Tamara 🔥🐱‍💻🔥

@marabean.bsky.social

3D environment art student @ TTTC, lapsed guardian druid, Wario stan, and tuna melt evangelist. Canuck now based in SoCal. Honk if you love Kul'Tiras! (No AI / NFT / etc.) #3dart // #2dart // #ref

Been in an incorrigible funk lately, so I made the (good? bad?) decision of resubbing to WoW for the pre-Midnight event. Leveled up four druids, because leveling is a cakewalk now and I'm ridiculous. My only sadness is that Kul'Tirans are Alliance-only. Give me my Horde-side dadbods plssss :(

Screenshot from a login screen for World of Warcraft, showing four druid characters clustered around a small campfire in a dimly-lit forest. Three of the characters are large, burly Kul'Tiran men, and one is a sweet-looking Highmountain Tauren woman.

Morbid curiosity got me checking /r/c*nservative, hoping that with so much documentary evidence, there'd be no way they'd buy obvious partisan spin this time. Nope. Just comment after comment of "FAFO". I guess that's it, then. RIP semblance of a shared reality.

An aspect of the video that we don’t see as the viewer but know the ICE agent definitely DID see was that he was watching Renee turn her steering wheel to her right as he pulled his gun out. The intent to drive *away* is indisputable and this was nothing short of murder.

Popped open Diablo 4 for the first time since the expansion announcement and.. Blizzard. Guys. This is what happens when you gut QA. Also other companies take note: genAl be damned, THIS is how you placeholder. (Just.. ideally you notice before it goes live.)

A screenshot of the helm transmog window in Diablo 4. One of the helm icons has been replaced with a hot pink square bearing the letters “PH” (presumably meaning “placeholder”).A screenshot of the mount customization window in Diablo 4. Several mount icons have been replaced with hot pink squares with the letters “PH” on them. In the mount preview window, instead of displaying the 3D model of a basilisk, it shows a bright yellow polygon.

Short summary video showcasing what we are making during my free 3D Art and Blueprints YT game dev course. youtu.be/ut0rskJ-F4I I wrapped up the tuts last month. Any help spreading the word is appreciated! These took months to make and sadly algos haven't been very generous. Hope people enjoy it.

A video thumbnail showing a yellow grid floor with a portal on top. The gate portal is colored red and has a vortex. An arrow points to it and text reads "Make a 3D Portal?". Next to those is a picture of my face, in a typical YouTube surprised expression.

As part of my plan to re-cultivate my attention span, I've decided to stop listening to playlists and go full-albums-only for a bit. It's been so refreshing to hear some deep cuts! Standouts so far: Woodkid - S16, MARINA - Princess of Power, Paris Paloma - Cacophony, Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport

Album cover for Woodkid's "S16"Album cover for MARINA'S "Princess of Power"Album cover for Paris Paloma's "Cacophony"Album cover for Sneaker Pimps' "Bloodsport"

It's tough to engage in anything but my hyper-local irl circle these days bc online is just a gushing firehose of dread and ruin. Climate, A*I, ICE, layoffs, war, housing, health insurance.. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here staving off the panic by building my lil models. wheeee

a man in a red shirt is playing with colorful wooden blocks

Alt: A man in a red shirt with a puppet on his hand is playing with colorful wooden blocks.

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Oh my god.. a classmate (to whom I will be forever indebted) alerted me to the Y axis rotation restriction button and it IMMEDIATELY solved like 70% of my anxiety with ZBrush. You guys. I'm finally able to sculpt without needing blood pressure meds on standby. 😭 #3dart

Test sculpt of a man's head in Zbrush

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.