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I love the rain- hope everyone can enjoy it in LA***.

Blazing-fast image creation – using just your voice. Try Grok Imagine.

Anyone can translate this? It looks helpful.

RT @simodasketch: 動画を好きな所で止めて360度ぐるぐる観察し放題な作画素材集、、、コトブキヤさんから来年よりサービス開始するそうです！！.＃PR.＃ジザイテン.＃コトブキヤASI

The biggest homage you can give to the nine old men at Disney is to learn from their work yet experiment and try something no one has yet done!.

There is space between character design and animation that many don’t understand but makes an impact to the final frame- the stuff requires a lot of patience/planning and is difficult for normies to understand the value since they can’t see it- it’s only at the end we feel it!.

Behind one beautiful character rigg is a thousand beautiful character sculptures hidden inside it’s topology. So much work but no one will even notice. they’ll only be able to feel it!.

RT @jerrysaltz: Artists: All good art has invisible structure. Think of the structure of a poem. Think of iambic pentameter. Or a sonnet th….

There are no rules. There isn’t even a Disney style. It’s really all about the individual artist and what feels satisfying for them apart from what is “correct.”.

As much as we try to look the same we are so different and as different as we look we are so similar!.

You don’t want to miss this- truly one of the most gorgeous graphic novels I’ve ever seen- Something I’m personally supporting and hope others will too on Substack: the Merman by Minkyu Lee-

As an animation character designer who started in 2007, with the development and access that the internet brought, ironically it feels like there are less different styles in general. Did access to other people’s work develop into less individuation and experimentation?.

Sometimes learning looks like failing three times and still making no progress. then failing further over a long period of time- during that process to not lower your standards and having mentors that are honest is essential- digesting a lecture is different from embodying it!.

You can take this a step further by incorporating props in the environment to motivate encourage some dramatic movement in the character blocking to symbolize different subtextual psychological beats for the characters! Elia Kazan is an excellent example of this!.

. details/spaces to support them! We often talk about how important storytelling is within environments, but it's often so easy to get lost on the inessential details and lose track of the story if it's not spoken and talked about across the board!.

the story beats of the performance, the setups and payoffs, and even the subtext behind the lines. are so essential! Even standing up and exploring/playing with the choreography and the blocking of the "actors" within the space all adds up to your environment designers adding. .

I think the reason why the nine old men at Disney really were about passing down principles and values more then techniques. is that they wanted the future generations to experiment not copy their own work. That’s the valuable thing we can learn from the past!.

You frame for the performance first, everything else needs to work around that- it’s not an exhibition of your perspective skills but having something meaningful to express through images*.

For me, whether the final result is an animated CG picture projected on a flat screen, a volumetric sculpture in a museum or a painting hanging on a wall. there’s no shortcut on starting from a foundation on observational life drawing*.

“Character designs” for K dramas are so archetypical it’s become it’s own language- curly hair signals blank. facial hair signals blank. even the same secondary actors who signal the same tropes. so interesting!.

A straight line easier then a curved. A vertical line easier then a horizontal.