Back to #dockge from #arcane as a web UI for docker compose management. Arcane has more bells and whistles (and required clicks) than I need, and the dockge repo seems to have become active again https://github.com/louislam/dockge also became a sponsor of the project while at at it. #SelfHosting
As my wife @Oira hates promoting herself and would rather give up selling her art than tell people about it, I'll do it for her:
Her ceramics are sometimes beautiful, sometimes macabre, and sometimes both. They're often useful and always handcrafted with love and skill. You can find a selection of her art on etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/oirapottery/
If you want to make an artist's day or find something perfect for Christmas, take a look to see if there's something for you.
A cup in the shape of a head in a medieval helmet. The glaze looks metallic.
A Christmas tree decoration in the shape of a mermaid.
And mostly unglazed clay pot hanging on some threads. The surface is ruff, reminding of sandstone. It depicts a elf's head, wearing a crown. The neck is severed and red beads, looking like blood, are hanging from it.
An mostly unglazed clay mask hanging on a wall. It depicts a woman's head with some fin like ears and snakes as hair. The heads of the snakes are glazed green and decorated with gold.
@Oira updated the store with more anime-themed and original characters. Everything that is currently available should now be online.
A mask of a woman with pointy ears and piercings. She has blue hair and in her mouth is a pacifier with a skull. The pacifier is connected to the ears by a colourful chain.
A candle holder in the shape of a jester with a crown. A black candle is standing in the crown.
A cup featuring the head of Jinx from the series Arcane.
Four plates with a female character and abstract colours in the background. The woman has long black hair her upper body is bright red.
On its own Cel Shading looks kind of ugly (though some video games have gotten away with it), lacking in the human touch it tries to evoke.
What recent films, since 2018's Into The Spiderverse, have found is that to make it work for a feature film we need to find ways to inject that human touch back into it.
Spiderverse used machine learning so artists could teach it how better to "ink" various video frames. I presume they trained a convolutional neuralnet on their own renders.
2/2 Fin!
Then Arcane took this to its logical conclusion by spending a quarter billion dollars to make every frame look like a renaissance painting. Definitely worth it.
"How do you texture it to look like a painting"
"We paint"
(quote from their making of documentary, "Arcane: Bridging the Rift")