animation

Here we are yet again with the wonderful, wandering minds of the Tumblr world delivering just the kind of informative, and unsettling thread that really takes the brain for a trip. Apparently, there's an actual reason why us human beings can feel the cringe chills come on when animation seems to be too realistic. It's called the uncanny valley effect. What makes the effect so unsettling, is reflecting on why we could've developed that kind of "survival instinct" in the first place. Was it because there used to be some sort of alien monster thing scouring the globe back in the day that was a threat to homo sapiens' survival? Maybe so, maybe so. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with these cooks that bonded over their dysfunctional family members.

How humans end up drawing themselves is an absolutely fascinating matter. In this case, we see a strange breakdown from quite the entertaining Tumblr thread. If you're looking for more Tumblr gold check out this recent Tumblr thread on the daughter who crashed her mom's book club in the best, most hilarious way possible.

Some pretentious Twitter user thought they'd go ahead and issue a complaint about what looks like a completely acceptable Family Guy scene. So, an actual animator stepped in and shed some light on the realities of the industry. At one point, the animator points out that they're actually making someone else's art, when it comes to the animations that people see. 

While you look through these and get all kinds of uncomfortable amusement, just remember that someone had to draw each of these frames. Out of context cartoons truly are the strange and dirty gift that keeps on giving. 

Sometimes an animator is left with a problem like "how do I make this character use chopsticks if their hand is a literal fingerless stump?" The pragmatic solutions they've found are goofy as hell, and the absurdness they bring are a hallmark of animation. And then the other half are like "oh yeah, that's kind of stupid."

This the stuff of childhood dreams.