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That makes my past sound more badass than it was- mostly people with long toenails would nick your hands/arms.

cold water, sard wonder soap or equivalent and handwash. Time is a factor. Worked for white cotton/canvas gi.

People are following me around/after games week- I sort of avoid the whole thing these days (no 'stance' - just sort of avoiding enclosed gatherings) - did my name come up?

yesss but what if you someday use it again precioussss it would be silly NOT to buy it yesss

Site is down for me- I went looking for it today to show someone your stuff!

I mean that's 'see your doctor' colour pee if it's pee

If you are in support of the 'March For Australia' today against immigration, run by neo-nazis, block me and lose my details, thanks!

Cyber attack exposes details of more than 200,000 iinet customers A list of about 280,000 active email addresses and roughly 20,000 active landline phone numbers have been extracted from iiNet's order management system.

On iiNet or TPG in Australia? Might want to change your modem password, especially if it's still on the default.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

OK THIS IS GOING TO BE INSANE BUT-
this is what I use if I have a desk, not curled up on the couch. I use too much pressure for anything with any give in it. And the hardcore ones all cost about the same as this anyway.

assume hand is huge and chubby for scale

Carving little chess pieces. Trying to develop a process so I can knock out a whole set.

Highschool chemistry class we were warned never to wear the cheap uniform sprayjackets in the lab because the material would catch fire and melt at the same time, fusing it and adhering it to our flesh and burning us inches deep while we howled fumes into our lungs.

Weird thought, if the field of illustration really doesn't matter to you, (certainly not enough to pay an illustrator)- maybe just use photos? They look professional, and it's even quicker than generation- AND won't leave characters with different numbers of fingers or wrong-length arms!

(Bit strange to delete the post celebrating your 'artist' by the way. Doesn't seem all that comfortable after all.)

Cool, my only goal is to inform. If I was making wildly unethical and reputation-harming choices in the bioinformatic field I'd hope you'd let me know.
So long as you're informed about the choice you're making, there's not much else anyone can do to stop you, like the choice to eat a urinal cake.

I hear you, and I do understand the reasoning- it FEELS like the convenience of clipart.
But you would know that presentation matters. Like I said, the analogy is to comic sans typeface etc. Besides other concerns around ethics, IP ownership etc. It looks *broadly* incompetent.

I strongly suspect this, and other images on this acc. are generated rather than illustrated.
Without any malice at all- the use of AI image generation deeply discredits anything worthwhile you have to say in any field.
It screams incompetence the same way a comics sans logo typeface might.

Great! Who did the artwork?

My whole first game gig was animated "paintings" in photoshop. something like 400-500 frames. I was ready to puke.

(If my account suddenly follows a couple thousand people and starts DM'ing you about wanting help, I will have been hacked)

The alternative is to do nothing at all- and that gets old fast!
You got this. Whatever the result (some of mine HAVE been shit) it's a victory vs this feeling.

I always tell myself-
Any new scary thing I am working on may *indeed* be shit- it's even LIKELY to be shit - but if that's the case I won't ever be good at it until I do some shit ones.
Which doesn't always feel like, kind to say to myself, but it feels realistic and manageable.

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That Sexy bear has just 12 DAYS LEFT on Kickstarter, and it's nowhere near close to funding! It would be a shame if this strange and wonderful book never got to see the light of day. Maybe take a look and see if you could give it a little support?

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I'd be using it more myself for grown-up work, but their brush algorithm is a bit bare bones :/

Rough Animator is a nice lightweight stepping stone from baby stuff towards a more professional kit!
The only hard difference for a kid is an abstracted timeline- it doesn't have pictures of the frames on it, just a timeline of frames.

What ages we talking?
RoughAnimate has a little bit more of a professional timeline, some fiddly interactions.
Easytoon was my introduction and being able to hit next/previous on keyboard and just draw without fighting tools etc. more than made up for missing colour, sound, small resolutions etc.

easytoon (version 1.9.5 is nice and lightweight interface) is the MSPaint of animation tools.
RoughAnimator has a bit more going on for <$20.
Working in Krita (free) or other raster editors separately for backgrounds and other non-animated bits, you can composite everything together in Da Vinci etc.

stick em to your belt and you can type like the nerd in the Bebop movie

We just had a...let's call it 'left-leaning' federal election result, so hopefully some reforms sooooooon??? (PROBABLY NOT)