Daw, aren’t you a cutie anon.
Well, ‘cheers’ is basically a chummy way of saying thanks, so the right way to respond would probably be a “you’re welcome” or “come again!” Saying cheers back would be sort of like saying thank you for them saying thank you… which could make sense, but they might just think you’re mimicking them. As loath as I am to say it, there are some British colloquialisms that just don’t carry well with an American accent (one of my American friends tried to say 'bugger’ when she was visiting and caused a bus-load of people to nearly kill themselves laughing).
Wait, wait you mean there are actually people out there think they have to be cool to be friends with me?
Huh, never considered it! I mean partly because my voice is pretty low and she’s such a kawaii motherfucker that I always thought she’d have a fairly high-pitched, maybe slightly gravelly voice, but I guess I could try. Would anyone else want me to try doing this? If so, how about sending me a link to some of her lines or an excerpt; I’m a lazy busy bugger so idk if I can be bothered hunting out sections to read.
Well? Should I have at it?
Yes! They are all mass media and storytelling terms. The ‘hook’ is the thing that you use to grab someone’s attention; a splashy headline or a cryptic advertisement, something to make the audience pay attention and follow you. Rushes, also called dailies, are collections of raw, unedited footage. Soft Focus is a variety of technical flaw but can be used to blur an image on purpose, and Diegesis is a method of exposition. Obviously they all have double meanings and can be interpreted in different ways, and the contents and context of each chapter also affects and reflects the titles (I hope).
Yes it is, and yes there is ;)
FLASH NO LIKE ME. ME NO LIKE FLASH. PENCIL GOOD. MOD SMASH PUNY CRASHY PROGRAM okay well not really but yes I infinitely prefer using traditional pencil animation to any other form, but you can do paperless animation in Flash so I don’t mind doing that once in a while (except I don’t have flash on this computer so…)
Well, firstly thanks for reading! Hope I can keep entertaining you with it. There a few methods to make your characters stand out, but two of the biggest are that of silhouette and colour.
If you can understand what a character is doing by their silhouette, it makes the pose ‘readable’, and the motivation and acting of the character that much clearer. It’s very important to have strong, clear posing in animation, so I try to apply it in my comic as well. It can tell you what a character is doing, but it can also tell you how they feel.
The second is colour; the current backgrounds are predominantly blue. When I shade the characters I use a sepia for the tonal values, but I also designed RGB’s latest outfit with this in mind. Orange and blue are on opposite sides of the colour wheel, so it makes the character stand out. I did the same thing in the previous with Madras; the interior of the House of Paint is a green turquoise, while Madras has a scarlet pink colour scheme.
Also occasionally breaking the frame like this helps to bring the character out, but it’s best to use it sparingly. You also have to be careful that it doesn’t disorientate the reader or break the flow of the page; having character popping out of the frames tends to drag the eye towards it, so I always hesitate before doing it.
Someone once described me as ‘electroswing with a face’ and to this day I hold it as one of the greatest compliments I have ever received.
Probably because he is such a fucking kawaii
Well first sh-shut up you can’t make me happy by saying things like that baka.
Secondly yes, you can, I love strange questions, mostly because I am so very, very strange. I have a lot of very strange habits and hobbies, but being an animator one of my favourite strange things is what I call ‘people watching’. More specifically; watching little nuances that make people who they are, that reveal things about them. Sometimes it’s how they walk, sometimes it’s how they light a cigarette, lick their fingers before they turn a page, tilt their head forward when they’re thinking how to put something politely or back when they’re trying to remember. I’ve been able to deduce that someone had a spinal injury from their limp and that someone had recently lost their ring just from watching how they behaved.
One of my favourite responses to analyze is when someone is eating something new or really delicious for the first time. Everyone reacts differently, but humans are odd because they try to disguise things a lot of the time; with food, they can’t. It’s much harder to hide what you think about a piece of food, especially in the first few microseconds that you take a bite. It’s literally a chemical reaction, so it’s much easier to see a true response. Afterwards of course you have the 'acting’ part, pretending you like it or aren’t so impressed; but it’s actually the genuine, involuntary movements of people’s faces that intrigue me.
Aka I am a creepy fuck and like watching people eat nice things. Sue me.
