#white noise video

[galecstatic]

WE WERE FUCKING ROBBED !?!?!#?$;& STFUUU

[omensblogspost]

(*CLEARS THROAT*)

Inspired by CONCRETE OST.

It’s time for a new Era.

[thephooka]

Happy Webcomic Day! My webcomic White Noise is a labor of love--according to Procreate, this page took me 15.5 hours to complete.* Here's a look into that process!

Some other notes:

The thumbnails are done on graph paper and I script while I do them--there is no separate written script for White Noise. I usually spent a couple hours on weekends as needed thumbnailing, sometimes at a coffee shop or at home listening to records.

I then set up the file in Photoshop, so I can lay in the text and use the template I have with bleeds already set up. The text is rasterized and I shuttle the file over to my iPad via Airdrop.

The bulk of the actual work is done in Procreate, which records timelapses that I sometimes share to my Patreon. I usually spend a couple hours most nights after my day job or on the bus commuting doing this.

Once everything art-wise is done, I shuttle the file back over to my desktop to re-set in the text, add a stroke around the speech bubbles (Procreate doesn't have that took fsr) and do the resizing/exporting for web.

On Sunday mornings I get up, queue the page and write the page descriptions. I don't spend any time on the page descriptions outside of that.

Also, this process goes for the whole first arc of White Noise. I'm done with that arc (which means you can binge the whole thing I'm js!!) and am experimenting with some different methods these days, but my workflow is still generally the same.

*Some more talk about the labor (and burnout) involved below the cut:

This particular page (and most of the pages I did in 2023) took a lot longer than normal because I was heading into a burnout period that I'm still lowkey in/recovering from. It's obvious to me now in retrospect watching the timelapse here and seeing how much noodling I'm doing and how much I'm struggling with the process, but at the time I was just very frustrated generally. When I'm not burned tf out pages take maybe 10 hours max.

2023 was a pretty stressful year--lots of big life changes, uncertainty, pet death, health issues--so it's no wonder it propelled me into burnout, but it just goes to show that even the slowest and steadiest pace is not sustainable forever. I've been doing one page a week following this general process for over a decade! And I stuck to that pace because I knew it was one I could maintain. But even so, by the end of this arc I found myself working more and more slowly, not really looking forward to the work, feeling anxious about being behind, unhappy with the finished work, and extremely annoyed with myself for not being able to give it my all right there at the finish line.

I did stop for a while after the epilogue and took a more or less complete break from drawing for about a month--the longest I have EVER gone without drawing, much less working on White Noise--which did help, but these days my ability to work is...inconsistent. I should probably take another total break, but I'm reluctant. What if my passion never comes back? What if people forget about WN? It's already pretty obscure, and with the general social media collapse, it's harder than ever to get people to read my work. Now that I've left Hiveworks, WN doesn't even get the benefit of being linked to other comics (although objectively very, very few readers actually got referred to my comic that way.) And frankly, I'm also just too proud to go too long without comic updates. I've always told myself, I might not be the best artist or the fastest worker or make a popular comic, but I'm consistent. Difficult to let that go.

This is all to say that webcomics are hard. We do them because we love them, we have stories to tell, we are seized with the human compulsion to create. We spend hours of our time, almost always on top of the paying work that allows us to eat, to make something that we then give away for free. It has consequences on us that the reader doesn't often see, no matter how careful we are about it. If you ask me, webcomics deserve to be valued more.

Happy Webcomic Day! Read webcomics!

[rat-at-heart]

Dedicated fan of the 30 hours fan white noise (oscillating) YouTube videos

[chameleonsynthesis]

"I'm just going to do quick doodles for these," I said. "Some fast pencil scribbles."

*proceeds to spend an hour drawing a single frog.*

Clearly I am full of lies. It is 99% pencil tool though. Using the ink pen brush to do the eyes so they have crisp edges.

Amphibiuary Day 4: Sing. One of my favourite frogs, the spring peeper, Pseudacris crucifer.

My childhood home was very close to a large wetland area. You knew springtime was truly here when the peepers would start living up to their name. The volume level of their booty calls is not commensurate with their tiny size at all. Some ponds in the woods could be almost painful to stand near with how loud it would get.

Love these little dudes.

They sound like this:

[soothifying-sounds-asmr]

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| fluffy mic brushing by ASMR Whale

| contains: slow, gentle, ocean-like white noise

[nicoscheer]

A bit of shirt shopping with Ellis

I can’t properly deal with the way he went from I to [] like he got BROAD

[moliathh]

“calcifer let sophie bullied him because he hold howl’s heart and his heart recognized sophie” 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[sinfulequity]

Was rewatching Double and. I think I finally pinpointed where John and Mikoto switch places!

You can see that the car that Mikoto is in turns to darkness like he just went into a tunnel. And then we have that transition of a pinpoint of light fading- to a light coming up and flooding the screen. It then immediately Cuts to seeing "Mikoto" running away from something. This time he's surrounded by light. Following the implications of that light transition

That means the running sequence is John trying to get to Mikoto in time and uh. Mikoto getting sick of everything and deciding to take Swift Action. Which may lead to the glitched line in the second trial voice trailer-

AAAHHHHHHHHHH!! DESTROY EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!!

Incidentally, that would also lead to the answer of another thing I was questioning. "What's the other train car that's in use?" I believe that would make the car that Mikoto is in 9 and the car that John is in 10

[arconinternet]

Jump: The David Bowie Interactive CD-ROM, ION, 1994)

You can download it here, or download it pre-configured to run on modern versions of Windows here.

[wetdogblog]

MY FAV WESTIE COCONUT CAME IN TODAY!!!!! (Older photos below the cut!)

LISTEN TO HER BARK IT'S MY FAV

[squidthesquidd]

ITS HERE!!!!! two and a half hours of subway noises with the gear station theme with random pokemon sounds and submas voice lines!!!!

Was gonna make it longer but i didnt have a lot to work with :p

but i finally finished it!!!!

pls comment and like it i want to spread this around the youtube submas community 😎

https://youtu.be/xYrOvU_UQvA

[solarkarii]

RANBOO apperantly finished his high school math in 8th grade ...

[throughpatchesofviolet]

She's so cute ... one of the most adorable agents.

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Sparks - Perfume

[serenevoid1]

Picture yourself floating in a cozy space surrounded by the beauty of stars and the vastness of the galaxy!

💚 If you’re looking to relax, sleep, study, or meditate. Your peaceful oasis awaits! 💚