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huh sorry what did you say? sorry I'm a tumblr user, I don't know how to read... uh but since I'm here, might as well respond to this post while being a contrarian.
I keep seeing the "chat is a fourth person pronoun" post and it's getting increasingly hard to avoid starting discourse in the notes of it. chat I don't think they know what these linguistics terms they're using mean
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 :)
these are lemon demon song concepts
Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real
you know, I'm initially inclined to agree, many people will agree (or surface level seem to agree) with left wing ideology just out of uncritical following of a crowd, and I do think that that's a real problem. but like. hmmmm hmmmm
and there's a lot more red usernames in the empty reblogs... the thing is, I think a lot of the people in the notes are sorta reading this post and only looking at it surface level, ironically enough. you can criticize the reason for people getting into politics, I think that's fair, but a lot of the people who seem to agree to that... don't seem to be doing that themselves, I don't think. and are just seeing this as "radicalism bad" or "those silly progressives, they're just like the right".
look, I really don't think you can fundamentally compare these two things, wanting to exterminate another race, or advocating for an ethnostate, these things cannot be meaningfully compared with the very basic progressive ideals that most people in this website (or in most progressive circles for that matter) hold.
and, yeah, seeing the kind of people who are reblogging this and what they're saying along with it, I would also like to mention that a lot of them seem to talk about "radicalization" when they actually mean like, just very basic stuff like supporting trans rights, this isn't all of them of course, some people on the reblogs are being a lot more sensitive about it and making actual criticisms of the way many leftists misguidedly shape their ideologies, without actually saying much on the ideologies themselves, which I think is the ideal.
and I think it is important to have all of this stuff in mind. since trying to look at this from some sort of centrist impartial lens is just... sorta silly. right?
Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.
