Western Animation is Gay Culture

What I want.

[ID: a digital draiwng of donnie from ROTTMNT sitting on a giant half of peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He is on his phone with his back to the viewer and looking over his shoulder towards us. He is surrounded by tech and a computer rests on the edge of the sandwich. The words 'PB&J' are written in yellow and purple text above him. Their are two plushies sitting by the sandwich, the first is of blaze the cat and the other is of espio the chameleon from sonic./END ID]

So Kim did the only thing she could. She took responsibility.

All of the Walter and Lalo parallels finally paid off, because Kim, in the end, is not like them. Walt constantly offloaded responsibility to other people, continually justified himself, and doubled down on being worse every chance he got. Lalo had no respect for life and was cheerfully immune to the suffering of others.

But Kim IS NOT LIKE THEM. She shows that there's no point of no return as far as doing the right thing goes. That's a choice anyone can make, if they're willing to take on the hurt, like Walt and Lalo could never do. I remember the time when she and Jimmy threw the beer bottles from the balcony, and the next morning Kim cleaned them up. She didn't have to, but she did anyway, because it was her mess.

She's not like Jimmy either, who wants to pretend nothing ever happened and live a happy life for ever and ever where all of their dreams come true. She knows it can't be that way. She knows that the reason it can't be that way is her fault, because of how caught up she got in the scam, how she deceived Jimmy about Lalo because she didn't want her fun ruined.

So she did the most honorable thing she could. She gave up her career and gave up her husband, not as pointless, self-flagellating sacrifices, but because she is right that she and Jimmy hurt people, and she is right that all of the pro bono cases in the world won't even the scales. This is the only way she can be sure that something like this never happens again.

guess what? this is flash!

this is also flash!

THIS is puppet animation:

the funniest part is that most puppet animation isn’t even done in flash anymore. people use after effects instead because it has MUCH more sophisticated and useful tools meant specifically for puppet animation.

the technique can be used well, however. my little pony does it so fluidly it looks practically seamless.

homestar runner doesn’t focus nearly as much on fluidity, but instead on constructing strong, expressive key poses and making every frame really count.

puppet animation isn’t even limited to digital mediums. in fact, it’s not new at all.

the adventures of prince achmed is the world’s oldest surviving feature-length animated film - that’s right, predating snow white by over 10 years - and it was done entirely using puppet animation; black paper cutouts atop illuminated backgrounds. and it’s truly fucking breathtaking.

this is a good blunt article about how exorbitant hollywood profit is only possible through exploiting the most vulnerable tranches of labor, which like many industries has always been the case and is as a result as precarious as it’s ever been

which is a shit deal for labor, but it also means that studios are incredibly exposed and that withholding their profits by skipping the theater and the subscriptions can have a bigger impact than ever before in terms of blueballing greedy studios

If you know me, you know I’m a fan of “covert” fight scenes. Scenes where two people are fighting but they’re both pretending that something else is going on. This one from Dreadnaught (1981) is one of the best.