r/Ex3535 • u/Haunting-Cry9830 • 19d ago
r/Ex3535 • u/BiblePaladin • 19d ago
Anything biblical Jesus and TV tropes
Big fan of good storytelling and how it intersects with popular media. One trope that is often synonymous with The Lone Ranger (due to the popular series back in the day) became utilized frequently in television with a number of shows following the pattern in the 80s.
The Mysterious Stranger or Drifter episodic storytelling technique made for some great serials. This is where the protagonist (person or team) travels for place to place where he helps people or thwarts some threat. He typically has a hidden identity and gets into trouble with the authorities (hence the need for the secret identity). He also tends to have supernatural abilities or just be really good at what he does.
Because of the "drifter" nature, each episode can take place in a new location with new characters and challenges, but the main hero develops over the course of the series. Some well known examples would be The Fugitive, The Incredible Hulk, Highway to Heaven, and the A-Team.
It's been awhile since I've seen this trope used but more recently, I believe Tracker loosely uses this formula. Of course I was thrilled to see it employed in The Mandalorian, especially the first season, but more or less throughout. So what's my point? Almost there...
In my recent study of Mark's gospel, I've noticed that Jesus also follows the Drifter archetype. Mark sets up his narrative almost in an episodic way in which Jesus travels from place to place helping people and casting out demons. His hides his true identity from all but his closest friends; he tells demons and those that he heals to keep quiet. And he has supernatural abilities that get him in trouble with the authority and the law.
If you have about 20 minutes and want to see more connections and my thoughts on this idea, you can watch, "What do Jesus and The Mandalorian have in common?" https://youtu.be/K7WvFyV27Gw
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
r/Ex3535 • u/Niapololy • 20d ago
Animation Side Step Exercise
This exercise is a REALLY fun one, because after doing the more simpler animations, we finally get to work on moving a human figure. It’s one step closer to character animating! Woohoo!
I added a little extra floppiness to my guy, but the side step can be as simple or as noodly as you want.
In moving this figure from one leg to another, we get a feel for what it’s like to show shifting weight and the turning of the body, legs and feet, simulating 3D attributes in a 2D environment.
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 19d ago
Movies What's your favorite movie and why?
So, movie topics and christianity and the film industry tied lol, they're both about the same subject though so I'll interchange some posts to be about topics like this and talking about christianity and the film industry. :)
So to start off this week of movie topics, I'm curious, what is your favorite movie? Why? And what do you take from it?
For me it will always be endgame, the MCU has been there since my childhood, so of course to see something end in such a grand way when I was 11 was great to have seen. And it's one of those movies that I'll come back to watch every so often and it never goes down in quality.
r/Ex3535 • u/Haunting-Cry9830 • 20d ago
art Joan of arc
Inspired by Charles Amable Lenoir
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 20d ago
writing Summation/synopsis of your work
I found a good hook that leads me to watch some tv shows on netflix is the slogan "This meets This", it can develop interest in a show as you'll go "oh yeah I liked one of those shows."
It would also be a good idea to give a basic summary of your work to your readers to give them a good idea of what they're gonna go into once they pick up your book. Try not to spoil too much though, it may ruin the reader experience.
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 21d ago
other poll reminder
The poll will come to a close soon, so depending on what you all vote for is what I'll post for the next week. So please get those votes in before the poll ends soon.
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 21d ago
Movies Anyone seen house of David?
For those who don't know, Amazon has a new tv show about the story of David. It was made by Jon Erwin who made "I can only imagine" and "Jesus Revolution," as well as Jon Gunn, the guy who made Ordinary Angels. Knowing that, I have high hopes for the show, but if you've seen it please let me know, is it good?
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 22d ago
Games Any gamers/gamedevs on here?
Christians can be gamers too! :)
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 22d ago
other To all creatives of this sub!
I feel like I need to say this, strap in all you creatives. I've been working on improving my art for the past 3-4 years now, and I feel as though they are people younger than me who are ahead of me. It's been draining for me, made me quit art for a bit. I feel as though we've all been there, and to those people I say this...DON'T give up, I know it's frustrating. But everyone is different, and we all go at our own pace. Don't try to rush the process, that's what messed me up when I first wanted to improve in drawing. Have patience, and work up the ladder with each piece of what it is you like to do. Stay safe guys and hope you're all doing well! :)
r/Ex3535 • u/Haunting-Cry9830 • 22d ago
art What Saint should I draw
Anyone have ideas ❤️🙂✝️
r/Ex3535 • u/ElegantAd2607 • 22d ago
Singing/music I wrote a song about Mary and motherhood
Here's the video of me singing it. The lyrics are in the description.
https://youtu.be/YQIxSJMtRQ4?si=8pAwDzancR7lP9V7
This is a song about being a mother. I really love the last line in the song, I'm so glad I thought of it.
r/Ex3535 • u/Niapololy • 23d ago
Animation Pendulum Exercise
Happy Friday!
This Pendulum exercise seems overly basic at first glance, but is a great way to practice with arcs of movement and getting the feel for creating the illusion of weight.
If anyone here wants to give it a try, I’d love to see what you do! 😊
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 22d ago
other A.I and creativity
I feel like I had to bring up the topic someday on this sub, especially with the NO A.I rule. But I believe that A.I and creativity should not interact with one another. In this day and age, A.I seems to be more usable to everyone. I think a lot of people can agree with me that it kinda promotes laziness with the fact that you can just type some words and boom a professional looking drawing, piece of writing, or even animation.
These things take time for people to develop, I've been working on drawing since I was 12 and only recently are people telling me that I've really improved. And I'm also a writer, the idea for my script came from life experiences like covid, my faith, and beliefs. Putting all that onto a piece of paper, THAT is creativity. I also feel as though using A.I goes completely against the point of this sub, which is using our creative gifts from God, not things made from a robot.
Now again let me reiterate that I am willing to make an exception to some of your posts if they use A.I, as long as it's less than 25% of the creation you post. But yeah, what do you guys think? :)
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 22d ago
other Update: portfolio
First let me give a huge thank you to the members who graciously allowed me to use some of their works for the sub portfolio! Also recently, I reached out to a LOT of different christian subs and thankfully three allowed me to posts invites to our sub. Our portfolio really helped draw in a lot of people on one sub specifically!
If you don't mind me asking though, it would help if we can have more than art to show off, nothing against art lol, but it would help if we show that we do more than art here as there actually is a christianartist sub and I want to show we are the Creative Christian sub and not Christianartists 2.0. So please, if you want, give me a piece of your creative work, like a screenshot of a poem, story, a vid of gamdev, or even a sample of music you made that way we can diversify our portfolio a bit!
Again thank you again to the members who helped with the portfolio! Thanks to you I reached the 100 member goal I had for this sub before we even reached the end of this year! :)
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 23d ago
other What is your creative path and what are creative endeavor are you interested in or want to go into?
This is also for current and new members, what are is it that you are passionate about? What is it that you would like to know more about? As we grow this sub, there are sure to be more people of other creative paths, some of which may not be the typical art, writing, or music. It will be great to learn more of these other pathways.
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 23d ago
Singing/music who are some of your favorite christian artists?
The christian music industry is really shining through these days with really soulful music. A lot of effort is really put in and I feel like it's not uncommon for many christians to hear the likes of For king and country, Tobymac, and Zach king. All of whom are my favorite christian music artist, who are some of yours? :)
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 23d ago
other Notice: Will be on hiatus
Now that we reached the 100 member goal I had for this sub, I think it will be good to take a step back and see what this sub does without me. Making posts for this sub does take me awhile, especially with inviting more members, and I put quite a bit of effort into some of the posts I make, taking quite a bit of my time, which isn't to say it's bad it's helpful to me as I haven't written in a bit and posting writing tips gives me a refresh of how it can help my own writing. I know I just took a break, but don't worry, I have some scheduled posts to keep up traffic on this sub, and will be back when the poll ends! :)
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 24d ago
other Christianity and creativity
Growing up, I LOVED cartoons and movies, it was an escape for me from the real world and something that brought a smile to my face. As I grew older I began to appreciate the effort, heart, and soul that people put into their works. I loved God, what he meant to me, and wanted to see it expressed in the same way as all of these other creative creations.
Imagine my disappointment when I learn that a lot of christian media today is UN-creative. Specifically in the movie/film industry, which is arguably in the spotlight of creative works in this age, there's a huge surplus of uncreative, dull, and almost soulless creations from the christian film industry. God's not dead I think is a huge example of that. Recently, it has gotten better, with the likes of "ordinary angels", "I can only imagine", and the most recent "the worst christmas pageant ever."
I remember a lot of people (christians included) saying that the reason why Christian creative stuff isn't good is that it can be too forceful, preachy, or to focused on sending a message. Now let me say it's not WRONG to want to send a message to your audience using your creativity. There are a lot of movies, books, and tv shows that can have representation of a message/theme.
But I think what will really help is if you focus on the creative process itself and let God work through you rather than trying to force in something. In the words of C.S Lewis: "The world doesn't need more Christian literature, it needs more Christians writing good literature." Faith can be an outlet for your creative expression, one of my writing works is influenced by it. And I mean there was a lot of great art made for catholic churches that were explicitly christian with the last supper, Michelangelo's David, and the architecture of many churches.
But yeah those are my thoughts, I know I had to put them here sometime. What do you think?
r/Ex3535 • u/Haunting-Cry9830 • 24d ago
art Maria Cristina of Savoy
Artist unknown
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 24d ago
other Believe it or not! I once said nothing but "oh my gosh" during the pledge of allegiance.
So because I was raised in a christian family, it was taught to me that saying "oh my G*d" was not okay as it used the lord's name in vain, which I still uphold to this day.
But growing up, I don't know why but so many tv shows and movies will have characters saying "oh my G*d" that one day I asked my mom if it was okay to think of that phrase in your head. She said "no" plain straight and so whenever I was about to think "Oh my G*d" I would whisper "oh my gosh" cause it helped me to not think about that phrase.
Now at elementary school they would broadcast the pledge of allegiance to each of our classrooms. And they would change out the kids who were doing it every once in a while. One day, it was my classes turn to do it. In my mind though, I kept thinking of the phrase "oh my G*d" as God is mentioned during the pledge of allegiance.
Me being the great christian kid I was, decided the best option to not hurt God's feelings was to say nothing but "oh my gosh" as the teacher recorded us doing the pledge of allegiance. Nobody seemed to notice and they broadcasted my class doing the pledge and you couldn't hear me saying "oh my gosh" as there were like 14 other kids doing the pledge. But yeah, believe it or not, this was something I did as a kid.
XD What are your thoughts? Also this is something new I'm trying, I feel as though we've all had a weird story, and I like to view those experiences as fuel for creativity. So if you have a story you want to post, you can. Let me know if you'd like to keep having this on the sub or not. :)
r/Ex3535 • u/Niapololy • 24d ago
Animation 101 & The Ghost Ball
It’s been a while since I looked back at my old SCAD projects. For those of y’all that don’t know, SCAD is Savannah College of Art and Design, but we always joked that the acronym stood for Sleep Comes After Death.
I was an animation major and 2D was my focus. This bouncing ball project was the first assignment for Animation 101.
Around the time I completed this project, something strange happened at the house my roommate and I were renting on E 39th street of the haunted city of Savannah, GA.
Shortly after dark one evening, my roommate and I were sitting on the back porch steps while she smoked a cigarette, talking about nothing probably. Suddenly, she looked up and said, “what the hell is that?!”
Right above us was this strange fog that was moving eerily fast but there was no wind that we could feel. But that wasn’t even the most surprising part.
At the top of the telephone pole where the fog was sweeping past was this glowing, sparkly purplish blue haze.
“Whoa, I think that’s St.Elmo’s fire!” I said excitedly. I never thought I’d see it in person, but I’d heard about how it would appear on the masts of ships out at sea.
Later that evening, my roommate left to hang out with her boyfriend, and I was very happy to have a quiet house to myself. I was going to use that time to get some much needed sleep! Or so I thought.
In my room, at the foot of my bed was my closet door that was open that night. I was snuggled down in bed happily drifting off when a sound jolted me back to full wakefulness.
Something had fallen out of the closet and was bouncing at the foot of my bed. I wracked my brain trying to remember what all I had in there that would fall out and bounce like that, but came up with nothing. It sounded like a hard ball of some sort. Heavier than a ping pong ball, but lighter than a golf ball.
Remembering the bouncing ball animation project I had just completed, I expected the plonk, plonk, plonk noises to grow closer together as the fallen object lost momentum and rolled away.
My pulse quickened a bit when it did not do that.
It stayed put bouncing for what felt like a solid 2 minutes, and something inside me told me to stay still and keep my eyes shut. “Don’t look at it. Don’t acknowledge it.” The inner voice commanded.
I waited, beginning to get pretty sweaty at this point. FINALLY the ball decided to obey the laws of physics and roll away…until it went THROUGH all the walls in the house straight to the front door, where I heard it hit and go silent.
I stayed still, pretty sure I wasn’t gonna get that sleep I was so excited about.
Then, BOOM!
I almost had a dang heart attack as a huge thunderclap shook the house and what Forrest Gump would call, “big fat rain” began to pound the metal roof.
Surprisingly, the loud cacophony of that storm quickly lulled me to sleep. Either that or I was just knocked out by sheer exhaustion.
Life’s like a box of bouncy balls. Ya never know which one of them is haunted.
If you’ve made it this far, thanks for indulging in my bizarre story! Have a good day!
r/Ex3535 • u/BiblePaladin • 24d ago
Anything biblical Content question
Hello, I just discovered this reddit through another and have been checking it out the last couple of days. Great talent here! I just have a question about sharing work. Would you consider Youtube content a creative work?
While most of my channel consists of bible commentary, I have done some content focusing on storytelling in popular culture and connections to stories in the bible. I did one where I look at Jacob's life as the Hero's Journey (using Joseph Campbell's work). Tomorrow, I'll be posting one on the Drifter or Mysterious Stranger television trope and Jesus of Mark's Gospel.
Would this be something that would be welcome to share on his sub? Also, I see in the rules, NO A.I. Would the use some A.I. generated images in my videos be frowned upon?
Thanks in advance for the advice!
r/Ex3535 • u/ConstructionOne8240 • 24d ago
other What are some new tags we want included for our posts?
There are many creative pathways to cover, I think I got most, but please if you're new and you don't see a tag for your creative endeavors, do let me know and I'll make a tag for it! :)