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ultimate homestuck bops: sburban jungle, oppa toby style, eridans theme

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

toriel: you’ll get your ass handed to you and you’ll deserve it. then she’ll make you feel guilty with pie. don’t fight toriel.

papyrus: you could, and you’d win, but why? what will you get out of fighting papyrus?? he believes in you. don’t fight papyrus.

sans: do not. do not. either he likes you in which case he’ll be too lazy to do anything, or he hates you, in which case you’re fuckin toast kiddo. do not fight sans.

undyne: i mean, she’ll kick your ass, but honestly it’d be a privilege to get beat up by her. fight undyne.

alphys: why??? would you hurt her???? she is small and sad and trying her best. plus if you fight her her buff fish girlfriend will come after you. don’t fight alphys

muffet: you try to fight her and you’ll be covered in spiders with you wallet missing. it’s not worth it. don’t fight muffet.

mettaton: he’ll look more fabulous than you the entire fight, but his egotistical ass could stand to be knocked down a peg. fight mettaton

asgore: look dude. this sad goat man wants you to fight him. he wants to make up for all his past shit. fight asgore. he’ll make you tea after.

chara: PLEASE KICK THIS UNHOLY DEMON CHILD’S ASS. DO IT FOR US ALL. you’ll lose eventually, but we’ll all appreciate the effort

frisk: why? why would you? even if you tried they’d just help you confront your inner demons and give you a hug. fight frisk. you’ll leave a better person.

HAVE YOU GUYS HEARD OF POSTERAZOR

THIS SHITS AWESOME

its helped me a bunch with my xenoblade props’ accuracy and i dont think many cosplayers know about it. its a really nifty program that converts an image into a poster, any size! you just tape the sheets together bam! perfectly scaled prop. 

Looking for a random city? Click here.

Looking for a random city that people have actually heard of? Click here.

Need a random surname for a character? Click here. (They also give prevalence by race, which is very helpful.)

Random motivations for your characters here!

Need some character quirks? Here and here! 

Wednesday

for the theme of journal entries this week, i wasn’t too keen on releasing the pages of my journals, so i thought maybe i’d share some of my favorite links on art journaling and journaling in general!

general

health benefits of journaling 

blog posts about journaling

types of journals

more types of journals

DIY journals/notebook

journaling 101 by rookiemag

rookiemag’s journaling archive

art journaling 101

collaging 101

zines 101

lists

collaging 101

starting

simple guide to journaling

how to start a journal

start a sketchbook

start a sketchbook and stick to it

how to collage in your art journal

how to begin journaling

what to do with a new notebook

how to fill a new notebook

what to fill journals with

creative writing journal ideas

what to write?

119 journal prompts

journal writing ideas for every day of the year

journal prompts about memories

journaling ideas and inspiration

8 tips for journaling

another 8 tips!

what to fill art journals/sketchbooks with

50 art journal prompts 

what to put in a sketchbook

random art prompt generator

giant list of sketchbook ideas

sketchbook ideas

more sketchbook ideas

sketch using a grid

even more art journal prompts

great pinterest page for art journaling

art journaling tips from aubreysgf

how to keep a visual diary

collage in your art journal

great art journal inspo

even googling “journal” is really helpful!

great prompts for just about anyhting

ideas from keri smith 

one word prompts

52 list prompts

101 list prompts

what to put in notebooks

this is a collaboration from masterposts/journaling blogs/tips from my friends!! if you have any other tips or links feel free to add them on! (huge credit to artpricot)

artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.

saying that an artist shouldn’t post their work if they don’t want it bastardized is probably the stupidest stance on this subject you could take. if all artists followed this line of reasoning, there would be no art on the internet. 

when an artist posts their work, they are trusting you to enjoy it respectfully. and when you betray that trust either knowingly or unknowingly, it’s like saying the artist’s time, skills and thoughts aren’t worth anything.

you are NOT entitled to an artists work just because they decided to trust you enough to share it with you.

an artist is within their right to feel upset that someone has used their work in a way they never intended it to be used. they are within their right to ask for it to stop and not happen again.

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.