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Bauwerks
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Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time.

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I don't have the Aladdin art book (did they make an art book?), but I do have Mulan, and here are production stills from that art book compared to this 35mm/blu-ray comparison. This book was published in 1998. Pic 4 is the back cover, you literally don't even need to open the book to compare these!
35mm/blu-ray comparison of Mulan from a scene with Chinese soldiers riding horses on a snowy field. The 35mm shot looks yellow-white in the snow and background, while the blu-ray has a slightly cooler look for the snow and the background has a more olive green hue to it. Production still from the Mulan art book. The sky in the background is more olive green like the blu-ray shot in photo 1. A production still of the main bad guy pointing two fingers to screen right. The back cover of the Mulan art book of horse-mounted soldiers riding in the snow. Like picture 2, the cool-blue snow and olive-green sky more closely match the blu-ray than the 35mm print.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Disney's had a (deserved) bad reputation for restoring their films with oversaturated colors for 20+ years, but that doesn't mean vivid colors were verboten, as these production stills show (also from the Lion King art book, again from 1994). Which version do you think these more closely resemble?
From the Lion King art book, a production still of Mufasa and Rafiki hugging. Colors aren't quite as vivid as the blu-ray but are closer to that than the 35mm print. Production still of the zebras kicking up dirt and beginning to kneel down. Color sheet diagrams of Rafiki and Zazu from Disney's CAPS system. The colors again more closely resemble the blu-ray than the 35mm print. Production still of impalas looking up at the orange-red sky, very vivid-looking.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Am I the only person w/ a copy of the Lion King art book from 1994 — or at least the only person with it to bother looking at the production stills in the book for comparison? (pics 1–2 from Ani O article/post, pics 3–4 from The Art of The Lion King)

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These companies, ultimately, decide how Toy Story looks today. Still, for some, it’s nice to see the original version of the film again — the version Pixar originally intended to make. It’s evidence that the film did feel different back then. The memories were real. Screenshot of Animation Obsessive's 35mm/Blu-ray comparison of The Lion King. The 35mm print looks bright, with washed out/faded colors of the scene in the intro with Mufasa and Rafiki hugging at the top of the hill, looking out at the blue cloudy sky and green land. The blu-ray is better balanced with brightness, shows more details in the artwork, and is a bit saturated, though not garishly, in my opinion. A production still showing a far shot of Rafiki holding up infant Simba to the animals as sun beams shine down from an opening in the sky. Colors are vivid and resemble the blu-ray more than the 35mm print, though maybe not quite as saturated. Production still of Rafiki holding up Simba up close. Again, colors and balance match the blu-ray more than the 35mm print.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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It's not much more detail, but Holmes Chan (who is HK-based) mentions some tidbits here: sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-be...
During the mourning period, celebratory events organised by the government will be axed or postponed, and officials will reduce their non-essential public appearances.
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I was just thinking the other day about getting back to my Shin-Chan backlog — between this thread and a Spoon & Tamago post about a Nara art teacher who made Shinnosuke leaf art, I'm taking these as signs telling me what to watch this morning.

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Fall leaves arranged to look like Shinnosuke from Crayon Shin-Chan, done by an unnamed Nara high school art teacher.
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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If you've ever watched the last episode of Golden Boy, you don't even have to know about the animation industry to tell that these depressing, decrepit drawings of animators collapsed at their desks are barely an exaggeration.

(Pic 1 from vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama9/, pics 2–4 from Golden Boy ep 6)
From the VGDensetsu article, two photos of work desks at Japanese game companies showing workers sleeping at or under their desks, and one desk with cardboard opened up and covering the underside with drawings of a house exterior to indicate their makeshift home. It looks very depressing. From Golden Boy episode 6, a shot of several animators at an animation studio sleeping at or under their desks, one man is sleeping on three chairs spread out to support him sleeping on his back. One man in the back is collapsed at his desk and nearly falling out from his chair that's barely supporting his ass. From Golden Boy, a shot of an animator obscured by blankets and surrounded by empty beer cans, porn mags, and a bag of food. His desk is disheveled. From Golden Boy, a closeup shot of the animator collapsed at his desk from photo #2. His face is just buried into his desk's surface and animation paper, a huge puddle of drool leaking from under his face where his mouth would be, and a long string of drool spilling over the edge of the desk.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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No, it went under my radar, too! I'd be lying if I said it doesn't remind me a certain Japanese cartoon that a certain famous director worked on, but since I haven't watched that show either, this is a good excuse for me to put both of these in my queue and see how they stack up.
Cover for the Sherlock Hound show on DVD, showing Hayao Miyazaki's drawings of canine Holmes and Watson staring at something towards the ground not shown on the box.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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From the article: “I expressed to him just how proud we are that he is a product of Chicago and that he’s perhaps more popular than Michael Jordan,” Pritzker said in the interview. From The Last Dance, a screenshot of Michael Jordan sitting on a chair in his home, next to a small end table with a glass of some kind of brown alcohol and a cigar, a somewhat pained expression on his face, and the subtitle "...and I took that personally".
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Come to think of it, the day I went up the Peak was on a relatively cooler day from an otherwise hot and humid week. I took so many photos on my phone on the bus ride up and down the hill, but lost many of them from a corrupted transfer. 😭
A dark, slightly under-exposed photo of the Hong Kong skyline from the top of The Peak. It's an overcast and hazy day.
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The 25th anniversary cover isn't orange, but is clearer and shows the CRT more prominently. I couldn't choose, so I'm including both.
25th anniversary version of Monster, this time with a blue background and the graphic is displayed on a CRT monitor of some kind.
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Cover of R.E.M.'s "Monster" album, an out-of-focus black image of a cat-like graphic over an orange background.
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I can't tell if I'm picking up on an extremely geeky punctuation joke or if I'm thinking too hard about this, but I'll take my chances: you're making an is-to-as-to joke, right?

Army Men : Sarge's Heroes :: Shin Megami Tensei : Persona

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From Wikipedia: "Persona, previously marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona..."
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Reconstituting myself a bit to say that I can sort of see the resemblance with some Japanese vending machines, but not all.

Back to the pruning...
A drink vending machine in Japan, which has blue-colored outer edges, and the machine itself is white, with a display window roughly the same proportions as a 3.5" floppy label area. Other blue-colored drink vending machines in Japan, with display windows aligned to the left of the machine and in different proportions similar to and different than a 3.5" floppy label. The slot at the bottom where you pick up your drink differs in color with the two machines: one is greyish, the other is kind of white.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Enjoying this cold, rainy Sunday morning bundled up, eating a hot breakfast and drinking a big mug of tea, and contemplating this post as I wither into a tiny prune. 🫠
A post from Nobi Hayashi on Twitter: "Why is the Save button in Excel depicted as a vending machine with a purchased drink can at the bottom? This question is currently being discussed by young Japanese people on a forum" He quotes another post that shows a portion of the Excel UI that focuses on the Save icon, which is a purple 3.5" floppy disk.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Screenshot from Titanic with eldery Rose saying "It's been 84 years...", but the 4 is scratched out in red so it reads "It's been 8 years..."
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I thought I'd seen that one before! Was the one on the right in this photo scanned in high-res too?
Photo of two Japan Expo 2017 sketches, with the Zelda portrait composition on the left, and a similar one with three portraits of Link on the right.
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The feeling of joy seeing old news I missed about Tatsuyuki Tanaka working on a new animation, quickly soured by seeing Tanaka talk about using web3 bullshit to make it. 😔

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"In this episode, I want to express the foundation of the Azuki world, the Alley and the Garden, using my own interpretation and art style. I find the web3 concept of decentralization very interesting. I believe the philosophy of not restricting expression and honoring the creativity to the creators could be incorporated in the potential future growth of the anime industry. Please look forward to the release of my episode next year.” commented Tanaka.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Looks a bit like Yoshinori Kanada's style? Not sure if he animated or designed this one.
A still from the commercial, showing a closeup of a male warrior with his arms up and descending upon an enemy. The mouth shape is an asymmetrical, rounded triangle, and his face has rounded features that look reminiscient of Yoshinori Kanada's drawing style from the time.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I only bought a couple issues of Hulk back when #400 came out, so I started reading more back issues for Keown's art. I'm laughing at this part of issue 369 where David and Keown answer the burning question "What if the unstoppable force gave the immovable object a massive titty twister?"
A panel where grey Hulk grabs The Blob's torso, saying "Immovable, Blob? Can't be hurt, Blob? Let's test that out." A series of panels where grey Hulk has two handfuls of the Blob's torso, pulling them further away from Blob in comical proportions and looking like Hulk's got both of Blob's man-boobs in his hands. Meanwhile Blob's yelling things like "Leggo my stomach! You're hurting me!" A series of panels showing Blob's pained facial expression, then grey Hulk pulling two parts of Blob's stomach away and drawn in a way that look more like boobs than stomach, with Blob yelling "I'll kill you!!", then grey Hulk looking amused and saying "Ooohhhh...!"
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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You can acknowledge China's increase in renewable energy infrastructure without handing it to them — just saying.
Two posts: one from someone exclaiming "THANK YOU PRESIDENT XI" with a China flag and a salute, plus a link to the Wikipedia article on the Cultural Revolution, and another person replying to that post saying "Please send J-10 multirole fighter/bomber to free my country"
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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*Stares in Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, etc.*
Someone quoting a post from Timothy McBride showing an Axios article about global CO2 emissions and saying "China dragging us kicking and screaming into a survivable future"
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Also note the differing sleeve lengths before and during the rotoscoped part.
Same pic as pic 1 in my first post. The sleeves go down to maybe halfway down the guy's upper arms. A shot from the rotoscoped part where the guy is clearly in a looser fitting button-down, and the sleeves now go down to his elbows.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I know this shot in between shows the shirt is collared, but that's still a very different-fitting shirt than what's animated in the rotoscoped part.
Side profile of the guy before rotoscoping, his "t-shirt" turns out to be a tight-fitting collared shirt like a golf shirt.
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A lot of the quotes and comments bring up the rotoscoping, but I wonder how many of them are only looking at how the character moves, instead of the more telling giveaways like a dude with frail-looking arms and v-shaped chest in a t-shirt suddenly becomes normally-proportioned in a button-down.
Still frame of the old guy before the rotoscoping happens with his back facing us, pointing to something in the background. His arms are so thin they almost look malnourished, but the hands look a bit large in comparison. However, his chest is rather full and v-shaped. A frame during the rotoscoped sequence — the chest looks flat and rectangular now, and the arms look healthy and normally proportioned.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I think I've seen a video of him cover another HKer-owned place in Manchester a year or two ago. Sadly as I was scrolling through his Videos page to find it, I saw this...🤢
One of the guy's videos called "WTF is an NFT? A Disruptive Exhibition at Manchester Art Fair 2021". The description for the video is a long rambling ad for some NFT company that is probably shuttered or close to it now.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM