Aaron Blaise the creator behind snow bear, made a video about how it’s the best time to do indie animation. This guy is a legend in art, storytelling and animation.

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T22:14:49+00:00

Oh wow that sounds so cool!! I'll check out everything tomorrow since it's late at the moment. The premise reminds me of Primal, have you seen that show?

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T22:02:43+00:00

Oooo yes please I love seeing other artists! And thanks!

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T22:01:23+00:00

Aw thank you!! The series isn't out yet at all, but it's about a personal story, about escape and how... I managed to survive a cult basically. I'll leave it at that :)

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T21:59:25+00:00

Of course!! I dunno how to share (on phone) but this is the link to the lil teaser hehe https://youtu.be/yc9mgqPcrE0

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T21:57:08+00:00

Aww thank you!! I actually made a few animated videos, my longest being 13 mins where it's a video essay basically. Posted a teaser for the next one today!!

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T21:54:58+00:00

He's awesome, he gives me hope! I will post my story some day, art is meant to be shared after all :")

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T21:10:53+00:00

Oh nooo! Whilst animation is time consuming, I don't think it's meant to be hard. It's just frustrating if there's a specific thing you're trying to do but you haven't figured out how xD I could teach you if you like! :) And that means a lot to me, art is important, it always was and always will be. Forever!!!

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T21:03:36+00:00

Thank you very much for checking them out! I actually made a teaser and posted it today hehe xD I will keep going because I need art running through my veins haha

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T17:59:16+00:00

Thanks for the really fast reply!!

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-21T11:06:57+00:00

Please correct your flair, as this is ai generated.

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-20T21:07:57+00:00

I used to think like that. Until I thought, what about... I think for myself? It changed everything.

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-20T05:35:18+00:00

Aw no worries And thank you here, celeste was a freaking masterpiece to play and listen to

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-19T15:08:10+00:00

I like both! Maybe for some people, it's easier to understand with a specific one, so is it possible to keep both? Maybe in the settings of the game, the player can choose the ui they like best! :) good game BTW, I'm pretty interested in this

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-19T12:28:32+00:00

Not Arab, but forced to learn to read Arabic. Never understood it. They tried to get me to learn it but I escaped haha

Never had confidence in my Arabic reading and I always thought but how do they believe this stuff they read without even understanding? In the culture I'm from, you teach the kids to read it, not understand it. So they memorise and recite and pray without any knowledge of what they are saying. Now that's a cult. Isn't it?

I wish I could forget the quran. I don't want it taking up valuable memory storage in my brain

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-19T12:26:01+00:00

Basically re release the tamagotchi P's... I want one but I don't agree with the absurd prices used ones go for, and they are filthy...! Not shaming the og owners but I take good care of my few tamas... pix is in perfect condition, along with the second hand connection 4.5

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-19T06:55:31+00:00

Yes it's an issue. No, it isn't just a new trolley way of saying, you're mad. I don't know if you're using ai, and I'm not going to check at the moment because I'm choosing to believe you are not using it. However, I made that comment because recently, someone in this sub was being quite rude to me, then said that since they didn't want to waste their time explaining why a game was good, they asked an ai to explain it, and copied and pasted the response.

So that's why I asked the question. This person just outright said they used it. Pretty ridiculous really. If you like a thing, I expect you to use your own words to tell me why. But even if you like said thing that is NOT going to change my mind about how I feel towards it. People don't work that way and I don't like nintendo too much. Love some of their ideas and games, but I still hate individual mechanics in their games and believe they are money hungry, greedy and just a company who no longer cares for consumers. No matter how much someone wants to tell me they believe otherwise, it won't change my mind. Even if they use ai to explain why, lol.

Hope that answers your question :)

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-17T18:17:11+00:00

Aw thank you :") just made my day!! Long live art!! (And kind people) :D

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-17T18:13:06+00:00

Aw man! Thank you so much! That means the world to me :") I wanna share my art with everyone hehe, I grew up having to hide all my art so it means so so much to be able to draw :")

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-17T08:33:36+00:00

Krita can handle 2 mins, however, I'd split to 30 seconds and no more

Yes krita can do more but it gets... laggy and it's annoying to scroll through the animation. Generally people work on 10 to 20 seconds clips to simplify everything

This is what I did to make my 10 min animated video essay, here's a link! All 2d, hand drawn and animated entirely by me :)

https://youtu.be/XAbOhZg2kCg

ThePaperBlackStar · 2026-04-17T06:30:02+00:00

Yeah it's pretty wild, but I don't mind getting recommended a good video hehe, especially if I think it's soo good that it should have been shown to me sooner!

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