Here is one of the few water shot I animated for the movie Klaus. It is straight ahead animation like I use to animate vfx. While in production, you often don’t have the time to go that far in details. For this one we luckily had time to try stuff and go a bit crazy so I took that opportunity and enjoyed every single minute spent on that shot…
some fucker: “If you arent paying for a product, you are the product!”
me using tumblr costing yahoo a billion dollars:
good
Say what you will about Tumblr but it’s rather punk that capitalism has no power here. That we cannot be turned into products and are free to roam the tundra and scream into the woods about whatever like some primal beings.
Look, I hate this hellsite as only someone who has been doggedly here for 8 years, through countless ill-advised updates, unannounced blog deletions (THREE! THREE BLOG DELETIONS!), random bullshit, barely functioning user interface, cutesy staff messages, failure to fix infrastructure, the Pornpocalpyse and “Female Presenting Nipples,” and all the other constant nonsense this website has heaped on its long-suffering userbase can possibly hate it.
But guess what? I’m still here, and so are the rest of us grizzled old-timers, because we cannot even be killed with fire. We aren’t here to be famous and have bad takes go viral (I mean, there are bad takes aplenty, but only your fellow dumpster denizens see them), or we would be on Twitter. We aren’t here to post updates carefully curated so our racist uncle can’t see them while he is sharing his QAnon bullshit, or we would be on that ACTUAL hellsite, Facebook. We steadfastly hate showing our faces or anything of the sort, or we would be on Instagram.
Instead we are here, like a bunch of rabid trash opossums, mercilessly mocking every update and reverting it with xkit, memeing the obnoxious Boys ad out of existence after like… 48 hours, sitting on our garbage heaps of fic and hyperfixations while costing capitalism and mega-media-corporations a literal billion dollars and being impossible to market to in a social media landscape that is otherwise nothing but ads (seriously, have you met YouTube?), and I for one think that is rather sexy of us.
In the great words of one Klaus Hargreeves, “I’m sexy trash”
One of my favourite things about Klaus is how absolutely beautiful each and every shot is. The whole film is hypnotic. Each moment is more beautiful than the last.
See, a lot of reviewers describe it as sort of a reverse Paperman, a 2D movie that looks like CGI instead of vice versa, and think the reason it was animated that way was to trick audiences into thinking it was CGI since they wouldn’t accept a 2D-animated film that looks 2D.
But if you look up interviews with director Sergio Pablos, you’ll see that his purpose was NOT to trick people into thinking it was CGI, but to essentially look like an illustration, and give it the same kind of shading, texturing, and detail you’d see in concept art and promotional material.
He didn’t want to bring 2D animation back, he wanted to bring it forward, and take it in a new unique direction that hadn’t been done before, as he believes staying in the past is what caused it to die out. (For instance, he believes The Princess and the Frog wasn’t a big hit because it went out of its way to look exactly like the older Disney films.) Basically, how can you build upon current 2D technology while keeping everything we like about classic 2D animation?
He noticed that in a lot of older 2D-animated films, the characters look like flat-colored stickers against a detailed background, and pointed out that if this was a deliberate stylistic choice, then why do they have so much shading and texturing in the promotional material? Clearly, this was a technological limitation that his team could improve upon, which they did via groundbreaking technology. (I’d share a video about the programs used to do it, but the video was made by Andrew Dobson, and the less I have to do with him, the better.)
Pablos doesn’t necessarily want other 2D studios to do the exact same thing his studio did, but he does hope that other studios will try out with experimenting new tricks with 2D animation in their own way, as there isn’t much you can do with CGI that hasn’t already been done, but there’s a LOT of new and unexplored potential for 2D animation.
Thank you all for reblogging and enjoying my art! It really means a whole lot to me and really encoreges me!! So thank you so so so much! i also have an Instagram @cartoon_kayla! So if you would like you may follow me there, ps I would love people to send in questions or requests! Thank you for making me feel so welcome
WHICH CHARACTER WILL YOU SPEND YOUR QUARANTINE WITH? (18 options ehe)
(take a screenshot to figure it out under the cut, but tw: epileptic gif)
Inspired by the ask I have accidentally deleted but thankfully screenshot (I couldn’t choose a specific character so I ended up drawing 18 different options- I’m sorry if you don’t know them all )
(I put a tw in the tags for risk of epilepsy, I hope it’s enough!!)
