Latest Posts by bloomzeye - Page 10

A super normal text between two besties! [Image Description: On a light blue background, a person with a brown paw and black claws is holding a smart phone. The red phone case is mushroom themed with light red spots. Tiny mushrooms, rocks, and flowers charms are on the top right of the case. The phone screen shows a text message window with the group chat titled “B F F 4 E V A.” There are two people in the chat, L and F. Person L is colored lilac, and person F is colored green. L texts: “we’re out of trash bags.” L adds: “*trash bags*" F replies: "darn that auto-correct!" END ID]

how did you add those links w/ one or two words to your bio? :)

they're html links! just go to your tumblr page and click customise in the top right corner, and add this code to your description:

were going to mc donald's brb

I’m going to pretend that I know how to *really* use tumblr. It’s the only social media that I genuinely like and use

I would now like to consume plushies

dinkle and moley plushies by itemlabel

A super normal text between two besties! [Image Description: On a light blue background, a person with a brown paw and black claws is holding a smart phone. The red phone case is mushroom themed with light red spots. Tiny mushrooms, rocks, and flowers charms are on the top right of the case. The phone screen shows a text message window with the group chat titled “B F F 4 E V A.” There are two people in the chat, L and F. Person L is colored lilac, and person F is colored green. L texts: “we’re out of trash bags.” L adds: “*trash bags*" F replies: "darn that auto-correct!" END ID]

Just because an artist likes Harry Potter doesn't mean they support JK Rowling??? Its not their fault you can't separate the art from the artist.

because it's still giving the piece of media a platform. even if you pirate it. even if you disagree with it. I genuinely don't see any good, positive reason that can come from continuing to indulge and participate in the fandom publicly. Like, fine, whatever, if you're gonna read it in the privacy of your own home with nuance and critical thinking, I can't stop you. But posting about it online and engaging with it isn't helpful. It's just giving it more attention. Literally just read another book. I understand nostalgia and childhood hyperfixations and whatnot. But I have such little sympathy for the people that cling so so desperately to the problematic wizard books. There are other things out there! Just find something else!!!

You know what movie I really loved as a kid?? The Don Bluth Thumbelina movie. I rented it from blockbuster week after week after week. I love clowns, and I love frogs, so the fact that there's a frog character dressed as a clown would be totally up my alley, right? Well!!! He's a pretty racist caricature actually!! And the thing is, it's actually really really easy for me, even with my love of clowns and frogs, to actively avoid speaking positively about this character. There will be other frog clowns that aren't racist. I got over it. It's not that hard.

Crying is natural; the skies cry, the birds cry, the trees cry. When it's one thing after another, I feel like I wanna cry. I probably should. I know I need to let my body release. But at the same time, I don't want to. Because crying is letting go, resting, pausing, regrouping. But when you feel like you can't do any of that, not yet. You just wait until you can. Or you don't.

– Me, bish.

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2D Planning for CG Shots

Because posing a CG character involves manipulating a number of individual controls, it can be slightly time consuming and disrupt the creative flow when first exploring the acting. For this reason, I’ll sometimes draw thumbnails of my ideas or make a pose test in 2D before posing the character in CG.

Not only does this workflow help me arrive at my ideas quicker, but also allows me to explore shapes that I wouldn’t necessarily have arrived at had I jumped into the CG first.

If the performance in CG requires something more complex, like dealing with object constraint setups, or posing a unique character rig, I’ve found a 2D pass helps me iterate on my ideas quicker, instead of being bogged down by the technical.

Even if the drawings are rough, it allows me to plan out things quickly so I can invite other departments, like FX, to collaborate earlier in the process, which can lead to great discussion and iteration to improve the original idea. I find it’s a great tool for visualizing things in context, especially when there’s a back and forth interaction between the character and FX.

Here are some things I’ve found helpful when making a 2D planning pass:

-I’ll use a playblast of the layout as the BG for my 2D drawings, especially if there’s a camera move involved. Sometimes I’ll keep the layout animation of the character as reference in the BG so I’ll know the size of the character when I draw it.

-Sometimes I’ll draw with more detail when I’m “feeling” out the idea, and other times I’ll draw extremely scribbly to keep things loose and keep the flow going. One time, Mike Gabriel told us a story where he found he was more efficient with his 2D animation by enlarging his thumbnails in the xerox machine, cutting them out, taping them to his animation paper, and using them as his animation keys. When I was on Moana, I tried the modern equivalent of this by shrinking down my digital canvas size so I was forced to make thumbnail drawings. I found the thumbnails forced me to keep the poses clear and not get too focused on the details.

-When I’m done with my 2D planning pass, I’ll add the mov file as an image plane to the camera, but I’ll have the image plane off to the side as reference, not directly behind the CG character. I’m not rotoscoping the CG to the 2D, but instead I’ll want to match the spirit of the pose/idea using the rig.

-I consider my 2D planning as the step before the actual Blocking Pass. If I feel there’s a better option as I’m posing in CG, I’ll pose that instead. If you look at the video at the top of this post, you’ll see I’m sometimes deviating from either the timing or poses in the planning for a better idea (Note how the baby raccoon reacts differently in my final version in the gif below). These ideas can come from directors, yourself, or your peers. Just remember, your 2D planning pass is like a rough draft. Don’t be precious about it or unwilling to change it. It’s just another tool to help tap all the entertainment potential in your shot!

Crying is natural; the skies cry, the birds cry, the trees cry. When it's one thing after another, I feel like I wanna cry. I probably should. I know I need to let my body release. But at the same time, I don't want to. Because crying is letting go, resting, pausing, regrouping. But when you feel like you can't do any of that, not yet. You just wait until you can. Or you don't.

– Me, bish.

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✨START AGAIN: a prologue✨ is out now! Experience a time loop at the end of the world~

✨ STEAM LINK! ✨        ✨ ITCH.IO LINK! ✨

I had a lot of fun figuring out how these lil' critters would look and animate in my latest game jam!

Our game is called Hopper's Bugs, and it's free to play on itch io!

Sometimes I have to decide whether to post a funny one-liner on my art blog, my personal blog, or my other blog.

I'm like, if this post blows up, which blog do I wanna chance it on?

I like to imagine that in any atla modern au, aang still, for some reason, finds a reason to beat ozai’s ass

Meet Leafette! They are the main character for my itch io Devtober game jam entry (currently) titled, Foliage Conversations. You can read more about Leafette on my blog, here!

Leafette is a resident of Foliage Falls, a cozy little town known for its beautiful lakes and rivers.

Although well-known by the locals, Leafette can be a bit shy around new people. And with a love for books, they are a familiar face at the local book store, the Cozy Reader.

[Image Description: On the left is a pen sketch of a character with a leaf for a head and a human body wearing a sweater and ripped jeans. On the right against a light brown background, is the pixel art drawing of the same character with a brown colored, leaf for a head. They are wearing red earrings with a dark green knit sweater that has light green patches on the shoulders, cuffs, hemline, and collar. They are wearing blue jeans with heart-shaped patches at the knees and red shoes. END ID]

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‘the truth about turbulence’ - just a little doodle from a frequent(ly anxious) flyer.

Via my game dev Twitter @bloomzeye that I forgot to share here 😅: “Here’s a lil’ peek of what’s in my ✨early access✨ blog post on Buy Me a Coffee, about my newest character design for the Devtober game jam, Leafette!”

[Image Description: On the left is a pen sketch of a character with a leaf for a head, wearing circle earrings. On the right is a pixel art drawing of the same character with a brown leaf for a head, wearing red earrings and a green sweater. END ID]

OKAY I swear I'm gonna start posting here...I just have so many tabs open already, and this hellsite doesn't do logins for multiple emails...

Be careful when you buy nail polish from a witch at the Night Market. She put a special ingredient in it...and it’s a full red moon tonight!

At least the color is cute, don’t you think?

What color would you buy from a witch at the Night Market?

[Video ID:

An image of a brown hand wearing red nail polish is underneath a red moon. The hand is growing white and grey fur out of it with the text next to it: “UGH… I knew I should NOT have bought that B L O O D MOON nail polish from that witch at the Night Market…”

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My First Game Dev Vlog for my First Indie Game!

Hopefully the video loads. If not, here's the link: https://youtu.be/W7zDP6tF2gg

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[ID: GIF of a pixel art styled bumble bee that is flying inside a bubble. The bee has a small green bag with a brown strip around its body. Surrounding the bee are pink flowers inside bubbles. The text above the bee in all caps is "First-Time Pixel Artist plus First Indie Game". Everything is on a yellow-hued, honeycomb patterned background. END ID]

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Soooo I'm back on YouTube. This time I'm sharing my journey into game development, how I learned pixel art and animation, and how I created my first indie game, Bubble Bumble!

I also made a blog post version here: https://www.bloomzeyestudio.com/post/first-time-pixel-artist-and-first-indie-game-devlog-1

And an audio version here via my podcast "Bloomzeye Studio Chats": https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hgGc3duCFmRzXVUMnZlbM?si=db5dLS7-TNiZFXk0U2lOBw&dl_branch=1

I know I sound all markety and I just started this account, but I'm excited to share this!

Via my personal art account! Post from a few weeks ago. The game it actually almost out, and the itch io page is up! https://bloomzeye.itch.io/bubble-bumble

this lil bee is Kiwi

lol I don't even feel like logging into my game dev tumblr @bloomzeye to post this...ANYWAYS! I'm making my first indie game (it's almost done!), and here's Kiwi the Bee, my main character!

ain't she precious?!

I forgot the password for this account, so I was posting via my personal art account 😅

My first indie game is almost ready on itch.io!

Again, not logging into my game dev tumblr (@bloomzeye) for reasons, but my first indie game, Bubble Bumble, is almost ready to play! Here's the itch io page for it: https://bloomzeye.itch.io/bubble-bumble

Ahhhhh! I have basically zero followers on this page, but I don't care! I've made a video game, something I never thought I could even do, and I'm happy about it!

A lil' about me

Hi, I’m Bloomzeye! I'm an indie game designer and developer, and I'm working on my first mini-game called... Bubble Bumble! 🐝 I'll be sharing my game dev journey along the way, and I have A LOT to learn about pixel art and game development. You can keep up with my progress through my Game Dev blog: www.bloomzeyestudio.com.

*I legit don't like social media, so I make NO promises on post consistency 😅

Likes to hide behind funky hats, but once you’ve earned her trust she’ll brighten up your whole day

Chicago really got rid of the City Hall Pridewalk the ABSOLUTE SECOND Pride month ended. 

Like…

They tarred over it in the middle of the night. 

It took 48 hours to get Southside streets plowed in February, but this they can do immediately, I’m losing my mind. 

Meet Kiwi!

Meet Kiwi, the smallest bee in her hive with a broken stinger. But, that doesn't stop Kiwi from gathering pollen for her hive, or collecting the best flowers to make a bouquet for her Queen Bee! Now...just...to get...outta this...bubble!

Kiwi is the main character for my debut indie mini-game*, Bubble Bumble. I’m creating my art in Aseprite, a pixel art and animation program, and it’s been a wild learning curve.

*and I mean mini! This will be my first time designing and programming a game, so it will be basically a demo level.

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