#i use pencil2d to animate btw!!

[undead-maggot]

Staring contest 👀

FIRST ANIMATION YAAAAYY IM SO PROUD OF IT!! /POS /LH (and of course its gonna be wally x barnaby because they make me happy /hj)

Anyways, hope you like it! 🐛

[socksandbuttons]

I’m a new digital artist do you have any tips for starting?

ALRIGHT SO. it took some days to answer this sorry. Do everything. Like just go FOR it. In how u wanna draw. Not everyone has like... a similar way to go about digital drawing. (Some people paint, I do mostly cartoonish and cel...shading??) So whatever feels best for you. Sometimes you learn a new thing its okay to evolve in your art thats normal! Style is... a hard consistency bruh. Stabilization... is your friend if you really want a nice smooth line. (I use it sometimes if something not going great, esp if you want to really follow that sketch!) Lining IS an option. Dont be held back by lining. You can use the sketch, just duplicate the layer and erase some of those lines and boom! lineart. You can adjust as necessary. LAYERS ARE YOUR FRIEND. I draw on a computer so layers are quite unlimited. I know apps that restrain you to few tho which is Dumb but like i guess its a mobile art program. But dont be afraid to use them. Or one. You can get away with one layer, thats how i started before i learned about layers. (Art programs came a long way since then.) SAVE. FREQUENTLY. Also please PLEASE back that up somewhere that ISNT the app itself. If you lose the app or the login... good bye to all that. I have the luxury of usbs and an external hard drive. Just find a way to back that up. Art is a lot of memory and storage just expect that. And yes keep them because then you have something to look back on and go 'dang. ive learned'

The clipping layer is also very useful. u want your lines colored but theyre a different color?? You dont have to redraw that! You can clip a layer over it and color over the lines and boom. Colored lines. Same with coloring layers too btw. Very useful art thing to use. yes even in painting. Also this does help once a while but you dont always have to draw on white, u can change the bg color to something different (depends on the program u can default it to something else so u dont have like.. open the previous file to get the color again.) Like i will change it to greys blues or something lighter cause it turns out. things look very different on different colors. (color theory hello... i cannot teach u that.) There is always a free option somewhere. Do not worry. Um thats basically what i got for ya. Some programs have different perks for you that others wont tho. Such as csp and its delightful vector layers (Sai has this too but i CANT change the pen type. vs csp where u can use any pen. BUT CSP DOESNT HAVE MY WATERCOLOR BRUSH... that i adore.) Animating is a different proceedure. but What it is that i used for a while UHM... Pencil2d. Then i moved to opentoonz. (they are... very different... but opentoonz does infact make some things easier)

[eossa]

I posted 111 times in 2022

35 posts created (32%)

76 posts reblogged (68%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@wordbite

@supportcontentcreators

@acuite

@southcodes

I tagged 109 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#blog - 97 posts

#theme rec - 44 posts

#1c - 40 posts

#sidebar - 38 posts

#responsive - 37 posts

#fave - 33 posts

#minimal - 31 posts

#header - 25 posts

#page rec - 18 posts

#dark mode - 17 posts

Longest Tag: 30 characters

#pantone color of the year 2023

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Farbenfroh Page 1 Revamp

A responsive page for displaying colors (or other elements) with standard Isotope filtering and a smart dark mode.

Preview | Code: here or here

Key Features: Isotope filtering. Masonry layout. Responsive. Sidebar layout. Smart dark mode.

For information in regards to resources and customization, please read the page guide here.

19 notes - Posted June 28, 2022

#4

While it’s not yet clear what Adobe will do with Figma, and while the Figma CEO has claimed that Figma will operate autonomously, here’s a free alternative just in case.

22 notes - Posted September 15, 2022

#3

See the full post

41 notes - Posted January 8, 2022

#2

hi! sorry to bother but i was wondering if you know some resources at how can i learn to make themes? im already learning html/css but im finding hard to find good resources to learn how to make themes :( btw: love your work!

Hello! Thank you for the compliment and your interest in making themes.

Since you’re already learning HTML and CSS, I don’t think I need to tell you about w3schools or stackoverflow – you probably came across them yourself already. :)

The best way to understand tumblr themes is to look at the official guide for creating custom themes. There, all of the (necessary) variables are listed and their purpose is described as well.

Base codes can be very helpful to see how these elements look when they are put together, plus the HTML works already so you can focus on manipulating elements with CSS.

@buildthemes is an entire blog dedicated to teaching people how to code themes. You have to view the blog in its own tab to access the different chapters.

@theme-hunter also has a neat list of tutorials you can use for creating amazing themes.

I hope these resources are helpful!

110 notes - Posted January 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Adobe Alternatives

This post on instagram lists free and paid alternatives to adobe’s creative cloud … well, I’m going to provide you with the links to the free versions. Please refrain from commenting your personal opinions on the CC or any of these free alternatives.

Ae – After Effects

Blender | DaVinci Resolve

Ai – Illustrator

Boxy SVG | Inkscape | Krita | Vectr (new, old)

An – Animate

Blender | Pencil2D | Spline (3D tool)

Au – Audition

Audacity | Garageband (iOS, Mac, Windows) | LMMS | Tracktion Waveform Free

Dw – Dreamweaver

Atom | Brackets | Sublime | VS Code

Id – InDesign

Canva | Krita | Scribus

Ps – Photoshop

Darktable | GIMP | Krita | Paint.NET | Photopea

Xd – Experience Design

Figma | Framer | Invision

From Julia to You

Three personal faves which I use regularly:

Projector (Canva alternative).

Lunapic (similar to GIMP but online).

FireAlpaca (painting tool).

Crello (Canva alternative).

200 notes - Posted January 1, 2022

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[mikhi]

no one would believe this is a gif from the anime but i had fun making it!

[theleondude]

The Turbulent Production of TAWOTA

Crazy how TAWOTA went from a funny little cartoon about a bunch of characters on the autism spectrum to a surreal existential horror where poor Leon is trapped in an unstable reality that is not his own, forced to cater to the whims of his capricious creator and his apathetic watchers. Though, with benefit of hindsight, perhaps it was always going to turn out the way it did just from the first episode alone:

Since I announced the series on a Valentine's Day, it only seems rather fitting that I share the tale of its behind-the-scenes mayhem and the context behind how the first season ended on a colossal mind-fuck.

Fun fact: This isn't even the first iteration of TAWOTA. It's a reboot of a series I made in 2013 with barely any resources to use. So let’s start this tale of errors and unfortunate events with when I conceived the sodding idea around the same time The Amazing World of Gumball first aired on Cartoon Network. And yes, along with SpongeBob, TAWOG is a partial inspiration for TAWOTA. During my time in secondary school, I drew up many doodles of what the characters of TAWOTA would be like and what zany adventures they’d get up to. Of course, as I got older, so too changed the characters. Obviously, their appearances remained the same (more or less) and some elements of their roles and personalities remained intact but what was seen in the original TAWOTA series was certainly different from the early concepts I’ve drawn up. For instance, the original Imaginee was a kleptomaniac instead of a killer and therefore more harmless in his villainous exploits. Hence why Leon said to TDLDN “and you consider making a homicidal version of Imaginee a correction?”.

Speaking of the original TAWOTA series, due to a lack of a laptop (and a lack of wifi) when I started out, I had to take pictures of the drawings using the stop-motion feature on my 3DS camera and then record the 3DS on my tablet. And when I somehow managed to cobble together an episode, I then uploaded it onto YouTube whenever I visited the local library. It wasn’t until about the…seventh episode? I can’t remember and I’ve made a decent effort not to remember but there was this episode where Brian becomes the Grim Reaper and I used Pencil2D, Paint, and Wondershare Filmora to make that episode because, at that point in time, I finally received a laptop. Though, it was only around the time I finished the original iteration of TAWOTA that I got Wi-Fi.

You see, I went into the original version of TAWOTA thinking it would be a hit, even though I got jack-shit for resources. Some may call it optimism but, in hindsight, a better description for my belief in that iteration’s success would be delusions of grandeur (which I still have on a regular basis BTW). So when it didn’t become a success, I deleted my original (though technically second since I was locked out of my first) YouTube channel, hid away under a new channel and tried to move on from TAWOTA. But, because I was still a teen (I started the original TAWOTA in 2013 and ended it in 2017), my attempts at starting something new were sidetracked by school and the realization I can use Source FilmMaker to act out my masturbatory mind-control/possession fantasies.

Oh, yeah, I should mention at this point in time I was doing A-Levels, which are optional BTW. But I figured it would get me closer to having a career in the animation industry (especially since I already passed all my GCSEs) and I flipped a coin to decide whether I should continue doing A-Levels or just drop out. And you know what? Despite me completing the full two years of A-Levels, they meant FUCK ALL in the grand scheme of things! Which is ironic because the coin came up on the side that said I should continue A-Levels and one would assume my time doing A-Levels would have meant something. Well, unless a few lessons in humility and not half-arsing anything counts. Anyway, not only did I not pass my A-Levels (though one of them was close to a C) but there was this girl in my IT class that was very attractive and, while sociable, was usually quiet. While I have talked to her and made her laugh a few times, I never made a move on her due to a crippling fear of forming romantic attachments and because I knew nothing about her.

Now that I covered the original iteration of TAWOTA, we can finally talk about the iteration we’re all familiar with.

It was in 2018 that my mum and I were thinking of making a business selling our art. And because I know TAWOTA has monetary potential and it was a good idea that had the misfortune of poor execution, I figured I might try again. Or at least that was the plan were it not for an out-of-control masturbation addiction and the fact that I needed a new animation package because, in my humble opinion, Pencil2D was a pile of dog crap! Oh, and my PC was a potato.

That was four years ago, give or take. And while I did receive a new laptop on my 19th birthday, it took me nearly more than a year to find out about Blender 2.8 and that was only through chance. So it was in 2019 (which, coincidentally, was also the same year I joined FiMFiction) that I finally got around to writing up the scripts for the show. The plan was simple. Make some promotional shorts to promote the show then work on the actual episodes for season 1, with the first four of which being reimaginings of the first four episodes of the original TAWOTA. What could possibly go wrong?

Not many people auditioned for the casting call, the guy I had in mind as the voice for Imaginee snubbed me (though that one’s a blessing in disguise since Grant did a way better job than that other guy ever could), the animation process being more exhausting than I thought, Grant taking forever to send me his lines (though that one is also a blessing in disguise since it gave me time to find out how to make a more successful YouTube channel), Brian’s a pain in the arse to animate because of his sodding buck teeth, the original VA for Mona backed out at the last minute, and I made the faux pas of working on other projects alongside TAWOTA, which resulted in me being burnt out like fuck!

I would say it was worth it, and it was to an extent since the episodes were hilarious, but they weren’t getting as many views and likes when compared to videos I crapped out in two days. I kid you not, for the longest time, the video that had the highest viewcount on my channel was one where the Soldier from TF2 shot a Rabbid up Merasmus’ arse!

And before that was a video where SpongeBob was possessed by Petelguese Romanee Conti (DESU!). So I’m left wondering to myself why should I even bother putting in the effort when I can rake in thousands of views in record time by making short SFM animations involving Shantae.

So, by the time I got to work on Babysitting for Auties, I was like “fuck it, let’s go completely nuts”. As my mum once said to me, being an artist is the only career where it’s perfectly normal to go absolutely mad (I’m paraphrasing slightly but you get the idea). And Halloween was coming up so I had an excuse to spook the living bejesus out of my audience, or rather the few people that actually watched TAWOTA. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t get that many views but you know what? I didn’t care. I enjoyed working on that episode. And because I thought it would be ridiculous to spend more than two years on one sodding season, I decided to end the first season of TAWOTA with the fittingly-titled ‘What The Hell?’:

Because Mona's VA was unavailable at the time (or, more accurately, didn't respond to my email requesting her lines for this episode), I had to use 15.ai and then killed her off. And then I threw in a bunch of G5 and Shantae stuff in the hope of boosting the viewcount for this one, which it did albeit slower than the actual Shantae SFM shorts I was uploading on my YouTube channel at the time.

And that, kids, is how a funny cartoon about a bunch of guys on the autism spectrum suddenly turned into a cosmic horror story about a guy who was forced into a foreign world by his malevolent creator and made to be his, for lack of better words, performing monkey.

Want more answers? Wait until season 2.

P.S: Another reason for TAWOTA going down the route it did is because of the existence of Chris-chan and the revelation that some autistic people are the laughing stock/punching bags of the Internet. This, along with the other problems I mentioned, resulted in my heart no longer being in it. But despite all these problems, I am looking forward to working on season 2.

[undead-maggot]

What are safe places/apps to download music/audio on PC? Asking this because I've been looking for sites, apps, etc. but i cant find anything!! (plus i dont want any viruses or things like that 💔)

Also because i wanna start posting animations (im still a beginner tho) so any other recommendations about other sites or apps to animate, download audios, music and those things would be really appreciated too!!! /gen