#sorry if this is completely incomprehensible

[hubr1s69]

I’ve never done digital 3D art before, I’m curious, when you texture skin is it a matter of going in with a “brush” and carving at the model? Or do you work with an overlay and like adjust it however you do until you’re satisfied?

hey! good question, it's usually a mix of both! i think every artist has their own way of going about it but the process for me is roughly this:

start off with doing most of the height information sculpting in zbrush basically this is most of the 'carving at the model' part of the process for me and it includes as you said, chiseling away at the model with different brushes and using alpha maps to achieve a detailed look!

2. this is what i ended up with on this project, i then transferred (baked) this info to my low poly which is this:

it's a low-information (low polycount) version of the high-information (high polycount) sculpt! i personally use Substance Painter which is a texturing and baking software

VERY simply put it makes it so all the pores and surface information get baked into a normal map texture which 'fakes' surface details by reflecting the light rays in the render engine in ways specified by the normal map

3. in substance painter i start layering tileable skin textures in specific areas, masking some or otherwise warping them to avoid having a too uniform look, most of the time i start with a lot of different layers of tileable textures and then at the end go in again with handpainted areas and details for a finishing touch!

hope that somewhat explains it! it's a rabbit whole of a subject to be honest so i tried keeping it surface level

[ghostinb00ts]

i feel like the anime didn’t do rashomon justice AT ALL. sure, it’s cool and glowy and dragon-like and that’s cool but. like. the manga did it so much better.

while reading, rashomon feels like pure, empty void. not just some black dragon. panels like this—

—tell the reader that the ability is darker than dark. much like dazai and akutagawa’s hair, it doesn’t have shading or highlights. to me, this has always symbolised their “port mafia black” blood. because even other characters with dark hair (ranpo, fyodor, kyouka, yosano) have highlighting.

not to mention: IT’S PART OF HIS COAT!!!!!!! IT’S. PART. OF. HIS. COAT!!!! that’s his whole ability, isn’t it?? he can manipulate the fabric he’s wearing to do whatever he wants. until i read the manga, i didn’t even know that. in the anime, rashomon always seems like some sort of dark force coming from somewhere near akutagawa. like this:

but the manga’s version, you can see how rashomon rips and folds, tearing at the seams to create a hulking monster made of pure darkness.

but the anime… well i probably don’t even have to say it. while it looks cool, it’s not nearly as terrifying as the manga. where i think the issue is, personally, is the lighting. obviously the manga has it’s advantages, being primarily in grayscale, but like i said before- rashomon is pure darkness. like the port mafia, it’s the night in the night/twilight/day metaphor the series uses. the thing that makes the ability so scary is that you can’t conceive what it would look like in real life.

is there anything i can about it? no. will i complain about it? yeah.

[siltslut]

relistening to the first episode of s3 and i love how carpenter being literally unable to shake the parish (they are literally hunting her down at all times) can be a great metaphor for leaving a faith. no matter how far you run from it there will always be leftover parts of it that stick with you forever. especially because she’s fresh out of it and still working to “wash her hands of it” if you will. i just think it’s a fantastic way to tie a metaphor into the plot it works so well i love carpenter

[thespineoftherighteous]

i went to a hockey game the other day and in between periods they sent this little league hockey team out on the ice to entertain and. when i tell you that shit was the best thing i have ever seen IN MY LIFE. they were so small and so slow and they would all chase after the puck in one huge blob and they would just fall at random points it was enchanting

it also got me thinking, idek if exy even had well established minors/majors leagues yet while they were kids but, imagine Kevin and Neil, tiny, in their little league exy gear, probably excited about getting to stay up past their bedtimes for this, and probably taking it way more seriously than they should've as children, bracing themselves before going out and then reassuring each other after coming back.. I'm not really going anywhere with this I've just had the image of little Kevin and little Neil doing that shit together in my head

[nonbinary-catboy]

Ethersea is very very good. "our bodies are choirs and we are the songs they are singing" is a quote I saw before I started listening to it and it was 1000% better in context. I however did not expect it to be in the same episode that they establish that the character who said it has a dick that is as sharp as a knife.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

woe mundane monopoly headcanons be upon ye

follow for more of modern au hua cheng’s outfits

[aq2003]

martha jones is kind of like if horatio and ophelia were one person tbh

this post by darkcomedies

s03e08 human nature // hamlet (2009), act 3 scene 2 // hamlet to horatio, act 3 scene 2 // martha about ten, s03e09 the family of blood // s03e03 gridlock // hamlet (2009), act 5 scene 1 // canary in a coal mine by the crane wives

s03e02 the shakespeare code // hamlet (2009), act 3 scene 1 // ophelia about hamlet, act 2 scene 1 // s03e07 42 // hamlet (2009), act 3 scene 2 // s03e05 evolution of the daleks // hoping on another life by madds buckley

hamlet's letter to ophelia, act 2 scene 2 // s03e13 last of the time lords // hamlet (2009), act 5 scene 2 // the shooting script for s03e07 42 // the tags on darkcomedies' post

[brknmachine]

wip posting

[peach-flavored-cyanide]

O-KAY since it was requested (thank you @qin-qin16 ^_^) it's time to ramble about this idiot

topics/drawings of body horror ahead, as well as possibly some other disturbing content?

Umbra is a personal interpretation of Nightmare that I have based on the idea of the corruption working as a parasite of sorts, similar to the cordyceps fungus.

The lore of dreamtale is generally the same, except for the apple incident. It's still a work in progress, though, so it has some pretty big holes in it.

The main jist is a few days to weeks before Dream would turn to stone, Nightmare gets force-fed a negativity apple that had fallen from the tree of feelings.

This apple held a parasite/fungus of sorts that was slowly feeding off of and sapping the negativity from it.

So, when it entered Nightmare's body, it's pretty obvious what happened.

It was slow to spread at first, but with Nightmare so stressed from what was happening with the villagers, he didn't put up much of a fight when it started to take over, latching to his core and attaching to his back in an attempt to spread out through his ribcage.

It was pretty painful, and extremely exhausting, so he only really sat beside the tree. Dream, unaware, only guessed that he was staying up all night reading again.

One day, a young villager came by, and terrified at the sight of black tendrils coming from out of Nightmare's clothing, they ran to their parents. This caused a sort of mob to form, and from all of the negative emotions from both the villagers and Nightmare himself, the corruption quickly grew and took over.

Now to some other stuff/facts that aren't entirely backstory related:

- Nightmare, over time, has grown much more gaunt underneath the corruption as it has basically completely covered his body. More modern drawings of him are much skinnier, especially in the arms and fingers.

- Any part of him that gets injured, especially to an extreme degree, gets grown over. This is what happened to his eye.

- Nightmare can still shapeshift, although it is extremely tiring for the corruption, and extremely painful for him. Because there is still a (mostly) whole skeleton underneath, his bones are practically snapped apart and put back together whenever he shapeshifts.

(^ This has also given him something similar to scoliosis, as the corruption isn't particularly great at the 'putting back together' part.)

here are some of the forms he can take (pls excuse my horrible handwriting)

- Nightmare is completely aware underneath the corruption, and as he grows older, it grows weaker. He is much more aware than he was 400 years ago.

- This also means he...Wasn't a particularly good person back then. He is much, much better nowadays. He's still volatile on occasion, but nowhere near as unpredictable as he used to be.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

i've mentioned here and there that i made a relationships/dynamic spreadsheet. i have finally put it to use. look on my Works, ye mighty, and despair.

-extra note: i am not omniscient and i cannot watch every stream. i may have missed a sibling declaration or two.

-extra extra note: i currently speak only english and used google translate for the rest. if theres a translation error I'd love to know- i wont be able to go back and fix these, but im always so curious about how accurate google translate can be

extra extra note pt 2: do. do other languages use guardian as in "legal guardian" as in "not a family member but still Primary Caregiver of child" because i am suddenly aware those translations might not be correct. on the other hand tho if google translate decided that the parents are guarding warriors of the eggs im not going to argue

[kindest-little-fella-in-town]

(and then there were none spoilers under the cut)

this video really spoke to me

[melit0n]

What does Sleep, as in the deity, look like to you guys? Because as someone who's been around in the Sleep Token fandom for a while, I've seen a lot of different interpretations.

To me, Sleep doesn't really have a set, physical body outside of a person's (perhaps Vessel's) dreamscape. Afterall, why should something that dictates all the odd, horrifying, joyful and (sometimes) meaningful things that happen in your dreams be one thing? Sleep could be the shadow in the corner of your dark room you swear is moving, the tapping of rain as you're about to fall asleep, the creaking of the pipes inside your house/apartment as you slowly dose off at your desk, etc. Outside of a dreamscape; Sleep is only what you need it to be. Hence Its need for Vessel as Its mouthpiece.

However, in the dreamscape, I can see Sleep as a fish. Not a particularly alive looking one, per say, but the scattered remains of one. All bones, empty eye sockets (but are they truly empty?), rotting flesh and scales peeling off bit by bit etc. Specifically, a kind of deep-sea fish; like an angler fish, a sixgill shark or a Greenland shark. But! Along with its bones, Sleep has bioluminescent innards. Viceral that ebbs and flows in multi-colour fashion with each flick of Its tail.

The deep sea fish imagery mainly comes from the fact that the deep sea is almost completely unknown; many of the creatures down there are completely alien to us, like Sleep has supposedly become over the hundreds of thousands of years that It's existed. The deep sea, for the most part, is completely silent. Calm; the perfect place for a nap (if you can breath underwater of course).

It's the perfect habitat for the Unknown, odd and horrifying.

[gashu-satou-daily]

is gashu as a child even a thing

is it even fathomable

ANSWER: not really!

Because, when looking at the rest of the main YTTD cast- you can fathom all of them being children! You can picture what Shin would be like as a child, you can picture child Q-Taro, hell, you could even piece together what a child Mishima would look like! As they're presented to the audience, they are incredibly dynamic characters, shown in multiple stages of their life, overcoming hardship and whatnot!! Characters like Mishima and, like, Miley are different in some ways- you never get, like, CGs of them as children, but you see how they present themselves and you get stories of where they came from, and a player of the game can understand them from that! Mishima is a high school teacher who genuinely wants to help people, although he has his vices and past troubles, and Miley is a woman driven to some sort of wack-ass sadism from being picked up after one of her hardest times- her fiance dying- and placed into a goddamn cult! Through all of the YTTD characters, you can see the difference between the facades that they put up and their goals, but with Gashu?

Gashu is not presented like all of these sympathetic characters, he's a man defined solely by his devotion to Asu-naro and the front he puts up because of it. Even during his Second Main Game Breakdown, you see only the devotion of a broken old man. You can't understand how he was made this way, he's separated himself from everything that makes him human.

so like. it is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to understand what he would b like as a kid, as we never see the line between Gashu's past as a normal human and Gashu as a servant of Asu-naro's mechanical god. and that is honestly some baller character work t b h!!

[myaoiboy]

how do u feel abt bottom solid snake? 👀 (and Otacon being an absolute weeb degen when it comes to fucking him hc)

okay so first of all i should clarify that basically all of my ships go both ways (bc i am a filthy vers and i cannot relate to only being into one or the other kjhfkdsj)

i looooove snake bottoming, especially with grey fox and kaz bc imo they're more likely to want to fuck him up real bad (Kaz for Revenge Related Reasons, Fox cause he's just kinky like that)

my thoughts on otacon TOPPING however, are complicated. im of two minds:

one, i relate to him. kinda also look like him (is that a self own? feels like one). i like topping. otacon topping makes me go :))) from dopamine

HOWEVER in-universe i feel like he has shit to unpack, trauma-wise, before he can top. dude probably thinks his dick is cursed, i know i would. That's not to say i think he doesnt top, i just think there's a lot of Fun Trauma Breakdowns in the meantime. I feel like for a long time, cis or trans, otacon has to use straps/sheaths to top bc he *cannot* be directly inside someone, probably a mental thing mostly, like fear that if he does something bad will happen.

He totally has something like this:

snake strikes me as a whiny/needy bottom. dunno why, I think he puts on such a front of being stoic most of the time, and when he gets to let go of control he just busts apart like a fucking pillsbury tube.

i forget if ive said it on here before but like. what's the point of having a superspy boyfriend if you're not having freaky RP sex on the reg? they totally do.

Do we know if snake speaks japanese? if he didn't before, he totally at LEAST picks up weeby dirty talk from hal's hentai. he can do a shockingly good hentai girl impression sigh/moan/scream etc, and ahegao faces of course. even out of the bedroom, he totally says ara ara and calls him onii-chan to fluster him too, things like that.

[merry-fagoland]

OMG finally I found somebody that thinks the same, like the thing we already know that dain will be a character we can get but still we know they don't hesitate to kill characters in their other games and he's clearly sick of life but I really want to see him succeed in the thing he's doing because he clearly still has plans with the traveler and most likely want to break the curse for everyone and then dies because that would be clean ending that probably gonna make me cry for two months but it will be Probably a better ending than keeping him alive !

YES YES YES. YOU GET IT. like. i think dainsleif is going to die and i think he KNOWS it. he's very driven to break the curse and stop the abyss order, and he wont let himself stop until he does, and his duty is fulfilled. but i think he is fully aware that if he ever accomplishes this goal that he's not going to walk out alive.

but i also think this is important for him because he's also just. tired.

at the end of the journey he'll finally be able to rest. and for a man who can't die, what better rest is there than to... well.

[cowboyskeletons]

and sparrow's son loves the world so much and loves everyone around him and how can sparrow tell him that the world is cruel? how can he tell him that love will be punished and that cruelty is the only way to survive? normal's love scares him, he loves his son so much but that love scares him. he would do and has done anything for his son but he knows that it has led to his own ruin. and he loves his son but too much love has only ever harmed him and maybe he can take a model from his own dad and multitask.

maybe he can love his son but he hates him too, hates that normal can love and hates that normal can be loved and hates that normal can be so oblivious to the cruelty around him in a way that he himself lost when the world ended. he wants his son to have everything but loathes that fact that normal'll never try. that he just accepts life as it is. the way his dad did, when sparrow saluted henry and went along with the world's end and turned a blind eye to his wife's infidelity.

he sees himself in normal, maybe. maybe he hates that. because he lost himself, that day he lost his father's care and his mother's respect, and he can't bear to see himself lost again. normal needs to be cruel because otherwise he will be crushed and sparrow can't do that again. can't let himself be crushed again.