#general screen

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

#not art #dungeon meshi #rant #i'm someone who can get obsessive over colors in my own art #will stare at the screen adjusting hues/saturation for hours #luckily i've gotten faster at color picking #but yeah modern anime's color design is saddening to me. the general trend leans towards white/grey desaturated palettes #simply because they're easier to pick digitally #this is not the colorists fault mind you. the anime industry's problems are also labor problems. artists are severely underpaid #and overworked. colorists literally aren't paid enough to do their best #there isn't a “creative drought” in the anime industry. this trend is widespread across studios purely BECAUSE it's not up to individuals #until work conditions improve anime will unfortunately continue to miss its fullest potential visually #don't even GET ME STARTED ON THE USE OF POST-PROCESSING FILTERS AND LIGHTING IN ANIME THOUGH #SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK. I HATE LENS FLARES I HATE GRADIENT SHADING I HATE CHROMATIC ABBERATION AND BLUR

[svnflowermoon]

hey btw before you start being angry at the 10 year old sephora kids and the ipad kids, remember that we should feel bad for them. because the world has failed them. it is not these kids faults that the world is so focused on materialistic things and that their parents don't know how to talk to them. that is the fault of social media and bad parenting. i said what i said.

#luc posts #like i genuinely feel so bad for the ipad and sephora kids bc they just... didn't get on childhood #they were raised on false beauty standards and having a screen shoved in their faces & i think that we as a society need to reflect on that #like i am quite serious when i say that it is unrestricted internet access and generational trauma that have caused this #seeing those seven year old girls doing their skincare and mascara makes me want to cry bc how did we fail them this bad??? #they should be having a childhood but they're being forced to grow up too soon #im saying all this as a sixteen year old it would genuinely be better if young kids and teenagers weren't exposed to the toxicity of insta+ #+and other social media bc it does NOTHING but put bad ideas in their heads and give them bad self esteem

[shittybundaskenyer]

when the writer is in doubt, my turn to come out (scratch out)

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #mr scratch #remedy entertainment #remedy games #remedy connected universe #fan art #my art #the kalevala knights jacket look?? too good #also the distortion effects and live action overlays every time scratch is on screen is so cool i can't look enough at it #even though it's terrifying #dark twisted and cruel is such a banger way to end a chapter #the way remedy uses music in their games in general is still one of my favs in the gaming world #so have this drawing i was sitting on for like a month #bc i'm still thinking about this game 24/7

[warakami-vaporwave]

BSOD v2 Ocean Waves

#vaporwave #bsod #technology #netart #cyberpunk #blue screen of death #ocean #windows #microsoft #computer #v a p o r w a v e #dalle2 #dalle #ai generated #waves #cyber #aesthetic #digital art #glitch #retro

[ourobororos]

miscellaneous tng studies

#when i first started watching tng my laptop screen was rlly dirty right little white flecks on my screen #they showed up most prominently on the black parts of their uniforms so in my minds eye i pretended they were stars (and not my gross screen #my art #st #star trek #star trek next gen #tng #star trek the next generation #jean luc picard #captain picard #worf #lieutenant worf #lieutenant data #lt commander data #data soong #commander riker #will riker #william riker

[astridellejo]

She thinks I'm cute!

Amaya and Janai from The Dragon Prince

#the dragon prince #general amaya #queen janai #janaya #tdp amaya #tdp janai #screen redraw #red blue sapphics

[welcometogrouchland]

Also I am. Constantly forgetting how fucking funny Hunter is. We never give him enough credit for how funny he is because his life is so fucked up but I swear 90% of his lines are just bit after bit after bit. He's not even trying either. Anytime he actively tries to make a joke it falls flat but if you just put him in a Scenario he'll find a way to be so over invested and yet out of touch/at odds with whatever's going on. He's so autistic

#the owl house #ramblings of a lunatic #i forget hunters character voice A Lot #plus the most recent ep is always whats most clear in my mind (so rn that's ftf) and he's obvs much more angsty in that one #idk ppl credit thanks to them as the first time Hunter was like happy and silly #but i highkey think asias was the prelude to that. like i think the events of that day are so vivid and special to hunter #precisely bc it's the first time he's interacted with witches his age in a non hostile or strained way #it's the first time on screen we see him have fun doing something that isn't deranged #yeah whatever souls are made of his and willows are the same. but more importantly her gus and the rest make him laugh #that's important for the guy canonically having the worst day of his life Every Day #part of why huntlow appealed to me initially was that it was hunters first taste of like. normal teenagedom #not the romance with willow (cause that's barely an undercurrent in asias) but flyer derby and hexside in general #and that's part of why willow and later gus r like. his safe space #and thus why it's so significant that he goes out of his way to protect (keep them safe) too #anyway enough hunter thoughts for tonight. i love him but this isn't my Brand

[witherbythesword]

if the theory of sam reich being replaced by .. evil wizard dalton reich (and i cant believe i am partaking in this discurse) is true..

i've seen some people asking the question about what those childhood tapes mean. Well i am one of the ancient ones that owned vhs tapes and you know you could replace whats stored on those tapes with overwriting it with new material but it would slowly degrade the quality as the magnetic tape the information is stored on isn't necessarly made to be re-recorded on indefinetly which would also explain the degrading quality of the gamechanger episode.

So my theory is that dalton reich wants to erase sam from history and to do this he is slowly erasing any proof that could hint on sam and dalton being two different people. One thing he appearantly needed to do is overwrite these old vhs tapes of sams childhood.

#game changer #dropout tv #Sam Reich #having worked in an archive i think depending on quality of the tape and what generation it is #you can record and re-record on it 5-10 times #which would fit the loops on the episode kinda #listen i wanted to be cool but i love time loops OKAY #I am actually in disbelieve that no one tackled sam to the ground #like brennan did during the dance thing in the “second place” episode #and screamed “DANCING IS A SIN” #to keep Sam from kicking the god damn camera #i also feel like i've been hexed with the wenis curse #you see all those text about it and think.. well... how bad can it be? truely? #and the answer is simple #EVERYBODY DO THE WENIS #THE WENIS IS A DANCE #EVERBYODY IS A GENIUS #WHO KNOWS IS IN ADV (gunshoots.. sirens blaring in the background.. and a wet thud sounds right next to you) #also.. not to be like alu head levels of conspiracy but by now the nimber of accounts #saying the dropout cast should be hunting down sam as the final game changer episode of the season #is suspicious to me #like... if that turn out to be a fixitman situation of people being IN on something #am just going full balls to the wall riz gukgak tatooing night yorb on his chest levels of insane by now 👍 #also the sfx needed thing #reminds me about how jacob always does his own buzzer sound #because clearly the normal buzzer sound was always there #also.. the red shining buzzer reflecting in the prompt screen..that wasn't always that way right?

[somnimagus]

Forgot to post this here! Her KH1 design is my favorite

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh kairi #fanart #my art #my brain is currently disintegrating so i'm a bit all over the place w the social medias. and in general #also this one annoys me because it is either hellishly bright or depressingly dull depending on the screen i see it on #but it never looks like it does in csp. yknow. the way i drew and intended it to look #this is the only drawing of mine to ever do that. i am vexed and disturbed. what is its true form i'm so mad

[tanadrin]

did people just decide that since LLMs can generate text they must be able to tell when text is ai generated, or did someone at some point start making the claim that these things were also an AI-detection tool?

#seen a few examples of people plugging stuff into chatgpt #and asking it 'is this ai generated' #why would you think that would work? #that seems like a terrible screening method

[violetheart77]

Name a bad first entrance of his

That’s right, YOU CAN’T

#Dopamine RESTORED #(Please please please let me know if the way i did the Alt Text is less than user-friendly for screen readers #i worried it might be annoying to have to sit through virtually the exact same Image Description three consecutive times) #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #black friday musical #black friday starkid #nightmare time #nightmare time season 2 #nightmare time 2 #yellow jacket #jeff blim #general john macnamara #john macnamara #general macnamara #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #hatchetfield universe #hatchetfield series #starkid shitposts #starkid memes #i write shitposts not tragedies #general john mcnamara #john mcnamara #general mcnamara

[weatherera]

The Hero

#generation loss #generation loss fanart #digital art #genloss #generation loss the social experiments #genloss tse #genloss fanart #ranboo fanart #this one was an actual PAIN #all the tiny mini scenes I drew within the tv screens were surprisingly very time consuming!!!!! #but here’s the 3rd and final panel of another 3 part art series!! :D #(this is is my favourite though heehe) #I’ll share all three merged into one giant thing in a few days!! yippeee! :]

[siddunbi]

because Im bored and heavily not feeling well i decided to make use of my time by trying to make Cas in bg3 because im not ashamed to admit how hot the asshole is (affectionate)

(Casim Carnarvon is @nevarroes tav I simply wanted to bitch him out with these heels)

#casim carnarvon #i also am just in general fucking around with mods #im totally responsible with mods and can be trusted #bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 modded #my pc has so far blue screened twice during bg3 running

[qu13ll3-choichoi]

feeding u and myself with more lego man drawingss

Plannings on drawing the other Ninjago villains together, but my ibis paint lagging 🙏

#lego men🙏🙏🙏 #lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago fanart #general cryptor #ninjago cryptor #he hot #Everytime he's on screen I point and be so shock

[warakami-vaporwave]

BSOD v2 Beach Sakura

#vaporwave #sakura #cherry blossom #openai #nostalgiacore #v a p o r w a v e #aesthetic #a e s t h e t i c #bsod #blue screen of death #netart #cyberpunk #pop art #dalle2 #ai generated photo #digital #art #pink flowers #flowers #technology

[spacephobos]

I've got so much I want to say about Polite Society. But I refuse to post anything too spoilery yet.

So one thing I will say is the way Lena's depression and mental health is written is incredible. So often when men write women with mental health issues they write this sort of "prettily struggling" womsn in a spiral.

(this infamous queens gambit scene comes to mind)

They're never allowed to actually be ugly or gross or even not have their hair and makeup be perfect.

Like beth here is in a pretty frilly top shes reclining in an uncomfortable fashion. Her makeup looks perfect and he cardigan is prettily draped over her shoulders. She's meant to be attractive. Her sadness is almost fetishised.

but then Lena looks like this

Whereas Lena's a WRECK. It's considered an achievement she showered. AND shes proud of herself for that small acomplishment. Shes angry. She destroys her work. She's dressed in sweats and pyjamas with either no makeup (if i remember correctly) or makeup that looks like it's been on for days. There's a scene where shes wandering aimlessly and just buys a duck to eat. And she does not eat it daintily or prettily (and no its not a chicken ppl seem to be confused).

I love that she spends all the first act in hoodies and pajamas looking like shes not washed in 3 days. It's just so good to see a woman direct another woman with depression. There's so much to be said about the male gaze and how it even impacts the portrayal of women going through crisis. The removal of that lens has created what I will argue is the most authentic experience of depression in a woman I've maybe ever seen. I literally cannot think of another time I've seen that.

Anyways Nida Manzoor I love you.

#Theres sooo much in general I want to say about this movie #This is just one of many things I love #womems emotions on screen rarely feel authentic #polite society #media commentary #nida manzoor #writing this bc im currently in a depressive episode and look like lena rn lmao #thinking of like 9 more points to say but cant be bothered to write them #might add more later