Yea so I think I’m gonna start using this platform more for documentation of my art and shit. Does that sound like a good idea people who aren’t reading this?
been seeing stuff about using pasta as a cheap nib substitute lately.
I don’t recommend it, pasta is brittle and breaks easily - if your “nib” breaks you won’t be able to get it back out and your pen will be unusable! It also will probably scratch your tablet as the tip won’t be rounded.
If you need cheap nib replacements, make your own as above.
This is glorious and even thought it doesn’t fit in the range of all the paranormal, I MUST share
It works like this: You tell Kitestring that you’re in a dangerous place or situation, and give it a time frame of when to check in on you. If you don’t reply back when it checks your status, it’ll alert your emergency contacts with a custom message you set up.
It doesn’t require you to touch anything (like bSafe) or shake your phone (like Nirbhaya) to send the distress signal. Kitestring is smarter, because it doesn’t need an action to alert people, it needs inaction.
This shouldn’t even be an app this should be an integrated feature into all phones on every OS
Ok, guys. Thi is really important. You have to reblogthat and read the whole article.
This will never happen to me. You can’t tell. Otherwise, if you don’t want to do for yourself, maybe among your follwers someone need this information.
I’m a man, i don’t care. You should care the more. What if it was your sister? Again, spread the word. There may be someone needingths.
You can never tell. As far as we can’t handle back maniacs, PLEASE, prevent yourself <3
alright, so critics are praising this movie for its “low budget” animation turning over a profit, but as an animation student, let me tell you how much of a scam this all is
how is 30 million USD low budget
1988′s Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo has an estimated $10,000,000 in it’s production, that includes equipment and pay and commercialization and production, and is considered by most to be the best-animated movie of all time, with a huge budget put into animation, an animated film with a low budget would be something like that Lord of the Rings animated movie from the 70s, or a Ralph Bakshi movie, only a couple million dollars.
Digital animation has advanced to the point it’s effectively cheaper, faster, and easier to produce than hand drawn cel animation, providing less animators and less cost. There are even reports that half of the Sausage Party animators were overworked and barely paid at all, too.
This has me to believe that most of the $30,000,000 didn’t go into the actual production, pay, advertising, the real number would be around $6-8 million dollars, the rest of the money being embezzled to producers like Seth Rogan, Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon, Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, and Evan Goldberg and the studio itself
in short, even though they had a $30,000,000 budget, which is 3 times the amount of the best-animated film of all time, cut down by 30% due to digital animation technology efficiency…….. they haven’t even paid or credited most of their animators, and even overworked them,most of the money went to Seth Rogan and his cronies in a classic Adam Sandler/Happy Maddison Productions style Hollywood-embezzlement scheme
one of the biggest fears for American animators is the industry turning into piss-poor conditions, like seen in Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan, where animators work in sweatshop conditions, are overworked, and get little pay for a job that requires a 4-year college Masters degree
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAASE actually spread this around, because not only is this just a shit practice at all, it damages a relatively-small, niche career type by encouraging massive budget animated movies while the actual animators themselves receive less wages, and more hours, and if these blockbuster budget animated films are made, and they don’t receive the money needed to actually turn a profit, film studios will abandon animation studios. Unions have never worked well in the animation industry, since it’s a niche industry and not something large scale like a factory manufacturer, with practices like Walt Disney Studios actually accusing Unionized animators of being communists during the McCarthy trials of the 1950s, or studios dropping entire animation departments as a whole and replacing them with outsourced animators in Taiwan. You’ll be really helping an entire industry improve in quality just by the general public knowing how much of a toxic practice this is.
update, animators for the film were reviewed by Cartoon Brew and discuss how horrible the conditions were for animators for this film:
YO PSA!!!
If you get a link like this from one of your tumblr buddies, DON’T OPEN IT!!! IT’S NOT THEM THAT SENT IT!!!! IT’LL FUCK UP YOUR TUMBLR AND SEND THE LINK TO OTHERS ON YOUR ACCOUNT.
EDIT: Shit! I might have to make a new account. This is screwing up my tumblr and one of my side blogs has been deleted.
Too bad I didnt see this sooner. If you get some random message from me guys, heres a thing.
