I know rooster teeth had a whole fucking host of problems and haven’t watched their stuff in years but I still shed a tear for another day another internet group getting bought out by big media companies because “they’re successful” and then being shut down because they don’t make enough profit for wall street. let things stay small. not everything needs to be contract deals and billboards the beauty of the internet should be that there’s thousands of little things for people to find the niche they like, not that anything that becomes popular is obviously the next big franchise and we need to throw millions of dollars at it. We live in an era where big companies are taking everything small from us. Heardle getting bought out by Spotify and then shut down bc they realized it cost more than it made. capitalism and the Internet are not built for each other.
Here’s another concept for Broken Horizon – a dragon pilot saddle! Ft. Alex as the model (and Riptide as the pilot, even if you can’t see his face)
Modern saddles were jointly developed by dragons and humans post-war to make dragon riding safer and flying more precise, as regular reins and voice commands quickly became obsolete.
In these saddles the control sticks on the pilot’s seat transmit inputs to the steering modules, which are then interpreted into nerve impulses for the dragon to follow. However they are not hard commands, and the dragon can still choose to ignore the impulses for any reason. This means that the dragon and the pilot must have an incredibly strong trust bond for the best performance.
I’ve been bursting to show you all this model! This is my very first dragon design to actually make it from drawing board to brick! And I’m so happy he was ready in time for the year of the dragon!
He’s part of a set of models I’ve been working on this past year themed around fairy tales. I’ll post about some of those soon!
Please excuse my arm in the last photo. It does show how big he is though!
