#tb video

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Naafiri: HOUNDS OF BLOOD || animation and story breakdown

Riot accidentally posted the trailer for the new champion, Naafiri, early, and I am glad they did because this is probably their most visually compelling cinematic in YEARS.

It tells the story of Naafiri and her imprisonment and suffering through a highly stylized, expressionistic series of dream images and flashbacks, which visually clearly draw some inspiration from recent animated features like Into the Spider-Verse. It's all extremely fast and compressed, making it quite compelling to rewatch and slow-motion your way through...

Which I did. For about fifty minutes. And I tried to catch and explore as much of the storytelling and the animation techniques as I possibly could.

[nostalgic-otaku]

Rainbow Gossip - Chara Tokyo Babylon Soundtrack

[sgtpeppers]

Hello, Goodbye promotional film, 1967

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter - KR-TB Doomtreader Freighter By AdamKop

[3-aem]

just trying to learn about tb from john green and suddenly he starts busting out the philosophy behind stigma and why we as humans often need to figure out why bad things happen. because we don’t want to confront the idea that the world is unjust and when it is just- it’s random. that we fabricate explanations that often place blame on the sufferer because within that ‘understanding’ is the implication that the sufferer deserves what they got but ‘i don’t deserve it so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me’

[troythecatfish]

[kruemel8]

Via OMR beauty.

[petrovna-zamo]

The Bald & The Beautiful Live in San Diego!

[xomegaman]

Behind the scenes of Kenny’s stream on Twitch tonight ❤️

[askzloyxp]

But doctor, I AM PAGLIACCI!!

[geoledgy]

"Empty streets and stolen cars

Sleeping under desert stars

It reminds me of you

Everything reminds me of you."

- Teenagers (The Summer Set ft. Against the Current)

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Beauty in Splash Art 3

League of Legends splash art is, on the face of it, perhaps an odd place to go looking for beauty. These are JPGs whose first and primary function is to hawk video game cosmetics for a free-to-play game, it's not exactly the sort of thing you expect artists to particularly flex their creativity for.

And true enough, a lot of splash art is fairly rote. Here's a character, wow look at their cool pose, don't you want to spend dollars to own this, and so on.

But sometimes, one of the artists working at Riot, or at their outsourcing studios, seems to get a bee in their bonnet, or maybe they just get excited about an opportunity to practise craft, and you get splash art that tries to do something more than simply sell the product, or artwork which displays a real flex of technical skill, often in ways which are functionally invisible at any of the common resolutions that the art will ever be displayed at.

There is genuine reward to be found in those pieces, in zooming in close and marveling at the level of effort spent. So let's spend about an hour doing that!

Splash arts covered:

Odyssey Sona - by Kelly Aleshire

Victorious Sejuani - by Francis Tneh

Aurora - by Jennifer Wuestling

Redeemed Star Guardian Xayah and Rakan - by Ina Wong

Empyrean Vex - by Horace "Hozure" Hsu

Winterblessed Diana - by Bo "chenbowow" Chen

Porcelain Irelia - by Alsie Lau

Toy Terror Cho'gath - by Fortune "Fortuneee" K

[p4rty4nim4l]

TENNIS BALL AND NICKEL SHITPOST!!!

I ship it skgjwkckwkkfbwlfhdjj

[prfm-multiverse]

Perfume 25th Anniversary Interview: "We think we'll stay as a trio" I think we'll probably still be together in 5, 10, 20, or even 25 years."

Perfume will continue on forever, a-chan.

[cardentist]

I just spent six and a half hours listening to a youtuber I really like ranking and dissecting every hasbin hotel song Not by how they sound (though he Does go into what he thinks of the music and why, it's quite delightful. he sings along to quite a few of them and I'm very much so still getting used to the fact that he's apparently really good at it), but how successfully they push the story Forwards.

and I have to say that I now have opinions on hasbin hotel despite never having seen it jklfasdkjlfsda

I'd really suggest the video to anyone who's a fan of the series, he even took the hit to monetization to play all of the songs in full so he could analyze them properly.

I think I really do understand Why this series took off the way that it did. yes it is a series with some pretty deep flaws, but I'd argue that the vast majority of them come down to the time limitation.

I think it's safe to say that they had a ton of ideas that they desperately Wanted to cram into this first season, but they didn't have the episode count to fully explore them (or really do more than Introduce them in some instances).

and I Do think it's likely that they made the choices that they did because a second season wasn't a guarantee. if they decided to be more conservative with their first season, let it take its time with less on its plate, they might have never gotten the chance to share some of these ideas At All.

and I do genuinely think that this is Part Of its success, at least in terms of fandom.

there are lots of fandoms for lots of media, but I feel like some of the most prolific have been for flawed series that have Potential. that have Ideas and themes and characters that resonate with people, that people can see More in, but don't stick the landing in the way that they could have for Whatever reason.

and I say this as someone who has Been in those sorts of fandoms near exclusively. it's Fun. it's Fun because it turns this story into a sandbox that you get to play with. to fill in the details yourself and see how Other People would as well.

and the key here is that there are parts about it that Must be likeable, you can even like All of it, while still feeling like there's room for that reinterpretation and Play. and I feel like a lot of people grow even closer to a character and to a world through doing so.

have you ever seen the fan content that homestuck inspired? It's That. it's that exactly.

[spark-circuit]

Aha pulling out the Everhood-type shit on these poor Silvermane guards