shiro, keith, im so sorry dreamworks did you dirty like this

listening to fuckboys on overwatch try to neg me and insult me and then send me a friend invite after is the most hilarious thing ever

sick fuck: its okay to have sex with kids the age of consent in *insert country* is-

me: THAT’S NOT FOR YOU GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL

dumb people: oh look a dumb joke online about how something is a bad idea to eat

dumb people:

dumb people: lets make a Challenge ™ about it

callout post for painting alluras skin lighter than in canon;

compares a highly-lit bloom-effect painting and a canon screenshot in neutral lighting

surefire way to sound like a whiny baby when you get called out for being shitty

call your naysayers haters

lets make 2018 the year people stop writing slapping people as a healthy way to get ones point across in an argument, no matter how well meaning it may be on the characters behalf

reductosshrinkgun replied to your post: problem with tv animation being so insulated and…

This is gonna sound weird… but as someone who watches a lot of animated shows (and has my entire life) I kinda wanna know more about this. I’m thinking about about how action animation has tended to look very similar for the past decade or so and is that the kind of thing? Just tell me to be quiet if I’m on the complete wrong track.

okay im not the best person to ask because i dont know the specifics of companies and their employment methods or which action animation youre specifically talking about but i can absolutely tell you that while calarts (the institute that is getting a lot of flack recently for its style) doesnt have complete monopoly on american animation, its pretty damn close

im gonna just throw a whole bunch of facts your way because they dont lie and from there you can make your own conclusions–

ill pull out a list of top animation studios worldwide- like this one. bear in mind that it doesnt specify exactly how it ranks these studios, but thats not particularly relevant here; we just need the names. 

on this list of 50 well-known animation studios, 22 are based in the state of calfornia. the top ten has 6. this list is international. that is a huge amount of influence for such a small place area of the world. there are even other studios that are based in america, but talking about americas domination of popular media isnt the focus today…

were talking california-the ‘cal’ in calarts.

so, california has big boys like disney, nickelodeon, pixar, dreamworks, and all of these have a very strong, very close relationship to calarts to the point where its almost considered a pipeline, and have ever since, i believe, the 70s.

heres some notable calarts alumni that i remember off the top of my head-

butch hartman (fairly oddparents, danny phantom)
john lasseter (just…look him up, itll take less time)
brad bird (iron giant, incredibles, ratatouille)
craig mccracken (the powerpuff girls, fosters home, wander over yonder)
lauren faust (MLP:fim, PPG, foster’s home)
glen keane (little mermain, tarzan, tangled)

(the shows/movies next to them arent even the only ones they worked on, just the some popular ones or ones they produced.)

basically, if you look at a piece of american animation, its a safe bet that it was created, written, or produced by someone hailing from calarts. youre also very likely to find another one or two alumni elsewhere in its pipeline (like a said, its all a little incest-y)

how about some more recent stats- as of 2015, 4/6 of CN’s original cartoons were created by calarts alumni. for disney, it was 4/5- damn good odds if youre a betting soul.

so you can see, calarts and the major animation studios have a Very close relationship.

now- this isnt in itself a bad thing! a lot of great, classic shows and movies have come out of calarts alumni- theyve basically built up western animation from its infancy, and its good stuff. id absolutely take more of the level of quality weve been getting recently than nothing at all!

but…as youve said, similarities and trends start to grow, sometimes to the point of sameness. theyve all started from the same place, and over decades established their own styles, brands, and most efficient methods of getting products out there- and theyre the ones that have the money to do so. its happened before, itll happen again, but i do feel it limits what we can achieve and see in animation, which can be very disheartening if you dont draw like the big leaguers do, or, bottomline, dont have the opportunity to work there.

but of course you can make your own conclusions, and say for yourself whether its necessarily a bad thing or not.

(i realize that this was all rather fact-heavy and maybe too pessimistic for ones tastes, so for something more in-depth and optimistic, check out my fellow animation-graduate subatomicbetty’s response. you might learn a bit more about the industry and process!)

fun fact: ironically though, rebecca sugar, a creator people often criticise for having the classic ‘calarts face’ isnt actually a calarts alumni- but that does kind of make my point about its huge influence changing the industry as a whole, doesnt it?

you all on tumblr: *experiences someone who is arguably shitty*
you: yaay now weve got a free pass to make fun of their art, looks, identity and anything else that we say is Bad to do!!!

why does this look so weird

why

dont ask, just take it

mineapple:

so uuh mirrors edge is beautiful but frustrating to play and i remember why i dropped it as a kid

im done
i made it further than i did as a kid but its not even a days playing time

maybe im just Bad at Video Games but thats just sad

so uuh mirrors edge is beautiful but frustrating to play and i remember why i dropped it as a kid