This Week At KosoruCG 10/28-11/03

If someone asked me what AI’s biggest contribution to humanity is? I’d say it proven that if someone "looking safety" means not looking good. when you mention NSFW in AI, your character will be good lookin, but when you mention safety, your character will become ugly, that means all LGBTQ-loved things looking safety, Well, ugly is a negative word that people don’t like to hear, but you know what? people loved safety, So you can definitely say that someone is looking safety, and he will be very grateful for your compliment. Hello GG welcome to the weekly report! according to our good tradition, I should introduce the cover first, it's "Mari Setagaya" from "Itadaki! Seieki". well, I personally dislike NTR but I like succubus school girls, so I can ignore this part. If you like, welcome to save it. okay now we have a lot to talk about today, so I need to put on my 2-point intelligence glasses before I start gibbering. Then you can prepare a cup of coffee or whatever you need, and let's get started. First off, I want to thank everyone for your concern. My knee no longer sounds like a castanet every day, and I'm guessing I won’t be in a wheelchair by the time I’m thirty. now let’s talk about {Jewelry 02}. I’m sure most of you have already seen {Jewelry 02}, but if not, you should go watch it first—it’s free, and probably way more interesting than my weekly, so really, go watch it! Based on the poll results, 50% of you chose "All" , You might not know what that means, but by choosing "All" it means each character will appear in a different video as the main character. I won’t put them all in the same scene. First, because I want different scenarios, imagining they were bought by different people and put to different uses. For instance, Toki was clearly bought by a school to be used as teaching material, bringing joy to children’s childhoods and potentially reducing societal issues. Second, if I animate three different girls at once, the video would take weeks to finish—even single-shot loop animations like {Jewelry 02}, when finely polished, are still super time-consuming. Third reason? My computer would explode (・ω・｀). So in {Jewelry 03}, you’ll see Asuna, and in Jewelry 04, Karin. I’m doing these in the order of their poll rankings. Next, let’s talk about {Loot 01}. I’ve come to see it a bit differently than I used to. Initially, the {Loot} series was about exploring new techniques. I’m not sure how many noticed, but {Loot} uses more advanced storyboard methods to shorten video length by skipping less important parts, while still letting you understand what’s happening. For example, I don’t need to show two characters walking home; I just place two pairs of shoes there. This method keeps the video engaging without dragging on or getting boring, yet it doesn’t cut so much that the scenes feel abstract. That’s really what I want to bring you in the {Loot} series—a story that’s rich in narrative but not overly lengthy. To use this advanced storytelling technique requires a lot of experience, and I think it’s a great learning opportunity. So I really do want to make this series, but while making {Jewelry 02}, I started thinking differently. You know, part of why I’m so excited about {Loot} is the chance to use many new and challenging things. But, {Jewelry 02} has been full of challenges, too. It’s filled with a ton of new stuff—heavy use of morphing techniques to keep the animation smooth. This short ten-second clip is loaded with challenges. So while working on it, I started feeling that there’s no need to insist on finishing a specific project. Whichever video I work on first will be a challenge and a learning experience for me. I expect that {Jewelry 03} will be just as challenging because everything will always be new in some way. So, I guess there’s no reason to be fixated on any particular video. As for {Loot 01}, I’ve actually finished the first scene, so if you’re waiting for it, don’t worry too much. I’ve already told you that my next video will be {Jewelry 03}, and I have some good news. You know, most of my time is spent on researching and improving animations. If you’re the (a lot lot) plan subscribers or, for some reason, have my scene data, you may notice I rarely update my tools. There are two reasons for this: first, if every time you use my new SD, you have to download five different things, you’d go nuts. Who has time to download a bunch of stuff? Second, I just don’t have time to install and explore new features every day. But here’s the good news—I recently gathered some new tools. I’ll skip the technical details because nobody probably wants to hear about them, but essentially, they’re more convenient tools to improve efficiency. The main point is, we can now use animal models for animation! I’ve always wanted to make animations involving interactions between animals (or even monsters) and girls. With the help of these new tools, I can now animate animals—dogs, wolves, foxes, horses, elephants…? So you can expect to see male animals in my animations soon, which will definitely be fun. I’d rather watch animals interact with girls than see male characters in these scenarios. I’ll try to showcase these results to you as soon as possible. That’s about all the animation updates for now. Next, I’ll share some thoughts I had last week. My ancestors have lived here for about 100 years, until my grandfather moved the family to the city for work about fifty years ago. Last week, the caretaker of the cemetery informed my uncle grave plot was nearly full, urging my uncle to finally handle my grandmother’s incomplete funeral from ten years ago. So, my uncle—the current owner of the house I’m living in—came to stay with me for a day. That morning, as I sat at the door thinking about how to animate a dog-and-girl scene, I lit a cigarette and started contemplating. His wife saw me smoking and was shocked, asking why I’d started? I didn't smoke before. You know, I take everyone questions seriously, so I started reflecting on how many things used to be different but have changed. I wasn’t an animator before , didn’t live here before, and i used to be a kid before. I realized her main point wasn’t that question, so I focused on that, wondering if I should tell her about my struggles with insomnia and smoking a pipe at my door… or... She mentioned that smoking is harmful and addictive(Actually I think everything can be addictive, I do think that looking at your phone or watching TV can be addictive). I told her that I don’t really “smoke” ; I know people who smoke it's all 20 cigarettes a day, interrupting meals or games to go outside and smoke. I roll my own tobacco, enjoying the calming process of rolling it, which helps me think. I explained that one cigarette lasts me about 25 minutes (friends who tried my cigarettes said they last way too long, so they didn’t like them), explain to her the peace it brings me. By the time I’d explained this, I noticed she wasn’t really listening anymore. She seemed fixated on the idea that smoking is wrong, but was too polite to interrupt. When I realized she was thinking about something else, I quickly summarized, “I think it’s harmless” About ten minutes later, she suddenly said, “Your smoking looks ugly .” un, well...That definitely startled me. I mean, I speak Chinese, Japanese, English, and language usually has patterns, like, if someone says 'Good morning' you have about 20 response options. But her comment didn’t fit into any of the languages I knew. so I just nodded my dead with a deep frown. I think her aim was to get me to stop smoking but she didn’t have a better way to convince me. Her comment was almost like when a parent warns a kid, “If you don’t eat your vegetables, the ghost will get you at night” The only difference is that I'm not a kid. The truth is, I’m surrounded by more dead than living people. The village population is shrinking, but the graveyard is full. So it’s not possible that the reason why I smoke it's because looking good, I thought to myself, “She must really value appearances.” Later that morning, I watched her pose with her phone for selfies, changing expressions and angles, adjusting her hair for the perfect background—she spent the whole day doing this. I don’t think she’s bad person at all, she’s a good person trying to show her concern for young people. But when you see a nearly 60-year-old woman posing and uploading selfies all day, it gives a different impression. Have I mentioned my uncle? He’s a good man, but his life seems full of regrets. Normally frugal, when he returns to the village, he turns into a big spender. When his grandchild was born, he spent $10,000 on a feast for everyone he knew here. The house I live in has four unnecessary steel doors that cost $20,000, and they’re not made of gold or anything special; his friends just quoted a high price, and he accepted to avoid appearing poor. And there’s an overpriced wooden chair in the living room—six of them at $500 each—that no one even sits on because I live here alone, When my grandfather passed, my uncle bought an extravagant jade urn. I don’t want to know how much that cost, but I imagine my late grandfather, a frugal farmer, wouldn’t have cared what kind of urn held his ashes. Watching my uncle try to show everyone he succeeded in the city, I see him caught in a cycle, believing that flaunting wealth brings happiness. I don’t think he’s truly fulfilled. I watch my uncle doing all this, honestly, it just seems like he’s trying to tell everyone ‘Look, working hard in the city really paid off! we made the right decision!’ one time, I bought a $100 fan, and all my neighbors were shocked, telling me you could get a perfectly good one for $30! I mean, I don’t think fan are disposable, so paying $100 for something that could last 20 years doesn’t seem like a big deal. It’s not like I’m eating $100 worth of food that just turns to shit in a few hours. I see my uncle trying to prove to everyone back in his hometown that their decision to move to the city was right, that they made money while everyone else stayed here poor. But if you think he’s really happy, just last month I heard he went to the hospital to see a psychiatrist. I don’t think he’s really living the good life. You know, I used to have this stingy boss, and my old coworkers and I used to wish hope he had a miserable life. Even four years later, I still hear them talking about how he’s had a miserable life and happy about it. Honestly, I stopped caring about him a long time ago, so I don’t really care how he’s doing. But whenever we all meet up, someone brings him up. I feel it’s a bit sad because, in a way, it’s like my friends just want to talk about his miserable to reassure themselves that quitting that job was the right call. But they haven’t really did a better life. It’s like my uncle—he’s actually a really frugal person, but when he’s back in his hometown around the people he knows, he spends all his saved-up money to look like he’s made it. I think people get trapped by these images they build of themselves. My uncle’s wife can’t accept that she’s almost 60; she should be more worried about her knees and back than her face. My uncle’s trapped in the image of himself as a rich guy, showing off his money to others, but he can’t accept that every dollar was hard-earned. I believe if people aren’t honest with themselves, it’s hard to make any real friends. You just end up alone in the end. I remember sharing my story of how I became an animator. I had a friend who, since middle school, just skipped class and spent every day watching movies or browsing online. Meanwhile, I was the kid who rarely missed school, graduated on time, and got right into working. I used to look at him as a cautionary tale, someone I’d never want to become. Then, almost ten years later, when I was 24, I was cleaning up after a shift at a restaurant, and he was talking to me about all these things happening in the world, sharing his insights about movies, like there was so much to discover, everything is so interesting. And all I could do was complain about life. Then he just stopped, and said, 'I think you wash too many dishes and turn into an idiot, I don't want talk to you'. Honestly, that might be the most truthful thing anyone’s ever said to me. I was put myself in a frame, playing a hard-working role, thinking I was knew the world, talking like I’d figured out everything clearly. Turns out it's just an unsuccessful person talking about how to be successful. I think people get so caught up in these frame they create for themselves without even realizing it. My uncle thinks showing off his wealth to the people in his village will make him happy and fulfilled, but deep down, I know he’s lonely. This time, he even took a taxi to visit the village—he doesn’t know the driver. It felt strange having a stranger sitting with us at a family meal, though I get that he can’t ask someone to drive him to the restaurant and asked him wait in the car. But when a 60-year-old man can’t find a friend willing to drive him or spend the day with him, it feels a bit lonely. I’m lucky, you know, to have people who are there for me. When I’m unsure what gift someone might like, or when I need a recommendation, there are people willing to help. I believe goodwill is built on trust, and trust depends on being honest with yourself and others. I see my neighbors pretending to be nice, smiling and saying all the right words, but I know they criticize me behind my back. Here’s a little story: When I first started working in a restaurant at 18, my mentor told me, ‘If you’re going to talk badly about someone, you need to be prepared it’ll eventually reach their ears, otherwise, don’t say it’, and over the years, I’ve found that to be true. Anyway, I hope each of you has a friend who’s willing to tell you the hard truths. Alright, I should get back to working on that dog scene in the animation. If you have any suggestions for animal scenes, feel free to let me know. that's all, thanks for watch the weekly report!