A few tips everybody should consider. I’ve experienced all those and some more. I’m not good at english but I hope you get it. Go and support some artists out there and let them draw you nice shit. Not as nice as FairyNekoDesu but still will be cool so give them a chance and you’ll be surprised.
Here is a series of diagrams I made while I was making the D&D 5e Masonry profession stuff. It’s basically a helpful guide to help describe parts of buildings, windows, and doors for us non-architects out there. Use these to narrate your dungeon using accurate descriptors, or be inspired to decorate the dungeon with these new terms! You could make corbels that are shaped like owlbears, or socles carved like dragon’s claws. Especially useful to describe where secrets can be hidden, like the lintel of a door or pilaster of a wall. I recall needing to look up the term “lintel” when there was a secret lever built into one in the Shrine of Tamoachan, so there’s definitely a use for it.
Keep in mind that some of these parts can be used for other objects, particularly furniture. For instance, a table can have an entablature and cornice, just like a roof can. A pediment can exist above a door or window. A reliquary can have crockets and pinnacles like a cathedral.
I learned a lot about architecture while researching stuff for Mason’s Tools, and wanted to share it with you guys! Remember that a wide breadth of knowledge can help you become a better overall DM!
Gothic Cathedral
Hellenistic Temple
Crenellated Wall
Interior Wall
Doors and Windows
Roofs and Domes
Arches and Vaults
Architectural Patterns
Other Decorative Terms:
Urn: Yes they put them on buildings, not just in dungeons.
Festoon: A wreath or garland hanging from two points. If it depicts cloth it is known as a swag. So yea.
Dentils: Originating as the ends of rafters, these became decoration that is repeated below a roof’s cornice. Their name means “teeth.”
Acanthus: This is the leaf that you find in a lot of architecture, especially as the capitals of Corinthian columns.
Diapering: Weird name, but basically anything that is a repeated pattern usually based on a grid that breaks up an otherwise flat space. Apparently the name comes from the Greek dia (cross/diagonal) and aspros (white)
Fleur-de-lis: If you weren’t familiar with it already, that’s what this is called:
Well that about wraps it up for today. Hope everyone was able to learn something today!
OKAY I AM WATCHING A VIDEO ABOUT FMA AND I AM SCREAMING
So you know how the main villains are all adapted of the 7 deadly sins right
And ironically it happens that all of them will follow the description of the punishments in Dante’s Inferno for each sins. (also friendly reminder Dante was the name of the villain in the first anime, I just can’t)
So, quoting the video (which is in French here) and spoiling to death :
Those who committed the sin of Pride are condemned to be constantly crushed under the weight of a rock. In FMA, Pride will end up crushed under rocks.
Those who committed the sin of Envy are condemned to have their eyes being sewed. In FMA, Envy will have his eyes being burned out multiple times.
Those who committed the sin of Wrath are condemned to have their limbs being pulled away. In FMA, Wrath lost both of his arms against Scar.
Those who committed the sin of Sloth are condemned to walk for ever without being able to stop. In FMA, Sloth spent all his life digging the tunnel.
Those who committed the sin of Greed are condemned to share the same body with people who would give everything away for others, the opposite of Greed. In FMA, Greed will then share his body with Ling, his total opposite.
Those who committed the sin of Gluttony are condemned to be bitten and eaten by Cerberus. In FMA, Gluttony will be eaten up by Pride.
Those who committed the sin of Lust are condemned to be exposed to burning winds and to go through a wall of flame to clean themselves away from their sin. In FMA, Lust is being burnt to death by Roy
As for Father, in Alchemy it was specified that if one managed to create a Homunculus, this one would never be able to leave a little bottle, which is the case of Father. Moreover, the first man to claim having created a Homunculus was named Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus Von Hohenheim.
Moreover, the one who ordered to create Father was the king of Xerxes who wanted to access Immortality. But his plan will turn out against him and Father will provoke his death. In our reality, Xerces is dead killed by one of his captain which plan was to take over his empire to divide it between his Seven Sons. The parallelism between Father and the Homunculus is then obvious, but the story doesn’t stop there, as the story tells that the Seven Sons had been killed as well by the Son of the King, who had for Mother the Queen Amestris.
Can you hear me scream on the other side of your screen on how clever this manga is
Tbh, I don’t know why some people call fma 03′s ending dark and angsty?
Like, if that’s what the writers were going for, they woul’ve ended it full stop at episode 50. Now that ending, I can tell u from personal experience, would’ve been the epitome of dark and angsty.
But they didn’t. Instead, we got episode 51, and then the movie. Both of which offer up a message of hope.
Hope in the face of an imperfect world. Hope even in a world where the work you put into something might not reward you with something equal to your efforts. Hope in all its raw form, struggling and fighting on.
I don’t know about you guys, but that ending gave me so much hope at a time when I really, really needed it. So it makes me more than a little upset when I see posts condemning the ending, acting as if it holds no meaning simply because it’s considered sad.
You know what a think goes underappreciared? That fma has two complete alternate universes. People spend so much time arguing over which is better that they forget that the have more content then most complete anime or manga series, and that said content isn’t just copy paste from the manga. We get to have unique avenues explored that the manga didn’t touch on, like the Elrics being in our world or more time with characters like hughes and sheska, at the same time we get to see the manga acted out in truly beautiful animation. Some series don’t get that they get the anime exclusive ending and thats it.
Or worse, they get an anime exclusive ending and then a reboot that tries desperately to recon the anime exclusive ending and the fan base that doesn’t have access to the manga is left horribly confused. But no, FMA gets two separate anime series that they can choose from they can choose which they canon they want to abide by for a story. We didn’t have to worry about getting 700 episodes of pointless filler that creates seasonal rot and unessasary character derailment to get our manga ending. We don’t have to debate about what parts of the series are canon because they are two separate timelines, not one big mess with an emergency ending in the middle of the series. We even got movies to tie into both series! How many other franchises get that treatment? Just something to think about….
It still surprises me at how few people have seen Freak of the Week, and I love sharing it with friends because of the inevitable, “How the hell have I never seen this?” look of awe drawn out on their face.
And man, it really is gorgeous.
Directed by Juanjo Guarnido, it took the team about a year of hard work to hammer out this bloody masterpiece (which you can learn about in his video here) using a combination of 3D animation with the power of college interns skill of a team of artists to painstakingly re-draw the 3D elements they wanted in 2D frame-by-frame, not to mention the post processing and… everything else.
Even though it came out in 2014, it doesn’t seem to have ever garnered the attention it truly deserves.
I really wanna drive this point home, so to give you an idea, Ghost by Mystery Skulls, animated by MysteryBen27 has 18,147,263 views. Freak of the Week has only 2,271,121 views at the time I’m writing this. That’s fucking depressing for something so … phenomenal. I want more of this, and hell, maybe you do too. But we’re not going to see anymore simply because the right people haven’t seen it. In fact, it failed to reach a respectable level of Internet Popularity®, Juanjo himself even described it in the comments section as having ruined him because of how little attention it got.
So if you’re reading this and you’ve got some connections with a TV network or something, consider pulling some strings to get this video spoon-fed to the masses, because people ought to see this. I’m sure Juanjo would be all too happy to oblige. And hell, if you wanna buy the art book, you can get the link here for about $50.
Now, maybe you recognize the former Disney animator Juanjo Guarnido for his other work: Blacksad.
Which is a comic set in the late 1950′s about a hardboiled private investigator published originally by Dark Horse Comics that does… y’know, the …
… noir investigator …
… aloof ladies man…
… badass …
… detective story thing.
That I haven’t yet read but I TOTALLY NEED TO.
Look,
I guess I’m bringing up Freak of the Week because I was reading the comment section and, man, it kinda got me down.
Some of the best things things out there just haven’t been seen by the right people, I guess. But I suppose it’s also a depressing statement on the culture of the internet that the video makes.
This is depressing. If you haven’t watched this video yet PLEASE do, I was in awe and fell instantly in love with it when I first saw it and just assumed something is fantastic and detailed would become an Internet hit …
Apparently not.
Well it should be, I hope this gets to the right people and the video gets the attention it rightfully deserves.
That is not how popularity works. The reason why Mystery Skulls Ghost had the massive positive reception was not because it was fantastically animated, though it WAS very good considering it was made by people who were significantly more on the green side.
It was popular because it told a story that people happened to like. Freak of the Week is not even comparable. And the pitting of these two videos together is apples to oranges. Freak of the Week is a music video that is beautifully animated, but in the end, it looks like a music video. You get what you get, and since the band itself isn’t that mainstream, there isn’t much of a hook to it. And this is coming from a person who loves the video.
Mystery Skulls Ghost told a story which people liked, so it got popular, Freak of the Week didn’t. It’s the same reason Lone Digger got a lot of views as well.
^^^ this exactly. I ADORE the Freak of the Week music video, but as phenomenally made as it is, it fell into a pitfall that ails a LOT of art – it forgot its audience.
Freak of the Week is,unapologetically, exactly what it is. It’s a hardcore animated music video using aesthetics of heavy metal and, arguably, WWE-style imagery. That’s excellent! But it’s not very popular. There is certainly a niche audience for that kind of thing, but that’s just it – it’s a niche. The visuals are beautifully done… but not attractive. It’s beautifully animated but it’s not pretty. As shallow as that may sound, you have to remember that the general audience of this kind of thing isn’t going to be your super-high-level animation connosieur crowd. It’s gonna be your average Joe, who honestly doesn’t have much of an appreciation for the art of animation because he doesn’t understand how much goes into it. Your average Joe doesn’t even bat an eye at Roger Rabbit – he takes it for granted.
You can pooh-pooh that all you want, but that’s the REALITY of it. Mix unattractive, kinda-deliberately-ugly visuals with an aggressive heavy metal aesthetic that otherwise looks like your average hardcore music video and tells no story… and you have something that gets swept under the rug with everything else that falls into the “generic music video category.”
Again, allow me to reiterate – there’s nothing truly “generic” about Freak of the Week. It’s BREATHTAKING… if you know what you’re looking at.
If you don’t? It’s a bunch of metalheads rocking out with the exact kind of aesthetics you expect from metalheads.
For contrast, Mystery Skulls Animated: Ghost is a music video that prioritizes storytelling. Again – beautiful animation. Not nearly as detailed, but it doesn’t need to be in order to be effective. It uses a bright, appealing color palette, simple and easy-to-remember designs, a charmingly-spooky aesthetic reminiscent of Scooby Doo, and a bold visual style that overall calls to mind the likes of Sanrio properties. To put it bluntly, it looks really cute. More importantly, it looks really cute to your average Joe.
Not to mention, the story – people love a good story. People love a good heartbreaking story. People love a good heartbreaking story with a bittersweet ending, dashes of comedy throughout, and a dark underlying secret to the story that encourages them to dig deeper. Freak of the Week may be beautiful, but it’s not deep. Ghost is deep, and encourages a rewatch or several so that the viewer can get the most out of it that they can.
Freak of the Week focuses on amplifying the effect of the music. Ghost takes the music as a springboard and builds an entire world off of it – prompting the building of a fanbase of people eager to see where the story goes next. In other words: Freak of the Week forgot that longevity requires encouraging people to come back to it. Freak of the Week forgot its audience. Ghost did not.
There is a massive difference. Just like Eli said above me – it’s comparing apples to oranges. It’s a HUGE shame that Freak of the Week doesn’t get the attention you’d HOPE it would get, based on how much work was put into it. But putting work into something doesn’t automatically make it valuable – what makes something valuable is how much the audience wants it.
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