#Mermaid on land

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Getting myself jazzed up to start on storyboards for episode ten by looking at storyboard animatics by other people, and it's amazing how much it can vary between studios.

Every time, I'm amazed by just how...barebones the storyboards for the ambitiously animated 80's-90's Disney films were. Not only in terms of how loosely the actions were telegraphed, but also in the stylization. Check out this side by side of "Under the Sea." That doesn't even look like Ariel! Not that this is a bad thing--you can tell this setup was in place to really let their famous animators get creative.

Compare that to these boards on My Neighbor Totoro. Miyazaki is also a manga artist, and it shows, here! Compare this to his manga, and there isn't much of a difference. Every panel is fantastically detailed, though not painstakingly so. This feels less like a storyboard, and more like a very thorough comic panel sequence.

Looking at a very different kind of animation, Spongebob is a board-first show. There is no script stage! Going board-first helps keep the pacing of the visual gags tight. Compared to Disney's wishy-washy board timing, the tempo set for the animation is very consistent and obvious.

...And then we have Don Bluth. Just. LOOK at the boards on this deleted sequence from The Land Before Time. The timing, and the level of artistic detail...it's beyond insane. It's interspersed with surviving screenshots, really showing off just how ridiculously detailed these boards were! Even the backgrounds are laid out, complete with grids, to give the animators and backgrounds an idea of the space they were working in! Absolutely incredible.

Each of these methods caters to the animators in a different way, and it's really interesting to think about how!

Next to them, my method is...uh...well.

In my defense, I'd previously been boarding only for myself, since I've been the only animator and using royalty-free music. Now that I've got a composer, and I'll be probably be getting some animation help on this episode, I need to work extra hard to keep things kiiind of clear. Oh boy. Wish me luck! I need to stop procrastinating....

[samgirard]

└ léon marchand extinguishes the olympic flame

[pommegrantaire]

Rayllum but make it a Mermaid AU 💙💜🌊

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[bastart13]

How do you imagine hybrids work in love and legends? We've seen elf/humans.

So there are 6 different species and aside from the mermaids, they're all compatable to have children.

I headcanon life expectancy, colouration, and the shape of facial or body features to be gradient traits, so they pretty much randomly combine between the two parents like any other child

Magical traits are probably more binary. So a fairy hybrid child could inherit the eyes, wings, and/or sparkles, or none, with no middle ground. A demon hybrid will usually inherit a faded form of the markings, but they won't always be able to transform or earn horns. Dwarf hybrids might inherit the ability to echolocate vs just having larger ears.

If two species with strong magic have a child, they're more likely to inherit magical traits (e.g. elves and fairies with strong magic vs humans and dwarves with low magic)

Considering the domains are all friendly with each other, I imagine it's fairly common to have mixed ancestry and there's no real taboo aside from the grief of lifespan differences

[meii-jasmine]

Elliott as the Little Merman!

Headcanon: Elliott dresses up as merman Ariel to make Jas happy

[doesanyonehaveasparelightsaber]

I’m not sure what ya’ll consider to be PEAK friendship but this is it, enough with Hollywood trying to show friends only hanging out in each others’ bedrooms and living rooms and crap, hanging out on each others’ stair landings was a sign of TRUE friendship, corporate fools

Even better about this whole scene, they are all so close to each other and there isn’t a hint of discomfort, Emma and Lewis’ legs are touching and they’re thinking nothing of it because they are just buddies and Cleo folding her legs so that there’s more space for Lewis’ and Emma’s legs and just Rikki propping her feet up on the stair in front of her is just so in character, and then just imagine Cleo’s parents trying to walk past them all and stepping over sprawled out limbs and them being so fine with it because, “hey, it’s just teenager things”, dude, I just love the humanity of it and how absolutely close the original cast actually was with each other to make such scenes seem natural

[sartieparty]

MARINA: THE ERAS

[samantabrzozowska]

“I live as a mermaid on land”

~ Sam

[blackbird-brewster]

Happy 46th birthday, AJ Cook!

July 22, 1978

[camzkoa]

A continuation of that mermay art: mer!qing can change shape at will, he doesnt need to get dry to do it..., but feng xin doesn't know this is a thing

[lurkingshan]

Here’s the thing about Yai: he’s just a 20 year old kid. He is naive and pampered and unprepared for any real challenges that come his way. He doesn’t have the backbone or the savvy to stand up to his father in any real way—he talks a big game but when it comes down to it he only knows how to obey. He loves Jom, sincerely, but he is not equipped to figure out how they can make this work. He just wants it fiercely but has no clue at all how to get it.

And here is the thing about Jom: he has more life experience than Yai and he also has no fucks left to give. He is lost in time, he keeps getting fucked over no matter what he does, and he is sick and tired of this shit. This isn’t his time and he doesn’t owe these people anything; he has no qualms about challenging their norms. His priorities have shifted—he has stopped drawing and instead of trying to find a way home he is staying to protect Yai and change his own fate. He has found his fight again after reaching the depths of despair, and it’s amazing to see.

[buggaboizz]

🐟🐠🐡🦈Happy MerMay girlies and gamers 🐟🐠🐡🦈

For the occasion, I drew mer Paani!

(he's a butterfly telescope goldfish)