#empty movement

[empty-movement]

Chiho Saito's Illustration Collection artbook is the highest-quality visual media in the Utenaverse. Oversized, single-sided, heavy pages with extremely high quality printing. It is the first artbook I ever scanned.

In 2001, the average screen resolution was 800x600, and I delivered a 1250px wide collection that for a while, took $60 A MONTH to host, because no normal website was hosting images of this ludicrous size. It took my scanner almost an hour to capture a third of each page. I spent months piecing the scans together in Photoshop. It was one of my first true Utena labors of love, and the result is that for decades, these copies have been the definitive copies of Chiho Saito's artwork on the internet. For a very long time, even kinda now, if you see these images, they're probably my scans.

But decades have passed, and I've never been happy with these results, because they couldn't capture the fine details, the paint spills, the sketch beneath poking out, the brilliant use of gradients of dark color to pop the image but drive me insane. What I am finishing up now is a true, archival copy of the artbook. One that delivers such high resolution, that these can print posters larger than the originals, and thanks to some truly brilliant descreening tech, (Thank you Sattva) I've been able to dig up fine details in the work that the printing obscured, but undeniably included.

It's been over 20 years, and it shows. 1250px? Nah, my archive copies are 15,000px wide. I can't wait to finish this and share it with the world. <3

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #empty movement #chiho saito #it's actually insane how much has changed #I can't believe I'm still here doing this shit lmao

[ilargilore]

you will always be famous, Utena

#utena tenjou #shoujo kakumei utena #illustration #clip studio paint #yxllowbow #artwork #digital art #fanart #artists on tumblr #utena fanart #tenjou utena #Tenjou utena fanart #rose bride #empty movement #rgu #rgu utena #rgu fanart

[to-revolutionize-my-world]

I really love the fun little things in the musicals, like Nanami and Wakaba sharing songs, and the really cute sections of the Utena, Wakaba, Anthy friendship! The cooking song today in the Bud of the White Rose musical was excellent!

Thank you to @empty-movement for hosting the stream! I’m very happy to have managed to catch it this time!

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #sku #utena musicals #bud of the white rose #empty movement

[numbuh424]

The unstoppable, mighty hurricane and the immovable, cold, hard truth.

#death note #death note art #death note the musical #Light Yagami #L Lawliet #death note fanart #death note musical #lawlight #dn musical #digital art #elle draws #more musical art! I love u forever death note musical #been trying out new things with my rendering again lately sorry if I'm all over the place #kinda wanna talk abt the decisions that went into the movement of the text because #originally it was just supposed to be simple serif type in the empty space beside them but listening to their solos on repeat while working #really influenced it and I couldn't shake how much I wanted them to match the movement lol #esp with light like I just wanted it to be small text but hearing jeremy j belt 'HURICAAAAANE' made me go fuck it it's the mighty hurricane #*increases font size significantly*

[realpokemon]

Shoutout to the other Espeon owner who struggles with bathtime. You are not alone.

my new favorite genre of photo

#pokemon #unreality #pkmn irl #photo #fun fact: this might be because espeons have pretty poor vision in places without natural sunlight (like the bathroom) #and instead use their psychic powers to sense movement #so it cant tell if the bottom of the bathtub is empty or if the water is just still

[moonrosegirl]

#I don’t know what to caption this #like should I explicitly say it’s an edit in the caption because I think I tricked empty movement last time and now I feel bad :0 #revolutionary girl utena #utenanthy #my edits #adolescence of utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #gif #gif warning #alt text provided #utena x anthy

[evegoldenwoods]

I didn't think you had any time for gods, Pickman.

I have a soft spot for the Lady of the Broken Wheel. People used to pray to her on the train.

Hoping she'd save them, I suppose. Did it ever work?

No. That's her point. If you want to see the wheel broken, you have to do it yourself.

#friends at the table #my art #illustration #fanart #Sangfielle #Palisade #Perennial #pickman #Ernestina Pickman #They worship her in Kay'va too #Because they know most clearly there #That every revolution is only empty movement #Unless it breaks the thing that made it go #15 days of fatt #Day three: wheel

[andy-clutterbuck]

3x12 | Clear

#no thots head empty #thoughts....i mean #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S3 #i love me a heavy breathing man #it's art #that is quite the movement richard..... #dare i say thrus- #*glass breaking* *car horn* *cash register* #hi kevin #also his arm hair but i'm not gonna be that weird right now #his b a c k #why are backs attractive #someone call bill nye i need science #excuse me but the nose™ #why do rolled up sleeves have so much power #we just don't know

[beldaroot]

like father like daughter :')

#witch hat atelier #wha #witch hat atelier spoilers #they are soooooo silly pls i love them so so so much #the most insane and perilous thing will happen to them and then they're like hehe that was close! and be zero thoughts head empty lol #also i love their lil body movement quirks... they are so autism coded

[hephaestuscrew]

Who says the episode title phrases in each episode of Wolf 359?

I've created a spreadsheet to show which character says the episode title phrase (i.e. the words which form the name of that particular episode) in every episode of Wolf 359. Graphs summarising this data can be found below, but to look at the full spreadsheet in all its glory, and see the progression through the series, you can follow this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cQLkhxbDAItU6rdiUAYGn54FXXxYC-JXlCmP_Dqe9FA/

(Please note: I’ve focused here on which character first speaks the exact title phrase within the episode itself. In some cases, this is not the only - or the most significant - time that the title phrase is spoken.)

EDIT: This post previously stated incorrectly that "the devil's plaything" is not said in Ep57. In fact, it is said by Pryce (through Minkowski). Thank you to @yaghoulghosty for pointing this out!

Season breakdown graphs below the cut...

#Wolf 359 #w359 #the empty man posteth #I think I'll reblog this with properly worded thoughts about the patterns at some point #but for now I'd like to draw attention to a couple of things: #(1) the proportion of Eiffel title phrases reduces as the show progresses #reflecting both the movement away from a sole focus on Eiffel's narration #and perhaps the balance shifting more towards drama rather than comedy over time #(Eiffel is particularly good at coining a comedic turn of phrase) #(2) After the SI-5 are introduced #there's 5 Kepler or Jacobi title phrases in a row #solidifying the SI-5's presence in the show #If you view the title phrases as often referencing the key problem or issue of that episode #then I think it is significant who expresses it #Please do feel free to share your own thoughts! #On a personal note: #when I make things like this #it seems kinda absurd that I only started properly considering the idea that I might be autistic this year #I'm sure all the neurotypicals are regularly making spreadsheets and graphs about the fiction podcasts they think about constantly...

[georgieluz]

masters of the air, episode five: when the silence is louder than the noise that it replaced

#masters of the air #mota spoilers #it's not really an edit bc it's just some text and my screenshots #i just felt so deeply struck by the oppressive silence in the final scenes that i had to post about it somehow #when places so full of noise and movement and people rushing about hectically debriefing their missions #suddenly fall silent #and not just quiet #but like every bit of air has been sucked out of the room #like a vacuum of emptiness and it's so inexplicable #it just hits so different #these locations are always shown to us as loud and busy and full and now it's a single table of people barely uttering a word #julian made a thing

[empty-movement]

Chiho Saito’s 1999 Revolutionary Girl Utena Original Illustration Collection

IT’S HERE. IT’S DONE. IT’S FINISHED. NOW…IT’S YOURS. Happy Holidays, my friends.

Vanna here! I have posted some already about this project, and the responses I got, public and otherwise, have been absolutely incredible. Y’all have been reblogging and hyping this before it even finished…I haven’t felt so encouraged about an Utena project since the musicals! (Yes, streams soon, I promise.) You can read the other post to get more details, and catch my post here with more details about the process if you’re interested. The long and short of it?

This is the first artbook I ever scanned. I did it in 2001. In Photoshop, using multiple scans per page that took hours to process. But it was 2001. A half megabyte file that was 1250px wide was considered extremely hardcore and impressive. That’s just always been the business I’m in when it comes to Utena art, you know? 

It’s now the latest artbook I’ve scanned, and so much of the process, and effort involved, is unchanged. What has changed, is the result. Welcome to your new desktop background. Your new phone background. Your new poster print. 

What I’ve done here is attempt to create definitive digitized images of Chiho Saito’s work as offered by this book--I have removed the print moiré of the original scans, and used my literal decades of experience to try and tease out as much information from them as possible. Without being physically in front of the original artwork (which is a thing I’ve had the great fortune to get to do) this is The Most Chiho Saito you are ever going to get. I’ve tried my best to make sure there is a way to get it that works for everyone:

Do you just wanna scope 'em out? Look at some disaster gays? Grab your favorite one or two? This is the path for you! Check out the ‘compressed’ (not very) 10k ‘web friendly’ (not really) copy at the Bibliothèque, the media archiving wing of the Something Eternal forums at Empty Movement*. All the following links are also available from here. Do you want these copies? All of them? Don't just grab them individually, friend. This batch is 375MB and can be downloaded as a zip of the individual files here on our Google Drive.

Do you like digital archiving? Are you looking for a copy that preserves the archival quality of the effort but sits nice and comfy in a single file? This is for you. A minimally compressed 10k, 513MB version worked into a PDF is now up, shiny and chrome, on the Internet Archive. Do you like the idea of the minimal compression, but want the individual files in a zip? Yep I did that too, here's the drive link.

Are you looking to print these in a larger size? This is probably the only reason on Earth you’d ever want them, and yet a bunch of you are going to go straight for these. Here are the zero-compression JPG full size copies, most of them are 15k across, like simply a ridiculous size. Pick your fave and download it from our Google Drive! 

I am genuinely really proud of this work.** I was able to tease out so much new detail from these…her incredible layering techniques, the faintest brush of her highlights, and the full range of her delicate hand at whites and blacks… details commonly lost in digitization. I sincerely hope you find something here that you’re looking for, as an artist looking for inspiration, as a weeb looking for a desktop, as an archiver excited to see incredible 90s manga artwork saved forever in the digital realm. I feel like I have already said so much about them, and could keep going, but you know what? This work speaks for itself. Enjoy, use, explore, and definitely tell us what you think!

We love y’all. ~ Vanna & Yasha

* AHEM ASTERISK AHEM

You might be wondering what any of that is. Something Eternal? Biblewhatawhat??? EmptyMovement.com? You might even have done a double take at the word ‘forum.’ And you should!!!

I have a confession. This artbook was my ‘side project’ as I worked on this, *the main project.* For a couple years I’ve been banging around with a new domain, and originally I had other plans for it, but Elon Musk ruined my Twitter and Discord is well along on its way to enshittification, and well….we joke on the Discord a lot about ‘reject modernity, embrace forums’ and you know what? We’re right. So Yasha and I are putting our money where our mouths are once again, and doing something insane. We are launching, in 2023, a website forum. Obviously, this is not the official ‘launch’ per se, but I cannot announce the artbook without directing you to the forum, since it sits on the attached very cool gallery system. Oops! Told on myself. Another post more focused on the forum will be forthcoming, but if you are just that motivated to get in right away, you absolutely can! (This will help stagger new arrivals anyway, which is good for us!) If you would rather wait for the ‘official’ launch, by all means that’s coming, including a lengthy screed about how and why we’re doing this. In either case, remember: this is a couple weebs trying to make internet magic happen, we are not website developers by trade. Give us grace as we iron things out and grow into this cool new website thingie…hopefully along with some of you! :D

If you do join up, naturally, there is a thread about this project!

** If you like this kind of content, consider helping us pay for it! We do have a Patreon! If you’re wanting to use these in some public-facing distributive way, all we ask is for credit back to Empty Movement (ohtori.nu or emptymovement.com, either will work.) 

I would like to say ‘don’t just slap these files on RedBubble to get easy money’ but I know that saying this won’t effectively prevent it. Y’all that do that suck, but you’re not worth letting it rain on the rest of this parade. :)

#revolutionary girl utena #utena #rgu #sku #empty movement #chiho saito #90s manga #digital archives #manga aesthetic #shoujo kakumei utena #utena art

[beaulesbian]

Trigun Stampede s01 || Vash + the reflection on his glasses

(edit: added one i missed)

( @crazymadredfox​ thank you for the mention of this part!)

#cant believe i missed this one when i specifically rewatched the whole season for this :') #trigun #vash #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #trigunedit #mine #gif:trigun #so i thought the reflective effect appeared in more episodes but it was only episode 1 #and then it kinda reappears when vash is not vash anymore in eps 11-12 #the first episode had a lot of bright lights (desert sun and then the lights from the plants) #which made the reflection seem natural to happen but it was interesting it happened quite a lot as a storytelling tool almost #like it helped to push across this introduction of vash bc at first we dont know anything about him (first time fans like me heh) #so they hide his eyes in important moments including his first appearance #and it goes possibly for how that reflection is how vash doesnt know meryl or roberto yet so it takes a while for him to trust them #and see whats their deal #i like that 7th gif with comparison of rosa beside vash.. you can see her go on a whole journey with just her eyes #but vash's thought process is hidden until the last moment where he doesnt want to fight the julai guys who want to take him #the last one is so creepy.. he's an empty husk! there could be pain or numbness or multiple other emotions in his eyes #but the glasses put them behind a barrier and only the movement tells us more that hes floating there trapped emotionless #its so sad.. uff i love this show

[darkwood-sleddog]

And now a nice hike!

#dogblr #alaskan malamute #dog #canine #sigurd #dog photography #and playing fetch with the reinforcement toy I brought #empty red kong his beloved #bounces in an erratic way that mimics prey movements so…

[ofbakerst]

#empty queue #empty rooms #third movement of the beethoven violin concerto #the resident patient #baker street #my posts

[transmascutena]

every single time i have to look for official utena art i'm like "what the fuck 😟☹️😦" who the hell drew that and WHY

#someone on the team was really like “hmm i don't think the show sexualizes teenagers enough. let's fix that” what the fuck man #m #not gonna post examples here because i don't want that shit on my blog but if you've ever browsed the empty movement gallery you know.