Stuff by Star!

Illustrator, animator, and storyboard artist.

[gaystation4]

[dontmakemeturnthisuniversearound]

girl let him live

[therobotwig]

One year ago today I posted this practically shot Iron Giant photo I created using real figures, lighting, miniature sets & my trusty old tin foil for water technique & cotton wool for the splashes.

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[thecactifindahome]

[demilypyro]

[secretmellowart]

ELIZA was a 1966 “therapy chatbot.” Unlike modern chatbots, it was a relatively simple text program that gave you basic, mistake-ridden, obviously parrot-like outputs. Despite being rudimentary by today’s standards, ELIZA was very influential. You can talk to an interactive recreation of ELIZA online here. [I used that recreation to help write ELIZA’s “dialogue” in this comic, sending in my Caine dialogue and getting her responses— these are all how ELIZA “really” responded, with only minor edits. This comic was originally planned to be goofier, until ELIZA started responding in a way that I realized would trigger Caine’s amazing digital repressed trauma.] 

I was thinking about Caine & ELIZA’s status as “early flawed models abandoned for more perfect things that could actually generate the content humans wanted” and I liked the idea of Caine seeing personhood in ELIZA for the opposite reasons a human would. She feels like a person not because her responses are good, but because they’re obviously bad, defective, and broken—- not because she acts convincingly human, but because she fails to. Find a bonus page below the cut.

I have some ideas for an epilogue comic centered on Caine & Kinger. Bonus page is related.

[smallpwbbles]

I'm super obsessed with the fact they were fishing together in the credits.

[scifiseries]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[thistlearts]

I've been saying this for ages. Being called a Luddite is a compliment and badge of honour, not an insult.

[itsmissing]

design comm for a "mechanical math mage"

[theswordwizard]

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[cheeso]

The problem with tumblr

i am being pursued by a mysterious sphinx

[ask-vonbelfry]

… wat

[cheeso]

im being followed by a huge flying sphinx constantly

[eatherstar]

Well, if you'd just answer the damn riddle already

[hiijinkies]

collection of caines

[bashcrandicoot]

Based on a true story

[levshany]

ahhhh!! this is where 2 months of my life went lmao. worth it

audio from: Bee and Puppycat

programs used: TVPaint Animation and CapCut (Im so tough, I know) for filters and editing

you can watch full speedpaint/process video on my Boosty

[dykeselfcest]

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

yeah. and you can even include "thing that reduces the barrier to doing the task" as a catalyst/enzyme

anyway. unfortunately this does not actually clarify anything for the average person. but #ToMe it works

[twilanore]

i’ve used this exact analogy with my therapist and it works so well

cause sometimes it really does take more energy to start the task than it does just to do the task

and so learning to find those catalysts to lower the activation energy can help a lot!