TFW you get to design the whole squad for the campaign for friends and they'll tell you about the magic leeches the next day.

painterly rock texture with some selective vibrant colors

same as before, looking at a different patch, but now with top moss

man

rocky cliff

some weird shit, but this is a big part of it bsky.app/profile/makk...

you made Gurt look so cute! thank you!!!

painterly rock texture with some selective vibrant colors

same as before, looking at a different patch, but now with top moss

man

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act!

Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

the app logged me out then wouldn't load, I assumed they were DDoSing themselves again

Okay, so, the vast majority of the video is done, and I wanna set myself a deadline for it, so!

Saturday, May 2nd, 6pm UK: Concrete Heart - A video on Quake Brutalist Jam III, and how it helped me love Quake (and re-love games).

I’m back with another one with some Lacey and
A goblin character who belongs to @makkon.bsky.social
A fantasy knight who belongs to @studiojoywonder.bsky.social
And Lillehall who belongs to @willowsquest.co.uk

Now time to finish that oc sheet I’ve been putting off…
#ocsky #ocart

surreal digital painting of a prison of flesh grabbing at and tearing at the face of an iridescent sculpture trying its best to wrest free of the prison, meanwhile an abstract faceless being gawks at it, arms not making sense.

DON'T STEAL MY FACE

a quantized normal map, 16 colors, max contour smoothing

converted to grayscale and autolevels

edge detect, some additional cells layered over top to break up large shapes, and then made into flood fill

flood fill to color, sampling the base color. it's got some lighting baked in, but can be PBR compliant if needed

I'll give you a sniff at how I'm doing this. once you got these cells, you smush and skrungle them up. do the same operations to the base color and normal map and they'll mostly match up.

screenshot of a rock material that looks very hand painted

oh yeah, it's all coming together

a "sort by newest" works just fine for most problems

Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music.

Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.

pics from the countryside

their fruit has putrified
forbidden once and bound to die
the thread of life lies severed
on the brink of paradise

those tears of quartz, perpetual
chrysolite, jasper and agate
but time itself is old

substance designer graph, left part is the cliff height. right side is color and paint and output.

oh it's a mess lol

Went dark here for about a year, but maybe it’s time to start sharing some art and game-dev stuff again. So here are my first 9 daily paintings from this year’s #PleinAirpril #PleinAirpril2026 @procreate.com

built in, I think it's been in for about 2 years

I'm leaving out a lot. I'm also doing a quantize color and kuwahara on the original base color, blending those together, then blending that on top of these color cells. then afterward I'm doing a multidirection warp with a brushy height. even more unsaid stuff beyond that, but it's the basics.

a quantized normal map, 16 colors, max contour smoothing

converted to grayscale and autolevels

edge detect, some additional cells layered over top to break up large shapes, and then made into flood fill

flood fill to color, sampling the base color. it's got some lighting baked in, but can be PBR compliant if needed

I'll give you a sniff at how I'm doing this. once you got these cells, you smush and skrungle them up. do the same operations to the base color and normal map and they'll mostly match up.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

if you like my rocks, I'm absolutely doing it right

thank you!

yes, you may

screenshot of a rock material that looks very hand painted

oh yeah, it's all coming together

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.