finger illustrator who loves herpetology, anime, semiotics, and xanthophyll yellows. talk to me about robot girls and radical kindness
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Rokushi calendar for myself and my rokushi friends!💛🖤
kingdom hearts
what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.
since it's been (coughs and wheezes) four years now, I don't think I've ever shared the soriku vow wedding outfits i designed.... hi, it was me lmao
I see a lot of people drawing them again recently and it warms my heart so I had to do a little re-draw + some notes on little headcanons I have about the outfits ;v;
Summer vacation's end 🔵✨
Hold up, cushfuddled made that video?? Cushfuddled, the RISD alum who made Warriors: Twin Shadows, an absolute masterpiece of a comic in terms of visual storytelling? Well THAT gave me whiplash to find out Like cushfuddled, I'm an artist, not a musicologist-- but I love looking at the scores for my favorite games and movies, and for Frozen, it was a special kind of musical fixation. So I've been putting off watching that video.
I made leitmotif compilations combing every animated feature and even the Broadway musical. Comparatively observing where the Frozen musics use themes and how. What I learned from doing that is, the way Frozen uses its leitmotifs, it's like the equivalent of consistent writing for music.
The goal is for those leitmotifs to be recognizable, and you can hear callbacks all throughout the film. (Sorcery shows up very often of course, which makes sense given how many magical duels are going down, and how often it's used to represent Elsa.)
But there's also PLENTY new recognizable leitmotifs which F2 introduces-- the spirits all share one (G#, G, E) in addition to each having their own unique one. More on this.
And concerning Atohallan's kulning / Dies irae, it actually does show up a lot, just not in a form that would be glaringly obvious to the audience.
The notes in the siren call are F# F, F# D#. As characters are moving through the mist, or find the ship, you get little inklings of the spirits' theme (that G#GE I mentioned, though sometimes it's transposed to something like E E♭ C or has a few notes changed to sound dissonant and create tension). The general formula though is: a root note, followed by a half-step down, and then three semitones down from that.
The relation of the siren call is that it's a resolved form of this dissonance. The first two notes will have the same relationship as in the spirits' theme but it ends with D#, completing the chord. Almost like Ahtohallan is a higher power presiding over the spirits...
There's a special leitmotif which plays whenever Elsa performs "the next step" in her journey (i.e. taming a spirit). This one begins F# E C. I'm pretty sure anyone who has watched the film can hear the moment when Elsa gets on Nokk's back and there's that triumphant swell of strings as she rides toward the glacier. That same motif plays again when she stops the flood. THAT'S THE ONE I'm talking about. That's beautiful! That's so beautiful actually!
And guess what! It's designed to resolve the spirits' themes (or at the very least Nokk's), and then it leads into Show Yourself, which is itself a resolution of the main theme which all the spirits share
Saying the music is bad because it's not putting up more glaring road signs about the siren's call... takes away the artfulness? It's intelligently written. It's also so fun to catch bits of other songs in parts of the score. The Epilogue does a really good job of weaving them all together, especially with how many new ideas are musically introduced with old ones.
If they're talking about the songs being unmemorable, there are entire videos dedicated to how wonderful SY and TNRT are. But even When I'm Older, which the thumbnail suggests they're using as the butt, messes with the playful instrumentation that Olaf is always known for. His musical entrances are a bit less cohesive, but they always sound like someone tripping up a set of stairs. He has a jazzy showtune feel to all of his songs (When Everything Falls Apart, from the Broadway musical, is so fun) and When I'm Older, I would argue, incorporates that instrumentation at center stage. So if anything they should not be couching their argument in that song, because it uses glaring instrumental choices that make sense for Olaf.
And if anyone who's actually good at music theory wants to articulate better on anything I’ve said, feel free-- I'm going back into hermitage while I try to survive finals
I feel I have to write something about this video critique on Christophe Beck's score of F2, especially since I'm mentioned favorably in the video description. The creator (cushfuddled on Tumblr) had a chat with me a while back on the Frozen 2 soundtrack, as they were creating this video.
Unfortunately, this video gave me great pain as I watched. I couldn't finish it and stopped at about 30minutes.
This is an opinion video, so, we can agree to disagree. The creator did tell me in Tumblr chat that they didn't like the F2 soundtrack, so, fair warning, but I was not prepared for the level of criticism in the video.
The creator said that the score of the film is not memorable - I totally disagree. I could play any of the themes from the score right now on the piano for you, even 5 years after the movie was released. The creator also set a 3 question quiz testing the listener on whether they could identify which 3 out of 12 excerpts of music was from F2, trying to "prove" that the music of F2 is forgettable and unrecognizable - well, I got all 3 questions correct. Easily.
The creator made a big deal about composer Christophe Beck not being "allowed" by Disney to use the 4-note "siren" call in his score because its use had to be reserved for the moments in the plot that the siren calls to Elsa. This is sort of true, Beck has mentioned this in interviews but I don't see the problem. He wasn't "banned" by Disney per se, it's mutual discussions between the filmmakers and the composer about what is best for the film and Beck is just doing his job and what a damn fine job he did!
This is not a personal attack on the creator, it's just my opinions. Agree to disagree, I'm not one to start online wars. The creator did mention me favorably in the description. I do recognize that I am on the other end of the spectrum in that I'm hyper fixated on the music, am a musician myself and I memorize and internalize music effortlessly, and most of all, I LOVE THE SCORE.
Many excellent dragons in this thread, and I much approve of the Spyros, but we are missing the edge of Cynder yet!
Go my menacing female black dragons.
Yes I cheated and added Maleficent because she's S tier, and, it just occurred to me as of writing this that Cynder is like bargain bin Maleficent designed by Kingdom Hearts (lovingly).
Smaug is of course the definitive dragon though--- can't dethrone the king under the mountain
🗡️🔥 This is the dragon tax. Show me your favorite dragon and you will be allowed to live
I will start 🥰
(Tagging some people but anyone else feel free to join also. Fill my notifs with dragons hehehe) @certifieddragonenjoyer @rottenpumpkin13 @salternateunreality2 @izunias-meme-hole @luneandbarbecue @heraldofcrow @decadentblazewolf @wowa-bublord @stargazing-zani @raven15x @berabare
Cloud vs. Sephiroth
A tribute to "Final Fantasy VII" animated by Zack Lydon & risograph printed (black, mint, and sunflower inks)
Full video on Instagram
@luneandbarbecue I meant to rb this WHEN you made it, but I still haven’t entirely managed to figure out reblogs. This is hysterical! Chocobo hat Cloud peeping out, the utter disappointment on Seph’s face, you frowning upon Genesis like he’s a mildly inconvenient cat 🤣 I’m glad someone is getting use out of the FF7 dragon designs I did
+The shape of Tifa’s horns here is really cool, I might do something with that if/when I get to her (my studies have me in a bind currently so I haven’t been able to keep up with the growing list of cast i.e. Tifa)
Dragon!Genesis!! You razed Tifa’s kingdom??? 😭😭😭😭
Genesis: …I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. That must have been some other gorgeous dragon with the most shiny, handsome scales and impressive ability with fire.
[He gives a loud yelp as Tifa chomps his tail.]
Genesis: FINE. Goddess. Fine, yes, I may have started a small fire in the area that grew rather out of control. In my defence, I wasn’t at my best. We were dealing with rather a lot at the time, with that repugnant old wyrm Shinra’s curse eating at our minds. And I was much more focused on getting dear Sephiroth away from that wretched lich than a few screaming humans.
[Tifa is looming over him and glaring. Tifa’s angry look is scarier than Angeal’s disappointed look. Genesis silently questions again why he has to be the shortest of the bigger dragons.]
Genesis: Oh, don’t give me that look. You were better off getting away from that small-minded town anyways, I set you free. Or would you rather still be some pet princess locked away in a tower?
Tifa: My father died in that fire, Genesis.
Genesis: Ahem. Yes, well. He was keeping you from going out questing, like you wanted.
[Cloud has now joined Tifa in glaring down Genesis, sitting on her head like a glowering chocobo hat.]
Genesis (visibly cowed): I already apologized. What more do you want from me?
Sephiroth: I, for one, am terribly sorry for my part in that tragedy, Tifa.
Tifa: Thank you, Sephiroth. I forgive you; you weren’t in your right mind.
[They all turn to Genesis again. Sephiroth looks almost indiscernibly smug and loafs like a cat.]
Genesis: Goddess, why do you test me so. Fine, have it your way. I’m…
Cloud: “You’re…” ? Finish the sentence. Cat got your silver tongue?
[Genesis glares pointedly at Sephiroth, who is unfazed.]
Genesis: I’m. I’m ss… [He hacks dramatically like a cat coughing up a hairball.] I’m sorry, okay? Are you happy now?
[Cloud openly laughs at him. Genesis goes to flop dramatically on a pile of books and sulk. Tifa looks vindictively satisfied, but is clearly plotting pranks for later.]
Dragons au
happy (belated) halloween! featuring @nikutsuneart's halloween town wolfku :)c
A charming little bat. 🦇
Wanted to doodle up some Kingdom Hearts Lorcana cards because I would really really really love for KH to be in the card game
the way Jesse McCartney voice acts like rent is constantly due the next day needs to be studied
being both a Kingdom Hearts and RWBY fan means that every time art of Strelitzia from KH:Uχ appears on my dash I have to pause to double check it’s not Penny Polendina, that other teal-eyed ginger in a lovely skirt and bow neckpiece doomed by the narrative whose murder someone was framed for
Speaking of @foreststarflaime and dragons, I made this pixel art of their character Foreststar while we were at the library together. (I make pixel art sometimes) They can tell you all about her if they wish, and correct any of my errors-- my cursory recollection is that she's like a storybook god-dragon who is the patron of protagonism, and reincarnates as many different people and creatures to pursue the depths of kindness, wisdom and wonder.
Where every star on her wing represents a different story, it fuels her breath of blue fire with the intensity and brilliance of a life lived nobly.
One of these days I'll make a proper soriku VN
Xemnas' pronouns are "what's left / all there ever was"
bonus Demyx interaction below cut:
I drew @foreststarflaime's AU where the Final Fantasy 7 guys are dragons (original "AGSZC as dragons" post)
Star sent it to me, I said I was too dead tired to draw it, the rest is history
It won't pull me down (Keep moving forward now) The weight of impossible days (Keep your head above the clouds) I'll stand tall (I'm right with you, I will lift you) I'll rise up and carry us all the way (Just hold on)
Nuts and Dolts art inspired by "Atlas Falls" - Shinedown (2:41)
and the universe said, i love you because you are love
If Riku's canonically a Dream Eater, then it stands to reason he'd look like one in Monstropolis yeah?? (monster-Sora already looks like a Chirithy, notice)
Anyways some design notes
He's the same (or adjacent) species as Dean Hardscrabble from Monsters University-- though not a centipede taur for Reasons
(SquareEnix probably prefers consistent proportions across world specific models to make rigging easier, and therefore would not design him Like That)
His wings and elytra are at his waist since from my observation, they like to put things at waist length in Riku's designs. When folded flat against the thigh it looks like pockets.
He would use the lower wings mainly for gliding, to generate extra lift (given the length of his tail)
I'm debating moving the position of the Spirit sigil to his back, between his wings-- 1) that is consistent with its placement in DDD, plus 2) his wings would also contextualize it like a Nightmare
Your honor he's just a little guy
Sora's monstropolis model is a bit uncanny proportionally speaking, but he's still cute if you squint past the weird textures and boggly eyes
SORAAAAAA LOVEUUUU YOU'RE MY FAVORITE TO DRAW J'ADORE (<- says this about 7+ other characters. they're all the favorite child.)
Been doodling from reference, but in my style, as a bedtime ritual (which backfires because I don't go to bed after that)
happyface - a xion pmv
Listened to this song by Ado and randomly imagined Ruby and Penny partying in Vacuo ♥
Song : 唱 Another Story by Ado
What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas
