#sophomore film

[rad-rascal]

An abandoned cyclops explores a desolite city, in search of companionship before their ruined body falls apart.

Premiering July 5th on Youtube.

#rascal art #rascal animate #vid #neo #falling apart pulling together #short film #sophomore film #sophomore thesis #uarts film #uarts

[ultimateinferno]

TF2 updated so I'm taking this post out of drafts:

The TF2 Mercs are a part of the internet equivalent of the commedia dell'arte stock characters. Being automatically included in Source derivative software such as SFM and GMod, they're very easily available as premade rigs for amateur animators to use in their works. The simple, cartoony, and discernible designs make them very easy to read at any angle, which although originally used to be easily read in a competitive gaming environment, translates well to comedy skits. Unlike similar games such as Overwatch, where they're practically over-designed in a very definite artstyle, TF2 characters are lacking in accessories as a default. Generally wearing simple single color jackets, t-shirts and pants. In fact, the varied nature of TF2's cosmetic system makes them perfect as dress-up dolls, making it very easy to reuse the same base model and differentiate between them.

That brings me to their characterization. Even though most if not all have pretty well defined backstories and narratives, outlined in the supplementary media of comics and Meet the Videos, their baseline personalities can be easily transplanted into various skits and narratives with minimal introduction. Scout is a cocky jackass. Soldier is a dimwitted, overly patriotic American. Heavy is simultaneously soft-spoken and boisterous Russian who revels in violence. These simple yet understood personalities mean you can bypass proper character introductions by identifying who's in what role from the start, similar to the archetypes from the aforementioned commedia dell'arte.

You don't even have to be a fan of tf2 to grasp these roles. The ubiquity of SFM as free 3d animation software is a self supporting introduction. If you are unfamiliar with tf2's narrative, simply consuming a handful of these animations can get you up to speed.

Simultaneously, TF2's narrative is just as batshit as the fan animations that are inspired by it. You could certainly use other valve properties for similar reasons regarding animation accessibility, but TF2 embracing comedy from the start and the simple insanity of its characters means you can transport them to a wider array off stories while asking for a much smaller suspension of disbelief.

A Half Life animation is far more likely to be about Half Life than any given TF2 animation is about TF2. Many of them are, but way more are simply not.

TF2 as a property has a lot of staying power. 16 years now and even with minimal support from valve, it still soldiers on (pun intended) as a significant part of internet meme culture. I find it's notoriety akin to Hatsune Miku, where they're given a second life outside of the purpose of their original creation. They're less FPS characters, and more little dolls novice animators smack together for the entertainment of others.

And at the end of the day that's almost all it really takes. A significant slice of media engagement and fan works for the internet at large could not care less about Canon or the main narrative, even if its well regarded, because the biggest draw for many is simply taking strong personalities and putting them in funny situations. It's why incorrect quotes are absolutely everywhere despite the fact that a good 80% of them do not fit the original characters one bit. Meanwhile, TF2 as a property actively encourages it.

The following are all fan animations that have jack shit to do with each other or the original canon--be it in game, the original animations, or expanded comics--and yet they're still ultimately cohesive as these little shorts that play with the cast as archetypes, with their own recognizable appearances and roles. (Tucked behind Keep Reading to save space)

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #sfm #source film maker #games #video games #animation #memes #analysis #Youtube #bit more gung-hoh with tags here but I had this thought many months ago and needed to write it out. #honestly if anyone can pass these along to bdg he's the only reason why i know what the commedia even is #despite being a theatre kid up until sophomore year of hs #edit: i added on How to Climb A Tree cause its also pretty good

[paeshsh]

The end of Mentopolis (incredible season, my favorite side quest) means that the next season of Dimension 20 will be the 20th one. I can’t be the only one thinking this would be the perfect time for another season of Fantasy High?!? Right?! Please 🙏🏻🥺

(I will look like a fool in the next week or so but until then let me be delulu)

#dimension 20 #d20 #dropout tv #dropout #dimension 20 spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #what’s a girl gotta do to get the bad kids back? #also I know they’re going on tour but like they film pretty far in advance

[starridge]

sometimes i forget that because i’m in art school all the stuff i make can be content for my art blog

#ocs #you WILL look at my sophomore year film lesbians

[slunberparty]

Remembered some ancient ocs today

#i actually did my sophomore film of them #which was like 7 years ago now oh my god #anyway they’re a candle imp and moon demon #and they’re actually way older than the animation like i think I drew art of them in 2009 or something #arch vertigo #doodle #sorry for not posting recently I feel like shit! #OH and their names are ichabod and yoruo. ichabod is the imp yoruo is the demon

[lizardinkart]

You ever put together a freelance project and have to scour all the free royalty-free nonattribution music on like, YouTube and/or the wider interwebs? And then suddenly, you hear a song so familiar it must have come to you in a dream…

Babe wake up that’s not your girl: that’s fucking BenSound. RUN!!!

#bensound when i fucking catch you #i legit got shaded in college when i used his music for a video in like freshman/sophomore year #BY A PROFESSOR TOO!!! #anyway if anyone has good royalty free music site preferences lemme know #film stuff #editing

[boltgunkiller-archive]

hmm. i think tina would be really into horror movies. but also that her favorite movie would be something silly and dumb like so i married an axe murderer

#and she def watched so i married an axe murderer with mercedes during sophomore year btw #and her fav horror movie. well it wouldn’t be carrie. but i think she’d be into sort of more psychological films #had the movie been out at the time it might’ve been malignant #but i think her fav in 2009 would’ve been #final destination 2. that’s what i think #but she’d be super into older horror movies / obscure horror movies #yes she’d like skinamarink. btw. #but anyway. she’d be into eyes without a face #etc etc etc. i know that isn’t exactly obscure but it’s definitely older #i think mercedes is kinda scared of horror but she’d watch the more psychological ones with tina anyway #because she loves tina. that is her best friend. her girlfriend even #tina would also like easy a and ten things i hate about you sorry i can see her enjoying kinda silly movies like that #gleeposting

[pinejay]

and if u look to the left, you'll see the mural of friendship and blue green landscapes. and if u look to the right, you'll see the shrine of women and lesbianism. and straight ahead is the interstellar space exploration exhibit

#and behind me is the colorful blue green purple landscape zone #my inprnts arrived #the 3 new ones here r the linnea sterte piece in the top left of space travel wall #isa hanssen girl of your dreams (from the animation short film i'm obsessed with) #and veiled in the wilds by ver (blue and gold piece also on the women wall) #i also gotta a george outhwaite print (olwen in blue) but it doesn't look good in phone camera pictures #that's the guy who makes ultra realistic digital landscape paintings of the english countryside #the friendship blue green wall is old. i just wanna showcase it. the 2 in the photo frames were past birthday drawings from darren #and he also gifted me that train mountain piece a while back (spring train 2014 by tatsuro kiuchi) #i got the heikala remnant piece (blue skeleton) from the earthdraw ii charity. that was rly cool #and ofc there's the hana chatani pas de deux lesbian ballet piece i posted last time #and mina's red white black mob print that's stayed with me thru countless moves since like freshman yr? or sophomore yr? of college #prints #i actually think lesbianism + blue green landscapes + space exploration is like. my entire being besides volleyball #i have sports balls including a beach vb hanging up just outside my door actually #o wait i didn't get the olwen in blue outhwaite. i got yrce in midsummer

[munamania]

now that i’m thinking about it. why do girls just say weird shit to me.

#thinking about stuff my ex said after we broke up. girl. you are here with your sophomore girlfriend? #lemme rephrase why do i let them 🙄🤚 yeah. #abby talks #i really thought film girl was nicer to me too. 😐 we gotta get back to therapy #this is dated news yk. i’m just thinking. plagued even with thoughts #and my middle school friend… help. #u know the weird toxic friendships (kinda gay?) we have.

[chungledown-bimothy]

i wonder what went through lou's mind when chungledown bim appeared in boys' night

what part of this truly cursed hour and a half occurred to him first

#the video of them making him came out after boys' night #but the stats are exactly the same #has to have been filmed first and released after #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #chungledown bim #lou wilson

[livvyofthelake]

actually you know something. i have got to stop watching media with people with british accents. i’ve had such an overload of british accents lately it’s absolutely ridiculous. i’m starting to think in the cadence of charlie hunnam’s voice in queer as folk it’s going to drive me to smash my head through a window. 

#he talks in a very particular way there it's not just the accent. some may call it overacting EYE call it realism. man's character was 15 #do you guys wanna talk about that show? i'm making a list of the top tv FREAKS i know and vince and stuart are placing second #anyway. i have got to get on a diet of strictly american movies for a few days. well maybe i'll rewatch slaughterhouse rulez #but OTHER than that. #still awake as shit btw. jesus christ i got classes tomorrow. #and they're all going to suck probably. trying to have a positive outlook tho. but they are going to SUCK #i'm stuck in two basic level classes (intro to film. me. INTRO to film. i'll start eating wallpaper) and both of those are 2 hours long #and no one i know will be in them because it's going to be all fucking. sophomores probably. oh god. #and the other two. one will be easy enough but the other the professor is my advisor and he is USELESS as fuck i do NOT want to see him as a #actual professor. are you kidding. he's useless. and he's got bad vibes. hashtag misandry #god too many of my professors this semester are men what if that was my last straw #i'm kidding it's fine. what the hell was this post about originally. i''ve just been typing. #oh yeah. the british accents. literally driving me crazy. no one recommend me any more movies unless they're all in the american south #beth.txt

[cinnamontoads]

speaking of other projects i have i still have to edit an entire video by myself over break this week that was due last tuesday and i also directed and starred in it and wrote the directions and script there are SEVEN people in this group wtf is anyone else doing

#they say. all my professors in the film school say. that #in your four years you'll learn to work with some really awful groups #im a sophomore and this is my first year in television and radio major #so its NOT FAIR that i get saddled with a shitty group right out the gate #because if i fail this class i lose my scholarship lmfao #personal #also may i add. i am a Chronic underachiever #group so bad that the guy who normally does a minimal amount of work suddenly has to do EVERYTHING

[marywoodartdept]

Student Spotlight: Dylan Pugh

Sephora, our Student Spotlight blogger profiles a sophomore graphic design major, Dylan. Sephora and Dylan have a wonderful conversation about the things that Dylan enjoys, their passions, and what they do in their free time. Read to see Dylan’s work!

Hello my dear readers! The semester is coming to an end and it seems like everything is colliding together instead of being tied up in a nice bow. But that’s just how finals are! Nonetheless, I am here to deliver content and introduce you to yet another talented soul who will be forever on this site (or for how long the internet exists). They have such a cute style and always compliments my…

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#2026 #3D Studio Art #Art #film #finals #finals week #Graphic Design #inspiration #Marywood Art #Marywood Art Department #Marywood University #Marywood University Art Department #sophomore #Studio #studio art #Where Creativity Works

[retrograde-raven]

Must I contribute to society is it not enough to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge?

#i genuinely love the structure provided by school why can't I just do that forever #its only sophomore year but like. 😬 #there are like so many things I want to do #which i guess is the beauty of the music industry #but its also got scary levels of instability #and idk sometimes im not sure if ive got that beginning first push in me #anyway ive thought but not done much research on potentially doing grad school #and becoming a professor #being paid to infodump sounds awesome and i love theory #and my advisor is really cool #but paying for it 😬😬😬😬 #but like i could also work in sound while doing that #and compose scores #but mostly i want to learn theory #its so fascinating to me like music functions as both a math and a language system #but also i think a good way to practice scoring would be to re-score existing films #but also to analyze the original scores #analysis is so fun i want to know to create each emotion #hence continuing school

[chiegetseven]

English Language Trailer for "La vita è bella"

#life is beautiful #we watched this in my ethics class #sophomore year #high school #buongiorno principessa! #so memorable #Youtube #in the end i beat hitler #Holocaust #jews #romani #LGBTQ #genocide #comedy #italian #foreign film award #roberto benigni #rubino romeo salmoni #fascism

[nachosncheezies]

Wait wait wait

Disney has added a CANON 'Jacen'????

Dude.

#star wars #appreciate the homage but #i mean okay sorry but in my lizard brain ben and rey will always be an analogue of the solo twins and #the whole weird UST thing in the last film did not exist esp not the whole last like 10mins of the film #no f'n way did leia train a wholeass jedi in her brother's stead after all her reluctance just to have said jedi #become some kind of high school sophomore codependent hot-topic-romance prey for her broody high school senior goth child #nope nu-uh sorry reylos you are entitled but imo that fanfic got it right bc i just CAN'T see it #forget the meme this is my Live Slug Reaction moment #'i am just. so tired. rey baby can you go tell your brother i said come home please. thanks sweetie.' -leia probably #rey skywalker slap some f'n sense into that boy challenge #disney leave the perfectly good three decades of EU alone challenge