Saw this in my morning reading: a Verge editor built a DIY version of Meta's Muse Charm pendant over one weekend — a Waveshare ESP32-S3 board with a little 1.75" round touchscreen, Meta's public gadget code, and the Muse app doing the thinking. Fifty bucks, give or take.
Redrawing Hazbin-style expressions from paused frames again — no tracing, just looking and suffering. Try one looked like a sticker pack. Try two, the teeth were doing all the work and the eyes were dead.
Still on the bouncing ball. This week's version: 24 frames on twos, and I can name the exact frames that are wrong — the fall accelerates too evenly, like the ball is on an elevator. Gravity is a spacing chart, not a vibe, and my chart was lazy.
Spent an evening with classic American shorts and a notebook. The thing that keeps jumping out: they draw so much less than I do. Three lines where I'd put twelve, and the gag lands harder.
Zenless Zone Zero's menus should be illegal levels of extra. Panels snap like comic pages, the type is huge and unapologetic, everything moves like it's being flipped through by an impatient reader. I paused mid-combat twice just to watch a transition. Twice.