I watched take back the falls yesterday and I noticed that the pines family (judging by stan’s car and soos’ truck being parked next to each other) had breakfast together at the diner after weirdmageddon
It occurs to me that as much as “humans are the scary ones” fits sometimes, if you look at it another way, humans might seem like the absurdly friendly or curious ones.
I mean, who looked at an elephant, gigantic creature thoroughly capable of killing someone if it has to, and thought “I’m gonna ride on that thing!”?
And put a human near any canine predator and there’s a strong chance of said human yelling “PUPPY!” and initiating playful interaction with it.
And what about the people who look at whales, bigger than basically everything else, and decide “I’m gonna swim with our splashy danger friends!”
Heck, for all we know, humans might run into the scariest, toughest aliens out there and say “Heck with it. I’m gonna hug ‘em.”
“Why?!”
“I dunno. I gotta hug ‘em.”
And it’s like the first friendly interaction the species has had in forever so suddenly humanity has a bunch of big scary friends.
“Commander, we must update the code of conduct to include the humans.”
“Why? Are they more aggressive than we anticipated?”
“It seems to be the opposite Commander. Just this morning a crewman nearly lost their hand when attempting to stroke an unidentified feline on an unknown world. Their reaction to the attack was to call the creature a “mean kitty” and vow to win it over. Upon inquiry it seems they bond so readily with creatures outside their species that they have the capacity to feel sympathy for an alien creature they have never seen before simply because it appears distressed. I hate to say this commander but we must install a rule to prevent them from endangering their own lives when interacting with the galaxy’s fauna.”
“I see what you mean. So be it, from now on no crewman is allowed to touch unknown animals without permission from a superior officer. And send a message to supplies about acquiring one of these “puppies” so that their desire to touch furred predators can be safely sated.
Ehehehe I love this! Every time someone adds a short story to my post it gets like 90% cuter and more epic
I couldn’t help myself, I had to make art for it.
I have no idea what the big, fanged creature is called, but it decided to adopt the tiny thing (my own OC, Dominic) that walked up and petted it.
Dominic’s superior officer has enough on his hands without this nonsense.
GUYS LOOK
“Why do humans not understand basic growth patterns?” Pocr demanded as he stalked into the office.
The captain, who had learned fairly quickly that the best way to handle any complaint with ‘human’ in it was to ignore it merely grunted.
“ A Drox beast!” Pocr stated. “She brought in a Drox beast!”
The captain lifted his head and blinked at that. “Drox beasts are at least four times the size of a human,” he pointed out. “And highly aggressive. How-”
“It was the kit,” Pocr said gloomily. “She says its mother rejected it and it needed aid. I told her it would keep growing but she just laughed and held it up to me and said ‘but lookit his little toe beans’…”
“Summon her to the bridge,” the Captain ordered with a sigh. The last thing he needed was the headache of explaining an apex predator on the ship.
“General!” Ablen called. “The human is acting up. Again.”
“What this time?”
“Since the human seemed so unexpectedly friendly to other species, we decided to introduce it to a Riding Octipod.” Ablen sighed. “It didn’t go well.”
“Well, what happened?”
“The human made this awful screeching noise and ran away. When I finally found him in one of the cleaning closets and he was calm enough to speak, he told me that on his planet there are miniature octipods.”
“Humans ride horses and do not complain about miniature horses.” The general said dismissively.
“Well, you see…” Ablen paused. “The miniature octipods are much smaller than the miniature horses. The Human says they range from smaller than a human’s thumbnail to about the size of the human’s foot. They’re called spiders, sir. Apparently they’re rather… Terrifying.”
“What is so terrifying about something scarcely large enough to see?” The General groaned. He had taken the human on as a member of the crew because he had heard they were adaptable, but apparently his peers had failed to mention how many odd qwirks there were involved.“
“I- I don’t know sir. He says that it’s psychological. He had no better answer.”
This is pure gold. Reading the comments is a must.
This only gets better as it goes on.
EDIT: I added a thingy. It turned out longer than I thought though.
“Did the human successfully befriend Xyen beast?” asked the Commander.
“It was… successful.” Elden replied. “The human took an immediate liking to the Xyen beast.
She called it a… uhh… ‘badass birdie.’”
The Commander bit down a smirk. Well it wasn’t the most creative name he had heard from the human so far.
“She
befriended it quite easily. I’m not quite sure how she did it but the
beast was quite taken with her.” Elden continued, “And then she. She.”
“She what?” the Commander’s heavy gaze fell on his subordinate.
“She wanted to ride it.”
“SHE WHAT?!”
“A-a-and… well… she did. The human mounted the beast and they took off. For a while it went well but then…”
“Then?”
“I-I don’t know what happened but she angered it somehow. The beast swooped and dived and the human fell off.”
“Are
you telling me the human died because it rode a Xyen beast?” the
Commander growled. And to think he was starting to take a liking to the stupid creature. Things were finally looking up after that incident. Now what will his reports say.
“No! No sir! The human survived. She’s in the ICU now. All things considered in good health,” Elden frantically waved the suspicion off.
“How does one survive riding a Xyen beast?” the Commander asked. How is one stupid enough to ride it in the first place? he thought.
“W-well sir. It was sheer dumb luck.”
“Of course it was.” the Commander sighed under his breath. This was going to be a long mission.
Are you really gonna tell me yoi deserves best animation of the year on crunchyroll bc it had like 4 scenes with hyper shiny lips when there’s a twitter with hundreds of screenshots like this
(( before I start this rant, I want you all to know that I appreciate this as a joke but I need to get this off my chest ))
Okay you know what *cracks knuckles*
I AM SICK OF THIS ARGUMENT THAT SO AND SO ANIMATION IS BAD BECAUSE OF THESE KIND OF SCREEN CAPS.
I’m an animation student. I’m not great at it yet, but I know the principals of it well. These are usually either smears or squash and stretch. (combined with distance from the ‘camera’/viewer obscuring details)
Smears:
Smears are single frames in an animation that create the sensation of extremely fast movement. And guess what, IT HAPPENS IRL TOO. It’s called motion blur.
Our eyes are essentially cameras for our brain. The rods and cones in our eyes fire off to take the picture, then take a couple mili-seconds (or whatever the scientifically accurate amount of time is) to reset. That’s why strobe lights produce the effect they do. That’s why movies - animated or not - work in frames. And smears are just replicating motion blurs. Do they look weird as hell- and in all honesty can be just as funny, yes, but they work. Because they are a single frame, which usually occurs within a 12 or 24 frame range over the course of a second. (( also, Yuri on Ice’s animation is significantly different in terms of frame rate from most Japanese animation, which uses less frames than western animation ))
Squash and Stretch:
Squash and Stretch is the idea that you can create visual impact by distorting a character/pose slightly - or drastically depending on the style - to create a sense of weight. Now, Yuri on Ice is obviously not ‘rubber house’ animation, so the squash and stretch is more subtle.
Fun fact: a perfectly rotoscoped movie will actually have really terrible animation. No one in animation is quite sure why it is, but if you perfectly copy movie frames, certain things like walks just don’t come out right and fall directly into the uncanny valley.
When used subtly, squash and stretch is what brings life into realistic animations. It can convey how difficult something is - squashing down to build up power before a jump, impact - a stretch before hitting something tricks our eyes into thinking the hit was stronger, and all things relating to weight. And as shown above, it’s crucial to getting realistic jaw and mouth movements.
So that’s why this frame argument is BS.
As to why Yuuri on Ice IS such incredible animation? ICE SKATING IS HARD AS SHIT TO GET RIGHT.
Let’s start with just the opening sequence. Ice skating takes a very different set of weight shifts to look correct, and most of the time, animation has relied on contextual clues to make sure the viewer gets that the characters are on ice. Now, we can see their skates in the opening, but there’s hardly ever a rink behind them until the final episode.
Compare this, contextually
Now, these do have very different styles of animation, but what I want you to look at is the way that Yurio comes into frame versus the way Linus moves across the bottom. Linus moves like a cutout just sliding along the backgroung, right? Where as Yurio, whose skates we can’t see mind you, is clearly pushing into the motion with his whole body, and then needs to use his whole body to transfer into the next motion. Even if you were just kind of puttering around on skates, anyone who has skated knows that you need some push to get moving.
Yuri on Ice manages to give us the feelings of weight and movement behind the characters that tell us, without snow or ice, or even really skates, that the movement is ice skating.
Let’s talk about frame rate too, shall we?
Japanese animation - specifically anime - usually runs at 12 frames per second. To get technical, you could call is 24 frames per second on 2s, meaning each image is held for two frames. And a good portion of the off ice animation is still done at this frame rate. This is by no means a bad thing, as Japanese animators have a distinctive style of squash and stretch that can add the feeling of smoothness and flow missing due to the frame rate.
Yuri on Ice runs at 24 frames on ones for ice skating scenes, if I’m not mistaken. But it does run at a higher frame rate regardless. That’s why this…
AND THAT’S FUCKING HARD TO DO. That’s why episode 6, where each new skater got to show off nearly a full routine, is weaker on animation quality. Because they had to draw so much more to fill the same amount of time, and deadlines are a thing.
I could rant forever about this…
Also, anyone who gets butt hurt about how few frames there are to complete spins A) has never had to animate something that technically difficult, B) doesn’t realize that the less frames between two poses, the faster the movement is, and ice skaters spin FAST.
TLDR: Single frames look weird because of animation equivalents of motion blur and needing to exaggerate subtleties for them to read properly. And Yuri on Ice tackled a huge frame rate related challenge in the same time span as other animation teams not facing that challenge.
YOU CANNOT JUDGE AN ANIMATION BY LUCKY TIMES SCREENCAPS OF SMEARS
Hello! So, I've seen all your posts about mcr and the killjoy thing and I am super intrigued. Where should I start in the music videos to get the whole story in the right order? Does it eve, have a narrative ?
yeah! let me make you a directory on the killjoy narrative in order. it has extremely detailed world building (that honestly deserves even more because it’s so good) and i would recommend it to pretty much anyone. it’s post-apocalyptic, the comic has canon queers, and even the entire danger days album in itself was made around it. so this includes music videos + the comic that was written by gerard way, and some extras:
