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MITUNA CAPTOR HELMET TUTORIAL (with pictures)

*removed from under the cut so it can be read more easily* Please read EVERYTHING before you buy materials! Also the text in this post is being wonky.. but whatevs if you can read you'll be fine! Right so heres the finished product ahead of time:

so I noticed there were absolutely no tutorials on this. I kinda winged mine, but it came out pretty legit so I figured hey why not make my own tutorial thingy as reference for anyone in my previous situation. Also quite a few people have asked me already so yeah heres a post list of stuff i used - a helmet (ski helmets are best) - transparent binder dividers in blue and red (or coloured plexiglass) - a styrofoam ball (or other circular object) - paper clay (or paper mache) - captor horns  - velcro - yellow spray paint (make sure it sticks to plastic)  Okay I want to separate this by construction of each section of the helmet. Ill also talk about prices & such, overall you can spend minimal $$ if you buy wisely, which is what i did. I have added pictures at the end and throughout which i hope help? HELMET The most important part, obviously. If you have a shitty helmet the whole thing looks bad, for example a standard pointy bicycle helmet would look terrible. You want your ears to be completely covered, so using a ski helmet or baseball helmet would be ideal. Yes

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*Looks best when your ears are covered Might I also add that this would be the most expensive part of the cosplay, but cost can be very easily avoided if you have no hurry to make this thing. Local thrift stores like value village get in helmets sometimes, you just need to repetitively check. That is, if you want it cheap. You can also check online of course, the ones in sport stores will probably be pricey. I personally had an old one in my garage that i was willing to paint yellow and stick horns onto. Here are some from ebay if youre having problems. As you can see, mituna's helmet has a sort of stripe right down the middle. 

You can make this out of anything- plastic, wood, cardboard, whatever. I made it out of model magic because i had lots. I cut it neatly and straightly with scissors. I gave it a day to harden before I glued it.  VISOR So people usually buy red and blue plexiglass from this website however I couldn't because they don't ship internationally (times like these i hate being canadian). If you have this problem, or you don't want to buy anything online, and spend less money. I have an alternative that works.  I went to the dollar store and bought transparent binder dividers. These:

Yes, they work wonderfully and they're super cheap. I spent a grand total of 1 dollar. However, I want to stress that you must test them out! They must be TRANSPARENT not TRANSLUCENT or OPAQUE (if you want to see through them. If not you can do pretty much use anything). If they dont have any of these bad boys at your local dollar store check Staples. They'll have tonnes of dividers or even duo tangs you can use.  To actually create the diagonal visor shape, I made an example out of paper firstto test size and proportion to my helmet. Then, since the plastic is transparent, I cut it out with the paper as reference underneath. to make the blue and red pieces stick together you can use clear tape, or completely transparent plexiglass (also at dollar store). I used clear tape down the stripe, which works well and doesnt look as bad as you might think. To get it to stick in the helmet, you could literally do anything, tape, glue etc. I used duct tape so I could take it off and put it back on if i wanted. note: another alternative would be to get clear plastic plexiglas and use stained glass varnish, or any other clear but tinted paint to make the blue and red part.  SIDE BULB THINGIES there are honestly an endless amount of ways to make these. My initial idea was to get a toy ball from the dollar store and cut in in half then paint it but I ended up doing something different because I couldnt find an appropriately sized ball. Instead I bought a styrofoam ball and covered it in clay. It was a little big, so i made is slightly smaller with a saw. I moulded the clay around it and let it dry. Then I made four flat rectangles, two per bulb, and stuck them on to create those random shapes. I let them dry then painted them separately.Then I glue gunned them on the sides of the helmet. It worked pretty well so I suggest it.  Also do not take out the styrofoam ball! The bulbs may cave in if you leave them hollow on the inside. Glue the bulbs on with the ball still inside for support. HORNS there are hundreds of tutorials on how to make troll horns online. I did mine with model magic and shitty dollar store paint. What I did differently was that I added Velcro to the bottom of the horns. I then put Velcro on a black headband and on the helmet. This allowed me to remove the horns from the helmet and stick them on the headband and vice versa as I pleased. It saves me the trouble of making double the horns (which would be double of 4 like 8 too lazy no thanks) FINISHING UP so heres an easy step by step recap thingy: - get a helmet that covers your ears - make side bulbs  - make middle stripe - glue them to the helmet  - spray paint it all yellow - let it dry for a day - cut out visor - attach it to helmet - add Velcro and horns VOILA FINITO Here are some pics i took in the progress. I didnt know i would be making this tutorial so i apologize that there are not more)

(visor was too big when i took this pic, i cut it afterwards)

FINSHED!!

There you go friends i hope i helped you somewhat!! 

if you have any more questions dont hesitate to ask me :]

so sorry again about the font idk what went wrong there haha

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This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.

im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it

The Fade & The Deep Roads in Dragon Age: Origins

The best free software

this kid was predicting funny 11 years ago

so i spent far too long on this.

for those unaware, the spaghetti wall of letters and numbers is a base64-encoded JPEG image (and not a URL as some guessed). in certain cases when you tried to insert/paste an image into what’s ostensibly a text-only box, this could happen.

the thing that’s bugging me however is that there’s image data there. we have fairly a clear (albeit with JPEG artifacts) screenshot of text that, thanks to how Windows ClearType renders text, each character is identical to each other, that is to say, an uppercase Q will always look more or less pixel-perfect each time, meaning we don’t have to guess what a Q looks like, we simply have to pixel-accurate match it.

as an aside, this is why regular OCR struggles so much with this kind of data retrieval, such as code even when it’s clearer than a physical paper scan. ordinarily, OCR will try to best-guess every single letter because it expects each letter to be slightly different from each other (as would be the unpredictable nature in a scanned document), and on top of that most OCR today will try to autocorrect because it expects the scanned text to contain words in some human written language.

so, all we have to do is make a program to recognize each character and piece back together the whole base64 string, right? well…

first i stitched all 7 images back into a single block of text, observing the consistency of the line spacing. some of the screenshots have little bits of the previous one sticking out of it, which helps with alignment and to make sure they’re in the right order.

after that i had to sample every single letter off this file. this means going around the file and finding one example of each different character we’re trying to identify, saving it as its own separate file so that the program can load them as references to compare against in the full image. for base64, the alphabet consists of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, / and =. once i had the initial code in place…

…close! but oh so far. if any one single character in a base64 string is wrong or missing, the resulting decode will be wrong. the issues i was having were mostly with the lowercase r and j because of how the kerning affected the pixels around those letters. i was also getting false matches for r where there should be an m. what followed was grueling hours of tweaking the matching code and my known font set to better fit the original image and get as close as possible to a 100% match. here is the resulting code, maybe it’ll be useful for someone and this won’t have been a complete waste of time.

once i was confident through the verification image that i had all characters recognized, i put it through a base64 to JPEG decoder. i actually did this several times as i improved the recognition and what follows is the best result that came out of it yet. i suspect some of the data might be missing (perhaps a line or block of text got lost in between screenshots), or i have a wrong character somewhere resulting in a wrong value. this is the image extracted from OP’s base64 string:

we can finally know what they meant when they said “me in a relationship” and i can finally go the fuck to sleep.

update: i found that the string that i used to decode the image in the previous reblog actually had one letter wrong.

with this it still doesn’t parse as fully valid base64 in strict mode so i think there’s still another letter in there that’s wrong, but i couldn’t find it. however this gives us a better look:

and this is finally enough to do a reverse image search. i present to you, the HD version of our intrepid massive backpacker:

still have no idea what they mean by “me in a relationship” with that, though.

#they have baggage

Undo the Damage of Sitting

(Technically, this isn’t about saving your hands… but if you draw, you’re probably doing a lot of sitting, so…)

This has such extreme shitpost energies but it’s 100% serious

Looks pretty useful for everyone endlessly working at home at their dining room table.

As a movement professional who helps get people out of pain. This is a fully pretty great and relevant for a lot of people.

Undo the Damage of Sitting

(Technically, this isn’t about saving your hands… but if you draw, you’re probably doing a lot of sitting, so…)

This has such extreme shitpost energies but it’s 100% serious

Looks pretty useful for everyone endlessly working at home at their dining room table.

As a movement professional who helps get people out of pain. This is a fully pretty great and relevant for a lot of people.