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Grace would do this. 🪨

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I have been rotating him in my brain for weeks. 🐟🧬

He's just a little guy.

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🐍🪨🎀

You said Greek Tragedy and my brain scampered over to the angst corner...

ANYWAYS, I absolutely love the Fic O' Medusa so far and I can't wait to see where it goes, how they grow, and what type of gorgon rules apply here! The sheer skill in writing to carry along visuals and story while having a character blinded- amazing balance, geez.

There is such a vibrant character contrast between the reader seeking a safe place and Eclipse (ahem, guesstimating here) perhaps finding one in this unexpected addition.

There's something truly heartbreaking in the acceptance; of both a curse and a person.

Fic is by @naffeclipse and partial reference is from their amazing commissioned work from Runmien.

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Just a wittle guy 🐟🧬

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The next piece to tackle was the back attachment.

In the actual game files there's at least two things that don't make much sense- Why the antenna is floating, and how the hell is it attached to the characters.

We started testing out shapes.

And from there we started incorporating hardware and webbing straps. The idea was to have it be held up mostly like a backpack. The antenna was easily moved into being part of the actual model, a slot made and a print mocked up. It would be printed in half, much like the handles and other large symmetrical pieces.

Finding clearances for the strap bars and antenna was one issue, the next? Printing it.

It would fit in the Bambu printer diagonally... with zero clearance. It had to be split up.

Weis Rabbit went ahead and designed an interlocking connection; now the back panel could be printed in two pieces.

There was a lot more behind the scenes for how this all came to be. There was a lot of errors and reiterating for pieces that simply would not fit or work.

Instead of Urbanshade's horizontal bars connecting the two diving tanks, we went ahead and used vertical bars to support the pieces together. The back pieces were printed to be close-fitting to the tanks, with no extra room for wiggling or bending.

The side tube intake was sized for the tube we had gathered. The buttons and side slides were modeled and also printed off.

To connect the tanks and the back however... took a little more thinking. And more hardware.

They were bolted together with locking nuts, which were hidden by both the insides of the tanks and my back once I would be wearing it.

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My last Art Fight attack this year on @bamsara!! Of both their Dream Narinder and Dream Lamb puppeteering. :3 🩷

I had a lot of fun with this one even though I was rushing. There's definitely a lot I would do better next time and I hope to improve by next year!

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Warning to everyone on my page. We're gonna get Reese Kelly spam added to my queue among other scarlet hollow things 🩷

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HOLY FISH STICKS ITS MERMAY