Matt (zeldatra)

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the good news: it's late so there's no traffic to throw myself in front of and it's like forty degrees so waiting on the side of the road for a car to show up is out of the question

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i'm having a bit of a suicidal episode (unrelated to my pervious post) and i'm pretty sure it's an adverse after-effect of an over-the-counter mood relaxer I took earlier today, which is nice that i know what's causing it and how to avoid that in the future, but it doesn't help me RIGHT NOW, so that's fun

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in a moment of hubris i lost $320 on Dogecoin tonight, which is pretty good considering there's probably a guy out there who lost his mom's house

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My All Dogs Go to Heaven animation cels got here today. First time I’ve ever bought one. Hoping to get some Bakshi originals next.

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Cartoons are all written by people in California which is why every town is Los Angeles in animation, Swole Foods aims to be the first cartoon ever made which does not take place in Los Angeles.

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Caitlyn Jenner opposes transgender women playing in women’s sports, yet she herself competes in women’s golf tournaments. Yeah, she’ll fit right in at the GOP.

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The Disney+ exclusive Star Wars-themed Maggie Simpson short was cute but ultimately felt like something Disney asked them to make like three weeks ago. Not David Silverman’s best work.

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Like, yeah, someone TOTALLY reanimated Sailor Moon’s transformation sequence the exact same way every time. That TOTALLY makes sense.

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“Governor Jenner” sounds like something you’d hear in a dystopian future satire film from 2009.

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Californians, if you all get yourself into the position where you have to say “Governor Jenner” for the next two years I will be very disappointed in all of you.

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why can’t we as a society progress past the need for Caitlin Jenner, why can’t she go away

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AND those same people revere John K as an artist, despite the fact that his work was antithetical to the very concept of an “on-model” drawing! What’s the deal with that? Is it because he’s a rapist? Do cartoon fans empathize with rapists?

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I’ve always subscribed to John K’s character design philosophy that more expressive > more consistent and that keeping a character exactly on-model all the time isn’t very fun to look at, so imagine my surprise when I learn that cartoon watchers these days not only want characters to be drawn the exact same way in every frame because if it’s not on-model it’s “lazy”, but they ALSO want those exact same faces to be redrawn every time because if you reuse a drawing that’s also lazy. What, exactly, is the point in redrawing things if you’re going to want it looking exactly the same as it did in the last shot, scene, or episode? We should all just use Flash puppets at that point and go back to 2008-era Newgrounds.

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Tarzan and Treasure Planet had this really neat-looking CGI technique called Deep Canvas which was basically where they would paint background elements directly onto 3D meshes with what were essentially digitized oil paint brushes and I wish they didn’t stop doing it after like three movies because it was pretty sweet looking.

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Dexter, but it's Louise from Bob's Burgers. Come on, Fox, you'll make a killing.

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Is this a bit? You don’t even have to get very far into it. There’s a 1970s Shake & Bake ad two minutes in.

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I dunno if Disney is, like, aware that they did this, but one of the “Wonderful World of Walt Disney” specials they did in the 70s appears to have been sourced from a VHS recording with all of the contemporary commercials intact.

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Actual chimpanzees stack these grocery pallets, there is no other explanation for why they’re consistently so bad

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the actual numbers from Scott Vanzo, animation director on Futurama: “an hour a frame” for the title sequence, which of course was 24fps, so a day for just a second of animation on the admittedly very complex (over 80 levels compositors together) intro.

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sometimes I think about how the CGI on Futurama was very revolutionary and expensive for the time and it took like three days to render a shot on a render farm with a hundred processors but now I can do the same thing and achieve the same effect in near-real-time on my home PC

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My personal website hasn’t been properly updated in forever and that’s because maintaining the comic section was a chore, so I’m in the process of migrating that over to a new WordPress installation where it does mostly everything for me automatically. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875878

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Ramadan can’t end FAST enough. Ah? Anyone?

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Hal “Bronycon” Emmerich

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*Naked Snake

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my mother just asked me if Naked Snack always has his “tallywhacker” out and that’s why he’s named that