Have not posted in a while, but here be #dragons!
I've taken some time this weekend to pour some more love into Fuchona. The Rig and Weight Painting have been heavily enhanced with most significant improvements to facial expression, muscle movement and cleanup.
121 controllers drive 161 deform bones. The control rig has a total of 359 bones.
For decades, I've been trying to identify a book I read when I was in school, in which a boy and girl take shelter from the cold inside a dead dragon (kind of like Luke and the Tauntaun), and emerge with telepathy and other dragon abilities. This scene was all I remembered. Turns out it was the second book of the Pit Dragon Chronicles, "Heart’s Blood", by Jane Yolen, which I just stumbled across and reread. Mystery finally solved!
Called to protect the dragons her family has guarded for generations, she has to step into her power in order to fulfill her destiny.
In capitalism, dragons are the exploited, not the exploiters.
Never forget it.
ICYMI:Mages and Mysteries by Victoria Kincaid
#BookReview #4.5Hearts #Dragons #magic #PrideandPrejudice
https://booksofmyheart.net/2022/03/06/mages-and-mysteries-by-victoria-kincaid/?fsp_sid=3285
if you cast divine magic on a human, you get a.. dragon?
wow, ain't that neat?
Also, to defeat the dragon, first produce an accurate sketch of the dragon's armour. Take it to a safe to identify which mastersmith's handiwork it is. Track down the (presumably) long ruined dwarven kingdom. Fight through it to find the secret plans, and identify the weaknesses deliberately installed by the dwarves as a safeguard against draconic aggression.
It suggests an opportunity for an enterprising party to act as a go between dwarven smiths and a dragon, taking a cut of the vast sum charged - another way of "looting" the dragon.
Or pretend that you are there for legitimate business, but instead scouting out weaknesses or just stealing treasure.
But then if these deals happen every few centuries, these tricks will have been played before, and so even honest parties will meet suspicion from the dragon.
Also the next sentence is "[Dragons] can't make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour."
Which suggests that Tolkien's thought is maybe that dragon's scales are not grown but built??
In Chapter 12, Smaug says "I am armoured above and below with iron scales and hard gems".
All of which may just be poetic language from Tolkien. But what if it isn't? What if dragons commission armour from master smiths?
I got this awesome picture from HousePetArts (Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/housepetarts.bsky.social )
I really love how this turned out! bit more noodly and perhaps more alien rendition, it worked out really well I think :3
Aren't you tired of your weak, human body?
Don't you want to burn those who wronged you?
It's #Portfolioday apparently! So why not join in. I'm a watercolourist based in the UK. My favourite genre is fantasy and folklore with a heavy leaning on creatures, but I have dabbled in other areas! www.emilyhare.co.uk/pages/portfo... #dragons #dragonart #creatureart #fantasyart #watercolour
The Battle Royal of Kittipup
How a kingdom was rescued from the clutches of a fierce dragon
https://medium.com/@weareji/the-battle-royal-of-kittipup-eb3f7cd2f246?sk=95c0045368b01019e9cf08c3a9702cf1
My ballad in light verse
#poetry #storytelling #dragons #bravery #heroism #ballad #verse #narrative
Firebird by Juliette Cross
@Juliette__Cross #BlairDade #KaleWilliams @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited @RobinBridgeFour #BookReview #4.5Hearts #AudioBookReview #Dragons
https://booksofmyheart.net/2025/04/07/%f0%9f%8e%a7-firebird-by-juliette-cross/?fsp_sid=2888
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