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The My Little Pony Celebration Tails set found a few weeks ago is now available online at Target! It costs $27.99.
This set includes 5 articulated 3-inch ponies who all have extra long brushable tails.
Product description: "Celebrate the unique magic of everypony with My Little Pony Celebration Tails collection set. This pack includes 5 My Little Ponny Unicorn, Pegasus, and Earth Pony figures: Sunny Starscout, Princess Pipp Petals, Izzy Moonbow, Misty Brightdawn, and Zipp Storm. Ponies have extra-long tails with more hair than most My Little Pony figures. Each tail is a unique color, style and texture for lots of hair-play fun. Celebrate Misty's curls, Pipp's crimped style, Zipp's long, straight tail, and more! Figures are 3 inches tall with poseable heads and legs and molded plastic manes. Celebration Tails kids toy makes a great gift for 3 year old girls and boys."
I always get a lot of comments about the 2-key pony keyboard. I wanted to explain how I think they could work. I've been told there is an input device called orbiTouch which works on the same principle.
so i went to my local dollar store the other day nd found these g4.5 pony blind bag thingies for like $3 each
nd first of all lemme tell u, these are not high quality figures, but fuck if i didnt want a little twilight sparkle figure for my desk. so i was reasonable and got only 2 packs instead of All Of Them and figured it was 2 tries at a 1/4 chance, whatever right? best case scenario i get twi and rarity, worst case i get 2 rainbow dash
well as soon as i thought the worst case into existence i KNEW i fucked up. in that moment i was one with the universe and the universe was in my bones and i had tempted fate herself and was going to pay the price
i went home and opened the bags.
and i got 2 rainbow dash.
okay!! fine!!! we’re going to do it this way, are we? like no flame to rd, it just so happens if u have 6 main characters in a show and rank them, one of them is gonna b at the bottom of my list and thats ok! it’s just id really rather have a twilight sparkle figure please and thank you
so i went back to the store a day later and bought 3 more packs. each one a 1/4 chance for twilight sparkle. and as i was walking home i thought to myself:
“man, it’d b funny if this time i got every other figure except for twilight”
well guess what?
i got a rarity, a pinkie, and another rainbow dash :)
i tempted fate again and yknow what? thats on me! fool me once shame on me and all that, i had it coming. so now im here with my 3 rainbow dashes and 0 twilight sparkles and my crippling gacha addiction gene rearing its head for the first time since i managed to quit spending irl money on pngs of anime girls in 2019
i went back to the store.
i bought all the remaining bags they had.
i had 5 more tries. 5 more 1/4 chances to get a twilight sparkle figure. 5 more 1/4 chances to get a SINGLE figurine of my favourite character, and 5 more 1/4 chances to get yet another one of my least favourite.
i figured this time the odds were in my favour. i may have passed stats on a technicality, but at least i figured i’d given myself the best odds i could. and in my hubris i thought to myself:
“at least there’s no way they’re all rainbow dash”
well :)
i clearly hadnt learned my lesson
i’d tempted fate again, and FUCK if she doesnt know how to commit to the bit because,
i walked home from the dollar store.
i opened the last 5 bags.
and all of them were fucking rainbow dash.
very first face tracking test for soap cats, I'm really happy with it! Definitely need to work on refining a lot of the shapes though
gonna blab a whole lot more under the cut because ppl dont usually reblog art posts that have 200 paragraphs haha
So! I'm getting a quest pro headset real soon, and that's why I'm making facetracking for soap cats. However this video is using ARKit data (iphone) from a really nice person in my discord who sent it to me. (i do not own an iphone/ipad)
I'm setting up all of this with the quest pro in mind, using the unified expressions standard, but i renamed the shape keys to arkit shape keys so they could use the same animation keyframes so i could see em in action before the headset arrives
if people aren't super familiar with how face tracking works, basically i have to custom sculpt a TON of face shapes that the tracking device blends between. This video is animating 50 of them, but I've made 70 in total! And I think it might end up being more like 72-74.. i skipped a few mouth shapes I thought weren't necessary. The actual amount of shapes i had to Sculpt is a little lower, since most of them need to be split up into left and right versions and some of them upper and lower too. But it's still a lot!
& a final note, this is seriously just my first pass at the face tracking. Documentation for what shapes to make and how to make them is a bit barebones, so I had no idea how it would all look together until I rendered out this video. I'm planning on making it look a lot nicer with way less clipping :)
pfp by @ponymuffinz . mmmmm, I like ponies I wanna writte pony stuff, draw pony stuff, animate pony stuff, thats all I'm here for. DNI: terfs, racists, homophobes and whatnot, just genrally conservative and biggoted types... oh, also pedophiles, those as well. she/her 19 years old
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