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Re-creating Omega Race in #Unity using the Line Renderer. I need an easy way to plot the coordinates for drawing complex shapes, or having ships break apart.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 02/10/2026

We had another guest last night. This guy reminded us so much of our Pepe. It was like having a piece of him back.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 28/09/2026

Last fall this was just a large skin tag. Then it started growing... fast. We wanted to get it removed in the spring during his dental surgery, but they recommended not doing both at the same time. And it's grown even more. It finally comes off tomorrow. Fingers crossed little man does well.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 28/09/2026

That pans out. The Libertarian thing is weird. But I guess that their definition isn't what we think of when we run into American libertarians. I didn't like the way some of the questions were phrased though. They could only be answered properly with context, which they lacked.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 26/09/2026

Sometimes I'm not even sure how I solved these. I only half understand what I'm doing.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 25/09/2026

It breaks my brain that there are people that can easily read this stuff.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 25/09/2026

Yay! 50% of the way through the course.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 24/09/2026

Oof, muh brain. I don't know how much of this is going to stick the first time around, but this course has been much better than trying to learn programming from books, which I always hit a hard wall when I tried.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 24/09/2026

My partner for pair programming.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 23/09/2026

This 'Chinese Evergreen' is a cutting my mom took from my grandmother's plant back in the early 80s. It's been divided in two, and didn't have much growth in all that time in soil. Then I put it in hydroponics and it's been doing quite well. The blue light is from the marine aquarium.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 22/09/2026

Missing our cute little guest. We boarded an 11 month old Havanese on the weekend and she was just adorable. When I was still in bed she jumped up, climbed on to my chest, and then flopped down on my face. She claimed us as her people right away.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 11/09/2026

This little guy spent the day with us doing a trial run for boarding overnight at the end of the month. It's amazing how much he looks like a blend of the two brothers (Pepe and Pullo) that we had, along with their sister Cassie. From specific marks to coloration. Sweet boy.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 07/09/2026

She got herself a Trump Stamp.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 04/09/2026

I am very confused by the "similar to games you've played" in this #Steam game profile. A cute little platformer, similar to The Elder Scrolls Online.

A screenshot of a little game called Merp in Merpworld being compared by Steam to The Elder Scrolls Online.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 07/08/2026

The fire simulation looks better than the rendered output. Need to find a better fire solution for the flameDucky.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 06/08/2026

The rotation of the wheels is created by passing the x movement value of the tread to the y rotation of each wheel. the translation to degrees isn't perfect, so there's some sliding, but that can be tweaked. #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 06/08/2026

Learning my way around creating treads from curves and meshes. #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 04/08/2026

Camerabot, from @polyfjord.com's course complete. With some minor changes, like the ducky :) #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 03/08/2026

All the legs animated. Not perfect, but this is more about learning than getting production-quality out of it. Now to move on to lighting and rendering.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 03/08/2026

It's not going terribly, but there's a few spots where the constraints force me to move the legs because otherwise it would just push them along because of limits, and it looks awkward. Without the "actuator" limitations it would be a lot smoother.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 31/07/2026

Any #blender heads know why the limit of zero on the z axis (to keep the legs from going through the floor) works until a point and then it just fails? #animation

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 29/07/2026

Latest update to camerabot's scene. Gave it something to track for the animation. Didn't expect the reflection in the lens to be so clear.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 29/07/2026

Current state of CameraBot. No animation added yet. Created in #blender from @polyfjord.com's Robot Course.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 27/07/2026

Now this is odd. Adding curved objects to the blocked out version of the robotics rig, and the one on the right is correct. The one on the left, instead of properly mirroring the objects, is just rotating the new ones. Changing mirror axes doesn't fix it. WEIRD. #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 26/07/2026

Working on the camera robot rig. Getting the linear actuators to work was fun. There's still some issues to fix, but making a little headway one step at a time.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 25/07/2026

Okay, this is cool. To add linear actuators to the leg structure you need to limit the travel of the rig so the pieces don't clip through each other. So you can add a distance constraint between two bones so the actuator bones don't touch. (most of the time. i broke it at the end) #blender #robots

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 24/07/2026

400 frames took 6 hours to render. Polyfjord's robot course for #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 24/07/2026

Playblast of the animation. A viewport render without cycles that renders in the time a proper render would take for a single frame.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 23/07/2026

A little more progress on Bulb-bot. #blender #polyfjord

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 23/07/2026

Building the light bulb robot from @polyfjord.com's robot course. Very fun, and informative!

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 23/07/2026

Baby's first run cycle. A bit janky but a decent first effort.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 21/07/2026

Doing a lesson comparing FK to IK and, oh boy, is doing a jump with FK a pain in the ass.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 19/07/2026

I like how the cavity setting in blender's viewport overlay makes edges pop. Is there a way to bake the overlay on to an existing material? Or do I need to create a shader that mimic the cavity setting? #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 19/07/2026

Flat shaded the little tower. It was super tedious moving back and forth between object mode and texture painting mode so I'm sure there's a quicker way to select and paint stuff.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 18/07/2026

On the colormap the greener it is, the more the stretch. the more blue, the less stretching.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 18/07/2026

Beginner level UV upwrapping. They say practice makes perfect, but I'll be happy with not bad as a goal for a while :)

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 17/07/2026

Building a crooked little tower with Grant Abbitt.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 16/07/2026

Missed a material on the neck support and pivot when setting up the preview. But pretty happy with how decent the render looks with a 5 second cap set per frame. If it rendered without a limit it would be 40+ seconds per frame, and the denoising is doing a decent job here.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 16/07/2026

Place the weapon on the ground. You have 10 seconds to comply. #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 16/07/2026

Finishing up the little mech in part 2 of Grant Abbitt's character course for games

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 15/07/2026

While synced, it was still moving too fast. Since the cycle completes in 59 frames, any multiple of that will result in movement without sliding. So I took the 118 frame animation and doubled it. Now it moves at a creepy, leisurely pace. #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 15/07/2026

Now it has four legs :D From a lesson by @polyfjord.com #blender

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 15/07/2026

Spider bot spider bot. Creepy freakin' spider bot.

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Casey @cannibal.holiday · 15/07/2026

Blocking out Pothead from @cgcookie's modeling tutorial. #blender

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