SweetTrashcan

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

The Technique:

I draw the frames and then I use the liquify tool to push the lines into the next frame and redraw them where I need to. This allows me to keep the lines consistent, but gives me the control of frame by frame animation bc I am still making each frame manually! I also use 3d models as reference to help me with the angles! Super important to use reference while you animate (and with art in general), if youre no good handling 3d models then act it out and record yourself!

The Theory:

i think most people are at least loosely familiar with the 12 principles of animation (if youre not, heres a 2.5 minute video showcasing them!), but may not necessarily know how to employ them. the main 3 i tend to focus on when I animate is rhythm, telegraphing, and inertia so ill cover those there 👍

1. Timing & Rhythm

Timing is how you space out your frames both in how long an individual frame is held for, and also when you drawn an inbetween of two frames you can favour one frame slightly more than the other instead of drawing the exact average of the cels, giving the favoured cel more timing weight.

Left line has the cels evenly spaced out on the timeline, right holds the first cel for longer and the second cel slightly favours the last frame. It creates a more interesting rhythm to the animation! Rhythm is how I think of animation timing. Theres a beat like a song to every animation I make, and creating an interesting beat is what makes an animation fun to watch (for me, anyway):

2. Anticipation / Telegraphing

Before I animate a big change in movement, I like to telegraph that its coming. Usually this is doing a little counter movement in the opposite direction, but thats not the only way to telegraph a motion, e.g. eye movement can telegraph a head turn!

3. Follow-through / Overshoot / Inertia

Unless the movement is mechanical, it wont come to a hard stop and will have some level of bounce or easing out to it. How much "bounce" you add will have a big impact on how the animation feels, but a very subtle bounce will add a natural feeling to the end of a motion.

Secondary animations will use a lot of this, note that the head and the hand have a small amount of continuous motion (primary animation), and then the hair has a lot of bounce and inertia (secondary animation which reacts to the primary animation). Note the different amounts applied to the braid vs the sideburn vs the bangs

an origin story showing marios early years

he will not have a moustache at the beginning of the movie

mario and luigi are hassled at their construction job by foreman spike. they find an entrance to the mushroom kingdom and nobody believes them

at some point mario will yell at luigi and then apologize but it'll be too late. there'll be like 5 minutes of the movie where they both convince themselves they don't need each other but find out that family is the best friend you'll ever have or something

charles martinets cameo will be as god. mario will black out at his lowest point and be taught a lesson by an otherworldly omnipotent figure voiced by charles martinet.

toad will be the awkward guy that tries to fit in with everyone else he'll be like "haha yeah that's cool guys let's do that! totally yknow haha". that'll be his joke

Here’s the prompt list I’m using in case anyone wants to join me in this challenge:

Like that’s it, that’s the entirety of the line. You can keep your private life *private* as long as it’s not a risk to other people. Someone asks “Do you know how to drive a car?” that’s not any of their business! Unless you’re getting into the driver’s seat and about to take off into traffic/with passengers!

“Are you STD positive?”-from a random stranger? FUCK OFF you don’t get to know that! “Are you STD positive?”-from a prospective sexual partner? Okay yeah that’s information you’ve got a right to know so that you can make your own informed decisions.

With that in mind, we’re all gonna remember that JKR is a terf who has literally been cited by legislators engaged in legislation that actively harms trans people, and we’re not gonna give her any more money.

That means not streaming the new show on Netflix, because regardless of how much influence she has on the production, she gets paid for it.

We’re gonna make the show flop. We’re gonna show Warner Brothers that we don’t forget (of course, how would we forget, it isn’t as if she’s stopped), and that their business association with terfs is no longer profitable.

But the bathroom?