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Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Jul 31

"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 41m

The pencil keeps it but they were quite inconsistent back then (see Mosjoukine, Mosukine, Moskine, Mozzhukhin, Mosjoukin)

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I am not sure. Either a typo or a simplified spelling for the Anglosphere

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Winsor & Newton's full and half pan offering

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You can purchase up to TWELVE colors of Polychromos

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Koh-i-noor pencil catalog page from 1927

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Shrinkflation is so bad that it broke the library of my nutrition calculator app.

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Welp, went grocery shopping 😭

a baby wearing a hat looks out a window

ALT: a baby wearing a hat looks out a window

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 2h

The Loomis method never worked for me (and Loomis himself didn’t always use it or consider it the only way to go) and I think there are probably others in the same boat.

Study skull, use envelope.

(Disclaimer: just a hobbyist getting back into analog art for digital detox and anti-AI)

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 2h

This book (naturally from 1921) covers the method

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Drawing made easy : a helpful book for young artists; the way to begin and finish your sketches, clearly shown step by step : Lutz, Edwin George, b. 1868 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Inter...

OCLC number: ocm07014379

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks!

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You block in the face with extremely rough shapes and then refine in passes, no Loomis lines

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h

You don’t do any of the Loomis business, you very roughly block in the general shapes and shadows and then refine in passes

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It works like a dream for flowers, why not Little Tramps?

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h

Playing with the envelope method for drawing heads and I am nothing if not consistent

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h

To air fry shrimp, use the shell-on type and marinate the living daylights out of the suckers, the more flavorful the better

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I think so. My baby blanket is PRISTINE and it endured standard kid wear and tear

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My hook isn’t that small, poor naked roaches

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h

Yum!

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Anemic girlie dinner:

Air fried jumbo shrimp, black-brown rice blend, steamed asparagus (off-camera cantaloupe and watermelon )

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h

Music by Skindred

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Skindred - Nobody

YouTube video by Jamie Lee

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5h

Pitch

Big budget space opera in which every character is aggressively Welsh. No explanation given.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5h

Raymond Griffith vexed that he must miss his night off to investigate a murder in YOU'D BE SURPRISED

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5h

And there is massive incentive to get it up, running and looking natural. Yet, here we are with plastic uncanny valley puppets.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5h

With Tron Legacy back in the conversation, it reminds me that de-aging tech looked creepy in 2010 and it still looks creepy in 2025. I think about that with people breathlessly declaring that AI will rapidly improve, we just need to have faith.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5h

You gotta admire a man who loves his work.

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