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Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

This shot broke my version of Procreate Dreams. I ended up having so many layers that Dreams was telling me it wouldn’t be able to export the video unless I consolidated or deleted some.

Oddly enough if you group some of the layers together that somehow frees up space? I’m not sure how that works tbh. In the end I have around 45-48 layers consolidated into 16 different groups.

I genuinely thought that the climbing out animation would be the hardest part of this shot, but in fact it was all the rubble and shadow effects that needed to be applied. Those are what took up the bulk of the layers.

The Warden is animated mostly on 3’s and 4’s (with a couple 1’s and 2’s in there to smooth out the animation slightly). I did this because I wanted him to be lumbering and unnatural. Up until this moment everything has mostly been animated on 1’s (including a lot of the rubble).

Here’s a zoomed out image of the entire timeline in Dreams. Each one of those grey dots is a frame lol

I really didn’t think that this one 5 second shot would be what broke Procreate Dreams. If you’ve been following my work these past 2 months I’ve had some shots that were far longer and more technically complex than this one. But I guess just the sheer number of layers and groups I needed to have to make the rubble work was just too much!

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