Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

marciansmind:

WAIT, SO HE JUST HELD ONTO A BLUE APPLE AND THEN THE WORLD BLEW UP

NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE

NONE OF THIS

MAKES ANY

FUCKING

SENSE

AT ALL

ZERO.

… WHY AM I STILL WORKED UP AND WANTING TO CLICK “NEXT”!?

(Source: gunpowderandspark, via dedlok)

“Didn’t you say in your blog that you used to use puppets?”

Time to clarify.

I’m not entirely sure what to call them.

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Basically, one character is made up of 25-40 layers, and each one corresponds to a specific body part. So each part is can be easily edited or redrawn. I call them puppets because of how similar the format is to something like the official MLP rigs or the Double Rainboom rigs.

However, unlike those two examples, I don’t use Flash. So the rig isn’t vectorized, there are no symbols, and there’s no library of pre-made edits to body-parts.

Everything is rendered in Paint Tool SAI.

I’m not sure if these can be called puppets, but they do work similarly to them.