Observations from episode 8 of Nisemonogatari:
Senjougahara may not have realized it at the time, but assaulting Araragi’s mouth with a box cutter and stapler on their very first meeting was an amazingly good courting move.
Karen is marrying a dentist.
This is from Look Around You season 1, episode 5 (“Sulphur”). Subtle shifts in the blue background really killed compression for this image, so I ended up treating changes in color value of less than 7 percent as no change for transparency purposes.
From Working’!! (season 2), episode 13. Playing around with ordered dithering, which really does help with the file size at the expense of fairly visible patterns.
Slow decay, or playing around with Inkscape’s path simplification tool. “13” was simplified as part of a text node containing all the numbers from “01” to “13”; the other numbers were then deleted. The same goes for “12”, “11”, and so on down to “01”, which was simplified by itself. As more discontinuous paths are selected, the shape changes more and more radically as the algorithm attempts to beat the entire selection into something smooth.
So Yoshiura’s new film is getting a prologue, to be released on Nico
Nico Douga sometime this weekend. This is the trailer for that short
film Web series, which I guess makes it a preview of a preview. How
recursive.
It looks like Patema’s going to take Pale Cocoon’s endless underground aesthetic and turn up the grungy desolation a few notches. Most of the sci-fi elements seen there and in Time of Eve seem to be absent, though (note the utter lack of minimalistic transparent displays). It’s just a big world waiting to be explored through innocent eyes.
Edit: I use the phrase “endless underground aesthetic” a lot.
Edit II: <Nitya> are you seeing this? this is moe S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Edit III: Correction above. Here’s the Nico Nico channel, by the way.