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close-up render

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Redone render - Eli

An redone version of this post using Eli's new models and a slightly updated animation. Other than the particles, this is all self-made!

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old render rework WIP

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timelapse of that drawing I shared a while back

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refined my sketch some more; I wanted clear idea in mind of what I was going to be 3d modeling before I started

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A smol collection of some of my favorite Raj expressions

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Close up render of Raj's "wtf" face because it's amusing to me

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5 Minute Eli doodle

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*slaps Eli like in the used car meme*

this bad boy can fit so much family and religious trauma

The TLDR of the religious trauma is because well, he turned out with yellow eyes and horns and his parents (mostly his father) took offense to that. He was born with a tail, but his parents had it removed as an infant. The reason his right horn is broken? His dad did it when he tried to fight back as a teen/young adult! My poor silver meat son has So Many Issues.

This story I'm writing is closer to science fantasy than cyber punk. While I've decided that angels, devils, demons, ghost, ect as well as creatures from other religious lore exist, I also decided they're very rare and seldom seen. All of this just to say that I think it'd be neat if Eli met an angel or a devil.

Random bonus fact: Eli growing extra eyes is actually something he was born with; and persists after becoming a cyborg. They show up when he's stressed, the more eyes, the more stress. They hurt very bad when injured and act like weak spots on a boss in a video game.

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Eli made in Second Life; with a bonus comparison to how he looked before and after becoming a cyborg

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Blender has been giving me a rough time lately so here's pre-cyborg Eli made in Second Life

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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