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Dafuq do you mean Steven Universe ended 4 years ago today?
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Hunter, Hunter.
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Willow, Willow.
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The Art of Alastor's Expressions: An Analysis by an Profressional Cartoon Artist and Current Animation Student
This is not related to TOH but I wanted to bring this up because the art how they animate Alastor's facial expressions deeply fanisnates and heavily impresses me. And also because I'm an animation nut and I am currently in animation school and I heavily appreciate the art of animation.
In Dad Beat Dad, during the scene where Husk confronts Alastor about Mimzy, directly after when Husk says, "You've been gone a while, and it's not like anyone knows why," there is exactly THREE frames where Alastor's pupils turn into dials as he eyes away. (Being most noticable on the first)
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Now I gurantee since Husk was talking, there was a good amount of viewers focusing on him as the focal point, over Alastor, despite this shot being from Alastor's POV. Meaning a lot of people probably missed Alastor even eyeing away at all on their first viewing. But this is noticable on a rewatch and if you just focus on Alastor as the focal point.
But I have never seen anyone point out that his pupils actually turn into dials here. And you definitely wouldn't even notice UNLESS you spefically paused on one of those three frames. To give you an idea of how truly fast these frames go by, typical 2D animation runs at 24 fps. These three frames only last 20 milliseconds together. And since the detail is so tiny it is nearly impossible to notice when the shot is running normally at 24 fps. Its even hard to notice if you pause on these three frames because this detail is so small.
Whoever animated this added this detail despite the fact nearly no one would notice just to truly show Alastor losing his compsure. And as one of my animation profressors said "Every detail in animation is intentional since you create everything from nothing," (Unless it is an animation error) And as someone who is currently in a hand drawn 2D animation class, yeah, you spend a while on every single frame, knowing its only gonna be shown for a few milliseconds and the overwhelming majority of people will never notice or even care to notice. But You can slip in tiny details like this that add an incredible amount of insight to the very slim margin of people who will dissect your animation looking for details, or even just looking for funny inbetween frames or animation errors and they happen to discover a cool detail you left.
Back on the topic of Alastor. People have noticed that often Alastor's eyes give away how he's truly feeling through the mask of the smile he puts on. And they're absolutely right. But ive never seen anyone talk about this moment.
And in these brief three frames he loses his compsure for just a BRIEF moment upon being reminded of his deal. In fact, look at his expression in both the key frames right before these three inbetween/extreme frames
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Overwhelmingly confident after he says "Who in their right mind would cross me?"
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Doubtful of Husk after he says "You've been gone a while"
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Losing his compsure when Husk reminds him of his deal after he says "And it's not like anyone knows why,"
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Then puts on his classic mask, with that look in his eyes completely gone, saying "They don't need to know," (about why he was gone)
It's incredible how much three frames of showing Alastor losing his compsure adds to his character and this scene.
Also, This is not the only time where Alastor has an expression where it's clear that his deal is some sort of trigger to him, either. (Outside his verse in Finale which is obvious) Just look at these frames when Zestial simply comments that he's be gone for a while and there were rumors that he fell to holy arms
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(wasn't able to include the other frame of his eyes going side to side damn you tumblr)
He also clearly looks away from Zestial as well, avoiding eye contact or even facing him when Zestial questions why he's been gone, indirectly reminding Alastor of his deal.
I love these such tiny details about Alastor. Its clear he is often hiding so much behind his smile. And since I can't add more pictures (thanks tumblr), I cannot even go into the two frames where he actually does frown, or another two frames where it's up for debate if he frowns. But I feel like there's more to say here where his eyes give away everything despite his smile, even if its just for a few frames, rather then the four frames where its either up for debate if he is frowning or he is clearly frowning.
I also want to mention that accomplishing expressions like like this is incredibly hard. Drawing is hard. Animating is even harder And despite expressions being my strong point, expressions are still hard as hell.
Most and sometimes all parts of the face go into making the right expression. Eyes, eyebrows and the mouth are the main factors, but you can even use the nose for extereme negative emotions (often used for extreme anger, hysterical ugly crying, or intense disgust. Hazbin actually does this for Alastor in one shot to my memory When Carmilla says she wasn't wondering where Alastor has been for the past 7 years) And depending on the character design, you can also even use their ears (positive emotions they perk up, and negative emotions they flatten. Most commonly seen in characters with animal ears but humanoid characters with pointed human-like ears can do this too. Like the witches from The Owl House for example the use of Ears also apply to Alastor when he experiences EXTREME negative emotions... Or Susan)
But when you take away a major part of the face, mainly eyes or the mouth, making the proper expressions becomes a lot harder. But it is possible. think Let Me Explain Studios or character's with hair covering both or even one eye. But Alastor is the only case I've seen where he actually does have ALL the facial features for expressions available, (including ears which is not common!) BUT one of them is actively working against the others parts of the expression, which is the fact that he is REQUIRED to smile. That means you must always draw him smiling, in every single frame, but try and use his other features (mainly his eyes and sometimes his nose or ears) to try and hint at his true emotions. Take a moment to think how HARD that is. That is insane.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed my Ted talk about Alastor and his emotions lmao.
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Mannerisms
This was supposed to be a simple quick drawing of Hunter and Eberwolf next to each other with the same :3 face and then I got ambitious. Worth it.
Firstly, Eberwolf speaking in broken english is on purpose. Don't leave a comment about that I will point you to the description. This is a thingin my fics; I make Eberwolf (and all palismen) speak in broken English as an artistic choice.
Anyway, I gave Darius the classic queer hand (you know the one lol) and HOLY SHIT I got carried away with the comments on Hunter's post. I spent so much time positioning them it's not even funny.
Side note I got the idea about Kiki getting stuck in the toilet from Hazbin Hotel. I mean... Nifty and Kikimora are honsetly kinda similar lol.
Also changed Hunter's pfp to Flapjack because I feel like he'd change it from his old Golden Guard one.
Btw, just a key for all the usernames
Hello_Willow - Willow (Cannon also come on)
HumanRealmAmbassador - Gus
Grudgby_Queen03 - Boscha
Witchchick128 - Amity (Cannon)
Queen_Kiki - Kikimora
EDIT: WHOOPS MEANT TO QUEUE THIS BUT...eh fuck it.
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Important. PLEASE READ!!
For those of you who may not know, which I suspect is probably most of you, I had an interaction with a pro/comship blog (@toh-proship-positivity) about three weeks ago that ended in them accusing a fellow artist, a-magpie-in-gravesfield, of extremely heinous things. I originally was not going to respond to them simply because I didn't want to be bothered with such drama during the holidays. Still, these claims irritated me because, even just from my conversations with this blog and witnessing their behavior firsthand, I knew their claims were likely untrue or, at the very least, exaggerations. I am happy to announce that my intuition was correct and that the claims made about Magpie WERE NOT TRUE.
Several people approached me regarding this, and I also sought a few individuals out myself to look for answers. They provided ample proof, including screenshots, receipts, and conversations between the accuser and the accused, that prove without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that Magpie is innocent of all claims levied against him.
I, along with the help of a few others, gathered as much information as I could find, organized it, and created a master list of evidence to combat every accusation. I am going to share the folder that holds the drama overview as well as every document that was used as an external link. Here are the links to the folder and overview, respectively.
This folder with all related documents will also be downloadable as a zip file on Dropbox to anyone who wishes to have a copy for themself. DM me asking for the download link, and I will provide it to you.
This is not meant to be an attack on the person who levied the claims against Magpie, and this is NOT a call to harassment. This needs to be put out into the open so that this drama inside the Wittebane community can cease.
Here is a direct message from Magpie regarding the situation:
"I just wanted to clarify that I had no hand in making the document itself. I was approached by multiple people asking for my side of the evidence / answering questions about the timeline of things / etc. I myself never look at Horse's posts because I don't want to give any of my time to things like this (and tbh I thought they would have stopped by now). Please don't message me about this. This has been going on for over a year now, and I don't want to focus on negativity. I have already provided a lot of information to the people who made this doc. I also DO NOT condone any kind of harassment towards anyone, including anyone mentioned in this document. I did not ask for this document to be made (actually, for a long time I actively discouraged people from doing it because I thought it wasn't necessary), but because multiple slanderous accusations that included my name were recently brought up to me by people I had never interacted with before as well as friends, and Horse does not seem to have stopped, I figured I would provide my side of things to people who asked as to give answers to anyone who might have heard of this situation. This document was in no way meant to encourage bullying of any kind. Please stay safe everyone!"
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Badass Joyfriends Matching Pfps (Free to use credit preferred but not required)
I decided to make some new pfps for me and @theoneandonlygothicrainbow since winter is ending and our old ones are going out of season. I thought it'd be cool to do glowing eyes for them, so tada. They maddd.
Update: I've had pneumonia since march 2nd and a lot has been going on in my personal life, so I've been very on and off and probably will be for another few weeks. I have to figure out if I can catch up at uni and if not I have to figure out how to handle not being able to catch up this semester. Its complicated, and I might do an update post once I know for sure what's going to happen.
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I will have to quit the internet if this bill passes. My entire online indenity is queer and all of my content will be scrubbed by the Tennessee government.
This might be goodbye.
I cant do this anymore.
11/30/23: KOSA is an anti-LGBTQIA+ censorship bill. It is essential you call THIS week. Tell them you are specifically against KOSA and especially against hotlining the bill.
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the Senator of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
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Sleepy Eepy
I imagine this happens after Hunter has a nightmare and gets Darius and Eberwolf to come in and stay with him. No joke I had my dad come in and sleep in my room with me after I had nightmares to an embarrassingly late age... 18. But there's no shame in it! Especially considering the nightmares Hunter must have.
I imagine that Darius runs his fingers Hunter head to help calm him down, then he pats the senestive spot behind Hunter's ears to make him sleep. I also imagine that Eberwolf kneads like a cat on top of Hunter. Then Hunter goes to sleep, and Darius and Eberwolf just don't leave. And that's how this happens. The end.
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Darius goes Karen
I don't know who pissed Darius off here or what they said, but it doesn't matter. The end result is Darius is gonna make them have nightmares for the rest of their life. You seriously do not want to piss off Darius. Unless you want a giant goop man at your throat.
As the child of a mother who can be a karen... I know this all too well. Feeling embarrassed while your parent goes feral trying to defend you. But listen, tbh sometimes the parent has every right to go Karen. (Insert my brother's ablelist af school here.)
Also ngl I think this is one of the best drawings I've ever done.
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I grouped some of my character renders together.
The practical ones were for height comparsions and silhouette testing, but the rest were just for fun!
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Matt Renders
And finally... the goober. The little bastard.
Matt had the easiest renders I had to do. There were no hair variations and not many outfits I had to do.
I've said this for Skara and Viney but I've grown to appreciate Matt more through writing my fics. He is such a FUN character to write holy shit. I have a gustholomule side plot in my WAD Timeskip AU and it's so much fun to write Matt being such a awkward loser with Gus being absolutely obvious with the rest of the group secretly shipping it hardcore but not telling either they know what's up.
Also while I was trying to find images of him standing next to Gus for height purposes... I found out Matt is shorter then Gus which actually shocked me. Idk why I always thought Gus was shorter after his growthspurt lmao.
Bonus:
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Both the Goobers.
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Viney Renders
Like Skara, Viney is a character I've grown to appreciate a lot more while writing her in my fics. Espsically, in one of my most recent fics, "Stomach Churned." She's a very down to Earth realist yet also tough and easily angered. I remember Dana saying she was meant to be a one-off character, but I'm glad they brought her back and put her on the Flyer Derby Team. Exploring her friendship with the rest of the team is very, very fun.
I guess I should answer this. Do I ship Skara and Viney? Ehhh, I don't know. I do like the ship but at the same time I could see them being just friends. I'm not really sure what chemistry they'd have. (But then again I'm the same person who ships Boscha and Amelia with Cat being their supportive third wheel when they've like hardly interacted on screen sooo.... idk even I make no sense to myself)
I will say Mark's version of their story is super cute and I'd definitely ship it if that was cannon.
It's sad Viney didn't get more screentime... but with the way animation works and Dana not expecting the fandom to love Viney so much, she could only really bring her back in season 2... and the shortening, I don't think anyone is to really blame here (outside Disney for the shortening). And sometimes it can be fun to explore concepts that a show never confirmed because at least your fanon version will never be irrelevant!
Also I'm very happy with how my personal casual outfit came out for her. I felt like she'd like ripped clothes.
Also I fucking love Viney's palisman I named him Basil and he is my baby.
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Gus Renders
My dumbass forgot to upload these all the way back when I finished them on the superbowl... so here they are now. Better late then never!
I didn't do all of his official outfits because frankly I don't think I'll ever need some of them, but I did a good chunk.
I also designed my own new casual outfit for him as well. It's rather similar to my new Hunter casual design, and that IS on purpose. I imagine that Hunter made it specifically for him, and Gus and Hunter are totally the kinds of people that'd be like "twinzies!"
Anyway, I just have to upload Viney and Matt's renders and all of the renders I've wanted to make will be complete. I promise this era of uploading these boring renders will be done soon.
Also, Idk if I've said this yet, but feel free to use my casual designs for all of the renders I've made! I just would like credit for the design.
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Skara Renders
Skara is a character I've actually grown to really like and enjoy... simply because of my fic writing. In my timeskip series its very fun to explore her character and ther dynamic with the rest of the Emerald Entrails. Her personality is also just fun to write, the over dramatic drama queen to spills the tea of hexside drama to her friends, as well as also exploring her past friendship with Boscha and how their relationship was toxic, and how much happier she is with her new friend group.
I really wish we got to see more of this exploration in the show, but it is very fun to explore it myself in all my fics.
I still have Viney and Matt's renders to complete, and once that is done I can return to drawing regular stuff. Yippie!
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Nose Boop (redraw)
The bonus part to my Valentines Day drawings. I drew this as a gift for my girlfriend @theoneandonlygothicrainbow . This was the first drawing she ever saw from me that got her interested in my account. Eventually she joined my discord server (No I am not giving out invites don't ask) and we eventually grew close and the rest is history.
I can't beileve that old drawing is gonna be 2 years old in about 5 months. What's funny is I got this drawing idea from when I was at Disneyworld watching a parade at Magic Kingdom and Mickey and Minnie booped noses at one point. Funny if how I never went to Disney, wasn't in the magic kingdom that day, and if we didn't stop for the parade I nevet would've made that drawing, and I never would've met the love of my life. Ah, the butterfly effect...
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Huntlow Tunnel of Love.
Happy Valentines Day!
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