Oh my gosh I’ve been waiting for people to wake up to this for so long. These games feel like prime examples of “we don’t know what we actually want but our design doc is full of words like aspirational, dynamic, epic and fresh” that weren’t cancelled mid-development.

Oh my gosh I’ve been waiting for people to wake up to this for so long. These games feel like prime examples of “we don’t know what we actually want but our design doc is full of words like aspirational, dynamic, epic and fresh” that weren’t cancelled mid-development.

Ooooooh I'm ace. It all makes so much more sense now.

It’s become apparent to me over the years that most non-religious hate for queer/trans people originates from the idea that LGBTQ+ folk want to be treated as special. They’re seen as seeking out something to “elevate them above” the status quo in the pursuit of attention and fantastical thinking.

Sad to see Affinity go this way but I don't vibe with the "well bye" crowd. Few have the privilege to avoid AI-augmented apps altogether in our world of capitalistic monopolization and Affinity is still the best-cost alternative to Photoshop even despite all the changes.

It’s stuff like this that makes me a little more brazen in owning the whole furry thing. You can hang out and chat with things like this while also being things like this. It’s altogether aspirational, relentlessly self-expressive and is slowly becoming fully realised.

It’s stuff like this that makes me a little more brazen in owning the whole furry thing. You can hang out and chat with things like this while also being things like this. It’s altogether aspirational, relentlessly self-expressive and is slowly becoming fully realised.

It may be of interest to some that you can now reduce Pinterest’s recommendations of GenAI content. It obviously won’t remove it totally (since many pins are grabbed offsite from places like Artstation) but it should reduce the presence of AI in your feed significantly

One of my favourite ngon modeling solutions is a 5-sided face to hold tight inner corners. Very predictable edgeflow (it simply subdivides to a 5-sided pole in the middle of the face) and saves some work on surfaces that allow for it.

Artists don't just own their work, they own the digital makeup of their work. That's all digital art is ultimately: a hyper-specific arrangement of data. GenAI can't function without ingesting a massive collection of that data. Its resulting algorithm is derived solely from data we make and own.

Artists/writers/PC laborers: - Get up for 5 mins every 30 mins - Look at something 20 ft away for 20 secs every 20 mins - Get 7-8 hrs sleep. PRIORITIZE this over all else - Drink 2-3 liters water per day Do these things because you don't want to experience what makes you regret not doing them.

This take from gamers and hobbyist devs seems to emerge every few months. It’s clear consumers broadly misunderstand why dynamic GI is a blessing to development pipelines regardless of scale.

Cliffs

"Blender isn't beginner-friendly," "Substance is hard" no they're honestly fine. *3D* is hard. They have a rep for being hard because they're what most beginners will touch when entering 3D. Maya/ZBrush/C4D/Modo/Houdini will kick your ass just as readily.

Hacker

Any place you wanna go, he’s the guy that can get you in.

Social media breaks should occupy the same priority in people’s minds as exercise, sleep or eating fruit/veg. It’s genuinely bad for you to be stimulated all the time. The way our brains process info and regulate emotions requires you to be bored occasionally.

First time a Windows update was so bad I had to roll it back. It demolished my wifi/bluetooth reliability and apparently it's mangling SSDs in some cases. Maybe skip the August update!

Nice to go out on a slow Sunday after finishing a big project and no-lifing it all month. Melbourne’s lovely today!

So many people will say they'd do anything for their child, even kill for them, yet magically cannot accept someone who would cross a border to give their child a better life and look down upon those who do.

We all might have our own small qualms with Bluesky but X is quite literally not real

You practice so that your worst is still good. When you're exhausted, don't have enough time, the brief is slim, the anxiety's peaking and you're in over your head, at least you can still make it good enough. You draw a ton so when the time comes you simply perspire good draftsmanship.

www.paypal.com/paypalme/zar... It never feels great to posts these things, but I don't have much money and due to my job having delayed pays and I just started I won't see money until late August. Since my apartment burned down I need to get new clothes and such, and I can't afford it right now.

I art directed my studio's contributions to the new Valorant map! We played a major part in concept and pre-production art for this location and I had the pleasure to direct some incredible artists. Very proud of how this has come together! youtu.be/6U7nx6p0P_M?...

American worldview is so prevalent that the world can’t help but see itself through that lens. It feels like some US folk believe I live in a tin-roof shack in the desert surrounded by spiders. Because America presents it that way in its media, the rest of the western-influenced world agrees.

Practice/warmup/speedpaint/whatever you call it

This is two massive entertainment corporations with no morals pursuing the only two things they care about: profit and protecting their IP. This has absolutely nothing to do with protecting artists, despite what they’ll undoubtedly claim. I welcome the great news nonetheless 😌

Don't miss this set if you're at Furality! Poster illustration by yours truly

it burfday

Happy pride! Waving my two flags with aplomb

Many lesser-used VRChat furry avatars seem to suffer a similar problem. Either the whole head's truncated or there's not enough rear skull volume. It's so common it's become a pet peeve of mine lol.

Hardcore suidae

Ice course

Last set of concepts I painted for LAX.

Some more concepts I painted for the now-cancelled game LAX.

I have a somewhat extrovert personality but an introvert social battery, and oh BOY is my body reminding me of that this week. Nice to have the reminder that not being incredibly sociable isn’t such a bad thing when you’re someone who needs the alone time.

Absolutely stoked that we dodged a Liberal (Australian Republican) term and the potential of a Trump-fuelled curtailing of our civil liberties. Congrats to Labor for the landslide win, and thanks to Trump’s absolutely abhorrent international relations for ensuring it.

Baring (CW: faux gore)

Had a lovely picnic in the city with other furs for Good Friday. Great vibes and good weather 🌇

I’ll be avoiding travel to the US for at least the remainder of this term. It’s simply too much of a risk and I can barely handle the travel/jetlag as it is. See you all online 😔

I don’t follow anyone on Twitter so it’s pretty much unfiltered algorithm garbage when I do visit. For the last week it’s been a constant slew of disdain for the AI Ghibli slop. Makes me feel like maybe we’ll be alright 🥹

I have been a bit quiet so I wanna take this moment to shout out one of my favorite artists and show off a commission he did for me a couple of years ago I absolutely still adore this art piece by Logan Preshaw and if you're not already doing so please give him a follow: @wickedinsignia.bsky.social

Just found out that for the last 10 YEARS I’ve been paying $15 monthly to Hightail for an account I completely forgot I signed up for. I’m sure I’ll laugh at this when I get over the $1800 that trickled down the drain.

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Radiance

I fiddle with making realtime assets a lot but usually don’t wind up with much I can show. Trying to change that this year! Made this building for fun, textures mostly by me and rendered in Godot’s compatibility renderer because I wanted to test that out.

The Electric State might not be what we wanted it to be, but in this day and age it probably would never have been made if it tried for that. A film of that nature is a rare treasure and the industry isn’t generally conducive to it. At the very least Simon is happy. Maybe that’s enough for anyone.

Each frame of Flow took 0.5-10 seconds to render. That’s genuinely so nuts. This’d better kick off an era because the industry would benefit so immensely from it.

Checking the chassis

A win for Blender, indie films and international cinema is a win for everyone. Huge congrats to Flow!!!!