Kamikaye

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Kamikaye@kamikaye· 28d

Vela is getting some direly needed streetsmartness training. In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky

- Oh not you again ! - The muscular virtual man slumped in place.
Apparently Vela had left a lasting impression on the AI's tiny cartridge.
"Yes." Vela waved and courtly walked over to the orange glowing table of contents.
Most lessons sat at barely passing, except for reconnaissance which was marked aced.
Situational awareness 1 blinked in red FAIL Retry with the related ones being untouched so far.
"Hey you aced recon, cool !" Nori pointed out the positive, as usual.
- Yes, but she burned down the bar in SitA-1 - their AI-trainer added. - twice - he shot a pointed look at Vela. "It was an accident, and the second time it was just one table." she retorted, her finger hovering over the failed entry.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· 28d

Building CAT's main engines. Why oh why did I draw it in flowy organic shapes. Why did I do this to myself. #3dart #wip #artsky

Kamikaye@kamikaye· 28d

Belle dealing with a heavy mission and her past clawing it's way back to her. #AmWriting #WriteSky From 'Retribution' , which I'll slap on Ao3 when it's done.

While having the medkit opened she mulled on dosing some neuroblockers, but opted not to. She kind of rued the decision now. With only the dark tunnel and her muffled steps echoing around memories flooded in, unbidden guests of a time before.
Investigations going nowhere, the lawbreakers looping their efforts.
The cybersystem was busy with fighting whatever was haunting her leg. No capacity to suppress her own brain any more. Why now. It was over. The bitch is dead. But the backup. Will the trace be enough ? What kind of arrest leaves a charred crater ? Are you nuts ? What about the others ?
Thump. Belle had hit herself with her free hand. This would leave a mark. But mental clarity had piked up.
Her knuckles were covered in liquid. Did she hit too hard ? Regaining feeling in her face hotly flared in realization, these were tears.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· 29d

Vela finally learning about Nori's past. Parts of it anyway... UPA (= Urban police agency, thats gets introduced way earlier, the Alliance's internal security) #WIPSnips #WriteSky

Vela had realized that she knew very little of Nori’s
past. It only started to be an issue recently for her though. But she couldn’t exactly tell why.
”Yea, I did. I mainly worked for KC Accidental on Entrades.” Nori answered after a slight pause. Picking up on Vela’s questioning look she added.
”It’s the biggest hospital on Entrades, known for their trauma-team and accident care, so the name ended up that way.” - ”Ugh, I see.” Vela tried to shake off the invasive impressions of recent injury.
”I didn’t work in the trauma-team or anything like that.” Nori immedietly defused.
”I was in the social-psych unit. Troubled teens, broken homes, cyber-rehabs. That sort of stuff.” Vela was a bit elated.
”Not too different from university I bet.” - ”aYea, some problems seem to stay the same.” Nori mulled.
”And the Alliance always had a grip on things. Yet, a surprising amount of youths fall through the cracks.”
her voice grew a bit distant.
”I did my best, I think. There was a wave of school dropouts one time. And I was brought in to consult with the UPA.”
Vela sighed at that unexpected turn.
”Why ? Do you think it’s a problem ?” - ”No, not at all. I think everyone had a phase like that don’t they ?”
Vela looked away. Nori continued.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· 29d

Transitional scene. With foreshadowing ! 🫠 In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky

On their way out Vela could feel heat radiating from the walls and conduits. Where the ships atmosphere mixed with the cool station dock air she could almost make out barely visible eddies distorting lights near metal surfaces. Passing below the bronze hull she could hear clicks and hisses of expanding metal, like from a labored bike.

Arching robotic cranes sprayed liquid on the hyperdrive's spines, creating billowing blue-ish clouds that were sucked to vents high above in the hangar's ceiling. Plantkin and station engineers yelled over the boiling hiss. Blastwalls had emerged from the ground to shield the foot traffic from the spectacle but it still kept Vela walking nearly backwards beside Nori.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· 29d

If you see this, quote with your Night/Dark art! 🌙

Busy cyberpunk crossing loop made in Blender

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 12

I see people modeling their beautiful spaceships etc. While I'm more the furiously crumpling aluminium foil type. Textures and fog will hide what I do ... Maybe cover that in a greeble. #3dart #modeling

My idea of merging two smashed cylinders into a spaceship. Trust me.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 12

WIP Cyclic Beach. The most important part, the blues. The ink wasn't acting as much of barrier in this comparatively smooth paper as I'm used to. Oh well but the in-cloud shadows get better here. We'll see. #art #artsky #wip #painting #aquarelle

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 12

Mag 5 juggling it's tasks while getting some suspcious data about Vela. In 'Cloudgazer' Writing these ship-perspective chapters is fun but also weird. #WriteSky #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 11

Something entirely different. WIP of Cyclic Beach. A place in the 'Cloudgazer' galaxy shown in this ad piece. Some things never change. Lines first this time. Probably different smaller brushes too. #WIP #lineart #artsky #oc

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 11

WIPs of the Archeotech mill. #art #artsky #wip

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 11

Archeotech Mill. Resettled overgrown ruins somewhere out there. Aquarelle A5 and brown liner. #art #artsky #painting #aquarelle #scifi

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 11

Mag 5 hedging a plan to get ahold of Vela in 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

The case against Vela hardened in Mag 5's core. Her reluctance to be scanned, the missing radiation and, most damningly, her getting abducted by the Consortium.
They needed to formulate a report that mobilized Alliance assets to get ahold of Vela, yet not implicate themselves. Even with the most thorough scrubbing and reformating possible outside a shipyard today's events were still in the crew's organic memory.
Indeed. A subcore had formulated a post-action report to satisfy the crew's desire for gossip, ride on it even, and minify interest in the external pod. Geddon probably had believed Mag 5's perspective on it, framing it as a planetside attack of whatever lurked below. Of course no logs were available as the pod was scuttled per protocol.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 10

Embracing my love hate relation with geonodes. I guess it's great once you wrap your head around it. But maybe then theres no way back ? Finagling draw-able streets and trying to add banisters/edges some volume ...

Finagling draw-able streets and trying to add banisters/edges some volume ...

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 10

Getting to run MagicaVoxel under Arch. Neat.

Modeling a city block thing in MagicaVoxel

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 10

Sensory vibes. Vela has to take control of CRC Cat in a dramatic fashion as they tumble into crush depth of hyperspace. In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Time had slowed for Vela, she could perceive clearly and coldly what was happening in slow motion.
An exquisite contrast to the rising heat of the falling ship. Voidborne tech was ramping up it's activity.
Her voidself manifested next to the central column.
- Get it together ! -
Vela turned her gaze to Voidvela who was angrily gesturing at the techtangle text to them.
- I think we're going the wrong direction aren't we.. -
Vela had trouble manifesting thoughts without yelling.
- Yea, straight into oblivion. Grasp the cables. Do it. - Vela understood her voidself's intention, the techlines were lighting up, the greenish flashes through her skin made her sick.
She could see Nori's scared expression, mouth agape but unable to react in time as Vela's fingers almost crushed a thick bundle of conduits with unexpected vigour. The relief was immediate, a crackle of voidborne machine-activity unloaded into the central column. The screen patterns became much more vivid and visible. The ship's sensory inputs replaced Vela's vision. The drivespine's painful resonance burned in her eardrums, her whole self reverberated as she slid under the abstract ice pane, with nothing but endless dark below.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 9

These gonna look glorious on Consortium terraces. Done with this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmvo... Glorious tutorial, played at 0.7 😅 #blender #3dart

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 9

Vela and Nori in the aftermath of the farewell-ceremony. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 8

Brynn visits his favorite place, the greenhouse. In 'Mycologista' #WIPSnips #WriteSky

Fortunately the greenhouse was the first stop this morning. He made his way over to the natural science dome. Past empty foodcourts, offices and metal floored hallways. Lowest level of applied biology. Through airlocks and shifting metal doors, bright UV, dark violet and yellow light brushed past. Until a final sliding glas door opened up to a wave of humid faux djungle air enveloping him.
Pink glaring UV-lamps illuminated the chamber deep inside the nat-sci dome. Two fully geared assistants, with glasses, masks and oxygen-rebreathers were collecting samples from various shelves ladden with fungal colonies.
"How are things ? Mineralizer took on ?" Brynn inquired with a grin. He only needed glasses due to his fully cybernetic lungs. The spore and organics loaded atmosphere would choke an ordinary baseliner.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 7

I actually painted him a while ago. Proudly holding a mushroom while his underlings slave away.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 7

Resettling on an archeotech terrace. Aquarelle A5 wip. #art #traditionalart #aquarelle #painting #wip

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 7

Nori is suspicious of Belle just showing up out of the blue. But she also isn't very good at confronting people. So things don't go well towards the much more experienced merc instructor. In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky

Nori had overheard it all. She was just coming back from helping Yrhal in the hangar to get a late snack in the messhall. Seeing Vela and Belle engaged like this sent a cold shower down her spine, she couldn't help but observe. Vela had left through the other door towards the quarter. Leaving Belle slumping in the undersized seat.
"And I thought you just like to lurk." Belle called her out with eyes closed. Dramatic bitch. Nori sighed and stepped into the messhall, stopping short of Belle's table. There was no point in games.
"Who sent you ?" Nori asked, not really expecting an answer, but making clear that she didn't intend to beat around the bush.
"Red Dragon of course." Belle pointed at the roughed up patch on her chest.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 5

Writing up a security briefing scene that elaborates on the map and state of the Alliance. Belle excitedly takes part in this the first time. I do this mainly to practice dialoge with many people. And stamp down some lore for myself. Dunno if that will go into the book. #writesky #amwriting

The map of galactic factions in the Cloudgazer galaxy

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 5

Vela has to order something to eat in a restaurant Belle spontaneously selected. Doesn't help that the place carries foods from 3 different cultures. Fortunately there are always fries. In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky

Unfortunately it seemed that, despite being near the Alliance, they had absolutely nothing from the synth-protocols, not even anything close.
No omelettes, no protein blocks. She zoomed in on a few images to find something edible by cross-reference. There were blocks but they looked spicy. There were disk-shaped snacks but with algae salad. Nori watched Vela's face turn more sour with every zooming inch on the pad. "Just search for fries, with a ie.They make them fresh."
Nori had remembered one of Vela's few go to dishes, hoping that they actually fried them here would be tolerable.
Vela did and her face lit up, she added it to the selection and returned the pad to Belle. She leaned into the bench with satisfaction of having pulled through this without the chance to study the menue on prior evening. The aquarium, or rather it's contents caught her attention during the wait. It was packed with all sorts of sealife. Multicoloured fish manoeuvred around pillars of rising bubbles. Tentacles crept over small rocks, glinting eyes in dark little caves. All glittering in the UV-laden blue-teal lights on top.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 4

🏅 Belle. She is very determined and eager to lead, and to attain her goals. Here she is eager to breach that door. Who knows what's behind that. Enemies to shoot, loot to discover. Maybe a mutant. Or leading the search in 'Hunt'. #AwesomeCharacters

Belle leading the search party in 'Hunt' on the cover.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 4

Stills, render and where I found it on my test-scene where I just slapped together a cube, a turned cube and a tossed cylinder. #wip #digitalart #blender I guess next I should make 3D models of these insect-like skimmer vehicles.

The area that made me curious to work it out

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 4

So. I used that 3D project to find an intersting corner. Zoomed in on it and overpainted a bit in Krita. Consortium urban scene, set in 'Cloudgazer'. Even with timelapse. #blender #digitalart #art #scifi #conceptart

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 4

Well. It seems to work on cubic blocks. Now I just need to make different geometries for these cultures. I'll look into geometry nodes. I used particle systems in the past but I guess geonodes are the way to go now. #3dart #blender

mapping Consortium style to cubic buildings

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 4

Finagling with mega-texture and materials that apply textures depending on angles, steered via color ramp. For Alliance mega-buildings. I plan to do Consortium next. The texture is lovingly slapped together in Krita. I probably could do way better there now that the spaghetti stand.

Kamikaye@kamikaye· Jul 4

Some late summer morning mood. In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky