Reading the tweets at #womenaretoohardtoanimate is very funny.
Why it’s almost worth being the despised superfluous tiresome hard to draw alien sex, just to be able to read such hilarious tweets!
One of Soraya’s –
#womenaretoohardtoanimate because, really, in our idealized worlds, isn’t it just better if they don’t exist? They’re SO COMPLICATED.
A few others –
#womenaretoohardtoanimate i can never get the hundred flailing tendrils right
#womenaretoohardtoanimate with all the crying, menstruating, and nagging. How can we draw it ALL?!
#womenaretoohardtoanimate cos you have to start from scratch, unlike with male forms that spring whole from the designers cloven forehead.
#womenaretoohardtoanimate and it’s not historically accurate b/c everyone knows during the french rev. women and POC weren’t invented yet
Well, speaking as one whose series has 3 female and 1 male main character, I don’t think that women are that hard to illustrate.
My favourite was
Ha!
Everybody knows that things are only historically accurate when there’s Orcs in them
As an animator, this is solid gold.
Dudebro animators: “Uhh, if we DO add some chicks, is it okay if we give them all physics-defying giant breasts and very little clothing?”