I’ve Finished The Animation, But Have Realized That Using Complicated Colors Isn’t A Good Idea, It

I’ve finished the animation, but have realized that using complicated colors isn’t a good idea, it is really better to concentrate on lines.

Head Advice #1: Everybody’s head is the same size.

Okay, not really, but basically. There’s a reason you don’t have to know your head circumference to find a sunhat. We all have pretty similar head sizes, especially from the visual distance we usually draw characters.

The only exception to this is babies or children under 10. Those guys definitely have smaller heads! (But did you know our skulls are already over 90% their full adult size by the age of 5?)

Different style choices demand different proportions, but in general, it’s good advice to pick a head size, and stick with it!

Head Advice #2: You can use head size to indicate a character’s size.

Big characters don’t look like average sized people scaled up. And you can’t just scale down to get a small person!

You can make a character look very big and tall or very very small — even if they are standing alone in a vast white nothingness — just by how how they are proportioned! The most important proportion (in my humble opinion) is their head size. Look me in the eyes and tell me you can’t tell which of these characters are big and which are small.

Head Advice #3: Don’t go shrinking anyone’s head.

The most common head sins I see happen when an artist is trying to indicate (body) size difference in a couple, and use their heads to do it. The result is an image that looks something like this:

If you don’t want your lovers to look like they belong in different animated tv shows, don’t go shrinking anyone’s head! Use their bodies (hands and feet and bellies and muscles) to show off their size differences.

Anyway, that’s all. Having fun giving head. I mean doing head. I mean drawing heads.

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hugeforkingnerd

6 years ago

so i saw both the hypeable interview and aaraons response and taking both of those into account here are my thoughts:

i think, first and foremost, we should wait as a group to actually see the episode before jumping to conclusions about the episode. byg is a very specific instance of an lgbt death that isn’t simply an lgbt character dying. the crew didnt make this decision lightly, according to aaron

there will be more rep. aaron said so in his thread, and there has already been near-confirmation of runaan (since i doubt hes dead) and tinker. this is only season two out of a hopeful 6/7

i understand the feeling of betrayal of learning about this, especially with the v/d shitshow happening so recently. but we need to trust the crew’s promise and give them the benefit of the doubt before making any concrete conclusions. yes the phrasing of that article made it seem like this was byg, but not every single gay character death is bury your gays and we need to keep that in mind going into s2

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hugeforkingnerd

10 months ago

I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

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hugeforkingnerd

1 month ago