#ask me for fun facts about animation history any time db

yunisverse:

It’s here! The updated sheet for the Toonkind homebrew race is finally done! (Mostly it took so long because I was determined to do new art as subrace examples, sorry)

TheDnD Beyond page for the race can be found here, with the new YupyaenandHausen subraces separate.

Enjoy, and happy adventuring!

#CAN SOMEONE *PLEASE* TELL ME THE PEOPLE/COMPANY REFERENCES IN THE SUB RACES???#I DESPERATELY WANT TO KNOW#LIKE.. I UNDERSTAND WARNE#I KNOW RUBBERHOSE I THINK..#I VAGUELY UNDERSTAND FRANKINALIE??#BUT LIKE.. I CAN’T TELL WHAT THE OTHERS ARE..#I REALLY WANNA KNOW SO I CAN SEE SOME EXAMPLES TO GET A BETTER PICTURE (haha)#THANK YOU <3

Rubberhose is the term for the style in a lot of 1920s animation, due to their noodly limbs. Think Popeye, Betty Boop, very early Mickey Mouse shorts–Cuphead is a beautiful tribute to the look.

FrankThomasand Ollie Johnston were two of Disney’s Nine Old Men, the original animators that started the company. They literally wrote the book outlining the principles of animation, The Illusion of Life.

Warner Bros. was the first big studio to syndicate animation on a large scale and made Felix the Cat into the first worldwide superstar. Nowadays they’re most well known for making Looney Tunes.

United Productions of America, or UPA, was an animation studio founded in the 40s by disgruntled former Disney employers, who had grown tired of keeping things grounded and realistic (and also being overworked and underpaid), and instead explored how far the 2D medium could be pushed, with emphasis on minimalism, shape, and abstraction.

Ray Harryhausen was a stop motion animator who animated monsters, creatures, and other special effects across dozens of action, fantasy, and sci-fi films and shorts from the 40s to the 80s.