[Guest Comic] Fashionably Late | 04

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT CANON

Anti-trans activists caused a transgender children’s charity - Mermaids - to have part of it’s lottery funding suspended.  In response, Youtuber HBomberGuy decided to do a non-stop playthrough of Donkey King 64 until getting to 101% completion while donating any money raised to Mermaids.

Highlights: John Romero jumped on the stream and shouted “TRANS RIGHTS” which caused donations to go wild.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cher retweeted the stream. AOC seems to have joined the Discord for the stream.

AOC TALKED ON DISCORD IN THE STREAM. She was amazing and so eloquent.

“fuck terfs gang” getting spammed in chat is cleansing my pores.

Wowzies! It’s been a while.

I’ve been working on a Jester head bust for the last couple of weeks to test the waters of high poly stuff. Overall it was not as complicated as I thought, except for the hair, fuck that, I’ll have to figure a less cursed workflow.

I’m not sure if I want to model a full body like this for now but maybe in the future.

I also animated it with audio of the show to test the mesh.

Happy New Queer! (This is silly, I’m sorry, I had to tho. lol)

CGI is a modern crutch. It’s cheaper than 2D by a landslide, and easier to churn out with the support of a studio.

But the actualization of a medium clicks when the medium is being used in ways that only it can. Focusing on rendering every hair, on recreating beautiful photo-realistic landscapes, that’s fine. It’s impressive. But the approach reaches a point where we’re left wondering:

“Why didn’t you just make a live action movie?”