which is also when Jupes arrived so the team dynamic really started to take hold & the true appeal of it as a Magical Girl codifier emerged #ANYWAY it was just interesting to note that while Sailor Moon could consistently achieve moodiness and tension visually #the WAYS they achieved that were pretty different in the first half of classic compared to any other season #HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! BLEEHHH!!!