in my concept for video games class we ended up doing a group activity where we were given random game genres and mechanics along with a folk story and we were tasked with conceptualizing a game, no matter how nonsensical
we had to think of a shooter, sim game based on jack and the beanstalk, and make a poster for it.
BEHOLD;
PLANTS VS ZOMBIES MEETS HARVEST MOON
GROW PLANTS TO FEED YOUR VILLAGE AND PROTECT YOU, BUT LET THEM GROW TOO HIGH AND YOU BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE SKY GIANT’S REALM AND YOUR OWN, RESULTING IN UNTOLD DESTRUCTION AND CARNAGE
BEAN MASSACRE
i think this may be the most beautiful thing i have ever created
am i the only person not affected by generalized positivity… like post it notes in bathrooms that say ‘you’re beautiful’ or posts that are like ‘smile! you are a beautiful sunshine flower!’ i’m just like … okay…
This was just some doodle that I decided to finish. Apparently all I want to draw is Dirk, Jake, both or Jade… Even though there’s a lot of other great characters too (all of them), that I haven’t drawn yet.
If you were born in the Year of the Dragon , you are familiar with the various types such as water, wood, fire, earth and metal dragons. But sunrise and flower dragons may not ring a bell, unless you play online games DragonVale, Dragon Cave and Dragon City which present numerous winged creatures. There are a lot more dragons out there and a cult following for them. Artist Alvia Alcedo happens to be familiar with the new ones in existence, and has painted many on agate and jasper stones
The teen pregnancy rate has been cut in half since the 1950s.
#ThisGeneration
Smoking has also dropped by 50%
#ThisGeneration
The abuse and availability of drugs has actually been in drastic decline.
#ThisGeneration
The U.S. homicide rate is currently the at lowest it has been since 1962.
#This Generation
Searches for porn have been reduced by half in just the past ten years.
#ThisGeneration
The average IQ score has seen a dramatic increase, mainly due to our increasing ability to process symbols.
#ThisGeneration
The high school dropout rate is at half of what it was in the 70’s.
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But somehow the last generation remains largely convinced that we are bad and stupid people because they cannot comprehend advances in technology and society.
#LastGeneration
people think i’m joking when i say we need to stop california’s dominance of animation. it’s a problem.
the key to major success lately seems to be: be born in california or nearby, go to calarts, get into the industry. other options come when you can afford to move to california. the industry is VERY quiet in every other part of the country. i live in new york city, possibly the most famous city in the country, and there is next to no work to be found here. yeah there are outliers like Natasha Allegri and Rebecca Sugar, but the majority are from CA.
Pen Ward? CalArts. Craig McCracken? CalArts. Alex Hirsch? CalArts. Lauren Faust? CalArts. Thurop van Orman. Patrick McHale. Paul Rudish. Chris Buck. Aaron Springer. Butch Hartmann. John Lasseter. Jorge Gutierrez. Pete Browngardt. Arlene Klasky. Genndy Tartakovsy. Rob Renzetti. Tim Burton. JG Quintel.
ALL Calarts alumni.
To make a further point:just about EVERY SINGLE ORIGINAL SHOW running on Cartoon Network right now has a CalArts alum as the showrunner, the only exceptions being Steven Universe and Gumball. Now you might be asking: why’s this a problem?? these people are brilliant. they make great shows, they’re creative geniuses. and i agree. and that’s part of the problem.
we got to see their work out of sheer luck. the luck that they could be born in california OR uproot themselves to move there, that they could afford to go to calarts, where the tuition is over 40,000 a year and growing. that they had friends who could offer them work in california.
consider all the people we’re missing out on. i haven’t even graduated yet and i’m already seeing TONS of my colleagues and peers who had starry eyed dreams of just being a PART of the animation process–doing inbetweens, storyboarding, designing characters–give up when they realized they couldnt get to california.
it is, to say the least, hard to uproot yourself and move across the country with 50,000 dollars in student loans on your back and no job that pays more than minimum wage, with no guaranteed apartment waiting for you.
the most talented animation visionary in the world could be giving up right now, because they were born in pennsylvania and their household makes less than 40,000 a year. CalArts is not the problem. But the fact that CalArts seems to be the ONLY school you can hope to go to make it–and every other option being outliers or exceptions—is a BIG problem. we’re losing tons of potential talent like this and its an issue. the industry needs to branch out, it needs to learn to accommodate people who dont live in LA.
this probably sounds whiny, but i’m tired of seeing amazingly talented people with brilliant ideas give up because they cant move away from everything they know, up to their ears in debt, hoping for the small chance of getting to draw keyframes for nickelodeon.
