#roblox avatar filter

[mechahero]

//today in rh gaming, got called a slur apparently lmao

[plutosoda]

how i make character models* in paint3d

*they are not models. you cannot rig them. but for simplicity i will call them this. also this guy is the example ⬇️

so. paint3d is very jank and not actually that good But it is fun to mess around with and for getting that early 2000s computer game effect for things. this program crashes and lags a lot especially when making more detailed stuff like this so. throughout this Please save your project periodically. I have lost so much to not doing this

if your computer isn't that great it's best to keep the quality setting at it's lowest. these models aren't really that detailed so it doesn't make a huge difference anyways LOL

when you open p3d you start with a blank 2d canvas. if you've Never used the program before i recommend fucking around with 3d view + making 3d shapes for a bit. make a Thing. like just some random object. it does not have to be good it's just to get used to how the controls work (because it is different between my mouse and drawing tablet and im not going into that here LOL). the biggest positive about p3d is how user intuitive it is compared to.yknow. blender when you're done with the Thing and u want to start with your character go back to the 2d canvas/2d view for sketching time

you could probably do this in another program but. i find it easier to just do it here. i keep these pretty simple and try to keep depth in mind

then go to canvas and make the background transparent. and then switch to 3d view to start making the base for the model on top of the sketch

at this point i don't use the 3d doodle shapes yet because they are finnicky as hell. the preset ones are a bit easier to control and move around so they're nicer for the planning part. what shapes you use depends on your character but my guy here is very circles and round so its just a sphere and some cylinders

make sure you're in 3d view and checking the pose from every angle ! if ur guy looks like a roblox avatar without the assets loaded fully then that is ideal. once you're happy with the pose it's Sculpting Time

where you choose to start is up to you but i usually get the head out of the way bc it tends to be the most complicated thing.

this is my best friend forever. the sharp edge is helpful for stuff like metal and whatnot though so i use them both.

for stuff like hair and fur i find its easier to make a bunch of small shapes and then connect them instead of trying to do it all in one go

^better examples with fluffier guys

this part is pretty much just personal preference for how you want your model to look though. just keep adding Stuff until it looks alright. also reminder to be saving your work bc this is when it gets really annoying if p3d crashes

finished head. jus keep addin stuff. copy and paste is a godsend btw.

puffier jacket. also connecting the limbs. just keep addin stuff.

these take a few hours .finished limbs. pretend the backpack is there i forgot to get a progress shot of it

now it is time for the objectively best part which is painting the guy. switch back to the 2d brush but stay in 3d view and start Coloring . i only really use the watercolor brush for shading/gradients and the marker one for lines but this part is also personal preference.

watercolor brush for the blue gradient and marker for the face .

i would Not do this in 2d art but i like adding a white gradient to pastel colors like with the hair here. it compliments the soft shapes well i think. to quote a friend it Looks Gummy

my silly highlights.

almost done with the creature. also mentioning that there are different textures for objects that you can change when picking their base color. the zipper is metal so it gets to be shinier.

theres also different lighting/filters to mess around with + you can doodle on the transparent canvas still.

save ur guy as a image and/or a turnaround gif/video/whatevar u want . and thas it! you can also mess with the model more for different poses and expressions (although this is super laggy bc it has to render a bunch of shapes at this point)

go make some CREACHURES !!

[crazystargirl]

hiiii! i saw you wanted some request so i got you! can i request a jack champion x reader where the two of them are on the avatar set just goofing off and being totally oblivious to their feelings for each other while everyone just ships them so hard thank youuuu i love your blog!!!!!!!

take one !

pairing ! - jack champion x reader 

word count ! - 0.6k 

a/n ! - BRO ANON ILYSM MY REQUESTS WERE LITERALLY A DRIED UP WELL BEFORE ( except for that rlly good smut request but idk how to write smut 😭 ) i also don't think i did this request justice since ive been writing it this whole week and im sick, stressed, and dealing with a lot of issues about friends and grades [ i'll add photos later ]

you basically grew up on the set of avatar the way of water with all the other younger cast members, who practically were family to you at this point

most people try not to play favorites with their friends but you did and tried your best not to reveal to everyone that your favorite was jack. everyone found out anyway even though you thought you were sneaky

but anyways that's not the point

you and jack were "the duo" on set and loved goofing off with each other even though some scenes took longer to film because of this, no one really minded since they all shipped you two

like c'mon you two were so oblivious to the "flirty" side if your friendship that you guys were basically a lost cause

so one day britain, trinity, and jamie decided something needed to happen like cmon the tension was becoming too unbearable 

today you guys needed to film a scene where your character, spider, and the rest of the Sully kids were running around the forest before you guys find the recoms

this scene wouldn't have taken that long if it weren’t for you and Jack

you two were not taking anything seriously, stopping every five seconds because jack would trip you or you would push him into the set structure

and then when james would tell you guys what you needed to improve on the scene, you and jack would be playing roblox or scrolling through memes instead of listening

james had decided you two needed a break because you guys had filmed a lot already and you and jack were not helping get anymore done

so now you and jack were hunched over your phone where you kept making jack try on all these filters and you kept taking pictures for later 

jamie came up behind you two and tapped you and jack on the shoulders that were closest to each other and since you guys were hunched over, you ended up kissing while trying to see who tapped you two

you both froze and quickly moved away from each other, embarrassed

you guys heard cheering behind you and looked to see the rest of the cast even the adults, clapping and cheering, while jamie stood laughing his head off

"im going to fucking kill you!" you yelled at jamie, getting up to chase him

"y/n! i need a dollar for the swear jar since you cursed!" trinity yelled, also laughing while you and jack were chasing jamie around

eventually jack tackled him since there was no way you would actually be able to tackle jamie because of the unfair height advantage 

after jamie was on the ground, jack kept punching him, enough to slightly hurt but not enough to bruise while you held his legs down so he wouldn't kick jack

then you got the idea to steal jamie's phone and quickly took it from his pocket, tugging on jack's arm to tell him "let's go"

you guys ran into one of the storage closets no one uses and sat down, unlocking jamie's phone easily

"so you wanna talk about what happened there?" jack said, playing with your hair as you leaned your head on his chest, scrolling on jamie's phone

"mmmm no i rather not" you said, looking up and kissing him again

jack pulls you into his arms and you guys end up staying like that for the rest of the day, messing around on yours, jack's, or jamie's phone

and of course everyone knows damn well where yall are put who would want to ruin this sweet moment that they had been working on to push on you two?

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lmk if you want to be added/removed !

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[gudriva]

MY OC!!!!!!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!

If you haven't seen my avatar in Roblox, I'll remind you: I have an avatar in Roblox! It looks like this:

And I've already drawn art for her, BUT!!! Please note that I didn't really like it. So I made a new one! +small ENT

Odadoza.. OH, WE'RE OFF TOPIC! Recently, I had the idea to draw it in this style and NOW I like it! YAY!!!!

AND YES, SHE'S A CAT-GIRL...

Sorry!

And then, I played with the filters! Just a little bit 🤏🤏🤏

(not much different, I know)

And then I made a few pictures with her! :3

HAVE A NICE DAY, EVERYONE!!!! 📢📢📢

[ghostly-nightmare1]

Lazy doodle of my roblox avatar with and without a filter (I have no robux and used the free stuff to make this-)

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» [ Ah yes he has blown up a Cabin, likely killed multiple people, committed shoplifting several times, evading cops ( in Jailbreak ), noclipping, speed hacking, taking advantage of a glitch/bug, scammed kids in Adopt Me, scammed kids in Pet Sim X, stuck bee stickers all over the H.U.N.T helicopter, programmed all the doorbells in Guest House to play a rickroll, blasted On Fire by The Roop over a store tannoy system, crashed Roblox by overloading a game with cubes, rammed people off of the road in Driving Sim, targets noobs in Arsenal, bypasses the Roblox filter, spams hashtags when angry, yells in the Hunt Mode VC, has several community guidelines warnings, got banned from the official Roblox Discord for saying the f word once, cursed out some dude in Tower Defense Sim because he said cherry slushies suck, stole a traffic cone and pretended it was a hat, called Builderman old once ( as a joke ), stole Murch's heart, also stole Murch's ability to walk multiple times *wink WINK*, has previously crashed a Survival server by wearing a giant buff noob avatar, once said Enenra is a decent Slasher pre-nerf, once set fire to a fridge trying to make it run Doom, pirated Pizza Tower, flipped off Orvhill several times, left rubber duckies all over A.I.L.A's workstation, once walked into a Tesco shirtless in 10°C weather, laughs at people who fall over in Stupid Babies, drives his car through puddles in Bloxburg intentionally to splash people, drank 4 Monsters and then tried to outrun a dude on a motorbike, was the soul reason for the electric bill on the cabin being high, once tried to hit on Commander Storm, blamed Val for a swarm of Bees stinging Murderer, replaced all of Miers's coats with pink fluffy dressing gowns, called Malvus a b-tch, and keeps changing the screensaver on Murch's PC to that one grey and white cat image. ] «

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[spider-mar2004]

🕷Kaine Parker Pictures with Mar🕷

Game: Roblox

Avatar: Kaine Parker ofc

Filters used in: Ibis Paint X

Here more!

(NOTE: i had use space on his name because Roblox somehow tags it)

[bingobongobonko]

thoinkin about my roblox avatar.. named him october saturday, he looks like that one guy from yazuka, he owns 40+ jars of his own piss. whether or not its filtered is a complete mystery. many things up with it

[hyprfem]

omg i've never done anything like this before but i'd really like to start doing roblox commissions like drawing people's avatar's. i'm not the best at drawing ofc but i still feel like doing a little sketch from like the neck/bust up for 80 robux (so like $1) would end up saving me a TON of money.

i don't really know how to draw guys LOL but here's like an example of something i did. @minasbbl is my roblox and the avatar i drew was just a random one i found on pinterest.

same with this one. i just drew it on paper and added some filters to make it look better ??? idk if it does. recently i've just found drawing on paper so much easier than online.

i'd prob just prefer to get payed via like the please donate game or something 😭 idk how serious i'm being with this but if anyone is interested in just a simple drawing u can dm my discord since i don't check my roblox friend requests much. i'm not super confident in my art so i'm prob only gonna charge like a $1 or 80 robux maybe 100 robux depending on how complex but prob not. anyway hopefully this gets some kinda attention but ya sorry it's not related to my content 💀

if ur interested in any of my other drawings just dm me and i cant prob send some 😻 both these didn't take too long so it isn't my best but i still like how they turned out.

[slimmestslime]

I didnt even know that vrchat can be used with just a pc. I am gonna check it out.

Anything I should know or something you would recommend?

gonna be real i thought vrchat was vr exclusive aswell until one of my friends laid a bombshell on me that it was indeed desktop compatible so. :fistbump:

heres some general advice/tips tho (under the cut)

1: the absolute second you're able to exit the tutorial world, go to Prismic's Avatar Search. ignore everything goddamn else infront of you and go there. grab yourself a good collection of avatars you know you'll use. genuinely nothing sucks more than walking into a world and feeling awkward about what your avatar is and having nothing else to change into

also i highly recommend going into a friends/invite only instance because not only will it negate social anxiety, but you wont have That One Guy blasting music or sitting next to the world's loudest industrial fan while you're surfing through the avatar catalogue

+ fair warning though, there is no filter against suggestive/triggering stuff so you'll just have to wade with caution. though its usually easy to tell if its Suspicious or not

2: you see that little icon in the esc menu? the one that says "change shield level"? i personally toggled mine completely off, and the standard setting is fine imo. no issues there, but if you wanna experiment and see true chaos, turn that off !!! also, if you're getting lagged to Shit by someone's avatar and/or uncomfortable due to them, you can hide their avatar via either selecting them in the launchpad, or finding them in the in-room list and doing it that way OR just. walking up to them (you will see the loading tip for hiding people's avatars probably a million times, but it is useful)

3: if you view the details on an avatar, you might see a little colored circle and then something like "good" or "poor" next to it. thats the performance indicator, and its this weird thing that vaguely gauges how laggy an avatar is / if they're viewable by default on quest i believe poor/very poor are hidden by default on quest, but i cant confirm that since >guess who doesnt have one

here's a shoddy infographic on the indicators anyway

as for stuff i recommend, the first three worlds i visited in public were pretty good for looking at a sample of the community. i think - Freddy's Custom Pizzaria (I HAD TO OKAY) by Fraca - VR Chess by NoLife1942 - 1's Optimized Box by 1 (also The Black Cat by spookyghostboo is good, but go there once you're comfortable. i can say the same for the optimized box but here especially)

thats about it/all i can say rn. most of my experience is really just two days of playtime and watching videos from the jameskii era. but this really is just roblox but less Cancer so i can safely guess-timate on some things here

[tkstelevisionrtvbc]

I posted 10 times in 2022

That's 10 more posts than 2021!

7 posts created (70%)

3 posts reblogged (30%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@tkstvevents

@rslashrats

I tagged 3 of my posts in 2022

#roblox - 3 posts

#roblox news - 1 post

Longest Tag: 11 characters

#roblox news

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Guest Corp Twitter ceased operations

As of November 17th, the Guest Corp Social & Communications Department has permanently suspended all Twitter operations. This includes all marketing, relations, and announcements in all Guest Corp divisions.

0 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#4

LankyBox releases their own Ghost Kitchen

A Popluar (Roblox) YouTuber Has released their own ghost kitchen called "LankyBox Kitchen".

0 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#3

Avatar Shop layout changes

Roblox is testing a new layout for the Avatar Shop categories and filters on web. | Via Bloxy_News

0 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#2

Roblox Possibly Down?

It's Saturday, and All of Roblox Community is now in anger again with a new outage this Satuday according to other sources.

0 notes - Posted November 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Roblox impersonation

All Roblox News Sources are now beware of impersonation or pretending to be Roblox by adding real Twitter verified badge accounts using Twitter Blue.

The User @RobloxreaI_2 is the user that impersonating with 112 followers.

1 note - Posted November 11, 2022

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[robloxapkstudio]

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Ah yes he has blown up a Cabin, likely killed multiple people, committed shoplifting several times, evading cops ( in Jailbreak ), noclipping, speed hacking, taking advantage of a glitch/bug, scammed kids in Adopt Me, scammed kids in Pet Sim X, stuck bee stickers all over the H.U.N.T helicopter, programmed all the doorbells in Guest House to play a rickroll, blasted On Fire by The Roop over a store tannoy system, crashed Roblox by overloading a game with cubes, rammed people off of the road in Driving Sim, targets noobs in Arsenal, bypasses the Roblox filter, spams hashtags when angry, yells in the Hunt Mode VC, has several community guidelines warnings, got banned from the official Roblox Discord for saying the f word once, cursed out some dude in Tower Defense Sim because he said cherry slushies suck, stole a traffic cone and pretended it was a hat, called Builderman old once ( as a joke ), stole Murch's heart, also stole Murch's ability to walk multiple times *wink WINK*, has previously crashed a Survival server by wearing a giant buff noob avatar, once said Enenra is a decent Slasher pre-nerf, once set fire to a fridge trying to make it run Doom, pirated Pizza Tower, flipped off Orvhill several times, left rubber duckies all over A.I.L.A's workstation, once walked into a Tesco shirtless in 10°C weather, laughs at people who fall over in Stupid Babies, drives his car through puddles in Bloxburg intentionally to splash people, drank 4 Monsters and then tried to outrun a dude on a motorbike, was the soul reason for the electric bill on the cabin being high, once tried to hit on Commander Storm, blamed Val for a swarm of Bees stinging Murderer, replaced all of Miers's coats with pink fluffy dressing gowns, called Malvus a b-tch, and keeps changing the screensaver on Murch's PC to that one grey and white cat image.

Sincerely -not Murch's #1 kneecap eater or Coyote's Abandoned Jacket

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[roblox-moderation-91]

My old account getting unfairly terminated - Terrible roblox moderation - General - Cookie Tech

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The Tchotchke Internet is a social media landscape of digital flair and knick-knacks, a direct evolution of the freemium user experience. It’s the small ways that users can spend money (or make money) to have a better experience on social media. It’s Reddit Gold, Discord Nitro, Twitter Super Follows, celebrity verified checkmarks, premium Zoom calls, NFT galleries, Ethereum domain names in your bio, Fortnite skins, Roblox Robux, personal Minecraft servers, custom Twitch emotes, Linktree URLs, cryptocoin giveaways, Clubhouse invites, and social media partner programs.

People are spending a lot of money to express themselves online and most of what they’re paying for is basically the digital equivalent of an emo kid’s backpack covered in Hot Topic pins, random little digital artifacts that bely some kind of personal identity. And looked at one-by-one, it just seems like random services people pay for to get a bit more out of their social media, but looked at as a whole, it does feel like a big shift in user behavior. Especially if you think about how radically different this is from the online piracy days of the mid-00s or even the peak of free Facebook viral media consumption five or six years ago.

In a way, this feels tied to the mass adoption of social media that happened globally over the course of the pandemic. With millions of people only being able to safely interact with one another online, suddenly there was a need to attach irl social value to how a person uses the internet. And companies have been more than happy to oblige.

Bu this also feels tied to the growing connection between financial capital and viral traffic. Whether we’re talking about influencer marketing or meme stocks, the assumption now is that digital audience size directly maps to economic capital, an idea that wasn’t always taken for granted. And I suspect that as creator monetization tools continue to roll out across social platforms, this assumption will only grow.

Which means soon there will be very few places left online — if there are any at all anymore — where all users have the same basic set of tools at their disposal and are, in theory, free from some kind of class hierarchy. And as this stratified user experience continues to spread, I think forms of digital flair will only become more popular — your cryptopunk NFT profile pic, your custom Fortnite skin, or your custom short-form video filters.

It’s kind of a huge bummer. At least with the metaverse, in theory, you could fly your avatar around or order Uber Eats from Optimus Prime or something. With the Tchotchke Internet, as it exists right now, it feels like we’re giving up openness and equal access to digital tools just to spend money to use emojis that no one else has access to.

Garbage Day nailed it y’all.