A piece inspired by @skitter-kitter's fanfic The Loving Embrace of a Red Supergiant! I've always wanted to draw something inspired by this fic, especially when it genuinely made me feel so much joy- yet I kept wondering on what to do! ...until a well-timed ask of course. :3c
The visual of seeing Lear being held by Hoopa in his Unbound Form is one I enjoy to scribble here and there, so I decided to make a piece to just capture the warmth and joy the fic would express! Hopefully I could convey it, even if it isn't directly taken from a line in the written work.
Anyways, hope everyone enjoys this! ...and...please, if you enjoy Pokemon Masters EX and enjoy Lear and Hoopa's dynamic, read the fic!
me, gearing up to explain why the dragon prince's latest seasons have continued to disappoint me, that while i love the lore and worldbuilding and characters there are clear pacing issues that are so jarring it takes me out of the experience, and that i say all of this with great love for the series but there's only so much good concepts can do before animation has to catch up in order to retain the average viewer's attention. that although season 4 and 5 have been branded as "the mystery of aaravos" the titular character barely appears and that is a crime to me, that even if it's for the suspense and intentionally leaving the viewer/main characters in the dark it's not doing a good job at building up his character and i fear for the exposition dump that will inevitably happen later on. that i will be harsh in critiquing this series because i love it so much and want it to be the best it can be: *inhales*
also me the moment i actually finished the goddamn season:
maybe its the purple robes and the eyelashes but now that you mention she's a tutorial character she reminds me of toriel
OMG SHE KINDA DOES... honestly way more than anything the main inspiration was maya fey (she also shares a sort of similar story position; more of an overall assistant than an actual tutorial character), but DAMMIT toriel is wonderful so if electrum evokes that at all then i consider it a Success.....!
I bought a new brand of 3D Printer filament for my Ender 3, now I'm just looking over and watching my printer like an old man watches a construction site.
As a computer with better/faster graphics is (at long last!) on its way into the local workflow, I took some time last night to set up the the current graphics machine to do a quality-control test on one of the Middle Kingdoms characters.
It’d hardly be a surprise to anyone familiar with the platform that people who create characters for Daz Studio generally seem to spend more time on the skin quality of female characters than on males. This can leave the artist feeling a little concerned about what they’re likely to find if they zoom in too close on one of the male figures.
Still, it’s smart to do it at least once or twice to see what kind of results you get. In the case of the two figures I’ve been using for the main male MK characters -- the Leo 7 figure for Herewiss and the Gianni 7 figure for Freelorn -- I put this off for a while until several apps came along that allowed me to convert them to the more advanced Genesis 8 figure standard without (I seriously hoped) a lot of loss of fine detail.
After the conversion I used them both for months without any significant problems, but also without checking the “fine detail” end of things. Finally, though, last night, I thought “WTH, let’s run a really close render for a change and see how things look.” So (because it was handy) I grabbed the Daz file from which I’d generated Freelorn’s “backstory” image for the Steldene Honey-fried Apples recipe over at the Food And Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms site, added a new camera that would let me pick up close detail, pushed it in, and left the machine rendering it overnight.
...And found this waiting for me when I got up:
...Seriously, I was worried for some reason? WTF. Look at this. (Enlarge it if you can. Right-clicking it might work.) (Or you can view these two images here and here, in full-screen resolution, at the MK site.)
(helpless laughter) ...His pores are smaller than mine. I want to know where he’s getting his moisturizer.
...Now of course, nothing’s ever quite perfect. There’s still some work I could do on the figure’s eyes. But that can wait. Plainly, as far as this issue goes, I can leave it to one side and make better use of my time working out what happens when he has to [REDACTED] in TOTF3: The Librarian...