iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 25/11/2025

After years of talking myself out of it I got some tiny Chinese teawares. It's so cozy and calming - easy to re-steep and drink tea all day.

Photo of a cutely decorated desk with Chinese teawares and other objects assembled for tea brewing. The photo shows recently brewed green tea in the cha hai with the spent leaves in a small ceramic bowl.

Close up picture of the previous teawares. The photo is centered on the cha hai holding green tea which looks golden in the light.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 23/10/2025

animation is hard 🥲 I still have some eye movement details and the mouth open/close to deal with and then I can FINALLY HAVE HAIR AGAIN 😱 #Live2D

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 18/09/2025

Still tweaking the eyes and brows but happy with mouth. 👄 ready to have hair again but really need to set up draw order. 😅

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 15/09/2025

great place to end a weekend that exceeded my expectations

Screenshot of Borderlands 4 showing a purple glowy exploded moon-like thingy in the night sky above an ominous citadel with a tall tower.

Screenshot of Borderlands 4 showing an ominous citadel with a tall tower to the left connecting to the edge of another compound at the right with a valley scattered with trees and lil houses in-between and mountains in the background. It is dark out and a triangular spaceship is flying in the sky to the upper right.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 11/09/2025

just a crusty no production WIP of Live2D Head XY. All elements have only been adjusted in a very "flat" way, so I will be giving the eyes more depth and fixing them glitching off the face in future iterations.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 08/09/2025

the variety of lil faces I can make with the VBridger mouth is really stunning. 👄💖 I've done all the shapes except Mouth X (and possibly some lil physics). (I did VBriger with NVidia Beta, not iPhone, so no tongue out or cheek puff for now)

Image displaying Live2D rigging WIPs showing 8 different smiles made using various combinations of VBridger forms with the words "smile variety" in the middle. Model art by altwork, animation by acuteferal.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 03/09/2025

the void gazes back and demands tribute

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 29/08/2025

I still have so many mouth forms to make (i'm not even halfway there 🥲), but it's rewarding to see the face starting to become flexible and expressive. #Live2D 🫦

Screenshot of a Live2D model WIP, it is a cropped portrait with the model making an angry face. Animation forms by acuteferal, model art by altwork.

Screenshot of a Live2D model WIP, it is a cropped portrait showing the model smiling with quizzical eyebrows. Animation forms by acuteferal, model art by altwork.

Screenshot of a Live2D model WIP, it is a cropped portrait with the model making a shocked face. Animation forms by acuteferal, model art by altwork.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 23/08/2025

some people just have no imagination how you get to old age and never encountered a story with that one chick who exudes such aloof coolness and capability that all the other girls are poppin heart eyes and droppin panties.

An image showing a collage of images of Sailor Uranus overlaid with the words "James Bond has to be a guy. You can't have a woman. It just doesn't work." In the images Haruka is doing things like driving a sexy fast car with a pretty lady in the passenger seat, blowing a kiss while winking to steal your heart while wearing motorcycle gear, wearing tuxedos, kicking some mfer in the chest, and otherwise slaying.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 20/08/2025

I actually already did the eyebrows while I was making this quick #Live2D preview XD So onto mouth. 💋 I've learned a lot and am getting faster and better at pre-planning to not waste time, but I think mouth will still be quite a trial. 🏋️💦

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 18/08/2025

All of the Physics ones are blendshapes. I added the squint for VBridger. (I didn't do the > cheek highlight params yet, but will) My first version of the eye I didn't use physics at all, didn't understand how to set them up. Now almost every part is interacting with physics.

Image showing all the parameters I used in Live2D for my VTuber's eyes.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 18/08/2025

I'm almost done with the eyes. 🥲

Screenshots of a ton of layers in Live2D that I used to make my Vtuber model's eyes.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 13/08/2025

My #Live2D profiles for #Streamdeck have continued to grow. 🌱 Home page getting a little crowded. 🙊

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 07/08/2025

The offscreen drawing and alias features will also be wonderful, I plan to use them all. 💖 (not sure if I will try the beta or wait for full release) #Live2D

Image shows a screenshot of an official Live2D video about features coming in 5.3 that states "You can individually set more than 10 types of color blends with RBG channels, as well as alpha blends with the alpha channel." - I have overlaid the screenshot with text from the Live2D websites that reads, "Cubism 5.3 beta version will be released around the end of August. Please look forward to it." that I highlighted and starred along with adding my own comments reading "I AM DOING SO OMG" along with some little heart drawings. My comment text and stars all use an excessive amount of blend modes to demonstrate enthusiasm.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 06/08/2025

i made two years of mistakes in two weeks but now the eye is a bouncy castle. 🏰✨ i'm still finishing some of the XY for closed and open eye forms, but wanted to update as it has come so far. 🥲 #Live2D animations by me, model art by @altworkart.bsky.social , music by @bleep.moe

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 24/07/2025

Getting better with glue. 📍📍📍 Refined a bunch of and feeling happy with how expressive the little forms can be coaxed into being. 🥲

Image of two Live2D eye forms: wide open smiling eye on the left with the text "OMG" and half closed smiling eyes that seem a little up to no good on the right with the text "a glint in the eye" above it.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 23/07/2025

ok i'll stop for now i swear (🤥, I just noticed another *one last thing*) (other eye is a placeholder and will be replaced later 🩹)

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 23/07/2025

I worked on my first #Live2D animations wayy too much yesterday and should give my arms a break... by making a little video about it < . < (watching it makes me want to tweak more eye things 👁️👁️) I may now be addicted. 💊✨ (model is not super well organized 🙊) (i'll deal with my problems laterrrr)

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 22/07/2025

tiltify.com/@ironmouse/i... The wide reports of non-payment including half a million for the linked charity are egregious, but what makes me tear up is what they did to her spirit and hearing her apologize repeatedly for what the people who took advantage of her did. 💔😿

Image showing Adam Smasher getting punched in the face, but text reading "VShojo" is overlaid on his forehead. Text from the transcript of Ironmouse's video about why she is leaving VShojo is also overlaid on the image: "I saw myself as unhirable", "I just felt like there was no way that anyone would ever take me or want me", "every time I put my trust in people it always ends in grief for me.", "it put a lot of pressure and a lot of stress on me to the point where I felt guilt tripped into signing.", "And once again, I want to say that I am truly sorry.", and "This entire situation has broken me.". Text in the lower left corner reads "Image from game footage @misternoobie".

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 21/07/2025

I'm bad at posting WIPs, but I'm still making meshes. 🌀o🌀 The boots have their lineart glued back on top of them so I can move the highlights (on their own mesh) under it. Might be able to reduce the amount of line art needed for that later.

Image of a boot in Live2D overlaid with a green mesh showing many polygons and vertexes to allow the single texture to be manipulated fairly fluidly.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 07/07/2025

🫡🌙🌈✨ tinyurl.com/pocketpride

Left half of image shows an image of Sailor Moon saluting while winking with the text "I'm Doing My Part" in yellow underneath. On the right side is a screenshot of the author having backed the Project for 1 Pocket Friend Plush Toy. Entire image is surrounded by a rectangle with a rainbow gradient.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 06/07/2025

Going to have to adjust these due to issues with double clipping. 🫠 I think I will merge the sclera + its shadow and also merge iris base + uf while adding the iris outline back in as an upper layer. Tested with a deformer and now has the desired results. 👍

Image showing the model's eye before and after merging sclera base and sclera shadow along with merging the eye base and underfill and re-adding the eye outline as a layer above other inner eye layers.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 01/07/2025

Erring on the side of being a little too silly with separations for #Live2D eye. 👁️✨ (I'll probably still find something else to tweak after posting)

Image showing separation of a single eye for Live2D. The image is outlined in orange and shows the eye layers stacked at the top with an exploded view beneath it and a list of layers to the right ("<_lower_lashes" is not expanded as it would not fit on screen, but is the same structure as upper lashes).

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 28/06/2025

midnight sketch 👁️👁️

Sketch on an eink device next to a Psyduck plushie. The sketch is in black and white of a central figure surrounded by like lightening bolts or something with rain and floating eyes behind them.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 27/06/2025

I made an audio visualizer for @bleep.moe as part of an #ArtTrade! I made the #illustration based on her beautiful existing design along with a #graphic overlay. 🎸✨ If you're interested in commissioning something like this, please feel free to reach out on here or through #VGen!

Image showing the visualizer I made for bleepmusic. The background is an illustration of a cropped shot of her playing her modulin under stage lights. The text at the upper right reads, "A Long Song Title" and under that "genre name" and under that "(a song subtitle)". There is a mockup of an audio visualizer in the center about 2/3 of the way to the bottom and in the right corner it says "bleepmusic" along with a circle enclosing an existing portrait of her character. There is a watermark over the image that reads "★ acuteferal for bleepmusic ★".

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 26/06/2025

Finished poseable #Live2D hand prep last night. but what does "finished" mean when I'm also thinking... what if there were color-changeable nails? 💅 (purple shadow on palm removed for screenshot to give an idea of the underlayers)

Image showing "finished" poseable hand to be animated with Live2D. Most of the hand is purple and is overlaid with many blue circles with red +'s through them that define joint locations (future rotation deformers). The deep purple shading on the palm is temporarily removed for the screenshot.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 25/06/2025

WIP of poseable hand for #Live2D. 👋✌️ Will find out how much I regret my decisions later. 🫠 I still need to split the thumb and do some work on the middle shadows of the palm. Also probably setting up templates and refining the jointing from fingers to palm. *screams in iterative process*

Image showing WIP of a poseable hand to be animated with Live2D. On the left the hand is seen with joint overlay and is mostly purple because the deep shadow is the top-most layer (the thumb is flesh color because I haven't split it apart fully yet). The middle shows the layers for the segment of the index finger that is nearest to the palm. On the right it shows an exploded view of the layers in that segment.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 25/06/2025

Reminder that evaporative cooling methods are not very effective if the relative humidity is already too damn high. basc.pnnl.gov/resource-gui... At the point in this heat dome that my basement chocolate is melting. 🫠

The chart shows the supply air cooling temperatures that an aspen fiber evaporative cooler (about 70% effective) can provide at outdoor temperatures ranging from 75°F to 125°F at 2% to 80% relative humidity (relative humidity is directly related to wet-bulb temperature). The numbers in green represent supply air temperatures that can provide effective cooling for comfort conditions. The numbers in blue are borderline, and the numbers in red will generally not provide standard indoor comfort conditions, though they would improve indoor conditions significantly as compared to using no cooling at all.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 18/06/2025

doodle to express how i feel about live2d 🪄✨

Digital illustration of a small fox in a red robe holding a wand pointing at a vortex of swirls and light in front of a bunch of angry snake-like creatures that are each big enough to swallow the fox whole.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 16/06/2025

i visited some tiny kittens and this one fell asleep in my lap 🥹

Photo of a tiny calico-colored kitten sleeping on a lap and partially covered by a fuzzy rainbow blanket. You can see the toe beans on one of the kitten's paws and they are marbled pink and brown.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 14/06/2025

The #VTuber #Live2D model art I commissioned from @altworkart.bsky.social is ready!! 💗 I'm going to try rigging and see how far I get with my big dreams for it !! (ง°o°)ง

Silhouette of a VTuber model art overlaid with colorful gradients and the text "Now I Must Rig Her".

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 11/06/2025

(Ok, I'm going to try to get better at posting things I've done) #Banner #Design for @bleep.moe 🩷🔊 If you're interested in commissioning something like this, please feel free to reach out on here or through #VGen!

Image showing social media banner. The banner depicts two speakers with central heart decorations on the edges of the image with a narrow background of pink block elements in-between them and the text "bleepmusic" glowing and highlighted in the center. There is a watermark over the image that reads "★ acuteferal for bleepmusic ★".

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 29/05/2025

I've found a lot of #beautiful #butterflies under 100 Downloads on #Unsplash, this is one of them by kenny goossen: unsplash.com/photos/a-but...

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 25/05/2025

Made this before my banner update but never posted because I am awkward about bothering people. 😶‍🌫️ Anyway, my #VGen Comms are open. 💃✨ I will be adding more types of listings as I continue to grow my portfolio. 🖼️ ^^ I will probably immediately spend anything I make to commission others. 💸

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 23/05/2025

Used the #template to update my own #VGen #Banner! Developing Lurid Malibu Barbie vibes. ⭐🌙🌊🩷

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 23/05/2025

I made an unofficial #VGen #Banner #template. Maybe it can help you, too? 💚🪄 Based on my own devices (Windows and Android, both using Chrome) at full screen QHD and FHD and 390p wide/mobile. Can't promise absolute accuracy for everyone! You can grab a PSD here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... 📏🩶

Image showing a template for how VGen crops Banner images at different screen resolutions. Text describes the different areas (fully labelled PSD available, link in post).

Image showing a template for how VGen crops Banner images at different screen resolutions with descriptive text removed.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 19/05/2025

I'm a sucker for quizzes so I took this "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test" - supposedly an "autism test" (link in comments). The pictures used are dated and photo quality had me like ? at times. So many women with baddie eyes lol. Didn't know we were supposed to time it, but it didn't take long.

Image shows results of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. The test title is shown in an orange box at the top of the image. The page under it says "Understanding Your Score" followed by the text, "The average score for this test is in the range of 22 to 30 correct responses. If you scored above 30, you may be quite good at understanding someone's mental state based on facial cues. If you scored below 22, you may find it difficult to understand a person's mental state based on their facial expressions." To the left of the text is a blue box showing "Your Score: 33/36".

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 29/04/2025

If you see a group frittering around, kicking the ground just run up and be like HEAR MY SONG and they'll throw stuff at you, sometimes coins! 💥🍅༄

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 27/04/2025

Movie you've watched more than six times, using gif. ("Hard mode:" No Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 04/04/2025

Is this beautiful stitching? No. Is this sheet going to be disposed of because of a tear? No. Guide used: www.instructables.com/Sewing-Blank... First time doing blanket stitch. Had some issues. Started with too small needle. Pulled stitches a lil too tight. Could have chosen better yarn. Done tho.

Photo of a green sheet mended with a chunky black yarn blanket stitch. Stitching is inelegant but functional.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 04/04/2025

I accept that the word has shifted in the public consciousness, but this is still one of the only times its use didn't leave me feeling disappointed.

Still image from the 2007 Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums" showing The Master looking at Lucy Saxon as he asks her, "Shall we decimate them?"

Still image from the 2007 Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums" showing The Master standing by Lucy Saxon as he addresses the camera while saying, "Remove one tenth of the population!"

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 31/03/2025

Nav bar details: internal sections have separate desktop and mobile nav bars. The mobile hamburger opens to a mobile only full-screen menu. I also used custom code to animate a static version of my logo on the mobile nav bar.

Image showing Carrd editing interface views of my site showing an internal section desktop nav bar (upper left) and mobile nav bar (lower left) as well as the mobile only full-screen nav menu (bottom right is how it appears in desktop view - all ghosted out. Upper right shows the menu as it appears in mobile editing view, similar to how it will appear on a mobile device). Background uses edited photo of dark, dense foliage by Amanshu Raikwar on Unsplash.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 31/03/2025

I polish the mobile layout for every site I make within the limits of the Carrd plan chosen. Throughout my site I use advanced settings to fine-tune layouts as well as allow for separate desktop and mobile navigation.

Image showing what my site looks like in the Carrd editing interface (upper left - showing duplicated elements and some ghosted over that display on mobile only) vs on desktop (bottom left) and mobile (right). Background uses edited photo of dark, dense foliage by Amanshu Raikwar on Unsplash.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 31/03/2025

WIP of a graphic design portfolio I am making for a client using #Carrd. Layout is not finalized as text content has not yet been provided to me. I am also working on custom coding the nav bar for a low-friction user experience.

Screenshots of WIP web design for a graphic design portfolio, made using Carrd.

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acuteferal @acuteferal.com · 28/03/2025

I am this old. 👾🕹️ They belonged to my parents. I'm not 100% sure what model the computer was, but the floppy disks 💾 were like Book It! pizza size. 🍕 Atari in black with the (fake) wood is still peak aesthetic to me. 🏅✨

Photo of an old MS-DOS computer from a time when the text was green and the disks were like floppy slices of pizza.

Photo of old printer paper. It has perforated pages and thin strips with holes on the edges that would make a nice sound when you ripped them off.

Photo of cartridge for the game Adventure sitting on an Atari 2600.

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