With a new computer comes downloading a metric butt ton of software and a program to download youtubes is next on my list.

Anyone already use a particular program that they can recommend?

I'M TIRED.
MY MODULE ASSIGNMENT WAS WOEFUL.
MY TOWEL FELL INTO AN UNWASHED SAUCEPAN.
MY HANDS ARE FROZEN.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT A GOOD MEAL TASTES LIKE.
I'VE RUN OUT OF FINGER NAILS TO CHEW.
ADVERTS EVERYWHERE IN MY FACE.

Last day of this semester though and my laptop's purring in the cold.

https://www.weasyl.com/profile/sparkbox

Having seen how bad it is only having a single account on one site if said site goes down, Tumblr being not amazingly suitable, I've created an account of Weasyl.

Where I may or may not post pictures that won't appear on FA.

Mwahaha

Checking my gallery and there's been nothing but Twilight for a couple of weeks now so to keep things fresh I need a new vict- volunteer!

Fluttershy?
Apple Jack
Rarity?
Rainbow Dash?

Fight it out in the comments for my amusement!

A band playing madly on a wagon hurtling out of control and riding alongside / leaping on / falling off / chasing after / dodging aside / waving at them would be characters drawn by a multitude of different artists and 'shopped into the master picture creating a mega collaboration!

Or scrap the band and have the characters playing the instruments...

[[Sparkbox to English translation] I would model a wagon rolling across some nondescript terrain (or flowery fields, maybe a highway of some sort, possibly in the middle of a meteor shower for the lulz) and pose a character doing something on the wagon. What they could be doing, perhaps playing an instrument as well to make it a 'band' wagon, is open to debate as 'bandwagons' have everyone doing the same thing.

Once I've posted the master picture, anyone who wants to add a character of their own then sends me a note, I email them a high-rez copy to work with and they draw in their character into the picture. The end result hopefully being a wagon overflowing with numerous characters drawn by numerous artists all in one picture.]

T'is but an idea but one with some potential I think. Who'd be up for it if I created the wagon and started it rolling?

Zombies have nothing on this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan.....rfolk-25140358

Unwary individuals have disappeared, mobs of clowns roam the streets, no-one knows how to stop them.

They turn their victims into one of them by pouring custard down their trousers (pants to those of you across the pond) then hold them down and put a big red nose on them.

That I could get my hands/paws/hooves/claws/tongs on for freebies? Ideally it should let me import a load of images in one go then just render them out into a nice neat .swf file with a simple loading bar bolted onto the top.

Blender can't export such a file and neither can anything else I have to gripping implement so until I get this fabled program I'm stuck with gif files. They're brilliant for short looping animations but not for much else :/

I can't make the bewbies any smaller than a D cup at the least >.>

Drastic measures must be taken!

:EDIT: Scratch that, too many vertices to make something nice and smooth. You'll just have to live with busty ponies until I've figured this out.

Welp, celebratory mini animation is now officially in the works! (Written on a postit note)

REALLY difficult.

Giant boobs? Easy as pasta.

Giant butt? (And I mean GIANT) Complicated...

Difficult to get to look good as well, and half the giant butts I've seen the artist's cut off the picture at the knees so they don't have to figure out the shins! Some don't even bother with the knees at all!

So how do you like your giant butts? Or do you prefer your butts at a more practical size? Do butts not matter to you and all that matters is the chest? Have you stumbled across my account for the first time and are disgusted at what you've seen? Are you under-aged and searched for 'Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash' on Google and have been mentally scarred for life? (In which case I'm so so sorry ;>.> )

I'm Sparkbox and I accidentally caramelised my carrots for dinner and they were delicious!

Also imminent 5000 pageview Stream some time this week: what'cha hoping for?

When creating a version of a body with a giant booty, do so not as a completely seperate object but as a freaking SHAPEKEY.

This way, right there and then you can create animations with glorious butt expansion. Otherwise you'll have to follow the following steps:

1: Import the bootified body into the same scene as the standard body. Create a shapekey to work with on the standard body.

2: Add a shrinkwrap modifier, set it to 'nearest vertex' to the standard body and see what happens.

3: It's garbage, scratch head, make yourself a milkshake.

4: Have bright idea of modifying the standard body so the vertices are closest to their copies on the bootified body.

4.5: Painstakingly adjust EVERY vertex that needs fixing individually.

5: Shrinkwrap now works perfectly.

6: Apply shrinkwrap to the shapekey.

7: Apply forehead to desk forcibly when Blender says modifiers cannot be applied to objects with shapekeys.

8: Write journal on FA to vent anger.

I think I'll have to plan something for five thousand and ten thousand pageviews... But what? Signs aren't pointing to something enormous but in fact detailed...

Oh, and I've begun work on the Mrk 8 version of my bipedal pony body. It will be good!

Some of you may have caught on that currently I'm in my third and project year of university, which means I should be doing a hell of a lot more uni' work than I should be doing currently. (Procrastination powers go!)

So yeah... I'll still occasionally livestream and post work but no bookie would give odds on me actually doing inflation naughty stuff. HOWEVER, I'll be more than likely streaming/posting work of stuff that's relevant to my third year project, eg hands, realistically proportioned bodies and facial animation.

I really don't want to leave life changing work to the last minute...

Also, anyone with lots of experience with Ogre3D and C++ PLEASE get in contact so I can get help. I swear whoever helps me get a 2.1 or 1st in my Games Computing will get so much porn!

http://joltbox.tumblr.com/
Because more random stuff! It'll be less of an art dump and more sort've personal stuffs and random gems I find in my travels of the Internet.

Yeah... I was planning on using Joltbox as my SFW username on Deviant Art but ah well. So much for uniformity...

Wait... What about Staticbox? Or even Thunderbox? Could still have a theme.

Call it about 10pm GMT every night starting tonight for a few days. There shall be boobies, butts and messing about with a glitchy posing system!

Update: Still looking to stream at 10, or in half-an-hour's time.

I'm going to do something special for this!

Any suggestions though?

Don't talk to me about them, at least not until I've BEATEN IT INTO SUBMISSION WITH HAMMERS.

No sadface begging this time, this sh*t will not beat me...

I'm going to have to make a more 'normal' proportioned body... No dat ass and corset waist as standard.

Planning ahead for when I start making comics or something with lots of background characters it'd look daft if everyone's sporting hourglass figures that Victorians would admire. Going by the rule of "Everything's relative", a large chest on someone won't look as big if you can see several others who aren't exactly small themselves.

That said I'm not going to re-do the Mk7 body just yet, I'll probably shoe-horn realism in when I get round to making hands or something. The Mk7's there for me to get something DONE, WORKING, ORGANISED and hopefully E-FAME!

EDIT: I'm not going to retire the Mk7 body afterwards and the new bodies will more than likely be resized Mk7s anyway so nothing's going to waste!

Who here likes them? I know I do if they're done well!

It looks as though my University has opened the ports on its student network and I'm able to cause moderate amounts of mayhem around the globe again! Same user name on there as here, Sparkbox, usually running a Trinity or potatoed Ember with various weapons n'stuff. Most notably a potatoed Sobek which I've dubbed my Spaz Cannon, if we meet in-game you'll see why.

I think I've cracked the softbody settings in order to simulate the perfect boobs! The simulation's a tad dodgy but that's only because I'd turned off the fancier simulating bits that prevent the entire softbody from folding inside-out...

No boobs were harmed in tonight's stream. Scenes of violent cubes smacking boobs around were performed on specially trained stunt boobs and should not be tried t home.

That is all.
Pictures depicting Spike emerging from epic Twilight n' Rarity boobage squished together will be much appreciated...

As my Advanced Programming Practices lecturer once said: "If it's free, I'll have one!"

Swing by  Shikoba's page n'stuffs and take a looksies at the competition journal entry here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5101472/

Mk 7 Pony body time because I think I've rather made a mess of the Mk6. Organisation woo!
+ New non-texture based eyes.
+ Shapekey or motion capture based facial animation.
+ Increased mesh density for greater anatomical detail.
+ Clothing, most likely socks first.

As for the requests I'm going to have to limit them to only Twilight, AJ, Rarity and Pinkie since I haven't made a good wing mesh yet. Otherwise, go nuts and I'll see what catches my eye.

BUT NO FLABBY BLOBBY WEIGHT GAIN.

Tonight I uploaded a slightly modified headless version of my Mk6 pony body to test stuffs and the results are looking reasonably good! Granted there are some quite iffy problems with the arm pits whenever the arms are lowered and the neck is completely off the default SL avatar's, but for a first run not bad at all.

I'll post a picture or three tomorrow to show off the results.

But the question is who wants to buy it to make a curvy curvy bipedal pony avatar in Second Life?