Whirlwynd

@geminicblue

aka CL Caldwell, animator, comic artist, and writer. Recently graduated with a degree in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Author of the 20 Galaxies series! Things you'll see here: original art and animation, Sailor Moon, Game of Thrones/ASOIAF, Cuphead, and anything that makes me laugh or think. Art tag #gbart Homebase: http://www.geminicblue.com

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Hi

Haven't done an introduction post in a while so now's as good a time as any 👍

I'm Whirlwynd

If you can't tell, I'm a bit of a goofball

I'm 41, currently living in Colorado, basically trying to put my life back together after smashing my brain, attempting to be a freelance artist and then going to school for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. I still make art! I worked on comics for a couple decades, the last an adaptation of the 2014 version of Shadowgate

though probably if you saw anything of mine previously, it would have been my Cuphead adaptations

I'm taking a break from comics and fanworks in general to work on original projects, written and animated. Posted about them earlier this month: https://www.tumblr.com/geminicblue/720109582384513024/its-my-birthday-not-going-to-be-doing-a-lot

I also try to gather them at my main site when I remember I like nature in general, especially storms, birds, and mountains. Behold, the Rocky Mountains, my one true love

I like to meet other writers, artists, and animators! Come by and say hi sometime =)

#gbjournal #gif

geminicblue

Was considering asking around for a Bluesky code since it seemed like most people I know are active over there, but turns out they opened the site to everyone today so no need!

Here I am: whirlwynd.bsky.social

geminicblue

Probably won't be around here much, given what's been going on recently and that most people I talk to regularly already left. I'm fairly active on Bluesky, also posting on Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/Whirlwynd

Was considering asking around for a Bluesky code since it seemed like most people I know are active over there, but turns out they opened the site to everyone today so no need!

Here I am: whirlwynd.bsky.social

a) halp

b) "Friday" project update: I’m scaling back the updates for now because I don’t make enough progress in a week to justify posting every Friday, planning on monthly but we’ll see. Since I was here though, I did some worldbuilding in Dreamcrashers this week and continued the inking on Prologue Scene 1.

#gbjournal #snow #dreamcrashers #prologue

Friday Animation Update

Draft 1 of the Dreamcrashers script is done! Letting it rest a few days. Still inking that first scene of Prologue:

#prologue #dreamcrashers #gbart #the things I do for two seconds of animation

Sketching some Dreamcrashers. Also finished the current script draft yesterday!

#gbart #dreamcrashers

Very quick Friday project update: Draft 1 of the Dreamcrashers script is almost done and did some inking detail on the first scene of Prologue.

#gbjournal

One thing I'm noticing about ignoring internal and external pressure to get art done and out there is that I don't have any hatred or impatience with drawing detailed backgrounds anymore. It's really nice

#art #animation #gbjournal

thelittlestspider

sometimes you just have to write a dogshit draft in your notebook and rewrite it better later.

#a sparkly notebook with a fancy pen

wimbearn

Ria Kinakamo from Magical Taruruuto-Kun! A redraw from episode 26 of the anime. 💜

Ko-fi

#shiny #art

buttersketches

New page! Get your new page here!

I'll be taking a short break while I work on the next chapter. You can read early pages on Patreon. See you in a few weeks!

#webcomics

vajracchedika

🥹

clementimetodie

reblog to kill it faster

ralfmaximus

The report says that by year four of the Alexa experiment, "Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather." Those questions aren't monetizable.

So they didn't want people using the very things they advertised as being useful; the reasons you'd tolerate an always-on virtual assistant in your life.

timemachineyeah

this is the kind of stuff the cyber dystopias never think to include. "spying on everyone couldn't make enough money :(" like what

geminicblue

My parents had an Alexa a few years ago and they put it away because of the spying stuff. They brought it out temporarily this year just for Christmas music and put it away even faster because now all those trivial commands lead into minute-long spiels offering paid services

The furnace went out Saturday morning just in time for the subzero temperature streak to hit 👍we're fine, just a little uncomfortable sometimes. Kind of surprised how much the sun heats the house even if the temperature outside is low.

Been setting my plans for the year. Unless something goes very well for me, it looks like I might have to leave my beloved Rocky Mountains =( Looking at Vegas, it's another place I'm pretty fond of and I wouldn't have to deal with as much snow

#gbjournal