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@Slum_bb So much life and vibrancy, looks fab!

I love seeing how the final render compares to the initial sketch!

NEW CHILD NEW CHILD NEW CHILD

@Slum_bb Explanation: you are a jelly. Jellies have no brains and therefore feel no pain. Next try a whole scotch bonnet

This stuff ain't spicy at all, drank the whole dang sauce packet. This does not provide the spice I crave despite SIX WHOLE PEPPERS on the packaging. SIX!!!!

If you have a hard time making live2D meshes this little button is a lifesaver, makes the points way easier to work with!

@Slum_bb Cant wait to see it bouncing

I used to hate rendering vtuber hair but lately it's therapeutic. I'm gonna animate this one extra fluffy 🌟 🐑

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

Massive silverback gorilla blocks a road so his family can cross safely. 📽: BBC Earth

TY for the vgen commission @/EmbersVT!! This one was a blast! Vgen link in thread 👇️

@Slum_bb Wow!!!

This is what being locked in looks like (coloring is hard)

I painted each feather by hand does that make me dumb or goated!?!

@Slum_bb Sooo beautiful

Does this wing anatomy look ok or am I cooked?

The Florida Department of Health just found that your favorite bread is laced with carcinogenic glyphosate.

@Slum_bb So awesome. Love your redraw. Lol

Testing my art warmup worksheet, it's surprisingly therapeutic and fun! Can't wait to wrap it up and add it to my routine! 😌

It almost looks like I know what i'm doing 😅

MISSION SUCCESS! Payload deployment is confirmed for the ‘Bridging The Swarm’ mission for @KAISTPR. ✅ 2nd launch in 8 days ✅ 81st launch in total ✅ 100% mission success in 2026

@Slum_bb Practically identical

Sketch vs. Render, what do you think? I always worry my sketches don't portray the final well enough so I've been trying to improve!

@Slum_bb Such a smart practice

I've been working on an art warmup worksheet for myself and to give free to others, do any artists out there have warmups they can't skip? I find doing exercises like these really helps my pen control before I start a commission! I pick and choose which ones I need that day!

@Slum_bb Woah!

Great news everyone! After 8 hours I have finally finished... the meshing and gluing... onto texture atlas 🥲

AI is only going to make artists and experts better at what they do. It’s a tremendous solve for friction. I’ve seen this in my own work. And as an original content medium, it will reveal new forms of talent. It already is.