I honestly thought I would be done rigging by now. I feel humbled and great respect and awe for how much work animation is.

Still tweaking the eyes and brows but happy with mouth. 👄 ready to have hair again but really need to set up draw order. 😅

great place to end a weekend that exceeded my expectations

So BL4 uses 50% CPU just sitting at the main menu screen (wtf) 💀 but somehow did not crash on me once while playing even if fps did shit the bed at times 🐌💩🤎 1440p with a Ryzen 9 3900X (6yo) and 3070 (5yo) on unadjusted Medium settings.

just a crusty no production WIP of Live2D Head XY. All elements have only been adjusted in a very "flat" way, so I will be giving the eyes more depth and fixing them glitching off the face in future iterations.

Also, for all my crying about being so slow for spending a month on eyes I guess I made about 72 main forms that are made from the layering of about 288 forms that break down to about 450 forms if you go by individual texture. 😳

My next Live2D challenge will be Head XY. I started with some deformer setup. Reading again Himono's face angle guide: note.com/himono_vtube...

Work Out Cynthia 💪✨

the variety of lil faces I can make with the VBridger mouth is really stunning. 👄💖 I've done all the shapes except Mouth X (and possibly some lil physics). (I did VBriger with NVidia Beta, not iPhone, so no tongue out or cheek puff for now)

It took me 4 days to do the first 15 mouth forms. 2 days to do the next 15. and 2 days to do the final 24. ... so I do seem to be getting faster. 🐇 Still need to finish the Shrug and Pucker forms (mostly done) and do Mouth X (not started).

VBridger Funnel mouth forms done pretty quickly! Spent so much time experimenting with the default VBridger model that my face hurt. 😵 I will probably transfer the 1.5 Mouth Open shapes I made to be Press shapes instead since they represent pulling the lips back from a fully opened jaw position.

the void gazes back and demands tribute

Yesterday I did the 2/3 bodyweight RDLs for 3 sets of 10 !! 🫠

Also took me an hour to figure out tariff rates that may or may not be applicable at any given point in the future. 😵‍💫

Read a comment on a video about Live2D mouth forms from someone saying they were intimidated, but that it only took them an hour to make the forms. I know I'll get faster with experience - it's already happening - but it has taken me an hour or more to make each form. X___X

Also, I gave in and got the #Live2D 5.3 beta to make use of new advanced blend modes. 1. eye inner iris lights now better match the original art plus have a nicer shadow color using Color Dodge. 2. face shadows better match original art and blend more nicely using Darken.

I still have so many mouth forms to make (i'm not even halfway there 🥲), but it's rewarding to see the face starting to become flexible and expressive. #Live2D 🫦

some people just have no imagination how you get to old age and never encountered a story with that one chick who exudes such aloof coolness and capability that all the other girls are poppin heart eyes and droppin panties.

Daily #1774 - Slightly drooly, but still cute

Moths beware ME. ❌❌ Sleep forever in the freezer little larvae, no entrance to this cruel world. 💀💀

I actually already did the eyebrows while I was making this quick #Live2D preview XD So onto mouth. 💋 I've learned a lot and am getting faster and better at pre-planning to not waste time, but I think mouth will still be quite a trial. 🏋️💦

Was animating eyebrows and thinking about how much of art is feeling. I know the eyebrow is right when it makes me catch a feeling, when it activates my mirror neurons. I made a lot of faces and looked up quantified data on microexpressions, but the ultimate test is still the act of feeling.

Was freaking out a little because my cmo3 file ballooned to like 125MB, doubling from two days ago. Found out the "snapshots" I thought I was deleting were still being retained. File down to 8MB now. 😂

I'm almost done with the eyes. 🥲

Sigh... I'm sure there are art prodigies out there who painted like a da Vinci or O'Keeffe the 1st time they picked up a brush, but for most of us, it is a process of doing it a LOT and not giving up. And the rewards of seeing those incremental improvements feels better than I can possibly describe.

pantry moths really threw down. Battle won, but more work to win the war. ⚔️ lil bastards spawned from a bag of rice and then got into way too much other stuff (incl. unopened stuff) 😭, guess I gotta freeze grains n stuff for a few days after buying + get secure containers. 🧊❄️ Beware the moth. 🔴🔴

My #Live2D profiles for #Streamdeck have continued to grow. 🌱 Home page getting a little crowded. 🙊

I mirrored the eye in Live2D and now I'm working on making them sisters, not twins. Was ready to move on to eyebrow, but there was some derp to take care of. 🤪 I've seen many tutorials where one eye is made and mirrored but not sure I'd do it that way again.

Cicada season making me want to play Animal Crossing.

This might be my best embroidery yet🦋 #crafts #fiberart #bugs #insects #butterfly #embroidery #artsky #myart

I still hate the idea of getting an iPhone just for face tracking. 😭 on the fence about looking for a used iPhone 11 or sticking with Nvidia Broadcast Beta.

The offscreen drawing and alias features will also be wonderful, I plan to use them all. 💖 (not sure if I will try the beta or wait for full release) #Live2D

Live2D reminds me both of origami and kites. The 2D forms are folded to look like they are catching the wind of life. 🌬️🎐 just a little breath of spirit with physics for that shake rattle and roll. 🎸🪇✨

i made two years of mistakes in two weeks but now the eye is a bouncy castle. 🏰✨ i'm still finishing some of the XY for closed and open eye forms, but wanted to update as it has come so far. 🥲 #Live2D animations by me, model art by @altworkart.bsky.social , music by @bleep.moe

uploaded this 4 hours ago and forgot to post it anywhere lol youtu.be/3Z2wlcjDyhg dnb theme for an upcoming visual novel

Note to self 5.0 🖊️

A few days ago I reached a point in learning Live2D where I could hear In the Arms of an Angel playing over a closeup of my thousand yard stare. 🥲 Real how many roads must a man walk down shit. 🛣️ but I'm almost done with this stupid eye. 👁️

i put off UVing and texturing this forEVER because i totally borked my topo doing some reckless chomp booleans but i fixed it, and spent the last two and half hours throwing some dithers around in Aseprite by way of texturing is it scrappy? yes. am i unreeeeasonably proud of it? ALSO yes 🍔🧋

Went too hard with Live2D the past two days and am sore, but proud of the progress I've made. I couldn't have done that six months ago. 🥲 Looked at my forearms and noticed how much more defined the muscles are now. I'm not fully where I want to be, but doing my best to keep moving forward. 💪🦊

💳: *processes mass payments for industries driving climate change* 😊👍 💳: *processes mass payments for industries with slave labor in supply chains* 😄👍 💳: "we can't process payments for adults who are legally and freely making content that is sexual in nature, consumers might think poorly of us!" 😱

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign But we can EASILY top 1,000! I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send! ↻💬♡ to boost We CAN make a difference 💕 #itch #censorship 1/🧵

you don't have to enjoy or look at smut to acknowledge that it's important, and sexuality is one of the many facets of the human experience that can be expressed through art. shrugging it off is supporting fascism. there is a reason they always target "adult material".

Getting better with glue. 📍📍📍 Refined a bunch of and feeling happy with how expressive the little forms can be coaxed into being. 🥲

ok i'll stop for now i swear (🤥, I just noticed another *one last thing*) (other eye is a placeholder and will be replaced later 🩹)

I worked on my first #Live2D animations wayy too much yesterday and should give my arms a break... by making a little video about it < . < (watching it makes me want to tweak more eye things 👁️👁️) I may now be addicted. 💊✨ (model is not super well organized 🙊) (i'll deal with my problems laterrrr)

tiltify.com/@ironmouse/i... The wide reports of non-payment including half a million for the linked charity are egregious, but what makes me tear up is what they did to her spirit and hearing her apologize repeatedly for what the people who took advantage of her did. 💔😿

Just when I feel competent with artmeshes I gotta set up deformers and parameters and start animating. 😱

I'm bad at posting WIPs, but I'm still making meshes. 🌀o🌀 The boots have their lineart glued back on top of them so I can move the highlights (on their own mesh) under it. Might be able to reduce the amount of line art needed for that later.

🎶 Every mesh is sacred, every polygon is great. If a vertex is wasted god! gets! quite! irate! 🎶