this is the funniest tweet i’ve seen in months bye
these are all the geek equivalents of Lovecraft’s Cat’s Name
his cats name couldn’t be that bad!!!! it’s a cat, what’s the worst name?
Me every time this post comes back
go Google why chainsaws were invented, it’s really fun :)
I’ve seen everything at this point, so why were chain saws in-
Cleric of Pleasure 🌸🌿
(got lots of commissions done this season 💪 I post them more frequently over on twitter, but you’ll eventually see them all here too )
This would be @trustiniron‘s tiefling, Vigilance. I have such fun doing dnd characters : )
– me when my DM was urging me to finally decide the details of my dragonrider charater
hate it when people outside of america are like "lmao how do regular people deal with the american healthcare system???" we don't! we don't. we literally just don't! bc we can't. PLEASE shut up u don't sound as cool as u think u do when u say shit like that
I feel like there are probably too many people just scrolling past this so let’s go through everything that’s going on here.
1. With Roger’s voice actor standing off camera, Bob Hoskins acts into empty air and frantically sawing at his handcuff, continually looking up and down at different visual marks of various depths. Look at the slow pan up of his eyes in gif 4, and then the quick shift to his side. Think about how, on set, he was looking at nothing.
2. Starting in gif 2, The box must be made to stop shaking, either by concealed crew member, mechanism, or Hoskins own dextrousness, as he is doing all of the things mentioned in point 1.
3. In all gifs, Roger’s handcuff has to be made to move appropriately through a hidden mechanism. (If you watch the 4th gif closely you can see the split second where it is replaced by an animated facsimile of the actual handcuff, but just for barely a second.)
4. The crew voluntarily (we know this because it is now a common internal phrase at Disney for putting in extra work for small but significant reward) decided to make Roger bump the lamp and give the entire scene a constantly moving light source that had to be matched between the on set footage and Roger. This was for two reasons, A) Robert Zemeckis thought it would be funnier, and B) one of the key techniques the crew employed to make the audience instinctually accept that Toons coexisted with the live action environment was constant interaction with it. This is why, other than comedy, Roger is so dang clumsy. Instead of isolating Toons from real objects to make it easier for themselves, the production went out of its way to make Toons interact more with the live action set than even real actors necessarily would, in order to subtly, constantly remind the audience that they have real palpable presence. You can watch the whole scene here, just to see how few shots there are of Roger where he doesn’t interact with a real object.
The crew and animators did all of this with hand drawn cell animation without computerized special effects. 1988, we were still five years out from Jurassic Park, the first movie to make the leap from fully physical creature effects to seamlessly integrating realistic computer generated images with live action footage. Roger’s shadows weren’t done with CGI. Hoskin’s sightlines were not digitally altered. Wires controlling the handcuff were not removed in post.
Who fucking Framed Roger fucking Rabbit, folks. The greatest trick is when people don’t realize you’re tricking them at all.
Let’s also not forget that writing. “Only when it was funny” isn’t just hilarious, it’s great comedy theory. It lampshades the joke, but also serves to remind the viewer that Toons have a separate set of physical laws they adhere to, mostly revolving around comedic value. Roger cannot remove his hand from the cuffs… until it’d get a laugh from an audience.
Everything about this movie, EVERYTHING about it, is so finely crafted. I could wax lyrical about it for days.
Was always one of my favorites
Snezhnaya Koroleva [The Snow Queen] [USSR] [1957]
Have I ever shown you guys these weird late 80s Soviet Lord Of The Rings illustrations?
They were made by Sergei Iukhimov, who’s virtually unknown otherwise.
More from where that came from
Holy fuck this is absolutely perfect
I hated them as a kid, but I can appreciate them now.
Some more reasonably sized ones here:
LOTR art that actually looks like medieval illuminations? holy shit
ink on paper ●100 x 70cm
corcle time
Where’s that post about having mundane superpowers
I had to watch this a couple times
… the Untitled Goose is now a leftist icon:
(graphic taken from https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1175492642773200897)
In celebration of our apparently new SJW ally, I give you some handy graphics:
At this point “being a sjw” just means “liking things”
Those damn SJWS and their *looks at hand* “Geese”
Stan socialist goose
i was confused about this so i googled it. there’s literally just a bit of text at the end of the game’s credits about how australia still belongs to the aboriginals. that’s it. that’s what they’re mad about.
“This game was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.
“Thank you very much for playing our videogame.”
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