ONE HELLUVA COMMISSION FOR @the-wizard-dipper! Yah’ll know that Masters Academy AU we keep batting back n forth? Well here’s a bunch more for it! >vO now including Spectra as the schools councillor
For this round of commissions I decided to do an exploration of what the school looks like, with the added bonus of our first good look at Danny and a few funny scenes.
I’m glad to see y’all understand that Dipper’s height functions according to a scientific theory known as the “One Punch Man Principle” (OPMP for short). For those unfamiliar with the OPMP, here’s how it works: How short will Dipper be? Short enough for the situation to be demeaning for him, and therefore funny (and also cute) for everybody else (especially the audience) … UNLESS a specific situation would be made more funny by him somehow being too tall for it.
Norman: The teacher couldn’t possibly be a vampire.
Neil: *spends 15 minutes expounding the evidence*
Norman: … Well, damn, dude could legitimately be a vampite.
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Dipper: *is shy*
Mabel: *is the world’s greatest hypewoman*
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Raz: *repeatedly makes accidental mention of the secret agency he absolutely is not ever supposed to let anyone know exists*
Lili: I am 2 steps away from having to murder you.
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Coraline: Which means, naturally, Step 27 will be to kill the Queen of England.
Wybie: Not necessarily. With any luck, she’ll already be dead by the time we get to Step 27. And Steps 16, 19, and 24 could very well trigger an anti-royalist revolution in the UK.
Coraline: Oh, that’s an excellent point. Still, we should come up with a plan for regicide. Just in case.
Wybie: What are your thoughts on drones with flamethrowers?
As you can probably tell, this blog’s been empty for a while. Having to concentrate on professional endevours, I had to leave tumblr altogether and ran out of time to look after this place. I do apologize greatly for that, but I do also come with a lovely little update:
coraline meets norman on the 7th grade camping trip, multiple schools attend each year. coraline and norman hit it off and they hang and do ghost stuff
Norman thanks Coraline is supper cool
wybie isnt there because hes either one grade above coraline or his grandma didnt sighn the form
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER
REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.
also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate
if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula
LAIKA !
Also paranormal had a canonically gay guy in it just saying
I feel the 16ft tall skeleton from Kubo certainly deserves a mention
Laika are goddamn ARTISTS and MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT. Look at the animation on Kubo and tell me it doesn’t feel more like CGI than stop motion sometimes because it’s so smooth.
I love them so much.
Wait wait wait… Kubo was STOP MOTION?!?!?
Yup.
I mean obviously all of Laika’s movies have had some effects added afterwards, because there’s some things you really just can’t DO in stop motion (like falling snow, for example), but all of their films have been stop motion.
I don’t know how to embed videos successfully, but there are some REALLY cool behind-the-scenes stuff for Kubo that you can probably find if you look on youtube. :)
First year anniversary. I never imagined my first real relationship to be long distance. Many asked why, even myself but I don’t really know how to answer that. I just know that I didn’t think at all and I’m glad I didn’t!! For the first time I didn’t hold back, listened to what other people say or let them affect me. I just let my feelings took over because everything felt right. With you everything just seems right. And even though I only get to see you on my computer I know it’s love and it’s real. I’m very proud to say that I’m in a long distance relationship because not everyone can do it. It’s hard, the anticipation, the waiting, everything! But that’s what makes us stronger. I believe that everything will fall into place and we’ll see each other again. The end! ❤ :)) I am getting cheesier everyday!!!
![[shoves aside all other crossover pairings] THIS ONE IS MOST IMPORTANT](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4cb5daf2c86cf8f75c77add44485700c/tumblr_ncllgmRISI1r806ezo1_r3_1280.jpg "[shoves aside all other crossover pairings] THIS ONE IS MOST IMPORTANT")
