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

Or she could have just had pringles cheat with the blond chick that was being beaten up, and then end it with strawberry cheering instead of upset, and driving off with the tiger and money.

Would have ended it with the tone I think it's SUPPOSED to have?? And not made everyone just feel bad for pringles
 
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She's introduced beating the shit out of someone that shouldn't even be in the ring with her, tossing her around by the hair like that's something female boxers/wrestlers do (I'm familiar with neither but that still seems like it wouldn't happen?).
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Hairpulling is actually something female wrestlers want gone because it harkens back to the days when divas were mostly just untalented catfighting bimbos who slept their way to the top. It still happens every now and then and everyone cringes.

As for the weight class argument, that depends on whether her fights are meant to be real or not. If these are meant to be real, then yes, that girl should not, would not be in the ring with her. If it's all scripted stunts then I can excuse it (though you can't expect someone like Rory to know Pro Wrestling isn't real).
(For reference, Nia Jax is 6'0" and 240lbs, while Alexa Bliss is 5'1" and 101lbs.)
 
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Now that I think about it, Strawberry doesn't really fit into any of the pro wrestling archetypes. She fights like a monster heel, but female monster heels are plump, like the one above. There aren't many body builder women wrestlers, at least not anymore, and the one I know of, the most famous one, Chyna, was famous for fighting men. Like, she started out as a bodyguard-type character for an all-male faction when she joined WWE. She even showed up in New Japan Pro Wrestling, which was treated more seriously like a sport at the time, in comparison to WWE, and it didn't and still doesn't even have a women's roster.

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If she did more than just a rudimentary amount of research, she could have come up with something more exciting. It's kind of disappointing when people do this, just not bothering to delve past all the wrestling stereotypes.
 
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So I watched the Strawberry animation and found it very unfulfilling. The other animations by other artists that were linked at least gave some emotion, Storm 7 News was funny and Jido tugs at the heartstrings. But Strawberry has no feeling, it just tells a bland story in the most uninteresting way.

The story of Strawberry feels like it has no aim. There's no conflict or payoff, no jokes or heartfelt moments. It's just some gold digger getting bored and leaving her sugar daddy with a bag full of his money. Cheap and boring.

Not to say such a story couldn't work, the way it's approached is the issue.

One way that it could be done to give some feeling would be to start with an exciting montage of wrestling, a memory of her career. Then show Strawberry all settled down with Mr pringles, living a cozy life in a big house with walls covered in memorabilia from her wrestling days. Time lapse her life, fancy parties, holidays and junk showing that everything is calm and plain, nothing like the crazy days of throwing down in the ring. SHOW that she's sad and bored because she gave up that excitement. Her husband notices this and the film ends with him gifting her a new wrestling suit and encouraging her to un-retire because he wants her to be happy.

The conflict is no longer, 'I'm bored of the moneybags being all lovey with me' and is now 'life is boring without wrestling'. This also heightens the importance of wrestling to the character as a part of their design and story instead of showing it off in the first clip and then never mentioning it again.
 
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The Strawberry animation looks like some Newgrounds shit, not something that was made by someone in a professional art school geared towards animation. Her lines are sloppy, she's not using enough frames to convey the motion she's trying to, and I don't think she used any squashed/stretched frames, making everything static-y. I get the tiger is supposed to be cute but it's literally a lazy-ass blob.

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny had more depth in visual design and content than this thing.
 
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I'm betting that one of the reasons why Rory is so behind her peers is because she did not animate at all (afaik) before Cal Arts. Pretty much all the people I know who pursued a degree in animation made tons of animations during their teens. This sort of thing, I imagine, is becoming more and more common, now that animation and art softwares are more accessible than ever before.

She should have played to her strengths and stuck with illustration or painting. And if she really wanted to get into the animation industry, she should have gone with sequential art, so she could be a storyboard artist. Not that the subjects I mentioned are easy or anything, but animation is fucking hard. Unless she works her ass off to make up for lost time, I don't think she can compete with her peers.

There are plenty of successful people who changed their mind because they found a major they loved more, even in art school, but I have a feeling that Rory's motive is purely, "I like cartoons, people like cartoons, my senpai is an animator, and everyone loves her, too! I wanna be (as opposed to do) that."
 
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A lot of these student films from Rory's year have really weird, trippy art styles and themes.
That must be what's in right now, Rory's concepts are really fucking boring by comparison.

By contrast, if you look at student films made around 2010-14 a lot of the students at Calarts had a really Disney-ish art style, probably because that's what they grew up with.

This is a final year film, but I really like this film. I think the animator for this actually went on to work on Gravity Falls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHsvtGbmsQo&ab_channel=SabrinaCotugno
 
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This was the only shot I liked in the whole short film. This is the smoothest animated action, the composition is clear, the colors contrast nicely, The lines aren't all choppy and half assed, Strawberry's poise and expression has a strong sense of purpose, and the money flying was done on a nice loop. One good shot, and it's not that good, especially considering the standard of her classmates.
It's not even really good on inspection. I didn't see the fingers under the tiger at first and thought her hand was under the tiger. The fingers look fucking stupid. One arm's significantly longer than the other.
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View attachment 437296This was the only shot I liked in the whole short film. This is the smoothest animated action, the composition is clear, the colors contrast nicely, The lines aren't all choppy and half assed, Strawberry's poise and expression has a strong sense of purpose, and the money flying was done on a nice loop. One good shot, and it's not that good, especially considering the standard of her classmates.
It's not even really good on inspection. I didn't see the fingers under the tiger at first and thought her hand was under the tiger. The fingers look fucking stupid. One arm's significantly longer than the other.
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Oh my, I never noticed that, holy shit. Now that I have I can't unsee her monstrously long forearm.
 
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Nyoom frame said:
View attachment 437296This was the only shot I liked in the whole short film. This is the smoothest animated action, the composition is clear, the colors contrast nicely, The lines aren't all choppy and half assed, Strawberry's poise and expression has a strong sense of purpose, and the money flying was done on a nice loop. One good shot, and it's not that good, especially considering the standard of her classmates.
It's not even really good on inspection. I didn't see the fingers under the tiger at first and thought her hand was under the tiger. The fingers look fucking stupid. One arm's significantly longer than the other.
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That is a mistake I would expect to find in a middle schooler's doodles.
 
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