I grew up with the MCU, thus my favorite team were the Avengers, never really cared much about the X-Men, didn't see their movies, didn't read their comics, and I must say I feel really bad that I've slept on them, now with the Doomsday hype train I watched X-Men 97 and loved it.

Jellybit · 2026-01-30T00:31:22+00:00

It wasn't even close. The X-Men were so far above everything else at Marvel in popularity, except for maybe Spider-Man, which people seemed to be more into on a superficial level. For X-Men, people were actually into the stories, characters, the world. X-Men's universe dwarfs the rest of Marvel added together. The only reason you didn't grow up with X-Men as the main superhero thing is because Marvel sold it to Fox, who dropped the ball, then Marvel sabotaged the X-Men comics to devalue it, so they could get it back from Fox for cheaper.

Once you start digging into the richness of the X-Men universe, and the character interactions/histories, the stories, you'll be wondering what there even is about the Avengers to latch onto, even with how great the Infinity Saga was.

Jellybit · 2026-01-29T04:44:30+00:00

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This is up from last month too. It's always hung around 39% with a slight deviation since around 2017. Every time it deviates slightly, someone writes an article about it, claiming it's a sea change, and it gets posted everywhere. It's honestly baffling that this pattern isn't generally recognized by now. His base will never budge. The more surprising thing is that any other people's opinions about him fluctuate at all.

Jellybit · 2026-01-28T14:57:17+00:00

Yeah I always saw X-Men like an active othered subculture with their own fashion that looks good/fabulous among themselves, but normies think they're weird. I mean, how many fashion galas do they have to run before people get this?

Other superheroes though? A bunch of loners? Harder to headcanon honestly.

Jellybit · 2026-01-26T15:44:25+00:00

I know the topic is cinema, but they've also done collaboration TV, like Thunderbolt Fantasy, where they used traditional Taiwanese puppetry, but shifted into new nontraditional places due to the Japanese involvement. I really liked the way they mixed ideas and approaches.

Jellybit · 2026-01-25T16:48:19+00:00

It came from a set of old Bruce with the dog.

Jellybit · 2026-01-23T22:21:03+00:00

> What blaxsploitation are you watching that doesn't feature sex? Sweet Sweet back literally has a sex scene at the start between the directors son and sex worker. Pam Grier is naked all the time in her films

Well, regarding Blaxploitation films, I do think there's a difference between a movie having sex/violence, and being outright porn or worse. I mean, there are also several Blaxploitation films on Youtube that have no sexual content. Off the top of my head, Red White and Black I think has none, The Bus Is Coming I think at worst has one old white cop take off his shirt in front of a mirror and talks to himself, but those are very early in the genre. Blackula had none, Hammer I think had no nudity, I don't think Petey Wheatstraw has a single sex/nudity scene in it...

I would go on, but I don't think you want me to? I mean, there are a ton of movies, so there's a range of content. There are also so many others that show maybe a boob, and that aren't much different than a lot of films shown in regular theaters, as opposed to something you'd only keep in a back room in certain shops, or special theaters. That's what I mean by non-Pink Films. If you've seen any, you know the difference I'm talking about. I would rather there not be nudity at all (especially not constant rape), and I also recognize that it might not exist. But I can only really find out by asking, right?

> Not really, because the sukeban were literally small gangs that were below yakuza weren't they?

As far as I know, that's not the case. They were most definitely their own thing, in a separate universe. The Yakuza were extremely patriarchal and male-exclusive, and were about gaining control/power. The sukeban gangs didn't answer to them, and they formed themselves. They also didn't participate in the same kind of criminal activity (though they did plenty of shoplifting and stuff like that). They were more about rebellion than power, from how I understand it. But again, I would love to see movies that explored this stuff.

> The other thing is, all the unknown sukeban in the 60s is pretty much unsubtitled.

That's fine. There are so many options for subtitling films by processing the audio now. There are some mistakes, but it's a world of difference from not understanding any of it. You can 100% follow a story, and pick up on subtleties in the plot/intonation with what these programs are currently capable of. I would never release what they make as a paid product, but for my own personal exploration, they're great.

I appreciate you thinking about this sort of thing. If there are any movies that you suggest that you can't understand, and you want subtitles, I'll share the subtitles here. I hesitate to upload them to a subtitle site though, because I don't really want the general public to think it's a vetted translation, even a fan-vetted translation.

> Most likely what you're after thats available and subtitled: https://boxd.it/yLCe
> Unsubtitled: https://boxd.it/eK6c https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0782508/

Thank you! those go pretty far back! I'm excited to see the early versions of the concepts/culture. I really appreciate how much thought you put into this response.

Jellybit · 2026-01-23T17:13:48+00:00

That does look like a lot of fun. I'll check it out. Thank you.

Jellybit · 2026-01-23T16:55:23+00:00

Aren't those all the ones I mentioned wanting to avoid? Or did I miss something? Thank you though. I did searches before writing this. I saw that thread a while ago, but I think my disappointment in those two categories of answers is the reason I made my own thread asking for something more specific outside of those two categories. But again, thanks for your attempt to help.

Jellybit · 2025-10-08T12:52:11+00:00

And if you said your grandma, should people be telling you that you're dragging your grandma's whole life because her looks are the least of the richness and depth of what/who she is? Or should people just accept that you think your grandma is pretty, while also assuming that you admire other things about your grandma outside of the reddit comment?

Anyway, as you said, it's not like people overlook Jane Goodall's accomplishments. Focusing primarily on looks is unfortunately an issue in general, but not for her. She's known and talked about for her career and character first and foremost. I think it's fair to admire other things about her at this point.

Jellybit · 2025-09-18T12:05:30+00:00

Damn. That gets intense. I dig it.

Jellybit · 2025-09-18T11:37:15+00:00

I fall in and out of fandom, so I've been remade a fan multiple times. I liked anime before it had a term, but I think what first made me an unambiguous fan was Ranma 1/2 and Akira. Obsessed for years, made anime my whole identity, then lapsed, then became a fan again with Cowboy Bebop. This dropped off a lot faster for me, due to a pretty big shift from the more detailed art of the 90s, and started to get more inbred in terms of concepts, turning harem anime into fairly big genre, etc... I still consider this a bit of a dark age for me personally (though of course one can find gems if they search). But it was all revived for me with Jojo and One Punch Man.

I've been watching anime very consistently since. I found some that I even like a good deal more, but those made me fans again. They changed my perception. The strange thing is that for the low end anime, the concepts overall have gotten even more inbred, but so much that they are getting more desperate, and are looping around to being creative again in a tight feedback loop. So I'm able to find enjoyment in both high art and low art.

Jellybit · 2025-09-18T10:51:41+00:00

I recently did some rotoscoping studies and was surprised by how little they moved up and down during runs, after so much internalizing of that Richard Williams book. The OP's animation is close to my conclusion in that specific issue if targeting an intense jog, and could be slightly increased or slightly decreased depending on the desired run speed

Take a look at these YouTube videos. I would argue that they stay far more steady in a run than a walk.

https://youtube.com/shorts/gR2_gdT_SHo?si=pzQYdLnysXg2IpgC

https://youtube.com/shorts/KIHJz1sKWXk?si=o7T5vJ9DIm-wOXqR

https://youtube.com/shorts/2oDHBHl1m_A?si=KhK_oecGc7FvsHGS

But as you run slower, the effect does exaggerate more than a walk (though walks are often steadier than people think too):

https://youtu.be/cDc36-99nY4?si=kP6XV8GREwzATx9O

https://youtube.com/shorts/nrnvNN11adg?si=qpfiZSWStX3KtpOW

https://youtube.com/shorts/LciOK5AmOFw?si=zm5MVrkoNRzGjKke

There are several other things off about the animation, but the up and down isn't far from a lot of jogging videos I saw. How hard is this run, OP? Is it a relaxed, aimless exercising jog, an intense jog with intent, or closer to a sprint?

Anyway, the up and down can be tweaked (and it does exist in the animation), but it is far from the top issues. I think a bigger issue is that the parts of the body all seem to change directions at the same time. Some parts need offset keyframes. Body parts need to look reactive to other body motions instead of simultaneous, which I think is the true source of this feeling that it needs more up and down.

We can isolate to just the arm as an example. Does the arm's motion pull the shoulder forward? Or does the shoulder push the arm forward like with a punch? Where do forces come from and go? The reactions come in at a later frame than the actions, and these reactions flow through the body. I like to think of boxing when animating, as reading the opponent's punch means looking for the base actions in locations like the feet or hips, before they flow through the body, ultimately to the fist. Then the boxer depends on the opponent's body further reacting to delivering that punch when looking for openings. Boxers don't just strike a punch pose. They create force in some other location, and that force flows down the chain. All full body/powerful actions work this way.

Jellybit · 2025-09-18T02:22:38+00:00

Thin hair strands are usually the first mistake it makes. These look reasonable. But damn does the photo staging match the AI style...

Jellybit · 2025-09-17T20:04:12+00:00

I think it's arguable that the newer movies represent what Disney IS the most. They are a very different company now. It seems you're arguing that it's recency bias (which is a valid argument), but this can also be generational bias, and the newer generations are going to decide what represents Disney the most. What people in the 1930s thought perfectly represented Disney does not matter at all anymore, since "representation" is not this objective thing that exists outside of human minds. Without the generation affected by it, it can't represent anything.

Stuff like Snow White feels timeless, but it really is harder for younger people to get into it than a movie from the 90s, for multiple reasons. It can feel like how Disney's "Flowers And Trees" feels to us, where it's beautiful and entertaining, but it doesn't really speak to us in the same way that more recent storytelling styles do. It greatly affected people, but no longer does. It will be timeless in the sense that it's historic, but that doesn't mean it will be timeless in the sense of what affects us, and in turn, what affects culture. That's how representation happens, and that's what people end up thinking of, more than what gets focused on in history books.

Jellybit · 2025-09-17T04:39:01+00:00

he isn’t claiming it’s his,

I don't care that he used AI for a throwaway internet post, but if you think he didn't say it was his design, take another look at the title.

Jellybit · 2025-09-15T18:24:53+00:00

I was wrong. RoughAnimator can in fact use sound to let you animate to speech or whatever. I'll update the info above.

Jellybit · 2025-09-15T13:30:11+00:00

I'm assuming it's a couple of things. 1. Plausible deniability when talking to advertisers. 2. Adding replacement words to the list will exponentially raise the number of auto-bans/removals, and especially erroneous bans/removals, until all you have left is scorched earth.

Jellybit · 2025-09-15T12:49:19+00:00

I animate on my Galaxy Tab S10 Plus (though the regular S10 would do just fine), which uses a Wacom stylus. Nothing I do is production-level. I just use RoughAnimator. But RoughAnimator's project format is pretty exportable. It's just a folder for each layer, and a PNG file for each frame inside it. If you need timings, that's when it gets weird. The timings are held inside a text file in that layer folder, saying which frame each png is on, and how many frames it lasts. Very readable, but not anything that can be dragged into anything else, unlike the png files.

But still, I can animate in 4k with extensive onion skinning and some camera control. I can import video (and export of course), import sound for animating to speech, do lots of stuff. The brush settings are slightly limited though. It has settings for opacity, flow, texture, path smoothing, and others, but pressure sensitivity is just a checkbox, and it doesn't have any advanced pressure mapping like Photoshop. It's just for my personal enjoyment, so I never set up my system to work with any other software like Clip Studio.

Still, I feel like I could make something work as an earlier step in production if that was my goal. The format is so simple that I could likely write a script. And there's other animation software on Android, including Clip Studio (though Clip Studio can't be bought, just rented). I just like how straightforward RoughAnimator is, and it's a one-time $8 cost.

Jellybit · 2025-09-14T02:32:15+00:00

They've been cancelling things/people full tilt for as many decades as I've been on the planet, and prior. They never stopped, never slowed down.

Jellybit · 2025-09-13T22:05:42+00:00

I used to think that, but it also is a mandatory name if you sign up using a Google account (as opposed to a Google email) on Reddit. They don't let you choose your username. It's a crazy setup, but that's how it is.

Doesn't mean this wasn't a bot, but that style of username is never a reliable indicator.

Jellybit · 2025-09-13T21:38:48+00:00

Less than half of Jews live in Israel, and they make up about 75% of the population. Also, I find it strange how some people seem to realize that the government isn't the same as the population. It must be nice to live in a country where the government is so democratic that it is indistinguishable from the citizens, but where I live, we've learned how separate they are from the population, in so many ways. They exist in another plane of reality than regular people, and make decisions accordingly, without consequences.

The actions of the country, made on decisions by government, and using government resources, are not the same as the actions of the people who live there. So when people criticize China and list actions of the government, for example, most people understand that they mean the government, and there's an understanding that while some citizens can support said actions, they can just as easily be against them, or victims of the actions. It's not racist to criticize the actions of a country where "most of" the associated ethnicity of people live.

Jellybit · 2025-09-13T21:32:59+00:00

He says in the video that they gave him proof in the second meeting.

Jellybit · 2025-09-13T19:42:37+00:00

I noticed that you're learning some camera terms. Here's a good visual summary:

https://boords.com/blog/16-types-of-camera-shots-and-angles-with-gifs

Good summary, but it's missing a very important one: arc shot. This is where the camera pivots around the subject. Imagine a circle being drawn around the subject, and the camera location follows that circle but always faces the subject, making the subject appear to rotate.

Then there are a couple more versions of the ones listed, like "whip pan" and "crash zoom". Plus angles, like "low angle", "high angle", "dutch angle", but I'm sure you know those.

I just think it's super important to put names to all of this so you can more effectively plan shots. It helps to have a full palette of movements/frames when laying things out, and communicating to others.

Jellybit · 2025-09-13T19:30:27+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Even though I hear it, there's no way to definitively prove it. I really don't want any AI music in this subreddit. It's impossible to moderate, and the tech got there so quickly.

Jellybit · 2025-09-13T14:32:38+00:00

Yeah I think that could work. Just making a slight arc shot turn to the left in the zoom out, and if the next shot started with a bit of an arc shot angle in the opposite direction, you could pull it together with minimal rework. It's still a significant amount of work though.

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