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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Commission for @loot_tag on instagram of their character Loot! #commission #zbrush

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's gonna be my second birthday soon prey for me

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 01/09/2026

⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

Gargantuan illustration of a charizard redesigned in the style of a monster hunter elder dragon. There are 4 hunters attacking him and their pikapalico is readying a voltorb bomb to throw. There is so much stuff in there, I spent a damn year on this. I'm exhausted.

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Go see Coyote vs Acme anyway but my only qualm is If you're gonna use 3D models made to look like 2D don't animate it like it's a 3d model in a real world space, animate it as though it's a 2d drawing in a space, one scene tho was so good it showed the seams elsewhere I did like the sfx/vfx

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Trying to finish these 5cm mini canvases of spyro games while managing a table in the art market all week

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NaMoogly @namoogly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

spyro is my chicken noodle soup for my soul

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

....chrismas 2004 just meant that much to me....

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's #FRFanArt friday! I should sculpt more dragons soon

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IODINE 👁️ @iodinex64.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Burden Street Station is a surreal experience. It's on sale on Steam right now.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 24/06/2026

Deltarune Chapter 5 came out IDK if you saw

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Gender transition, ear canals, and mushroom books.

Anonymous asked: Mel and Gillie, are/were people ever weird about your transition? What's it like being trans in 2333?

Gillie: (ASL) Not really. I decided I was a girl very early, so I never went through that awkward phase where you have to remind all the people in your life to use different language— At least, not while I was old enough to feel self-conscious about it— and I only went through one puberty as a teen. I’m on old fashioned dissolving hormone implants, since… well, I don’t really trust surgeons or matrix organ labs with off-model anatomy. So I’ve gotten some flak for not “committing to my gender” from my conservative relatives on Callisto, but most people I’ve met are way more confounded why I haven’t gotten cochlear implants, than new gonads.

Mel: Ugh, I know, it’s SUCH a stereotypical midlife crisis thing… but after my divorce, I was done with pregnancy, and no longer felt attached to my womanhood. I wanted freedom from the older version of me, from the pressure that had been piled onto me when I was a wife and mother! So I embraced those feelings and transitioned to unisex. It was definitely awkward, going through second puberty and getting implants in my 40s. I got plenty of snide remarks about it. But frankly, anyone who seriously thinks they’ve figured out their life forever at 40 is delusional.

Anonymous asked: Gillie, do your ears connect to the top of your head or to the sides?

Gillie: (ASL) Well… what do you mean by “ear” and “connect?” Because the ear flaps are up here... but some typs seem to think that our ear canals go straight through the tops of our skulls. A catgirl’s inner ear is in the same place as a typ’s... the ear canal makes a long L shape. This is also true of animals with ears on top of their heads!

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CATGIRL
CAT

Gillie: (ASL) Of course mine are primarily dust collectors. Good thing they make extra long swab sticks for that.

NOTE: Typ humans, please don't stick swabs in your ear canal, you can puncture your eardrum or further impact wax.

Scrumb: Hello Idrisah! I was wondering, how rare are physical, paper-backed books nowadays? Given the scarcity of wood products. I imagine only very important stuff like the Quran, Torah, Bible, etc even get physical print.

Idrisah: Oh, I know they're more common on Earth, but books are a popular collector’s item for us spacers! Trending and classic novels will typically get pretty hard-cover releases, and most gift stores sell artbooks and quotebooks and writer journals and things. BUT here they aren’t made with wood pulp, they’re made with soft myla— mycelial lattice— that’s grown in sheets. Most “wood” you see in Jovia is also myla, but the hard kind.

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MYLA
Pleurotus ostreatus

The main obstacle for us when it comes to owning books is finding room to store and display them... I know I have too many... Ugh, I should really compost some of my unused journals... The most commonly owned books are definitely religious texts, though, that’s true. I have a vintage Quran that was made in the 2200s in Egypt, it belonged to my great grandmother. That one is definitely wood pulp. I need to find a bookbinder and get it repaired, actually, the glue is starting to lift on the endpages...

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IODINE 👁️ @iodinex64.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Steam deck verification keeps failing this is my last hope

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Taking a short holiday back in the uk and now I can’t look at my bluesky dms??? Sorry if you’ve messaged me I won’t be able to respond just yet, ugh grate britain if you ask me

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Mokay some optimisation clarifications. 'Culling' means to discard meshes or triangles from the render queue. The less you render the faster you can render it. But before it gets culled, it has to be transformed, so we know were it is in the view frustrum, so we can cull it. And that costs.

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IODINE 👁️ @iodinex64.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Play my game it's called Burden Street Station

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

So there is a misunderstanding in indy game dev I wanna address. I have seen the term "Low poly" is being used to describe simple faceted style of game models. Okay, sure, but they also then call this "optimised". Hooo boy, no.

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Protected newts prevented a new Royal mail sorting office from being built

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Who? Who? The prince of the realm of Terrors~ ♪

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I had to draw him I couldn’t stop thinking about spyro 😭

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

With the #Spyro news I just want to share my Ember piece, at the time I was really excited and hoping she’d be the push my portfolio needed but I got very sick just after finishing her and I’ve been in a weird limbo state about my professional artwork since www.artstation.com/artwork/oAklgm

A pink dragon flying through the clouds towards the camera while smiling
A real time model in Unreal engine, sculpted, retopologised and textured by me based on a concept by Alayna Gray

3D printed head of my Ember the dragon model displayed in a miniature painting contest held locally

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This applies to #Spyro Activision saw more value in cod to push all their studios into the same basket Microsoft will can a project and shutter a whole studio with little warning My final year of uni had an industry artist visit to talk to us, they were from lionhead... Shattered my confidence

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I feel like y'all are still sleeping on the fact that there's a genuinely good-looking Barbie horse game coming out this month and that I got to consult for them on horse accuracy and game design. Where's the Barbie Horse Adventures girlies at?

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ayo rigging WIZARD right here 🧙‍♂️ Again thanks so much for rigging her Hullal it really pushed my model to the next level Yall better hire him 👇

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

What if to celebrate I make the stl available to download? #Spyro

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Posting this wip to remind myself to get back and finish my interpretation of Dotd Hunter #Spyro #zbrush

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A dragon? You brought a dragon to Avalar?! It's everyone's fav lil big bad Ripto! Suggested by @katterudesuvt.bsky.social One of my favourite #Spyro Villains, I can relate

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

#inktober2024 day 15 Guidebook I usually do more #SpyroTheDragon based inktobers but this is the first this year, I like to think the guidebook Elora gave Spyro got bigger the more he explored Avalar and filled it out before giving it back

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

It's #Spyro community day over on twitter so I put together all my The Legend of Spyro head sculpts I've done into this family photo

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

"but his power was limitless, it knew no boundary... he consumed everything" My takes on a dotd resurrected Malefor and a peak exile Malefor inspired by the fortress statue that depicts him with this crownlike crest, I interpret the design change in dotd as he's undead #Spyro

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Here's some of my favourite spyro pieces I've done

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The pouring rain here is the subtle visual stand in for my tears rn

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Oooh I don't know how to feeeeeeel A broken ego and ashamed that I didn't try harder to apply for this? Microsoft owning our boy? They could just chuck this like everwild and all the other canned projects youtu.be/pQlenskhoxI?...

youtu.be

Spyro: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer

YouTube video by Spyro The Dragon

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Not gonna lie that saw game trailer was genuinely repulsive and upsetting to have to sit through Sure lets stick it in the 'celebration of the medium' show

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melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i couldnt find my drawing glove and was almost completely incapable of drawing BUT I FOUND IT

screenshot of the scooby doo cartoon with velma on the ground looking for her glasses but it's been edited to say "i can't draw without my drawing glove" with a stock image of a drawing glove on the floor

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

May I offer probably the best TLOS Cynder I've ever drawn in my life? (2024)

Cynder from The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, specifically in her corrupted form where she is an adult sized dragon.

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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

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Draco @killerdraco.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

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Julune 👻 @julune.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I drew a Cynder! Classic DoTD style.. well as close to the design as I could get anyways! She is also available on my shop as a sticker or keychain! Link in the comments! #cynder #spyro #dotd #dragon #art

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Schl4fy🌈🐲✨ @schl4fy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Have I ever shown the 4 Guardians of Spyro? (Cyril is a girl hehe)

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I grew up watching childrens anime dubbed in french in a Spanish hotel

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Oh HEY! A bunch of Legend of Spyro themed baby dragons! This is something I never posted! Ahhh yesss my character design shines when I am in my zone... (yes one of them is just raikou)

Six different young dragons in the Legend of Spyro style, though also lesser inspired by the "Destiny Intertwined" webcomic design philosophy.
- Eastern inspired fire dragon
- frosty icicle ice dragon
- pachycephalosaurus ice dragon
- Leafy and rather snobby rich kid earth dragon
- Raikou as a dragon. Just Raikou as a dragon. (electric)
- Ankylosaurus type of earth dragon

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IODINE 👁️ @iodinex64.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Burden Street Station releases on May 21st 👁️

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Charl @charllay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

👁️ Contest? time for the goodest boi! #BurdenStreetContest

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