Duckaday

I have really neglected posting orginal content for a long time and I just saw this thinking: what a coincidence, this looks a little bit like my comic. I wonder if the genie will be a duck as well?

And it is?! It’s actually inspired by my comic?!!! I cannot get over just finding art inspired by something I made years ago, and it’s animated so well too!! I am actually an animator myself (haven’t done it in literal ages though), but this is inspiring me to do some again as well. The smoothness, the fun swipes and expressiveness in a voiceless character, the characterization of the duck looking around sneakily before pulling out the lamp... UGHH, I love it so much! Thank you for sharing this, you’ve inspired me to pick up drawing/animating again as well!

[WARNING: slightly loud sound-effects, sorry!]

Hi everyone! This is my 4th go at animating and I really wanted to practice swipes and very sketchy in-betweens. This little guy was inspired by one of my favorite bloggers @duckaday who has made a couple really cute (and relatable) comics featuring adorably drawn ducks. I hope you enjoy this snippet, I couldn’t’ve done it without your lovely duck art and I hope you bless us with more!

I'm not sure about the pictures of planets in our own solar system, but I was at a presentation of someone who works with data from space that is much further away (of which NASA released all these beautiful pictures, made with data of the James Webb telescope), and the explanation on that is as follows:

Many things that we catch are in fact not visible to the human eye, because it concerns shades of infrared light. Therefore, these pictures have to be edited to construct something that is visible to us.

The person giving the presentation did not know exactly why certain colors are chosen over others when creating images like this, but suffice to say that it is not some capitalistic ploy but an effect of the type of data that we receive. It is not visible to the human eye, so in making it visible there always has to be some artistic renditioning.

"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.

"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!

"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands

Look how they massacred my boy

Yes, I am petty.

Also, apparently bread is bad for ducks. Peas are a healthy alternative, but let’s be honest, we wouldn’t ask the genie for brocolli either.

(also, duck art is a populair tag and it makes me very happy)

The ending of D20 Fantasy High Junior Year was disappointing to me in some ways (the bits were great, I just felt like there was a lot of squandered potential narratively). Luckily this beautiful AMV fills my heart, single-handedly making the season narratively worthwhile as well, and in only two minutes. If you haven't watch (all of) FHJY yet, I think the AMV is evocative enough that you can watch it without being spoiled for FHJY, just don't expect this level of emotional resolve from the season heh (but again, the bits were phenomenal, just go in with the right expectations).

love me. love me. love me.