CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

it was awesome being a kid worried about the environment. like oh they are cutting down too many trees, we have to work together and plant more :~) but these days its like its in the air its in the water its in my blood its in my blood its in my blood its in my blood

I think it's important to tell reddit refugees that the reason Tumblr has blue (and rainbow) checkmarks is not popularity, but just to make fun of twitter. You can have them too if you want, they don't do nor mean anything, they won't make you more visible, they will just show up next to your url in pretty colors.

The only way to be popular is either posting or rebloging cool stuff. Likes don't do much besides telling the author of the post "hey I like this". Nobody can see how many followers you have, your side accounts or anything that doesn't show up in your blog. People can see who you follow or what you recently liked, but there's an option in the settings to hide that info (unlike twitter, that seems to love subjecting people to public ridicule).

Btw, once or twice a year you'll find a skeleton gif or apple pizza post fucking up your dash. This is normal, we break this site for sport. We encourage you to do it too.

Enjoy your music frogs.

I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

I just wanted to add some more pics of some silicone tails as another mermaid community member furious about the CGI

Mertailor Silicone tails

Finfolk silicone tails

Merbella Silicone tails

Compare these examples to the CGI tail and you can really notice the difference.

Using silicone tails, or even some of the fabric tails available (finfolks fabric tails are absolutely gorgeous) would have been a major step up.

Thank you

oh no!!!

my ribcage split open, revealing a grotesque, vertical maw, slavering and bleeding, with uneven rows of jagged and splintered ribs for teeth!!!

and prom is TOMORROW!!!

I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to erase their culture and Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"

And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can erase the cultures of indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).

AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.

-fae

it didn’t look enough like a Real Hospital so I fixed it :)

I’m at a loss for words

people say tumblr only has one joke but this post clearly shows that we have two

I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

if this happens mcr has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

For Americans:

Apparently the “Ban TikTok” bill has loads of stuff crammed into it that, effectively, gives the government free access to everything you do online. They have access to anything you have connected online, your cloud storage, your transactions, social media, your accounts. They’ll even have access to your Steam Marketplace and your Youtube and Twitch accounts.

The bill also gives the US government the ability to say you’re working with a foreign adversary based on transactions, data sharing, etc. This can apply retroactively.

This means that if the US government labels any nation an adversary, any data sharing or transactions into that country, past, present or future, can be under scrutiny and potentially be used as evidence of aiding a foreign power. The punishment for this can be up to 20 years in prison.

They’re using banning TikTok as a trojan horse to push through other legislation that will curb your freedom and privacy on the internet forever. 

It is being called “The Patriot Act” for the internet.

Edit: Source

Meta (Facebook) is also involved. Of course they are.

Welp, the Missouri House of Legislatures just voted to defund public libraries.

I’m honestly shocked and dismayed and heartbroken.  Like, I knew things were bad, but I didn’t think it was this bad already.

I’m also quite frankly shocked at how small the state budget for libraries was in the first place ($4.5 million).  I’ve visited so many quality libraries all across Missouri that do so much for their communities.  When I was a social worker, the local library was always the first place I’d visit in the communities I worked in, because I knew they had good services to offer and could help me get connected to other local supports.  Like, even from just a heartless financial standpoint, I can guarantee public libraries are worth the money.

I’m just really sad right now.

Here is the current appropriation committee for Missouri.  If you live in Missouri and your representative is on that list, you should definitely contact them and let them know this is an important issue to you.

My own representative is not, though I already contacted his office anyway.  I’m genuinely unsure of what I can do, but I feel like this is something I need to act on.

i always mean it when i say i love you btw

‘but thats a stranger you dont know’ and i love them. i love that they exist and i love that they passed through my life. and i love u too btw

reblog to tell your mutuals you love them for existing

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Honestly, this shit with Hogwarts Legacy is just like what happened with Chick-fil-A like ten or fifteen years ago. Some of y'all might be too young to remember it, but it went almost exactly like this shit today, only the target was technically gay people (not like we aren't all lumped together when push comes to shove, but gay was the political scapegoat in US politics at the time, as trans people were still on the fringes of social awareness).

It came out that the people who own Chick-fil-A were donating to organizations in other countries that were actively working to get gay people there killed, and were also very monetarily invested in stripping gay people of any legal rights they'd amassed in the US. So a lot of queer folks were asking for allies to boycott Chick-fil-A to show solidarity.

And it turned into a giant fuckin circus for bigots to rally around. There was even a support Chick-fil-A day, I remember it because I was a server at the time and our restaurant was empty most the day - while the line for Chick-fil-A down the road was like a mile long consistently.

But while that was obviously annoying, that wasn't what hit people the hardest. Cuz we expect clowns to wear the shoes, right, it's not shocking.

What disappointed people, or really demoralized a lot of young queers at the time especially, was the allies who would still go there. Because they like the sandwiches or fries or whatever. The people who'd march with them in the parade or be supportive of marriage equality, who would then turn right around and give their money to people who were trying to actively harm their friends.

Because the chicken was good.

I remember a friend of mine being really just absolutely broken up over that, trying to understand some of her friends reasoning and at the time I couldn't give her an answer. I could now, though.

And it's this:

Talk is cheap.

It costs nothing to say things. A person can say whatever the hell they want, any feel good flowery thing, and it doesn't really cost them.

But when they are asked to actually give something up - or put their money where their mouth is and just....can't do it. Well then there isn't much else for them to say, is there? At least nothing that's worth anything.

Some people had to find out the hard way that the choice between a chicken sandwich and funding people who did not believe in their dignity as a human being was, in the eyes of certain allies, apparently really hard. Too hard, in fact.

These allies would march in the colorful parades and go to the bars for drinks, but in the end, you couldn't actually depend on them to inconvenience themselves. They were fair weather allies, and they were there for the party and that's about it . They wanted entertainment, and it didn't matter if that came from having fun gay friends or a tasty sandwich.

This is the same thing, really, or pretty close to it.

These types of people just wanna have fun. Either you, their friend or whatever, are fun or the game is fun, and if you stop being fun by incidentally making them feel a little guilty about where they spend their money , then they might just choose the thing that doesn't make them currently uncomfortable.

And I'm not saying these people who say trans rights online but who also really, really want to play wizard game and already have are horrible people or anything - they're just not very good. They have no real character. And unfortunately there's not much you can do to change that, other than investing time and energy in people who do.

They're also being asked to give up the smallest possible thing. To not eat one type of chicken sandwich, in a world where multiple other fast food options exist. To not play one badly-made wizard game in a sea of computer games. They could not be asked to give up less and this is too big a price to pay; they are proving that they will do literally nothing to stand by us. Meaning that when they say 'gay rights' or 'trans rights' or 'I support Jewish people', they are lying. The bar is lying on the ground and they refuse to simply step over it. If they won't avoid a computer game or a sandwich, are they going to make any material effort to stand with us? Would they ever actually risk or spend anything to protect us? No! They're proving right now that they won't! And then lying to our faces about it with pithy facebook messages and showing up to marches!

These people are not allies, they're pretending for woke points, and moment like this are great for giving us data on who we can actually trust and who we can't. These boycotts are literally the bare minimum of support, it is actually impossible to do any less and still be counted as supporting.

Pls reblog if u vote :)

In cursed Disney-related things I just remembered, they're doing this "Disney characters as fantasy heroes" multimedia mobile game thing called Mirrorverse, and one thing in it is for enemies, they make shadowy versions of the various heroes called "Fractured," probably for the sake of efficient model reuse.

I bring this up to you for context because, oh my god, Dark Kermit is sending me:

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CW: antisemitism, pale of settlement, pogroms, genocide, cultural erasure

I don’t think goyim can really conceive of how much Jews actually hold back in our criticism of antisemitism in media, and when you hear us it is often because we see a dangerous message that you don’t… Yet.

I have a complicated relationship with Tim Burton’s rendition of The Corpse Bride. I love it as a beautiful piece of stop motion art, but it isn’t what it should have been, he took a Jewish story from the Pale and with intention stripped it of its Jewish origins. This alone is incredibly antisemitic. The criticism you will hear has probably been “this is a Jewish story, it should have retained its Jewish elements” but have you heard why we feel strongly about this story?

The story of the corpse bride is incredibly important to me and was born from Jewish trauma and Christian violence. Mobs would routinely attack Jewish weddings, they would murder brides and they would bury them in unmarked graves by the roadside still in their wedding clothes, they reasoned that without Jewish wives there are no Jewish mother’s. Jews are intrinsic to the story.

It is antisemitism to take our story, about our pain, at the hands of non-jews and strip it for “useful” parts, in fact it is heartbreaking every time.

We are often forced to pick our battles and fighting a battle over a movie that has already been released by a director with a cult following is not worth it, you only hear us speak up in numbers when the antisemitism may lead to another century of violence, because raising our voice means picking a fight, because so many of you already see our pain as inconvenient and it is exhausting to never be heard.

-anyone can reblog

I want to add to a couple of things to this posts because OP is very much right about Jews and how we talk about antisemitism:

First the folktale The Corpse Bride tarnished was so common that it could be found across the Jewish Diaspora because the action is was based on was a normal occurrence of Jewish life. That a wedding, a time of joy, of smicha could so very easily turn into a tragedy.

I went into depth about it here.

Second when criticize antisemitism in media, like for example a certain game, when get accused of being overly paranoid and seeing things that aren’t there. As if we don’t already have a thousand internal debates before saying anything because we’re worried that we might be seeing something that isn’t there or that we are being to paranoid.

For the record we are not it is just we that victim shamed, victim blamed, and gaslite so many times over and over, rinse and repeat, that even though we are right we still worry that maybe just maybe we are wrong.

I recently watched the episode Hush from Buffy and the Gentlemen are for bunch of reasons given me major antisemitism vibes, and yet still I fear am I being to paranoid.

Third that we actually criticize Christianity, Christian Culture and Jesus openly is so incredibly new. This was something that has been considered a massive no no forever because to do so meant death.

Growing up I was have to answer when asked questions on these topics so for example one was “I’m sure Jesus was a nice man, but we don’t believe he was Messiah.”

Even still there are older who will not engage in any critical talk in any even in semi public spaces and there some who talk critically at all.

Because that fear and understanding of danger is so ingrained. There is two thousand years of terror and death imprinted on us.

So for those of that are critical, that will say “‘you know what no he was not a nice guy what he did was so fucking shitty” and will point to long and terrible history that has been written by Christianity using our blood and the building of their Empire using our bones yeah that is pretty new for us to be doing.

To stand tall and look them in eye and say we know, remember, we will not forget, we will reckon with it all, and we shall outlast you.

To say we shall not be silent one moment longer, we shall not let you have your way, no longer may walk over us, talk us, speak for us, and no longer make you have the freedom to take and take and take.

That is not only new for us in many ways, but it is a big big deal.

Jewish people carry an immense amount of trauma as whole and as individuals and we have really just started to begin unpacking it. Because it never started with or ended with Holocaust. There is more and more understanding, information, and knowledge about trauma now and that is very helpful. But also we live in a time you can very easily connect and link your voices so that became larger and louder and harder to ignore.

When you make up .2% of the world population the ability the connect your voices in way like never before changes things on a whole new level.

[sorry this really got away from me]