I鈥檓 running an Introductory Animation Workshop with creative arts students this Saturday (August 20, 2016) for The聽School of Creative Arts Open Day at Melbourne Polytechnic鈥檚 Prahran Campus.
I鈥檝e rotoscoped and broken down some of the greatest dance gifs to their basic poses and we鈥檙e going to collaboratively design characters then MAKE THEM DANCE!!
Come down, check out the campus and say HI!
I can鈥檛 wait to see the weird animated goofs that result from this workshop, I鈥檒l post them in a couple of days so we can all be in awe of their hilarious spontaneity!聽
Last night had a nightmare that i was being bullied by a popular blogger on tumblr but he lived on my dash physically and his username was dark-wil-wheaton, which appeared over his head like it would in minecraft. He had the colour scheme of a subspace army character from Super Smash Bros Brawl and he would follow me around my dash scoffing and taunt me as I blogged. Visual reconstruction below.
I have to draw a lot of gold and metal for my work, but wasn't happy with any of the metal tutorials i could find around. I prefer really specific instruction, so after some research i put together what i think works as a generalist's guide/tutorial. Not perfectly accurate, but i hope it's helpful!
What really sucks about the dsmp content, particularly how fandom reliant the actual content was for both animatics and vods and recaps and art and things, is moments like right now. Fans and artists are obviously very upset about finding out many of the creators were shit people.
So they delete or unlist all the content they made for it(which they have the right to do).
In any other media, when you find out someone involved with it was awful or something else problematic about it, the media itself still exists and begins to exist outside the behavior of those involved in it. You can still go back and consume the media as a whole and relive either that time period or story without having to think about the people involved with it. I can watch Glee without thinking about how many bad people were in the cast. I can watch a movie without worrying about how the director or producer was outed for being scum.
But the DSMP? It's just gone. It becomes lost media. The vods slowly disappear. The animations that inspired things in the canon (and fanon) become unlisted.The fan arts that gave silly scenes emotional resonance disappear. It becomes nearly impossible to piece together everything that was part of the story experience.
It just makes me sad. Like, I still enjoyed the story. I still enjoyed the characters. But losing so many of the things the fandom created makes it clear you'll never be able to relive it again.