iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Please also respect in turn that v2 has been a passion project for me with the goal of both making a better avatar as well as one better matching my vision of the species, thank you 💛

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I’ll put it here in advance just in case: It’s alright if you end up preferring v1! I respect that with these things that there will be people will like older versions better, so do not worry, as with the dromeowyrm the v1 will remain available separately from v2

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I will see about sharing more teasers soon, hope you like the avatar too!

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I‘ve been holding off on posting too much of it too early, I am now at the point that I can confidently say that Lumistera v2 has been coming along really well! The development of it so far has been fun and I think the model itself is shaping to be my best yet.

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If you're happy doing it your way though, that's completely respectable and my hat's off to you as inversely the thought of trying to box/edge model entire characters again scares me lol

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Honestly I'd recommend trying it again bc it can be genuinely fun, what helped it click for me was learning I could box model a blockout first and then remesh the parts into higher resolutions & together as needed. I think if I had to sculpt a full body from 1 sphere with dyntopo I'd cry lol

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if it had pawpaint's ability to use blenshapes/shapekeys and fill layers with masks tho (or at least an easy way to recolor paint in one layer with a different color) that'd probably be perfect for me tho

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but the fact that it doesn't seem to have fill layers or at least opacity lock options limits it's usability for VRC bases a fair bit in my perspective. Does seem quite promising tho especially in the fact that it's free (as long as it doesn't become lost-ware eventually)

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Max 🌠🪶 @corvidcurse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hmmm, I have tried it now and it seems to have a similar issue to pawpaint where it's so close yet not quite there for me unfortunately. I like the tools that it has & the fact that you can pose rigged models,

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update: picked it up, it does seem pretty nice but also appears to be missing some important features to my workflow (quick/paint masks & more robust fill tools) I'll give it a proper shot for personal work regardless, but sadly for me I might have to keep using substance for time being

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Max 🌠🪶 @corvidcurse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

would yall hate me if I potentially used pawpaint for my future base models' textures instead of substance? half joking since I haven't even tried it yet but damn that program sure seems pretty nice

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Max 🌠🪶 @corvidcurse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

truly is a pro tip imo to just learn various methods in 3d and mix and match them until you find what works for you best

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Max 🌠🪶 @corvidcurse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

man, sculpting is such a useful tool I love having a bit of a mixed workflow where I do a basic pass for the shapes in sculpting and then refine them in retopology full respect to people who can either sculpt or edge/box model full characters, but I am so comfy in territory of using best of both

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Apologies for being radio silent and unresponsive pretty much everywhere, been having a mixed time of it mentally for a while... I wouldn't say I'm doing badly per se, but I've certainly not been feeling the spark for making or sharing anything, on top of not having the energy to engage socially

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On one last note, if you've been touched by or otherwise enjoyed any of my creative work, any nice words to spare would go a long way 💛 it's tough out there when positivity kind of gets drowned out by the negativity and you lose track of what you were doing it all for to begin with haha...

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I'll do my best to get back to all the people who've messaged me, but I'll just have to take things slow generally and hopefully figure out how to foster a better relationship with creating things again in the long term

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△ Corona▾ @longsolstice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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exposes the sky longly

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Max 🌠🪶 @corvidcurse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

there's often more tells to it than that but it's just amusing to me how that's always an immediate red flag in any case to me

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Max 🌠🪶 @corvidcurse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it's funny how being in the furry online sphere makes you inherently resistant to random bot / scam accounts get a request from an account with a photo of a face or like, an anime picture or something as the pfp instead of a furry? Gone, out of here

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oh I already disabled that a while ago because I didn't trust it haha I did consider dual booting tbh but I don't know if I don't have the drive space for that right now, but I might think about it some more another time

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siigh, good ol win 11 strikes again will keep this in mind, thanks for the warning

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Honestly I’ve always felt a little sad when my adoptables would sell to not get ‘used‘ after, but this is a good perspective on it and I will carry that forward for when I make adoptables again in the future, thank you for sharing it

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If it were not a whole ordeal believe me I would switch to linux, but alas, I have other things on my plate to give my brainpower and time to for now

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