Quality of final product has no bearing on how much effort or "soul" was placed into a project.

Reznor clearly put a lot of effort into Add Violence, but it's still one of his weakest outputs ever.

More soul and passion was put into making this video than the entirety of  Reach, Halo 4, Halo Wars 2, and 5 combined

YouTube

just because you dont like those games doesnt mean there isnt any soul or passion behind them

reach in particular was very obviously a huge passion project

Thanks for the encouragement. Best of luck, man. Ping me on discord if you ever want to chat.

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is this the first thread you've ever made

holy moly

Fuck you guys respond to the thread. Also I've made a lot of threads.

anything beyond the meme thread i cant remember

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Quote from: Eli on February 26, 2018, 11:32:37 PM

Finalised

hands are too small and the shape of the fingers aren't great. the shoulders aren't truly "correct" either but overall i'm quite happy with the result

Hair looks like it's for a larger head than you have drawn. Besides that (and what you mentioned), looks good.

thanks

the big hair is intentional. i'm attempting to mix nakatsuru anatomy with maeda hair styles (the best of both worlds.) i think i struck a balance between the original super saiyan flowy hair and goku's base hair, which is what i feel ultra instinct's design is going for as well.

I'm talking more about the back of his head.



Red line is where it is, which is bit off-center from his head. Blue line is closer to the shape of his head.

oh, i see. didn't catch that. thanks.

Quote from: Eli on February 27, 2018, 04:07:46 PM

art is anything that strives to be art.

I see a tautology here

Quote from: Eli on February 27, 2018, 04:07:46 PM

Intention is the defining trait.

On one hand I agree with you, art is a way of artist to communicate his thoughs, emotions or whatever else he put in his artpiece.

On other hand artpiece is not always taken in the way artist intended to, but still it is considered art by viewer, since viewer found something in it. From this perspective, artpiece is art due to in what different ways we can see it, regardless of any intention of artist. Intention is still important trait, but not the defining one.

anything can be art in by that definition, so i throw it in the bin.

Finalised

hands are too small and the shape of the fingers aren't great. the shoulders aren't truly "correct" either but overall i'm quite happy with the result

P fun. Wish there was an easier way to do it. Next on my list is his Trunks cut from Movie 9

Currently doing a "What if Yamamuro had good timing?" video of his Goku Vs. Majin Vegeta fight. Should be interesting.

The series has gotta end after this right?

Or what he fights the fucking angels that are stronger then gods?

goku will not surpass jiren

universe 6 saiyans have more potential than universe 7

post Z hasnt been explored

goku needs to train oob

basically any kind of incline chest press/fly will do the trick. i'm partial to dumbells because of the stabilising muscles, but once you've wiped out most of the muscle's energy move over to a machine for low weight high rep isolation movements. do 4 sets, increasing the weight each set until the last one where you bring it down by half and just go until failure.

Quote from: Eli on February 25, 2018, 01:43:48 PM

You have to will it to pass. Change things up, doing something new and interesting. If you wait for bad feelings to pass you're just going to become comfortable with them, and then eventually one day you'll wake up depressed because you fostered a depressed psyche out of habit.

Welp I guess its too late for me

it's never too late to break the cycle. my advice still stands. if you wanna sit around and wallow in self pity, thats your prerogotive. but all youre doing is wasting time until you eventually learn the hard way what i've already laid out here.

Yamamuro needs to be destroyed.

After 128 we got a VERY optimistic NEP for 129, showcasing up-and-comer Hirotaka Nii's BRILLIANT emulation of classic Dragon Ball. Here's a few examples of his recent art:






And this was from the NEP last week:



Another presumed shot of him came in the form of a pan up of Goku Blanco's new form. It's been stabilised here:



Then just now, Toei released another preview of 129 coming out next week (pretty standard during big episodes with a week in between) and we got Yamamuro's "correction":





Fuck this man. He leaves the show during the most dreadfull ill-produced portions where they could actually use him only to come in and "correct" more talented animator's work during the climax of the series. There's a chance that Nii's art will be the final cut version but to me, I can't see them TWO versions of the same shot, one released a week after the other. It seems far more likely that the draconian, talentless hack who is known for shitting on his subordinate's work come in at the 11th hour to put his name on something truly special.

I try to maintain my composure where Yamamuro is involved, because the internet does like to exaggerate quite a bit (especially the Dragon Ball community) but god DAMN this time I'm exceptionally heated. This is worse than the blur on Naotoshi Shida's Battle of Gods cut. Almost as bad as the entirely redrawn Eguchi cut from RoF.  I hope to God it's just a fuck up at Toei.

how i spent my night:

As it turns out, if you love music, one of the worst things you can ever do is try to learn how to make your own.

What makes music interesting to me is how, unlike other art forms (such as film), it's actually pretty difficult to pinpoint exactly what makes a song so appealing to you, even if the reverse isn't true. It's much easier to shit on music you dislike, because people tend to know exactly what they don't like to hear.

I couldn't really tell you what I like to hear in music, though. I just know it when I hear it. When I listen to "She Loves Us" by Swans, I can try to describe all the things that make it wonderful—it's an aggressive, malicious, spiteful, slow-burning 17 minute track with an extremely repetitious guitar riff with loudly barked vocals and vitriolic lyrics—but unless you 1.) hear the song yourself, and 2.) actually enjoy it, you probably won't understand the appeal of it. I can only describe to you how the song sounds, and why the song appeals to me. But I can't describe to you why I think it's a good song, objectively speaking, so I can't tell you why you should enjoy it.

This isn't similar to film, where I can pinpoint to you all the reasons why The Godfather is a masterpiece. Nobody who appreciates film as an art form dislikes it, and even if they do, they still respect it. That's because we have somewhat of a real palpable standard for what makes a movie good, or at least, more so than we do with music.

Music is probably the most subjective art form ever, if such a thing were to be quantified. There's no technical standard for what makes a good song, and there are so many artists out there who go out of their way to shatter any attempt to bottleneck the art form into any set of arbitrary rules. The bottom line is that music, first and foremost, is about how it makes you feel, and that to me is what separates it from other forms of art in this day and age. It's a very traditional way of looking at art. Those who want to think read books, and those who want to feel listen to music. In general.

It gives music sort of a precious and almost magical quality to it, but this all goes out the window once you actually start learning how to make music.

I've been wanting to learn how to play the piano for a long time, but I've just been too intimidated by the sheer amount of practice. I hate practice and work more than anyone else. I just wanna be good at stuff. If I could be a natural talent at just one thing, I could've been a happy person. But I'm not a natural talent at any one thing, so I have to waste time learning shit, and it's the most frustrating and miserable thing in the world for me.

Anyway, so I've been teaching myself a little bit about how piano playing works, and I've decided that music is kinda ruined for me forever. Not that I can't listen to it, not that I can't ever play it, but I'll never think about music the same way again, and I kinda detest the shit out of that.

Without getting too much into the technical aspects of it, music theory is basically just us trying to apply math, science, and objectivity into the abstract of music as a means for us to understand how it all ticks. Normally, I'm all for that. I do that with other art forms, so why would it matter with music?

Well, I kinda forgot what I listened to music for in the first place. I don't listen to music for the technical aspects of it. I listen to music because it makes me feel a certain way. When you try to apply math to a feeling, you kill the feeling. That's kinda why they tell you in high school not to do book reports and shit about your favorite stories, because you might wind up hating it in the end, because you've just sucked out all of the wonder and mystery and nuance. You know why you like the story, so when you analyze it for hours, it loses all meaning and you become numb to it.

What I've learned from studying music theory is that nothing is sacred. Music isn't magical or special. It's all just math. The more I get into this stuff, the more disillusioned I become with it. Everything has a name, no concept has been untouched.

Most people who enjoy making music don't seem to go through this crisis, so to understand how I feel, try to imagine yourself as a kid watching a magic show. And it's so cool, when it's over, it inspires you to become a magician yourself. You believe in magic. You saw that dude pull a rabbit out of an empty hat with your own eyes. You wanna be able to do that when you grow up.

So you grow up and discover that magic isn't real and it's all just sleight of hand bullshit. Either you give up your dream, or you become a magician anyway, but if you become a magician, you have to find a way to existentially reconcile the fact that your childhood wish never really came true, because magic isn't real and you never really could learn how to perform it.

I always struggled with reading sheet music when I was in high school choir. It wasn't that it was too difficult for me, or anything. I think my mind was just rejecting it, because I want music to maintain its mysticism for me so dearly.

My options as of this moment are to either stop trying to learn how to make music, lest it all becomes ruined for me forever, or try to find a way to reconcile my inhibitions. I'm just not sure if that's a real possibility for me.

kinda more of a blog than a hot take but w/e we'll take it

this is a really interesting insight