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Visual Development from Beauty and the Beast by Hans Bacher

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rewatched Eastern Promises and reminded myself of how much i love that movie

it’s so lovely and subtle and casual - there are no gunfights - hell, i don’t think that a single gun goes off in this movie, and it’s about Russian gangsters - , no daring proclamations of love, no flashy, glamorous fights scenes.

It’s all people being competent and quiet and controlled, intense flashes of violence between beautifully crafted scenes of discussion. The same with characters, where we had people who were capable of great violence who weren’t condemned by the narrative for it. We had a female lead that was never over or under sexualized, who was good at her job and had this amazing, quiet strength and bravery and determination

even the climax is Nikolai very quietly and gently talking to Kirill, and convincing him of something

and it was kind of nice to kind of revisit the fact that Kirill’s massive crush on Nikolai was a major…thing in this movie that wasn’t subtextual at all; it was a driver to a lot of the events and decisions made, and it was less of a massive crush and more of  Kirill being really in love with Nikolai and Nikolai for the most part reciprocating as much as the dictates of Russian mob society allowed him to

I’m glad the climax wasn’t violent, either; they didn’t go the easy route of killing - anyone, but mostly Kirill (i would’ve been very upset and i mean, that’s such an easy fix that’s lazy at best and dismissive of the rest of the movie at best), but rather talking someone down and coming to a diplomatic solution

remains a movie that i really, really like

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reblog game put in the tags how you found prev

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문 후보님 리터칭 짤.

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absolutely fascinating to me how heinrix feels like a romance book character knowingly plopped into wh40k's verse compared with the literally any of the other characters given how his backstory made him look like a space catholic gestapo interrogator lol

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"A Spring Fairy Tale" by Vladimir Tokarev (1970s)

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ive discovered a woman most foul in gundam and im going to make her my personality for the next 4-6 months.

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> playing through the kiava gamma mission: >> me: oh cool, IG88 origin story time!

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dafoe khamsin...

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Lone Wolf in the Snow - Stepan Feodorovich Kolesnikov (1879-1955)

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lok is my fave sitcom

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How would steering a Pegasus work? I see that often when you draw them they don’t have any bridles or reins. I can understand that because you can’t give the pegasi cues to go up or down like that. Is it something on the saddle maybe. Is it more like the dragons in httyd where the rider kind of uses their grip on the saddle and leaning their weight to steer?

Hi! Great question!

Yeah, the main way to steer a pegasus is weight shifting. This is similar to real-life riding where there's seat weight vs stirrup weight, and where that weight is in the saddle speaks volumes to the horse. A rider can give many cues through seat weight, and seat weight is often combined with other cues to execute complex moves. In fact, many horses can be cued with seat and leg cues alone, with no need for bit cues. I'm not against bit cues at all, but I default to seat and leg cues with my own horse because 1) I know he can and 2) the less I can cue his mouth, the softer his mouth is, and when I do cue the mouth, he knows something is important.

In my mind, a pegasus works on that same principle.

A saddle and pilot are positioned like this:

A pilot sits with their knees on the meaty part of the wing base:

Another view, including the heel slings, which are important to steering:

NOW for steering, pilots use their knees, their toes, and sometimes their hands:

Rolling the pegasus, angling the wings up and down, is done all with the knees and pilot weight shifting.

Pitch (nose up and down) is controlled with mostly toe cues, with some weight cues. Toe cues are more subtle.

Yaw (tail side to side) is controlled by a combo of everything, including hands.

Hope that helps!

~ Larn

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skimpy armors

(may not be very protective but I think it is really spicy😋😋😋 ​​​)

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Tsukioka Kōgyo, Fireflies, c. 1910

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