#IT TOOK A WHILE

[rwrbmovie]

Sometimes we do takes with our phone to use laaaaaater on the other actor's phone. This is one of those times. But it got cut ✂️

[elysian-33]

Freshening up

Here’s one of the PROD squad (plus Clem, Danielle, and Moth, and Nimbus) getting ready for the day in an unhallowed / normal AU where they’re all housemates.

They all in the bathroom, brushing teeth, admiring healing tattoos, or helping a housemate with her E shots. They all in spicy tank tops

This piece broke me as much as it broke Procreate so I hope people enjoy.

Same image but no shading filter under cut.

[revelry-in-severity]

Nadeem mention!

Nadeem mention😭😭😭

[radar-chaos]

Sigh.

Janus, hold Patton down will ya?

And so it seems that the rules of the Sides' world has changed...

[taniushka12]

shootout to every single person who saw those cutscenes and immediately started theorizing, i kinda blacked out in each of them bc slutty ilkka got to me 😔

[uniquethingtastemaker]

Riddle's Dreaming of You. A serious and meaningful moment. I need to give you all a taste of the real meat of the story, not just the quotable parts:

It takes Riddle a second to process. It’s like a machine from the 1800s trying to run in modern times. It spits and sputters old, rusty machine parts before breaking. The whole structure collapses. 

He begins to panic. 

[REDACTED. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION]

Their touch grounds him. [Y/N] always manages to do this for him. He wonders for a moment if they’re a mage too. It isn’t natural to be this soothing for the soul. 

It takes him a minute, but his heart rate returns to normal. He can breathe again, and he basks in the calming sensation. It could be viewed as a little inappropriate to let himself linger this long. However, Riddle isn’t strong enough to pull away. He hasn’t felt this safe in… years? Has he ever felt safe? He can’t remember. Perhaps, there were snippets, but they all wrenched away from him by his mom. 

A thumb brushes along his cheek, pulling his attention. He shakes off the lingering haze and regains consciousness. 

“Thank you for the solution, reassurance, and support,” Riddle thanks with soft eyes.

(The analogy is very Riddle. At first, I was thinking of using modern computers terms, but it didn’t feel very right. He prefers paper to computers, so I wanted to showcase that in my writing. I thought it was pretty clever and unique.

(Overall, this is a nice moment. The questioning of “have I ever felt safe?” hits hard. At least for me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. What do you think? Leave your comments. I always appreciate the engagement.

(The end is near. I want this to come out by the end of the week. Tell me what you think)

[day-dreams22]

So i finally got around to using @skyj80 template for btr ships and this is how it turned out

Some general comments:

The order matters, yes this means i HATE carlos and alexa, so unnecesary, and james/lucy are a close second just because lucy was an actual character in the show before the finale, unlike SOMEONE

I'm a sucker for OT4, i know it can be divisive but i personally really like it. Kinda related, I added LucyxJoxCamille, i like them, SUE ME

And finally, yes, kogan is my least favorite couple between the guys, i am so sorry to all my kogan girlies u-u still like them tho...just not as invested

[backslashdelta]

How To Gif: Glass Shatter Effect

By popular demand (ie, 7 people who voted in this poll), here is a tutorial on how to do the glass shatter effect I used to create the first gif in this set.

I use Photoshop CC 2015 (yes I know it's old) for my gifmaking, but you should be able to apply everything to newer versions of Photoshop. For this tutorial I'll be assuming you know the gifmaking basics, but if not, I would recommend this tutorial, which is the process I use to make gifs. Note that this particular process involves saving all of the frames, importing those frames into Photoshop, and then using an action to convert to a smart object.

Keep reading below the cut to learn how to do this effect!

Before I could start making this gif, I needed three things; the two scenes that I wanted to use, and a video of the glass shattering effect. I already knew the scenes I wanted, so then I took to YouTube to find a video which I can't for the life of me find again (edit: thanks to add1ctedt0you in the replies for linking this video!), but it looked like this:

Something like this is what you want. Ideally the green part would be entirely white, but as long as there are two clearly different colours you can usually work with it.

This looks a lot slower than the gif that I made, but that's not because of the frame rate - which is exactly the same above as in the final gif - it's just because there are extra frames in this slower one that I cut out. In the video I used, the glass shattering happened very slowly. I didn't want that, so I ended up skipping several frames when I loaded the frames into Photoshop before using my gifmaking action. I just did this by manually selecting one frame, skipping the next several before selecting another frame, and repeating this until I had selected 60 frames.

After using my gif action, I had a smart object of the glass shatter effect that looked like this:

That's a much better speed! It still wasn't quite where I needed it to be though. I needed this in black and white, so I slapped a hue/saturation adjustment on the smart object and set the saturation all the way down to -100.

Okay great, I could start putting the gif together now.

First, I made a copy of the glass shatter smart object, because I'll need that later. Then, I pulled in frames from the scene that I wanted to appear in the hole after the glass shatters, and I used those to create a new smart object with my gif action (we'll call it Scene-bg). I pulled Scene-bg into the same window as the glass shatter objects. Then I created a new smart object by combining one of the glass shatter objects with Scene-bg, which I did by selecting both layers right clicking, and selecting "Convert to Smart Object".

I renamed this smart object to Shatter-fg. I opened it by clicking on the little icon next to the layer name in the layers window here:

The most important thing here is that the shatter effect object should be the top layer, and I set the mode to "lighten". This will make sure that the lightest colour of either this layer and the layer behind it is displayed; that means that anywhere that's white in our shatter animation will still show up, but anywhere that's black we'll see what's in the layer(s) behind it.

Then I threw some adjustment layers between them to get the colouring I wanted. I used a curves layer, a hue/saturation layer, and I also added text with an outer glow layer effect. Here's what the layer order looked like and the settings I used for each layer:

After this process, Shatter-fg looked like this:

Okay nice, this is starting to look like something! I saved this and went back to the main file with the other glass shatter object.

I needed to invert that other glass shatter object. There's a weird quirk with the version of Photoshop that I use where it doesn't like it when I apply specifically an invert adjustment to a smart object (it appears correctly when editing, but not on export) so I did this by creating a new smart object which included a separate invert layer, but if you have a newer version of Photoshop you can probably just apply the invert adjustment directly. Just note that you'll need to do one of these options; it won't work if you add a separate adjustment layer in the main file, it needs to be applied specifically to the smart object (which we'll now be calling Shatter-bg). It looked like this after I inverted it:

Once that's done, I made sure Shatter-fg was the layer directly above Shatter-bg, and set the mode of Shatter-fg to "darken" and Shatter-bg to "lighten". Since Shatter-fg is set to darken, it will be visible only when it is darker than the layer behind it. By setting Shatter-bg to lighten, I've guaranteed that the layer behind it will always be lighter (ie, white) in the places we want Shatter-fg to be visible, and will be black otherwise. Once I update those settings, this is what the gif looked like:

This is all there is to the glass shatter effect itself. Next I pulled in frames from the second scene to fill in the black areas. This layer needed to go below both glass shatter layers, so that it only shows through where the black. Then I added adjustment layers and some text. I used curves, hue/saturation, and vibrance adjustment layers, and I also added the "archer" text below the glass shatter layers so that it would be hidden to reveal the "prey" text. The other text I added above all of the layers, since I wanted this to be visible all the time. Here is the layer order and all of the settings I used for each of the layers:

I also grouped Shatter-bg and Shatter-fg and shifted them on the timeline so there would be some time to see the background gif before the shatter effect starts.

And that's all! Then it''s just a matter of exporting the finished product:

This is the first gifmaking tutorial I've ever made, so I hope I was able to be reasonably coherent and helpful! I'd love to hear if you make anything by following these steps, or even if you just feel like you've learned something reading through this. And if you have any outstanding questions, feel free to reply or send me an ask and I'd be happy to answer!

[cliffsrcool]

Sayaka art (drawn by me ^_^) (the @ is my tiktok user)

[inkstainsonmysheets]

done, with making mood boards for all of my moots!!!

gonna make this a tradition now!

[suaimhneas-gairid]

Vax'ildan 🪶👑🗡️

[arandomperson442]

I finished a new piece of artwork a few minutes ago and thought I'd share it!

[thatonepikminperson]

Tomorrow bois, y'all get to see my oc's...

and like the essay I wrote about each one of them...

I'M NORMAL ABOUT THE LITTLE PEOPLE IN MY HEAD

[mysticarts]

Fake collab!

first time doing this, I had a lot of fun! (I made this in like, 40 mins-)

Here, have some Hui Ying and Jin interactions! (I feel like they would get along if they actually met)

This fake collab belongs to @littlethingsrae !

Feel free to ask any questions about Hui Ying at all!

[iconicanemone]

For some reason I’ve made a set of characters using @littlehungrywarriorcats’s picrew

I’ve been hurting so I can’t draw them, but I have some doodles in mind

[princesssarcastia]

holy fucking file transfers. wow. i've been so spoiled with music on my phone