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Whoever you may be, Welcome and Thank you for dropping by!

This Blog was created in order to document my first foray into the worlds of 3D animation and to show what I get out of this new venture! Hopefully it will be interesting! :P

I blog about what interest me, and also my own art (and henna) these will be tagged: myanimation, myhenna, myart,

Just finished a three year Animation course in Wales. Of mixed heritage I usually call Ireland home :D

I have a tendency to walk with my head in the clouds, read a lot, and imagine lots of drawings... which i actually need to get around to drawing soon! ;)

My interests are very varied, ranging as they do from myths and legends, languages, ancient civilizations (Egypt and Greece mostly), fashion, Cats of all kinds :) and lots more which I will not list for fear the world will end before I am finished!! :P

Leave a comment, say hi or asking any questions!

Blogs I follow:

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  1. nachttour: newvagabond: maxistentialist: Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer: Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate. The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.” The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot. AwwWWWWWWAHHHHHHHHHHHH. *weeps all over the place* I have robot feelings, okay? 

    nachttour:

    newvagabond:

    maxistentialist:

    Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

    Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

    The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

    The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

    AwwWWWWWWAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

    *weeps all over the place* I have robot feelings, okay? 

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  2. silvysartfulness:

    awkwardsituationist:

    “world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces. 

    Ooooh, this is gorgeous… Like the distilled heart of every country. Both my natural science side and artistic side approves. <3

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  3. drovie:

    sosuperawesome:

    tauart

    fffffff the colors

    beautiful :)

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  4. stalkingbit:

    electricsed:

    crassetination:

    The Black 01

    When the world goes post-apocalyptic this is how I hope we all dress.

    I would so wear all of this.

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  5. Mythology - Medusa

    (Source: redcigar)

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  6. starksmash    :

    Zuhair Murad Spring 2013 Couture

    (Source: lilysaldrins)

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  7. qinni:

    View Bigger version here (for details) | Artwork here | My Anatomy Tutorials

    gif of the painting process:

    Sorry this was so darn long D:. tried to make it as short as possible. I’ve been asked quite a few times on how I paint before now, and I’ve never made an actual tutorial until now. Hope this helps clear some stuff up :). 

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  8. artforadults:

    Elements by Sophia Miroedova behance - tumblr

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  9. citadelbloodbeard:

    ablipintime:

    theburntsouffle:

    madygcomics:

    pocopiumosso:

    My middle school orchestra teacher has this hanging in her room. It’s fantastic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tds0qoxWVss

    This is what it sounds like. REALLY good song.

    my HS music teacher passed this out to us once i think, iirc. either that or it’s hanging in the room there, too.

    Holy dicks. Go to the youtube link and listen to this.

    It’s like Dragonforce did the music for a 90’s JRPG.

    edit: Apparently the Youtube vid is music from Touhou. Never played any Touhou, but I might look into the soundtrack some more :D

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  11. aquaticwonder:

    Shades of Turquoise Ice

    In the winter, for about five months or from January to May, the lake freezes over but the water is so clear that, from the surface, you can see an astounding 130 feet below you. Transparent and shining in a turquoise color, these masses of broken ice look like shards of glass rising into the sky. They are caused by the slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice as well as by the unequal structure and temperature.

    So pretty 

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  12. amexicanwithamustache:

    motherstrickle:

    partybarackisinthehousetonight:

    do catholics fail trigonometry because they’re afraid of sin

    do irish people fail trigonometry because they can’t tan

    does everyone else fail trigonometry just cos

    The Irish would be triply, completely screwed in that case…seeing as most are irish catholics…

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  13. theartofanimation:

    Rozenn

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  14. unknowneditors:

    Ryohei Hase

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  15. psdo: Psdo Critiques Herself Part 2 [full size]

    psdo:

    Psdo Critiques Herself Part 2 [full size]

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