#rai cgi

[creativheroann]

I'm officially and fully boycotting the Winx Club reboot and everything Rai does from now on

[leaveharmony]

[biomic]

that's also the face i would make if i saw an armor hero dying in the street

[threedee-memories]

[y2k-2day]

Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl (1999)

[mr-orion]

Finally showing you my commission of Ray!

Orion Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ko-fi.com/halfbit

I got a steal for this but that's just because I think @halfbit enjoyed working on it. I'd say with everything done and that 3D background halfbit was so kind to throw in for me this all together would be $60-90 on the low end. No where near what I even paid! Very much worth noting that you shouldn't expect this if you are buying and paying the least expensive commissions in their shop, and that I very much recieved this because halfbit was being very generous and we have a relatively friendly relationship. If I had expected to receive this for what I paid it would have very much been robbery. This was halfbit flexing on me and experimenting.

I definitely do recommend checking out halfbits comms! Currently there is one thing listed but I'm sure if you're willing to pay for high quality art of another type you can definitely ask them about it. Currently there are $12 dollar icons with add on's and pay what you'd like! If you can pay more then you should. I'd value my profile pic icon around $30! I'd also value halfbits general style around $20 and think that is what you should be paying for the general icons.

⭐️Time taken on my commission was well paced for its quality.

⭐️I did not have to ask for WIPs and was shown them along the process.

⭐️Communication was stellar.

⭐️Very good artist if you know you want a commission of a character but don't know what you want.

⭐️You have non-commercial rights to your commission. Such as making the image into a key chain or buying a print just for your own use.

[siryl]

Art by Jeffrey S. Lee, after Albert J. Whitlock.

[lactose-intolerant-egg]

stairway to heaven, or something like it

[babylon-crashing]

CGI memories:

Back in 1995, a group of us wastrel Peace Corps volunteers took a bus to a bar in Tbilisi to see Ray Charles in concert sing, "Georgia On My Mind" in the country of Georgia. He sat at his piano in a spotlight. We stood in the shadows off stage, singing along, "No peace, no peace I find/ Just an old, sweet song/ Keeps Georgia on my mind."

[arconinternet]

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles Adventure Game (Windows 3.1/Classic Mac, 1995)

You can view the boxart here, and follow these ‘fun’ instructions (none of which are the fault of Infinite Mac’s developer) to play it:

Download it from here.

Drag the file onto the emulated Mac desktop here.

Open The Outside World, then Downloads, where you’ll find the file.

Double-click it. Be patient - an emulated CPU is doing the decompressing here. You can use another tab during this part - it won’t pause the emulation.

You should see a new folder containing a .toast file. (If you don't, close and re-open the Downloads folder.)

Drag the .toast file into the Uploads folder in The Outside World, then wait. After a much shorter wait than last time, it will be suddenly downloaded by your browser, in a .zip file.

Extract the .toast file from the .zip file, then drag it onto the emulated desktop.

A new icon should appear on the desktop - open it, then run the installer. After the emulated system restarts, drag the .toast file onto the dekstop again, then open Macintosh HD and run the game from the new Martian folder in there.

[aardwolfpack]

"Chalice" by Jeffrey S. Lee.

[taxi-davis]

TV'S TV 099

[cynicalclassicist]

It really is incredible art. I just appreciate this sort of stuff over CGI!

Kind of like how I prefer Ray Harryhausen-esque effects.

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

[threedee-memories]

[catastrophicdisasters]

apologies, i'm still angry abt TUA S4

so, if we take out all of the blatant issues with the season (character assassination, 'resolutions' that create more plotholes than they solve, rushed scenes that make no sense, side plots that go nowhere, raymond vanishing for no reason, etc etc), what are we left with? let's see:

fatphobia (multiple jokes made about 'chubby Diego', when David just looks hydrated and healthy)

SA played for jokes (it's clear that Klaus having sex while possessed is supposed to be funny, but he's being held hostage and forced to do this for money, when we already know he didn't even want his powers back??)

cheating

problematic / borderline problematic age gaps (either way you spin it, either Five is physically 20-26 while Lila is likely mid 40s, or Five is mentally 70s while Lila is mid 40s; Aidan was 19 while filming, and Ritu was 34)

waiting for the actor to come of age before introducing a romance (we already know what some fans can be like over Five/Aidan, this will not have helped; I would be horrified if I found out the show runners had planned a romance arc with a coworked 15 years older than me and then waited for me to turn legal age to execute it)

sexism (i was reluctant to call it that but i also don't know what else to call it - Lila basically had her agency stripped away to become the love interest two men fought over; Steve wanted Five to have a romance and didn't care who with - use Lila simply because she was there)

complete disregard of character trauma (Klaus being buried alive despite it having been mentioned in every prior season that he was locked in a mausoleum by Reginald, including literally being left to die)

possible overstepping of an actor's boundaries (i've not been able to verify this, but i've seen it said that robert sheehan has requested not to do sex scenes?) (still havent been able to prove this; wasn't an issue with other roles so... hesitant to leave it)

actors requests being ignored (David asked multiple times if the Lila cheating sideplot was required, but clearly it went ahead anyway)

bad cgi

that awful vomit montage

Reginald (im not quite calling it abuse forgiveness but uh. it's not far off tbh)

i don't even know what to call this, but basically told the Hargreeves the abuse they suffered was their fault because they shouldn't even exist??

what did i miss? (im sure there's something)

from the replies:

the song in the ep3 dance scene uses a slur for romani people (and is also about a man and an underage girl)

SA dismissal (it's literally never addressed that Allison SA'd Luther last season. like, at all. everything's just a-okay now!)

more sexism (Allison's arc was also reduced to serving men; there's a single line to explain that Ray left, with no mention of why (i could go OFF about this but this post isn't supposed to be about mishandling of characters); even after everything, all her bonding with Claire comes through Klaus's storyline. also, Sloane is just gone and nobody gives a shit - Luther has one line and that's it??)

so many issues with consent (all of the girls shown in the place Klaus works look drugged / Klaus doesn't want to be there and doing any of that, it's all against his wishes / they all get their powers back against their wishes - although they do tell Ben that wasn't his choice to make / Klaus gets his powers back against his will when Allison is pressured to do it to save his life)

[lactose-intolerant-egg]

another bryce render! i was practicing with glass and lights in this one. i wanted to have the moon in the background, but i still don't get how the moon works in this program.