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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 3h

her fight scenes, chefts kiss.

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Visai Games | Venba is Available now!! @visaigames.bsky.social · 6h

We're Visai Games! 👋 We made Venba, an award winning narrative cooking game. As outsiders to the industry, we found our following in twitter but logging into it now means coming face to face with a lot of South Asian racism. If you like Venba, Follow us here so we don't have to login to twitter!

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 8h

New instalment of the risograph series: A Fungal Organist. 4 colors, limited edition of 60. Signed and numbered. Order from the worldwide shop: Zeburnay.bigcartel.com Or pre-order it via the US shop if you're US based : Zeburnayusa.bigcartel.com

A fungal organism mimics an organist, but what sound does it produce?

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

....in my perfect world Astrid is still in fairy country and her and Victoria Van Gale are in a toxic yuri relationship.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I dont think I posted these here, but these are some base expressions for Astrid, Finn and Lydia that I did for the team on S3. We found Astrid at first was getting a lil too 'old lady' like Tildy, visuals that show the range of expressions really help! not every person yells the same way. #art

rough sketches of a woman character from the cartoon show hilda, shoulders up, showcasing various expressions.

a cartoon man with freckles, shoulders up, with various expressions. Hes a precious lil guy

a cartoon woman with long hair, the art showcases various expressions

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 14h

it doesnt help that the expectations and scope creep for board artists has skyrocketed too. I just heard of a show from a friend that had to do their season in half the time they normally had to rush an air date. ITS ALREADY TIGHT, but they keep pushing T_T

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 14h

its not one for one, but in a pinch if i go 'huh i gotta do a shot where something flys towards the camera' and look at a few things that I know have...things flying towards the camera.

cartoon bird flying towards the camera, holding a rock

nazgul mount from lord of the rings, flying towards the camera, claws out to grab soldiers on the wall.

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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Om jameel:my kids appeal to you with tears, pain,&heartache to help save our mother.She is suffering from a heart valve prolapse&has also experienced uterine bleeding;her condition is critical.we need $200 of her surgery so she can recover&return to hold us in her arms😭🥹 chuffed.org/project/1839...

Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - plead for help in a tent shelter.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 14h

It really is! its hard when you have a brain that insists it can skip the first skeps...which i relate to. when it comes to the job its easier, but for myself outside of a structure? HOOBOY. but all of the ideas i've had that I can talk about proudly were ones i really did ref and research for

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 14h

we take it for granted that it should be simple to do, but storyboarding is basically directing and there are so many factors to juggle, its mentally taxing so we gotta do our warmups..and i HATE doing warmups!! lol. BUT WE GOTTA. its like dang, stretching really does help huh? fuck!

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 15h

I learned storyboarding in school but that was YEARS AND YEARS prior, and I was doing revs on whole new sequences on hilda because we were a scrappy team on the first season and there was a lot of us learning new skills. What did i do? Ref and planning ref and planning.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 15h

When I storyboarded the first thing I did was find movies that gave me the feeling I wanted to emulate and I studied shots. Here are a few Star trek The Search for Spock Lord of the rings The descent The host Jurassic world comp ref, anatomy ref, ref is lube for your brain, dont go in dry

shot of trailer hanging over a ledge from The Lost world, jurassic park.

shot of trailer hanging over a ledge from The Lost world, jurassic park. , the character is inside and is placed against the glass looking down at the height as it starts to crack.

a lil elf falls as his castle tilts, smashing him up against the window

a lil cartoon elf is against a window that is looking down a deadly fall, he screams!

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

now THAT is a motivational slogan

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

all of these things are squashed together and rushed, and all of the onus of making it work comes down to people on the back end trying to bandaid things that have already been bandaided. Its wild the amount of money spent on the back end that could have been spent up and not wasted time.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

totally! editing is a whole art and that has also been merged too since storyboarding programs have a timeline you can use to make animatics. A few frames here and there can make the difference, there is so much nuance in every stage and we've lost a lot of it.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I've done it too, and i had to really stop and realize that I was part of the expectations raising cuz I always went out of my way to take on more roles. And yeah its good to have a range of knowlodge but we also need the skill of knowing when not to apply it. road to hell, good intentions, ectect

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Please don't leave him in pain🙏 Abood has intellectual disability & severe epileptic seizures. Without his medicine, he suffers immensely. Treatments in Gaza are too expensive & his family can't afford it. Any small donation can save his health. PLZ save Abood’s life. chuffed.org/project/1844...

Picture of Abood with a text :

"Please, can you help me, donate for my family"

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

one person can do all these things, and many do! but you can kinda see it in stages as a sculpture, and if people have the room to really dig into those nuances it makes for so much clarity. Animation used to have all of that planning *because* it was such a pain in the ass do redo something!

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I split it up like this kinda,they all overlap, but they all have their own role to play. storyboard and editing= storytelling through flow, framing, beats and blocking character and bg layout = composition, perspective, model animation = movement and acting after the stage is set.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

These challenges are still there if you're in a singular project but you are much closer to solve the problem and get on the same page without making meetings and emails. You can do more up-front planning cuz you know the back-end team. its WILD the difference it can make.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a lot of service pipelines has the service studio do the background layout, which can differ from the board if the board is rough. You cant have someone lock down poses in burbank and have the perspective of the layout be silghtly different.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They do still exist in some productions but its really rare. Whast more common are special poses or expressions that fall outside of the model, but thats not every shot. for layout, it requires locking down choices and needing to stick with them -

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

there is no EASY production, its all hard work, but the amount of wasted energy and effort that is done by the established system has gotten worse and worse. And I dont know the pipeline at Glitch so im cant talk to how it runs - but this new era gives a chance to bring back what worked before

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

preproduction and production being separated through the service studio animation pipeline makes this even worse because there is hardly any communication or collaboration between the people who make the choices and the people who execute them. The final scene could have been done several times

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

so many things being mushed together and rushed through means retakes on the back end. Scenes being redone, re-adjusted. I've seen full scripts being re-written and re-shot no lie. Every retake is expected to be the same or more quality while being done in HALF or less the time.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

also to add to this. lack of upfront resources means lack of planning. If you have a layout role you need to *stick with what you do* because it effects so much. you have to make choices with intent, you need to,as a director , STAND ON YOUr calls

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Lazy + animation cant go together because in order to make animation even exist in the first place takes so much effort. My whole career has been things being cut or combined to do it with less because people EXPECT MORE but call it lazy. The output has been insane.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

dynamic posing and keeping models consistent take time, and the best chance to get something looking good is the first pass of it. when everyone triples up on jobs it leads to more retakes, and more retakes leads to diminishing returns each pass of a scene. Thats why timers & char layout exist

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

proper composition and clear poses can do SO MUCH storytelling without doing movement. All artists should understand proper composition and have these skills- but on a production pipeline you dont have the time to focus on different aspects - thats why these jobs were different!

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

CHARACTER LAYOUTS. One of the important jobs , along with animation timers, that got absorbed into the storyboard artist role over the last decade, leading to tons of burnout and scope creep. look at the clarity of storytelling you can get when you bring back lost roles!

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The escalator descends into a pit of doom. Many stand, some walk upwards tirelessly. some dude: but like what if we walked down tho

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

INKY CAP INKY CAP INKY CAP YES YES YES

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DenizenUnknown @denizenunknown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Was doodling this uncanny Homer holding a big donut, relying solely on my memory of him alone as a way of further capturing the haunted, off brand aspect, when I realised just how fun FROM MEMORY Homer is to draw, and got the itch to do a few more.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh totally. those things do exist and im not discounting that- but thats got nothing to do with generations. It shows up differently maybe in different generations, but throughout history there is always a shift and a fight. I dont like the distilment of it being a new problem with gen Z

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I loves me filmmaking and i loves me movies and i loves me art we gotta up our media literacy to REALIZE and include that when you see 'intimacy' on the screen there is an uncomfortable layer of systemic sexual assault in its industry that can't be unwoven from it. sorry. dont make the rules 🤷

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A great example btw would be Love Lies Bleeding. They talked a lot about how they approached intimate scenes after it was released too so it had a lot of intent behind it. and .yeah i'd say they pulled it off. maybe its time to re-watch that...

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Kristen Stewart Muscles

Alt: Kristen Stewart being incredibly yum

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

These scenes often dont serve the story, and when they do they are most often in the shallowest of ways. Can you find good examples? sure, but if you're talking about an established industry its safe to say that its best they look at how they function. And we need to be more critical of our media.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

we fully see actresses play out the directors kinks. Like, I dont want to watch From Dusk Till Dawn and see their vision ahaha. ahaha. YKNOW. Intimacy coordinators ONLY BECAME A MORE COMMON THING IN HOLLYWOOD AFTER THE METOO MOVEMENT!!!! and it wasnt a new concept, just new implimentation.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

im side-eyeing anyone who talks about how the younger generation is puritanical cuz of any kind of click-bait title about how they dont like sex scenes in media. Its not puritanical. its the long running history of power dynamics and sexual abuse in hollywood. WE. KNOW. THIS.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

very important context is i've been losing sleep to this game so it goes to show that im playing it despite my brain hating certian parts , its def not a deterrent to picking it up.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

LIKE, ITS SO HARD TO MATCH UP PATTERNS. the characters are worth it, im crying to make a perfect dress for them. MARIE, I KNOW YOU LIKE PATTERNS, IM OUT HERE TRYING MY BEST TO LINE THEM UP.

digital pattern not lining up and im crying about it

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've been playing a lot of dressmaker and the characters are fun but i am praying for some future UI updates when it comes to pattern piece labeling. My brain cries at the amount of attempts it takes me to understand what piece 'left left front' is and what way its pointing when i put it down.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the relationship between that scene and me is somewhat of a running joke..........cuz every season...shes there, going ' hahaha HAHAHAH YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD BE RID OF ME" Except for the mountain king, which was done by Giant Ant studios in Vancouver and they nailed it.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah NO ONE IS GETTING OUT OF THAT ONE EASY, but the later departments always have to deal with everyones bandaids. Theres a scene I worked on for the Hilda intro and it was so many lil scenes stitched together and the computers could barely handle that! i cant imagine a whole ep!

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