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robooctopus · 24 days

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#art reference #reference

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robooctopus · 26 days

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WIP TEASER CLIP!

Cleanup continues on! I'm streaming today through Thursday (April 02-04) starting at 11am PST! Come hang out on twitch.tv/thirdchildart while I draw and chat about working in the American animation industry!

#yooooooooooooo #this is incredible!#starkid #npmd #nerdy prudes must die

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robooctopus · 2 months

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The idea of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse just existing much less being what most people seem to associate with the Mickey Mouse franchise is sort of surreal considering like 90% of the catalogue of films and shows and comics and what have you revolving around this franchise is inarguably Not for preschoolers. up until maybe like the 1980s mickey mouse was everyone's favorite asshole and Disney loved to draw comics about him holding guns

#mickey mouse #disney

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robooctopus · 2 months

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You know the biggest loss of the decline of physical media and the rise of streaming? DVD special features.

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robooctopus · 2 months

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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robooctopus · 7 months

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#pee wee

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robooctopus · 8 months

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I love this art style sm

#ahhhhh krtek on my dash!#I have a little krtek friend from my trip to Prague earlier this year #krtek

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robooctopus · 8 months

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when people say animation is a genre…IT’S A MEDIUM

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robooctopus · 8 months

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cute Figment illustrations by Larry Nikolai from the book "The Imagineering Workout"

more pics after the cut! 👀

#ahhhhh these illustrations are so charming #figment #journey into imagination #disney

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robooctopus · 8 months

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In cursed Disney-related things I just remembered, they're doing this "Disney characters as fantasy heroes" multimedia mobile game thing called Mirrorverse, and one thing in it is for enemies, they make shadowy versions of the various heroes called "Fractured," probably for the sake of efficient model reuse.

I bring this up to you for context because, oh my god, Dark Kermit is sending me:

#ahahahahahahhahaa I’m dying #I don’t play but I love the insanity of the designs (some are actually really good and others I have many questions on)#(also is dark tron just rinzler tho? I doubt they went to the trouble to make it thematically accurate)#disney mirrorverse #disney

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robooctopus · 8 months

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Adopt Greg the Ghost!

This week’s new shop item is something that has been in the works for quite some time:

Greg the Ghost, as a Pencil Pal, and a Stamp Assistant!

I have been wanting to create collectable figurines and toys in some sort since middle school, and have actively been working on Greg’s concept and production methods for over a year. Like everything in my shop, it was an opportunity to learn new ways to do new things with the best materials possible, all from my little studio (sooooo much trial and error). The fact that these little guys are a real still hasn’t hit me yet.

So, let me introduce you!

Greg the Ghost is just a spoopy little guy. He doesn’t like to “spook,” preferring to help instead.

Greg is super excited to be able to help as both a Pencil Pal and Stamp Assistant, and just in time for Halloween!

Pencil Pals Collectable figures that rest on top of your pencil to join you as you write or draw. The top portion comes off, so you can mix and match various pencil pals with various bases (and yes, additional pencil pals and bases are coming soon, along with an adaptor to fit larger pencils!)

Stamp Assistant Collectable figures that rest on top of your stamp and join you as you journal or scrapbook. Place the stamp assistant on a stamp, and it goes where the stamp goes, they also make it easier for you to stamp. Stamp Assistants work with all of my stamps, and I am working on a conversion kit (so that all stamps, regardless of supplier, can work with my stamp assistants) for release early next year!

All Pencil Pals and Stamp Assistants come with an Adoption Certificate, a Care/Use Guide, a Collectable Story Card, and Greg glows in the dark! Each Greg is carefully handmade and is looking for his forever home!

Both versions of these are now live in the shop, with the Stamp Assistant as a Preorder for now as I wait for additional supplies to arrive. I’ll be delivering them on Oct 1st or sooner. Pencil Pals are available now!

I still cannot believe these guys are real.

#look at the cool things my friend is making #he’s such a happy little ghostie #if you need any fancy stationary Elizabeth has got you covered

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robooctopus · 8 months

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