A teacher once told me a story about an in-law who worked in the animation studio for a very popular children’s cartoon. The studio used hand-drawn animation for the first season and transitioned to more computer animation for season two and season three. The job entailed drawing the main ...

Absorbing Another Artist’s Art Style
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 7, 2022Books of Babel
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 31, 2022
Photo: A collection of “Le Petit Prince” books in various translations.
“Le Petit Prince” (French), “The Little Prince” (English), “Regulus” (Latin), “O Pequeno Principe” (Portuguese), and “El Principito” (Spanish) are a few of the titles of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s book that has been translated over three hundred and one ...
Growing Up with Louie (1953-2022)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 24, 2022
Photo: Young Louie Anderson in “Life with Louie” TV Series. (1994-1998)
In another round of shocking events, the comedy world lost another great last Friday, with comic Louie Anderson.
As part of the target demographic for Saturday morning cartoons in the mid-nineties, my introduction to Louie’s humor was through ...
Ode to Bob Saget, SUCCUBUS Begins Today
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 17, 2022
Photo: Bob Saget (1956-2022)
Bob Saget revolutionized home videos years before they could be instantly uploaded, streamed online, and go viral. Yes, that is right, Sunday nights in the nineties meant a new episode of “America’s Funniest Home Videos”, a show where home movie enthusiasts would send recorded copies ...
Tell Me More.
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 10, 2022
Ah, public transportation. A favorite bastion for random encounters with strangers from various walks of life.
In the early days of riding, a chance encounter on public transit would usually be drowned out using a variety of props: stereo-headphones; a pair of sunglasses; face mask; eye mask; inflatable neck pillow ...
Horror within beauty
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 8, 2022
This trope might come in several different packages, but it always involves the same stages: a presence (a character, an apparition, an item, a painting, etc) appears to be perfect, gorgeous, stunningly beautiful, angelic in every way relevant. Then suddenly or gradually, this beauty dissolves into nightmarish horror: the character ...
Back and Fore
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 6, 2022
Characters and Backgrounds … and Compositing Different Styles
when I started putting my webcomic out I'd been drawing for most of my life already, and knew the characters and setting really well. The stories I would figure out as I went…and still do.
As far as the art goes ...