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10 Steps To Care For Your Hamster (long post!)

1. Do not keep them in pairs. Hamsters are loners - keeping them together often results in stress, fighting, injuries and death. They are very happy alone. 

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2. Minimum cage size

dwarf hamsters: 30 x 20 x 20 inches (80x50x50cm);

bigger hamsters: 40 x 20 x 20 inches (100x50x50cm)!

as absolute minimum! (Please consider getting an even bigger cage + fenced run area!)

NOT like this: 

Living in cages like this for them is like a human living in an elevator - a lot too small and even dangerous! 

For them it feels like this:

Behavior like this is a signal for stress because the cage is too small or that they need more bedding:

Better:

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3. Your hamster (always!) needs a hamster wheel - and it must be a lot bigger than you might think! 

Hamster must be able to run with a completely straight back

on a closed surface

with a closed back wall! 

NOT like this: 

Results of those wheels are: spine problems, backache, stress, injuries! 

Minimum wheel size for dwarf hamsters: 9-10 inches. 

Minimum wheel size for bigger hamsters: 12 inches! 

Better: 

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4. Do not buy them plastic tubes (at all): 

Those tubes are not suitable at all: Hamsters get stuck or suffocate in them easily. 

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5. Your hamster needs enough bedding to dig and build tunnels.

NOT like this:  

Better: 

Your hamster will be extremely happy and dig around and build tunnels all day (night). 

A study also found out that (golden) hamsters need up to 12-36 inches of bedding, so just do your best do give them the highest amount of bedding possible. :)

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6. The less plastic the better! 

NOT like this:

Plastic gets swallowed, splinters, can injure or even kill your hamster. 

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7. Hamsters ALWAYS need a sand bath.

Hamsters love rolling around in the sand, for them it’s like showering. How would you feel without a shower? 

You can use those little baths as toilets, but you still need a bigger sand bath!

Better:

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8. Hamsters need a house with at least 2 or more chambers to store food, sleep etc. Also make sure that your hamster does have enough hiding places like coconuts, small houses, toilet rolls! 

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9. Do use unperfumed toilet paper for nesting material, don’t use “hamster wool” -> it can tangle around a limb and seriously hurt and even kill your hamster! 

NOT like this: 

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10. Never ever ever put your hamster or any animal in a hamster ball. 

They can’t get out, might suffocate or panic, might run against furniture and seriously injure themselves. The ventilation is terrible, your hamster can’t see/smell/hear enough or use any of their senses properly.

In some countries they even discuss about banning those by law! 

Even if you think that “your hamster has fun in it” - please don’t use them! 

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Please reblog and spread this information.

Pet stores often are very misinformed and sell terrible cages and have little to no idea how to keep a happy hamster - please be careful when trusting them. In the end they often just want to make money - and the hamsters suffer. 

Please adopt, not buy hamsters - there are too many hamsters in this world that we need any more breeding. 

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MASTERPOST: Cheap Cages And Supplies For Hamsters - IKEA

MASTERPOST: Why Hamster Balls Are Dangerous And Should Not Be Used

MASTERPOST: How To Spot A Good Hamster Wheel 

~ more to come ~

(Sorry for the spelling errors - I made this post in a rush.)

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I really love your 3D, especially your Princess Mononoke!! I wonder how did you make the fur shapes? Did you modify the plane manually (moving vertex one by one) or is there other technique? Thank you so much!

Hey Thanks man! To make fur and hair I use a combination of modifying planes to the right shape and then mapping their alpha(transparency) in the shader. You can do this in pretty much any 3D software but here’s how I did it in Maya.first I made some fur cards out of planes and placed them where I wanted the fur edges.

then I painted an alpha map using the lasso tool to cut out the edge shapes I wanted. Alpha maps act like masks in Photoshop. They can hide or fade parts of geometry. Black is transparent, white is opaque, and gray gradating between the two … Usually. Depending on the software or shader that can be inverted. In this case it’s inverted where black is solid and white is transparent. Here’s the alpha map with the UVs turned on so you can see what going on. The final map should never have the UVs in them. Unless you want that wireframe look in your final render.

Here’s where stuff get more Maya specific. The transparency in the Maya toon shaders is weird. For whatever reason you can’t just plug your map in and have it work. You have to create a second value, plug your map into that one, then set it’s position to something low like 0.001. While leaving the defualt value (0,0,0) and position alone. The values are represented by the dots on the right.

All that’s left is setting up the shadows. Scroll down to the Shadow Controls and set the Shadow Mode to Shaded Color, Match the Shadow Color to whatever you’re using. In my case it’s another map.

Then select your light and set the shadow color to white (1,1,1). Check that Raytrace shadows are on while you’re there.

Don’t forget to turn on Raytracing in the Render Settings.

And that’s it!

Hope that helps. Lemme know if you want me to clarify anything. I was trying to keep this post on the short side. :)

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This is potentially life saving information everyone should know.

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julian yee ; pyeongchang 2018

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Fellow Malaysians, do support Julian Yee at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics! Let’s show our Malaysia Boleh spirit as we cheer him on his way to making history 💕

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Behind the scenes: Better Days - Part 10

Step by step progress gifs of how my animation of Fireheart for Better Days, from the first roughs to the final product. The framerate is 24fps on 2s.

It’s an emotional scene so I tried to make the animation as subtle and readable as possible. Good timing and consistent volume are the key here.

The lineart ended up wobbly but sometimes you need to just embrace that.

You can shoot me a message if you have questions. Go to deviantart for audio.

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100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 

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mom to me when im forced to talk to relatives 

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Goblin (tvN, 2016)

Introducing Korean Mythical Beings

I just love how they added a modern touch to the mythical beings.

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Train to Busan( 부산행) 2016

A disastrous virus hits South Korea. Passengers on a KTX train from Seoul to Busan struggle to survive. 

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“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”

- Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here