When posing characters, 3D programs like Poser and Daz3D help out a lot by introducing joint limits. It’s a complicated way to say that your model’s wrist can’t spin all the way around, or their fingers can’t bend in weird angles. But the problem is, that they kinda can. You Read more…
I’ve been running a niche book promotion site for over a year now, and I have some insights to share. It’s called haremgamelitbooks.com. There are many book promotion services out there, and there are many case studies for their efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The problem is that those sites are shotgun Read more…
This is a case study of how you can use machine learning GPT-2 to write a scene. First of all, I trained GPT-2 with 1 million words of fiction I’ve written. This is an essential step, because with the untrained model you get lots of irrelevant gibberish, whereas this way, Read more…
I’m using this very inspiring post by BossLogic as an excuse to say a couple of things: It’s a continuation to another blog post where I talked about the trap of fan fiction and fanart. BossLogic is Kode Abdo, a very talented artist working with the largest comic brands in Read more…
I was playing around with Facebook stories, casually shitposting as I usually do. And I noticed that they added stickers like Instagram stories, with polls. Naturally, I polled my fans for a couple of questions. And okay, I get that the question about Achilles in the movie Troy might be Read more…
Things have gotten wild. It’s like the anti-vaxxers, the easily confused and the conspiracy theorists have morphed into a Voltron of misinformation. There’s Qanon, which is a crazy town of looney conspiracy theories that read just like a Madlib of famous names and conspiracy buzzwords, the antimaskers who call us Read more…
I have a rather controversial opinion about sci-fi and fantasy lists. I get really pissed off when they’re all about dead people. Goodreads is running a Sci-fi and Fantasy season, and as usual, it’s full of dead people. Okay, granted, there’s a recent speculative hits section on there, so it’s Read more…
I don’t think so. There’s a big name author that recently posted his thoughts in his private group. In his post, he makes some good points about how authors are not in this together and that they should guard their secrets, their freelance partners and their resources like the business Read more…
Recently the Archive organization opened up the front-end library restrictions. This happened for a lot of reasons, mainly because the actual libraries were shut down due to the Coronavirus. This sparked a huge debate about publishing rights and all that crap. It’s all just noise. It’s just rights holders nagging Read more…
At the risk of extreme confirmation bias, this fact proves a point I was making in another post. https://www.ranker.com/list/disturbing-black-paintings-francisco-goya/bailey-benningfield Goya at the late stage of his life retreated to a house and painted only for himself. The Black Paintings, dubbed as such by historians are bleak, disturbing, and of course Read more…