FluffaMario

@fluffamario.bsky.social

Modder/3D Modeler, Age: 18+ I struggle with words sometimes and tend to be shy, please be gentle! Mainly SFW, though I talk to funny animal people sometimes. Tags to mute if you're mainly here for my more normal works: #FluffaValoo #FluffaFurries

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, Mario never criticizes the player for underperforming and tries to be understanding and supportive. According to Charles Martinet, that was his initiative, as he felt being negative would go against the core principles of Mario's character.

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, even if the player does badly or underperforms compared to previous attempts, Mario will try to be understanding instead of critical:
Uh-oh, that wasn't quite as fast as the last time.
Hmm, are your fingers getting tired? Mine would be by now... if I had any. (laughs)
Charles Martinet, speaking at TooManyGames Convention 2021:
I got this marvelous opportunity to do Mario Teaches Typing. And when I got the script and I'm in the studio - I'm reading the script for the first time, there were things like "You failed!"
"That wasn't very good." "That was much worse... that was bad."
And I was reading that and I said, "Do you mind if I just, like, play with these words a little bit and just change them around?" because, you know, I never say "no" and I never say anything negative as Mario... and the producer graciously said "Sure, go for it!"
And so it became "Oh, that was good, but I know you can do even better!" "Oh, nice one but let's try again!" so it was always uplifting and always trying to be positive. And I think that that is the essence of the character to me - it's that love and that joy.
Source: transcript of speech found at youtube.com/watch?v=k9RywNQXCUM

#FluffaFurries Fun fact: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a form of jiggle bones referred to internally as "Swing Bones", which you can freely add onto most if not all characters. King K Rool usually only uses this for his cape, so I tried adding physics from Olimar's antenna in his belly... ...Whoops

Random anecdote: Mario's model in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is unaltered in his cap and facial hair topology, being the same triangle count as they were in his Brawl model. Mario's head is edited from his GameCube/Wii era model, while his body is edited from his model in Melee. Cuter Mario, anyone?

Comparison of Mario's head from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Mario's face in Ultimate is nearly identical to his model from Brawl aside from having extra geometry added to his mouth and ears among other low-detail areas, with only his brown hair being the most expensive change in triangle count.Same as the former image, but Mario's eyebrows on both models were altered to match the shape of his common GameCube/Wii era model.
Making Mario's facial expression appear less aggressive and more relaxed.

Did yet another face edit with Mario's Odyssey model, this time to match it with his 3D World model. I still need to fix the sideburns, but with that aside... ...Why does Mario's previous facial structure do a better job representing the 2D art than the model that was supposed to be built from it?

Mario's vanilla face mesh from Super Mario Odyssey.Mario's face mesh after editing it to fit his 3D World model. Mario's face is notably less puffy overall and his mouth is placed higher up under his mustache, looking much closer to Shigehisa Nakaue's art than what became of Mario's face in vanilla Super Mario Odyssey.Mario's "WearEnd" animation with the new face mesh and his beta outfit from during Super Mario Odyssey's development. Note that Mario's earlier design for his overalls had the ends of his overalls' straps rounded like the 2D art, while in the final game they were reverted back to the angular look they had since the GameCube era.
It is also worth nothing that Mario's textures in the final game still retain the general UV layout of his beta model, as the unmapped areas of the textures surrounding his straps still appear rounded rather than angular.Concept art from "The Art of Super Mario Odyssey" regarding Mario's in-game model, note how the ref sheet that was drawn for Mario's initial draft for his model has the line where Mario's mouth appears in the final game marked as his "Lower lip", implying that this was supposed to be a measurement for where the outer edge of Mario's lower lip would crease at rather than being the opening of Mario's mouth.
Nakaue's art is also present next to a retextured version of Mario's model from Super Mario 3D World, which has textures similar in style to what Mario's beta model initially had.
Interestingly, Mario's model that's used whenever Cappy pulls him into a "Captured" entity (Internally referred to as "MarioHack") still contains Mario's beta textures and retains his rounded straps, Mario's "Golf" costume in the final game also retains the old body model with rounded straps that he originally used during Odyssey's development.

Random thought regarding Sonic character designs: You know how some animals have a black pigment on their noses, lips and paw beans? What if that was worked into the characters' faces, stylizing them like the animals they're based on? Treating it sort of like an outline for the mouth to work with?..

I've been seeing a LOT of people fall for discord tricks these past couple months, so I felt the need to make this to help get people caught up on internet safety 101. Please repost/share this around, you could help save someone's account!

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If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · 2mo ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Hey so as a heads up. This. Is. All. Commissions. PayPal is DREADFUL to work with. Do not mention the word. Do not censor the word. Please just pay the invoice. If you do the artist you commissioned WILL get in trouble.

Alex Ri (NSFW)@demonking225.bsky.social · 5mo ago

STOP ADDING COMMENTS IN PAYPAL STATING ANYTHING THAT WHAT YOUR PAYING FOR IS A COMMISSIONS ESPECIALLY A NSFW COMMISSION!!! THESE FUCKING PROCESSORS WON'T STOP PUTTING THIER OWN DISLIKES AND MORALS ON WHAT WE FUCMING BUY!!! Spread the Word!!!!

Fun fact: Valoo has two unique tail meshes in Wind Waker, the one that's normally part of his main model is a lower detail version of it. Since Valoo's tail in Gohma's boss fight is higher poly, I tried re-attaching it to the rest of his model. Both his tail and neck are roughly 10 bones each, ouch.

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And the KIDS Act, please call about the KIDS Act too! Don't let anyone tell you your voice doesn't matter, we can fend this off as many times as we need 🙏 Thanks again guys you are genuinely so cool

If this is allowed to become normalized, you won't even just need to worry about these services losing your ID in a breach, you'll also need to worry about scam/compromised sites asking for your ID for the express purpose of stealing it!

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

Still hanging in there, mood is doing a little better after hearing some words of reassurance from you guys. Things are thankfully calming down a bit more at home compared to when I last posted, so here's hoping it stays that way. Also, birthday today! 🎂

They're building a digital prison and most people don't even know it. Your art, your free expression, your dissent. Literally anything they find objectionable they want to label as "obscene" and debank and imprison you for.

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#FluffaValoo #Valoo Experimenting with the shape of Valoo's face and eyes a bit, trying to make his cheeks a bit more poofier looking like in Wind Waker and plotting out how to make the eyelids a bit better for expressions. Will definitely need to redo his face textures, but it'll be for the best...

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ok prob final addition to this thread, age restriction is going to continue being an issue and while we can temporary push it away by jumping through hoops and workarounds, the best solution will be to put pressure on lawmakers to push back on these kinds of laws and organize together to fight back

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I'm gonna give a heads up to anyone who sees this or similar posts deer.social hasn't been maintained for over a year (github.com/a-viv-a/deer...) I personally use and highly recommend witchsky.app if you are looking for a social-app fork

Accursed Dirt Beast 🔞@aftermoles.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsky account is an AT Protocol account - you can use your same Bsky account thru another AT Protocol Client, no migration or loss necessary. Could not be easier.