Enanimoi
E·nan·i·moi [E-nahn-EE-moi] Pronunciation Key
-adjective
1. scribbly; an artistic work accomplished with the non-dominant hand.
2. given to enanimoiness.
3. demonstrating unintentionally disturbing shoddiness of creation due to lack of interest of the creator
4. pertaining to, caused by, or marked by a total lack of quality in exicution: an enanimoi animation.
[Origin: 2007 CA67 at VFS, imit. of the noise a character makes at the end of Rejected.]
-Related forms
enanimoi·ed·ly, adverb
enanimoi·ness, noun
-Synonyms 1. crappy, shoddy, rushed, pathetic.
-Antonyms 1. skillful, excellent
-Usage note See "the gnanimation pony".
Enanimoi elephant:
(Also an enani-moth, pun on mammoth, and...what appear to be small, deformed grass snakes.)
Non-enanimoi elephant:
(Sad that it is not that cool.)
I guess I'm posting this definition so that I don't end up hacking off about, well, hack-job ego-driven sniveling "concept artists" or "animators" who don't think, don't learn, and fuckall think drawing is just copying some else's work poorly to earn chits and kiss up. Yeah, I know that's the oldest rant in my life, and you've all seen or heard or thought it. It's just that it's something I long-ago promised myself was pretty restricted to the crap that anime fans, bad elfwood artists, and highschoolers in AP art churned out. It was supposed to be limited to people who kept Sketchbooks which had three drawings of badly shaded copies of photos, and to petty teenagers who really didn't know any better and were so desperately, achingly in need of someone else's approval that they could justifiably claim that they needed the boost that came from achieving something without working for it.
A pat on the back for a shitty copy of someone else's job well done.
Okay, cool. I try not to beat up 9-year-olds and crow about it, good for me. But what the fuck, "professionals" in the animation industry...yeah, a good number of them are still lazy, attention-whore twits who can't draw or think on their own, so, in a job where they're supposed to produce "concept art"....they just happy copy other concept art poorly, unsourced, and use it in their portfolios. I found someone a few months ago using one of my pictures for that, wahooey, he's just one out of several and probably not the last. Where's this flamefest coming from? I keep running into these losers over, and over, and over again recently. Mostly in the past 12 months, the more I hang out with the wannabes of a city's dieing animation industry. People from my school, people who teach at my school. Complete and utter sycophants who can't create, so they dribble in awe and suck up to people they have randomly decided they can, with all of the fickle and obsequious politics of high school popularity. It's some kind of twisted joy I get out of hitting other artists blogs and saying, "Hey, nice copy of so-and-so's picture-- why don't you SOURCE IT, ASSHOLE, it's not like none of us have seen the art book you copied it from." I try not to pick on students. Really. And we're all students in life. But if you're posting on your goddamned ""professional" portfolio blog", you are boasting to potential employers-- not just your mom, or your girlfriend-- that you have the ability to deliver intellectual properties of that caliber, when in fact, you don't, or aren't even trying. You are either a fucking liar, a cheat, or a coward. Maybe all three.
Yeah I know, I'm working on my people skills. Hey, let's talk about sourcing! Perhaps this is all just a hang-up that I'm carrying over from higher education, where, you know, blatant plagiarism is considered uncouth (or reputation suicide, your choice.)
...Obviously, I'm hiding this off my main blog so that I can someday get hired (and then fired, for saying exactly what I think all the time.)