Saunasaur

*marking the start of, I meant

i dont bsky much good

New stuff! This time marking an informal series of homage art that I like to call

"Homages"

Starting from FX-man and RedSilver

Yeah, I assumed so as well. Still funny though!

Xhip Synthesizer by aciddose - Synth Plugin VST Audio Unit Xhip Synthesizer allows you to produce high quality dual-oscillator polyphonic synthesizer sounds, similar to classic poly synthesizers of t...

Speaking of free VSTs and promoting cool shit, this synth is my favorite:
www.kvraudio.com/product/xhip...

Also worth pointing out about me and my audio tools and VSTs and all that is that I'm *cheap as fuck*, and will make due with free shit. So probably not worth looking for promoters or customers from this direction

I got followed by an account representing people or a company, that describes themselves as "audio software developers". Probably based on my mention of screwing around with FL Studio.

While I'm flattered by this, but you guys *might* wanna check what the rest of the content on my feed is like

I also fired up FLStudio for the first time in a long time and fucked around with the idea of producing theme songs for my characters. Or making synthwave covers of whatever I thought would be fun or cool

Didn't manage to do anything worth sharing, though. Maybe some day?

Fucked around with generative AI, this time with Krita's ComfyUI plugin. It was a fun experiment, but like with all AI results I've done so far, I avoid posting them so that I don't contribute to AI slop pollution. This is a whole topic in and of itself, so I won't elaborate on it here.

Visited Berlin with my cuz for a week on July. Amazing fucking trip, I love that city. It could be a separate thread all it's own.

Survived a heat wave. Turns out, this apartment turns into a sauna in the summer (not in good way!). Portable AC really saved my ass on July and early August.

Mentioned or alluded to this in a previous post, but I got a mortgage and bought an apartment. I'm a big boy now! Lots of stress with the paperwork and money and move and all that, but that's all taken care now, and been living here since for over 3 months now and loving it.

I have a bad habit of putting off social media updates, because I'm not much of a social media poster

but uhh, I'll give a quick overview of my past few months.
tl;dr: been busy, but mostly in a good way

Also, I deleted the previous attempts. Nothing really to see there except black rectangles and me bitching about it.

I apologize for spamming these three pics, but I really wanted the image uploading and previews to work.

itaku.ee/images/1183871
itaku.ee/images/1183872
itaku.ee/images/1183873

ps. the issue seems to be related to Firefox, so this was posted on Chrome.

Dear John Bluesky

Please fix image uploading to your innerweb site on Firefox. Uploading and loading images is literally a 30 year old technology, I don't understand how you could bungle that up at this point. It's kinda embarrassing.

Signed,
literally dozens us

...well shit, that seems to confirm it, then.

I LIED

Found this months old Reddit thread (yucky!) where people suspect this is a Firefox thing, so lemme try uploading this on Chrome (double yucky!)

www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...

...I give up

one more try, this time with a handmade preview
(full images in itaku.ee/profile/saun... )

Nope, apparently that doesn't work either. Is it the image size? These pics are rather big, but not big enough to choke any respectably performant image processor like Bluesky oughta have

OK, so Bluesky can display the pictures I copypaste when I'm drafting a message, but will corrupt them when I actually post the message?

cool beans, I love when technology just works

[Biceptember 2025] Bowsette

Seems Bowsette's gang is a lil concerned with her recent bodybuilding fixation. maybe some less than others :3

part of a character poll i did on patreon for this years Biceptember pic!

I always found it funny how people judge and dictate furry's choices on their characters like:

"But your character should not have nipples or a navel since they are a bird/ dinosaur/ lizard! They come from an egg."

Meanwhile, you have Klump the Kremling from 1994:

- If you're modeling "blocks of hair", curve objects work really well for that. Needs a bit of separate learning by itself, but gets you *way* better results than attempting to sculpt them manually. Basically you just add curves along the head that taper off at the ends as strands or clumps of hair.

- Just like with sketching in 2D, start from a rough shape and then iterate further into more detail. It's harder to make large changes without distorting or destroying small details if they're already in place

- You can drag and drop references (front + side) into your blender window and set them up in such a way that you see it simultaneously with the sculpt itself. Helps with blocking out the model's rough shape!

- If you break your model apart into different body parts, use mirror modifier with a shared mirroring object to keep everything aligned
- You can copypaste bits and pieces from other models to block out your characters - maybe even a whole base mesh (plenty of them are free and CC licensed)

I don't have any tutorials at hand, but uhh, here's some misc tips:
- Block out your character's rough shape in edit mode with primitives before diving into sculpting
- You can sculpt different body parts as individual objects and then merge them together later

[Summer] Rad Beach PT1
Seems Forsagirl found a choice spot to bathe in the sun. Although... seems no one else is here?

been meaning to post this awhile ago but things came up ^^" hope you guys have an okay summer!

Happy birthday, doggo

At least first time it's happened to me. If it's something that's happened to others before, I wouldn't know. And more importantly IMO, it wasn't just a momentary hiccup but something I managed to replicate by just trying it again.