Enjoy Your Nightmares, Fellow Grumps Fans. Also, WHY DOES THIS FIT SO WELL?!?

if i ever get a DUI, i’d like it to go like this 

Beautiful

little things about Invader Zim

zim’s skin is liquefied, weaponized, and then used to douse the entire student body

GIR destroys a whole city in search of tacos, along with physically and violently attacking children for candy alone. these are separate episodes and not an isolated event.

Irken Invaders are equipped with self-destruct programs.

Some form of meat is either an obstacle or a tool on multiple occasions

there is a child whose name is The Letter M

Zim receives a beating heart as a Christmas donation from complete strangers passing him on the street

it makes sense that nobody would believe Zim is an alien, considering the characters of Pigboy and Shunk Wugga

Minimoose just… appears

Keef’s head absorbs milk.

Zim yelled “my tallest” for three hours and apparently nobody tried to end the transmission but instead wait for him to stop

Walnuts apparently ruined the 3D budget

The whole skool is hypnotized by a pimple

PEEPI

the general concept of Bolognius Maximus

a man trapped in a costume with the zipper stuck is considered an urban legend akin to bigfoot

Poop Dog

the fart noises that punctuate the dialogue every so often, especially during small interjections from characters

Professor Membrane has a grudge against Santa

characters frequently going wall-eyed

the cat chorus during Zim’s speech in FBI Warning of Doom

the entire episode of Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars

Zim attempting to weaponize Christmas is remembered two million years after the fact

Bloody GIR in general

Zim canonically traps strangers in conversation in which he vents about his frustrations. It is entirely plausible Zim would use Omegle.

Zim’s escape plan in Frycook What Came from All That Space

GIR’s form at the end of Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom

it is implied Zim is at least a century older than Dib and the other children, but repeatedly assaults/tortures them.

dysfunctional robots with no concept of right or wrong or even with a clear goal as robots attempt to eat a child. upon being thwarted, they attempt to murder Zim.

One of the Tallest VAs begged Jhonen to kill the Tallest in Backseat Drivers

Dib has successfully raised the dead on at least one occasion and Professor Membrane acknowledges this

“piggy piggy piggy piggy”

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

I like the idea that eventually, without admitting to it, Zim and Dib kinda stop trying so hard on their missions and start sticking together in a sort of ambiguous, protective friendship. They’re the best freaks. It was probably one of their freakishly deformed classmates saying that anyway.

Madrid desde el Cielo | by Javier de la Torre García.

Just a few highlights from my space folder