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Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, being Electrified is a purely beneficial status condition for anyone who receives it (whether it is Mario's party or an enemy), as all it does is deal contact damage to whoever attacks that character with a non-ranged attack.

However, it turns out that in the game's code, an unused functionality for Electrified exists that would have made it act more like the Paralysis status common in RPGs (e.g. like the Pokémon series games), whereby it would also have a chance of preventing the afflicted character from making a move on that turn. Note how in the footage, Mario and Goombella only briefly shake instead of being able to perform their attacks.

This actually explains an odd behavior in the game whereby enemies would sometimes use items to cure Electrified when it never needed to be cured in the first place (bottom image, dramatization from an earlier post explaining this phenomenon). These enemies must be acting upon a script written under the assumption that Electrified is still able to incure the Paralysis-like effect, which was not updated when the effect was removed during development.

The Spiky Goomba in the scenario means well, he is simply acting on outdated information.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.