black & loud. not detainable. not discreet.

A plotter acted as sort of a 3D printer but for 2D images. There was a ball point pen that could move up and down, and the paper underneath could be moved in and out. Using CAD based programs you could plot points in 2D space and the plotter would draw the lines between them and even do geometric shapes!

When it came time to do The Great Mouse Detective, the animators at Disney wanted to do more dynamic shots for the climatic battle inside Big Ben. Drawing all those gears and cogs would be a nightmare for the animators, so they experimented with using 3D animation.

But this was still the early 80’s. There was no digital ink and paint program, no way to merge the 2D animated characters with the 3D animated backgrounds digitally. So how did they get the 3D animated backgrounds out of the computer?

By drawing each frame on the plotter.

Every frame was printed out on the plotter, and then xeroxed onto animation cels, and then hand painted like traditional 2D animation cels are.

But why the plotter? If they were gonna have to export every frame anyway, why not use a printer? Well… because printers back then just weren’t very good. A plotter uses points and physically draws the line between them, much like how vector graphics work. It yielded a much smoother and higher fidelity line than if they just printed them out.

This was still a massive undertaking, but it was probably the best solution to getting the dynamic camera moves they wanted out on paper. 2D animation was drawn over top and then both layers of animation cels were filmed frame by frame.

And that’s how you got dynamic shots like this in the mid 80’s! 3D animated backgrounds, printed with a plotter, xeroxed onto animation cels, hand painted, and then re-photographed with the 2D animation on top!

This is a common strategy of white feminism: to align with women of color when it suits, trumpeting a nonexistent sisterhood as a mask for appropriating our work to advance the myth of a better world run by women. The truth is, it is women of color, most especially Indigenous women, who are at the forefront of environmental rights because their own rights are inseparable from the battle for the environment.

According to the World Resources Institute, protecting Indigenous lands is among the most successful methods of fighting deforestation and climate change: remove such protections and environmental catastrophe is unavoidable. The battle for land rights is deadly. From 2002 to 2015, some 1,237 eco-activists were killed for defending (mostly) Indigenous lands.

2017 was the deadliest yet with around four activists killed per week. Indigenous women on the front lines who list their lives include Berta Cáceres, Lesbia Janeth Urquía, and Efigenia Vásquez. To dress this up as a warmhearted girl power story not only trivializes their work, it erases the danger such women are in."

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

>looks inside

both the op and the rb from the screenshot describe this as a thing "conservatives" do.

but guess what, riding an atv down the street is literally, factually, a crime. it's not 'categorized as crime regardless of actual harm', it is a crime under dc law.

i don't say this to say riding an atv is harmful or "anti-social" behavior. i say this to highlight the ways the laws themselves are socially constructed to disproportionately penalize youth of color.

conservatives didn't make these laws! there are almost no conservatives living in this city!!!

i am a Black dc resident and our 100% democratic, majority Black, city council made these laws (i could write an entire different post on dc home rule and the racism underlying that but the fact remains that despite federal interference, these laws came from DC elected officials, who are not by any stretch 'conservative' in usamerican political parlance.)

most dc residents are overwhelmingly democrats, and i can tell you for a big fact that neighborhood meetings, nextdoor, overheard coffeeshop chatter, etc etc is VERY often chock full of dyed in the wool liberal democrats acting as though "kids riding atvs in the streets" is a heinous act that needs to be met with police violence.

>looks inside

both the op and the rb from the screenshot describe this as a thing "conservatives" do.

but guess what, riding an atv down the street is literally, factually, a crime. it's not 'categorized as crime regardless of actual harm', it is a crime under dc law.

i don't say this to say riding an atv is harmful or "anti-social" behavior. i say this to highlight the ways the laws themselves are socially constructed to disproportionately penalize youth of color.

conservatives didn't make these laws! there are almost no conservatives living in this city!!!

i am a Black dc resident and our 100% democratic, majority Black, city council made these laws (i could write an entire different post on dc home rule and the racism underlying that but the fact remains that despite federal interference, these laws came from DC elected officials, who are not by any stretch 'conservative' in usamerican political parlance.)

most dc residents are overwhelmingly democrats, and i can tell you for a big fact that neighborhood meetings, nextdoor, overheard coffeeshop chatter, etc etc is VERY often chock full of dyed in the wool liberal democrats acting as though "kids riding atvs in the streets" is a heinous act that needs to be met with police violence.