If I were to sell little guys like this

(Important note is that he’s almost entirely handmade)

Maybe please reblog this? I’d like to figure out a good price :)

If I were to sell little guys like this

Maybe please reblog this? I’d like to figure out a good price :)

If you saw this whale shark purse for sale would you buy it?

(Also if you wouldn’t mind reblogging to I can get more answers that’d be great thank you so much)

If you saw this whale shark purse for sale would you buy it?

(Also if you wouldn’t mind reblogging to I can get more answers that’d be great thank you so much)

Okay, Tumblr.

In the light of the recent Percy Jackson show (and ignoring the fact that I have to read Goethe's Faust for school), I am challenging you all and especially you reading this.

14k notes by the 1st of April and I will read all of the Percy Jackson series' books that my sibling owns.

I think they go up to the Apollo series? So, like. ~20 books.

Giveaway: Gift Cards to The Amazing Devil Merch Store

In TAD's recent insta post, in addition to the exciting hint at new music and the absolutely delightful pictures, they mentioned that gift cards have been added to their merch store. So, this blog is doing a gift card giveaway!

Two winners will receive a £10 gift card to TAD's merch store.

Here's how it'll work:

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be in the tumblr laws. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

If you need to reach out and get help, please do

Please reblog this if you see it. Don’t hesitate to call any of these numbers if you need help.

This is you daily reminder, if you need help, get it! If not, I’m always here to vent to, I don’t mind!

100k notes and i'll @ my crush on this post

wrong. You have until august 1, 2023.

you have one week remaining.

you have no chance to survive make your time

Fucking reblog this post

A lot of things are possible but 90k in 4 days is not one of them

a million damn haikus keeping me awake i refuse to rest

@i-say-ok i don’t know if you’re willing to be @‘ed or not but you have a lot of followers and this needs a lot of notes!

ok.

fine I'll support this divine retribution of notes as punishment for viral hubris

I can’t believe I get to tag this spoilers

(+ no skirt version)

(Also feel free to click for better quality)

Marvel movies have completely eliminated the concept of practical effects from the movie-watching public’s consciousness

Not just practical effects just like. Basic set design lol

How… How do they think sci-fi was done before CGI?

Really badly? Do you remember sci-fi before CGI? It was shit. And don’t say Star Wars because they went back and fixed that with CGI later.

*big sigh* *puts head in hands* heathens who’ve never watched pre-MCU sci-fi movies OR the unedited Star Wars movies, my beloathed

So first of all, most people agree that the majority of the “CGI fixes” in the Star Wars original trilogy (excluding minor visual/sound effects like lightsaber colors and blaster sounds) are unececssary, extremely conspicuous, and/or bad. This is not news to literally anyone older than about 20 who has consumed Star Wars content on any level. There are quite literally two very famous ‘despecialized’ fan projects explicitly dedicated to un-doing all of the shitty “fixed” CGI effects while simultaneously restoring the OT in HD.

And yes, I do, in fact, remember sci-fi special effects before CGI was the foundational cornerstone of moviemaking. It was not, in fact, shit:

Also, ironically I can show you by….*gasp* using fucking Star Wars, of all things. Welcome to the Tatooine pod race set of The Phantom Menace, which was not, as popularly believed, CGI’d but was instead a fully-built miniature set:

Yes, they built the entire set as a minature, built life-sized pod racers for the actors, then spliced the two together using digital effects. Yes, they did such a fantastic job that people think the entire set and scene sequence was basically completely CGI’d to this day. You’re fucking welcome for undervaluing the time, effort, and talents of set designers by implying that set design and practical effects inherently mean things will look like shit.

CGI also ages really poorly. What you think looks incredibly realistic now is going to look terrible in a few years. Just look at the original vs remastered Star Trek. They “restored” Star Trek around 2006 and replaced a lot of the practical effects with CGI, and maybe it looked ok in 2006, but it looks so bad and fake now.

You can see a video comparison for one episode here: https://youtu.be/ruPVTPCavdM

In the 60s they built a whole model of the Enterprise, complete with blinking lights and beautifully sculpted/painted details. It looks stunning! Then they replaced it with that horribly smooth and fake looking cgi ship.

Just look at this beauty

You can see the model at the Air and Space Museum in DC

Unfortunately the remastered version is the only version available to stream, but you can still find DVDs with the original effect.

made in 1968 and still stunning 2001 A Space Odyssey

the designers worked with engineers at NASA to make realistic futuristic special effects using models and matte paintings no computer effects at all! - and incidentally inspired David Bowie to write Space Oddity, later performed in space by astronaut Chris Hadfield

The CGI of the original Jurassic Park may not be aging well (though arguably still better than some), but the practical effects will always look stunning. 

I want to talk fantasy.

This shot was achieved with splicing and green screen.

This wild-looking shot (and similar manipulations) was famously achieved by having a professional juggler in a duplicate of Bowie’s jacket and gloves sitting behind him, basically with Bowie in his lap, doing the handwork while Bowie kept his arms behind the juggler. You may have seen a game based on this on Whose Line Is It Anyway.

This? Wires! Splicing! THE CGI TO DO THIS DIDN’T EXIST YET! (The juggler is hidden under the cape. If there’s a scene where he’s wearing a cape, that’s actually probably why.)

And this? This heartstopping shot?

This does appear to be from the version with CGI—

—CGI THAT WAS USED TO ERASE THE SHADOW FROM THE PRACTICAL EFFECT.

The shot itself hasn’t changed. The lift itself was done with wires and Bowie was given some propulsion with an air cannon so he could make that turn at speed. A minor amount of CGI was used in the 30th anniversary to “touch up” the work done in 1986, and one of the things they did was to remove a shadow on the wall from one of the wires.

How about this?

You don’t know it, but you’re looking at a practical effect. In real life, the Ruby Slippers are almost orange. That luxe, rich ruby color showed up on the film as black when the shoes were the correct color, so the costumers adjusted the actual costume to give the color they wanted.

A MODEL OF A HOUSE SHOT INSIDE A NYLON STOCKING ATTACHED TO A FAN.

MAN IN A COSTUME.

HORSES DUSTED WITH COLORED GELATIN.

And this? This is where it would’ve been useful to have CGI. Margaret Hamilton got really badly burned on the steam doing one of her entrance/exits, and ended up in the hospital. THIS is what you use CGI for.

You come into my house and insult practical effects?

I’ll just finish off by reminding you THIS IS ONE, TOO.

That last one, iirc, was there was a double in a sepia-toned costume, and the interior door and wall there was painted brown, so when it was lit and shot it all appeared to still be in the sepia tone of the Kansas scenes, and part of why Dorothy stepped back out of the frame was so the double and Judy Garland (in the proper blue-and-white costume) could swap.

You are correct. The double’s name, by the way, was Bobbi Koshay.

#this is also a purely personal opinion but aged practical effects are charming #in a way that aged cgi is not (via @glorious-spoon)

Practical effects has a union. CGI firms arent organized yet and therefore are cheaper.

Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda and John Carpenter didn’t learn and teach practical filmmaking for practical effects to be disrespected.

Extremely funny that Imogen "what if my deadbeat mom has a point" Temult is making this request to try to save her to Beauregard "my shitty dad could and did sell me to the Cobalt Soul for a single corn chip and I hope he rots in prison" Lionett and Caleb "uhhhhhhhhhhhh no comment" Widogast

Translation: Person behind camera; *knock down one card* “Go.” Other person;“Is your character mentally stable?” Person behind Camera; *Looks at card* “Yes” Other person; *Slaps down all but one card* “IT’S MOMO”

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS.  THERE WERE ONLY A FEW DOZEN NOTES WHEN I SAW IT LAST.

Today I’m thinking about how Beau said she’d lay down her life for the Nein like six weeks into knowing them, and man. That hurts, and it’s because we know how little she valued it then. All she had to give was herself, and we know she’d been on the hunt for something to die for. Not that she was looking to die, but that she placed such a weight on the idea of purpose that dying for it was the way she saw it ending. 

The Beau we met in the beginning was a survivor and she did it well, but she didn’t know what it meant to live. Even when she became an expositor and basically helped kill a god, she wasn’t getting it yet. Every good thing she got just braced her harder against losing it one day. Invisibly. Slowly.

And then a single visit home brought it all crashing down - reminded her that whether by death or abandonment, it would have to end. She’d expected that once, accepted it…sought it, depending on the day and who you asked. 

And then she couldn’t accept it. She saw how her old family had never even made the effort to be worth her time and energy, saw how far she’d come and how much she had to lose, and then she tried to take control of the ending so that at least she had some agency in how hard it hurt. Endings were all she knew.

But look at her now. 

Contrast that with the Beau of today, who’s figuring out by degrees that she does have great worth, that she is valuable just for who she is. Beau of today slowly piecing together that maybe that’s always been true. She’s always been good enough. She is wanted, and it’s worth holding on to every single second of a good thing whether it will end one day or not.

Today’s Beau saying out loud that she’s struggling with her sense of usefulness because hey, you know, lots of bullshit happening back to back and neutralizing what she has to offer. She’s learning to believe that she’s wanted without condition, and she’s able to hold that insecurity up to the light to be torn apart by her friends when it appears.

Today’s Beau letting herself be wanted by Yasha. Believing that she is good enough to be someone Yasha could want. Absolutely not falling for Veth’s teasing about her “plans” with Yasha for a second.

It gets to me, guys.

Early Beau was searching for something worth giving up her life for.

Beau now is learning how to live for the people who care about her, and that’s so much more impactful.

Grog (ft. Pike)

Bonus post today since it’s the last day of TLOVM s2.

I broke the pattern a bit with this one, but the second I drew pouty Grog, I just couldn’t resist adding Pike. His duality is so fun to draw.

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It's been so long since I watched CR1 that I totally forgot J'Mon Sa Ord existed! Thanks to the CR sexyman poll for reminding me haha. Sadly I can't try and convince people to vote on them anymore, because they already lost to the Gentleman, but technically they're not a man anyway. Someone should organize a CR sexy enby poll, as there are plenty of them :3