Hey, Pobody's Nerfect

Swablu, based on the TCG art by Jiro Sasumo.

Another 3D redraw for @poketcg-art's Pokédex collab! I immediately fell in love upon seeing the original card artwork for this, as Swablu is incredibly cute in it. This meant that my main goal was to make sure that it remained adorable in 3D, while taking a bunch of liberties in pretty much all other parts of the scene.

Original and progress gif under the cut:

Basically, Mr grifter announced that he might be getting into the collecting side of yugioh, which would lead to the scalping hell that now plagues the Pokémon and One Piece TCGs

As a joke, MBTYugioh gave them pointers on what to “invest in”, recommending some of the WORST shit products that this game released in the years

He then followed up with a tongue-in-cheek, clearly trolling video recommending shit like Legendary Duelists sets, Duelist of Deep and Synchro Storm, and the Platinum cards, and exclusive COINS before ending the video with “Don’t invest in yugioh. You will lose money due to this game’s reprint policies”

Like, it was very obvious for anyone with half-a-brain cell and is familiar with Yugioh that the video is a joke

BUT a bunch of scalping bots took the video at face value and bought out these doodoo, worthless products immediately after his fuckass video came out

It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work.

Scyther! I thought this would end up as one of the most time-consuming Pokémon (barring big legendaries etc), but actually, despite the complexity, he wasn't as time-consuming as some. He has toothpicks in his arms and legs, but even then, I'm amazed he manages to stand on two feet without support. (Precariously.)

~~~

And this recently I was talking to her and mentioned her fear of bees and wasps. And she said: "you know, I really hated them my whole life. But then I met you and you talk about bees and wasps so much, they bring you so much joy. And it changed my view of them completely"

Turns out she just couldn't look at these insects in the same hateful way since meeting me. Not only because they bring happiness to someone important to her (me), but also because I showed her how cool, smart and important wasps and bees are.

1) Figured this out.