#coding struggles

[challzworld-blog]

The IT Guy: The Unsung Hero of the Office

Every office has one. That mystical figure who emerges from the depths of the server room like a tech-savvy wizard, wielding an arsenal of USB sticks and an uncanny ability to fix things just by looking at them. He’s the one who holds the power to make or break your workday. He is… The IT Guy. Chapter 1: The IT Guy’s Natural Habitat The IT guy doesn’t have a normal workspace. No cubicle farm…

[notimjustagirl]

Head empty. Just drained.

Three hours of fighting code, chasing a deadline, brain running on fumes—now it’s just static. The kind where you can’t think, can’t move, just exist. Pressure still lingers, like echoes of a race already finished. Nothing left to do but sit in it, let the weight settle, and feel.

[thecinnamongirlll]

[spookitordukeit]

Lamb who doesn’t know how to be a lamb…

Lamb who lost their family too early to know how lambs act…

Lamb who is a mishmash of different animal habits and mannerisms…

Lamb who has nothing but occasional instincts in the back of their brain that may or may not be lamb things…

Lamb who didn’t forget about the sheepfolks culture, lamb who never learned, lamb who never had the chance to be taught…

Lamb feeling a hole in their chest and not knowing how to fill it…

Lamb yearning for something they can’t describe…

[n0ahsferatu]

ℑ 𝔪𝔢𝔱 𝔞 𝔩𝔞𝔡𝔶 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔰,

𝔉𝔲𝔩𝔩 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔣𝔲𝔩—𝔞 𝔣𝔞𝔢𝔯𝔶’𝔰 𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔡,

ℌ𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔯 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤, 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱,

𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔡

- John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819)

(based on the eponymous painting by Frank Dicksee (1901))

(prints available on my inprnt ! :))

[hyunpic]

daily gifs until hyune day — most replayed parts in skz code

[jinikaris]

HYUNJIN and FELIX at Incheon airport, November 22nd 2024

[wolfziedraws]

Been thinking a lot about Tobias' identity struggles as a parallel to being mixed/biracial and had to do some sketches about it

[kirkwallguy]

Theres a hidden flower crown in inquisition???

YES. it's maybe one of my favourite quests in the game because it reminds me of weird rumours you'd hear about games in the 00s.

if you find a specific rock in the emerald graves and jump on it like 50 times you'll hear a disembodied voice. if you bring it 10 crystal grace it'll say some more weird lines about going downstairs. after that, if you walk through a false wall hidden in empris du lion you'll find a giant dark flight of stairs that you need to walk down for like 3 minutes. once you reach the bottom you'll hear the voice again and be gifted the flower crown. this all sounds crazy and fake but it's real and i'm obsessed with it.

the description is also really funny. i love whatever gay ass orlesian needed this accessory

[stagefoureddiediaz]

‘I know this thing between us has been messy and hard…’

I’m still stuck on the choice to use that phrasing - ‘this thing between us’ - that’s not really the phrasing you’d use to describe a semi falling out between friends. But it is the sort of thing you might say in connection with a romantic relationship - one you’ve been building towards that has become more complicated than you anticipated.

[briskchips]

HELLO!! big fan of your animatics!! How do you make them and do you have any tips for inspiration, planning, and what software do you use?

Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

I think the realization that revolutionized the way I think about storyboarding the most is that you HAVE to let your imagination drive. I start off every animatic with super loose, super messy, barely legible sketches, with wrong anatomy, janky movement, etc. Instead of focusing on making it look good, I can just focus on setting it up for its potential, and starting my motivation at the highest point it can be. I never let my first draft take more than a few hours over the course of like 2 days max, or else the drive dissipates.

If I start a board right away with the cleanest, most beautiful art I can muster, I'll kill my own motivation, like "Oh god, in my head, I imagined a huge spinning 3D camera shot here, with a bunch of dancing characters. That last panel alone took me like 30 minutes to draw, I don't wanna do this! I'll draw a simpler, flatter scene instead." and then it ends up looking nothing like how I imagined, and I get demotivated before abandoning the project. But if I start with super messy lines, just barely enough to get the idea out onto a screen where I can watch it, the excitement and imagination will drive, like "Wow, this shot with a huge spinning 3D camera and all these complicated characters looks SO COOL! It's gonna take a lot of work, but look how interesting it looks already! I can't give up on this!"

For reference, this was puppet boy's first draft!

Storyboarding is a bit different from a lot of other visual art mediums because it takes a LOOOOT more work before it starts feeling rewarding. Learning to manage your own motivation is a huge part of building the skill that I feel a lot of people don't mention.

But when it comes to learning how to finalize it, study up on your storyboarding rules! Learn about perspective, anatomy, screen direction, and learn to draw FAST (that's a big one). Draw out shots from your favourite movies, study their composition and take note of their camera/character movement, and how it aligns with the shots sandwiching them. Learn from other artists (I recommend Toniko Pantoja, he's a very experienced board artist who makes a lot of videos abt improving your boards and what it's like to work in the industry), and PRACTISE! Your first piece of art, whenever you try anything new, is going to SUCK. You're gonna think its bad. That's just how art goes. But the next time you do it, you'll always, always, improve, even if just a little, even if you can't see it for yourself.

The biggest thing to keep telling yourself when making storyboards is DON'T GIVE UP YET. YOU'RE SO CLOSE TO MAKING SOMETHING COOL. And then you have to keep telling yourself that over, and over, and over, and over, through all the sighs, and the frustrated rage-quitting, and the exhausted temporary give-ups, and then eventually, those animatics you keep building in your head get to be real! And it feels incredible.

[sunnydbeam]

《 What are your dreams full of? 》

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[learningfromlosing]

"my mom handed this ring down to me" "my mom taught me how to cook" "I got my style from my mom" luckyyyyyyyyyyyy all I got from my mom was borderline personality disorder 🫠

[samsheughan]

I'm not afraid Of the war you've come to wage against my sins I'm not okay But I can try my best to just pretend

So will you wait me out Or will you drown me out? So will you wait me out Or will you drown me out? (I have to let you go)

[aprilblossomgirl]

[Official Trailer] Ossan’s Love Thailand รักนี้ให้ “นาย” (2025)

[jinikaris]

FELIX // SKZ CODE EP. 65: TRAVEL LOG #3 AUSTRALIA ♡