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“Mirror Gem” storyboard art:

Here are some drawings I did early on in the storyboarding process for one of the recent episodes of Steven Universe, “Mirror Gem”.  Sometimes sketching things out like this first helps me figure out the mood, along with significant bits of acting I’d like to work toward. 

Now luffy-kun ♥️

His smile is so hecking precious!

THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE FOR WAITING~!!!!

Synopsis:

Just when things start to get better for you, tragedy strikes! Sabo’s father, a nobleman, hires the infamous Pirate Bluejam to grab Sabo back. After he threatens to have you, Ace, and Luffy executed unless he comes back, Sabo reluctantly returns home.

Although Bluejam was ordered to execute the three of you, he instead hires you to do some work in exchange for pay. Suspicious of Bluejam, you try to convince Ace to say no and focus on rescuing Sabo, but he refuses to listen. Angry that neither of your brothers will listen, you return to the Dadan Family, and a gap begins to grow between you all...

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Part I

Part II

Part IV

Building a Scene: It’s over isn’t it?

For Pearl’s song “It’s Over isn’t it?” the scene is about Pearl accepting a loss. As the series has progressed, she’s learned that she isn’t always right, and that there are things about herself that she’s has to reevaluate. This all comes to a sort of climax in this scene where she accepts and admits out loud that her relationship with Rose was never as deep and complete as she wanted it to be or told herself it was. This is where she’s left at the end of the scene, feeling lost and out of place.

In the outline written by Ben Levine and Matt Burnett, this is how the scene looked:

You’ll notice a lot of things ended up changing compared to the final version. Most of that was due to time constraints. When we started storyboarding the episode, all of the rough demos of the songs were recorded so that we had an idea of the amount of time we had between each song (which ended up not being very much). The result was that we had to basically be transitioning constantly between songs, but doing it in a way that felt natural and as gentle as possible.

In addition, Rebecca remembered a part from the 1982 movie “Victor Victoria” starring Julie Andrews that she wanted to use as reference for the feeling of the scene:

Right away we latched onto this spinning 360 degree camera move. I loved the energy and focus it gave to the character and I immediately roughed out a version with Pearl.

If you’re ever stuck during a scene this is what you do: Don’t start from the beginning, find the moment you see clearest in your mind and build out from there. From these rough thumbnails I built the rest of the scene outward. I brought back motifs like her sword skills and her dance style to help evoke the past events of the series, and I tried to give as much time as I could to each shot and make her acting as expressive a possible.

Below are my rough boards set to Rebecca’s demo. At the end, i added a pause for when she throws the Rose into the air. It felt like a good spot for things to crescendo ring out. Deedee Magno Hall’s rendering of this blew us all away when we heard it.

From there clean up was pretty much straight forward. The scene didn’t change much except for tweaking her acting here and there. I’m super proud of how this scene turned out, hats off to Nick DeMayo our animation director and to the team at Sunimin in Korea where they draw the entire episode on paper:

unus annus has given me a lot, but i think marks speech at the end of the brutally honest video is something im gonna carry with me for a long time, yknow? 

if you say “never forget” when remembering genocides of the past but ignore this, you have already forgotten

*sees myself in the mirror* FUCK! *shoots it*

This post is over because now i see myself in the mirror and smile. Worked hard on self love and now we reap the benefits.

My best friends auntie passed away a couple days ago.

A severe heart attack had made her go nearly braindead and while she fought to survive she unfortunately lost the fight.

The family now is suffering from loss and its difficult for them to afford this funeral so I ask of you to please donate if you can, (a simple dollar goes a long way) if you can't donate please share it with others.

This is a difficult time for everyone, it's not a time for every man for himself but a time to support each other from a distance.

Thank you for reading.

My best friends auntie passed away a couple days ago.

A severe heart attack had made her go nearly braindead and while she fought to survive she unfortunately lost the fight.

The family now is suffering from loss and its difficult for them to afford this funeral so I ask of you to please donate if you can, (a simple dollar goes a long way) if you can't donate please share it with others.

This is a difficult time for everyone, it's not a time for every man for himself but a time to support each other from a distance.

Thank you for reading.

My best friends auntie passed away a couple days ago.

A severe heart attack had made her go nearly braindead and while she fought to survive she unfortunately lost the fight.

The family now is suffering from loss and its difficult for them to afford this funeral so I ask of you to please donate if you can, (a simple dollar goes a long way) if you can't donate please share it with others.

This is a difficult time for everyone, it's not a time for every man for himself but a time to support each other from a distance.

Thank you for reading.

Yo, people with acne

These are hydrocolloid bandages. They work wonders at pulling fluid through skin and absorbing all that gunk. 

You can cut them down to size, wear them on your face at night, and in the morning you’ll see a noticeable difference plus the bandage visibly absorbs the goo and it’s gross but weirdly satisfying.

They’re cheaper than most acne products, they work, and 1 pack lasts for ages. They’re sold in the band-aid section of most pharmacies; try them if you can.

it’s the same stuff they use to make those new acne spot patches, but

me: *opens up tumblr*  full-length ad:

Im going to attack tumblr with my claws for putting a big ass ad right at the top of my dash

ads make me violent

So basically, whatever the fuck they were doing for Unus Annus, Ethan lost