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Dare to differ

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games are life, give me chocolate and a warm blanket
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“i’m sad and idk how to feel better”

“i don’t know what to draw”

“i always mess up”

“BUT I SUCK”

LISTEN TO BOB ROSS.

Bob Ross was paid $0 to make his series. He made a living giving lessons IRL and later selling his own line of paints and brushes.

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amisbro

I apologize for not reblogging him as much but everyone needs this on their dash daily.  Seriously everyone needs this on their blog or wherever. Do they rerun this anymore or no?

It’s on Netflix

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partylocks

Random Blue Lockscreens

  • please like, reblog or credit @partyiocks on twitter if using
  • click on one of the lockscreens to save/screenshot it
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TLJ: The Fault In Our Stars

Kylo Ren: I’ll destroy her.

Me: ( trying to restrain myself from throwing my empty soda can at him in the theatre) Oi! Your Supreme Royal Ass-ness! That bloody lightsaber you’re twirling right now, the one you dropped beside that dead praetorian guard, and didn’t bother to pick up later, because now you’ve got Grandpa’s saber, and delivering an unsuccessful insulting proposal to rule the galaxy? How do you think that ended up on your utility belt, cowboy? 😒 Who do you think put it back? Your boyfriend Hux? Yoda?😡

So, that’s how the throne room scene ended and nobody can convince me otherwise.💃 Either this, or somebody has a very large gaping plot hole to solve.😛

Starting the new year with Fanart and Reylo, while my thesis stares me in the face, wish me luck.😂

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“what are you reading?”

“its a…online book.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“….uh….”

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I love that everyone just knows

Or…alternately:

“what are you writing?”

“it’s a….story.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“…uh…”

“can i read it?”

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I will never not reblog this

“what’s it called?”

“I don’t know I just randomly clicked on it!”

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I LOVE HOW ACCURATE THIS IS.

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Is Harry really Eobard? A closer look...

So there’s a theory that “Harry” might actually have been Eobard pretending to be Harry ever since the end of this season’s crossover. It’s basically built on the fact that we know Eobard is out there somewhere, possibly looking like Harry, and also that Harry got a haircut immediately after 4x08 so he looks more like Eobard. The first point can be dismissed as a pretty typical situation for villains to be in, and the second as actor-related hair shenanigans (Tom just didn’t want to wear a wig anymore).

BUT it got me thinking about Harry’s glasses.

Wellsobard always wore glasses and only removed them when he was in some way being his true self, whether that was straight-up being Reverse Flash or making funny-only-to-him comments to the team.

Harry, however, tends not to wear his glasses unless he actually needs them to read - he wears them at computer screens and when writing on boards, not when he’s being Action!Harry. 

EXCEPT… in the three episodes since the crossover, Harry has worn his glasses in every single scene:

4x09: 7 scenes, all wearing glasses (including scenes at Jitters, DeVoe’s house, and Chez West)
4x10: 7 scenes, all wearing glasses (including the scene on the street intercepting the tanker)
4x11: 6 scenes, all wearing glasses

“Odd,” I thought. But I decided to look back at the other episodes this season to see whether Harry’s glasses habits actually were as I remembered them. I haven’t included the crossover episodes, where Harry did wear glasses in most of his scenes, as I suspect the reasoning there was primarily to distinguish Harry from Eobard (Harry also wore glasses more last season when HR was around).

4x03: 9 scenes, 6 without glasses, 2 with regular glasses,  1 with sunglasses  
4x04: 4 scenes, all with glasses
4x05: 5 scenes, 4 without glasses, 1 with regular glasses
4x06: 7 scenes, 6 with regular glasses, 1 with sunglasses (excluding all non-Harry Wellses)
4x07: 5 scenes, 2 without glasses, 2 with regular glasses, 1 with sunglasses (excluding 2 Eobard scenes)

So it’s certainly not the case that Harry never wore glasses and now does. However, WHEN he wears glasses has changed. Previously when he was outside the lab, he was either wearing sunglasses or no glasses at all. Since the crossover, he’s wearing his regular glasses regardless of the location.

Could this have an innocent explanation? Sure. Maybe Tom’s got an eye problem. Maybe he prefers to wear glasses and it’s not sunny enough in Vancouver these days to justify sunglasses. 

BUT given the past significance of the glasses, it’s something I’ll be keeping an eye on…

I haven't watched the new season yet (sadly...) but I'm even more excited for it now that my precious Eo seems to be back! ^^

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crazyhamlet

This is a nice chart! Lipsync is one of my not-so-secret passions. I also hate front mouths. They’re harder to inbetween, I find, and they’re not used nearly as frequently. Here’s some ¾ mouths I made.

These are the basic shapes I was taught, and I use. Standard lipsync shapes;; 

You have your closed mouth to open, to clenched teeth, to oohs, and your (often optional) F, L, and TH mouths.

Tips!

  • Your top teeth don’t move;  I mean, stylistically it happens sometimes (Gravity falls does it fairly well, as much as I haaaaate that), but your lipsync will prolly look better if they don’t.
  • My clenched teeth (SH) mouth is always a bit wider than my biggest AH mouth. It adds variation and helps your shapes blend more nicely. Conversely, my biggest AH mouth is narrower than my SH mouth and my closed (M) mouth.
  • My L mouth is a tiny bit more closed than my biggest AH, and not as closed as my second biggest AH. It fits between them nicely so that if you have to go from an L to an AH mouth, like you would for the word “Like” or “Love”, it doesn’t pop or look weird.
  • My R and oo mouths move forward on the face a bit, it adds dimension, and if you leave it all in the same place and have the mouth just shrink into a circle it miiiight look weird.

Aaaaand I think that’s it?  Never go from a SH mouth to a TH mouth, it’ll pop and look weird…uhhh;   Also! It’s alright to skip some shapes;; So below is a lipsync I made using the above shapes;

It’s clear what they’re saying, the mouth is moving nicely, but there’s only one problem. Veeeery rarely do they give you enough time to use all the mouths you want to make it move nice. Voice actors talk fast to fit everything in and holycrap do we hate  love them for it.

So here’s a fast one.

Those two gifs should start at the same time, and notice that the second one stops while the first one is still saying “doing”. I not only cut out the mouth between the biggest AH and the clenched teeth, but I combined the word “Are you” into, like, 3 shapes. I also trimmed some inbetweens overall. The lipsync still reads, though! You can still tell what they’re saying even without audio (which would help it a bit, haha~) Cutting out that stuff ended the lipsync a whole 14 frames sooner (more than half a second!). It doesn’t sound like much, but with 24 frames per second and dialogue moving at the speed of light, you don’t have time to dilly dally. This isn’t a preschool show;; Aaaaaand I think that’s it. Liiiipsyyyyyync~~~ Now to go back to actual work and stop talking about things most ppl don’t care about;

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worldhero
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I AM CRYING TEARS OF RELIEF BECAUSE I NEED THESE REFERENCES FOR MY SENIOR FILM’S DIALOGUE~

Reblogging this again because I’ve been using this reference for the last 2 months to help with my lip-synch in my film, and I’ve just tested one scene where I used the reference…And my mouth-drawings have improved tenfold ever since.

To the OP who made this chart…I wish I could hug you right now because you helped make my film look much better. c8

This post makes its rounds every so often;; I’m glad people are getting use out of me not wanting to do the actual work I had!

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How Eobard Thawne Can Save the Flash

I literally never thought I would say that: Eobard Thawne could save the Flash. You need to know, I loathe Eobard. I mean, he’s a great villain, but he’s done some awful crap. So, imagine my surprise when I realized Thawne could actually save the Flash TV show if the writers wake up and smell the roses already. 

Let’s face it: people are sick of Viris West. The ratings have gone down so much since Barry and Viris got together and it’s only getting WORSE. Season one had a 1.44 demo, averaging 3.84 million viewers. Season two had a 1.37 demo and averaged 3.532 viewers. Pretty similar, huh? Slight drop from season one to season two, but that’s to be expected. It wasn’t major. And then in season three, Barry and the Viris got together and the demo became 1.06 and the average viewers was 2.840. Pretty big drop from season one and two to season three. Season four is even worse. We’re only about halfway through it, and the demo is 0.87 and viewership is 2.425 million. That doesn’t look good, does it? I don’t think it’s any coincidence that this drop started happening when Barry and Viris got together. Since that happened, this show has been the Viris Pest Show, not the Flash. She has been shoved down our throats, she seems to get more screen time than Barry, our actual lead, does, she took over Team Flash, everything is about her, they married WA even though pretty much the majority of the fanbase seems to not like that ship, they’re nerfing and dumbing down other characters for the sake of her being important, and now they’re apparently going to at least temporarily make her a speedster at some point in this season. The fans are getting pissed. We’re starting to stop watching, and Berlanti must recognize this. They realized their last season was the lowest rated, (until this one), and they tried bringing back the lighter tone and doing a non-speedster villain since those were things fans complained about for a long time. But, the ratings are still dropping which leaves the Viris as the only explanation as to why. Just about everyone I meet who watches the show–and I don’t mean people making comments online, I mean people I actually meet in real life–hates her. Two of my best friends hate her, a girl I met in college hates her, one of my dad’s buddies hates her, one of my mom’s work friend’s hates her… if the topic of the Flash ever comes up in conversation, I tend to find that the person I’m talking to hates Viris. 

So, how could Eobard Thawne save the Flash from Viris Pest? Well, they recently brought Thawne back to life. And I don’t mean some time remnant of him, I mean the version of him that was supposed to fade out of existence at the end of season one. They brought him back during the crossover. Honestly, you have to wonder why. I mean, Kara and Oliver both had evil doppelgangers. The idea that Barry, the final member of CW’s trinity, didn’t have an evil doppelgänger felt anti-climactic. Why make it be the Reverse Flash instead? And not even Earth X’s Eobard Thawne, it was Earth One’s and the one who posed as Harrison Wells. That should be significant, don’t you think? They brought him back and Barry let him go rather than kill him. Shouldn’t that come back to bite him? It usually does.

So, Thawne is alive, but he knows that his ancestor is dead and that Time Wraiths or the Black Flash could easily come for him. Should this start to happen, Thawne knows what he needs to do to stop himself from ceasing to exist: he has to save Eddie Thawne. Now, we all remember poor Eddie, Viris’s first fiancee, cop, shot himself to stop Thawne just for the bastard to come back… if Eobard saves Eddie to save himself, we all know what that means: by now, Viris and Eddie are married because they decided to “screw the future” and get engaged. This could save the show. They could bring back Eddie, change the past because Thawne is a shit like that, and then Eddie and Viris are married and Barry is once again single, even though he remembers the other timeline which is still mostly the same, except he and Viris never got together. They could do that so easily. According to imdb, it doesn’t look like Rick Cosnett is in the middle of any TV shows. He could come back if his contract is still intact, which it probably is considering they managed to get him back for an episode last season.

I don’t know if the writers will wake up and do this, but I can hope. Eobard Thawne still being alive could save the Flash.

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