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i can't help it if I went to school for exactly this. *Text based indication of "if I had a webcam I would show you my Certificate with Distinction of Digital Animation from the British Columbia Institute of Technology but since that isn't funny it's a picture of a unicorn" in asterisks* EDIT: Oh my mam I just posed the word Unicorn without thinking of My Little Pony. I'm getting better! EDIT EDIT: Oh my gog I just edited this post because I thought of that. I'm getting worse!

I think the current state of the BBcode tags is adequate for our needs, but will need improvement should the population surge or increase within the coming months or decades, depending on when and how The Tunnel pt. 2 is released. How improvements would be implemented would consist of this masterful plan in exactly one parts: Part 1: Private Message Jexius to see if it's possible to add more BB code tags and such. Part 1a: If Jexius can't do it, learn how to do it myself. Some of the improvements would include text and image formatting, like this: [img width="700" align="center"]URL[/img] Which would make the picture (regardless of its size, big or small) exactly 700 pixels wide, and center it in the User's post. Width/height, alignment and caption options would be awesome for pictures, and I'd also love to be able to shift paragraphs around, like make them align left, or right, or justify, or centered, or maybe place youtube videos in posts! Rad.

TL;DR So far most people have been pointing out their favorite Genre of "Thing they've seen that was made with Animation", because that's what was asked. The actual kinds of Animation basically fall into "the kind used to make a movie" and "the kind used to make a TV show", and if you call Animation a genre I will punch you in the mouth.

Most of the differences in Animation fall in their technical distinction rather than the geographic timbres of their development (pointing out the options in the poll). These geographic timbres come from particular cultural interests, with economic imperatives of their time and development contributing. Thus the poll leans much more to the 'Genre' side of Animation in general, instead of its actual distinctions. Technically there are only two kinds of animation: "True", "Pure" or "Complete" animation and Limited Animation. Animation depends on keyframes. The kinds differentiate between how they are interpolated. True animation uses entirely new drawings every single frame. This makes it very fluid and clean, especially when the keys are very well done. Keyframes sheet from Bambi. There would be anywhere from 5 to 15 inbetweens for each of these keyframes, all would be stringently controlled by an Editor and the Animation supervisor. Thus this simple shot of the deer moving could be as much as 100 unique frames for a few seconds of footage. Pure Animation is typically very expensive and time consuming, and is relegated for usage almost exclusively for Movies. Every single Disney feature film is a Pure Animation picture. Limited Animation uses many shortcuts and tricks in order to greatly reduce the amount of work requried to get a shot to completion. This commonly takes the form of using repetition of shots or animated elements, and many hidden seams to hide where things don't absolutely have to be animated. A prime example of this is Yogi bear, who's necktie was there to hide the seam between his head (which was animated pure to sync with what he was saying) and his body (on a 8-16 frame long walking loop, cycled repeatedly). There are many dozens of techniques that are used to cut down the amount of work required to make a half hour show that are utilized in Limited Animation, hiding multiple component character seams just being one cod example. Japanese and other nation's animation techniques also developed following the Animation rush of the 1960s. A very famous example in Japan is the Limited Animation technique of the Actor-to-Animation Dub. Tradtionally in North American animations, Animation-To-Actor was employed; Sound was recorded, and that set the timing for the animation, which would follow. In Japan, the animation was finished and the actor had to dub their voice to the motions of the character's mouth, with the character simply saying "Waydle waydle waydle woo" repeatedly. Again, another cod example of Limited Animation. Limited Animation is the only one that is easy, fast, cheap or efficient enough to produce a TV show using only animation. Very often to hide most of the Limited Animation techniques, the show goes for a stylistic appearance in order to allow any weirdness the audience notices under their willing suspension of disbelief because of the cartoony nature of the thing they're already watching. Color, character design, backgrounds, music, all that sort of stuff is all subjective stuff to the will of the show's creator and director, but the main technical difference is if it's Pure Animation or Limited. In the technical respect then, everything from My Little Pony, Bleach, Arthur, The Simpsons and ReBoot are all the same because they use tricks of the trade to reduce the overhead complexity of the shows they want to create, and simplify how it's made without reducing the quality to the average viewer. Animation is what the show is made of, Genre is what the show is about.

There's a tag on another forum I've browsed where [youtube=IDENTIFIER] is the complete tag for a youtube video to be posted positioned in the middle of the post. Such as [youtube=aV-_gTaIKaw] Also, something I'd like to be able to do in this forum actually would be modifiers for pictures for formatting. n="right"]URL[/im[/color]g] stuff like that.

It has already begun. Anyone can ask any candidate a question if they're curious on their stance about anything.

I'm thankful this war is staying inside this thread. Largely.

Opportunism however can be quite rough and dark if all you follow is things that will only directly benefit yourself.

I thought it was Naperville.

You madman! You've killed us all! In other news, I have a question for the Neo-Rhino Party: what will be their position on griefing in video games?

I like it. I've edited my own avatar to be a bit more transparent. Looks better imo. You both have a great new avatars Indeed. * Monocle* Alyxx, PNG transparency and alpha channels don't operate with Steam avatars. It would be better if it was on solid black instead for your Steam profile.

Well this could easily end up as just a list thread.

So since people seem to be kind of put off by how systematic my approach to the Presidential election, I'm going to really not care about how this is run anymore because worrying about it a lot I guess emits some kind of mystical aura that makes people far too nervous or "meh"'d out to post. Thus the debate is going to be like another General chat thread, 'cept it still has the purpose from the charter. The Purpose of this Challenge is to establish each Party's and Leader's intentions if elected, their stance on controversial matters relevant to the Forum Populace and the differences they will make in the future. It is the decision of the Leader how seriously to take this Challenge, but be reminded of the Electoral Process's compliance with the Forum Rules. Ready, Set, Go.

This is what I mean. WHAT ________________________ See, this is why I posed why back in the thread "MLP:FML". Watching the show and becoming an informed commenter has done less for my sanity than ignoring it would have been. It's an unlikable trade-off.

What the heck does that mean? If you're 120 at physical heart, that means you have the cardiovascular strength of a decrepit decagenarian. If you're 120 at emotional heart, the fact that you argue with such vehemence over anything fictional is rather odd (unless you'd like to contend Equestria is a real place, which is a different argument entirely), if you're 120 spiritually, that's laughable because there are people I know going through their midlife crises that are about 30 that have more personal warmness than you come off as.

Bad idea: improper usage of semi-colons; thus.

Shameless opportunism is dirtier than shameless optimism.

For the record, Alphabetagamma is 16 in body and 6 in mind.

I'll take that as a yes for the debate. We'll start er' up tommorow.

If characters don't have flaws, they don't appear human. Making three-dimensional characters for fiction, 101.

Well it obviously can't be a Kickasso. Maybe it's a Von Duvet.

Well you tell us, Epsilon. How can we elaborate when you have all the details- that is to assume you don't want conjecture. Obviuosly you have not been eating your pungent gray fuzzy bread.

Riley Vashtee: [reading from display] Find the next number in the sequence: 313, 331, 367...? What? Martha Jones: You said the crew knew all the answers! Riley:The crew's changed since we set of questions. Martha: You're joking! The Doctor: 379. Martha: What? The Doctor: It's a sequence of happy primes - 379! Martha: Happy what? The Doctor: Just enter it! Riley: Are you sure? We only get one chance. The Doctor: Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and continue iterating it until it yields 1 is a happy number, any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is both happy and prime. Now type it in! ...Goodness, talk about dumbing down. Don't they teach recreational mathematics anymore?