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[winterpeta1s]

girl???

"I'm not really a bad guy"

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Who is this sassy lost child?

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[schcherazades]

no asoiaf posting i do will ever beat lebanese people hanging banners over highways asking god to protect jon snow when s8 premiered

“ the people of beirut support jon snow against his battle with the white walkers” “jon snow….may allah protect you” like this is so funny i love my ppl

[chabric]

OMG LAÏKA NOOO DON'T STEP ON THAT POOR SPIDER

@laikascomet

[toffee-biscuits]

everyone who misread renrat's speciality as snuggling say arrr

[linipik]

Hunk with Samoan-style tattoos, they feel very at home in him ☀️

[cloudy-rina]

He’s so silly 🫶🏼 (and full of woe😔)

[hinamie]

these 3 and their weird catty love triangle have bewitched me body and soul

[uiiyru]

⭐️"Night Out" Girl Park fancomic !

[arley-ology]

Eugene doodles from my notes but they get progressively less detailed

[secretmellowblog]

Everyone talks about the tragedy of animated media getting reboots that replace their excellent art direction with uncanny realism —like the Lion King and its “live action” reboot—- but there’s one series that embodies that tragedy better than anything else. And I need to share it with you all because I can’t be the only one Haunted by it day and night. Please let me tell you the Sad, sad story behind this image:

There was an early 2000s video game trilogy called Sly Cooper, whose main appeal was its super unique art direction, style, and atmosphere. The trilogy had a unique tone focused on a cartoon Phantom Thief who did Moody Atmospheric Heists in a comic-book-inspired world.

The trilogy integrated 2D animation into the game for cutscenes, and the characters-- while low-poly-- were designed to look as much like those flat 2D cartoons with cel-shaded outlines as they could within the limitations of the Ps2.

It took heavy influence from comic books and anime, especially Lupin III. The first game even had alternate anime versions of its 2D cutscenes that you could unlock!

Nearly all the levels took place at night, but the designers talked often about how their goal was to create the illusion of night time through vivid color palettes rather than darkness, taking inspiration from the vivid nighttime cityscapes in Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge.

As a result of their stylized art direction, the visuals-- primarily in the second one, which is the one that focuses the most tightly on Thieving & Moody Atmospheric Heists-- still hold up today.

And then Sly Cooper started appearing in “brand crossover games” and “reboots” and Oh god. Oh no. so that's why no one talks about it anymore.

I am haunted by this. People talk about their favorite cartoon character getting hit with the Uncanny Hyper-Detailed Beam and I instantly think of the sad fate of poor, poor sly cooper, who I am very nostalgic for, and his now-dead franchise that hasn't had a new installment in over a decade.

But to me this really emphasizes how strong art direction is far more important than polygon count, realism, or level of detail. Because there have been similar franchises rebooted in ways that manage to elevate the old 2D-inspired art styles with more modern graphics. Toys for Bob's new takes on Spyro and Crash Bandicoot both had stellar art direction!

But that kind of thoughtful art direction can be difficult to achieve. It's not even the fault of the artists or developers; these things are often beyond their control. But I am glad we're in an era where stylized 3D animation is becoming more popular. I hope more creators continue to realize that there is actually a big demand for media with interesting, unique art styles! also you should play sly 2: band of thieves

[daily-basil]

what if. What if basil but he was wearing this

That outfit looks REALLY pretty on him

(The outfit is from Devil Inspired if Google is to be trusted)

[ribbononline]

Your friendly neighborhood grampa, 2x!

[itadooori]

s2 gihun with s1 characters PLEASE

wait i love this concept omfg

[notbecauseofvictories]

Lately I've been dipping my toe in graphic novels. They're different from my usual plain text on white paper, and interesting. Plus some of them dig their nails in my brain and yank, which is always a fun quality in a work of art.

The most recent was Will McPhail's In. You might have seen McPhail's art in the New Yorker, and the novel certainly starts out with similar familiar territory---sparse lines and greyscale, anxious citydwellers flitting from coffee shop to bar to subway, and back again; the narrator, a semi-ghost drifting and suspended, somehow out of time.

But McPhail then has his anxious, semi-translucent narrator be honest. Not with anyone important or about anything important! Just admitting he's uncomfortable chatting with the plumber who comes to fix his broken toilet.

And suddenly---

It happens again and again, any time the narrator is honest, and provokes an honest response. With the nephew he's babysitting, with his mother, as they paint cornices and sand walls; with the woman he's seeing, when she admits that her job weighs on her. The flat greys of the city vanish, and in their place is the imaginal landscape of whoever he's talking to:

For someone who's read quite a few very good graphic novels, but never had one quite land before---it really is something.