They’re So Weird

My first scene for the Sock Opera Reanimation project

-The Lord-

It’s him . Stark Dalker

how would u redesign Moon

I actually made this a while ago, here's my Moon redesign!

Her design might be a little on the nose, but I have Moon a ton of moon-themed patterns and shapes, as well as a few odd stars! She's wearing Qibli's earring and a few other pieces of silver star jewelry, as well as a small pouch for odd trinkets. Additionally, I decided to make her well-muscled and very healthy compared to other nightwings of her age since she canonically had better access to food/water because she was born in the rainforest, and is described to be a good hunter. Her teardrop scale is obstructed by the glasses, but don't worry - I didn't forget!

A lot of this design is based purely off the vibe moon gives me... I always imagined her with a green color scheme and the glasses because it just felt right. I really love Moonwatcher. She grew on me a lot during my second time reading through the jade mountain arc, and tbh guys I wish she got with Kinkajou instead. No hate to the other ships!

As always, I love seeing your requests pop into my inbox! Here are the current characters in waiting: Sunny, Moon, Clearsight, Blue, Luna, freedom, Bigtail, Cricket, Clay, Blaze, Queen Thorn, Starflight, Darkstalker, Tsunami, Winter and Kinkajou! If you don't see your favorite here or have another question/something to say, stop by my askbox!

see you later! ૮ ・ﻌ・ა

Update! A kind soul over on twitter let me know that there are pretty reliable AI art checkers online, that have been developed by people specialising in AI and machine learning!

An NYT article also talks about the pros and cons of a number of them.

I tested all the 3 free open access sites (Illuminarty, Optic AI or Not, Umm-Maybe) and only Illuminarty and Optic AI or Not gave consistent results on both art and photographs.

I'll put the links below so anyone can go and check for whichever art they want to (download the original images from tumblr posts, and upload them)

https://www.aiornot.com/#home

https://app.illuminarty.ai/

These are the results :

Optic flagged it as AI immediately.

But Illuminarty had very interesting aspect : when I uploaded the full image, AI probability was 10%. but, on cropping out the bottom of the image (jacket) the probability jumped to 73.9%

This is consistent with my original comment on the art here

My limited understanding of these programs indicate that they scan the entire image including all the individual pixels. AI programs like Stable Diffusion, Mid Journey, DallE all leave signal artifacts when they process an image, which is then left on the final pic generated!

Compare these two @/skykashi original arts, that are immediately flagged as human made.

And now I get to my favourite AI art bro in the fandom @madasama! I commend you for admitting that you not only use AI, but are proud of producing a large number of "real" arts in such a short time!

Here's your "art"s results!!

@elhnrt made a far more detailed and organised post about this specific weirdo, feel free to check it out!

I will be using fandom tags on this particular post so that it has a broader reach. Especially for genuine digital artists and art lovers. Save the links, and always keep an eye out for AI, it's everywhere these days.

Ooh, what’s this? Pallets I spent entire night making to probably never use in a drawing? Yeah, I do that.

Send me a number and/or a name of the pallet + character, if you’d like me to draw something. You can use these pallets in any way you want as well. Tag me, maybe. I’d love to see what you do with them.

POV: you just fucked up

As a 5th-Semester Animation Student, I am surprised at how little I actually yell about the animation of this Show.

You guys-

You guys have no idea the actual genius of 9 Story Entertainment and BrownBag Films (The Production and Animation Studio for the Wild Kratts Episodes)

First of all. This is not traditional 2D animation.

This is Cut-Out Animation, also known as 2D Rigged Animation or Puppet Animation. Other shows you might be familiar with that use this technique are Bluey, Hilda, Rick and Morty, or the Big Hero 6 TV Show. There are more but these came to my mind first.

Cut Out Animation can be very limiting, because you work with 2D sprites in a 3D environment almost. The Tech Artists, sometimes called Character Builders, are the ones that take the design of the characters and creatures and build a 2D skeleton of sorts, putting bones inside of the png drawing and allowing it to move. It might sound easy, but trust me when I say it is a tiring process and the node-view is horrifying, haha.

I don't know if people would care for an actual deep-dive into the animation of the show, because believe me, I can talk a lot about it, as someone who is familiar with the animation technique, the technical/character building aspects of it, as well as someone who has actually access to the Software the Animation Studio is using to make these episodes (I kid you not when I say that I am in possession off all the tools to make my own Wild Kratts episode, minus the backgrounds because I hate doing those)

For those that care, THIS is what the animator sees before the episode gets finished, lol

Say hi to "Chad", he was part of the Shortfilm I made with some others in my third Semester at uni.

The purple plots are controllers with which you move the character around.

The green lines and dots are deformers which make the character able to bend and stretch.

Also, the thing in the right window is the beloved node view, or at least a small aspect of it. All these small squares have meaning and I won't even try to explain

While Cut Out Animation isn't my strong suit (Traditional 2D and 3D animation is) I would still be down to talk more about it if anyone cares to listen, lol. Even beyond the software capabilities, the show is actually very interesting to look at from a production standpoint and I would love to just talk more about the animation in general because let me tell you, it is much better than people give it credit for!

you’ve seen red seawing, and banana icewing, now get ready for suspiciously-mango-shaped nightwing

🪕 DragonBard [auction OPEN] 🐉 Design is open for offers! All info below:

🪕 SB: $250 🐉 AB: $650 (+minor changes if you want; wings are optional)

After payment this character will be yours (+high-res files)! You can invent any story for character and make changes in design in future pictures. (!) Design is not for commercial use, NFТ or АI.

This auction is duplicated on my Bluesky, Twitter, Patreon and FA accounts, so you can place an offer on any of these (you must have a non-empty account) or DM me! (auction will end in ~24 hours from the last offer)