Short and Sweet

Most importantly: you’re stronger than you think.

WHY DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE NOTES

Six hundred goddamn AD

Six hundred. Goddamn AD.

HEY LOOK

AN ACTUAL THING THAT I LIKE

been feeling kind of paranoid lately

Take that time by yourself to get to know yourself and rediscover what makes you shine. Don’t surrender yourself to waiting, and don’t stay isolated for too long, because there’s a beautiful you the world is dying to meet. 

It can be hard just being who you are in a world where you’re constantly judged and belittled for every little part of yourself. So congrats on making it this far as yourself. :D

  WE NEED YOUR HELP.

   Do you know about Richard Williams, the 3-time Academy Award winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and A Christmas Carol? Do you know about The Thief and the Cobbler, the film he spent 23 years making and intended to be his masterpiece? The film he was never allowed to finish?

  Have you seen The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut, which attempts to restore Richard Williams’ original vision to this unfinished animated classic?

  My name is Garrett Gilchrist. I edited the Recobbled Cut in 2006 (and 2008). I am editing a new “Recobbled Cut Mark 4” right now. I’ve thrown out everything from the previous versions and am starting from scratch with much better materials, including a much better workprint, some HD clips, previously unseen footage and even some new artwork. It’s truer to Richard Williams’ vision and already looks and feels amazing.

   BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.

   In 2007, we transferred 49 minutes of extremely rare Thief and the Cobbler 35mm footage (21 minutes of which is used in the current Recobbled Cut), which includes all of The Thief inside the War Machine. The transfer was standard definition, cropped at the top and bottom, overbright and overblue, and left a lot to be desired. The quality is not up to today’s standards.

   We are planning to remove splices, dirt and film damage and make this material look as good as it possibly can. To do this, we need a new full quality high definition transfer of these scenes.

  Yes, we’re doing this. We need at least $1000 now to pay for the film to HD transfer.

   This is a not for profit restoration.

   This will be 20+ minutes of priceless Thief 35mm film footage in full HD quality for cleanup and screening. This is not trailer material - these are complete scenes, and they’re wonderful.

   Many scenes of The Thief appear in full - being beat up by Nanny, going through the pipes, trying to steal the Golden Balls, trying to steal the emerald, getting his “hands” chopped off, and most impressively, every single shot of The Thief inside the War Machine.

   Most of the Old Witch scene is here. There’s some very nice shots of Zigzag, part of the Cobbler/Thief chase scene, and so on and so on.

   You can send donations via Paypal to tygerbug (at) yahoo.com, or message me for an address to send checks to. Please identify all donations as being for the Recobbled Cut.

    Join us at Orangecow.org/board or the Recobbled Cut Group on Facebook.

yeeeessss this needs to happen!

OH GOD.

Please Do this.

If you think Disney animation is the standard, You’ve ain’t seen Jack Shit.

Oh yeah, that’s a signal boost. Saw the recobbled cut years ago and it still makes my blood boil thinking about what the studios did to this movie.

This essay is easier to understand if you’ve read these previous ones—

On Immersion:

http://doodlealley.com/2012/10/01/taste-is-your-teacher/

On Failure:

http://doodlealley.com/2012/10/10/be-friends-with-failure/

I’m sad how tumblr doesn’t let us talk much. Will you follow me on twitter? I’ll follow you back:

https://twitter.com/stephenmccranie

Philosophy Of Hayao Miyazaki- Sapphiresky1410

Some good art rules from Mr. Sam Alden, for me rule #3 is one I really need to hammer in. Also, it’s his b-day today, HAPPY Day of BEES SAM! 

d a n g…………………….

oh ow. that really hits a bit too close to home.

I don’t mean to belittle the sentiments of this piece at all by adding to it (it’s a very effective and relatable comic!), but quite a few of my friends have been very down about this lately (the whole having nothing to offer thing)…so I just sort of want to remind them that there’s always someone who admires your work, who perhaps gets inspired by you, who maybe gets fuzzy feelings looking at your stuff.  Maybe you don’t know them yet, or maybe you do but you’re too distracted by this feeling to realize it… They might be someone who watches you from afar and has the same feelings, maybe someone who you’re actually quite close to, or maybe someone you look up to.

It’s fine to feel like this, yes, but I just hope that it won’t stop you from wanting to move forward and keep going at what you like.  We can’t control our feelings all the time, but I hope you don’t feel inferior around people who you think are more talented/skilled.  It would sorta suck to know you’re putting someone down with the skill you’ve developed in doing what you love.  I know it’s hard and sometimes you just feel plain crummy, but maybe try to let it inspire and empower you.  I don’t know if it’s nice to take comfort in the fact that there will always be people ‘worse’ than you, but I hope that knowing that there will always be people ‘better’ than you will inspire and give you something to always look up at, to keep your head up.  It’s hard to improve when you’re always looking down!

Again, this isn’t really a direct response to the original comic, but moreso to my friends who have been feeling very glum about the matter recently (which is a surprising lot of you)…  Must be something in the weather?

If you guys ever need to talk, I’m here man.  My advice sucks but I can lend an ear.

Hell, even if we’re strangers and you need to talk, just shoot me an ask.

Chin up!

^ bless you, dude. <3

Wow I’m actually crying right now because this is legitimately the emotional journey I went on in the past few minutes.

No, seriously, do it. Say it right now, aloud, in front of your computer. “I am a good writer/artist/musician/singer/whatever.” Just admit it to yourself. Because I swear when you do, your work will become better. You’d be amazed at what you can...

Well shit.

:| 

…dammit you caught me

aww fuck

FUCK YOU BATMAN

yOU CAUGHT ME 

i”M SORRY BATMAN„„,

BATMAN NO

Well fuck. 

I’m just gonna save this, print it, and post it on my wall…

BUT BATMAN I-

ok