#professional mermaid

[songofsaraneth]

Video of me swimming in my Finfolk x Merbella "Ailea" tail, showing examples of the modifications I made to the fins (tutorial video for how I did them here). The side hip and calf fins are stiffer and held out from the body vs being floppy fabric, and the dorsal floats upward to give a similar effect. I really like how they turned out!

#warning for the volume coming out louder than I intended though #ramblings #mermaiding #mermaid jade #professional mermaid #my stuff #mermaids

[artistic-moth-man]

Imagining life as a professional mermaid part 2

#mermaid #mermaids #mermaid art #mermaid artwork #mermaid fanart #professional mermaid #professional mermaids

[faefins]

Drifting about in the dreamy blue 🧜‍♀️

#mermaid #mermay #mermaiding #mermaid hair #mermaid tail #real mermaid #siren #underwater photography #underwater film #freediving #freediver #wild swimming #mermaid model #professional mermaid #underwater model #ocean lover #ocean

[wickedcriminal]

Watched a couple videos about hobbyist and professional mermaids and like...

I just think it's so utterly wonderful how humans could dream up something so beautiful and imaginative as a mermaid and be so passionate about it that they'd learn to make it a reality. Like, you can literally be a mermaid if you want to. You can learn to hold your breath and learn to swim in a silicon tail with your legs together and you can go underwater and touch the sand and lie in it and swim with schools of fish like a fish and you can literally be a mermaid. That's downright magical. Like, we dreamed up a mermaid all on our own and thought: "what if I could make that possible?"

It sort of reminds me a little about how Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up a flying machine that looked like bird wings, and hundreds of years later people today would skydive with wingsuits and gliders and see the world with a bird's eye view. Da Vinci drew out the blueprints because he dreamed people could fly, and isn't that just funny? Putting wings on a human. That's whimsy. That's something out of a fairy tale.

And yet, we made it possible. Today, humans can fly.

We can be birds and we can be mermaids and I guess this is just a funny way of saying I love how humans have a habit of dreaming up something breathtaking and finding out how to make it real.

#being sappy at 3am is a talent of mine actually #this was just a long winded way of saying; wow that mermaid gig sure looks fun i cant believe they get to live out my seven year old dream #how do i get in on that #professional mermaid

[mermaidpearlofficial]

#mermaid hair #real mermaid #mermaid Pearl #mermaiding #professional mermaid

[thelandlockedsiren]

“That’s why it’s important to make sure human things end up in recycle bins, like this one!”

#mystic mermaid #denver aquarium #mermaid show #professional mermaid #mermaiding

[sweetteabirdie]

🧜🏻‍♀️International Mermaid Day!🧜🏻‍♀️

Happy International Mermaid Day to all the merpeople and merpeople at heart! 💗💗

For the occasion I wanted to share a side of myself that I don’t often share on this account: my Mermaid side!

Fun fact! One of my jobs includes being a professional mermaid entertainer with @adelaidemermaids !

If you want to see more of my mermaid side, feel free to check out my mermaid page!:

Photo By: @suzanne_elliott_photography

#mermaid #professional mermaid #international mermaid day #Finfolk productions #Adelaide #Adelaide mermaid #mermaid photoshoot #photoshoot #cosplay #pretty #Princess #mermaid performer #mermaid aesthetic #modelling #Finfolk fabric tail #island Iris #turquoise #mermaid turquoise #mermaid tail #Finfolk tail #mermaid life #real mermaid #real life mermaid #人魚 #コスプレ

[yorkshirereaper]

I have a pretty cool job

#me #professional mermaid

[zenithsys]

hey does any cosplayer/professional mermaid know where I can get a wig that would look good underwater? I'm looking to do a mer!Shirakumo cosplay

#cosplay #professional mermaid #mermaid #cosplay tips #cosplay help #bnha shirakumo #bnha oboro #oboro shirakumo #mha shirakumo

[loreshark]

If I had a nickel for every time I was a mermaid for my library job, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s strange that it’s happened twice.

#professional mermaid #library #my life is fun

[songofsaraneth]

Opening day swim at the aquarium I mermaid at!! It was so fun 😊

#mermaid jade #professional mermaid #so glad my friend was able to come and grab some video aaahhhhhh!! #its so hard to tell how anything looks from inside the tank so being able to see some later was very reassuring lol #mermaiding #ramblings #oh i am so tired. and. waterlogged #u dont know how much space is inside ur sinuses until you are trying ot drain all the seawater out #my right ear is. still full

[gleafer]

Mermaids are my go-to hammer to break free of artist’s block.

What’s yours?

#mermaid #mermaids #mermaid art #mermaid illustration #artist block #artists on tumblr #digital artist #artistsoninstagram #digital illustration #lovely #mermaid hair #fantasy art #sketch #professional artist #art life

[sentientsky]

immense respect for michael and david and their ability to work professionally on set together. cause if i were in a show with my bestest friend in the whole entire universe, absolutely FUCK ALL would get done

#we’d be filming hell’s trial scene and you’d catch me with a snorkel mask like ‘wanna play mermaids?’ #i am a professional yes #good omens #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #aziracrow #aziraphale #go2 #ineffable lovers #good omens season 2 #ineffable wives #gomens #gomens 2 #David tennant #Michael sheen #good omens shitpost #shitpost #yes i know bestest isn’t a word. let me be funny

[mermaidpearlofficial]

Play hide and seek with a mermaid!

#mermaids #mermaid pearl #mermaiding #real mermaid #mermaid hair #professional mermaid

[thelandlockedsiren]

Siren season is approaching, let’s get spooky 👻

#professional mermaid #mermaiding #mermaid #siren #siren song #photography #underwater #black and white

[pftones3482]

I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

#tlm #the little mermaid #h20 #disney #mermaids #professional mermaids #also trust me when i say i think all cgi mermaid tails look bad #but for some reason these ones just look so much worse #we saw the same thing happen with the 'live action' lion king #the lions looked SO BAD #but then you look at like???? aslan from chronicle of narnia????? which was made YEARS before the lion king #and he looked more realistic #and its disneys fault bc they WONT PAY PEOPLE