Well Have You Considered That Maybe The Unstoppable Force Is In Love With The Immovable Object

oh and sorry for spamming your notifs with reblogs. it will happen again.

I love like spamming, makes me feel good, so go right ahead <33

Aaaaaa tysm for your kind words Xochitl!!!Yes,Rhodon does have a design of roses and Lex's favorite plants are roses,specifically pink ones <3 Going with a theme here JFJFJGH

Awesome! I love themey designs and roses make for the best ones they're always so pretty <3

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please... your octavian is literally the nectar of the gods

Cheers ✨

Rick Riordan is actually coming out with the Solangelo to Tartarus book?? What’s it called?! I do see the announcement- Btw, LOVE your art ❤️

Yes, Rick is co-writing it with Mark Oshiro. :)

I don't know what the title will be but here are some links to the announcement 1 & 2

Also thank you :) <333

hi😻 no pressure to respond or anything just wanted to say i hope that lifes going ok for you and youre healthy and happy <333 your art always brings so much joy to my simple heart❤️😚😚

Thank you so much for this message. I read it the day you sent it and it made me so happy, unfortunately, I haven't been in the best of health, both mentally and physically. But this message made my day better and I think about it often. Thank you so much <3

so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.

First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!

Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.

But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.

On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.

However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.

But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.

The alternative is indie animation.

With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.

The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.

And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.

Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.

And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)

And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.

You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!

Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.

So it’s tricky.

Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.

I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.

Why dumb >:OO

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I know I’ve said it before how much I like your art and how incredibly good you are at it, but I want to say it again.

I can be having the crappiest day and as soon as I come to stalk your blog and scroll through all your stupendously excellent art, I’m grinning like an idiot right away.

You’re awesome and I’m glad you’re doing what you’re doing.

AHHHHHHHH thank you so much. This is so sweet. Your comments are my favorite and I love that you love what I make. It makes creating the artwork that much better, thank you so much <33333333333333333333

Getting lost in your homies eyes ｡◕‿◕｡

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Cringe culture is dead. Can we go back to ponifying things again? 😔🤚

This started a couple of weeks back when I got the random urge to draw ponies again.

I was just gonna draw Percy and Nico and be done with it but then I kinda got a little carried away ^^

Percy is a pegasus because pegasus was the child of Poseidon and Medusa, so, idk it seemed fitting

Nico is a unicorn so he can have shadow based magic

Annabeth is earth because she didn’t get any cool powers from her mom except being a nerd

Leo can create fire and is fire resistant so while I could’ve made him a unicorn with fire magic I just thought Dragon was better. I made him a wingless dragon with Festus’s metal wings, so he can still repair them when they get damaged on the journey

Piper is a unicorn for her charm speak,

Jason is a pegasus bc his dad is the god of the sky sooo,,,,, And no I didn’t forget Jasons cutie mark, dudes Blank flank Grace, because that’s what being a child soldier will do to you ʕ•̫͡•ʔ

Speaking of child soldiers, it thought it would be cool if in New Rome you have the option of getting the SPQR tattoo branded instead of waiting for your cutie mark, if you come later (like Renya) they’ll just add it at the bottom. If not you can trade out your special talent for loyalty to New Rome (like what octavian did)

I didn’t wanna give Hazel gems for her cutie mark because they were kinda a curse for her, so I went with something she enjoyed doing, art and kept the gold to show her heritage as a Pluto kid <3

Franks arrow was a play of the driftwood he has and the arrow was gonna be on fire but the fire didn’t look as nice so I scraped it (which is ironic that I made it driftwood because that’s a curse for frank and I just said I wouldn’t give gems to hazel for the same reason 💀✋oops )

Oh and I wasn’t gonna add clarisse but I thought of her as a griffin and it seemed like too much fun not to do

This was honestly a good exercise in character design and was more fun than I thought it was gonna be

And a special thanks to labcoatcartoons bobinthecomments and @skullsandcorals

For listening to me talk about it giving me suggestions on what I should do <3