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Pickle really loves his pickle jars Nim belongs to @hannihilator Jehke belongs to @mist-me Ivan belongs to @NCSanimations on Twitter Pickle belongs to @yadedaj Ingram belongs to @darkstormgts Lyla belongs to @gracioushd Vita belongs to @skullymingo

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Hit up another art trade batch with @yeeshastone! This first image is Ms. Lady Luck the coral snake. I had a lot of fun figuring out the scales on her. I love her Victorian casino aesthetic. It was super fun to play around! Look forward to the next snaky friend!

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Tango were so confident in Hi-Fi Rush that they released it on the same day they announced it; hotdropped it out of nowhere with nothing but a single trailer saying "THIS IS OUR COOL NEW RHYTHM-ACTION GAME IT'S OUT NOW!" and it actually worked. People loved it, it was popular, it wasn't an AAA game but it looked gorgeous and was a complete and polished experience, just an all-around triumph for the devs at Tango Gameworks.

I cannot overemphasize how crazy that is. If you're an indie game launching on Steam (meaning you're operating on a lower budget than most games) one of your first goals is to hit 20,000 wishlists before you launch, since that's the magic number that makes the Steam algo start showing your game to people who don't know you exist. You need months of hard work and good luck to make it, and even then you're still praying that the 20k wishlists actually convert to sales (I've worked on projects that hit 20k wishlists, but with a really low conversion rate so the games still 'failed')

An AA game with a hefty budget would need way more than that to make back its money spent. They would have to compete with AAA games hogging all the attention (and the audience's budget), while not having that scrappy indie culture behind them. If they don't sell enough to make their money back + enough for a new game, that studio is toast.

Hi-Fi Rush's team really went for a hotdrop stunt that would instantly kill 90% of other studios outright, somehow pulled it off spectacularly with a completely new IP that couldn't even fall back on brand recognition, and Microsoft STILL closed them down. They had a miracle team and just fired them all.

There's really nothing you can do to survive in this industry anymore

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An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)

"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.

"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.

"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.

"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.

"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.

"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.

"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.

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They really went there huh.

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hi, i'm sorry for bothering you with a question. i was wondering if you have tips for environments & backgrounds? or know of any tutorials/ref sites?

I saw these videos, which helped me a lot:

1. Tips for Drawing Backgrounds!

2. Painting Background for TV Animation!

3. Perspective Grids

I've made a Pinterest folder with background references.

One tip that I find very valuable: If you're working on background design and there are characters living in that specific environment, make that as clear as possible. People leave hints and signs everywhere. Boots and shoes next to the front door. Empty bootles and soda cans. Untidy beds. Jacket hanging on a chair. Paper files, post-its and notes all over the desk. Boxes with belongings in it. Dust and crumpled paper ball on the floor... Stuff that indicates someone lives there. That makes it far more entertaining and believable. You can even add objects that say something about your character's personality, likings and preferences.

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EVEN MORE YUI KARASUNO SONIC CHANNEL ART AHHHHHH never will I get tired of it (8/8)

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I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :)

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This may not fully fit for any of the twos but the moment I saw it I thought of them lmao

featuring pre-scarf Scarfy

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This machine kills AI

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Meet Care-Rage-Us! Here's the piece dedicated to the unique group of adventurers in my current DnD game! Trekking across the country in their magnificent caravan. The party still has some edges to smooth out but when push comes to shove they can become an excellent team! Nim belongs to @hannihilator Jehke belongs to @mist-me Ivan belongs to @NCSanimations on Twitter Pickle belongs to @yadedaj Ingram belongs to @darkstormgts Lyla belongs to @gracioushd Vita belongs to @skullymingo

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