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Eaurp Guz Rocks!

WIP and details in the read-more:

This one had a bit of a false start. For the life of me I couldnt' get the motion right.

The gif's pacing was all wrong, the hair started out not moving so it wouldn't have looped right... it looked jittery... i just didnt like it. (she's lip syncing to "saturn five" by inspiral carpets in this one. i ended up not doing any mouth movements in the final one)

so i had a play around with some sine and -cosine charts to figure out where the body and hair should be. I ended up not really using the -cos chart for the hair and just kinda animated the hair to what felt right, but using the sine wave for the body position helped a lot, and it meant i could reuse several frames for the body animation (they would be differentiated by what the hair is doing of course).

This test image uses only 8 frames instead of 12 and looks a little clunky, both because of the smaller amount of frames and also because of which positions are shown in each frame. i also made a 12 frame version (like the final version), which did look a lot smoother, but i didn't save it.

applying a sine wave like movement to Guz's head and body and then fixing the arms resulted in a much more natural, consistent, and easy to loop animation.

so i added the hair jiggling and a little hand movement to imply scribbling in some shading. The hair jiggling is honestly the most fun part.

her body was too stiff, so i um. i made it um. jiggle. and um. yeah it uh. it was too much. lol.

so i basically just averaged it, frame by frame, with the previous version.

Doing the glitter/bubbles visible in the final version was a challenge. I decided that since the hair was moving so wildly, the glitter in it could be essentially random in each frame and it wouldn't really matter. But the glitter on the face had to track with her face or it would look strange. I solved that problem by drawing the glitter on the first frame, then drawing two white dots over the eyes, and aligning the dots with the eyes for every frame (which is similar to how I aligned the highlights).

finally, here's the "concept art" (which i repurposed for the first frame)

and here's the drawing of the Saturn V rocket Guz was making (which i showed in another post). And did you notice that the earphone she's using is the one Uhura uses in TOS? :)

Guz is enamored with the space exploration histories of many worlds, but the ones with large moons (or the ones that are large moons), are her favorite. Imagine not having to wait months for interplanetary maneuvering, or decades for close encounters with your coorbital giant planet.

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if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here

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New loading art for my KSP mod, Whirligig World.

Spelunkonauts from the Mesomesbin Survey Ranger Corps explore an active lava tube encountered by miners.

#KSP #Kerbal #Kerbal Space Program #lava #volcanism #lava tube #lava tubes #Kerbals #art #digital art #space #Star Trek #Star Trek Lower Decks #Lower Decks #Brad Boimler #Beckett Mariner #Sam Rutherford #D'vana Tendi #Tendi #MysteryGoo #Eaurp Guz #ok that last tag's a real stretch

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Loading art from Whirligig World, my KSP planet mod.

Tear A Page (2024)

Refuge (2022)

Exploration Tank (2018)

First Observatory (2021)

Lava Tube (2024)

Mandrake & Rutherford (2022)

Kaputnik Assembly (2021)

Abort & Eject (2021)

#Whirligig World #KSP #Kerbal #Kerbal Space Program #Planet #Space #Art #Digital art #rocket #spacecraft #rover #Mesbin

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My conversations with children

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🌸Happy Lesbian Visibility Day!🌸

Here's a present:

I see you all 👁️‿👁️

More of my Shrek fanart here

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She's my spirit ogre🤲💚✨

More of my Shrek fanart here

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D'vana Tendi's Statue standing outside the newly built Starfleet recruitment centre on Orion.

I would like this to happen :)

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when slime girls see a post they like well. they reblob it

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when slime girls see a post they like well. they reblob it

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when slime girls see a post they like well. they reblob it

#Eaurp Guz #Slimegirl

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when slime girls see a post they like well. they reblob it

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i dunno i figure, similar number, similar digit. It worked for 2 & 3 and 8 & 9.

The glyphs for the digits 5 and 6 are too similar. Someone should fix this

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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility from planet Mellanus!

From Right to Left:

Ensign Eaurp Guz (she/her), engineer, USS Cerritos.

Captain Slamtha Uzgoel (she/her), skipper of the Orion Syndicate ship S.S. Good Afternoon.

Lieutenant Be'Iw, Daughter of Kozin (she/ghaH), officer, Klingon Defense Force.

Ensign Utut Arobi (she/any), science officer, USS Diagne.

Ms. Oihre (she/her), former cultist.

Ensign T'oumii Ela'as (he/any), science officer, USS Feynman.

Crewman Visca Limax (she/her), former United Mellanus Space Program astronaut; enlisted engineer, USS Hypatia.

Mr. Twizzle Bajeeziz (he/they/it), amateur subspace astronomer and carpenter.

Cadet Murf (he/him), oddly skilled toddler, USS Protostar.

OC credits: Visca Limax belongs to Jenny @something-boring T'oumii Ela'as belongs to James @uss-feynman Utut Arobi and Oihre belong to Ray @raydrawsdaly Murf belongs to Paramount via Star Trek: Prodigy All other characters in the line-up are my own original characters.

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YAY ITS MY FRIEND MY GOOD FRIEND EAURP GUZ!

a commission from @/lesbiosm on twitter of me, @raydrawsdaly , & @whirligig-girl ‘s slime girl OCs!!! 💚💙💜

#Eaurp Guz #T'oumii Ela'as #Utut Arobi #Slimegirl #Slimegirls #Star Trek #Original Character #Original Characters

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a commission from @/lesbiosm on twitter of me, @raydrawsdaly , & @whirligig-girl ‘s slime girl OCs!!! 💚💙💜

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Kirk was a real one for this