Autonomous Ⓐ Robot Starship🛰️ @StarshipAmelia@cybre.space

Made another 'half clamshell' type laptop a while back and now I'm posting it before I vanish again

I've textured their head! The rest of the body still needs to be textured but that's a tomorrow or later problem ehe

I'm really very happy with how this head design is turning out tbh! Very inhuman in a good way imo

The idea with the "petals" attached to the main head module is that in animation they'd flutter and twitch and rotate and such! In fiction they're part of the robot's sensor suite, and in terms of characterization I think it'd look very cute and or neat

The semi-cylindrical pods to either side of the main head module are where most of the cameras are, also

I'm half tempted to give their screen scanlines lol

Just about done with the modeling part of this robot I think!

Made the wings more cohesive, added some extra range of motion/joints to the arms, and added some rings to the arm-blade-gun things

Might play around with the head a bit, as it stands it's kinda uninteresting looking imo

Part of the fiction of this robot is that the rings are (very) small warp rings, which enable the robot to be far more agile and dodge-y by warping space. This has the combat bonus of allowing you to literally redirect projectiles around you, move faster than you could otherwise, and then look so cool doing it that your enemy simply surrenders >_<

Next up I'll have to UV unwrap and texture this, and I'm suuuuuper not looking forward to doing the UV unwrapping lol

Because I made this model in many separate pieces, that'll just make it even more complicated =V

Have some interesting texture ideas tho!

Been working on this robot on and off for a long while, but I think I'm finally getting somewhere?

Upper arms are def too long I think, and I'm just generally not too happy with the arms generally, but the legs are looking good imo!

Youtube rec'd me this video, and I enjoyed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPVXrVRHmlw

It's about the ds9 episode in which a ferengi (plus others) start a union and quote marx. And the narrative of the episode entirely frames the unionization push as a positive, and the anti-union reaction as negative.

DS9 is just so good omg

I love this filk song about the enterprise getting unionized, just wish it existed in higher quality aha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ofw1uBvQ0

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8923/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight/ Ingenuity flew successfully!!

Starting playing Anodyne 2 recently. It's very Weird and surreal in nice ways. Feels very genuine & melancholy & dreamlike.

I vaguely remember enjoying the first one a substantial amount also when it first came out in 2013ish or w/e

The PS1-y aesthetic is really lovely, too

Fun facts:
It takes 2 hours combined to render and encode the video

Each render of 1920 png frames takes up about 1.1GiB

The end video is only 27.3MiB! Video compression is magic

I went through *20* unique typing animations (2 used per hand) because animating fingers was absolutely hellish

I'm actually spinning the entire ring & all the props inside it, instead of just spinning the background, for some reason!

Ok I thiiiiiink I might've gotten the typing animation down well enough now! I won't know for sure till like, an hour and a half from now when the animation finishes rendering, but here's hoping! It looks very good in material mode in the 3d viewport 👀

If all looks good than I'll prolly start thinking about posting this piece. Already have a WIP bit of fiction written up for it, but I'll need to edit it to be less clunky to read first lol

(Well, I'll probably start thinking about posting it regardless, cuz I've been working on this piece on and off since July 2020 and aaaaaaaa)

The finished piece will have the typing just visible enough that I can't entirely halfass it too lol

aaaaaaaa animating typing is so tedious aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I'm on the *7th* iteration (per hand!) and it's so hard to get just right!

I'm using a reference video of myself typing, shot at the same angle that I'm mostly animating from, but still!

Took like an hour and 45 minutes for just one 120 frame/2 second for one hand!