kustas
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Comics and animation blog, mostly animanga. I share screencaps of series I enjoy, fanmade content, and my own art and thoughts. Recommendations, commentary and asks always welcome. Both the blogger and the blog are 18+.
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My contribution to the local WHA zine
#seeing this from an artist ive known for ages for Morrowind stuff....two of us#art#witch hat atelier#coustas#dagda
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this file is over two years old, here's to all my friends who waited so long for me to finish it >_<
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i'm going to be honest i am not versed in politics at all. i don't have the knowledge to back up why with solid arguments, but this article is pissing me off. this is gonna be my attempt to articulate it not via geopolitics but via my (also limited) knowledge on animation. discussion is welcome.
for context, here's a link to it, TLDR a hacker discovered animation files for US animated shows coming from NK internet.
outsourcing has been a thing in animation for a long time - the article says it right there: "unreasonably low-cost labor" is why. it's not a secret, studios can outright boast about the money they're saving by doing this in professional circles like festivals, and anyone who has contacts in countries notably in south asia knows about it if not knows people who have worked on outsourcing themselves. animation takes a lot of work and that's why the ending credits to animated films are so long. have you also noticed how international they are? that's outsourcing baby. if outsourcing is good or bad is another debate but here it's the way they talk about it in NK that pisses me off.
regime this and regime that, this article several times mentions animation, comic books and always ties it to propaganda. i know little about korean culture but if they've been "proeminent since the country's founding" i would assume it's not because big evil government wants the little cartoons to brainwash, but because they already liked cartoons there.
animation outsourcing to NK in france predates the digital era. there is a rather famous comic here called "pyongyang" by canadian artist guy delisle who details his everyday life as an animation supervisor in the capital. it mentions by name at least two productions, one of which i've actually seen. it's strange for me to see this article acting like it's an offense until they dropped the big one - apparently, the US forbids contracts with NK, woopsie!
so we have the US, a country with immense international soft power and the world's biggest movie industry, notable for their own comics and cartoons, who's taking a stance against outsourcing not because of the nature of the practice but because it's done in NK, a country who's only interests in animation would be for propaganda reasons apparently, nevermind outsourcing working due to exchange rates and how poor compared to the outsourcers the workers from these countries are
ironically the first example they state is a superhero show, a genre born in USA and famously apolitical. what the fuck man
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Dungeon Meshi - Hien & Benichidori (& a bit of Tade)
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when i tell you i'm not ready for the next two weeks
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my previews for Spells of Spring 💐
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when i started dunmeshi considering the theme of consuming and being consumed and a sort of coy welll what do YOU consider cannibalism tone were both immediately established i was just like ok so before the end of this a party member is getting torn apart and eated. and considering chilchuck doesn’t get characterised until a little later the early party is 1. guy who cooks 2. girl whos reticent but likes the food 3. guy whos extremely hungry and 4. Fourth Party Member. Other. i was counting his days
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#number five#ft: pigeon#the true unspoken protagonist of this story#this is ooc he wouldnt be so happy. nothing to laugh about in my life etc
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Coustas replying to his awestruck friend asking for a song with ":) 1) can't right now 2) pay me lol" was iconic to me...patron saintling of artists. teaching freelancers the know your worth. he'd want you to hold up that commission pricing sheet like it's an arrest warrant
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包装盒内的纸板还可以当背景板用!
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Right (Aubrey Beardsley):
The Lacedaemonian Ambassadors.
Lysistrata Defending The Acropolis.
The Climax.
The Peacock Skirt.
Left: MW, Osamu Tezuka.
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tbh it's kind of fascinating to me that the author reverse engineered moments like these
"dororo is transcoded" dororo was written in the 60s he is not -coded to me he would absolutely be transgender following the modern conception of the term. and from the half of the series ive read his writing is remarkably good on that point taking in mind the time period
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