pog knows I sure NEED a wendell figure. I have lacked one this whole time and look at where it has gotten me!
where is Wendel? Hopefully Arkham Asylum if that is the best picture available.
Ironic that the topic should be presented like this because on every previous occasion that I saw Wendell I typically wondered where the other two chefs had gotten off to. My reaction has not changed and evidently this psychopathic artwork has not changed either. But maybe the story is bigger than Wendell and the only way to keep him from talking about his disappeared colleagues was to subject him to the same fate, whatever that was, or pack him away to a place where no one would hear his story.
so send this cinnamon toast creep there, too
what the help? does being near cinnamon toast crunch give people brain damage? or is that youtube?
or perhaps cinnamon toast crunch works to attract people who already have damaged brains
thankfully the purplish idiot is significantly easier to animate than the yellow one. I didn’t bother yet to include it in the previous similar updates but since it invades the yellow one’s personal space it is necessary to detail it to some degree and this just looked bad with only those parts filled in.
as before, this audio will likely be replaced. the small thing ended up having sillier, more pathetic movements here and later than I initially “planned,” since I hardly plan anything at all, and a meeplier voice may be in order.
now I need to prepare for the “art show” in october. relative to past years, I learned this week that I will supposedly only have 8 by 8 feet and far fewer neighbors, no opportunity to set up the space prior to the exhibition date, if I am even permitted to preview the space in advance, if I am even permitted to know where it is, and so my preferred tactic of overwhelming with quantity, to distract from my general lack of completed, appealing, cohesive or marketable work will not be possible. I had been rushing (if two weeks to draw six seconds qualifies as rushing) to improve the scrappy beet cartoon with the perhaps irrational expectation that I would be able to exhibit it like previously, which would have been extra important since I won’t have a new comic book, and I shall have neither. So I must determine what both can be had and what would be beneficial to have.
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addendoy: I obviously have not done much casual thinking about measurements lately; 8 feet is actually twice as long as I was imagining it was, and 8×8 is comparable to what I had in 2019, though setting up, exhibiting, and setting down in one session is still an inconceivable effort unless I scale back my expectations.
the entire bimshwel family is saddened to hear of the death of Queenie McBear. We remain inspired to learn lessons about individuality and friendship by your purple stretch pants and pierced ears. Would that we all could own a bicycle with as many speeds as yours.
I saw this sign briefly, from a distance, while driving [some weeks ago] and was momentarily worried it portended the opening of
a Shoney’s in the area. you know bad news is afootly when I, me, worry about a buffet joint,
since I have a stomach of steel and a chemical resistance to 1.5-star yelp ratings. A contributor to my shoney disinclination, surely, is my long-held disdain for Shoney Bear. On the next occasion I mentioned shoney’s, I also took issue with the Shoney Bear.
just about the most generic “generic character” character there is. red shirt, blue pants, and the mouth always, ALWAYS open like that. A weird buckety scoop a fraction of the width of the upper part with an unsettling red bean cradled in it.
Note how the “updated” version still is fundamentally awful, just more modern digital corporately-executed awful. The previous artist had to learn how to write the stylistic text of the restaurant name into the drawings but this one probably just copy-pasted it. I would consider the brown pants just SLIGHTLY less boring than blue pants, but the addition of red mascot shoes and an ugly baseball hat pushes it from “funny animal,” with human traits but living in a vaguely defined wilderness area and doing childish things, to “furry,” essentially a regular person with an animal head who does boring things like go to school and play mobile games or just exist in a white void, which is worse. And STILL with the mouth like that.
and here is a picture of somebody else asking me about the darn bear. It really transcends the dining experience.
kids apparently abuse mascots in general, which would be great if actual humans being paid minimum wages, and apparently starving to death and struggling to sit upright didn’t have to directly inhabit their costumes, but I am inclined to wonder if kids hate Shoney Bear specifically, or if it was just me who did, and if not, why not?
that can’t be it; where I come from, people put up signs that evoke Shoney’s, and also write web pages about seeing those signs.
ALSO I am aware that historically Annie Oakley, a fictionalized version of which appears in the film still I just showed, comes from Ohio, a long way from Shoney’s origin zone of West Virginia, but historically Oakley wasn’t a prancing nitwit who lost a shooting contest to a man on purpose so 1950s American patriarchs wouldn’t feel threatened either so I can imagine the movie version came from Shoneyland.
following from that, here is a bit more visual progress. This isn’t pretty but it looks much better than it did, and I think better than the six seconds before it presently do.
It has often been said that if you hold an Ortega brand taco shell to one ear that you can hear New Jersey. I do not think that is true; I have been to new jersey and it does not sound like taco shells, but nemitz is ignorant and inclined to hold fanciful beliefs.
I have received word, late, and vaguely, so that I had to directly inquire about it, and so learn yet later, that the art shows I attended in person that were cancelled Cuz Covid for three years is returning in person this year. I am absolutely not prepared for that. I spent those three years jumping between various matters that are unrelated to in-person art shows, and eventually assumed this one simply never was coming back. I didn’t regret its loss at all and didn’t investigate other art shows. But feel like I MUST attend, even though I am not ready, lack time and resources to become ready, and even though I have to pay money for the right to do it. My life is silly. Consequently I have little patience for imps with BIG SMILES that listen to taco shells.
I worked on a few cheap commission drawings this week. “commission drawings” being pictures that other people paid me money to produce.
this is not one of them
I am still not impressed but I am content to use more civilized text entry to say so. I need not reduce myself to this imbecile’s level.
I will however unfortunately need to widen this picture if I want to put it on instagram. I do not want to do that. This moron does not deserve more space.
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an addendumb: I did widen the picture. it was still not wide enough to not have the upper and lowest edges obliterated by the instagram machine, but i decided it deserved to have harm come to it, even if the affected portions of the image were relatively innocent.
yes that is all it is. and it took me a week! Or possibly more than that. When did I update this last?
corresponding with the part at this location
it needs more work but it has also taken more work since I have a terrible habit of increasing how much work something I have done before takes. Incorporating a chair piece that the creature’s left arm goes both in front of and behind necessitates a surprising amount of that. In the second beet video, the hand stays behind the chair arm, even when it shouldn’t, and if anyone noticed, I apparently didn’t, until I checked on it this week or last week.
the flash animation program not allowing me to change the cursor to an “eyedropper” tool with the alt key nor of lifting colors off of inactive layers is also a problem.
i only today thought to make a palette-only layer that doesn’t intersect with anything else and is always active. I hope i remember that in the future.
with regard to use of those colors, should the whiskers be orange? and out-lineless? Uncertain. I drew the first frame like that as a placeholder, then wondered if they needed outlines or to match the skin.
the voice needs to be re-recorded also, plainly. oh so much to do. I thought I might have the voice redone tomorrow, but I am concerned I would find a way to make that also take a week.
page 3-56 of the bimshwellian comicoid. a classic, overstuffed page, whose backgrounds are inexplicably vague despite the visual excess. the next part, for the lizard, at least, I wrote out over 12 years ago and will probably need to be amended considerably. I still do not know precisely the visual nature of what it will encounter, or if there is a way to avoid showing it.
I do also need to tend to the gnomes that infiltrated the lizard’s apartment, but those pages can be made later and possibly pushed up in number if it seems like they should be mixed in with or before this part. but that part cannot conclude until after this part does. Does that make sense? It shouldn’t!
I also do not know if I will attempt to sort out the next sections right away or other unrelated un-out-sorted matters, as the beet cartoon has gone un-fiddled-with for longer than this had up until last week.
page 3-55 of the bimshwellian comic strip. Possibly design elements of the background and the strangely attired character in two frames will be revised on a future occasion but for now I can’t figure out what their problems are.
welcome to denver
I didn’t even know about these, I just now looked up “drunk airline passenger,” wondering if it supported my taking issue with the amount of alcohol ads in the airport, and found this many from within a month. If I worked on an airplane I would be furious to walk through the airport and see so much encouragement for passengers to blotto up prior to boarding. You can as well purchase alcohol on the airplane but the flight staff will have more direct awareness of who is getting it and how much, and people STILL get drunk off of that. And I have to think most of the time these incidents aren’t widely reported on or the drunk people quite insufferable enough to get the flight diverted. For example, on the flight which followed my seeing these a passenger near me ordered at least two little vodka bottles and got way too into family feud on the little television screen his seat forced him to look at. I was not HARMED by this but it sure was depressing. Although this makes me consider how many of the crummy movies advertised on these screens think they are being funny and I didn’t hear a single laugh that whole flight except after a baby started imitating
the trash-collecting flight attendant’s bored, droning calls of “traash… diggity traash…” while proceeding to the rear of the vessel. I missed the prime example but did manage to preserve the primary trash.
People watch bad tv and crummy movies on the screens because the screens are THERE but they don’t care. Or otherwise simply endure the screens’ presence because they have resigned themselves to sad choicelessness, and maybe that is a deliberate system to keep them paying for expensive expired poison and drinking it until they pass out or clobber someone. I should be GLAD this dork enjoyed families feuding so much and without hurting anyone else, except possibly my mother who had this guy’s seat reclined into hers from the beginning and occasionally bouncing around. But I’m not because it isn’t good, it is simply bad in a different way.
this isn’t selling beer but clearly every person involved with conceiving and producing it was inebriated, mentally challenged or both. You can’t just put the word “flight” any old place and have it work as a clever or even hacky pun. You might as well say racquetball of sausage or agatha of polenta. Also according to their website those three little pancakes cost $12.25 altogether, and the ones at the airport location definitely cost more than that. Or maybe they were only permitted to set up inside the airport because they were selling little pancakes for four dollars each.
And I know they are little because a plate shaped like a banana wouldn’t fit on their awkward circular tables unless it was of underwhelming proportions.
I’m kidding I have proof that the corned beef hash I ordered for $13.75 costs more than their website says it does, another $12.25, and twice as much as the local diner whose hash that was only as good as charges so the pancakes probably go similarly but I am tired of posting pictures of sad expensive places I didn’t want to be at.
A strange vision from my child-era that returns too often, in the Police Academy cartoon series, which existed, at one point the weapon-enthusiast Tackle Berry participates in a typical mishap and gets a toilet plunger stuck over his mouth, preventing him from explaining the incident
n the next scene he was alone in a dungeon, just wearing underwear, possibly the only time he ever appears sunglassless, with a dorky smile, talking to a rat, and there the vision ends. I had NO CLUE then why imprisonment and your clothing confiscated was appropriate punishment for getting a plunger stuck on your mouth, and I still don’t, but it left in me a lingering fear of irrationally humiliating punitive measures
And I FOUND the episode, and the moment I remembered, but only dubbed into Ukrainian! So I can SEE what happens but not grasp the context, though I may possibly prefer this to the original audio otherwise.
It seems as if the evil special guest police-academite’s master plan is to shoot Tackle-BARRRY, as he pronounces it, with a plunger-launcher, and the good terrible cops arrive to try to prevent it from happening, and once it does happen they give up attempting to help, as if not having a plunger on his face was Barry’s only claim to freedom.
It does reveal that Tackleberry is offscreen placed into a cage on a pickup truck, after being plungered, but still has the plunger while in the cage, plus handcuffs, outside the bars, which meant he was in the cage and no longer a threat before he was cuffed, and therefore probably wasn’t a threat to begin with, and isn’t wearing a police uniform, so there isn’t official regalia to strip him of before sending him to prison
possibly to hell, if this frightful pointy-edged dog-nosed micro demonspawn is any indication, and therefore there is NO reason for his clothes to be off. It makes even LESS sense than my memory! As this video was uploaded in January 2020, I am surprised Vladimir Putin didn’t cite Ukrainian possession of bio-suction based armaments that incapacitate peace-keeping forces, remove their clothes and eventually cast them into the realm of eternal torment when justifying the Russian invasion this year.
The more I review and think about the footage the more it looks like Tackleberry is imprisoned, potentially damned, exclusively because of the plunger. Or worse, because his comrades couldn’t pull the plunger off his mouth. I don’t know why that’s a crime but it isn’t even his fault! Meepwhile nobody is shown escorting him off the roof or putting him in the cage, and the ones who failed to remove the plunger just watch him get driven away in the truck cage. I am left to think they caged Berry themselves after realizing they couldn’t remove the plunger and risked similar measures for continued defiance. But once Berry is in the dungeon with his unholy familiar the plunger is gone and he seems much more content. Maybe it is an enchanted plunger that cannot be removed unless your clothes come off with it. I am really not getting the closure I wanted on this.
Additionally, mostly unrelated, I can see in the little preview, and am un-inclined to view full size, BIG dollar-sign-symbol cash sacks but in at least one shot the animators casually mirrored one. It isn’t a photography error, like the cels were wrong-side-up, or a region-specific matter, like DiC inverting shots of school bus doors in Sailor Moon, since the other $ is normal. It just means the key animators at the east Asian animation studio that would have done most of the work on a show like this weren’t familiar enough with dollar signs to see when one was flagrantly incorrect, and the grunt animators who had to draw all the individual frames and color them in weren’t paid enough to point out a problem like that in the event any of them noticed. In fact the employees who change the signs at the New Haven Connecticut Popeyes and Walgreens can’t even be trusted to put the dollar sign up forwards 100% of the time. It just is not a priority for a lot of people.
I can’t find/am afraid to find photographic evidence, but here is a 2013 dairy queen sign with a backwards N. Not only that, the Ks are upside-down. I can’t believe I don’t have friends with my superhuman powers of fault-finding.
according to my file names , this is the other side of the sign, with the same backwards N! And YOU might say this is more than likely the same side of the sign, so I shall point out that the B is ALSO upside down, but only on ONE side!
ha ha HA! Ha, ha ha HA, ha HA ha, hee ho heh.
Getting back to the main digression, I do not believe the surprise backwards S front and center on a television screen is what traumatized me into fearing the shape and being wary of non-backwards S-es with certain types of curvature and thickness, else that would be what I remember.
It was often hard to track specifics of thin moving shapes like that on blurry cathode ray screens, at least for me, which is why I never noticed the one Whirlwind carries around when running to the right and THROWS at the heroes as a weapon in Captain America and the Avengers even though I played that game every time I saw it, and that was released three years after the Police Academy cartoon supposedly started airing, and hopefully also after it had stopped airing. In fact I never noticed until today that Whirwind isn’t even really carrying the bag so much as having it glued to one of his fists. The backwards bags in the cartoon were bigger but I probably didn’t have cable at the time and potentially saw it with staticy signal distortion over it. This is important.
some things are more important, though.
most definitely you will need to click-enlarge this picture for the text to be legible, in the event you seem that desirable.
I am uncertain if this expresses the precise sentiment that I intend it to but surely it expresses something.
internet art sorts several steps up the social fire-escape from myself seem to try and use art-fight just to get fan-tributes to themselves that they have no intention of “revenge”ing upon and I also have a problem with that but it can’t effectively go in the same comic strip by someone who writes as many words as I do.
less than stellar music with no video
because I spent so much time endlessly optimizing and getting stuck redrawing bits that I previously didn’t realize were terribly drawn of the sprites that struggled to show up in the less than stellar video with no music that I posted last week, in a sadly desperate attempt to make them load faster because I am in that far too deep to re-do them all [again] but slightly smaller, that this is the only moderately interesting thing I have done since then that isn’t just something I already did.
I still write complaints, but mostly in scraps on twitter that I don’t have the presence of mind to reformulate into paragraphs. I really don’t know WHY I do it there because it puts off people who just want to look at my drawings, and they greatly exceed the number who have any interest at all in me as a human being with thoughts. But I also might resent that as if I am entitled to have an audience and so continue to dump thoughts out of spite.
but this here is an example of the sort of “tunes” that come to me now: mostly fragments of several notes that only just barely form a cohesive structure. The reason I couldn’t get along with people who praise the music for zelda 64, when I recognized it to be mostly dumb little 3-to-8 note ditties stuck together, when it had music at all. Thankfully I do not require anybody else to replicate those 3-to-8 notes and then hear them additional times in order to progress, and constantly. This sticking-together here in its present form comes to about 40 seconds, followed by the actual voice recording that I made the morning of June 30 to give myself a sense of what the tune sounded like for a hypothetical point in the future when I might feel compelled and also have time to run the composition software, which turned out to be the same day AND it doesn’t sound like anything at all, but I committed to it anyway since I put the notes on the grid one bit at a time and so was partway in before realizing it didn’t work. As always.
I have yet to listen to a majority of those voice recordings, of which there are HUNDREDS, and I worry that a majority of them are also like this. Because the tunes come to me while I am sleeping or attempting to, and then I attempt to replicate them with the dumb mobile that I keep in my bed before I forget, but my partially asleep mind does not always realize what music sounds like, or remember it even long to imitate it. and that is evidently important enough to me to risk a shortened life expectancy due to radiation poisonining from keeping a tiny computer that never turns off several feet from my brain for however many hours, and then only a few feet further away every remaining hour. AND sometimes hearing the noise come out from my mouth causes the notes I just heard to overwrite the ones after it that I theretofore had only imagined, making it impossible to complete accurately anyway.
this is a common occurrence. These are just the ones where I spelled “forgot” close enough to correctly that it showed up on a search for “forg”; I lack adequate control of the dumb phone keyboard to spell words properly consistently and until this point when I am searching them for a specific letter combination I had no incentive to take the extra effort to sort that out. Keep in mind that quite often my intention is to go back to sleep or go into it to begin with so I do not want to be forcing a more alert state.
finally this thing gets what it deserves
it hardly seems to justify four extra days, but now these things can lose their hats, pick up their hats, explode with or without the hats, and make slightly fewer maximum decibel noises that I recorded in 2002 or stole from something else. in fact the new sounds may even be TOO quiet. in parts where I turned down the video volume to make the old ones bearable, the new ones are inaudible. particularly the TERRIBLE old sound effects for the player taking damage are still active. after the first section I quickly replaced them but the damage has been done!
these will spray out collectible candy pieces once I get around to that. The little colored dots that fall out of their bodies are supposed to be candy. It ends up not looking any less gruesome than blood and organs but this wouldn’t be an official bimshwel production were there not copious amounts of effort put into something that doesn’t really make a difference.
I still need to find a proper bell to sample since the little circular bells and christmas ornaments that I have don’t sound like the bells on display here and are hardly audible unless i initiate a heavy impact that ends up registering as more plastic than bell-like. I also haven’t seen them since before I moved my desk and bed a few weeks ago so for the moment additional recording attempts are not possible.
the animation state the corresponds with dropping the hat I realize does not work. the creature throws its head back which looks good from the side, but 80% of the time it would appear from the front. even if I set the hat to get flung upwards, that would be beyond the view of any player close enough to connect with a slap attack. whupth. I put in a temporary weapon object that could inflict hat-removing damage from a distance, but then the dork was even less likely to walk back and grab its hat since there wasn’t a player obstructing its movement and forcing it to turn around. I have a very silly life.
another problem: when I record video it gets REALLY slow, and it stutters each session while loading graphics anyway. getting these idiots to walk toward their hats and retrieve the hats while on camera is also frustratingly elusive.
they are also supposed to drop their hats 100% of the time when slapped but sometimes they just do nothing or drop two hats without losing one. even the idiot stuck in a wall that can’t take any actions but to walk in place and make noise manages to maintain control over its hat when I want it not to.
additionally, only the morons with santa claus hats currently toss all the correct objects when they agree to toss anything –the green short imp wearing red near the end magically transforms into a taller imp when it explodes– because because because because because because but now that I have proof that one works that means that the others can also be made to work eventually. Tossing the objects is crucial because if everything is in one sprite the body ends up looking about 4 times as wide as its collision box and that is not good.
and they ARE morons; even when positioned properly they aren’t smart enough to actually take the hats so the hats need to GIVE themselves back.
note that for example purposes I am mostly pressing a button that instantly deals maximum damage to foes in order to provoke their explodo animations rather than using a weapon which does that since I still have yet to implement an implement of mass destruction, other than the tossable pog, but using that while recording video makes it struggle even more, and pog generally isn’t out to cause trouble deliberately.