I know some of you need it, so I’m tagging this “trypophobia,” remember to re-tag if you reblog.
But speaking of which, I thought that might constitute an interesting monster ability in itself. If you aren’t afraid of barnacles, the Barnaclops can make you afraid of them by looking at you.
It also has the power of being both sharp and very, very dirty, which is ALSO true of actual barnacles! Margret and I used to get some nasty infections on our hands after handling tide pool creatures in Florida, but how can you not??? How can you let a little thing like “flesh eating bacteria” stop you from playing with sea sponges and limpets????
So a company called “Epic Miniatures” was selling my barnacle monster as a “Fungus Golem” without my knowledge, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they really had no idea, and maybe they didn’t, but I asked them about it as kindly as I could on Facebook and they never answered, then I asked just as kindly on their Discord
…And they responded by quietly banning me from the server??
I even said it was a great model and I wouldn’t mind working with them?? I DO NOT KNOW AT ALL if the moderator who booted me actually represents them or is literally only their discord mod. It’s still possible that whoever’s in charge is unaware of this and would have been reasonable about it, so it wouldn’t help for anyone to be a dick to them, but since I’m now cut off from ways to contact them, it would help if they were politely asked about it more. Folks might also wanna look over their models to see if they recognize anyone else’s designs. These are all their links: https://linktr.ee/epic_miniatures
there will never be a funnier visual gag to me than someone falling over and immediately exploding like they stepped on a landmine
can centaurs reach their own butts? :0
I often get this ask in conjunction with "how do centaurs put on pants?" The answer is that centaur alien arms are proportionally longer than you think, and their back is more flexible than you think. They're not built like a classic humanoid centaur, their arms are as long as their legs and they're closer to a gigantic dog in terms of bendiness than a horse.
I'm sorry "ankle"?! I know horses have weird leg anatomy but why is that not a knee??
Not jay so I can’t speak for them of course but centaurs seem to have back legs comparable to digitigrade/unguligrade life here on earth. Humans are plantigrade, so for us to have a digitigrade structure is like lifting your heel off the ground and standing on your toes. Unguligrade is even more weird where you’re basically standing on your toe tips, something humans struggle to do because we don’t have hooves :P I don’t actually know if centaurs count as unguligrade or not, haven’t brushed up on their anatomy in a while.
When you’re looking at the back leg of an animal (with anatomy like earth animals at least) the first joint pointing forward is the knee, and the 2nd joint that points backwards is the ankle. So comparing centaurs to our legs, its like if the thigh and shin/calf were really short, while the 1st segment of the foot (before the toes) was really long.
Yeah, basically. Animals like dogs and horses don’t have a knee that faces backwards, they have really high ankle, labeled here as the tarsal bones:
Centaurs didn’t evolve from the same common limb morphology as Earth mammals but they have some similar bones. Roughly speaking, they have an extra segment compared to us. The midlegs also have a strange bone analogous to a shoulder blade in Earth mammals that is derived from a “femur” bone, and the foreleg/arm girdle is more like a pelvis than mammalian shoulders.
hey i love your critters and creatures but i struggle to figure out what species is which, i thought the towers were the spiky ones but then you posted a thing about towers featuring those and also the tall ones that look more towerey, this might just be because i’m a fool but i’d love an explanation on which is which so i can better enjoy your kickass world building and BEASTIES
Towers are multi-body intelligences, every caste is the same species, and makes up one individual’s body.
The drones communicate using radio, which they use unconsciously, like how you use electric signals to move your hands.
Towers birth drones involuntarily whenever their body senses the need for them. Towers pollinate and birth hubs rarely, once they have a secure standing in their region.
New chimera OC! Big ole lore filled info dump below!
When will my free time come back from the war?
I want to do art fight :'(
jesus fucking christ
"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike
Source: deadline.com
Kronos Jackelhound art doll- commission.
Character belongs to customer
UV resin, fabric fur, wire+plastic armature, primer, acrylic paint, varnish. Posable neck has plastic ball-and-socket armature inside and can be posed. Tail and arms are also posable and contain wire armature inside, wrists are bendable as well. Legs and lumbar also contain wire armature inside, so you can carefully and slightly move it to find perfect balance if you keep the doll on uneven surface.
Size: Doll is 38cm tall
Tkhorm, a huge black beast and my old good friend, walks in the sunset field ~
Made in Blender.
Source: villiedoom
I'll draw these better later The crew in the Blades in the Dark game I'm running tangled with this watchdog hull and didn't have a great time! Its gaze is paralyzing.
A few actions, an electroplasmic bullet, and a lot of migraines later, the cutter twisted its entire head off and took it as a trophy
Small Willy-Willy (Dust-Devil) Heading North
Outback Australia Acrylic, Crayon, & Pastel on Canvas 122 cm x 106 cm
Glaze is out!
Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?
Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.
I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.
Art thieves already hate it:
Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.
The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222
As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:
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A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:
The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)
It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).
Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).
It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.
The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).
It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)
It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)
IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).
Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)
The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)
When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.
Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)
The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles
From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)
You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash