The Amateur Crackshipper

I think of the first draft as an armature.

If I was making a beautiful bronze statue, I would need to make a clay model first. And, depending on the shape, before I even got out my clay I would need to get some good thick wire and create a basic shape for the clay to adhere to, so it doesn't all fall down. Once I have this essential 3D wire frame, I can start building and subtracting and refining.

But if I try to refine on just clay, it won't have enough of a core to hold it up. I'll sculpt a beautiful hand only to have the whole arm fall off and go smush.

The armature isn't the sculpture. It is the frame you build the sculpture around.

The first draft isn't the novel, it's a sort-of-novel-shaped thing that will hold up everything you build and beautify later.

that's why we have sketch step in art!

also with big project like animation or poem i think about process as "fish from skeleton"

i do "fish head" with the idea and "what i am trying to say"

that's why my film "monster with red fangs" has reimagining of vampire myth - the "fish head" is antiracism message, and main heroes - black vampires, so audience should be at their side. But original vampire myth is "Vampire is a monster", which i played with. Entire film in the end is thought about "real monster is not who people usually clame so", and actual monsters there are Hunters

all is from "headfish" - "what exactly i want to say by my project", "what is main idea and theme"

after "headfish" it goes further - but still bones.

in my poem "and then the rabbit saw the sun", about my immigration expirience, i've made "skeleton" of chapters and what they should tell to audience.

it even end up in final poem - first chapter, in final poetic form, are asking question which later chapters are giving answers

and then goes meaty layers - sketches, concept art/refs of characters, storyboards, raw version, semi-final version, final version Of Parts - then parts together

in my game "my rose will be my grave" (datesim) i made mechanics with test graphic and then started to add semi-final version of characters sprites, then - editing it to one style making it final versions

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

This feels like I could trip on that radio and fall right into that water, feeling the crystal waves as I drop in.

And this, a nice stroll down a resort strip, where my sunscreened skin could literally feel cooked if I leaned too close to the tiling.

And then a nice stretch of summer street, wherein you could see your face in the flushed red of that car provided it didn't blind you from its sunny reflections.

This is not metaphorical. I mean actual, literal pieces of paper/plastic/metal/whatever explicitly erected to inform the public.

“How did you know this was the right trail?” I read the sign.

“Wow, how did you know what that flower is?” There’s a SIGN.

“How did you know we needed to use the side door?” THERE IS A SIGN POSTED ON THE FRONT DOOR.

Just…why are we having such different experiences of the world? People can read. I KNOW they can read. There’s nothing wrong with their vision.

Just. READ. THE. GOD. DAMN. SIGN.

This also applies to:

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