Artcow rcdart / Rory Cummings-Dise - Tranny Fetishist who Torpedoed a Potential Animation Career

[PeckingOrder]

Dang, if Rory didn't have her head so far up her own ass she would've definitely felt inadequate compared to her peers. There's a distinct gap in effort there.

 

[IceGray]

Well, looking at all this and Rory's work looks like a self-taught beginner on Newgrounds.

 

[minecraftismywaifu]

Well, looking at all this and Rory's work looks like a self-taught beginner on Newgrounds.

Don't make fun of self-taught beginners on Newgrounds, even they're better than this

 

[Dozaemon]

Those videos are marvelous! Nothing at all like Rory's, whose animation feels lacking.

 

[女鬼]

I'm pleasently suprised by this year Cal Arts films - there is variety of styles and many of shorts don't have that calarts style.
Another first year movies. Rory really looks lame in comparision:

Spoiler: Links

Y'know, I originally thought Rory's film was pretty cute- nothing groundbreaking, but decent enough. But seeing what other people from the same year managed to produce, it really shows how little effort she puts into her art. Even for a major project, she half-arsed everything.

Also more recent doodles:


The way she draws arms and hands just shows how lazy she is. Noodles toopped wth oven mitts.

 

[Vandy]

Wow. Compared to the rest, Rory didn't even try.
Even shorter vids like Shadow show effort. Rory's is some notebook sketch level shit.

I also find it telling that Rory went out of their way to make their characters ambiguous blobs, despite allegedly caring so much about gender, sexuality, and racial diversity. Meanwhile the other students include those things casually, which does a lot more to normalize seeing it in animation than Rory's hairy Mexicans ever did.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

What gets to me the most is that everyone had special thanks to give to someone, but Rory didn't. That says a lot about her even if you didn't know anything about her.

It's pretty obvious her short film was just her attempting to be quirky while everyone else had something meaningful to tell in such a short amount of time. Clearly, she doesn't understand why it is she's at CalArts in the first place. Yes, aspiring artists and animators make fun of the CalArts style, but it's evident from these first-year short films that they are encouraging creativity. And Rory isn't even bothering to take advantage of that. Could be because she has no creative/original bone in her body, or she's just that much of a lazy arse because her rich mommies paid for everything, so she doesn't have to put 110% into her work--or both.

I wish these talented first-years luck. But as for Rory, she's a lost cause at this point.

 

[183 baras]

Of course her film has one stylised fat round character and one thin tall character. Like she's not able to design something more than that. I'm surprised there weren't shit ton of dick sucking dumpling like lips.

 

[Reynard]

I guess no one's posted it yet, and I was curious what the art people here think of Rory's short film that was done for school. It does not feature deformed fetishized monstrosities or weird cheekbones and is actually sorta cute, fortunately. It looks overly simple and lazy to me though. I'm wondering how I'd feel about it if I didn't read through this thread, haha.

Spoiler: Mild Tangent

There were also some retweets of her classmates' films. Here's one if you feel like comparing or something (it's the only one I watched, but I thought it was neat):

It amazes me that out of the shorts that were posted around here, Rory managed to have the simplest style, and yet the worst animation. Isn't the point of simplicity in design so that it's easier to animate? The one with more stilted animation used complicated shading and the choppy movements gave it a sort of storybook look. What's Rory's excuse?

 

[Meowthkip]

Of course her film has one stylised fat round character and one thin tall character. Like she's not able to design something more than that. I'm surprised there weren't shit ton of dick sucking dumpling like lips.

You'd think she'd had her sexual awakening watching Laurel and Hardy.

 

[minecraftismywaifu]

Y'know, I originally thought Rory's film was pretty cute- nothing groundbreaking, but decent enough. But seeing what other people from the same year managed to produce, it really shows how little effort she puts into her art. Even for a major project, she half-arsed everything.

Also more recent doodles:
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The way she draws arms and hands just shows how lazy she is. Noodles toopped wth oven mitts.

the mermaid holding the tiger's hand looks really weird, it's like a rhino or elephants foot. I'm pretty sure an autistic 3 year old with no arms could draw better hands...

 

[Emperor Pilaf]

Looking at those recent doodles of Rory's I can't help but be reminded of the greedy. An ugly as sin monster made of taffy from that weird raggedy ann movie from the 70's

 

[女鬼]

the mermaid holding the tiger's hand looks really weird, it's like a rhino or elephants foot. I'm pretty sure an autistic 3 year old with no arms could draw better hands...

Anyone who's ever tried drawing humans can tell you that hands are a pain to draw... But that doesn't excuse not trying.

Especially when you're training to become a professional artist. And especially if you constantly proclaim yourself to be an art genius.

 

[toothpick]

Looking at those recent doodles of Rory's I can't help but be reminded of the greedy. An ugly as sin monster made of taffy from that weird raggedy ann movie from the 70's

That is a segment that I tried to forget. Childhood trauma, man.

The thing about the Greedy segment (and that whole damn movie) is that even though the characters move in nonsense ways and are all grotesque is that it's actually animated pretty competently, it's pretty smooth and very detailed. Just an unfortunate aesthetic choice. A lot of work went into that idiotic movie (to the point of bankruptcy). Unlike anything Rory has ever produced.

 

[Synthesizer Patel]

I noticed that the "Gone Astray" video uses an art style with the tiny close-together eyes like Rory does. Which I'm not a fan of really- in that video I kept seeing the character's nose as a big smiley mouth when he was face-on. That... could be influenced from seeing so many of Rory's tiny-eyes-and-exaggerated-smiling-mouth drawings.

Spoiler: Smile

Anyway, that's a personal preference, me not being too fond of that style. But what is definitely noticeable about it is the amount of detail put into that video: in the backgrounds, in the environments, in things like the drips of liquid on the glass in the bar. Despite the simple facial features and the lack of coloured shading, the character moves as a whole and shows expression... there's detail put into his coat, his room, the glasses at the bar, the perspective changes and is reflected in the art...

I guess this video surprised me more than the others when compared to Rory's, because she also does the lumps-and-shapes-simple-style. But hers manages to seem so much lazier compared to something like this. Plus, it seemed like it wasn't finished- I was surprised when it ended. I know these are only shorts but there wasn't like there was a story being told like with some of the others. There was minimal shading, barely colour (I guess I was expecting the green sprouts to expand and shed colour onto everything else, or something), not even much line thickness variation. It's a blocky style, yeah, but aside from a few sequences doesn't seem to flow, and the random lines sticking out from the shapes look more like laziness than stylistic intent. It's like vectors being dragged around the screen rather than a sketch.

...I agree that it's good she didn't try to draw and animate people, though.

Shit, look at me talking like I have any experience whatsoever with animation or art.

Anyway back to... whatever she's up to now. Drawing Community fanart, apparently. Big lips and crossed eyes for everyone! Actually an improvement on the exaggerated noodles and hourglass figures we've come to know and fear, though.

Spoiler: If this isn't actually Community then like I care. I took a guess.

Although it still includes our old friend "brown chunky character with a giant top lip" who is included in everything in some way shape or form.

 

[Meowthkip]

Anyway back to... whatever she's up to now. Drawing Community fanart, apparently. Big lips and crossed eyes for everyone! Actually an improvement on the exaggerated noodles and hourglass figures we've come to know and fear, though.

Spoiler: If this isn't actually Community then like I care. I took a guess.

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Although it still includes our old friend "brown chunky character with a giant top lip" who is included in everything in some way shape or form.

Troy and Abed looking cross-eeeyyyyyed! ♪

 

[Lion]

why did she give troy eyelashes like that. it's like she's trying to make him look asian but with black skin

 

[RockVolnutt]

why did she give troy eyelashes like that. it's like she's trying to make him look asian but with black skin

A bad attempt at feminizing him?

 

[toothpick]

I will give her this: I recognize the characters (at least when they're in a group). She hasn't totally bastardized the designs yet, and the shapes she used for their faces make sense. Of course, each time she draws a character they devolve further into either "fat head" or "skinny head", so maybe she'll quit while she's ahead?

Didn't Rory draw some Parks & Rec fanart where she made April (who is already half-latina!) darker for more POC points? I didn't recognize her at ALL.

 

[女鬼]

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