HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊

HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊

@hokutoandy.bsky.social

East Coast USA 🇺🇸 to East Asia🌏 Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture. Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.

862 Followers 286 Following 4,859 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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Weird Trains | The Motion Demon by Stefan Grabiński YouTube video by Infinite Text

It's #WeirdWednesday and today we talk about weird trains and "Polish Lovecraft" Stefan Grabinski #booktube www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUY...

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PEACEFUL UNDERWATER Sounds for DEEP SLEEP 🌊 Deep OCEAN ASMR/Ambience YouTube video by Asleep In Perfection

www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_A...

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Israel is attacking Lebanon, where about 600 people have died, what is the Lebanese Army going to do?

1. Join Hezbollah defending Lebanon
2. ‘Disarm’ (attack) Hezbollah and start another civil war
3. Sit around doing nothing like a bunch of idiots

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10 minute watercolor sketches getting better every time at the splotchiness of the medium.

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5 minute watercolor sketch, model's a Greek lady and she really is shaped like the marble statues you see in art textbooks.

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CAT VIDEOS: Purring ASMR for Healing, Meditation and Relaxation YouTube video by All cats are ASMR PROs

There are still good things to be found on this internet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1xd...

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Heeeeyyyy! Awesome stuff came in the mail today!!

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Suplex WIP for Aisha.

#pixelart #gamedev

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The 1996 draft of the unpublished, unannounced Magic RPG is substantial. I made a few marginal notes when I reviewed it. I'm giving it away for a donation to Planned Parenthood, offered by secret silent auction. DM me with offers. I'm likely to get a few big offers.

"What if?" #mtg #ttrpg 1/2

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Redirecting...

A great community for comics swipes, homages, and sometimes the pro artists chime in.

www.facebook.com/groups/13738...

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Makes it more realistic.

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🤣 Can confirm this as accurate!

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10/10 her elbows.

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"Appleseed Companion Deluxe Edition" artbook by Masamune Shirow is coming (english edition).
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

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Cat that says "meeeeeow":

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NEW: The Russian military simply does not have the capacity to overrun Ukrainian defenses that Putin constantly claims. Latest Assessment ⬇️(

Ukrainian forces are successfully counterattacking not only in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions but also in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

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4 months ago

Daemon X Machina Titanic Scion is a Tokusatsu/Super Sentai (so a continuation of Kabuki archtype/cool costume driven storytelling) game with a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic Villain Boss Team introduction.

Bullet feels especially like a nod to Tsubasa Masao's Tactics Ogre Dark Knights of Lodis.

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Capes and mantles are difficult to have flowing about in real time action, otherwise Armored Core would have Raven wear a mecha cloak.

Daemon Ex Machina Titanic Scion does it well with shells and floating shields.

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one more

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Delinquent Gacha # 18

Hiroshi Shinomoto's got a very cool style and always delivers a twist on fights / jokes like a Cross Counter.

#MANGA_Plus Delinquent Gacha jumpg-webapi.tokyo-cdn.com/www/sns_shar...

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A photo of "Kanehisa's Maekake" work apron. Kanehisa-business name printed work apron. A photo of Takayuki Takeya-san wearing the Kanehisa Maekake.

漁師の角度、カネヒサ前掛け を購入。作業服無かったので丁度良かった🙂

I bought this navy blue "Kanehisa Maekake" online. I will use it when painting or doing kitbash.
(Maekake is a Japanese traditional work apron).
The man in the right pic is Takayuki Takeya who is a Japanese famous sculptor aka the author of The Hunter's Angle.

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Resident Evil: Wesker's Counterattack
Resident Evil G
Resident Evil Wing
Resident Evil Build Fighters

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Cool armor articulation fun.

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Boss Mary transformation from the OG Silent Hill 2. I manually created each frame with keyframe animation to build this effect back then.

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"When someone is born into this world crying and then grows up being taught nothing, what do you think happens when that person obtains power" "they stop making things themselves and when they want something they just steal it from someone else. They become comfortable with hurting people and the fighting never ends."

Dandadan preaching today

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The Man in the Men's Room.

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Wesley Snipes Blade

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check out Hagiwara's Bastard!!

Satan is a dragon that's the supermassive black hole center of the galaxy.

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To Gift Him Pictures of Divine Sodomy: Ambivalent Homoeroticism in Michelangelo’s Rape of Ganymede — Canvas Journal It is possible to argue that Michelangelo’s Rape of Ganymede, gifted to Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, expresses the artist’s ambivalent homoerotic feelings about his love for Tommaso.

Here's Michaelangelo's gay commissions in between big church murals:

www.canvasjournal.ca/read/divine-...

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EASTERLINGS
Design sketches
Johorny Brough (far left and
Warren Mahy (left)
"The great thing about the Easterlings, because they were on the had side in an alliance with Sauronis that you could make them more tribal, they could be a bit more raw and a bit more savage. I loved the idea of having exposed skin, a hare chest-he's almost tempting you: 'Come on! I'm armored to a point, but you know, my heart is open! Just try it!
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EASTERLING Pencil sketch
Sourisak Chanpaseuth
I really went off at a tangent for this one. I think it was just a wild idea at the time-a lot of movement, but I gave him the appearance of being like an assassin, a ninja. With a bit of a samurai look about him, too." EASTERLINGS Color sketches
Daniel Falconer
"Sourisak did a great drawing [previous page) that included a fantastic helmet with the silhouette of two really big blades coming out of it, which Peter Jackson really, really liked. So I began trying different helmet designs that would employ that silhouette. It was some thing that none of the other races that we'd designed at that stage had. The look of the armor itself had been pretty much locked down and we also had a very strong idea of what the color palette would be-ochres, reds, browns, black and brass. The larger image here is a further exploration of the helmet design. Peter liked the shape, be
thought it had quite an unusual look-especially the undercut. The final desigs, which we see in the top right pictare, was a combination of this helmet and Sourisak's, his silhouette mixed with the overall shape of mine. And a more open face-guard."

EASTERLING
Color sketch
Warren Mahy
"This is one of the first Easterling designs. I think the first few days we just tried to bring out iconic shapes and colors. I can't remember who started it, but the idea came up of having interlacing panels of plates - similar to Japanese armor, but being metal instead of leather or laminated wood to give them a different shape. Definitely more Middle Eastern than European. There was quite a discussion over the crescent-shaped details on the helmet to ensure that it wasn't too obviously inspired by our own cultures."

EASTERLING Pencil sketch
Daniel Falconer
"This was one of the earliest Easterling sketches done. I was drawing upon what I thought Easterlings would look like as related in Tolkien's text and I came away with the impression that they were a desert people, quite fearsome. I used a lot of Bedouin and Saharan influences in designing their outfits. In this case I think some of the source material was showing through a little too strongly. It also used the upward-facing lames of armor, which sprang from a drawing that John Howe ha… Color sketches
Daniel Falconier
"t this stage, we were trying to estab It very strong iconic features for the Eacterlings is äfferentiate them from the ether armies, se ne of the things that played with was that they used afferest metals is their armbrass, bronze coppers. The kind of metals that we haven't seen a lot of in the varices other armies, together with sew shapes, is this care, 1 thought it would be interesting to add a strong grometric element to their desigs, so I anad lets of aguares and cirties. The one below on horse hach has a square shield which I liked a lot. They actually die becses is the finished fon, but i know that in parts of the books they'rs described an being horseback warriors.
"The large pictare was getting much closer to the fast design. This introduces the idea that they're actually quite a rich cultare, and that each warrior wears the kages of his office and the wealth of his family all over bin. They would feststems with either ar trophies that they've taken off people they've killed or famly heirlooms. He's abundetely covered in this sort of staff. The pattern for the armer is fairty close to what we finally west with, but there were a few changes. Peter felt that we seeded a helnet, whereas this one has a tarbas. He belesed that a telnet makes him mach more warriorlike and again less obviously from any recognizable caltare, which brings us to the growing at the bottom right of the page.
"He's wearing something between a helmet and a desert mask, and carries a bow with some really large arrows, foc. We thed the ides that they had stremely large longhous simest like the old lapiness ones, although this was dropped in the fin
EASTERLINGS Color sketch
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WETA Lord of the Rings concept art!

Western euro artists saw Easterlings as The Other: "tribal, savage, not us"

But Thai artist Sourisak Chanpaseuth designed them as LotR's "COOL NINJA SAMURAI!", as that's what Asians like him grew up loving. Got down sincere culture direction for Falconer & co.

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