Randomly remembering the content creators you used to support in the laaaaate past is so odd.
‘Hm I wonder what happened to this person?’
Yeah sure, and then you end up spending the entire night researching through ancient tumblr and instagram accounts trying to find a trace of their existance - and it feels so rewarding once you do.
last week my Ontbijtkoek was not good looking, but this week my Rosinenstuten is good looking!
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I write this post with a sense of Deja Vu, and I can’t help but wonder how I keep ending up here. Anyway! As you know, the Solarian Feline from Blue Galaxy is an incredibly well-made avatar that, despite being pre-bento, remains popular with an enthusiastic community.
One of the greatest things about it was its open architecture and welcoming policy towards new creators and hobbyists. The devkit was available to anyone who bought the avatar, no questions asked, and long after its creator’s disappearance, prominent creators such as Nama Gearz graciously host these files for us so we can continue to create.
There’s only one problem: the devkit is woefully, painfully out of date. The devkit was created in 2015 using Blender 2.7 and Avastar 1.3. An eternity of development has happened in that timeframe, and as of this writing, we are now on Blender 5.0 and Avastar 4.5. The old versions of Blender are not fun to use, to put it mildly. In addition, several bugs were introduced into the weight painting system around 2.76-2.79 that made skinning meshes particularly painful.
What follows is my own journey as I tried to update the Solarian devkit. Aside from the fixed bugs and far superior UI, there are plugins such as Robust Weight Transfer and UniV Lite, which can greatly help in creating this kind of content.
My first thought was to try and ‘dredge’ the devkit up through versions of Blender and Avastar as though I had been keeping it actively maintained. At first, this appeared to be a promising route. However, it became clear that the jump between Avastar 1.x and 2.x was going to cause issues. Perhaps there was a setting in the upgrade tool I missed, and if so, please let me know, since I would like to develop Bento addons for the Solarian in the future.
My methodology for testing consisted of several tests, and if the converted rig failed any one of them, then the upgrade path was a failure.
2.79 had a tendency to overwrite the bone positions in an unsafe way, and I tried several different combinations of settings to get this to work. While I was able to make something that looked correct for tests 1 and 2, test 3 refused to even start; it made a new rig and default body and inserted them into the scene. Subsequent attempts to move to Blender 5.0 from this rig failed 3 out of 4 tests.
Other tests I tried involved moving to Avastar 3.6.14 and 3.6.92 before 4.5 on Blender 5.0 had mixed or somewhat wonky results. Avastar 3.6.92 for Blender 4.1.1 was the cleanest of the two, as it was able to simply update the file with no workarounds. However, the result was missing a few bone groups in Rig Display compared to other versions, and failed early export tests. In retrospect, the export test failure was probably due to using the new glTF exporter instead of the legacy COLLADA exporter, but if the steps I ultimately settled on hadn’t worked, this would have been a close second.
Thanks to some pointers from the people over in the Avastar Discord, I was able to start to pick apart individual options for the legacy upgrade tool in the ToolBox section of the Avastar Toolshelf. This ultimately worked with similar success to going through Blender 4.1.1 first, and taught me how to make sense of the mess left over by Blender migrating from Layers to Collections.
For some parts of the updater to work without throwing a script error, the skeleton can’t be in multiple collections. To fix this, find 'Avatar’ in the hierarchy, select it, and press ’M’. Then select Scene Collection to send it there. Next, it’s a good idea to do a little cleanup in here, so click the funnel in the top right and turn on the icon that looks like a monitor. From there, toggle all the objects and collections to enabled.
You can safely delete Collection 10 because it doesn’t contain anything useful; it’s only reference shapes that were used during the initial rigging process when Ash created the model. Aside from that, what I ended up doing was renaming Collections 1-2 to reflect the bodies that were in them, and moving the adult components into their respective collections. As Female and Femboy share the same adult lower body mesh, I created a link in the second collection by holding down Ctrl when dragging it.
With the project now prepared, open the Avastar toolshelf and go to the Toolbox. Click the arrow to the left of Update Armature to expand the options, and check/uncheck the boxes so that the 1st and 3rd options are the only ones checked.
This is important, as leaving 'Fix Constraints’ checked will cause bone positions to get broken, resulting in the avatar’s eyes popping out, among other things. Leaving 'Rebuild Joint Edits’ checked causes the deform skeleton to break, and shape sliders no longer work.
Once you have the correct options, as shown in the picture above, selected, click 'Apply’. The avatar skeleton will update, but we aren’t quite done.
Because of the peculiar way it’s rigged, the Solarian uses a few of the attachment point bones for things like facial movement, and when we completed the update process above, they lost the 'deform’ flag they need to continue to function.
To fix this, we can toggle the Rig Display in Avastar to only show attachment bones, then select each of the following, and check the 'Deform’ box as shown in the screenshot:
Once you’ve completed this step, your devkit should be ready to use in Blender 5.0. Be sure to save it in a safe place, otherwise you’ll have to do all this again!
On a final note, the glTF exporter doesn’t seem like it’s quite up to the task yet, so be sure to use the Avastar Legacy exporter when exporting content you make with the devkit out of Blender. (File -> Export -> Avastar Legacy (*.dae))
The feeling that you don’t have enough usable footage before you start editing followed by the realization that you had way too much usable footage after a first pass and that it’s now time to start taking clips out the back with a shotgun just to reduce runtime and increase retention is something that I still struggle to wrap my head around and I think is the main bottleneck of the whole youtube video creation process for me.
Making concessions between what you want to make, what you can make and what you should make might just be the reality of working with art, but man is it difficult to remember all that when you engage with the creative process on your own terms.
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I mean, I don’t have a mic or anything, but I can edit and shit or just find a tutorial.
The digital landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. For decades, Content Management Systems (CMS) served as static repositories, digital filing cabinets where humans manually entered text, uploaded images, and hit “publish.” But the era of the “passive CMS” is ending. We are entering the age of the Intelligent CMS, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just a plugin but the very engine driving content strategy, creation, and delivery.
ALTFrom automating mundane tasks to hyper-personalizing user journeys, AI is redefining what it means to manage content. For businesses looking to stay competitive, understanding this transformation is no longer optional; it’s a prerequisite for digital survival.
To understand where we are going, we must look at where we started. The early days of CMS (think early WordPress or Drupal) were focused on democratization, allowing non-technical users to update websites without touching code.
Next came the Headless CMS revolution, decoupling the backend from the frontend to allow content to flow into apps, IoT devices, and various web frameworks. While this solved distribution problems, the “content creation” part remained a bottleneck.
Today, AI is solving that bottleneck. By integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and Machine Learning (ML) directly into the editorial interface, a modern cms development company is now building platforms that can suggest topics, generate drafts, and optimize layouts in real-time.
The most immediate impact of AI is the elimination of the “blank page syndrome.” Modern CMS platforms are integrating AI assistants that act as co-pilots for editors.
Generative AI allows marketing teams to produce first drafts of blog posts, product descriptions, and social media snippets within seconds. However, the true value lies in contextual generation. Advanced systems can ingest a brand’s previous content to ensure the AI-generated text matches the established “voice” and “tone,” maintaining brand consistency at scale.
Managing assets has historically been a chore. AI-driven Digital Asset Management (DAM) within a CMS can now:
In the past, SEO meant stuffing keywords into headers. AI has turned SEO into a sophisticated science of “user intent.”
As an editor types, AI can analyze the content against search engine algorithms. It suggests internal linking opportunities, identifies missing subtopics that competitors are covering, and predicts how well a piece of content will rank before it even goes live.
AI helps the CMS understand meaning rather than just strings of text. This allows for better “related content” recommendations, keeping users on the site longer by providing truly relevant suggestions based on the context of their reading, not just shared tags.
The “holy grail” of digital marketing is delivering the right content to the right person at the right time. Doing this manually for thousands of users is impossible. AI makes it seamless.
By analyzing user behavior, location, and past interactions, an AI-enhanced CMS can dynamically swap out blocks of content. A visitor from London might see a different hero image and localized pricing than a visitor from New York. This level of granular personalization significantly boosts conversion rates and builds deeper brand loyalty.
With all this automation, is the human editor obsolete? Far from it. The role is simply shifting from “creator” to “curator and strategist.”
AI is excellent at processing data and generating iterations, but it lacks original thought, empathy, and strategic intuition. Humans are needed to:
Organizations like CMARIX Infotech emphasize that technology should empower people, not replace them. The goal is to remove the “drudge work,” allowing creative teams to focus on big-picture storytelling.
Integrating AI into a CMS requires a robust technical foundation. It’s not just about adding a ChatGPT API; it’s about data architecture.
The transformation of CMS content creation is not a distant trend, it is happening now. AI is turning the CMS into a proactive partner that helps businesses communicate more effectively, rank higher, and engage users more deeply.
By leveraging these tools, companies can produce more content, of higher quality, in less time. The future belongs to those who view AI not as a threat to creativity, but as the ultimate tool to unlock it.
ACTUALLY. I have a really important question. Those YouTube videos with the speedpaint + a voiceover and maybe the artist’s sprite. How does one do that, exactly?? I know nothing about making YouTube videos period. I’ve really been wanting to/thinking about starting to make videos but I don’t have any idea where to start. All I know is that those are the kinda videos I wanna make :]
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