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Lurid Codex

@luridcodex.bsky.social
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2D and 3D artist specializing in alluring monsters. Also a fox. lnk.bio/LuridCodex

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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First pass at a new hair for an unspecific halloween costume . I'm sure nobody will recognize this obscure character. I both love and hate making hair. I love when it comes out right, but it is a very tedious and finnicky process that I do mostly by trial and error T T
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I need to use generative AI to stay competitive" That premise is flawed. Treat other artists as companions, and you will find a community to help you build skills and share opportunities. Treat other artists as competition, and you will find yourself alone. Be collaborative, not competitive.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Halloween costume coming along well...
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you draw something like this, do you have a firm idea of what you're making before you start? Or do you just feel out the composition as you sketch?
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My friend Gen showed me a fever dream of a movie called "Water Babies" and I'm pretty sure it's the origin story of the killer in "No Country for Old Men" and how he got so insane.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Hey, to everybody reading this, (yes, even you): I'm glad you made it this far. You make today better just by being here. Give me a high five and let's keep going!
A fennec offers you a high five.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Q playing tricks and shrinking people's stuff again...
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would kill to see star trek characters argue about speeding tickets. "Do you know how fast you were going back there?" "How fast relative to what inertial frame of reference?"
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know you love your Kzinti... But my heart belongs to M'ress.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's always fun when you turn off the wrong layer and manage to jumpscare yourself in substance painter...
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good luck, and I can't wait to see the results. I made a toony 3D mouth for the dust devil, and the thing that was a perpetual nightmare was the transition between the various shapekeys. The Mouth and Lip geometry really want to clip as they move to their new destinations.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Swift FoxFennec Foxtibetan sand foxPanda
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay you look pretty good in that picture but why are you sneaking up on that nice-looking woman in the foreground?
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yurfasin Raga Bash-yer-face-in
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I may be able to retroactively add this functionality to the Soul Warden, Dust Devil, Pyre Hound, or Lurid Lycan, but that will have to wait for a major update or potentially just strong customer demand. (So speak up if interested)
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh! I forgot to mention: The new toe rig works great. It's now default functionality of the Lurid Shapeshifter and you can expect the option on any model with similar feet moving forward.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Welcome Pin! Hello! I'm Rae of Lurid Codex! I'm an illustrator and 3D avatar maker specializing in alluring monsters! Find out more about me at my Jinxxy Store, Avatar World, or Linktree! vrchat.com/home/world/w... jinxxy.com/LuridCodex lnk.bio/LuridCodex recursioncomic.com
A VRChat world thumbnail showing a 3D Fennec Fox avatar model inviting you into a world with alien stonework and a mystical arcane tome.A collection of hand drawn stylized characters turned into acrylic standeesA group shot of several Lurid Codex avatars, including a fiery cerberus, werewolf, Anubis-style Jackal statue, party animatronic, and toony critters.A comic page of the webcomic Recursion, showing Jade, Toban and Clip springing a deceptive trap on an imposing enemy in Power Armor.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You're a monster and this is the closest I've come to unfollowing you >:|
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think I picked up that habit without even realising where it came from.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I want to make a couple of Halloween themed Party Animal edits, but I don't have any good inspriation. Anybody want to throw out some ideas at me?
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still within reach, obviously!
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pulldug
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I read through that post assuming it was a warning, not an ad.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Got she's got such stubby legs...
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Alright, I got the new toe rig added to the Fenngineer model in blender for a test run. Though I'll still have to do some work bringing it into Unity.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
...I'm sorry, Did the sprite art just RUN AT THE SCREEN in 3D space without using a scaling modifier?
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That's the stuff.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Guess who just figured out how to make their bluesky homepage better!?
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Also at some point the kneecap bone broke, I had a lot of fun fixing that, and I'm terrified to go check my back catalogue and see how long it's been broken...
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Alright you geeks, The Lurid Shapeshifter how has individual toe bones! You can look forward to toe physbones on all future models.
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In this period of time filled with AI stupidity, let's celebrate those we are not celebrating enough: Art supporters, Art commissioners THANK YOU! Thanks to YOU, many artists can do what they do the best and keep being productive but most importantly Artists can LIVE!
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
youtu.be/Vz1hRnuyRRU I may have liked them so much that I made an entire 3D avatar base inspired by them (complete with statue mode)
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New Avatar Base: Stone Seraph
YouTube video by Lurid Codex
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Maybe not exactly the same but sure sounds like opening an avatar I made a year ago and trying to figure out the rigging.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Well if you insist, this is the Fenngineer and she likes to spend her time dismantling the fabric of virtual reality and uses the leftover parts to make fun monsters and cookies!
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☽ Luffy ☾ @lunaroccult.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My birthday is coming up (the 7th) and I need some warmups so...FREE ART CHANCE! comment your (sfw) ref below Share + like this post Tell me your ocs favorite food or hobby And I just might draw them as my warmup ;3
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Kratos with Hello Kitty Bow and Heart Hands
ALT: Kratos with Hello Kitty Bow and Heart Hands
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everybody take a moment to thank @kudalyn.bsky.social for snapping the greatest candid vrchat picture ever. It's not new, but it still makes me smile every time I stumble into it.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
...IT never once occurred to me that I have the tools to make my own typeface.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That dog isn't small! It's like 4 decks tall!
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I took a break from 3D for a bit, but now it's back to work. I've been fixing up some crunch geometry around the eyelids on my doggo head. Next I'll be adding some new shapekeys (Hyena nose, anybody?) before I bring this into the new Cerberus build.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Foxolotls.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Look, if you can think of a better place to store my collections of rocks and pyrotechnics than inside the console glove compartments, I'd like to hear it!
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I assume the writers pitched something occasionally only to have the money men laugh it out of the room.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A fun side effect of this type of creative process is that I can use flood fill to create abstract blacklight art any time I want!
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'll do you one better, I'll show the entire process! And yes, this does mean I usually do the shading before the colour picking. (There's a final step as I basically just carefully colour pick all shade and colour layers until I'm happy)
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
(and yes, I am saying that wholesale replacing an avatar's head with another one is less work than adjusting its current one)
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here is a rule of thumb "Ease of edit" chart for while you shop: Very easy: Textures, Simple static props Easy: Hair, small body adjustments Moderate: New Clothes, armature scale adjustments Hard: Replacing Head/Limbs, Large body adjustments Very Hard: Editing Eyes/Face
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
But as others have said, if you're interested in learning to tinker with them yourself, your best bet is to find any avatar with a body shape and a face you like, and modify it from there.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A ten second search of vrcarena found me this: www.vrcarena.com/assets/YEQ4C...
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There are some in game and out of game resources you can use to look up avatars. Out of game, www.vrcarena.com will show you listings of bases you can modify. In game, there are many avatar worlds that showcase or even search public avatars by keyword. If you find a hit you can look up the creator
vrcarena.com
The VRCArena Project
An open-source, not-for-profit community project to document, tag and categorize every asset for VR social games such as VRChat, ChilloutVR and Resonite.
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Lurid Codex @luridcodex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You generally want topology lines that wrap around and radiate out from the crotch, That way when the legs bend you have space to stretch.
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