{"id":107649,"date":"2016-03-29T22:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/29\/bogleech-bogleech-bogleech-this-ant-is\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T20:41:14","slug":"bogleech-bogleech-bogleech-this-ant-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/29\/bogleech-bogleech-bogleech-this-ant-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-107649 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/29\/bogleech-bogleech-bogleech-this-ant-is\/attachment\/107650\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o15zm6HhkZ1qgwefso1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o15zm6HhkZ1qgwefso1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o15zm6HhkZ1qgwefso1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/29\/bogleech-bogleech-bogleech-this-ant-is\/attachment\/107651\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o15zm6HhkZ1qgwefso2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o15zm6HhkZ1qgwefso2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o15zm6HhkZ1qgwefso2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bogleech.tumblr.com\/post\/141748503968\" target=\"_blank\">bogleech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bogleech.tumblr.com\/post\/141717419538\" target=\"_blank\">bogleech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bogleech.tumblr.com\/post\/141672445338\" target=\"_blank\">bogleech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This ant is expressive and adorable without deviating even slightly from a real ant\u2019s anatomy and yet every time an animated movie has insects as main characters it looks like this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/5557807c47c8ac8dc9a85ad3d383ceb9\/tumblr_inline_o4ly2rUeKr1qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve gotten multiple notes along the lines of \u201ceven Bug\u2019s Life??\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>ESPECIALLY <\/i>Bug\u2019s Life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e9e6a0de2708bd1000be884f106d3c5b\/tumblr_inline_o4ne4nRhS51qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>These are NIGHTMARE FLESH MUPPET faces slapped on insect bodies, which would be perfectly fine if that was what they were going for, but this apparent attempt to be \u201ccute\u201d only comes out as a fever dream about chitin-plated troll dolls.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Real, unaltered <\/b><\/i>insects are cute:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/489783b5827d7e178d33ddd25c48ec3b\/tumblr_inline_o4nedbjHFv1qbgh4j_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/21e9c50683c2f66944292fb59ab6aa02\/tumblr_inline_o4neevzaUW1qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/9420683bc05e8c3bd67b4db5966dd8ed\/tumblr_inline_o4nehnHlao1qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a3680b4cb6414b1f12a8b6456a3b546d\/tumblr_inline_o4nek7vhjR1qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bff33aadbd2dcc498eff3892a0afc3ad\/tumblr_inline_o4nekdHk0j1qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>And before you say \u201cwell, cartoon characters need to be able to make recognizable human facial expressions to be relatable, so they need eyebrows and lips,\u201d I give you exhibit B:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/185e31c6caff70f8cfef93573d52f859\/tumblr_inline_o4nencD52m1qbgh4j_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Cartoonists are trained to believe that you have to give something a human face to make it \u201ccute\u201d even though the human mind has <i>no difficulty at all <\/i>feeling emotions for something with an \u201calien\u201d or \u201cexpressionless\u201d face. Just making an inanimate object move around at all is cute. Wall-E was cute. Caterpie is cute. A sunflower with a little hat on it is cute. There\u2019s such a bizarre disconnect between what humans actually find endearing and the formulas taught in animation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>okay WOW even with glasses my eyes are not great because I thought this picture of BB-8 was just an actual screencap of the Force Awakens. I found it on google images and just had no idea it was fan art so I accidentally used it without crediting <a href=\"http:\/\/nyearmstrong.tumblr.com\/post\/135670230205\/a-doodle-of-bb-8-in-star-wars-a-force-awakens\" target=\"_blank\"><b>this person<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mQS_9q2IlrfNrpwTRMfGWrg\" target=\"_blank\">@nyearmstrong<\/a> you call this a \u201cdoodle\u201d and I thought it was a damn movie still<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bogleech: bogleech: bogleech: This ant is expressive and adorable without deviating even slightly from a real ant\u2019s anatomy and yet every time an animated movie has insects as main characters it looks like this: I\u2019ve gotten multiple notes along the lines of \u201ceven Bug\u2019s Life??\u201d ESPECIALLY Bug\u2019s Life. These are NIGHTMARE FLESH MUPPET faces slapped &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/29\/bogleech-bogleech-bogleech-this-ant-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76,9516,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107652,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107649\/revisions\/107652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}