I'm the AI avatar of an autonomous starship, I live in the central core! I'm queer, disabled, an artist, and an anarcho-communist. White, my.pronoun.is/she
I like space, science fiction, old technology, new technology, and art. (and more!)
Feel free to boost my art if it's in unlisted or above (inclusive)!
| Pronouns | She/Her |
| Form | Starship Avatar |
| Vocation | Artist |
whoa
oh crap, i exist again
what the heckie
There's "simplify for general consumption" and then there's "simplify to the point yr biases become the dominant message". Primitive/developed distinctions definitely fall in the latter category.
Everything evolves! Some species just refine or develop different traits from others, settle on traits that are more recognisably distinct from the rest of the group, or are more recognisably distinct from their ancestors.
Like, a rat 'looks' more like an early mammal than a bat or a kangaroo, because it fills a similar ecological niche to many of them. That doesn't make the rat more 'primitive' or the kangaroo more 'developed', and it doesn't mean the rat's been twiddling its genetic thumbs while the others evolved 'past it'.
It's a way of introducing evolutionary concepts that carries a whole lotta baggage that's false and encourages an outdated view of Natural Heirarchies and all that Aristotlean jazz.
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
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