England’s confession
I know how you feel, Arthur
ME TOO ;__; ERRDAY.
MY SECRET SHAME.
(via treehousefriend)
this is a secretary bird, the wackiest looking bird to not yet have its own feature disney film. since this gif is black and white, you can’t see the bird’s bright red featherless mask but you can see his fabulous dancer’s legs.
It may not have a feature film, but Zazu from Lion King was supposedly a secretary bird.
Oh my gosh all I see is Spore.
guys, these mofos regularly curb stomp poisonous snakes. They’re badass.
Actually Zazu is an african hornbill, they even mention it in the movie, but he does have similar colouring and these birds are funky as hell so whatever.
(via treehousefriend)
In May of this year, Pixar animator Austin Madison kindly hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists, in a bid to inspire them through times of creative drought. It’s a lovely, eloquent letter, and in fact contains advice valuable to people in many a creative field. It was written as a contribution to the Animator Letters Project.
Transcript
PIXAR
May 17, 2011
To Whom it May Inspire,
I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, “in the zone” seat-of-the-pants, firing on all cylinders creative mode. This is when you lay your pen down and the ideas pour out like wine from a royal chalice! This happens about 3% of the time.
The other 97% of the time I am in the frustrated, struggling, office-corner-full-of-crumpled-up-paper mode. The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of discouragement and despair. Put on some audio commentary and listen to the stories of professionals who have been making films for decades going through the same slings and arrows of outrageous production problems.
In a word: PERSIST.
PERSIST on telling your story. PERSIST on reaching your audience. PERSIST on staying true to your vision. Remember what Peter Jackson said, “Pain is temporary. Film is forever.” And he of all people should know.
So next time you hit writer’s block, or your computer crashes and you lose an entire night’s work because you didn’t hit save (always hit save), just remember: you’re never far from that next burst of divine creativity. Work through that 97% of murky abyssmal mediocrity to get to that 3% which everyone will remember you for!
I guarantee you, the art will be well worth the work!
Your friend and mine,
Austin Madison
“ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!”
(via colourbomb-blog)
The ‘Arthur hair’ appears to have reached critical impersonation levels.
Someone in the street actually told me I looked like him the other day when I was wearing a green shirt.
This is a little concerning.
Genderswapped Scott Pilgrim characters by eatfun.
gonna marry that todd ingram oops
Premiere Pro I hate your face
JUST IMPORT MY FUCKING FILES ALREADY.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO PLEASE YOU.
DO YOU WANT ME TO FUCKING DANCE.
A collective of miscellany and mirth. Also sometimes I draw stuff.