/cyb/ - Cyberpunk Fiction and Fact

This probably isn't the right place t ask, but does anyone have good recommendation for tutorials/channels that explain how to use Blender, specifically 2d animations as well as rigging and scripting as I was wondering on how difficult of a process would it be to recreate the flash puppet style into it?

>>3001
anon, I mentioned this to AnonTheAnon and he said he just looks stuff up on youtube... lol...
After re-reading your question though, you might be happier with synfig
https://www.synfig.org/
I have not yet had a chance to actually use it, but I did do a very stupid simple thing a long time ago and got a sphere to move around very easily and change size.
If you want, make a thread about synfig and I'll learn it with you.

>>3002
>Synfig Studio
ehh, after less then successful attempts at trying to learn animating in Krita and BoomToon I am kind of fed up with purely 2d based animating programs, also if the idea of doing the Blender recreation ends up successful there is a horde of useful addons and other crap that could bump up utility of it (just the fact that you can use python code for running simple scripts is an amazing advantage over anything else out there).

>>3003
krida is frame-by-frame only, I don't know much about toonboom
synfig is vector animation only

>>3005
>Whenever I do an image search
Probably because Google has been shilling this file type hard, since Google developed webp.
>It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
Ikr. I have to do the same thing every time I want to post one here, usually because I got it from search or from discord (which accepts and embeds webps).
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Well, according to Google:
>WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.
So allegedly, it compresses well, like a jpeg, while still allowing for transparency, like a PNG, which could hypothetically make it a decent "universal format".
There's probably some macroeconomic logic behind Google wanting this to be widespread. I can't say what Google's actual motives are, but I suspect that it's more shekels in their pockets.

>>3005
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Yes, it is about the file size. Google wanted to reduce the bandwidth and WEBP gives reductions of around 30%.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/compression?hl=en

>>3005
>I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
You can use imagemagick to quickly convert files on the command line. There are many scripts on the net that make that process automatic
>Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format
No,however, it's an open format, and libwebp is released under a permissive BSD liscense. But so is libpng and libjpeg

>>2528
Thanks! I've been visiting mlpol on and off for years.

>>2529
>checkin status:
>SIGNED IN


>>2530
We use a .clang-format file to enforce style standards. Makes things simple & consistent. We follow the first for functions, the second for everything else.

>>2531
>Thanks! I've been visiting mlpol on and off for years.
Nice! I'm a /cow/boy myself

>>2532
OK then, see you there Anon!

>>2534
Can I call a nigger NIGGER and a faggot FAGGOT?

>>2527
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

How to get immediate coding help in Reddit.

>>2989
>highlights the nature of the problem
And offers no tenable solution. The Amish are only able to live that way because they're insulated by another peaceful society, otherwise they'd get raided an enslaved by warrior gangs.

>>2990
Oh, you wanna talk now?

>>2991
>now
What?

>>2992
Nothing, it just seems like I never get the opportunity to go through with this matter. The discussion randomly sparks up and dies just when I'm getting to the best part.
>>2990
I do agree tho. It is clearly lacking.

>>2993
That sounds like it warrants a more specific thread

>>2994
Yeah, maybe.

>>2447
This is interesting. I wonder what it means for the industry as a whole, particularly for artist who only partly use AI tools in their art process.

>>2481
I believe that from the very moment they use it, their human intellectual property goes in flames.

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>>2739
Not if those aliens are mares. You wouldn't do everything in your power to gain access to space mares? I'd sacrifice every human alive for the Imperium of Mare. A total mare cultural and diplomatic victory would be inevitable.

>>2739
>want alien resources more than they want alien friends
At such a stage of interstellar exploration, most resources would be gained from asteroid mining.
Aliens would offer different kinds of capital, such as new technology and the experts and engineers to implement them, in which case you really would want alien friends.
Friendship is magic.

>>2741
I, for one, welcome our alien pony overlords.

>>2265
Positive authoritarianism is a shit idea. But for whatever reason, it seems to be perpetuated by either shitty writers whose only frame of reference is the TV show Person of Interest or their commie SJW social club.

But to be honest? What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government? Sci-fi? Can a world built to be cyberpunk be (relatively) peaceful and friendly without need for an obligatory oppressive government? Hell, for some reason there are fiction authors that argue that some element of human-suffering is crucial to making a so-called-utopia, which the entire premise of is completely ridiculous, IMO.

Shit. the word "Utopia" itself basically means "non-existant city" or something like that. So, the entire idea is literally just a nothingburger that people treat as some sort of immutable law.

Honestly? I'm tired of Dystopia. I'm tired of it being used both positively and negatively. It's been too real for my tastes.

>>2265
I can see where you're coming from. The tone in that description sounds positive, but think a little and it becomes depressingly cynical; making peace non-negotiable instead of genuinely fostering the sentiment.
Perhaps that's the point? I find it difficult to imagine some dude typing this out genuinely accepting the ideal, even moreso proofreading it. You'd think they'd tweak out the undertone of cynicism.

>>2797
I find the issue of a utopia is they think too small. In the sheer scale they desire something of corruptible beginnings, middles and ends instead of higher beyond cosmic potentials.
At what point is too much too much?
I suppose instead of semi-realistic it's more of a paradise thought exercise. The point is there's usually a lack of something or an absence of an lack that should have been more heavily considered in detail.

>>2798
>xmpp irc mumble
I'm not joining any server.
Go back to the hellhole you came from shlomo.

im axing not adverting

>>2756
>The glownigger hysteria is overblown
It is not.

>>2757
Traffic is encrypted to and from https sites, all your ISP sees is that you're using the site. Cloudflare can only see your data if you give them your certificate, which I would hope that nobody who knows what they're doing would ever do. It's true that most VPNs are kiked, but mullvad doesn't even keep logs of anything that's done and even invites you to take a look at the source code: https://github.com/mullvad/. You can still browse mlpol on tor and could even post at one point, although it doesn't seem to be working at the moment, I may actually want to ask Pupper about that

>>2760
Yes it is. Some posters spend more time worrying about glowniggers than they do posting actual content.

>>2757
>The only safe place to shitpost might be a cyber-cafe in some forgotten town in Africa as things are going.
Then why are you even here if it's not safe? What are you saying we should do?

>>2751
If they want to target you, they wouldn't need /mlpol/ to nab you.

>>2694
Are we to just never, ever talk about firearms or the political implications of them on this site then? Should we just let fear rule us and be intimidated into silence when nothing we're discussing is illegal?

I don't like lolis. I wish Rebecca was older and had bigger tits than Illulu.

>>2727
Thanks for letting us know.

>>2727
She's 20.

Ded hanime. Ded thread. Ded website.

>>2736
no u