ninjkabat:

So, I guess there was an interview released today.

It’s a pretty interesting read, so read the whole thing.

Then skip to the bottom where it says that they’re planning a summit for this summer and planning to release an album before the end of the year.

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adriofthedead:

tanatot:

aspidelaps:

bronzebasilisk:

doublemaximusart:

I want to explain something here. These two .gifs are the first flash animations that I had ever made. I did these during my first semester in college in a computer animation class back in 2010. I had no idea what Flash even was.

Now let me just ask you something: Which one looks like it took the most time?

Our assignment was to experiment with Flash on our own, get used to the tools and settings and that sort of thing. I decided to go frame by frame and observed a gif taken from Treasure Planet. The result was that first gif you see up there.

I turned that first gif in to class the next day…and got a failing grade.

“This is not the proper way to use Flash” my teacher said. “Too complicated. This is not what people want to see. No use of tweens. Zero points.”

I was heartbroken to get a zero on my first assignment, so my teacher decided to give me a second chance. “Animate a running stick figure with tweens” the teacher said. So I did. I turned in that 2nd gif you see, and got an A.

To this day I am appalled by the way I was treated. To all of you animators out there, I recommend learning on your own. It could save you time and money. If you still choose to go to college, then that is fine too. You do what you want, just don’t let ANYONE try to downgrade your creative capability.

Okay just reblogging this because I’m seeing all these responses from students who didn’t follow their teachers instructions for their assignments and then got poor grade, and seem to think it was because their teacher was some sort of an ass or something.

No. 

I’m sorry no.  You didn’t do what they asked, you didn’t follow the assignment, you got an F.

Yes it sucks that you put a lot of work into tracing that gif, but that wasn’t what you’re teacher asked you to do.

And I’m sorry but your teacher’s right.  If you’re trying to get a job for flash animation, damn straight a company is going to want to see that you know how to use the program and it’s tools. That means understanding how to use the specific animation tools in flash, like tweening.  That doesn’t automatically mean making shitty stiff animation.  If you really want to amaze you’re teacher, make amazing animation while fallowing his assignment.

From the sounds of it the teacher wanted to see you practice and experiment with tweens, and you didn’t, so you didn’t get points.  That’s it.  That’s literately all that has happened here. There is no personal assault on you or creativity as a whole.  The fact you think that getting an F for handing in a traced copy written animation means he’s trying to stomp out creativity is… kind of telling in of itself.

Also you’re incredibly lucky you didn’t get a warning for handing in that copy written trace.  If I had done that in my school I would have gotten in deep shit. I would be happy he let you re-do the assignment and then move on and continue to do creative stuff on your own time.  You’re teacher is there to teach you how to use the program, not to personally support or ”downgrade your creative capability.”

Tell ‘em like it is, Chronidu. I do not think OP is being truthful, in the fact that it is fairly obvious they’re not sharing the whole truth, ferreting away important key parts like, oh idk.. the fact that they were supposed to be LEARNING FLASH and not LEARNING TO TRACE GIFS.

This comparison is apples to oranges, and depending on the lighting. That second animation is crap if you’re trying to think of it as remotely comparable to even the copied skill of a disney animator, its true! If someone were to be grading it based on animation quality, it would certainly fail. However it is composed entirely of tweens, and if you’re grading if the person understands how to use tweens, then of course it is A material. Congrats! Gif #2 conveyed that you understood the material being taught and so it got you a passing grade! I agree that you should be thankful you even got a second go.

Art school has a technical side and is not devoted entirely to “make this picture look super pretty with methods you already know.” Your assignment was a technical one, not an artistic one. Why would you expect anything BUT an F when you did the exact opposite of what you were supposed to do?

Art school is as much about building experience and connections as it is about learning skills. You can technically learn anything you want on your own, but you will have 0 credibility and you will be flying blind in to an industry that you absolutely do not understand. Art schools don’t just teach you how to be a better artist, but a better worker. Good work habits, team cooperation, understanding what employers want, and making sure you have the technical skills you need because SURPRISE, raw talent won’t get you by.

Please don’t give the toxic advice of “fuck schools do it on your own!” What if your foolish ass actually IMPRESSES upon someone?? You’d be costing them an actual opportunity by whining about your ego getting chipped at 3 years ago. People could learn to be an incredible animator on your own, but if they don’t have the developed work habits to fit in to a studio environment, nobody is going to want them in their studio. If they even give you the time of day! After all, you’re not really going to have anyone to speak for you that is mildly relevant to your interests, or even know the people who let word out that there is a job opening to apply for.

Ways to be successful in art school:

• Make sure you actually do the assignment when you do the assignment.
• Pay attention to the details of what is wanted from you. This isn’t artwork for you, after all! It is artwork for your education!
• Time spent means nothing when it comes to turned in assignments, only outcome and how it compares (and preferably exceeds) with what was asked of it.
• Check your ego at the door, because if you’re so attached to your work that you’ll let something like this fester for 3 years, it is going to get very battered and bruised (and you are not going to thrive in a professional environment, so best learn now.)
• Remember you are there to learn how to be a Professional Artist. Not a better artist.

Ways to do terribly in art school:

• Think time spent should mean anything for your eventual grade.
• Ignore the assignment and just make something that you like to turn in.
• Hold on to failed assignments like battle wounds and thinking you must have been treated terrible instead of learning from it and moving on.
• Expect that any amount of request or constraint on the technical side of how you produce a piece means the end of creativity in said piece.
• Treat artwork you make for school like personal projects and not demonstrations of learned skill.
• Think that because you were “being creative” you are infallible

There you go guys now you ACTUALLY learned something today.

fucking all of this thank you

thank

you

everyone needs to read this ^

I wish I could print this out and staple it to the forehead of every person I’ve met who’s ever been “ABLOO BLOO BLOO ART SCHOOL STIFLES CREATIVITY”. You go to art school to learn shit, not to play the tortured artistic genius act

I may be self-taught but even I know the benefits of attending an art school. I wish I could have had the opportunity to do so when I was younger, but that’s a whole other story

mx-heretek:

jolly-plaguefather:

morbidplaguepriest:

avrikwolf:

Not going to lie, this guys Cosplay is fucking awesome.

Too much time and effort went into this guy’s outfit for me not to reblog it. Good stuff all around.

This is so awesome! :o

This is a stunning Marius Leitdorf cosplay and this cosplayer is actually amazing. I love visiting their DeviantArt account and seeing their upgrades to it. <3

Just don’t ruin his favorite shirt!

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busofstruggle:

most of my makeup wore off and now I just look like a sassy blues

this is a pretty frickin’ amazing picture but when I saw you were gonna be dressed as death I expected you to be wearing a baseball jersey and a cap…

smilebeautifulurworthit:

i-am-tired-of-walking-alone:

So last night at Soma my friend and I snuck past security to the buses to find Of Mice & Men. When we finally found their bus we couldnt move from the front of the bus because there were security guards everywhere and so we were crouched down in front of the bus. And then all the sudden i hear “what are you guys doing” i turn and i saw it was Aaron going to hang up his clothes. I was so excited and we hugged him and then we began talking and ended up having a 40 minute conversation with him about life and silly things and it was so amazing. He gave us life advice and told us stories and we just all sat on the curb and talked and he hugged us a few more times before he left. He gave us water which i’m now calling Pauley water because of reasons.
Then Aaron said he would try to see if Austin could come out after his shower but no promises.
So Austin did come out, and I was trying so hard not to cry.
And i told him “you may not remember me but last time i saw you..”
“Oh at the observatory right, I’m sorry what was your name again?”
“Yes, Brooke! Well um last time I saw you I told you i couldn’t promise you I would never self harm again, because I was not ready to but i did promise you I wouldn’t take my own life. So I said that if I saw you again I would promise I would never self harm again, and I am ready to make that promise.”
Austin smiled really big and said “oh wow really! Im so happy you’re here not here like talking to me, I’m so so happy you’re alive, I don’t know if anyone has ever told you this but I am so proud of you and I love you” and then he hugged me really tight for a long time. And I was crying by this point and he was still hugging me and then he started telling me that I should always remember that he loves me so much and even when life is really hard it will get better and I need to be there when it does. And then he said he’d be right back and he came back a few minutes later with a letter in his hand. He kissed the folded up paper put in my purse and said “you cant read this until you wake up tomorrow okay, and i want you to read it every day to remind yourself that you are loved and i am so proud of you.” And then he said “I love you so much don’t forget it” and then he hugged me really tight and I just cried on his shoulder for a bit and I told him thank you so much for being my hero and caring when no one else did and saving my life and he continued to hug me while I cried. Then he really had to go (he was only supposed to be out there a few minutes) but he stayed out there just to hold me why I cried.
I can’t believe It happened it was the best night of my whole life.
I will treasure this letter for ever.

The reason Austin is my hero

I don’t listen to his band but hella props

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deliciousorangeart:

Love is the real treasure.

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zobobafoozie:

zobobafoozie:

hi everyone!! i thought it would be cool to do one of those art giveaways! they looks so fun and great for helping myself get out there, especially in the online world! so feel free to enter and or tell others about it! 

ART PRIZES:

• FIRST PLACE: a simple illustration of one character in complex coloring and shading and a simple background. i am also offering to make it a two frame animation of the piece involving the background (rain falling, fire burning, etc.)
• SECOND PLACE: a simple illustration of one character with simple coloring and shading along with a simpler background
• THIRD PLACE (TWO WINNERS): two sketches with hints of color

wahoo! now here are the rules!

RULES:

• you must be following me to enter! if you already are following me, then congrats! you’re already in it to win it, yay!
• after you follow me, you can choose to reblog this post to put in your name in another time! (or just help this spread hehee!)
• 3 reblogs are allowed per person, sideblogs will not count! if you have more than one blog, it’s all got to be on one blog or the other! 
• as much as likes are extremely appreciated, they won’t put your name in!
• i will be announcing the winners on June 1st! if you’re picked, please have your inbox open so i can let you know that you’ve won! if you do not respond within a 24 hour time period, i’ll draw a new winner for your place
• I WILL DRAW: humans (children and adults), animals, anthros (please be aware this will be in my style), pokemon, animal crossing, wreck-it-ralph, etc. (i can draw things from other fandoms as well, but please keep in mind that i may not be too familiar with them)
• I WILL NOT DRAW: porn, fetishes, heavy nudity, gore, and anything that you’d prefer in a different style (if you have any questions about this, let me know!)

thank you again everyone for following me on my online art journey! whoever wins i’ll post their pieces that i’ll create for them on my tumblr (unless requested otherwise) and i’ll send them original copies to their emails! i’m hoping this goes very well and i’m excited to see who i’ll be lucky enough to draw for! good luck to everyone who enters! ♥

 

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only 11 more days left !!!! win some cutie patoot art!

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Anonymous asked: You are wrong on three things. One is that Hilter had in private noted a desire to kill all of the Jews in Germany as early as 1922, also historians are not sure as to whether Hitler directly ordered the building of the death camps or not. Two, Germany did try to resettle the Jews, but never in the United States. There had also been a very long history of antisemitism in the German area.

I never said there was no long history of anti-semetism. In fact, I stopped short of the antisemitism which led to the creation of Israel out of the nation of Palestine and many other things but I didn’t because they were not immediately relevant to the fact.

I know that because I am a historian ffs but the evidence is heavily mounted in favor of the fact that it was an interpretation because Hitler rarely gave direct orders to his upper echelon because he liked to see people compete to see who could follow the vague order best according to a criteria only he knew because he was an asshole. Of course he wanted to kill all of the Jews he was batshit crazy and suffered PTSD from being in the trenches in France like many other Germans who survived being the Imperial Army in WW1. 

I would like to point out that all of Hitler’s pants-on-head crazy shit was after his service in the war and in fact a correlation can be drawn to the fact that his mental state was slowly deteriorating before he wrote his unbearably dry and terribly written Mein Kampf and began to blame all his problems the same way everyone else did on their misguided prejudice against Jews and in fact you could even see a direct correlation between his deteriorating mental state and the way he ran his armies. 

Also, they were never able to resettle them in the US because we said no outright.

You have to understand that you’re arguing central and eastern european history with someone who’s specialty is 1500-1945 Eastern & Central European history with a focus on interactions between Germany, Poland, and Russia  

I wish I could post about the complexity of issues surrounding the great depression and world war two and its effects on Germany and Poland and Belgium and the other Eastern and Central Bloc countries (Central Bloc is what I call central european and some western european countries conquered by Germany) and England without people getting really confused.

Like every time I see the photoset about hitler, and all the stupid comments, I have so many stored up facts and shit about how poorly run Germany was at the time and how terribly unintelligent but ultimately not entirely terrible Adolf Hitler was and how kinda terrible a lot of the allies were at the time because

hey

Five year plan? Killed shit tons of people as did Stalin’s purge.

FDR and Truman both had plans to carve out Northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg into an economic puppet of the United States in Europe

And that the actual mass killings in the Holocaust were not directly ordered by Hitler but an interpretation of him ordering they do something with all the Jews that the SS decided to interpret at a more violent level and he eventually just went with it?

Because he originally tried to ship a lot of the Jews to the US but the US was all like “Sorry, we’ve reached our Jew quota for forever fuck off germany” and on top of that the only reason why they had such an interset in the perfect race and eugenics was because of the UNITED STATES. YES, THAT’S RIGHT. TWO DECADES OF EUGENICS SCIENCE IN THE US AND STERALIZING PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE POOR AND “MENTALLY UNFIT” UNTIL THE PRACTICE WAS OUTLAWED HEAVILY INFLUENCED GERMANY. THEIR EUGENICS JOURNALS WERE JUST CONTINUATIONS OF AMERICAN ONES, THEIR ORIGINAL EUGENICISTS WERE AMERICAN.

and they expected the Soviet Union to tip over like France did which they weren’t expecting because holy shit France had the best fucking tanks like French Heavy 10t tanks were capable, technologically, of taking out entire platoons of Panzer II tanks on their own and the only reason why they fell so quickly is because they didn’t have well developed armoured companies and decided to defend the Maginot line again when Germany’s real invasion came from the easy to defend Ardienne which only a few people saw coming and you’d probably break and run too with THOUSANDS OF HUGO BOSS CLOTHED TROOPERS, THE FULL WRATH OF THE LUTWAFFE, AND TWO FULL ARMORED COMPANIES bearing down on your group of LESS THAN SIX FULL INFANTRY BATTALIONS

Like give France some credit, no one saw the Blitzkrieg coming and nobody thought it would succeed and in the end it didn’t because when you over extend your supply lines people are gonna do everything they can to fuck with them. 

Germany didn’t even need to invade the Soviet Union. The idea of Lebensraum was to take the land from the Slavs and give it to the over-crowded German population and take their resources, using a combination of labour and genetics to eventually cause the slavs to breed out. The whole reason the USSR was invaded and Japan allied with was because Hitler saw his only competition as the United States and he wanted Germany to be beneath no nation and felt the Soviet manpower, land, and resources would give Germany an edge over the US

Like every side did some really fucked up shit and now Hungary and Greece are in danger of falling under that terrible kind of Gestapo mindset and holy shit why isn’t everyone complaining about the rise of the Neo-Nazi parties in these countries?

And even then, WW2 was an extension of over a thousand years of racism and national rivalries which existed since even before the Middle Ages.