The Fictionaut's lair

Here’s a secret: it’s not OUR JOB to adapt to the market. It’s not OUR JOB to buy napkins and golf clubs and drive to the mall on the other side of town to make sure it doesn’t go out of business.

Did previous generations kill the horse and wagons after the car was invited? Did those lazy citizens kill the town crier by buying into that newfangled newspaper business?

What people want and are ready to spend their money on will change over time. Today we have different goals and different standards - like I will invite my friends over for dinner and instead of napkins I’ll put a roll of paper towels on the table. And my friends won’t clutch their pearls and hiss “you uncultured swine” at me, because we value that paper towels are cheap and efficient! Napkins may be pretty but some of them end up being unused, and I’ll have to throw them away after the dinner and it’s a fucking waste.

Did your mall end up as an empty husk outside of town because those pesky millennials buy all their clothes online now? You lucky son of a gun. Now you get to use your ~*IMAGINATION*~ and repurpose that ugly windowless box into something actually useful. Why not a nice office space? (x)

Or how about you make the old stores into cute micro apartments? I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE IN ONE OF THESE! (x)

Are the stores fine but the parking lot empty because those cheap hipsters would rather take a bus or bike to the mall instead of buying a car like regular people? Do like they did in Seattle and turn it into a fucking beautiful water treatment facility and park. (x)

This thing collects storm-water runoff to create and provide nutrients to small pools and green areas. It works like a natural creek that ALSO filters out pollutants that would damage the salmon population! AS A MILLENNIAL I CAN SAY THAT THIS IS SO FUCKING UP MY ALLEY YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I WOULD GO TO THAT MALL, BUY A COFFEE AND GO OUT TO LOOK AT THE BIRDS.

Actual fucking plovers. When was the last time a parking lot did something for the environment except gathering upp more roadkill for the scavengers?

I could also go into why no-one is watching shitty sitcoms or boring movies because we have access to so much media that we can filter out the generic stuff that doesn’t appeal to us, but that is an essay in itself. We are extremely capable on spending it on media that speaks to us though (hey this is unrelated but did you know that Wonder Woman has passed 570M$ worldwide?)

TLDR: Market powers are entitled and used to people spending an ever-increasing amount of money on their shitty products. When this trend turns they are too unimaginative and lazy to do something about it so instead they’ll whine about how their former customers are “killing” them.

As of 6/21/17, these are my updated commission prices!

Hey everyone! I know it hasn’t been long since my last commission post, but everything went so well with the last commission wave that I am able to support myself better than ever before. Because of this, I’ve been able to work on speedpaints, patreon, anatomy study, original content, and do what I love more than anything in this world: draw. So much. Like, more than I have in a very long time.

However, I ended up taking a ton of commissions last time and am still trying to catch up, which has led me to raise my prices and have set slots for real this time.

There are 10 available slots as of right now. once they’re closed, they’re closed until I’m able to complete all 10, so hurry and get one while you can!

WHAT I WILL DRAW:

Armor/weapons

OCs

Animals/anthro/furries

Light gore/blood

WHAT I WONT DRAW

NSFW

Detailed mechanics

Anything more than a basic background

Heavy gore/blood

PLACING YOUR COMMISSION:

Hit me an e-mail at [email protected] containing the information below. If you have any additional questions regarding whether or not I’ll be willing to draw something for you, attach that to the bottom of your email!

Please include: Full name, the type of order you’re interested in, (ex: Bust, Flat color) a brief description of what you want, (no longer than a paragraph or so, please!) and any reference pictures you might have, with “commission, (first name)” as the subject.

Before you submit, know that I reserve the right to deny any commission I might feel uncomfortable with for any reason. I will let you know if I can’t take your commission.

HOW I DO MY COMMISSIONS:

Once I’ve let you know that you’re on the commission list, it may take a few days to get started on depending on how many commissions are in front of you or what kind of commission you’ve ordered. I will do my best to get to them as fast as I can without sacrificing the quality of my work.

I like to send sketches and progress pictures to my commissioners during the process to ensure that what I’m making lines up with what you want, and then I accept payment via paypal in full (with an invoice) after the final product is complete.

When I first saw this game, I thought Bendy was going to be able to move through the posters and papers on the wall.

au where the entire game is just bendy following henry around and critiquing his art/ au where bendy appoints himself head animator when joey fails to follow the model sheet when bringing Bendy into existance through demonic magic and Bendy is incredibly salty about it

New page available here on the TPoH website or here on Tapastic!

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TPoH update: *occur*

That gif only proves the frames were pulled together in Flash as a movie clip. But it still doesn’t prove the animation was done in exclusively in flash. I mean before I would praise Wakfu for being “animated in Flash” but now that i understand how programs works I can’t help but play Rubilax’s advocate with this and be just a little skeptical.

All I see from that gif is a movie clip set on a tween to move. There are no individual keyframes shown (which you wouldn’t want anyway if you don’t want a cluttered workspace. You’d group that stuff). The purple frames indicate anything that’s tweened. So really when you observer them you can easily recognize that all these keyframes are just camera movements with another layer of effects (layer YugeO) coming in at 120 that is also a movie clip. 

Point is these layers with few keyframes could be two things. 

A movie clip (or graphic) holding assets drawn in Flash or

A movie clip (or graphic) holding imported assets drawn in another program. An image sequence.

Seeing what is actually inside those movie clips would be proof that Wakfu is animated in Flash but what’s shown isn’t proof.

It’s the same thing with After Effects. It’s one thing to say that something was done native IN after effects but anyone who’s ever used After Effects as a drawing tool knows how much easier it is to use After Effects as what it is. A Compositor. I think it would be more accurate to say that these shots were possibly rendered with Flash but that gif doesn’t show that it was indeed “animated” with Flash.

Whereas I see a shows like Johnny Test and The Nutshack and because of how the lines on the characters look, i can believe that it was both animated and rendered in Flash.

If you ever worked in Flash you’ve seen how Flash creates lines with is tools but then when you look at a normal still shot from Wakfu

It’s not as obvious to the point where even IF the core animation was done in flash, you could argue that it was cleaned up before or after it was shown on television.

I’m sorry for being such a Debby Downer. It’s just when I see this

I don’t think “Wow so this is what Flash can really do!” 

I’m not a member of the animation team so I fully admit I might be talking out of my ass, but, based on my discussions with them, and what I’ve seen in the work files, all of the characters and props are built in Flash, including the FX.

It’s true that the backgrounds are often painted or rendered in other programs, and I think there are some compositing tools used on some shots (maybe?) but I don’t know the specifics of that. I’m also not the biggest Flash expert, but I did dig into the file of this shot, and, well…

Like I said, I’m not an expert, but…

To me, it looks like it’s a group of Flash shapes.

Same for the head and other parts.

Changed the color of some of the lines to show they’re editable vector shapes. If there is another file or program that these lines are imported from, I can’t find it anywhere in the work process.

I fully admit that there could be magic going on that I’m not aware of because - yeah, I’m not an animator and I’m not a Flash expert. I saw someone in the comments saying that special plugins were used, but I can open these files on my vanilla copy of Flash with no errors. Maybe that proves jack, but I’ve never known an Adobe product to happily open files that require plugins without complaint.

I’ve seen the build files of the characters that include mouth shapes and hands and turnarounds, etc. They’re all Flash. And there’s just not a lot of files in the workflow that aren’t from Flash.

Pick a nose, any nose

Oh yeah, Wakfu does use traditionally drawn keyframes for guides, but they look like this:

In conclusion: I’m not an animator, just a community manager who saw this post and though that some people would like a glimpse into the workflow of the series (and maybe brag a little because I love my job and the series we make and our artists are fuuuuckin’ incredible at their jobs). If this was a false flag op to try to get me to show more of the workflow, well… it worked, and good job, but this is as far as I can go. If you have other theories about how the series isn’t primarily animated in Flash, you’ll have to ask someone who knows what they’re talking about (like Tot or Xa) for the next debunking. ^^

Accepted as evidence. No you’re right. Seeing this closer inside I can see those line behaviors I was mentioning before. You can also see all of the shape assets used as well.