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I want to make a creature design portfolio with really consistent pieces of work using the the workflow of Hardy Fowler, from Digital Painting Studio. I'm just in time for the last day of #Mermay, so here you go: A mermaid/merfolk inspired by an #Oarfish! I forgot to record the creation process, unfortunately. I'm probably going to focus on creature design the coming weeks, so you can expect more of these kinds of work.
#FantasyArt #CreatureDesign #Mermaid #Merfolk
#FantasyArt #CreatureDesign #Mermaid #Merfolk
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@sml Ah, thanks! It really worked using the workflow of Hardy Fowler. Check out this tutorial if you're interested: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9avv3nTfms
Concept Art Tutorial: Creating an Organic Creature with Digital Painting
Let's design and render a creepy organic creature. I'll go through my process of using value edges to create believable musculature, skin and all kinds of fl...YouTube
Thanks, I'll definitely check it out!
This kind of art reminds me a lot of the stuff from Bobby Rebholz, I'm a huge fan of his pencil art. The depth and detail he creates is insane.
This kind of art reminds me a lot of the stuff from Bobby Rebholz, I'm a huge fan of his pencil art. The depth and detail he creates is insane.
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The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again): https://portside.org/2023-05-30/peasants-are-seizing-commons-again
The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)
DEVON, ENGLAND —A ghostly rider on a skeletal horse is said to roam the windswept moors of southwestern England. According to legend, “Old Crockern” guards the sprawling expanse of Dartmoor from those who would try to close it off from commoners.Portside
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Statement from
Roger Waters
after Berlin‘s finest police force is after him for wearing a nazi uniform at a recent concert.
Krautland is a disgrace.
They haven’t learned one thing over the past 80 years.
Fuck them real nazis.
Roger Waters
after Berlin‘s finest police force is after him for wearing a nazi uniform at a recent concert.
Krautland is a disgrace.
They haven’t learned one thing over the past 80 years.
Fuck them real nazis.
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@wyliesauLmao, "i don't often dog whistle, but when i do it's in front thousands of people under the guise of performing art".
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The new report found that this past year, out of a $1.8 trillion federal discretionary budget, the U.S. spent a staggering $1.1 trillion – or 62% – of that budget on militarism and war.
https://popularresistance.org/new-report-1-1-trillion-or-62-of-the-federal-discretionary-budget-was-spent-on-militarism-and-war-last-year/
https://popularresistance.org/new-report-1-1-trillion-or-62-of-the-federal-discretionary-budget-was-spent-on-militarism-and-war-last-year/
New Report: $1.1 Trillion Was Spent On Militarism And War Last Year
Washington, D.C. – On May 24, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies released a critical new analysis of the militarized budget in the United States, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises our Welfare…Christopher Johnson (PopularResistance.Org)
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Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h
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Happy birthday to @apps@toot.fedilapp.app! #Fedilab is now 6 years old, and it remains my favourite Android app! (And might soon support #Calckey too.) @fediversenews@venera.social
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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.”
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ca.2006, eine gute Freundin erzählt mir, wie sie beim Aussteigen in der S Bahn in Bern etwas zu hastig war und in jemanden hineingelaufen ist. Kurze Entschuldigung, dann die Erkenntnis. Es war der damalige Bundespräsident (CH). 2023, Youtube erzählt mir, es gab große Aufregung, weil sich ein Zivilist unter die Bodyguards von Bundeskanzler (D) beim Einsteigen in dessen gepanzerte Limousine gemischt hat. #verkehrswende
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I am thrilled to announce that UX and UI designer @menica is joining us to improve Godot and gamedev education!
The expertise of UX designers is unfortunately still often undervalued, so we will try to share her work and show you all the things an experienced designer sees that we often miss or don't even think about.
She will work on making educational content more accessible, interactive, and interesting.
The expertise of UX designers is unfortunately still often undervalued, so we will try to share her work and show you all the things an experienced designer sees that we often miss or don't even think about.
She will work on making educational content more accessible, interactive, and interesting.
@gdquest Oh that's a piece of big news! 😍 I really like the work of @menica and I'm sure she'll contribute a lot to make Godot better. Congratz! 👍
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Private and encrypted messenger SimpleX Chat has released version 5.1, which includes message reactions and a self-destruct passcode, among other updates.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/5/simplex-chat-5-1-has-been-released-with-message-reactions-and-self-destruct-passcode/
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/5/simplex-chat-5-1-has-been-released-with-message-reactions-and-self-destruct-passcode/
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#simplex is definitely my top pick for secure and anonymous IM...I recommend it to everyone😀. It keeps getting better every release. I'd say it's almost as accessible as signal now.
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And it is very easy to install a new SMP server on an AMD64 Yunohost to decentralize the network. https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=simplex A desktop client is the only thing missing IMO.
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Capturing carbon with machines is a failure. So why are we subsidizing it?
Policymakers are pouring money into techno-fixes to solve the climate crisis, even though scientific studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
https://www.alternet.org/capturing-carbon-with-machines-failure/
Policymakers are pouring money into techno-fixes to solve the climate crisis, even though scientific studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
https://www.alternet.org/capturing-carbon-with-machines-failure/
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The the writers strike already has at least one icon—and she’s not a writer. Lindsay Dougherty is a Teamster boss who heads up Local 399. She said Teamster trucks would not cross picket lines. And she sent a raucous message that rang out through Hollywood: “What I’d like to say to the studios is: If you want to fuck around, you’re gonna find out." HTTPS://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/meet-the-writers-strikes-secret-weapon-hollywood-teamsters-boss-lindsay-dougherty
Meet the Writers Strike’s Secret Weapon: Hollywood Teamster Boss Lindsay Dougherty
“We are the hammer to their pencil”: How a woman who “gives no f--ks” is determined to unite entertainment industry labor.Joy Press (Vanity Fair)
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Let me rephrase: do you stand to lose anything if wealthy corporations continue to put pressure on wages and benefits for workers?
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It's not possible to protect children by banning their privacy, breaking #encryption or putting a backdoor into online services, which realistically, can be exploited by anyone. That is not protection, it's the opposite.
#onlinesafetybill #uk #cognitivedissonance #infosec
#onlinesafetybill #uk #cognitivedissonance #infosec
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Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!
https://www.blendernation.com/2023/05/23/project-gold-new-blender-open-movie-announced/
#blender #blender3d #b3d
https://www.blendernation.com/2023/05/23/project-gold-new-blender-open-movie-announced/
#blender #blender3d #b3d
Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!
The Blender Studio has just announced Project Gold, it's next Blender Open Movie! While the studio is finishing up its current open film, "Pet Projects", this next one seems to be an ambitious project…Mario Hawat (BlenderNation)
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The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says social media is damaging to the mental health of children and adolescents. In a report released today, he details what parents and teens can do about it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/social-media-mental-health-anxiety-depression-teens-surgeon-general-rcna85575
The report:
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/social-media-mental-health-anxiety-depression-teens-surgeon-general-rcna85575
The report:
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth
Social media is driving teen mental health crisis, surgeon general warns
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy blames social media for rising rates of anxiety, depression and other mental health struggles among teens and adolescents.Erika Edwards (NBC News)
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Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle https://grist.org/accountability/plastic-bottles-harm-human-health-at-every-stage-of-their-life-cycle/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle
A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their plastics.”Joseph Winters (Grist)
Not sure if you've seen the continuation of this image, where the next step is to remove the fence completely and let everyone watch from ground level, described as "removal of the source of inequality instead of trying to work around it. Tried to find the image but couldn't. Anyway, I think that image would be a nice further ELI5 of socialism (your image, inequality still exists but we have systems to nullify it as much as possible) vs communism (no or almost no inequality by design).
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@AgreeableLandscape oh yeah I like that variation as well, it's a fun meme as it gets the point across visually really well
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No one ever asks "how will roads pay for themselves or make a profit". But they do it with the post office and public transit. It's a brilliant messaging strategy to make people forget that their gas guzzling monopoly loses money paid for by taxes, but the other services are held to another standard entirely
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Strong Towns is a great resource on the flaws of how we currently look at ROI for large development and infrastructure projects
https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Towns-Bottom-Up-Revolution-Prosperity/dp/1119564816/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=strong+towns&qid=1685218314&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Towns-Bottom-Up-Revolution-Prosperity/dp/1119564816/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=strong+towns&qid=1685218314&sr=8-1
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Week highlights: @Blender 3.6 beta is out, @krita gets MLT-based animation player, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork by Peter Semiletov
More info: https://librearts.org/2023/05/week-recap-21-may-2023/
Featured #b3d artwork by Gabriel Barral
More info: https://librearts.org/2023/05/week-recap-21-may-2023/
Featured #b3d artwork by Gabriel Barral
Weekly recap — 21 May 2023
Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new toolsAlexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)
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Great to see MLT in Krita! From Krita release notes it seems that MLT is used only for audio playback, but no! Reading the full issue it's clear that you got it right: MLT is used for the full animation system. Although it's main benefit is in audio sync https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/1323
Animation Audio Rewrite (!1323) · Merge requests · Graphics / Krita · GitLab
Summary This patch attempts to solve long-standing audio-video synchronization issues by replacing our old QtMultimedia based audio system with a new...GitLab
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The ground below is teeming with vast pyramids and waterways.
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/11-lost-settlements-beneath-amazon?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=May20
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/IntEngineering/status/1659982322412797953
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/11-lost-settlements-beneath-amazon?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=May20
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/IntEngineering/status/1659982322412797953
Ancient settlements discovered beneath The Amazon Jungle
A team of archeologists have uncovered eleven previously unknown ancient settlements beneath the Amazon jungle.Derya Ozdemir (Interesting Engineering)
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I'm a qualified agree. As @Jeremiah pointed out, it's required in some jurisdictions.
In other places, I still think a standard tag should be used, although it would be nice to have a language-appropriate tag, such as #publicité on French posts, alongside or instead of a global one.
Hashtags give disclosure and allows filtering. I think they're a pretty good mechanism.
In other places, I still think a standard tag should be used, although it would be nice to have a language-appropriate tag, such as #publicité on French posts, alongside or instead of a global one.
Hashtags give disclosure and allows filtering. I think they're a pretty good mechanism.
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“Women didn’t get the right to vote ...by voting.”
Sticker spotted in Paris
Sticker spotted in Paris
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If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.
The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites, Study Finds
Cleanup costs for the state’s oil and gas wells are triple what the industry is expected to make in future profits.ProPublica
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ARTIST FRIENDS and FRIENDS OF ARTISTS:
I'm strongly against AI-art, and a SF zine who is publishing one of my stories has a need for HUMAN MADE ART (this is a paying gig), but the deadline is very tight on this. So I'm putting out my feelers to anyone who is an artist or knows someone interested in doing cover art for a SF magazine (deadline: May 28th).
Email me (susankayeq@gmail.com) for details. Thanks for sharing!
(image: some art I commissioned for the Solarpunk Futures expo)
I'm strongly against AI-art, and a SF zine who is publishing one of my stories has a need for HUMAN MADE ART (this is a paying gig), but the deadline is very tight on this. So I'm putting out my feelers to anyone who is an artist or knows someone interested in doing cover art for a SF magazine (deadline: May 28th).
Email me (susankayeq@gmail.com) for details. Thanks for sharing!
(image: some art I commissioned for the Solarpunk Futures expo)
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I don't post or boost posts bashing the Republican party not because I support them but rather because those posts perpetuate the myth that we really have two parties. Sure they have some differences on cultural issues, but in the important areas of economic and foreign policy, I challenge people to show me how they significantly differ. #uniparty
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bandcamp won their union! bandcamp won their union!!
i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing
their full statement - https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-united-release-joint-statement-on-union-vote/
i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing
their full statement - https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-united-release-joint-statement-on-union-vote/
Bandcamp and Bandcamp United Release Joint Statement on Union Vote
Today, a majority of eligible Bandcamp workers voted 31-7 in favor of forming Bandcamp United, a union represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). The vote res…Bandcamp Updates
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Hi all, I have made a #Hometown release that brings us up to date with Mastodon v4.0.4.
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.4%2Bhometown-1.1.1
(I have one for v.4.1.2 coming soon.)
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.4%2Bhometown-1.1.1
(I have one for v.4.1.2 coming soon.)
Release Hometown v1.1.1 (Mastodon 4.0.4) · hometown-fork/hometown
This is a security release, that updates us to Mastodon v4.0.4. The security bug affected servers that use LDAP for authentication, which is not enabled by default (or indeed, usually at all) on Ho...GitHub
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I'm seriously considering putting a new disclaimer in the front of my videos, saying something to the effect of "this video was not made with AI, nor was it sponsored". Something like that.
Should I? This is a poll, not a discussion about AI's merits or the value of sponsorship.
Boosts welcome.
Should I? This is a poll, not a discussion about AI's merits or the value of sponsorship.
Boosts welcome.
- Yes, disclaim at the beginning (53%, 165 votes)
- No, do not disclaim (21%, 65 votes)
- I do not care about this (25%, 80 votes)
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Those are donations, when companies sponsor your video then they'll ask you to advertise their products. I think donations are better because it keeps the content more genuine and ad-free, tho I understand that relying on donations can be unsustainable for a lot of people.
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The Peace in Ukraine Coalition, of which CodePink is a founding member, has requested a brief meeting on Monday May 22, 10:45 AM with Congresswoman Barbara Lee's office to deliver a petition calling for a Ceasefire and Negotiations to end the devastating war in Ukraine.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/17/18856124.php
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/17/18856124.php
End War in Ukraine visit to Rep Barbara Lee's office: : Indybay
Present Rep Barbara Lee with Peace in Ukraine Coalition petition calling for a Ceasefire and Negotiations to end war in UkraineIndybay
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