Michael (Michafrar )

🦇Darkstalkers REANIMATED!🦇 My new animation - Music by @beat_shobon

@DokuDraws Mh, you think it could be the nickname?

Pokemon Home won't let me transfer my valid and legitimate Pokemon (bred and EV trained in Sword) for some reason. I thought it might be the IVs but my 6IV Aegislash was able to visit. Only 186 available mons and I can't even use mine. This is unbelievable. Champions is horrible.

Happy Miku Day!💙 #ミクの日 #ミクの日2023

@personasama @TributeGames Duuuuude, me and Colo have been playing it co-op for over 4 hours now and every new shopkeeper art got us excited. The pixelart is making me giddy. You guys knocked it out of the park

I got to work on Scott Pilgrim EX with everyone at @TributeGames again! I worked on player & assist character attack concepts, enemy design concepts, cutscene art, boss intro art, and all the shopkeeper art! Hope you enjoy playing it!!

@HappyHarryToons The good stuff

This game is a Junji Ito cave hole made just for me.

@egoraptor You're truly an eloquent man, Arin. Damn~👌

Having been a user of this software for more than half my life, seeing this announcement is shocking but completely unsurprising. I've never seen such blatant disdain for a product's userbase in my life, and this feels like the point it was almost destined to come to. There are so many new applications for creating digital animation, but this one from the very beginning just had the juice. The irony of this all is that it wasn't built as an animation software, but for making interactive websites... ads, company portals, corporate shit. Multimedia projects created in this format were displayed using Flash Player, a browser supported plug-in. Through Flash's entire lifetime, it felt as if Adobe was dragged kicking and screaming... never truly accepting the functionality it had organically developed as an artistic tool. From Adobe's perspective, it was the FORMAT that was the value; that is, they wanted Flash Player to be THE way to display multimedia across the web. Adobe DID fight for Flash, but the fight was for dominance over web multimedia... in the oughts, it was THE way to display multimedia on your website. But little losses here and there, like Apple refusing to support the format for smart phones, lead to a steady decline. An adaptive shift to HTML5 support was added to Flash in order to maintain relevance, but the clear goal of total multimedia dominance was shattered. This shift marked the name change to "Animate"... a name that serves as a hollow non-acknowledgement of its consistently strong and loyal userbase of artists, but belies the gross truth of their true intentions: to continue to claw for dominance in the field of web-based multimedia. Through all this, Flash/Animate continued to be an industry standard for digital 2D animation. Both independent and professional cartoonists utilized it to create beloved projects... even today. The corporate politics involved in the jockey for control of web-multimedia kept Adobe consistently blind to the voices of its most loyal users. One famous example is that Flash was notoriously terrible at exporting and rendering video from its proprietary vector-based format, so open-source software Swivel was developed by Mike Welsh to do it better. It may be difficult to understand this, but Flash was SO good, that even though it was consistently and profoundly broken, it was still often the tool of choice for animation. The reason all this is important for me to convey is... There was a feeling this company gave animators through the lifetime of their product that we were not a priority. Even as it became a standard in the professional animation industry, we often felt like an afterthought in favor of the ultimate goal of corporate dominance. The fact that Flash/Animate happened to be a fantastic program for making cartoons was a complete accident... and Adobe only ever saw that as a cute little bonus. So as we are getting more clarity around this decision to discontinue Animate... that Adobe sees this program as incompatible with their AI-based future goals... I think of how they've always operated: Staunchly anti-artist, anti-creative, and anti-human. This generative AI bullshit is nothing new, it is the next flavor of the same pathetic jockeying for corporate dominance. Artistic voices will continue to be ignored, while the artists they belong to will continue to be exploited. And that takes a mental toll on a creative mind. This announcement, to me, stands as a blatant admittance of this cycle. They do not care. And they never will. We should care. Art is humanity. I am so grateful for this new renaissance of indie animation, and am doubly grateful and honored to be a part of it. It is so easy for corporations like Adobe and even just normal people to discount the value of art, both for its own sake and for its influence on the world. But it IS important. Your art is important and YOU are important. Please continue to create. Even if for no other reason than just to spite these motherfuckers.

@ElsieLovelock YO, I was pointing at the screen when I saw your name!!! So fun to see i'll share credits with you once again :D

IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK BABY 🥹🩷🎮

@Sl1m_Skull @karu_184 please pick this

@karu_184 Sure

Okay, it's been a while since I did this

@drawbuster Taki represent!

rkgk

@Thdark101 I got the Hylian edition too, whenever I see a regular black WiiU they just look so naked to me LOL

@Michafrar Might look into modding it for sure! And yeah the Hylian one, it still looks super cool honestly. And yeah, most seem to be super cheap... except for Twilight Princess

Found my Wii U, no luck on any of the games. Seems to still work fine, might replace the old CMOS battery since I have a few lying around, but it's so weird turning on the Wii U, and seeing the menu since all of the online features it beckons you to use were all shutdown.

@egoraptor Hell yeah man!

2015 vs. 2026. Another ten years another try at this thing

@Thdark101 Nice, the one with hylian text across the pad? Also aw, you could load r up with stuff, arrr, or buy them again. WiiU titles go for dirt cheap

@Michafrar Just Wind Waker HD, since the code came with the console, don't recall buying anything on the eShop back then, just physical games which I might have sold off some years ago lol

@ElsieLovelock Way to go! :D

WHAT THE ????? OMG WHY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@Thdark101 What Nintendo consoles do you have in use/on display?

I got a weird desire to play Twilight Princess again, but I don't remember if I still have my Wii U... time to dig in the storage I guess

@the_jieb \o/ She's here!!!!

@3DROD Finally someone I recognise!!!!

Rafa (Counter Isekai Corps)

@the_jieb This is really good stuff~

@Thdark101 Going back to this old pic, I just noticed you have official (?) stands for every machine

It's weird that this is a photo I can take

@Shira_Hedgie Also Franco-jumpscare 👻

@Michafrar olavache j'oubliais que tu parlais francais hahahahaha j'ai pas vu ce film! merci de m'en parler par contre c'est de ce film qu'il y a le discours incroyable, pas vrai? c'est phénoménal....

au lycée on avait une sortie scolaire pour matter des films cultes et toute la classe s'en foutait de ce film, génération différente quoi, normal et puis une fois que cette scene arrive, fou rire dans toute la salle, tout le monde a bien aimé au final!

@Shira_Hedgie Les 2 ont un super discours final. Si j’mrapelle bien, le film était muet, jusqu’au moment du discours final où tt est audible. Le discours final de ‘Doubtfire’ explique que les parents divorcés ne se remettent pas tjrs en couple et que c’est pas une ‘mauvaise fin’ nécessairement