Don Bluth's style is very detailed and even semi realistic in many areas.
He had a real knack at making appealing-looking characters and his designs. It is clear that his work is influenced by his career he had at Disney, often drawing in a very disneyeske way.
His approach to animals particularly is very well done, making them often anthropomorphic and having very likeable realistic personalities.
Don Bluth once had a saying that, "Children can handle anything as long as it has a happy ending,"
His ending to "An American Tale" really tested that theory because that movie had me as a child, torn up in bits with just how incredibly sad it is.
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Animation
Hi Tumblr,
Today I compiled some images from a few stages of my life so far to help me with character design for my short animation.
Somehow I could only find one picture of me as a baby but the other stages I've managed to compile a few photos.
It was weird going back through images of myself as a child, I'd almost forgotten what it was like to not have red hair 😅
I have it so there's baby, child (roughly 4-10yrs), pre-teen (11-13yrs), teen (16-17yrs) and young adult (18-19yrs). I couldn't find any pictures of me from 14-15 yrs but I looked the same as I did in the pre-teen stage.
I will use these images to help when designing my drawings.
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Some obvious reasons to organize:
The 4 day work week. IWW’s dream is 4 hour days 4 times a week. That’s 16 hours. Wages do not go down. And yeah sometimes there’s days or weeks where that can’t happen—so you get paid OT, time and a half OR comp time, your choice, with a union.
Better health care with lower premiums! This is the best health care I’ve ever had.
Retirement! The world we live in isn’t normal. 401ks—retirement money—are now an unstable, classed thing, and they were invented to be one “leg” of a three legged “stool” of retirement: pensions, 401ks, and Social Security. Except that social security is under threat and most workers don’t have pensions anymore. I do. Protecting our pensions is one of the main reasons my workplace organized. What if everyone had a pension, or hell, the entire stool?
Long commutes bc you’ve been priced out of your city? Yeah we’ll talk about wages but what if your commute counted as work time? This is something unions were interested in fighting for pre the Nixon stomp. Let’s bring it back.
Historically low wages? Raises that don’t match inflation? We can fix that. When I took this job a few years ago, I took a steep pay cut. Thanks to my union I am now making 12% more than my previous salary. Equal pay? Under a bargaining agreement your pay will be standardized. You won’t make less just because you are a member of a marginalized community.
Your boss hates you? Too bad. As soon as you organize you are no longer an “at will” worker. You cannot be fired without just cause and after progressive discipline. Your job is safe and stable. You can focus on other, more important things, like living your actual life.
“What if my employer hates me and breaks the law and fires me or refuses me accommodations or violates our bargaining contract.” My guy. That’s what your shop steward is for.
Some important reasons people may not want to organize:
Racism. The labor movement has historically been super super racist and white, and unions used to deny black workers membership. There is no instance of American life where we can discuss class without discussing race. This is still in play imo—for example, DSA has very low black membership. But unions can also be used to empower workers from marginalized communities.
Politics. It’s illegal for unions to use union dues to lobby but most ppl don’t know this, and a lot of unions are active in politics. Membership is low in more conservative areas for many reasons but this is a big one of them, especially if your union is seen as predominantly leftist. This is to say nothing of how rabidly anti union certain states and workplaces are.
Solidarity. “How am I supposed to have solidarity with _____?!” I’ve definitely struggled with this. But at the end of the day, everyone you work with is more of an ally than your employer in this issue. The bigger your membership the stronger threat you’ll be at the bargaining table and the easier it will be for you to get what you want.
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Movement brief mind maps.
My initial idea was to look at disease and how it can move and spread from person to person. While doing some research I looked at disease in other aspects such as plants.
I began to look at ivy as it moves from tree to tree as a disease. Ivy creeps and crawls up many surfaces growing and spreading in slow but sure movement.
I think I will continue to look at ivy and other plants and see how they grow, spread and move.
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animation task five: hero shot
for this task, due to being unable to finish my full animation, I took three action frames for each character within my animation and rendered them fully. I'm extremely happy with how the background, characters and overlay as a whole came together within the frames.
my initial idea for my animation was to do a video game character select screen, where when a character is selected, they would do a idle animation of their move sets. along with the character, the character stats and name would also appear on screen with a drop down menu and select bar overlay/s, each being unique to the character on screen. the statics indicate what character is good at, with the four standing for defense, speed, offense and magic. i also reused my pervious icon designs from graphic design to create the select bar imagery, with a small icon fitting the characters theme and a silhouette of the character with their name together.
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Movement: A New Brief
Ayo Tumblr, had a much needed Christmas break and now It's time to get stuck into a new brief. This new brief is movement. We have to incorporate all three of our selected areas of art, mine being Animation, Graphic Design and Printmaking. I feel as if I've already got a great start seeing as a picked animation which is all about movement. I drew up a little mind map to get my ideas out.
I'm leaning on doing the horror game direction, maybe making an animation with frames using prints or images/ fonts made in graphic design.
Next week I will start with animation as that will be the biggest part of my project I feel.
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FFXIV OC Ask - #12
let's see, 12 is... hobbies
Cota's main hobby, I am somewhat embarrassed to admit, is Flirting With Intent
however, a more long-standing hobby of theirs is "trying to figure out how to actually fly with their wings." Their dads had to keep a very close eye on them throughout their childhood because they would jump off of high places at any opportunity lol
they got into magical theory for the same reason, thinking maybe the right manipulation of aether would do it. As of around, oh... five years before they decided to set off to the west to face their foretold destiny (whatever it was, prophecies are annoyingly vague at the best of times) they reached a point where they could get a few fulms of height and hover there for a couple seconds without having to jump, but little more.
and, if SE will ever give me a mount version of the wings and maybe even if not, I will say that they manage true flight for the first time after Rejoining with Ardbert
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Belkis Ayón
Ayón was a Cuban printmaking artist who specialised in collagraphy, making works based on Abakuá, an Afro-Cuban men's secret society. Her works feature ghost-like black and white figures. While the subject of these painting aren't actually ghosts, I find the figures really intriguing in terms of my concept.
I love her use of negative space and the balance of greys and blacks to add a transparent quality.
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