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they/them 🇱🇦🏳️‍🌈 3d rigger, artist, filmmaker working on @dandelionvoid.bsky.social dinxie.carrd.co ✨

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · Apr 8

Howdy #PortfolioDay, I'm Dara! I'm a 3D rigger & filmmaker with prev experience in VR gamedev ✨

Available for full-time #rigging or generalist work in #animation, #gamedev or adjacent industries!

💼: dinxie.carrd.co
✉️: [email protected]

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 1d

aw yay thank you so much!!! ❤️

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 2d

👁️ #wip

a screenshot of a small portion of a illustrated digital collage i'm working on. it's a close up of an eye, makeup is being applied. there is a computer screen reflecting in the eye.

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 2d

👁️ #wip

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 3d

that game is SO freakin yellow, everything oozes yellow in its vibes, music, UI 🌞 oooh man, gotta journal abt this because I can't just play 117hrs of a game and then stop thinking about it when I'm done playing

dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 3d

3 weeks later, i finished persona 4 golden yippeee!!! the soundtrack is such a mood lifter, I loved opening up the game and being treated to it. enjoyed the cast of characters, had fun with slightly different jrpg mechanics, etcetc

dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 24d

i love jrpgs sooo much, i'm such a sucker for them!!! the moment i sink my teeth into one, i am thinking about it 24/7 with my entire being until i finish it..!! anyway i just started playing persona for the first time

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 4d

my digital camera is truly best at flash photography but i'm digging the hazy abstract feels of the #photos i took at the model/actriz show last week

a digital camera photo of a silhouette of cole, the lead singer of model/actriz, holding the microphone and facing the crowd. there's a bright light behind him and the photo is really deep blue. looks kinda hazy but this photo is honestly one of my most "clear" shots of the night lol

a digital camera photo of the drummer ruben of model/actriz on drums at the back of the stage, it has a dark black blurry spot on the left bottom corner of the photo which is actually the crowd/audience. the whole photo is dark turquoise with some bits of purple here and there.

a digital camera photo of the model/actriz's lead, cole, singing into the mic. this photo is once again, very deep blue with hazy spotlights towards the top of the photo illuminating his silhouette. you can't see his face clearly.

a digital camera photo of the drummer, ruben, of model/actriz but this one is the most haziest, blurriest photo of this post. impressionistic as you see the movement (of the camera, crowd, and drummer). unlike the other (blue) photos, this one's super white and foggy. and hardly discernible but i honestly like looking at it.

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matte @mutt-ew.bsky.social · 13d

two days until my comic releases at @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social !!

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 17d

#wip this lil "cat-like" character is almost done, needs some polish. been working on a second guy as well, also in-progress! 😈🍕

screenshot of my work-in-progress 3D model in Autodesk Maya. It is a t-pose of a "cat-like" creature with a big round face, characteristically long eyebrows, and crab claw.

screenshot of my work-in-progress 3D model in Autodesk Maya. It is a t-pose of a pizza mascot with long appendages and a somewhat evil demeanor.

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 17d

#wip this lil "cat-like" character is almost done, needs some polish. been working on a second guy as well, also in-progress! 😈🍕

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ines 🧇 wristless @inesvisual.bsky.social · 21d

i hope Dana Terrace is having the time of her life after releasing her creatively unrestricted animation pilot on the same week as Disney's stock prices plummeting down like a failed rocketship

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 22d

omggg awesome!!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · 28d

invested in getting niiice pillows today 😴 very excited hehe

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 12

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

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Phil Lindsey @phillindsey.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sincerely the worst thing about political discourse for the past 10 years is this insistence that we should hear everyone out and every stance is worth a debate.

Espousing racist talking points and misleading stats doesn't make someone civil or even worth engaging.

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Dandelion Void @dandelionvoid.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tales from the Junk Drawer, Vol. II

store.steampowered.com/news/app/358...

#gamedev #indiegames #gaming

Dandelion Void - Tales from the Junk Drawer, Vol. II - Steam News

Take a look at 8 different items from Dandelion Void, and learn about a misadventure in thumbnail generation!

store.steampowered.com

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · Sep 9

woah what a view!!! that's gorgeous!

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Trent(he/him) @traaant.bsky.social · Sep 8

Did a hike in Hokkaido and man did it not disappoint

A sunny day on a verdant mountainside, some foliage in the foreground with a crystal clear pond in the mid ground. In the distance a mountain peak with gouts of sulfur venting from the ground

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · Sep 3

yeeaahhh!! thanks homie 🤠✨

dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · Sep 2

digital camera #photos from my bay area trip 🌙

a digital camera photo of the bay area salt ponds and a family from afar standing in front of one, their image reflecting in the pond.

a digital camera photo of a whole moon in a clear pastel-colored sky (with hues of blue, yellow, and pink) overlooking a mountain range and buildings. the moon is reflecting over the salt ponds.

a digital camera photo taken inside of a bus shuttle, dark inside with green rolling hills and foggy atmosphere past the window.

a digital camera photo of the one and only (hazy) golden gate bridge in the background and numerous cars on the highway leading towards san francisco

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BLURRY @veryblurry.bsky.social · Sep 1

“CITIZEN3” - From my 2023 #art archive

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Tender Claws @tenderclaws.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are headed to VENICE!!!

Excited to share that Face Jumping is in competition in the Venice Immersive section at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. If you’re in Venice between August 27th and September 6th, come find us on Isola del Lazzaretto Vecchio.

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dara ດາລາ ⭐️ @dinxie.bsky.social · Aug 14

LA hellavision x loose frames screening tonight, come watch our short amongst many other fun films!! 😈

w/ @alyoanimation.bsky.social
www.hellavisiontelevision.com/episodes/hel...

photo of title card that says "The Fox, Rabbit, Cabbage" on a wooden background with a decorative frame with fox/rabbit/cabbage/demon imagery and gold accents

A screenshot of our entry in the Hell Fables screening. It reads:

Hellavision Television Network
The Fox, The Rabbit, The Cabbage
Episode: Hell Fables
Creator(s): Eli Zoe Chen, Dara Insixiengmay, Aly O'Neal, Brett Francois
Short # in Ep: 58
Short Code e28_s58
Additional Credits: Art and Animation by Eli Zoe Chen, Dara Insixiengmay, Aly O'Neal, Sound by Brett Francois"

Along with a still frame of our short.

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Peter Steineck @petersteineck.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hi! My animation community project Hellavision is screening our collaboration with Loose Frames this week in Minneapolis, LA, and London! Please come and watch indie animation with us! hellavisiontelevision.com

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