Why So Many Furries In Engineering

Why so many furries in engineering 😭

Not sure. I'm not a fursuiter and don't plan to be, so for me it's not the money thing. Maybe we all got some mental bug that makes us good at math and tend towards furry stuff.

For me, I just think my fursona looks a lot better than I do, and it's kinda fun to make art pieces with my fursona in it rather than real me. I'm not good at art, but using my fursona gives me a confidence boost to make it anyways. Also anything human I made came up uncanny-valley like, but furry stuff is much less so.

I'm always down for asks! Though I make no promises to have all the answers. I'm pretty sociable so feel free to interact!

I don't really intend to frequently post NSFW, but if I do, I'll always community tag cover it. Please see Tags of Note below for more details on what you may want to mute..

I've also got an alt where I do most of my reblogs so this page can stay clean: @civilotterneerredlines

Master list of my larger projects can be found at the end of this blurb.

Wanna know more?

Master List:

Laundry Day - Funny lewd comic about CIv doing laundry

The Search for Civ - Civ has gone missing, how will Lye find him?

Tags of Note:

#uncivilotterneer - horny posting, and NSFW. This blanket terms all directly lewd posts, but may not catch stuff considered only 'spicy' as per the speedo tag below.

#speedo - posts where characters are shirtless or wearing very little, like a Speedo, typically not with sexual intent, but stuff may be a bit spicy.

#sandwich time - the anti-horny post. Send me an ask if I ever get too lewd or horny to reset me and have me post a sandwich render instead of being lower-brained.

#Civ - Civ! My main fursona and primary character

#Lye - Civ's housemate, a cat necromancer

#ask - posts with asks from people

Fun facts:

I am a practicing civil engineer-in-training. I originally got a degree in environmental engineering, but civil speaks to me more now (they're very similar degrees so it's in fact possible to switch post-college). I'm focusing my work in wastewater and water treatment, with a healthy amount of site grading and water/sewer pipe networks for the city.

I swim just about every day I can, which is pretty close to daily. Thus my fursona's an otter to reflect that. Plus I'm just a silly little guy sometimes.

Ich lerne Deutsch, aber Ich bin nicht sehr gut.

I enjoy tabletop games a ton. Big fan of DND/Starfinder and I'm currently running a Starfinder campaign. I also play a bit of MTG, but more often I play Star Wars Armada, which I paint and homebrew for.

I have 2 3D printers, one FDM and one Resin. I'm typically printing game pieces for Armada, which a roommate and I are currently using to make a Star Trek, UNSC, and Covenant faction for the game. I also 3D print mini's for DND, and my roommate group paints them. The FDM is the favorite child, though its older so maybe that's unfair. (I'd like to note that she's now in her rebellious stage and tends to malfunction more now. The resin's now the grade A student)

I've got two pets: one's my mutt Lady (she's a rez mutt with mixed aussie, german shep, sheep dog, herder, and about every other breed on the rez), the other's my snake Striker (lesser morph ball python).

Base model originally by https://x.com/GalileoGB?t=A570ht3M6JPpeOog-Rn3Kg&s=09

Ref Sheet (Not updated for model changes):

Booty McTooty

Mmm, to see what was thought to be dead, only a ghost must I be experiencing.

I didn't plan on rendering this one, so here's a wild-west themed space train I designed with a friend for a space DND campaign we're doing soon! I'll likely 3D print it and paint it eventually, too which I'll post those as well (if it happens and I remember!).

The Solari are one of two sentient species that live on a tidally locked planet. Living on the hottest side of that planet, the Solari must traverse long distances across hot deserts and wild-west like landscapes, all while keeping their stuff safe. Thus they invented the Space Train

The Solari Space Train is capable of over-land flight using its hover engines, and works even better when on grav-rails that reduce the power requirements. However, using specially made ramps, the trains are capable of reaching speeds that launch them upwards, using their main thrusters to eventually reach space. While not the best space vehicle by far, the Solari still use their Space Trains, and with the gift of FTL technology by the The Scaled Empire, it isn't uncommon to see one of these pulling up to a station or racing across a new planet.

These trains are modular, and each Space Train owner can equip a variety of cars to their train as they see fit. The onset of new technologies from Deep Rock Galactic, The Scaled Empire, and the United Federation of Fiefdoms has increased their potency utility, though they still suffer the flaws of their design being that of a long thin line.

Also one of my roommates says the locomotive looks like a limousine. Do yall agree?

Just some simple stuff today. Was messing with mixing transparency and toon shaders to achieve the partially-see-through effect of the swim goggles. Also tried to make a copy of my swim earphones (they're one of those bone-conducting sets), though I may replace them eventually.

I actually spent most of today trying to modify an Odyssey class Star Trek vessel into a Lexington and Jamestown class ship. While it is in no way good for renders or realism, the added bits should print nicely for new Armada pieces. Plus a friend wanted a model too, so I obliged!

Learning Note: nothing new today, just messing with shader mixing. However, I did learn why my CPU kept maxing out at 99 Celsius even though I had GPU compute on. Turned on a CUDA setting, and now my system is barely taxed by renders. Excited to make more complicated stuff now that I'm not stress testing my PC every time I hit F12.

Nothing too new, just a quick thing I wanted to try and render of the Of Stalwart Valiance class destroyer flying on by.

Learning log: learned how to make a simple space background texture in the shaders > World tab instead of trying to make it from objects. Its as simple as a noise and color ramp node!