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squishpins: Commission for inkyfoxtails! for this blog as...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:58:02 -0400

squishpins:

Commission for inkyfoxtails!

for this blog as well! :>

squishpins: Commission for electrallove! I’ll be...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:42:04 -0400

squishpins:

Commission for electrallove!

I’ll be posting up my commissioned work on the commission blog (and here as well so my art blog isn’t so dried out haha), to provide more samples. If you haven’t already, please check out squishpins for commission info! :D

squishpins: Hello friends! As it turns out, I need money to...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:04:54 -0400

squishpins:

Hello friends! As it turns out, I need money to live for the summer so I’m running commissions over these few months.
So I’ll draw you, your characters, whatever fanart I’m legally allowed to do, or whatever else you can think of that is still legal and doesn’t make me want to barf all over (I’ve got an ask box if you’ve got a specific thing in mind and don’t know if it’ll make me barf or not)

I’ll be working through payPal so once we okay a commission if you’d be so kind as to send me half the payment first, I’ll finish it up, you send money half #2, and I send you art! If you need any fixes from there we’ll keep talkin’.

Another thing to note is that I’ll take up to 7 commissions at a time so my head doesn’t get filled with all sorts of overwhelming. Also, if you’re asking for a character that’s super simple or suuuper complicated, we might have to lower/raise the price a bit respectively, because that changes the amount of time it takes me <_>

If you want more examples of my draws, check my mostly-art blog @ lolpazzo.tumblr.com c:

And if you don’t have the funds, at least do me the huge favor of reblogging this! So, y’know, more people can see and I can have money for things like food.

Hey guys! My ladypalgirlromanticbuddy and I are doing commissions this summer! This is my post and I will also reblog hers when it’s up but help us out if you would be so cool? C:

updating my steam icon!

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:03:00 -0400

updating my steam icon!

There's the Jellyfish Float: Hey I'm Attending Ringling

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:19:09 -0400

There's the Jellyfish Float: Hey I'm Attending Ringling:

bleedscoffee:

eat-me-drink-me-xxx:

I really need to talk to someone who attends Ringling. I want to know from there point of view of the college just to see if it’s what I pictured and if its worth all of the expenses :/ so anyone from Ringling?

Hey I’m attending Ringling as a Junior…

i am not an illustrator i sure am a junior animator at ringling hi hello i’m not exciting but you can talk to mee

amandapalmer: hholmesart: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman showed...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:35:21 -0400

amandapalmer:

hholmesart:

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman showed up at my school today, and it was a pretty damn magical experience to say the least. I wasn’t able to actual meet them, but I did do a couple of sketches during the event. Here are said sketches. I tried fixing them up a little but…y’know.

The work these two have put out through the years has made a huge impact on my life, and I’m so thankful to them and to everyone who made it happen. It’s not everyday you have someone like this happen right outside of your dorm. :D

WOW.

ART.

HAPPENS.

FAST.

as someone who doesn’t make a ton of tumblr posts i end up making and lot of shoutouts to hannah. she’s awesome tho so if you aren’t following her get to it.

also amanda palmer and neil gaiman hanging out on campus was pretty damn awesome. i didn’t ask questions, i just gave cookies.

bird said to reblog so i did it.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:05:55 -0400

bird said to reblog so i did it.

and a draws for inkyfoxtails :D

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:03:42 -0500

and a draws for inkyfoxtails :D

lesbiaaans: and now a finished :D LOOK AT THIS!!! LOOK AT WHAT...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:12:28 -0500

lesbiaaans:

and now a finished :D

LOOK AT THIS!!! LOOK AT WHAT THE SUPER TALENTED LOLPAZZO DREW FOR ME!! IS IT NOT THE BEST THING EVER?? i will never be over this omg. LOOK AT THIS!!!!

look guys i did thing that prompted all this caps and excitement :’D this is my internet confidence boost for the next while haha

gettin’ started on them requests now while...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:56:43 -0500

gettin’ started on them requests now while LOTR’ing!

my buddy hannah sure does think about cats!

shoot it's spring break

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:35:00 -0500

help i have free time, what do i draw?

e: yeah this means requests :D

weemiji: Something magical happened in ME3 MP yesterday...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:11:07 -0500

weemiji:

Something magical happened in ME3 MP yesterday night.

*deleted the double post, my internet is slow as crap

hholmesart: If anyone at all has any doodle requests, message...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:03:59 -0500

hholmesart:

If anyone at all has any doodle requests, message me! I am willing to take a few more. They may not get done tonight, but whatever.

Horse butt for Ben and Adorable Jordan! Wow friendship whoa guys!

me admiring a fine horse rump! my buddy hannah is pretty kickass at what she does, you guys!

neil-gaiman: odditiesoflife: Venezuelan Poodle Moth The...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:34:00 -0500

neil-gaiman:

odditiesoflife:

Venezuelan Poodle Moth

The Venezuelan poodle moth was first captured on film by Dr. Arthur Anker of Bishkek, Krgyzstan, who posted all 75 photographs of his time at the Gran Sabana National Park on Flickr. His trip to the Venezuelan park didn’t gain much fame at the time. However, another researcher, Dr. Karl Shuker, saw a picture of the fuzzy little critter online and took interest. It was found that not only is this a new species of moth, but it may very well be an entirely new species of insect altogether.

Also, it cries out for thought balloons, of the FUCK OFF, I AM PONDERING THE MEANING OF LIFE variety.

Ma’am your shirt by Cataegis via anipan

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:19 -0500

Ma’am your shirt by Cataegis
via anipan

steveholtvstheuniverse: scooterpiebanana: positive-press-daily:...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:31:42 -0500

steveholtvstheuniverse:

scooterpiebanana:

positive-press-daily:

Puppy Bowl IX Will Include Hedgehog Cheerleaders and Tiny Hot Tubs

Because a news reporting bird, hamsters in a blimp, a kitten halftime show and 63 puppies hadn’t been adorable enough to initiate world peace, Animal Planet announced a new addition to its roster yesterday: a “squadron of cheerleading hedgehogs.”

They’ll take the field for the main event from 3 to 5 p.m. at Puppy Bowl IX, which runs consecutively with the Super Bowl on February 3. If their contributions don’t spark immediate global pacifism, Animal Planet has one more trick up its faux fur sleeve. This year, benched players can soak in teeny tiny hot tubs until they’re ready to re-enter the big game. And much like the water bowl cams, the pup-sized jacuzzi will have a live, submerged video feed.

Here’s the entire press release.

At first I thought this was the fluffington post but wow this is definitely something I’ll watch.

As if the best event on Earth couldn’t get any better.

lesbiaaans: girls that i very strongly care for minako with...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:24:12 -0500

lesbiaaans:

girls that i very strongly care for

minako with freckles is an instant reblog, let it be known.

msgryz: missmurrka: naotofuuga: thegeek531: lavisant: drvalk...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:12:22 -0500

msgryz:

missmurrka:

naotofuuga:

thegeek531:

lavisant:

drvalkyrie:

jiont:

steam-powered-jetskis:

annadrawspictures:

i should have planned ahead. i’m not that great at words, i need to essay plan it the next time i need to talk about shit i hate -laughs-

anyway no one asked my opinion but here it is.

Hi there how are you

As a CG animation student, I am extremely offended that you are calling me a machine. To speak in Tumblr terms, you are completely erasing the fact that ACTUAL PEOPLE are working on this film, putting their souls into them, designing, modeling, doing those darned textures you hate so much. Thanks a lot for all the machines out there actually learning how to use this extremely complicated technology and try to give feelings to people with them. I’m currently going through five years of education to learn how to do this shit, and mind you, I’ve only started the actual 3D in my third year.

Let me tell you about 3D CG animation. If it takes a couple of clicks to create a cube, it’s gonna take you what, a week or so to sculpt an entire character (not counting 2D character design), then you have to put what we call texture on them, for that you have to “unwrap” the geometry to be able to paint on it (yeah I said paint, ain’t that a mechanical term), then you have to rig it for animation (giving it a skeleton to be animated with, this is a very difficult and very technical step), there’s also lighting, rendering, compositing, other effects like realistic hair if you choose to use it (we aren’t even taught this in school because it’s different software and takes way too long), etc. For having done all of this, let me tell you a machine ain’t doing it. You are sounding like people complaining about electronic music not being real music. The computers don’t run themselves…

At my school we all have to learn how to do all of these steps, and we can’t even do all of those professionally because it’s technically too fucking complicated to be fully qualified for every single step of production. Ain’t nobody got time or skill for that.

As for the “they all look the same” argument, I agree with you but I have to specify that CG does not necessarily have that realistic-texture-on-cartoony-design Pixar look. The big movie companies just choose them to all look the same, I don’t know why… Here are a few examples of other looks CG films could have:

Meet Buck, A student film from my school

Meet the Medic from the game Team Fortress 2

~~Meet~~ Ozo, another student film

There are plenty of short films not in the ordinary Pixar look, and I really wish they made feature films with different looks because it’s like people don’t even know that something else is possible.

You can have your bloody opinion on it and I agree that it sometimes look bland and lifeless but this technology is barely 25 years old. It’s still being developed, not only for super-realistic special effects for live-action movies, but also for more cartoony and lively animation and rendering. The great difficulty about 3D is not making it look bland and lifeless, and that takes a shitload of skill and time.

tl;dr A MACHINE AIN’T DOING IT, there ain’t no “make a pretty movie” button, and you are being very disrespectful to all the people who work on CG films.

As a fellow Animation Student who had studied both 2D and 3D animation, I wholeheartedly agree with what steam-powered-jetskis has said. OP is also pretty disrespectful to the animators, if you really want to make an 2D versus 3D argument, I strongly suggest that you did proper research on the techniques and history involved.

3D animation also does not just involve movies like ROTG, there is also Ironman, The Hobbit, Spiderman, the Avengers, which all uses CGI. for example, that scene where the camera goes around the Avengers who were looking into the distance with debris and dust falling all over the place? The surroundings are all CGI, the floor is CGI, the dust is pretty much CGI, the buildings are all CGI.

Bringing up ROTG is a bad example as despite the beautiful animation displayed, it is poorly executed. The flaw you pointed out has nothing to do with ANIMATION itself, just to do with character design.

I’m not sure what is your intention in making this post, but as you have said so yourself, plan your post better next time.

Seriously though, I wonder how OP feels about Paperman. It’s CGI film made to look like 2D drawing, that had me fooled until I found out it was CGI. I thought it retained the hand drawn quality, despite not being hand drawn.

Do people think presenting their opinions in a photoset makes it legit or something?

WE’RE LIVING IN THE FUUUTUUURRRREEEE. Resistance is futile.

I admit I had some reservations about 3D animation when it started becoming mainstream, but honestly, I’m not very often disappointed in a 3D film (Dreamworks has some real talent in their animation and design even when the script is pretty lousy). But I think what really made me throw away my inhibitions about 3D animation was video games. I remember when Final Fantasy X came out and my reaction to the graphics was “HOLY SHIT I NEVER EVEN BELIEVED THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE BUT LOOK AT THIS!”

When Toy Story came out in ‘95, I was 11 years old. My whole family was blown the fuck away. I distinctly remember my Dad going on and on about how impossible such a film seemed to him and how excited everybody should be about what’s to come. That was when I was a little concerned. I loved my traditionally animated films and cartoons so much, but at the same time, I really loved Toy Story. I started reading a lot about the production of the film, and how much trouble they went through. It took them years to get it done, and when I heard they avoided animating the human characters because it was just so damn difficult, my first thought was “I hope they figure that out one day because that would be so cool.” And now look at 3D animation. Man, they did it. They figured it out alright.

The struggle to tune 3D animation into what it is now was immensely difficult FOR REAL PEOPLE. This whole argument just invalidates all that work.

Not to mention that there are plenty of examples of bad 2D animation. Most 80s cartoons were pretty shoddy in quality. I was forced to watch the last few minutes of Digimon a few times and it was horrible, whatever character was talking was shown from their back as to not have to animate the face. Look at the old Speed Racer. Kinda terrible by today’s standards.

And while stills of old Disney look pretty, you could always tell whatever “background” object was about to be interacted with because it was brighter and stood out.

And yeah, Paperman was amazing.

bless all of you thank you so much

I used to think like OP too, for a very long time actually, until I actually started looking at the shit animators have to do, and now I’m pursuing an M.F.A. in animation. Granted, this is for both 2D, which is still my personal favorite aesthetically, and 3D animation, which is exciting to learn.

It should also be noted that I do not like gauged ears and I think they look fucking stupid and disgusting, but I’m not going to write an essay about it because I don’t want to insult everyone who likes gauged ears.

All the commentary is absolutely perfect, I have nothing to add.

Aside from the fact that I will always and forever be confused by how people cannot be AMAZED by advances artists have made in terms of 3D animation and art. I mean… fuck, you guys, we can make shit look SO EFFING REAL now. How is that not amazing? How does that not blow your fucking mind? When I see a new CGI movie I am always completely and utterly blown away by the amount of painstaking detail, each strand of hair, each freckle, the emotions portrayed, just… EVERYTHING.

i was so damn happy to scroll down and see all these comments because 3D animation is so intensive, you guys. The comments here make everything better.

the-3-o-clock-parade: tuxecretsanta: TO:...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:20:13 -0500

the-3-o-clock-parade:

tuxecretsanta:

TO: the-3-o-clock-parade
FROM: lolpazzo

so hey 3 o’clock parade. hey. hey i was your secret santa all along.

when i first got the assigning message i kind of laughed because out of however many people applied i was randomly chosen to draw for my girlfriend, and a mutual friend kept telling me how it was a super adorable twist of fate so.. here it is! ♥

what do babes do post-battle? congratulate each other on the flawless exit.

-lolpazzo

Because I have the best girlfriend ever! <3 I love you

Rebloggin to have my entry on my blog and also to tell the lady that I love her too via blog

tuxecretsanta: TO: lolpazzoFROM: sqoozh Hi, I’m Sqoozh! You...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:15:29 -0500

tuxecretsanta:

TO: lolpazzo
FROM: sqoozh

Hi, I’m Sqoozh! You may know me from my other blog, asksailorjupiter.

My Tuxecret Santa was lolpazzo. She requested anything related to Minako, Sailor V, or Sailor Venus. I’ve actually barely drawn her before this! I never really felt much of a connection to Minako when I read the manga as a child, so I’m really thankful for the fandom and series revivals and to Pazzo for giving me the opportunity to love the last Senshi I had left to start loving.

I decided to take some creative liberties and draw a combination of many of Minako’s Sailor forms from a couple of different iterations of Sailor Moon. I actually enjoyed drawing this piece so much that I may make it into a series…

I hope you like it, Pazzo! Happy Holidays!

I’m stuck usin only my phone right now so images are tiny for the next couple hours but I gotta say how awesome this is! :’D I got this hella cool minako and it’s so much of a bonus knowing they loved making it. Thankyou Sqoozh! :>