iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

He’s been brought to life!! @/kamenridersilver (IG) did an incredible job sculpting and printing my Kaiju OC. I can’t wait to paint him up- I can’t stop looking at him. This is one of the coolest things I own now, by far 👁️👁️

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I still can’t believe it’s been 2 years now since School of Dragons officially shut down. We timed the movie trilogy to end when the servers went offline ❤️‍🩹 So thankful to SoDOFF (and the other emulator(s?) I need to try too) for making it playable still. My dragons are special to me, pixels or not 🩵

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I got too impatient and wanted to show off a WIP👁️👁️ Trying something new. Usually for metallic paintjobs I build up matte shading first and then drybrush on metallic paints and finish with a black wash, but the Razorwhip’s plates are a clean, reflective chrome. So, I’m trying out new things..👀

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

YIPPPEEEE THANK YOU SM AAA🥺🫶

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Group pic. Did Toothless and Hookfang like a couple years ago, and Meatlug a few months back. Currently working on the Terror and saving my fav for last (Zippleback)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Finally finished repainting my Stormfly/Deadly Nadder figure! I know- I forgot I had bluesky again until today 😅 Going to post a picture of what the toy looks like before the repaint in the comments as well as a group pic of the 4 I’ve done so far.

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Been redesigning my favorite HTTYD species (besides Zippleback) and I’m liking it so far. Doing a live action attempt considering the species is canon to the live action movie 👁️👁️ which is still so surreal to me. Anyway, got lots of ideas for this guy

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

That is such a lucky find omg!! He’s like .. the HARDEST one to find out of these for sale, that’s legitimately buried treasure 🤣

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I’ll still try to keep up with the HIYA Godzilla line bc it’s amazing. I would like some of the new Jurassic Rebirth figs to repaint, but it’s all dragons for me for a while. Some of it is getting back things I wish I never let go of as a kid.

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Collection update: just finished ordering everybody to complete my McDonalds (EU) HTTYD 2 collection, and started on the other fast food HTTYD collections. Waiting on a handful of Playmobils to arrive as well as my grail (Live Spectacular Stormfly). Not collecting any other franchises for a while 😅

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

He is WAY bigger than I expected haha

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Been running around all day. Coming home with me, Yoda is! Wellll only for a week. Fixing him up and then there’s a biggggg commission I’ll be putting together and painting in the box next to him. And I still need to finish my personal project before HTTYD live action releases! Busyyyy!

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

He’s fine tho btw. This happened the other day but I forgot I didn’t publicly shame him yet 🤣

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I was eating a biscuit and he was resting on me, until a crumb dropped, and he lunged for it. He didn’t think for even a second. I couldn’t pry all of it outta his mouth so he got away with some. He is NOT supposed to eat that 👁️👁️

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Part 2 I’m sure I’ll have plenty more to spam soon. I really want to draw my dragons more but I am working on a cool custom figure project to do with one of my dragons atm 👁️👁️

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Some more photos whoops- I love doing photoshoots of me and my dragons in the game 🫶 part 1

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Some of my cuties: 🧡Sandslash: Sand Wraith 🩷Stickypaws: Flame Whipper aaaand that’s nowhere NEAR all the dragons have. But these guys I play with the most. Need to put together outfits to fit with all my others now!

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My main armored trio. 💛Goldenrod: Razorwhip 🤎Copperclaw: Razorwhip 💜Junebug: Rumblehorn

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My main “fighters.” I’m training them up the most for Dragon Tactics. 💚Lizardlash: Titan Wing Sandbuster ❤️Bugtusk: Titan Wing Deathgripper 🖤Moltenwing: Monstrous Nightmare

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My main dragons (and my fits that match) in School of Dragons! 🩵Zip and Zap: my # 1 this playthrough- she’s my Hideous Zippleback 💛Goldrush: Skrill 💙Nightwing: My # 1 from my very first playthrough, I brought him back of course, he’s still very special to me! 🧡Jumblejump: Titan Wing Death Song

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Critique the media you love most of all. Critiquing isn’t hating. It’s voicing honest feedback and being stern about things that are substandard. It’s how you get better media. Speak up about things that do and don’t work. Nothing is perfect nor is it unsalvageable. Critique is a great tool. 🫶

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’ll pick that apart some other time and don’t get me wrong - I DO still love Toothless no matter what and I do love a lot of things about the movies these designs come from. But not enough people fairly criticize them and since they didn’t after HTTYD 3, look which design is back again. (8/9)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Completely contradicts the message they wanted with the 3rd movie. If they kept his earlier design/s it would actually elevate their message somewhat. The live action designs are a whole can of worms to unpack. The complete neglect of research that went into its designs is just disappointing. (7/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

But they behave and look VERY different from house cats. Instead of at least leaning into those aspects, they trashed it along with all of his reptile and amphibian influence to essentially “domesticate” him. To sell toys, slap his face on more shirts, the works. Funnily enough his design (6/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wing shapes and called it a day. I think the biggest catalyst for this degradation over time has got to be them leaning into the fans’ comments. Everyone loves to say he’s so “cat-coded” because they don’t know much about other animals, I guess. Yes, he takes influence from black panthers, (5/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Color was interjected back in with his iridescent scales. That was a nice touch , but - why not work color back into his skintones? The wings also make no sense. Real bat wings have a closer shape to his animated designs than the live action, but they just took the game of thrones dragons’ (4/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Into a blockhead instead of a sleek, aerodynamic build, and made him WAY too cutesy. The live action unfortunately uses the HTTYD3 design as a base and is essentially just heavily retextured and some elements changed, like his feet, wing shape (why) and at least for the silver lining, (3/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

he retained these great key design elements throughout all the shows and then still was a pretty solid design in the 2nd movie. A little more cutesy, a little less colorful/less prominent patterns, but still overall pretty good. But by the 3rd movie? Removed ALL his color/patterns, turned him (2/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is going to be a thread lol. I don’t even know which design is a worse downgrade- HTTYD3 Toothless or the live action. Toothless used to be sleek, a healthy balance of both adorable and intimidating, clearly inspired by a variety of ✨wild✨ animals, and have beautiful coloration/patterns (1/?)

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We got a nice printer and sticker cutter machine in today and we’re picking up a 3D printer from a friend tomorrow! Lots of good investments very excited to finish prepping for the con coming up. Yippee!

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some MMO battle event pics from earlier in SoD. Been working on leveling up my Titan Wing Deathgripper, Bugtusk. I matched his colors with my outfit too : >

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Godzilla x Kong: The New Sloppire 🎉 You’re not good, but you are fun. I still love you, and you’ll *probably* always be my most watched movie in theaters. Maybeee I’ll rewatch you later, but I’m glued to the screen rewatching Race to the Edge for the 2nd time this month 🤭

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’m only somewhat in like .. 2 fandoms anyway. Godzilla/kaiju, but only active with my friend group and just a (albeit well known 😎) customizer outside of that. And HTTYD, but I really only want to make friends within the SoDOFF community and see how that goes first.

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Periodic reminder that I am NOT a furry 😅

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

WIP, drawing Zip & Zap and Nightwing, my main dragons 💙 to celebrate HTTYD’s 15th anniversary today! I still need to make that thread…

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

HAPPY 15 YEARS TO HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON!! I’m going to post quite the hefty thread looking back on my nostalgia surrounding the first movie today, it is the most special franchise to me, alongside Twister/s (if that counts) and then followed by Godzilla , then other stuff… HTTYD the GOAT tho💚

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

SHOUTOUT TO TWISTER (1996) FOR BEING THE FIRST MOVIE ❗️EVER❗️ TO RELEASE ON DVD 30 years ago today! My favorite movie ever the GOAT I love Twister so much

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

IM CRYING AND THROWING UP TWISTERS SEQUELLLLLL YOOOOO I CANT WAIT

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I love my recent Titan Wing Sandbuster in School of Dragons. He instantly became a favorite along with Nightwing and Zip and Zap🫶

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Grail acquired! The Live Arena Spectacular Toothless figure, a rarity to come by but I finally snagged one. He’s really neat!

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

More School of Dragons screenshots, sorry I will probably be spamming these for a while haha. I missed this game so much. Some Hidden World scenery with Zip and Zap, my Zippleback 💙

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Super early WIP- finally got around to starting on this Toothless custom. I had to resculpt his tail (whoever had him before tore or chewed it off lol) and he’s getting a full repaint. He will have his Alpha glow, and I’m gonna try and make it glow-in-the-dark 👀 his patterns are a pain to paint tho💀

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Class went fantastic! Everyone had a great time and thankfully they were all *already* HTTYD fans to begin with so they were familiar enough with it. Here’s my sketches I came up with as I always work along with them on the assignments. Success! They liked playing with my figures too haha

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I like to be a fun teacher! I put a lot of love into today’s worksheets to make them really immersive+ fun. I’m running an animation themed concept art class right now for kids. Today’s creature design so we will create our own HTTYD species using randomized traits and Marlet’s work as inspiration!

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My OG is back 🫶 Welcome back, Nightwing! 💜 He was my very first dragon I got in School of Dragons back when I first started playing I waited until I completed the Hidden World expansion (again) to bring him back. He may be pixels on a screen, but I missed him all the same!

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Working on something cool! Just a concept so far. Black Tree Skink inspired Night Fury character design. I’d like to imagine there’s different locales of night furies that adapted to different environments, this being more of a woodland species.

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Sangria, Mango’s sister had her first time out without the play tent to see how well she would behave/if she would run off. She was only interested in visiting us, didn’t even want a banana snack! She’s becoming so curious and friendly, she’s so cute 🥰 I love emerald tree skinks so much 💚

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Chai the Lizard @chaithelizard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Been collecting mini HTTYD dragons lately. Best way to get as much variety as possible because wow is the aftermarket on the larger figures bad 😅

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