one gag that never fails to make me lose my shit is when a character is shown next to a framed photograph of themselves, in the exact same pose as in the photo
it’s a mouthful to explain but god damn. that is comedy gold right there.
A friend recently pointed out that I have a lot of poses that I overuse. He called them “Paula-isms” and they’re evidently sprinkled throughout anything I’ve ever worked on. I went and looked at every animation I’ve ever done, every comic I’ve drawn, and have made some discoveries about how I pose and animate. So let’s go on a journey together and find out why I am a hack fraud.
The first pose that was brought to my attention is the hands up together pose. I do this one a lot. And I’ll fracking defend this pose with my life. You can pry this pose from my cold dead hands.
The second pose that I found quite frequently was arms crossed over the chest, specifically with the chest puffed out and weight shifted to one hip. It’s sassy. It’s attitude personified. And apparently… it’s overused.
Third pose…. and this is a default of mine… is hands on the hips. Hands always on the hips. I have an aversion to putting them idly at the side for some reason. Put those hands on the HIPSSS. Bonus points if the character’s torso is leaning back. EXTRA BONUS POINTs if they’re leaning forward.
The next pose is one that I do so much that even I am sick of it. Both hands up. Gesticulation is everything. HANDS UP and don’t you dare use a shred of foreshortening on those forearms. What even is foreshortening… never heard of her.
The last pose is one that I found so often that I didn’t even include all of them. I missed a few. It’s the one finger thinking pose/ scratching the face pose. This one is just animation shorthand for “I’m perplexed/I’m thinking”. I don’t think I’ve ever done this one in real life but you’d better believe that everyone does it.
Don’t even get me started on the things I do after posing. In animation I have two favourite things to do. The first one is having a character facing the camera in the foreground, only to have them turn to face the opposite way. Extra credit if the turn is on a hard cut, to disguise the fact that turning a rig is hard when you only have 2 views of the character. I’m notorious for only having a front ¾ and back ¾. Profile views suck, and you can take that to the bank.
Last thing that I do that is in about half of m animations is crash zooms. All the crash zooms. I love crash zooms, and I’ll give them up when hell freezes over.
Thank you for going on this journey with me. There are probably way more mannerisms that I do that I didn’t find enough of. These poses are staples of my animation repertoire and if I got rid of them well…
i mean, these are realistic poses people do for emphasis. its just natural human body language.
streaming minish cap randomizer on twitch at rogue_of_heart
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Capitalism will put the bill on your grave and harass your grieving family until they pay
One of my cousins passed away unexpectedly at the age of 35, and had been paying back a loan from the bank. About two weeks after his death, my great aunt received a statement from the bank (his mail was being delivered to her house) about a late payment. She called the bank and explained the situation and the only thing a manager could say was “Well, that’s unfortunate. We can arrange so payments will resume in 30 days, that should be enough time to have already paid for the other arrangements.”
On top of the unexpected $10,000 funeral, cremation and burial bill, my aunt had to finish paying my uncle’s $5,000 loan. She’s a disabled retiree, on a fixed income, and could barely afford to pay for her insulin for diabetes. She nearly lost her home of more than 40 years. Fuck the system.
She didn’t need to pay. When people die, their debts are not their family’s responsibility.
In fact, it is outright illegal to try and collect those debts from a person who didn’t cosign the loan and isn’t executing the will.
Banks count on people not knowing that last comment so that they can still get money
They really do.
My great-grandmother had her identity stolen before she died at the age of 93, and thousands of charges were racked up on credit cards in her name. After she passed away, they called my mother to try and collect. My mom laughed at them, and told them: “She’s dead, good luck collecting.” The credit card asked my mother, “Don’t you want to clear your grandmother’s debts? Don’t you want to clear her good name?” My mom laughed at them again. “No,” she said. “Because a 90 year old wasn’t watching porn with those credit cards, and her name is fine. Don’t give credit cards to old women likely to pass away soon. This is on you.”
Which is how I learned as a young child to always question collection agents, and to never pay off debts that aren’t your own. They often can’t even collect that money from the estate, if there is one, depending on how you write your will and what kind of account the money was kept in.
DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.
If a loved one of yours dies and bill collectors (credit cards, loans, etc etc) start calling you off the hook and request that you pay off their debts, tell them in no uncertain terms to go fuck themselves.
The reason being is that the moment you give them a single penny, that debt is now on YOU because you’ve now agreed to pay it off.
Do not agree to pay off their debt. Do not pass go, do not give them $200.
Boosting this to let people know that if any of these greedy little dog-fuckers start harassing them to pay off a relatives debt the correct thing to do is just tell them to piss off and not pay them a single thing
And that there is NOTHING they can do if you do this
Never, ever, EVER pay so much as a single cent on a debt owed by someone who’s passed away. You make even a single payment and that’s considered you accepting responsibility for the debt, and they can then legally expect you to repay the whole thing.
They’re like vampires - they can’t collect unless you let them in. Don’t invite them in.
DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.
DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.
DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.
DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.
and DON’T consolidate your student loans with your significant other! if something happens to them you are legally on the hook for that money!
I live here and watch twitter personalities call it a burning, ruined warzone every day.
Here’s a fun exercise: count up every single unique business you can find that’s said to have been looted or burned. See how many articles you can find that stray outside the same list of around six or seven on the same street. Tally up how many were actually sweet little family owned startups and not just the apple store or target, already hated for having pushed out dozens of smaller businesses themselves
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
