so I thought this post was pretty funny

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EDIT: MY FRIEND SAID ‘when they try to ship u with your brother’ AND I LOST IT

which leslie knope are you?

A project done by Russian graphic designer Ruslan Khasanov where he experimented with the relationships between ink, oil and soap. 

15 image panorama of the Milky Way in Maui

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I like the idea that Roadhog hates the world, and his method of punishing it is to keep Junkrat alive as long as possible.

The lip sync tutorial they DON’T give you

I mentioned on twitter that I wanted to do a lip sync tutorial and immediately got some people who were interested so I put one together real quick!

I’m going to use a bit of unfinished lip sync from my taz animated part as reference. They’re just gifs so no sound, but you should still be able to tell that he’s saying “I’d say a solid B… Solid B minus.”

Anyone who’s looked up how to do lip sync has seen phoneme charts. Phonemes are just the shape your mouth makes when you make certain sounds.

When you do lip sync, you want some kind of reference to make sure it’s right

What’s easiest is to say it yourself and pay attention to the shapes your mouth is making. Since you’re going frame by frame, your audio is slow enough that you can make each shape slowly and distinctly and you can get each individual phoneme down in the animation.

Don’t do this.^

An easy way to tell if you’re animating lip sync wrong is if you run out of frames to make each shape. You don’t need them! Making each shape is unnatural. People talk quickly and the mouth doesn’t have the time to get into each shape. They blend together, sometimes to the point where the shape doesn’t change at all!

Not only does the 2nd gif take less frames and energy to make, it’s more relaxed, it looks less distracting, and his lips are much easier to read!

These are reference charts to show the differences more clearly

This is the difference between getting swallowed up in every last detail and paying attention to reality.

What matters more than hitting every syllable is making it look natural and flow with the acting. That’s why anime mouth flaps can work so well. A strong pose through the whole body matters more than one mouth shape.

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Family gathering.

MOOOOOM, AUNT CAROL IS HEEEEEERE

Aunt Carol is fucking ripped.

reblog if you love aunt carol

Please Help Save My Ella

I normally don’t do this. Even now I feel very guilty about making a post and asking, but I have no other options at this point. 

My dog Ella, who I had to leave down in Pennsylvania with my dad for the time being while I got settled in up here in Vermont has taken a dive with her health. My dad took her to the vet around 2 weeks back and we found out she has a tumor in her mammary glands… that just keeps growing as time goes on. He was able to get an estimate from them on how much it would cost to remove it…

The bill costs $639.20. That’s just an estimate they said. If things go differently, it could cost more. This includes taking the tumor out as well as spaying her, because they said that if we didn’t get her spayed, it would only happen again over and over again until the tumors were too much for her. If you can donate, here is my paypal info: paypal.me/chacah

Here is the estimate that my dad got. I have no way of getting the money to do it, but I cannot loose my dog. She has been through everything with me… Through the abuse I had to go through, through the panic and anxiety, through the depression that almost killed me. She is my emotional support and I just can’t loose her.

I found out from my dad today as well while I was at work and on a break that the stress from the tumor is giving Ella anxiety enough that she is chewing bald spots on her coat as well as scratching herself raw.

Here is the tumor. No. That isn’t puppies. That’s the tumor. The full black hairline is where her stomach should be. It’s bulged out that far.

Not only is she an emotional support dog for me, but she is also for my 2 kids who are still living down in Pennsylvania.

She has helped me raise my 2 boys, been there through the pregnancies, through the late nights, through the sick days and the  fun days. She protects them with her entire being, she protects me with her entire being.

And we really need her.

So please, if you could, anything would help.

Ella was the reason I got through my marriage, and was strong enough to actually walk away from my ex husband as I did. 

So please if you can donate, donate to my paypal. If not, please signal boost.

Ripley has a very good grasp of the word “touch” and we often use it as a command word to get him to try to be less afraid of new things or to ask his permission to pet him. He knows if we ask him to “touch” a person or object, he’ll be praised for gently tapping his beak against it. He also knows exactly what we mean when we ask him not to touch something,

Today I yelled at him for biting the wall and he did probably the pettiest thing I’ve ever seen him do: he went around touching stuff in the room and saying “no” and staring at me to make sure I was watching him do it.

Oh my gosh…

Your expressions are amazing. Great job. I can’t stop laughing.

I finally finished Aldo.  Now I just have to see about getting those shirts and stickers and such made.  It’s not my best work, but it’s a little cleaner than before.

I love how I keep needing to delete nasty remarks from the comments on here.  Making nazis and other fash angry gives me all kinds of warm fuzzy feelings.

Also, anyone wanting to use this design, feel free.

Speaking of artwork again, I have a vector file (.ai) of Aldo here for anyone that wants a scalable version.  I don’t know of a particularly good place to host it unless I can figure out how to post a downloadable version on my website, so if anyone wants it just PM me.

Also, my patreon is www.patreon.com/ladyferal if anyone is feeling generous.

Hey IDK if national news is covering this since there’s so many other terrible things going on, but the entire West Coast is on fire right now

There are currently 74 wildfires burning in the western United States, many of them are approaching heavily populated cities such as Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, and Los Angeles. The La Tuna fire is now officially the brush fire in LA history. Air quality warnings are being issued across the entirety of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. I’m in Portland, about 40 miles out from the nearest wildfire, and it’s raining ash and difficult to breathe due to the haze.

If you live anywhere near these fires, you’ve probably heard this by now, but please be safe. Stay indoors if at all possible and keep windows closed. Keep pets indoors as well. Hopefully some of our trademark Portland rain will come soon to help minimize the damage.

Slowly but surely transitioning over to http://frankenjin.tumblr.com

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Reblogging for daytime.