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bugs is…. shrimp????

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A "fast" rotoscope test I did of Lyta Alexander from Babylon 5.

I was frustrated by the fact that JMS wrote a whole B5 anime *with Lyta involved* and didn't once show her eye transitions, so I figured that'd make for a good square one.

There's rookie mistakes and a ton that needs fixing/cleanup but I want to move on to other tests/etc so I'm releasing this into the wild as-is.

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Y’all I’m watching a show from the 90s and on this episode they made AI chat bots of historical figures and used them to make deepfake propaganda.

This 25 year old show is so dang relevant.

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Never forget that in the pilot episode of Babylon 5 they had ships doing braking maneuvers like in The Expanse, but JMS got a ton of people pestering him online asking why the ships were flying backwards, so for the rest of the series they just had ships accelerating everywhere like in Star Wars.

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I've been keeping up with monthly releases of Raygunslinger and Forsaken!

If space western or military sci-fi are your jam, I got some new pulp for ya

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

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Can I offer you a Babylon 5 meme in these trying times?

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The oppressive Ivy League strata are fucking losing it in their desperation to keep us subservient to employers