#if you know the model text me

[hrokkall]

Saw a post the other day asking how P03 is able to see; my best guess is something like this.

I actually inspected P03′s 3D model for this which I don’t usually do (and then I proceeded to draw it off-model anyway. Whoops) but even outside of its hypothetical camera-vision, there’s a few other things of note:

P03 seems to have a lot of large vents (or at least things that look like some sort of ventilation/cooling). Two major ones on the chest, three on the top of the head (with potentially another on the side of its head), and one on the underside of its base (though that one might be for the hologram projection it uses to float). My best guess is that it’s because his factory is built right by the water where there would be a TON of moisture in the air. For that reason, some of them have got to be exhausts to make sure all of the air circulating in his torso is dry. That or he just overheats extremely easily I guess, but I’m leaning towards the humidity explanation (or it could be a combination of the two).

Its “eyes” are somewhere on the front of its face; whether it sees through a camera or just through the eyes on the screen via video game magic is up for debate, but it turns to face the player when they stand up so its vision probably isn’t on the sides of its head or something.

Similarly, P03 has some sort of sensitivity to touch (he reacts to Leshy’s hands gripping his monitor before Leshy says anything). I don’t think any “touch sensors” would be externally visible though.

Presumably (based on the ending to Act 3) P03′s head isn’t just a monitor, there’s vital systems in there as well (otherwise tearing its head off wouldn’t do anything to disrupt its upload/its ability to function). My best guess is that his power supply is in his chest so it would be the equivalent of just... unplugging your computer while it’s trying to preform updates.

The wire it uses to connect to the modules to update cards in Act 3 seems to come from either its neck or its torso, but in act 2 it’s very visibly on the side of the head. Granted the act 2 sprites are all pretty different from the Scrybes’ 3D models so that’s not an outlier.

The range of motion in P03′s arm seems pretty similar to a human arm; he has a ball-and-socket joint on the shoulder and a hinge joint on his elbow plus separate segments for the “wrist” and “hand”. The only thing it probably can’t do is twist its forearm.

I don’t have any idea what either of the cranks do. The head crank moves when it changes its expression so it might have something to do with its display, but the arm crank is only shown doing anything on the G0lly Uberbot hologram. My best guess is that P03 used to have a lot more built-in functions but ended up removing them in order to operate faster so a lot of the buttons and switches on it are just vestigial leftovers. (The idea of the arm crank being able to function as a hand-crank motor in a pinch is really funny though. Spin it a few times when P03 is out of power and you can generate just enough battery for it to tell you to fuck off then go back into sleep mode again).

I have no idea how the levitation works either. It’s cool and that’s why it works. No need to get more complicated than that.

#P03 #Hrokkall Sketch #Leshy is there too I guess but I'm not tagging him #I will talk about him for a second though #Unrelated to P03 but I headcanon Leshy had claws at one point (and still could grow them back) #He just chewed them off out of stress at some point between KMod and the main game #I have no idea who OP of the other post was that one's on me (and tumblr's search function is kind of shit so I can't find it </3) #Also I'll be honest I know nothing I'm saying is new: this is moreso reference for me #Sorry to anyone looking in the P03 maintag; this is just tagged with it for blog organization </3 #I might elaborate on some of this tomorrow (and make a more on-model drawing) I just wanted to get my thoughts down #EDIT: Feel free to add on! Please share your thoughts in my inbox if you have them I love reading them #EDIT 2: Added alt text + fixed some confusing wording #EDIT 3: Original post was by exlann

[leavingautumn13]

pokémon emerald 18th anniversary <3

#pokemon emerald #pokemon rse #pokemon #rayquaza #trainer may #autumn.fandom #autumn.art #would you guys believe the lines and coloring and everything was done with one brush? #i used indesign for the text and frame but that's it #do you guys know that post that's like ''this is the art i used to dream of making when i was younger''? #yeah. this is that for me #i love this game so much #okay i've drawn a pokemon on-model once and never will again. this is it folks

[warpolomewdarkmatter]

so zurg text from lightyear does make sense and the guide to deciphering it can be found in the artbook (along with a warp shaped straw i can grasp). so i compiled some screenshots from the movie along with "translations"! :~) do with this information WHAT YOU WILL. and know that zurg can apparently READ BACKWARDS.

#the 73ghu screenshot made me want to kill people. #origpost #lightyear #lightyear 2022 #shoutout to my twitter mutual shiv for reminding me these exist! #i think the creators of lightyear really wanted the kids who watch it (and i say this sincerely and as an autistic person) #to get wicked autistic about it. hence this text thing and the intricate spaceship models sold as merch and nasa-accurate spacesuits #this movie wants you to rotate it in your mind so bad #but BROTHER. i am eating up every scrap of buzz lightyear related content yet this movie gave me INDIGESTION #AND I LOVE SCIFI & SPACE OKAY!!! man i dont know i just dont like the tone and the beat-to-death moral and the gritty realism of ly #woag ok. done being a little hater. anyway is anyones translated these before ill chew on some wires or something. IN ANY CASE ENJOY !! #also this thing reminded me of artemis fowl bc the paperbacks had the same cipher it was very fun for me to decipher (fun-ner than these) #BECAUSE THE CIPHER HAD ACTUAL BONKERS NONSENSE LORE / EASTER EGGS!!! these are just filler in half the cases:( #but also i was what. 12. undiagnozed. not a care in the world. of course repetitive niche fandom work was fun for me look at me.

[izzy-b-hands]

Stoned, working myself up to do my T shot (where's Roach to do it for me when I need him?), and instead of getting that done I wrote this thing* instead.

*thing here meaning a more passiveish voice from Ed's POV mini fix it, focusing on Ed's feelings and thoughts and grief and regret in the immediate Izzy being saved but still in early recovery period. Blackhands with the vaguest hint of potential steddyhands.

Please forgive any formatting errors; I'm publishing this on mobile (and will get this up on AO3 too at some point.) I'll try to check later on desktop and address any errors though.

He hasn't washed his hair yet. 

He will, eventually. 

But as long as Izzy's blood is in his hair, there's proof that it's all real. That it happened, and that Izzy is still there and breathing.

It was a very, scarily close call, per Roach. 

But Izzy is alive. Wounded, hurting, but thus far seemingly on the mend. He spends most of the days resting on the ship (anchored near the little island that holds the rundown house they want to make into an inn. As soon as Izzy is better, at least.) The nights, as Jim, Archie, and Frenchie relay it, are harder. They take turns staying up with Izzy, apparently, when he can't sleep. 

He offers to take a turn, be added to the rotation. He means it in genuine goodwill, and out of fear that Izzy might still slip away in the night, somehow. 

Jim's knife is at his throat before he can blink, and that's answer enough. 

There's a lot of blame. Fair blame, but no easier to bear. On himself and Stede for not checking Ricky over for weapons, for having Izzy and others more or less lead the charge when it should have been them. 

On himself, for not moving from Izzy's right away, to let Roach in to work to save him. It hadn't been a conscious choice, though he can't seem to get any of them to understand it. 

Roach had shoved him aside just as he'd caught the glimmer of the ring around Izzy's scarf. And it had made him pause, still in the way, as he had realised he wasn't sure where his matching ring was (with a tiny but pretty amethyst stone.) Rings they'd exchanged years ago now, despite never clearly labeling what they had.

Stede's used the term ‘husbands’ when they've talked in the nights since the escape. To clarify and make sure they're settled on the same page about each other and Izzy and how they're going to proceed. It feels the most fitting word, but it hurts the worst. 

The ring, he thinks, is still somewhere among what little loot they didn't toss or sell. He wouldn't have gotten rid of it, no matter what. He thinks he knows at least that much about himself for sure. 

If he finds it; when he finds it; it might be thin enough to thread into a braid in his hair, or fit over the fabric when he wears Stede's scarf. 

He wants to be wearing it when he sees Izzy again. Not when Izzy is sleeping and unaware of his visits during the day, but awake and maybe willing to talk. 

To let him apologise, practice in action, because if anyone would let him treat their apology as ‘practice’ it would be Izzy. Just so long as he knows it's real this time. 

He fidgets in the wooden chair near Izzy's cot, threading his fingers together, knowing they're clean, but still seeing only Izzy's blood on them. 

#text post #long post #do i dare ship tag this #uncertain so the usual 'if u wanna reblog and tag it as the ship name go for it also thank u for the reblog' applies to this #i really need to just get my shot done but that said im glad i put it off to write this #fr tho samba you don't even need to know how to like I'll model how to do the shot just pls someone do it for me lmao

[dullerndrounder]

uh oh sorrh folks no more vaguely concerning posts where i elude to suicide the hoes say they're "worried about me" and so i'm in time out.

#you know who you are and i love you and i appreciate you #genuinely your concern is sweet #but also please never look at my tumblr i will delete it and make a new one under a new name again #please don't observe me i hate being known #why do the people in my life have to be so cool and enjoyable and likeable and lovable #i just want to completely isolate myself again and start from a new slate #so then i don't have to worry about how everything i say might be remembered or change how people see me #uhmm!!! cringe alerttt!!! i'm not a real person!!! #dont use deductive reasoning or context clues or emotional intelligence or read my posts and form conclusions about who i am and how i feel #i'm not REAL you utter fool i'm a generative text model i'm just spamming the middle predict button!!!! #also i doubt anyone is upset #aside from me but who cares about that dweeb #i guess you're welcome then for not being emo on... this isn't my main but whatever.

[sanstropfremir]

I might just go on a huge tangent on here so I sincerely apologize, but I think this is something you've slightly touched on before, so maybe it's interesting to you? About the fact that literally Nobody on the staff/people who work behind the scenes of everything in the kpop industry are credited, mentioned or acknowledged for their work (other than, for example, the surface level “the designer deserves a raise!!!” that i so often see in mv comments :/). What I wanted to talk about specifically though is the company’s complete lack of crediting of these people?? I wanted to look into who directed this new mv that just dropped that I really liked the artistry, editing, and general composition of, but I found absolutely nothing across the group’s yt videos or their pages of who the director is, perhaps the set designer, editor, etc. Utterly taken aback, I checked the descriptions of other kpop music videos, from the most popular to more unknown groups (Twice, Dongkiz, to name a few), and again, nothing. I thought I was going insane, so I looked at mvs for like Amercian bands, and their video details are completely filled with the information of the producer, the recording studio, mixer, master, etc. etc, my point is: so much more than just the group’s twitter or merch page??? I’m like what is going on?? I noticed the kpop mv's only list licensing info at least, but so did the american ones? Idk. It’s either me not knowing where to look, or maybe I’m late to the fact that that is just how things work with kpop group companies or the industry as whole, just giving you no details as to who the hell else worked on this mv or song. I love my biases and appreciate their contributions, but I do not buy for a second that, more often than not, they wrote or produced or mixed absolutely nothing. I think it’s a huge shame that this is done because it reinforces the false idea that the idols are the ones responsible for everything we’re seeing and listening to. Maybe that’s the point, and that’s exactly what the industry wants you to believe, which that just makes it really sad. (Wait also maybe it all gets hidden because its work for hire or the companies buy ownership copyright...)

so i want to clarify some things for you, from the perspective of someone who works in the arts industry. firstly, and most importantly: visible credits exist in western filmic media because of unions. and there are still a LOT of fields that are not unionized. for thousands of years it was fundamentally understood that no performance based art form was done singularly by an individual, so there was often not a reason for there to be 'credits' in the first place. the whole assuming the face of the project is the person who did the most work thing? that's a very new phenomenon in the history of art, and it's capitalism's fault.

secondly: um. you are definitely not looking in the right places bc people are ABSOLUTELY credited? especially music production staff? i guess if you only look at a music video then sure yea there's not always credits there, but companies literally release tracklists and highlight medleys on their main social medias AS PROMOTION that have LISTS of their arrangers and composers. hell, tan's most recent tracklist has their fucking midi programmer on it????

also..............the fucking ALBUMS HAVE CREDITS IN THEM. i can't believe i have to say this but THE ALBUMS ARE THE MAIN PRODUCT AND THEY HAVE PAGES OF CREDITS IN THEM. i...????

like???

i got addy (@hoforwonho) to send these to me, these are from a lucy album and nayeon's album, and they literally have pages of credits???

lastly, and most importantly: the only people who are being 'fooled' into thinking that idols are 'producing' most of the content are western fans. because that is the stereotype promoted BY THE WESTERN MUSIC INDUSTRY. so that is the lens through which you view the korean music industry. koreans and korean fans are well aware that idols do not produce their own artistic content, there is quite literally a stigma around idols in sk about how they are not viewed as artists SPECIFICALLY because of this. gdragon and jonghyun were HUGE deals for being some of the first idol producers + songwriters. music is a huge part of the korean entertainment industry and people who make music are very much a visible part of it. kim eana is a very famous lyricist and she has a popular radio show. kbs just did a whole competition show featuring producers as the contestants. companies are not required to put credits in music videos because music videos are only one part of a kpop cb, and they are also not obligated to put those credits in english. just because you can't find something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and the whole industry is at fault for it.

#listen. i'm sorry to say this but it's not the industry's fault that you don't read korean and don't know how to look something up #companies do not need to constantly post every single credit for everything on social media stop expecting stuff to be fed to you #kpop questions #also: most kpop fans genuinely do not give a shit about the credits. if someone wants to know #they will go looking in the most obvious places for them #also also: not having the credits plastered everywhere on social media is partially a protection mechanism! #kpop fans are known for fucking stalking and harassment are you kidding me #and there ARE kpop mvs with credits in the actual mvs? i can think of at least three from the last year off the top of my head??? #and one of them IS a dkz mv?????????? #answers #text #bts literally got popular bc they copied the western model of pretending that the art they produce is 'authentic' and self produced #that's why they blew up. i've talked about this several times #its the western model and western fans that are perpetuating this viewpoint. #also oh my god mama has a BUNCH of creative awards are you just fucking thick???? #and i cant even believe im about to say this but. THE BIG FOUR COMPANIES ARE LITERALLY FOUNDED BY FUCKING SONGWRITERS AND PRODUCERS #YG LSM JYP BANG SIHYUK WERE ALL ARTISTS AT ONE POINT #OR STILL ACTIVELY ARE WORKING #...........i feel like i need to lay down #m8 how do you think i know who choreographers and producers are. of fucking course people are credited did you think i was guessing????

[brechtian]

so so funny I went to read the handbook on narcissism and npd in an effort to learn more about the disorder & it’s complexities from specialists and what I learned instead is that NOBODY CAN AGREE on what it means AT ALL or anything else about it!!!!!

#rant in tags but an interesting one if u like psychology #don’t get me wrong the handbook IS from 2011 so it’s been over a decade but also it’s still considered like the primary text on npd and I #get the feeling the same debates are probably still going on #like I wish u all could understand. basically the only thing anyone seems to agree on is that the dsm IV (and considering the criteria for #diagnosis changed almost not at all between IV and V I imagine this still holds true) #is a BAD tool for diagnosing it. like the categorical model of diagnosis just doesn’t work well for personality disorders #plus the actual criteria listed for npd and many other pds in the dsm just straight up are not well grounded in actual scientific research #abt the disorders #and that’s what they agree on. as for the rest #NOBODY agrees on what inventories or models are effective & accurate NOBODY agrees on what the actual symptoms are beyond self #aggrandizement there’s a huge debate over whether there are subtypes of npd and if so what are they #and of those who DO believe in subtypes the most popular theory is grandiose vs vulnerable but THEN there’s a whole debate about THEM #bc some psychologists consider them two separate manifestations while others say that ppl with npd vacillate between the two states #and nobody can conclusively link self esteem with npd in any meaningful way other than that diagnosed ppl usually have higher surface level #self esteem but the whole concept of whether the narcisstic persona is a defense mechanism or just a delusion nobody can agree on or prove #and if ur wondering where the line is drawn between trait narcissism and npd ? buddy I’ve got bad news for you NOBODY KNOWS #like trait narcissism and npd are categorically two different things but the practical reality of someone with high trait narcissism vs npd #is just like. shrugs #and also high trait narcissism usually means scored high on the npi but hey guess what the npi has been HUGELY criticized and nobody can al #agree on how accurate it is!! #I could go on forever but u get the idea like. if you asked three different specialists in npd how they would define the disorder you would #VERY LIKELY get three completely different answers #and now. if ur sitting there wondering #hey wait a minute #but if the DSM V the official guideline for psychiatric evaluation infamously are not a good framework to diagnose pds or npd #AND if all other sources and experts have conflicting opinions #then WHAT is this disorder and HOW is it consistently diagnosed #AND IM WONDERING THE SAME DAMN THING!!!

[dragonsongmakhali]

Hey y'all, does anyone have any good blender tutorials for adding weights/bones they can suggest? Every time I look at the UI it makes me cry 😫

#blender #i don't even know if weights is the right term. or if bones is! whatever lets me move things ig #text with pictures is my favorite but i could definitely stomach some youtube vids for this #for reference i am a complete beginner with 3d modeling so as few specialized terms as possible #or at least something that explains those terms and doesn't just throw them at you at lightspeed assuming you know them #i'm a developer so i'm comfy with code but put a complex ui in front of me and im confused and afraid

[oatbugs]

please delete your philosophy gpt-3 post. it's most likely stolen writing.

philosophy?? idk which one you're referring to sorry. also no . if it's the poetry one, see in tags. actually see in tags anyway. actually pls look at my posts on AI too . sorry if it's badly worded i'm very tired :')

#GPT3 is a large language model (LLM) and so is trained on massive amounts of data #so what it produces is always going to be stolen in some way bc...it cant be trained on nothing #it is trained on peoples writing. just like you are trained on peoples writing. #what most ppl are worried about w GPT3 is openAI using common crawl which is a web crawler/open database with a ridiculous amt of data #in it. all these sources will obviously include some published books in which case...the writing isnt stolen. its a book out in the open #meant to be read. it will also include Stolen Writing as in fanfics or private writing etc that someone might not want shared in this way #HOWEVER . please remember GPT3 was trained on around 45TB of data. may not seem like much but its ONLY TEXT DATA. thats billions and #billions of words. im not sure what you mean by stolen writing (the model has to be trained on...something) but any general prompt you give #it will pretty much be a synthesis of billions and billions and billions of words. it wont be derived specifically from one stolen #text unless that's what you ask for. THAT BEING SAID. prompt engineering is a thing. you can feed the model #specific texts and writings and make sure you ask it to use that. which is what i did. i know where the writing is from. #in the one post i made abt gpt3 (this was when it was still in beta and not publicly accessible) the writing is a synthesis of my writing #richard siken's poetry #and 2 of alan turing's papers #im not sure what you mean by stolen writing and web crawling def needs to have more limitations . i have already made several posts about #this . but i promise you no harm was done by me using GPT3 to generate a poem #lol i think this was badly worded i might clarify later but i promise u there are bigger issues w AI and the world than me #feeding my own work and a few poems to a specifically prompt-engineered AI #asks #anon

[jirachibaby]

Hi I really like your 3d art!! If it's okay for me to ask, do you have any tips for doing that kind of 3d work without drawing? I saw you said you haven't really drawn in a long time and I don't know how to draw (I've been trying to learn but it's hard ;__;) and most of the tutorials I see online for modeling characters and stuff use reference images that the person drew?? Ty for reading even if you don't have advice ^^ love your art ✨️ 💖

Aw gosh. Firstly thank you <3

Drawing IS hard. I would definitely recommend learning at least the foundational drawing and design principles before tackling 3D art, because it will make your learning process so much easier I promise. This includes fundamentals like figures, forms, lighting and shadow, shapes and shape language, ect. You dont need to be a master or anything, just having some background knowledge of how things work visually is necessary for creating anything appealing!

My best advice: shapes. Shapes are everything. When I was taking drawing classes, my teacher wouldn't tell us how to draw something, he would tell us what shapes we could use to build the forms. Cylinders, spheres, boxes all stacked together to make something recognizable.

You don't need to know how to draw to get into modeling! The recent models I've shown didn't have more than concept art references I made years ago, which weren't used to help with the modeling itself. I didn't draw anything new to guide my modeling process for those guys.

Another thing, learning how to visualize things in 3D will absolutely improve your drawing skills by leaps and bounds! So you can always go back and forth between learning how to model a simple object and then using that model as a drawing reference to practice.

Start simple. I know it's tempting to jump into trying to model your OC in 3D straight away, but you need to learn the fundamentals of your program first. I highly recommend doing the Donut Blender tutorial on youtube (it's the best tutorial out there to teach the important stuff, hands down)

Once you're ready to start on your own unique model, grab references, inspiration images, watch tutorials and see how others go about making their models.

Finally, if you ever find yourself struggling and you really want a reference image to guide you and don't think you're up to drawing one yourself, you're welcome to use this one I sketched up for one of my first modeling attempts! Just be sure to watch a simple character modeling tutorial first so you understand how to set up and use references like these.

(This goes for anyone who would like to 3D model and want to use this as a reference, please just give me credit if you share this image in any way!)

It was a challenge to model but I learned a lot in the process. It was good practice, even if the end result will never see the light of day.

I hope some of this advice resonated with you or helped even a little! I'm always thrilled to be able to inspire others to pursue new passions or art forms. I hope you will share some of your work with me in the future, I'd love to see what you create and how you grow!

#long post #text post #tutorial #advice #art advice #art help #mun speaks #ask #3d modeling #modeling advice #sorry i get passionate about giving advice #yall dont know how excited i am whenever someone asks me questions about things i've learned #give me half a chance and i absolutely will teach you everything i know #if only i had the time to do it for free #;--;

[dreamlanddeluxe]

lbp is like. iunno it holds a rlly special place in my heart & i remember being really young and not having the coordination to swing from thing to thing on the first level and being SO scared of the haunted castle,, idk do u know if there’s any way to emulate it i feel so bad asking but 😭 bro i miss it soo much im so happy someone gets it!! i’d love to see ur collection sometime :) you’re free to come in my inbox any time and tell me any lbp facts Please

SO SORRY I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS umm I think I remember someone I follow posting about emulating the game but I don’t remember who I’m sorry, but I believe there is a way if any of my followers know feel free to say something! And yeah I remember playing one of the first levels in the garden area when I was little and not understanding where I needed to throw those sponge ball things and I ended up beating it by accident after I just stared flinging them everywhere and ended up putting them where they were supposed to by doing that lol. I’d be happy to show you my collection also ^_^ I’m in the middle of moving stuff right now so I don’t have all my items on hand but when I do I’ll definitely show it off, it’s been a while since I took a pic of my updated collection anyways, and I’ll definitely share some facts with you when I can!

#trying to remember all I have in my collection. I know my most prized item is the still sealed littlebigvice magazine #such an interesting product of its time #I found someone that had the same copy but opened and they shared scans with me so I could look inside the magazine without opening #which was really nice! shoutout to that guy wherever they are #but yeah it’s just a strange piece #very raunchy type humor in an otherwise silly magazine just bc of like. it being 2008 plus the fact that it was a collab with. Vice #so it’s expected I suppose with it being that plus a gaming magazine #also it’s a preservation of nintendos transphobia regarding birdette. let’s just say uh. she was not referred to kindly in the magazine #the actual sackboy images inside are cute though I like the concept of sackboy plushes modeling clothing it’s very silly #it just has some… interesting text that accompanies them #it’s my most prized item though because as far as I’m aware this may be the last remaining sealed copy of the magazine! #also it led me to have a conversation with one of the old official moderators for the lbp PlayStation community forum which was really cool! #we showed each other our collections he had some very interesting items #he even has copies of the recalled version of the first game which i imagine must’ve been hard to obtain #went off on a tangent. anyways yea I’ll be happy to talk about lbp with you whenever :-)

[sanstropfremir]

TOHO SPIRITED AWAY?? PLS GIVE ME THE DEETS

oh it was soooooooooo good i'm so happy i got a chance to see it!!! gorgeous design all around, there was no standout elements bc everything fit so well together. all the spirits + magical elements were done with traditional (japanese and western) style puppetry, so everything was articulated and manipulated by an operator, which had this really wonderful almost youth theatre vibe. a lot of times with shows that involve puppets, they'll try to make the puppets as advanced as possible to not make them 'childish' (see: war horse), but for something that's based heavily in folklore and IS a children's story, to me the only logical sense is to emphasize that particular angle. the puppets were also incredible, very well made and sooo accurate to the movie??? like impressively accurate. my faves were probably kamaji and haku? kamaji's six extra arms were each operated by a separate person who had one hand operating the elbow and one hand as the actual hand, so all eight hands were able to do everything, which mean there was some REALLY incredible choreography of just. all the stuff that he was doing, but also when he got up and walked it was soooooooo cool. and haku!!! he had two puppets actually, one 'full size' that was a big long foam articulated body that took i think four puppeteers, and there was a tiny haku that they used for the flying scenes that was basically just a little head and a ....idk what the actual technical term is but it was basically just a wind sock as the body on a big long pole so the puppeteer could essentially move him like you would a big ribbon! the scene were he first transforms and flies off was sooo pretty, the actor haku did a lil setup to a GORGEOUS spinning jump and when he landed he ducked down behind some of the chorus members and as he disappeared the tiny ribbon haku shot up from the same spot and started looping around.......... actual magic. also wow the actor playing haku was so pretty. and very tall. which i did not notice until the very end. i would not be suprised if he had ballet training bc tall and he had the ballet dancer chin/head posture. also the actor playing lin (also doublecast as chihiro's mom) was crazy hot. just so unbelievably hot. anyways. speaking of casting: noface as a popping dancer. UNREAL and incredible galaxy brained choice. he had a solo while they did a set change and WOW. spooky and gorgeous and also weirdly welcoming? really excellent job of embodying a sympathetic physicality that made it understandable why chihiro would let him in to the bath house in the first place. also for the curtain call he put the mask on the back of his head and literally did the bows backwards. insane. my ONLY complaint is that i didn't love noface's giant form, but that's mostly because years and years ago i saw a (different) puppet show with a grim reaper character that was very similar to giant noface (the telescoping neck + large body) and i literally thought at the time 'if you were going to do puppet noface that is exactly how you should do it', so 1) expectations 2) i'm pretty sure that version was done using quite a sophisticated extending mechanism, which would be antithetical to the rest of the puppets in the show, and 3) this giant noface was VERY big (probably at least 10-15 feet across? he was at least eight puppeteers with the original actor as the mask) so the logistics would not have worked. regardless. it is a very small complaint that literally no one else would have had unless they had seen the same show that i did in like. 2015. costumes were all unreal, the set was phenomenal; it actually took me WELL over an hour to figure out that the set literally stayed the same the entire time, it was just being rotated (it was on a turntable) and redressed + had a couple balconies flown in. also live orchestra?? in the set??????? i didnt even know they were THERE they had them behind a scrim on an upper level platform in the back and they pulled it up for curtain call and there was like. 15 ppl sitting back there????

ok but if i had to pick ONE thing that was my favourite, it would be that ALL the living things were played by someone alive. i know that sounds obvious, especialy for like. the dancing vases and the frog and the soot sprites, but even the PLANTS were puppets in their own way. like the hydrangea bushes that chihiro hides in at the beginning and the flower field that she and haku run through were done with chorus members wearing these beautiful flower head/chest/arm pieces. even the stone guardians at the tunnel at the beginning of the play were actors. it really underscored the magic of everything to have all the life be actually alive.

#OH MY GOD AND THE TRAIN!!! IT WAS A LITTLE MODEL TRAIN THAT RAN AROUND THE EDGE OF THE STAGE!!! IT HAD A LITTLE HEADLIGHT AND EVERYTHING!!! #it was sooooo cute and charming unfortunately i am a dad and i love model trains........ #like it really was just so good. such a fun theatrical experience #omg and the river spirit scene!!!!!!!! soooooo good and you could FEEL the catharsis of pulling out the fishing line and the CELEBRATION #there was also a TON of crazy slight of hand and little tricks that i did not even know how they did most of the time #like the turning the gold into dirt? i literally blinked and it happened. i have NO idea how they did that #just such beautiful craftsmanship and CARE that went into it. a real dedication to making something beautiful #i think there's another screening happening with the alternate cast on the 27th so if you have a chance you really should go see it!! #text #answers #non kpop questions #spirited away: live on stage #this is not meant as a dig on joey from war horse btw he is AMAZING #the technical achievements of modern puppetry is unreal. but there's something really satisfying about the basics #this is so garbled sldkfjlksdjf this is what you get from me after i see something i love its just word vomit

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The masculine urge to Train a Tortoise TTS for Commander Peepers........

#text #The memes i could make....... #also i checked it out and this model is honestly pretty ethical #you use your own clips and you use your own pc to train the model #free to use and open source #with that said screw any ai models that use unethical data to train on/steal. Looking at you scrummy ai art generators. #I will never use tortoise tts for monetary reasons or defamation so morality wise it's clear skies for meme making #pretty much the ethical meme making ai i've always wanted lol #(peepers voice) What the flarp did you just say about me you little bee? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class....

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#venting in the tags don't mind me!! #dani speaks #personal #when the blog becomes the diary #y'all it is VERY HARD dealing with a narcissistic parent I gotta say!! #i am understandably very upset with my parents right now for some nonsense that went down Sunday into Monday #so I've been limiting contact and not reaching out to them unless they reach out to me to ask about my houseguest #and because growing up with them. and my MOM specifically #I KNOW that they would 100% not listen to my points or feelings or whatever #and just turn the table to be like WHAT ABOUT ME AND MY NEEDS #mom more so than dad. anyway #so this model has been working well most of the week UNTIL TODAY #in which I checked WhatsApp and saw that my dad has messaged several times to check in #i was like 😤 and replied fine #my mom send this big INFURIATING text to me #i replied in the fam chat that by fine I mean things are FINE. SATISFACTORY #NOT FINE AS IN IDC WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY CONVERSATION ENDS NOW AND HERE #BC THAT'S WHAT MOM DOES AND THAT'S WHAT SHE THOUGHT I DID SO SHE GOT ALL HUFFY WOO IS ME IN THE CHAT #so I made a v grown up reply that was basically. tldr: #I'm having a bad week and here's what's happened and I am NOT using fine to end a conversation and would appreciate space #so I can feel BAD without being made to feel bad for feeling bad #and it's v mature but LORD AM I READY TO EXPLODE #like i am talking full Jacqueline diring frostmas on main EXPLODE #IT'S SO ANNOYING TO NOT BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH PARENTS HOW YOU FEEL #KNOWING THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK AND WANT YOU TO BE OKAY WITH THEM #GIVEN THE SITUATION HOW CAN I! FUCKEN EH #i am going to rip off my shirt and explode into 1000 tiny danis and take apart the local clocktowers