I guess I'm drawing beep boops now

I do a lot of random stuff, mostly doodles related to my creative projects!

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Okay, so the robot girls you've drawn happen to be avatars, controlled by people from afar, right?

Out of curiosity, I wanna know. How does that work?

Yea! This world's universe essentially has quantum space internet (the extranet) that has faster-than-light response times. They're the solution for "well, it'll take hundreds of light-years to get there physically, but I can log into an avatar bot to fill my place on that planet instead" through something like VR. I found it to be a more creative solution than giving them warp drives, and hey, we got robots :D

On a side note I think it'd be funny if they're still using IPv4 and IPv6 to run it, just with quantum communication wrapper over the top

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The complete Betelgeuse (BG) model is here!

Top of the recipe blog post down below

Lore stuff!

Usertag: Betelgeuse "BG"

Height: 191.63 cm (according to blender)

Planet of operation: Synthetica, Oyster System

Pilot's location: Western States Colony Ship 04472-A "New San Francisco"

Avatar make/model: Blackstar 3240 Eve Modular

BG is otherwise just a retail worker for Byte Sportswear. She's broke AF but otherwise fun to be around.

Creation stuff!

This was my first time using blender for anything. I should have probably started with a donut, but this was a fun experiment from my usual traditional art!

And hey, since it's that month, HAPPY PRIDE MONTH YAL :D

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Updates on the model!

List of improvements:

Added after-market padding around areas such as the knees and shins for added resistance to continuous use

Buffed the shoes slightly

Added pockets and an inventory terminal for practicality

Added a battery port and an extranet router on the back (which might need stickers :>)

Adjusted and added new textures (I might recolor the shirt)

Gosh this has taken up so much of my autistic brain I need to do my June art still 😫

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Various random things I've been progressing on for the beep boops, starting with in-universe logos!

Other progress doodles and whatnot below

Sketches!

Finally, current progress on the 3d model!

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Experimenting with 3d models for the first time :>

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Kettle casino bot that I got a little silly with adding greebily details to

And lore dump lol

The Oyster System's pride joy is its exquisite Pearl Casino, hosted and ran by Pearl Experiences. Located as a prime logistics hub between many inhabited systems, the star system itself serves as a gargantuan resort of indulgence that offers generation ship crews rest and enrichment while their ship fuel tanks recharge.

A large variety of Pearl Experiences' staff are avatar bots, though notably, its capital planet Synthetica holds a significant human population just shy of two million. The Casino's dominating nature on the planet has forced most of them to create their own microgovernance under the company’s radar, with in-person human staff and mechanics sneaking needed resources to their families.

Some of the avatar pilots are in on it as well. User BE-4875, also known as Pavennera Sauer-Garcia, works in the casino's VIP area, and has been sneaking seeds from the exotic fruits there to the human population, at a small price. Being from the planet Beria, whose origins stem from overthrowing its original colonization programs' leadership, she and many other remote Berian workers hope to promote a guild of free planets to rival the might of the ever-invasive supramegacorporations, even if it's through one small act of kindness at a time.

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Behold an experimental prototype for the first avatar bots, piloted by its inventor

Lore dump below lol

When the Extranet came to be, people immediately realized the benefit of using remote robotics to interact with star systems hundreds of light-years away instantaneously. Of course, Earth and the other colonies had plenty of humanoid robotics in various fields, but users of previous iterations felt uncomfortable and disoriented piloting them for hours on end.

User EA-NA-829, also known as Fosbery, was one of many tinkerers that created a body he could be comfortable in, developing the ball-and-lock system that the Eden Company later acquired and mass scaled for more customization. Fosbery's model lacks many features modern avatar bots have, such as dynamic eye cameras and hot-swappable batteries, but contains features he personally wished to have (namely, a way to consume coffee, even if it did nothing for the robot)

Fosbery lives a private life with a quiet, early retirement. He chooses to keep his body the same, even as he himself has aged due to his personal pride in his work. He's remarkably quiet, curious, and a bit off his rocker.

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Skaterboy design I've been testing out

Not set on his design but I'm working it out :>

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Console-inspired witch

Gunpowder is a heavily-regulated rarity within the luxury resorts of the Oyster System. More often than not, poachers, gangsters, and assassins instead use cheaply produced coilguns and compressed air rifles like the one being used above

Often, these rifles expell all of their air to fire one projectile, using the intake vents above the barrel to suck more in between shots. The pellets they fire are effective enough to take on the large rats and eusocial crows that burrow themselves behind the Oyster System's neon facade. Such pellets are also effective for deterring humans, both through avatar bots and in the flesh; the amount of privateers craving for a sweet payout in exchange for an avatar bot's extranet router could fill a generation ship easily.

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Note to self: don't try coloring after 1am

These lil dudes are public service robots, deployed by the Oyster System's Department of Infustrucure and Energy. Unlike their industrial cousins, these guys work around areas where the public directly see them. Their hands are smart rubber spheres that open up to be able to manipulate almost any tool.

That being said, some individuals seem to have an obsession with them for being "too cute." It is not further helped by their physical design to have the safety of everyone, especially children, in mind. Their fists make little better weapons than boxing gloves.

In hindsight, I think I would have made them blue so she could be orange/brown/yellow. Or maybe just adjust her colors themselves, idk.

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Beep booping door dash is a thing, and plenty of hungry chair-locked proxies to feed on a tight timeline.

They'd use drones, but there's been too many "Trojan drones" in the Oyster System that most civilian sectors and megapartments ban them in their vicinity. Virtyum, one of many food delivery alternatives, found avatar bots to be a reliable and speedy solution that Virtyum Premium users can depend on when their standard delivery robots get bogged by traffic.

I should come up with an official universe name for these dorks huh

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"You done yet?"

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Two designs I drew, no idea what to use them for

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Just a notebook doodle

She's on her break, on her lap is a wild wooly great mouse. They were engineered to be sources of natural animal fiber in space, but now that the space colony program is no more, they're like the chickens in Hawaii. They're fairly docile around people and avatar bots, but make for terrible pets given their tendencies for stealing food.

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Not every avatar bot user can disconnect from them whenever they like. If you see one inside free-access areas that looks battered up and carrying a needless amount of personal goods on their back, it's most likely a poor IHP patient trying their best to feel like they're living a human life.

The program provides free avatar bots for individuals who for one reason or another can't walk around outside freely, often paralyzed individuals and those with impared immune systems, though there are some exceptions. Most notably, IHP reached out to families whose offspring were otherwise not going to make it, allowing for them to live at least some sort of existence if so desired through what became knon as "coffins."

It's a shame Horizon bought IHP a few years back. Some now have to put up with constant ads and a life subscription to maintain running, but with all the restructuring that happened after, a significant amount of coffins were forgotten. How some of them are even still running is a mystery. Hence it's best to simply be kind to them; whatever their story is, it isn't pretty.

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"Howdy there prox! You don't mind if I join you for a charge, do you?"

"Sooooooo where you logging from? Earth?! You're an Earthling working all the way over in the Oyster System? Oh riiiiiight, it's recession season again, ain't it? Yeah I don't blame you then prox. The Betelgeuse Stations also went nova with that stock crash."

"So how come you don't join the union? The premium plan comes for free so these charging pots don't cost a hundred cred for a fill up. It's also handy for like, protection, you know prox? The fleshies where I'm holed up would have ripped out my extranet router by now if I hadn't."

"What do you mean your landlord won't let you? That's like two different- oh waiiit. You from the states, prox?"

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Behold, a sea critter

Did I mix 3 different sea slugs into one? Yes. Based her on leaf sheep, sea hares, and sea bunnies for all the features I really like sea slugs