Cartoon of The Day: Pet Snake

 

 

 Taken while shopping. Snakes are unusual pets, and I've never seen one carry theirs around with them. So why would one do so? I could think of one reason. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Cobra Joke

 

 

 Taken at the Fantasy Faire. Real cobras are certainly no joke with their deadly neurotoxic venom. But this cobra avie had me thinking of an old cartoon from the 80s. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: Big Snake

 

Taken at the Second Life Book Club. Someone had a huuuuuuge snake avie that was brought out when the show was winding down. Most snakes don't care that much for people, but apparently this one was an exception.

By Bixyl Shuftan
 

Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Travel to the Time of Titanoboa"

 

"Travel to The Time of Titanboa"

Saturday June 5

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM SL time

The Science Behind Titanoboa

Dr. Alex Hastings will lead part of the tour discussing the world of Titanoboa, 60 million years ago. How and why was the snake so big? What else lived in those murky waters?  Plus he’ll share what it was like finding Titanoboa fossils in the Cerrejon coal mine.

Linda Kelley’s Ecosystem

Linda will talk a little about what it takes to bring fossils to life and particularly building an ecosystem from what is shown and not shown in the fossil records. For her this entailed doing a lot of literature review and sussing out how all these things could plausibly fit together.  In addition to the fauna that shared space with the Titanoboa, and the kinds of flora,  this included reading about geologic changes during that period and estimates of Paleocene weather.

Creating an Animated Animesh Titanoboa for Second Life

Dr. Greg Bollella will discuss the process for creating, texturing, rigging, and animating an animesh object for Second Life. Most of the presentation will be an overview of the processes with more detail for a few very interesting techniques and observations. The workflow and tool-chain are important and will be presented. The tools used were, ZBrush, Maya, Photoshop, Substance Painter, and Substance Designer.  Of particular interest is that no images were used in creating the textures for Titanoboa, only math!

Note: Wear boots. We are going to venture into murky waters.

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Cartoon of the Day: Caught Cupid

Taken with the help of ShadowRene Ivanova. Looks like Cupid got caught trying to pull one of his pranks. To get out of it, he'll have to use one of his golden tipped arrows on someone, and hope the guy doesn't have a snake phobia.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

From the Christmas Expo, which attracted avatars of all kinds, including some whom needed a little help functioning in the cold.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken with the help of my neighbor ShadowRene Ivanova. A real mouse in this position would be in quite a pickle. With anthro mice and naga however, well some of the latter love to tease. ;-)

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Club Zero Gravity's "Monster Mash" party

By Bixyl Shuftan