Andrew Zo designed the Clifton engagement ring box, a unique product that not only conceals the ring in a slim, wallet-size container before the big proposal, but also unfolds to show the ring pirouetting like a blooming flower.
Adrien: *produces engagement ring*
Adrien: futurewifesayswhat
Marinette: what?
Adrien: *screeching*
I’m all for fantasy stories where supernatural characters protect their human friends, but does anyone else want some stories where the humans are the ones who are looking after their supernatural friends?
I’ll post more if I can come up with any.
This kinda fits on this blog
Humans getting the local Dryad’s tree and naiad’s pool named as protected landmarks and keeping them clean of trash and litter.
Medieval Canonical Crew Odd Stuff Monochrome Time Statues
I found a few old character design cards of mine for variants of the kid
heroes from the series that Cloak, Half-Face, and the rest come from,
so I figured I would use them here. On this one, we have Monochrome, The
Odd Girl, The Stuffed Bear, The Statues, and The Time Traveler.
Monochrome has a largely French design, though the hat is actually
Italian in origin. His sword is a small version of a French two-handed
sword. The Odd Girl is designed to evoke court jesters with the motley
pattern, but her hat is specifically a Seventeenth Century cavalier’s
hat, which is rather anarchronistic based on the themes, but it suits
her. The Stuffed Bear is styled to be a taxidermied mix of dragon in the
left mouth and the draconic torso on his left, ending at a griffin’s
talon for the left hand, three parts bear on the left eye, right arm,
and left leg, and a manticore for the right eye, left mouth, and the
right torso, with a goat leg from a chimera in the right leg. The
statues are a pair of one-winged angel statues, as angel statues were
fairly popular during the medieval period, and they are two halves of
one whole. The Time Traveler is meant to evoke Odin when he was in his
Wanderer disguise, traveling amongst mortals, because both know many
things and both have one eye.
Fun Fact: Because they were the
last characters created and the cards had been made long ago, the
Statues’ counterparts had not had any medieval cards made for them.
The realization that somewhere, in-universe, there’s some audio tech who had t design Darth Vader’s voice.
I mean- Palpatine oversaw all the aspects of Vader’s suit development, right? Which naturally includes his voice since Vader’s vocal cords got pretty darn crisped.
So some audio tech not only had to design the new voice for Darth Vader, the Emperor’s terrifying new right hand and enforcer, but probably had to go to planning meetings with and get feedback from Palpatine.
Palpatine: No. Up the bass. I want his voice to rumble through you like a thunderstorm on Kamino.
Palpatine: Also give him just a bit of a Coruscanti accent. He’s gotta sound cultured and intimidating.
Palpatine: And up all the input. Darth Vader must not sound like he’s mumbling.
Palpatine: And put a shield on the microphone. We can’t have him popping all his plosives, that’s just going to drive me crazy.
Update: I have been informed by @diaryofawriter that our hapless Audio Technician’s name is Chad, and he’s a little bit crazy.
Boss: “WTF are you doing, chad?”
Chad: “Designing Darth Vader’s voice.”
Boss: “WHY IS THAT BREATHING PLAYING ON A LOOP?!?”
Chad: “freaky, yeah?”
Boss: *did not sign up for this* “YOU’RE A PSYCHO, CHAD”
Chad just goes to town on this project. If the Emperor wants Vader’s voice to be extra, might as well make it EXTRA.
He adds in subharmonics so that just the sound of Vader breathing makes people uneasy. And that feeling gets worse when he actually talks. Do something with the audio encoding so it sounds like Vader’s voice is coming from all around you. He’s standing right in front of you, but you also can’t shake the feeling that he’s right behind you and breathing down your neck. When in doubt, ADD MORE BASS.
If he could give Vader’s voice a cape he would, but he settles for a little reverb.
A conversation I got into with some of my friends turned into specific character design thoughts, and something I think is a big rule is:
Anything you put in your character’s design is a prop for them to express themselves.
Characters need to tell the audience about themselves, and I think one of the best ways to do that is often using habits, tics, body languages, just what they do with themselves. Smiling when happy is a very generalized and universal sort of trait, but if a character has, say, a distinctive overbite and tends to smile crookedly, or only ever smiles the tiniest amount so if they weren’t wearing very striking lipstick you would never catch those movements- that becomes far more distinctive. Those sort of descriptions actively conjure an impression of a character.
Clothing is a prop. Accessories are props. The things your character wears and surrounds themselves with will speak volumes about their routine, their life, their interests, their priorities.
And they’re fantastic for exaggerating or calling attention to character quirks. Have a character who fidgets with things? Give them a lot of necklaces or bracelets or a favorite ring. Character who makes a lot of gestures with their hands? Think of gloves, rings, nail polish- whatever makes sense that will draw the eye to that part of their body.
You can get even more fun giving characters contradictory traits they’re navigating with varying levels of grace- for example, someone with fancy painted nails that have rough, bitten edges because they’re trying to stop chewing them but aren’t quite succeeding yet, or a fashion-conscious type who loves heels but is also a track-and-field star so all their shoes have low sides they can easily kick off and hit the ground running.
If you have a character that shoves their hands in their pockets often, give them noteworthy pockets. Maybe they keep things in there? Kinda hard to get your sulk on when you put your hands on that granola bar you forgot you took with you so now you have to sulk around your newly-discovered snack.
do u ever just think about the fact that molly weasley saw HARRY POTTER, the boy who defeated voldemort, and went “i’m gonna knit this kid a christmas sweater”
what i love thinking about is
in the book ron says he told his mum that harry wasn’t expecting any christmas presents and that’s why she sent him them
and knowing ron can be a bit scatty/oblivious he probably didn’t mention it til like two days before christmas
so i just like to think of molly sitting up all night knitting harry his sweater and baking him homemade fudge or whatever because she’d be damned if she’d let harry go present-less at christmas
Or maybe Harry is just as dismissive. Like, Ron is dreaming aloud of him mom’s homemade fudge and asks Harry what he wants and Harry shrugs “the Dursley never give me anything, last year I got a half-used eraser” and Ron is like 0_0 because what, no one is going to give a gift to his new best friend? So he takes poor Errol telling Percy it’s an emergency and Percy’s like no! and Ron’s like HARRY NEVER GETS CHRISTMAS GIFTS YOU GIT and Percy’s like Oh. Ok. Write mom. And Ron’s letter is mainly MOM HARRY NEVER GETS CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM HIS MUGGLES WHAT DO I DO and then it’s December 23 at night and Arthur is ready to go to bed and sees his wife get the yarn and the knitting needles out again and Honey I thought you were done? Did we get another child while I was at work? YES, she answers, furious. Ron’s new friend, little Harry. If I get this done by tomorrow morning I can make a batch of fudge and send Errol back with it. And that’s when Arthur Weasley realized they did get another kid when he wasn’t looking but, honestly, once you went past the five kids mark you stopped counting.
“
Did we get another child while I was at work?”
“YES”
Huh, didn’t know this post traveled so much before coming back home.
so I saw spiderverse… and after i recovered from my overload catatonia I thought it’d be nice to write down some general thoughts, no spoilers obviously, considering it’s still in theaters so im just gonna talk about production stuff mainly.
first off the art in this movie is beyond comprehension, how everything is shot, how it moves, the colors, the composition. this movie had such a strong voice that was underlined heavily by it’s visual language and SOUND. My god the sound! The original soundtrack as well as the BGM ost and the pruned and picked prerecorded songs give such life to the movie a true new york city vibe. The mix of heavy experimental sound design coupled with echos of old school hip hop and scratch djing. (not to mention the foley work which was IN-SANE) It’s /miles/ a melting pot of different outlooks at the heart of an aural flower arrangement with the other’s playing accompaniment with their motifs. this movie moved and flowed with it’s sound track using it as the very bones of the production
-back to the visuals this movie was how cg should be used, not as a corner cutter but a true tool to pull off looks that cannot and would not be able to be pulled off in a strictly 2d space. the filters they used like the chromatic aberration, the pop of half tone, the lighting and the text in screen, how they made things breath like a comic book and yet taking advantage of the 3d to pull off incredibly difficult and smart camera rotations and fun play with how shots were set up. But it did NOT forget tenants of 2d, using beautiful examples of squash and stretch, smear frames, actual drawn animation layered with the 3d. i havent seen such fun model work since hotel transylvania and what it did to those 3d models in order to achieve a Look. The art design was so liquid HOT I was freaking out at every frame, they took pains to make it a feast.
the movie moved a mile a second-full of blink and you’ll miss it lines and visuals, it didn’t talk down to the viewer it didn’t even let you breath- it shot and exploded on the screen and hoped you kept up with it. even with all these changes they still nailed the lore of spiderman and the core message was so powerful and good. there was something for everyone here, long time comic fans, first time viewers, and everyone in between and this more than everything else is exemplified by how spiderman is the world’s most popular superhero. there’s something about the mask that no other hero can pull off quite the same way
long story short, do yourself a favor and see the next step in animation
the fact so many people have a fondness for kirby as a character despite never having played or even been interested in playing one of his games really goes to show how good a design he is
He wasn’t even supposed to have his own game. He was supposed to be a filler until they made the main character but the game devs became so fond of Kirby that they just made him the main character
hes shaped like a friend
Somebody who’s good at interior design tell me how to make my future apartment look like a 1920′s archaeologist/sorcerer lives there
It’s got to be an organized mess.
Oh, there will be scrolls of questionable origin jutting out of bookcases. I just want it to look like Rick O'Connell and Stevie Nicks are my roommates
Damn banjo why you got play my Aesthetics like that
Books of specific topics piled on tables, with a single book that doesn’t match the set. Buy candles and old-styled candlesticks, preferably pewter.
when will Ted himself.. finally show up to the Talk ?
The final boss
You guys know TEDtalks stands for technology, entertainment and design talks right?
I will not let Ted hide behind these lies any longer
gale-of-the-nomads
drawingblue14 asked:
-I believe the more powerful the emotions, the more powerful the akuma is. Which is why I think that Emoticon would be one of the more powerful akuma, as it has all of Adrien’s repressed feelings of anger, sadness, disappointment and other negative feelings bursting to the surface.
-With that principle, emoticon’s powers work the same way, the more powerful the emotion, the stronger the powers. But of course there are drawbacks. Felling too much of a powerful emotion can burn him out, resulting in his meh form, leaving him vulnerable to attack.
-Conflcting emotions also have the same effect on Emoticon, if he feels too much of too many different feelings, the constant emotion shifts/ mood swings will overload him and cause him to go back to his Meh/ calm form.
-Love and Hatred are his two strongest forms. His pink form at full power, his barriers are nigh invincible. And his heart projectiles pack a punch. His hate/ pitch black form at max power works like his cataclysm. Destroying everything he touches. Both of these forms emotionally drain him the fastest.
-Emoticon takes all of Adrien’s faults and multiplies them 10x fold. His naive and overly honest nature is on full display, His rashness and impulsive actions from his chat noir side, even his entitlement and selfishness become a lot more obvious.
