Zarnagel

Nautilus Mechanicus

My partner @revretch developed their own blender shading system to create the effect of "cartoonish" fur and hair shading but they're also able to use it to generate a lifelike insect pseudopupil that changes with the angle EXACTLY like the real thing, like even where the shadow distorts in shape or "breaks" here at certain angles is precisely what an actual pseudopupil will do?! You can see examples on real mantises if you look carefully:

They're not using tumblr much anymore because it didn't seem to drive much traffic to their series but they update their patreon every single week with progress on their series include these kinds of original Blender processes and experiments:

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Or as I like to call her, the Jellybean. And yes, this crumb of a creature is in fact a wasp— albeit a very tiny one. Oh, and a lady. The males of this genus are winged and have much more typical wasp appearance. Meanwhile, the females use their tininess to go undetected and hitch rides on spiders, waiting for them to lay their eggs so that she can lay her own within them.

A tragic scene:

My turtle notices the blueberry I put out for him but in his excitement he drops it into his pond. He considers a recovery mission on his own, then turns to me for assistance instead.

Things when bad: kids and children are involved!

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)