bilvie
@bilvyy.com
🐝 https://bilvyy.com/links 🌙 30+ ★ aussie artist ✦ he/they ✏️ emotes, vtubers, comics, novels 💛 @toastyree.bsky.social
Look idk who needs to hear this cause I've seen alot of artists over the years dig this exact hole, but you need to finish your commissions. A percentage of your clients are going to be repeat commissioners. Another percentage of your clients heard about you from word of mouth. 🧵
everyone's been shitting on the duffer bros since stranger things s5, but i gotta say i have been enjoying the SHIT out of The Boroughs and omg i adoooored Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen 👏 two really great fun horrors (AND SO MANY GUYS I LOVE ARE IN THE BOROUGHS 🥺)
forgot i took a pic of this absolute unit bc it made me think of @bilvyy.com @ the san francisco nintendo store
You don't actually NEED to have intent on improving your art, studying or being "good" at it. If it makes you happy to just draw your ocs on blank backgrounds then do it. Your art style will evolve naturally and you'll just latently pick up stuff along the way.
What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.
I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping
10 perverts who are ride or die for you is always more valuable than 10,000 people who don't give a shit
PROBABLY fake in a literal sense, but also EMOTIONALLY fake. Artists made more money on cohost. Some special interests are still on forums. Some people survive off fucking MAILING LISTS somehow. Reach is only useful if it reaches something you want. Views only matter if they're meaningful.
"I know this isn't a fan favorite and it's very upsetting to the community but we've decided to do it anyways."
Twitch isn't making Gen AI training *opt-in* because no one would voluntarily choose to opt in. Instead, they are offering an opt-out option.
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
bailey passed away tonight. at 11 years old we knew it would be coming, but it still came out of nowhere. just so grateful i got to hold her through it while she faded and just. fell to sleep in my arms.
Fuck these nazis, we were not born merely to toil
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
and finished one of @toastyree.bsky.social’s birthday presents!! 🥺 we have rings and lockets we wear every day so i made a trinket hook to keep them safe when we shower etc 🥹 (also because i am notorious at losing rings eep) polymer & air dry clay, acrylic paint #bilvart
omfg it’s officially august which means i can officially say @toastyree.bsky.social will be here NEXT MONTH 💛💛💛
TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...
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Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
horse with human hands i love you, i love you, horse with human hands
i filmed a short video to help visualise my #vtuber tracking guide. this technique is by far my favourite, the easiest way to get instantly accurate + customisable face tracking! i hope it can help people!! (written guide: www.bilvyy.com/post/vbridger) vid with cc: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cLb...
How to Perfect Your Tracking in VTube Studio
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super hyped to show off the first two of many new subscriber emotes i'm commissioning from the incredibly talented @bilvyy.com looking forward to the next round!!
i filmed a short video to help visualise my #vtuber tracking guide. this technique is by far my favourite, the easiest way to get instantly accurate + customisable face tracking! i hope it can help people!! (written guide: www.bilvyy.com/post/vbridger) vid with cc: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cLb...
How to Perfect Your Tracking in VTube Studio
YouTube video by bilvy
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HES FINISHED!!!! and now all i want to do is wiggle around in vtube studio watching everything in action, but it just started raining and now my wifi/tracking is taNKED GDI!!!
it may seem early, but now is the best time to get in line for Halloween emotes if you want em!! slots fill up fast, so get yourself in the queue for holiday-ready emotes! 🦇👻 vgen.co/BILVYY 🕸️🎃 #bilvart #vgencomm #emotes