Just gave it a listen, pretty nice. Definitely stuck in my head with only one listen, so that's doing pretty well in my book.
Also, I've been spending entirely too much time working on this; I still feel terrible at drawing faces (in a timely manner), and drawing the helmet is a new experience, too. Incomplete, of course. I used references, but tried to do a different viewing angle so that I'd have to actually learn about perspective and get the helmet lines, eye/nose alignment, face profile, etc. right without cheating.
Maybe if I finish this and end up liking it, I'll turn it into another ~100x100 pixel art. Or maybe I'll ditch it now and stick to pixel art before I try to get too ambitious/ahead of myself.
On the bright side, I really think I am finally starting to intuit how eye reflections should work now. Might also be the first time outside of pixel art that I feel I have completely succeeded at making the eyes not look like they're staring at the viewer. So progress is being made... this is the first non-pixel art drawing I've done in some time, though. Trying to keep the color count low in case I do redraw it on my Amiga later. Face still needs lots of work. or I could just leave it somewhat like this and call it my "style" or whatever.
She's still the better of the two characters, no matter what she wears, though.
Also, What made dragon ball stay popular for so long, especially in the west? Why do people who claim to "not like" old anime still like it anyway? I think the next oldest anime I might hear younger people mention are probably Evangelion and Digimon/Pokémon.
None of my younger friends knew Project A-Ko until I showed it to them, either. It might not be as well remembered in Japan, but it still was successful enough to spawn sequels, and in the west it has what I would consider a legendary status as one of the things that introduced a lot of people to anime, so I'm surprised. I'm not counting things like dubbed Speed Racer/Astro Boy (or to an extent Mysterious Cities of Gold) as anime for these purposes, even though they pretty much are, on account of the level of localization and difference from source material.
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I'm about 99% certain the voice actor for the antagonist in episode 10 of Dirty Pair (the duke) is the same VA that did Largo in Bubblegum Crisis. I wonder what else he was in. Did he do a lot of villain types? [i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/OByVLh7g.png)
Too lazy to try to decipher the credits.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 6 2022, 02:04
I guess this is good news for me, since I'll have less competition if I ever want to get something published (which is apparently also trivial in a lot of fields).
Black and hispanic teachers had problems passing competency exams
A fair number of my white instructors would have problems passing competency exams too. I don't think this is entirely racial, convenient as that explanation may be.
Also (public) schools should be funded on the state level rather than by a district's income tax.
Also I think a huge problem is teaching to the test instead of encouraging an inquisitive mind. Just because someone knows how to take a test doesn't mean they can apply knowledge. For an external example of this, just look at Japan's english competency rate. This is despite english being a required subject. They do what they have to to pass the tests, but there's no emphasis on verbal communication or cultural meaning at all. Even students that might like the subject matter have to be pre-occupied with their test scores. I sucked at math all through school, but if learning on my own time out of necessity or interest i was great at it. All that mattered most of the time was getting the homework grades in, though, instead of doing anything interesting with what we'd learned.
The US is dying, anime is dying, and this thread is no longer dead, Racist gay mods need to stop touching threads
Apr 3 2022, 23:52
