Hi all, my friend & fellow animator TheApoke recently launched a Kickstarter for the 3rd episode of his indie animated series Manware!
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Feel free to elaborate, I imagine there might be a difference between liking a pokemon species on its own vs. as a stylized tool 🤔
Oh gosh I was outta town when this concluded & forgor to ever come back to it ^^; I know it's been 2 months but I also simultaneously conducted this poll on YouTube & wanted to share the differences in the results b/c I think it's quite surprising:
Not only do we have a different winner in the Sprinklotad, but the entire rankings are a different order! One could argue that the much larger sample size is at play, but I will say these patterns solidified around the 200-300 mark & barely changed past that point.
As for the possible reasons behind the different victors, one of my hypotheses is that the YouTube crowd may have an overall younger age composition than the tumblr crowd. If that's the case, then those players who grew up w/ more recent Pokemon games might have more recognition/nostalgia for the Sprinklotad than its older competitors.
Another possible factor is that YouTube polls have limited & tiny image capabilities, which could have affected the vote. As you can see the Sprinklotad has an adorable menu sprite which is the only thing visible in the YT poll. However, the tumblr poll has enough space to also show its 3D model, which is admittedly a bit awkward looking (not dissing, some would consider this a charm point). I'm curious if less YT users would have voted for the Sprinklotad if they saw how it actually looks in-game...
Anyways, the Wailmer Pail is my personal favorite so I'm glad to see it get some vindication over here lol. tysm to everyone who participated!
Wanted to highlight this snippet b/c I was ~14% through my 3D animation course when I made it. Not perfect by any means but I'm glad it already allows me to engage in these kinds of shenanigans ^^
Feel free to elaborate, I imagine there might be a difference between liking a pokemon species on its own vs. as a stylized tool 🤔
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Hi, I just saw, and greatly enjoyed, your YouTube video about Splatoon demographics.I see you had to remove the usernames of the users you played with in order to not share their usernames torandom strangers online, which is reasonable but unfortunate.You can solve this problem by prepending what’s called a salt, basically just some random data, to eachusername, then running them through a one-way function. Here’s one you can use. They basically takesome input and transform it so that you can’t get the original value out of it. The salt prevents someone frombeing able to make large precomputed tables. This way, you can be sure that you will get the same value ifyou repeat the process with the same salt and username. So you now have some data that uniquelyidentifies each user without leaking their username to random internet people.Also, another possible source of error in your measurement is the time you play, it’ll likely favor people in your time zone.
The compression looks fine to me. YouTube seems to decide how to compress based on how many people will reach the video.
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Hi and thanks for sharing your thoughts! I admittedly have minimal familiarity with things like hashing, so I’d never heard of a salt before. After reading more about it I think I can see how its results would be more useful than simply assigning users a survey number as I had done in the spreadsheet.
Yes I’ve gotten a handful of comments concerning time of day and time zones which I definitely agree with! If I ever conducted the survey again, recording match times and possibly having volunteers from different time zones pitch in would be some changes I’d make.
Thank you for weighing in on the compression! I remember learning after the fact that YT compression can vary based on how “big” a channel is. I was surprised, but in hindsight it makes total sense.
My most recent animation has a detail that's hard to spot so I'll share it here: the flame on DJ G-Rave's head becomes more active when he emotes! There's some glow FX on it in the final render that obscures it, so here it is in isolation ^^
Another drawing from my most recent vid! It pops up when I'm describing how my research methods forced me to leave any Splatoon 3 lobbies I entered after just 1 match (as running into the same players over & over again would be counterproductive for my research).
So glad I don't have to play that way anymore, it sucked to have to ditch teams I synergized well w/, & even ones that I don't, I like to give a couple more tries ;w;
Anonymous asked:
what are your pronouns?
Thanks for asking, I wish I had a clear-cut answer to give you ^^; When I was brought into this world I was given she/her pronouns which I still use, but I think in recent years I've also become comfortable adding they/them to that
Drawing from my most recent vid that's only on-screen for a moment, so I wanted to post it here for posterity! Truthfully, I do not know if Marina's knowledge w/ machines would give her any insight to the fields of probability & statistics. However, the only other fitting 'nerd' character I could think of was Sheldon, & I don't think I've ever seen that guy angry?
For the first time I can't properly mirror-post it on tumblr b/c it's ~15 minutes long. As someone who normally makes animations that are 1 minute or shorter, it was quite the undertaking to make something long-form like this. Hopefully I did a good job & y'all enjoy it ^^
The other night I dreamt they added a new kind of inkrail to Splatoon 3. They were similar to Splat2′s in that they could be ridden in kid or swim form. But they weren’t one-way, so you could switch between going forward & backward while keeping momentum.
Also when its timer ran out, the ink making up the rail would “plop” onto the ground instead of just vanishing. idk if it’d have any meaningful impact gameplay-wise, but it looked neat!
I feel like Splatoon 2 had a very “out with the old, in with the new” approach to a lot of things. So it’s quite interesting to me that one of Splatoon 3′s core themes seems to be “fads go in a cycle, actually, so here’s a bunch of stuff from the past.” Hopefully Deep Cut’ll get more chances to shine on their own once the nice little nostalgia trip is done, though ^^;
I never actively seek out shinies, but even I am on the boat of “please bring back the little jingle that plays when they appear goodness gracious”
Anonymous asked:
do you have a twitter? :o
Not really, sorry! I made one a looong time ago to post drawings in Splatoon 2 but it's pretty much inactive ^^;
After running some tests (no pun intended) it turns out gear abilities don’t work in the hub ;w; but my point still stands!